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We could use some distracting amusement right about now, so here's one of the most intensely silly things I've ever seen, Eddie Izzard imagining Darth Vader ordering lunch at the Death Star canteen (he gets into it at about 2:25):
2015-06-11
Sir Christopher Lee will live on
People talk about his heavy-metal albums, but did you know he also recited Tolkien poetry for the Tolkien Ensemble? I'm sure it was playing Saruman that got him the gig, but what a voice!
And he'll live on generationally, too. Did you know that Harriet Walter (best-known to me as Fanny Dashwood in Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility) is his niece?
And he'll live on generationally, too. Did you know that Harriet Walter (best-known to me as Fanny Dashwood in Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility) is his niece?