Saturday, February 14, 2015

Thank Heaven

(Props to Monty)

Or

Looking for Heir Jourdan

Louis Jourdan, who overcame the cliché of being a French dandy to battle Swamp Thing, has died at the age of 93. He suaved it all up in The Paradine Case, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Gigi. Not in his CV are the German propaganda films he was ordered to make after France’s capitulation in World War II, as he instead escaped to unoccupied France and joined the resistance. In his later career, he turned Alec Holland into the Swamp Thing as Dr. Anton Arcane, DC Comics’ answer in assonance to all that Marvel Comics’ alliteration, while continuing the tradition of evil geniuses with post-graduate degrees and calling into question the screening process at the world’s evil universities. He may be best remembered for his role as Kamal Khan, the fake Faberge-collecting, backgammon-cheating, nuclear war-starting exiled Afghan prince in Octopussy.



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