Re: "The Princess Bride" and B5 connections

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:22:41 +0000 (UTC), Oron Port
<zoraxe22@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I recently watched "The Princess Bride" and found two nice connections
>to B5.
>
>1. The miracle worker asked Westley something like "What is worth
>living for?" before reviving him, which he answered "True love", which
>is very similar to the question Lorien asked Sheridan ("Do you have
>anything worth living for?"), before agreeing to "revive" him, which
>Sheridan answered "Dellen", who is his true love. Also, Westley and
>Sheridan were both in a semi-dead condition ("mostly dead" was the
>definition from "The Princess Bride").
>
>2. This is not so much a connection as the first, but the kid talked
>about "that isn't fair" (reffering to the story), and his grandpa
>replied "who said life was fair?!", which reminded me of course of
>Marcus, and his quotable thoughts about the unfairness of the
>universe.
>
>
>And to finish with a minor annoyance I had because of "The Princess
>Bride". When I first watched "Dead Like Me" serveral months ago, I had
>very annoying hard time to pinpoint why is the actor playing Rube so
>familiar to me. I'm usually very good at this, but I just couldn't
>figure it out. Until some time later, when me and my brother watched
>"The Princess Bride" and there he was, playing as Inigo Montoya. The
>worst thing was that my brother figured it out first. AAARGH!

You mean Mandy Patankin? (I probably spelled his name wrong). He
was/is huge on Broadway, and also was in the film Alien Nation (as Sam
Fransisco), and the Barbara Striesand's love interest in "Yentl"
(among many other things).


>
>Oron
>
>PS: Some time ago I watched an episode of "The A-Team", and who was
>there playing the new damsel in distress? None other than Tracy
>Scoggins. LOL!

And she was a recurring bimbo in "Lois & Clark" and had a guest
appearance in some blessedly short-lived series about Jules Verne (or
his ideas, anyway), speaking with the worst French accent this side of
Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

-Wendy



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