Saturday, February the 28th, 2004

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Plummermania

Quetzalcoatl is the feathered serpent, an Aztec deity, as worshipped by Christopher Plummer in his weird performance as Atahualpa in The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969). In a better world, Plummer would have used the same acting technique (and terrific strangulated high-pitched squawking voice) in his earlier role as Baron Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. Imagining this is always a good way to cheer oneself up.