...and after a very valiant fight against pancreatic cancer, which usually claims a person a lot quicker than it got Trebek.
I suppose after a "decent interval," Will Ferrell(Trebek) and Darrell Hammond(Connery) might re-unite to do a respectful "Celebrity Jeopardy" skit on SNL.
In some alternate universe there's a reality where "The Name of the Rose", "The Untouchables", "Last Crusade" and "The Hunt for the Red October" don't happen and Connery ends up a game show contestant... and an even more insufferable drunken lout than Oliver Reed. LOL
shareI don't remember Trebek or Connery in "Psycho".
shareIn some alternate universe there's a reality where "The Name of the Rose", "The Untouchables", "Last Crusade" and "The Hunt for the Red October" don't happen and Connery ends up a game show contestant... and an even more insufferable drunken lout than Oliver Reed. LOL
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Ha. Oliver Reed was one of those guys who made it for awhile but never really reached stardom. I suppose had luck broken the other way, Reed could have had Connery's career....
I will say this: in the 1974 and 1975 "Three Musketeer" movies(one movie split into two, ala Kill Bill), Reed's Athos (bearded, not always Reed's look) was clearly the "macho man" among the three of them (four, counting D'Artagnan of course) -- Michael York, Richard Chamberlain, and Frank Finlay were rather wispy in comparison. It was like Harrison Ford in Star Wars and Nick Nolte in Rich Man Poor Man...Hollywood(international) knew who their tough guy stars would be.
But Reed never really got it together -- he was not as handsome as Connery -- and remained a "cult star" to the end, when he had a heart attack while hard drinking in a pub (said his former co-star Glenda Jackson, "well, he died with his boots on.")
Reed was "on the list" to play Richard Blaney in Frenzy, but it seems every name actor in Britain was..none of them wanted the role.
I don't remember Trebek or Connery in "Psycho".
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You don't?
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