#john cullum

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30 Rock || 6.09 Leap Day

Miss Lemon, did you not grow up with Leap Day William?  He lives in the Mariana Trench?  He emerges every four years to trade children’s tears for candy? 

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The dog is not Rick. I'm stating categorically and in no uncertain terms as a scientist and as a human being... no dog can come back to Earth and be Rick.

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NORTHERN EXPOSURE 2.06 “War and Peace”

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mark greene + 😍😍😍

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The Notorious Bettie Page

directed by Mary Harron, 2005

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Honestly Rutledge looks so sweaty throughout 1776 (and within good reason because they had a WHOLE SONG about how hot it was) BUT

I have to realize that it’s probably because he was getting all hot and bothered under the collar for Lyman Hall….😮‍💨

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CHRIS: I'm making people use coasters. Where'd that come from?

NORTHERN EXPOSURE

3.11 Dateline: Cicely

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Northern Exposure, Dateline Cicely (S03E11)

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HOLLING: Well, I'd say just must've been old age that got him.

NORTHERN EXPOSURE

3.20 The Final Frontier

Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid

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WATCHLIST 2023: Jungleland

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The Cast of Hamlet (1964) in Musicals: Part 2

Like Richard Burton, John Cullum (Laertes) started his Broadway musical career in Camelot. He played Sir Dinadan, understudied King Arthur and Mordred, and eventually took over Mordred full-time. Unlike Burton, Cullum kept doing musicals. A lot of musicals. Let's look at some of them!

Cullum's next Broadway show after Hamlet was On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. This is a selection of scenes and songs from the show, narrated by Cyril Ritchard. Barbara Harris gets most of the material here, but watch it all anyway, she's delightful.

After joining the original production of 1776 as a replacement Edward Rutledge, Cullum got to do the role in the film and sing "Molasses to Rum," a tour de force about slavery and Northern hypocrisy.

The shows that Cullum opened in as a star tended to be modest hits at best. Shenandoah was probably his biggest personal success. It ran long enough that he left and came back! He won a Tony! He reprised his role in a revival! Which ran for a little over a month including previews. Ah well. I don't know Shenandoah that well. The plot seems... politically iffy? The lead's whole thing is that he doesn't want to pick a side in the Civil War. But Cullum sounds great!

He won another Tony for On the Twentieth Century! Here he sings "I've Got It All" with the great Judy Kaye. (TW for a rape mention, here are the lyrics if you want to read before watching.) They're out of costume, so you get to see his very '70s outfit. For what he looked like in costume, here's their Tony performance!

And then he didn't originate a role in a musical until Urinetown in 2001. I'm pretty sure this is where I first heard him.

Also he played a dog in The Grinch.

And Audra McDonald's dad in the revival of 110 in the Shade!

In 2010, Cullum was in The Scottsboro Boys as the Interlocutor, who forces the titular characters to reenact their story in the form of a minstrel show. It's a very good, very heavy musical.

Cullum was most recently on Broadway as a replacement in Waitress in 2017-18, but who knows, maybe he'll be back! He did a solo show in 2021 and a movie in 2022. Anyone out there writing roles for 94-year-olds?

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The Northern exposure regular cast (plus Eve) being photographed during the filming of the episode "Lost and Found" (3.17, 1992).

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Well, Maurice... what's it going to be?

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NORTHERN EXPOSURE 2.05 “Spring Break”

“Spring’s about to spring. Persephone’s comin’ back! And here in Cicely, the ice is groaning, about to break with that exquisite and deafening roar. It’s a time for madness. A time for our fangs to come down, and our eyes to glaze over, so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy: Oh, yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee!”

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN CULLUM 🥳❤️