In honor of a Founding Father, I dub this the John Adams Iris.
George Grizzard wears a tricorn in his role as the Adams progenitor in The Adams Chronicles, a PBS miniseries from the 1970s. Even then I was not good as a faithful fan of television, so we didn't watch the 13-part program when it was new. We saw the first episode last night and were charmed. I was surprised that George Grizzard was so likable. Wasn't he a jerk when he would be on talk shows? Or was that Lewis Grizzard? No, Lewis was that witty guy I used to hear on the radio, the Georgian who wrote humor books. The jerky guy was George Segal. Funnily enough, George Grizzard and George Segal played the same character in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Neither of them was George, though. George Grizzard initiated the role of Nick on Broadway and George Segal was Nick in the Burton-Taylor movie.
So we have a Georgian (Lewis) and two Georges. George Grizzard is a wonderful John Adams. At 5' 10" he was too short to be George Washington.
George Grizzard wears a tricorn in his role as the Adams progenitor in The Adams Chronicles, a PBS miniseries from the 1970s. Even then I was not good as a faithful fan of television, so we didn't watch the 13-part program when it was new. We saw the first episode last night and were charmed. I was surprised that George Grizzard was so likable. Wasn't he a jerk when he would be on talk shows? Or was that Lewis Grizzard? No, Lewis was that witty guy I used to hear on the radio, the Georgian who wrote humor books. The jerky guy was George Segal. Funnily enough, George Grizzard and George Segal played the same character in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Neither of them was George, though. George Grizzard initiated the role of Nick on Broadway and George Segal was Nick in the Burton-Taylor movie.
So we have a Georgian (Lewis) and two Georges. George Grizzard is a wonderful John Adams. At 5' 10" he was too short to be George Washington.