Pop Culture Icon & Writer George Plimpton Dead

A sad day: Mr. George Plimpton has died. Plimpton was known in many roles in his life: writer, actor, activist, even an "athlete" for a brief period. But the biggest aspect of his life was really his writing - including his work with the Paris Review.

I remember him best for his "upper crust" dialect that sounded more like a Boston Brahmin than a New Yorker (which is really where he was from).

There is one show that I will always remember Plimpton starring in. The show was sort of a "take" on Masterpiece Theatre, called Mousterpiece Theatre. This was an old Disney Channel show (from the very first years of the Disney Channel) that presented old Disney animation from a "more serious" perspective.

Those that are "younger" may also identify George Plimpton acting as one of the psychologists attempting therapy on Matt Damon's character of Will Hunting in Good Will Hunting.

God Bless His Soul,

C.