I’ve seen Matheson in a lot of roles too. Including Vice President, but for some reason I pulled up Animal House. His eyes are smiling but can be cold and distance. That works for playing sociopaths.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 9:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] David Tennant Doctor Who Marathon starting at Midnight Sorry to hear you're not feeling well. Are you on the mend now? Yeah, i caught the Tim Matheson "Burn Notice" when it first aired. There have been two or three marathons in the last year, and I saw it again there. Matheson is an interesting character. I can barely remember that he was in "Animal House". Actually, Phyllis and I think of him mostly as the sleazy/creepy/evil character actor. Honestly, for years I've seen him in TV movies and guest starring on a million series, and he almost always plays despicable roles: child molester, sociopath killer, embezzler, assassin. Frankly, his least disturbing roles over the years have been as the typical cheating husband whose good looks allow him to manipulate women. He was in the murderous husband in the Fletch movie with Chevy Chase! I actually have a hard time thinking of a positive role Matheson has played. I honestly think it was to do with his eyes. If you look at them, they can give his face a kind of sinister/crazy look. That, combined with his overall good lucks, makes directors love to cast him as the guy who draws people in only to reveal the psycho beneath. It's wild how actors' overall features get them cast in certain roles. The late Jeffrey Hunter (Captain Pike) was often cited for his "magnetic steel blue eyes". This, and the way he frowned when concentrating, got him roles where the hero was to be a thoughtful, intense man. The eyes helped him get cast as Jesus in a movie. Kirstie Alley does a lot of comedy, but here intense eyes and brow have also gotten her cast as the first Vulcan Savik in the Trek movies, and she's done her share of psycho roles too. and of course. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracey de Morsella" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 2, 2010 1:56:07 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] David Tennant Doctor Who Marathon starting at Midnight I’ve been sick too, so Chris and I were with you watching Burn Notice. It’s on of our favorite shows. We actually caught an episode with Tim Matheson of Animal House that we never saw before. I did not think that was possible. By the way, Matheson directed that issue. That character is a monster. I hope they bring him back I have not been watching the Who marathon, because while I was sick last week, I ODed on it with downloads from Netflix. Tell Phyllis I said Happy New Year and to hang in there From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 10:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] David Tennant Doctor Who Marathon starting at Midnight never saw that, so looking forward to it. Man! I'm OD'ing on TV. My wife caught a bad case of the flu--along with severe ear and sinus infections--when we were in Texas during Christmas. For the past week I've been tending to her, since she's housebound. Fortunately there's been pretty decent TV on. I watched hours and hours of the Burn Notice marathon yesterday, until 5 this morning! Now I'm on the Dr. Who marathon as I take down the Christmas tree, clean house, and keep supplying my wife with hot red tea. Cartoon Network's been running good stuff, along with new eps of Star Wars Cone Wars -which I've come to really like--tonight. And there's always the likes of Avatar, Wolverine and the X-Men, and Samurai jack (which I love) on too. and I've got Coraline on DVD, which I've never watched, and there's those unopened DVD's of The Dark Knight, 3:10 to Yuma sitting on the shelf. You know, there's about four movies I wanted to see at the theatre during the holidays--Avatar, It's Complicated, Frog Princess, Up in the Air--but I can't since my wife is sick. But with the good TV, DVDs, and the likes of Hulu, I'm not too upset about it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrianne Brennan" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 1, 2010 1:29:02 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] David Tennant Doctor Who Marathon starting at Midnight I'll be tuning in for the finale with the Mister Master :D Truly his best incarnation... ~ "Where love and magic meet" ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com <http://www.adriannebrennan.com/> Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Keith Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: And at 6 pm EST, they're starting two of my fav eps. The first is the two-parter where the Doctor becomes a human in WWI England, and Martha must help the now-amnesiac Doctor combat the aliens he'd been fleeing. At 8 pm is the great ep "Blink", the one where those statue-like beings creep up on you when you're not looking. Truly one of the scariest scifi shows I've ever seen. Can't wait to see it again! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelwyn" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:06:09 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] David Tennant Doctor Who Marathon starting at Midnight http://www.gallifreyanembassy.org/vortex/?q=node/1154 BBC America to Marathon 10th Doctor Episodes on New Year's Day and Day Ring in the new year with the Doctor! BBC America will be marathoning Doctor Who episodes starring David Tennant as the Doctor starting at midnight, New Year's Day through January 2nd with the conclusion of David Tennant's last special, The End of Time, Part 2. It all starts at the stroke of midnight, January 1, 2010 with The Christmas Invasion, David Tennant's first full story as the Doctor after regenerating from the 9th Doctor played by Christopher Eccleston (from Christmas 2005). Each hour after that brings a new episode. 1am - New Earth, 2am - Tooth and Claw, etc. It leads up to the re-broadcast of The End of Time, Part 1 on January 2nd at 6:45pm followed by a half-hour "Doctor Who: The David Tennant Special" leading to The End of Time, Part 2 at 8:30pm. The latter two are repeated again at 11pm and 2am the next day.
