Sunday, February 10, 2008

Roy Scheider Is Dead

Little moments like this are what keep us coming back to watch more. I can remember being a very young child and realizing that the captain from "SeaQuest" was the same guy who battled the shark in "Jaws." That is the moment I realized the magic of pop culture, that you could be a scrappy young Sheriff and a stately elder adventurer at the same time, on different channels. That may have been the first moment I grasped the passage of time as something physical and true. Certainly, for the span of perhaps three and a half weeks, I understood that Roy Scheider was the greatest actor in movie history.

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