O’Neal was the daughter of actors Ryan O’Neal and Joanna Moore. When she was eight years old, director Peter Bogdanovich approached her father and her with a proposal for them to costar in a movie based on the novel
Addie Pray (1971) by Joe David Brown, although Tatum had never before acted. Her grave performance as a shrewd cigarette-smoking nine-year-old who teams up with a bogus Bible salesman (who may be her father) to form an impressive con team in the Depression-set film won her critical praise and a Golden Globe Award for most promising new actress as well as the Oscar. In her next film, O’Neal played the pitching ace on a misfit youth baseball team in the popular comedy
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Catatonia
Catatonia were an alternative rock band from Wales who gained popularity in the mid- to late 1990s. The band formed in 1992 after Mark Roberts met Cerys Matthews. The first major lineup featured Dafydd Ieuan on drums, Clancy Pegg on keyboard, Owen Powell on guitar and Paul Jones on bass. They recorded two EPs,
For Tinkerbell and
Pegg was fired prior to work on their first studio album,
Way Beyond Blue, while Ieuan was replaced with Aled Richards shortly afterwards. This new line-up remained for the rest of the lifetime of the band. The single You ve Got a Lot to Answer For received radio airplay and became the band s first top 40 single in the UK Singles Chart in September 1996. Their breakout success came at the start of 1998 with the
Othello (1982), and J. B. (1959), while his other Broadway credits included Home Is the Hero, The Dark Is Light Enough, The Lark, Night of the Auk, Arturo Ui, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, The Good Doctor, and Macbeth.
On the London stage, he was a member of both the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, winning the Evening Standard Award for Best Actor in
Becket; he also led Canadaâs Stratford Festival under Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Langham.
Although Mr. Plummer won the Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his work in
Beginners, he is perhaps best remembered for his performance opposite Julie Andrews in the 1965 film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic
Christopher Plummer, suave Canadian actor best known as von Trapp in The Sound of Music – obituary
A gifted classical actor on stage, he was disdainful of his best-known film role, which he said he was ‘dying to send up’
Plummer: liked playing ‘larger-than-life characters’
Credit: Martin Pope
Christopher Plummer, the Oscar-winning Canadian actor, who has died aged 91, achieved fame in the early 1950s in a succession of Shakespearean roles, but was best remembered, to his lasting irritation, for his sentimental portrayal of Captain Georg von Trapp in the film musical The Sound of Music (1965). In 2012, when he was in his eighties, he became the oldest actor to win an Academy Award.