Havent heard that term in years. ), this isnt some kind of morbid contest to see who can be the first to inform the board of some celebritys death. Puss, and my father enjoyed nothing more than holding the beast high in the air and making strange, affectionate sounds in that distinguished voice: Yeanngghh, Puss Yeaannngh Puss Puss Puss.) He called my sister Puss, too, sometimes, though mostly I think with her it was Kiddo, which he also called me, though there was a period in which he occasionally called me Ernie, which was the dogs name. Kaltenborn was a famous mid . Never heard of this decidedly imprecise term. You can. He wrote, "I suppose in a mild way there is a lesson to be learned for the young, or the young at heart the gumption to get out and try one's wings". Kim Noble, one of the announcers on the NPR affiliate in Kansas City, KCUR, speaks with a very affected Connecticut Lockjaw accent. YESTERDAY IS NOT FAR AWAY. And the many candidates for the crown of Last American to Speak This Way. And I, of course, was looking them over, too. He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review. How widespread, numerically and geographically? Above all, he was a gentleman, one of the lasta figure so archaic, it could be easily mistaken for something else. Plimpton revisited pro football in 1971,[18] this time joining the defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Colts and seeing action in an exhibition game against his previous team, the Lions. If he couldnt be taken quite seriously, that was fine with him (he took himself lightly, and relished being in on the joke). George Plimpton is beautifully connected. In the early 60s, when I was working at the firework plant with my dad [Felix Grucci], George would pull up in shiny red sports car on his way to the Hamptons. Mid-Atlantic. [17], In 1953, Plimpton joined the influential literary journal The Paris Review, founded by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. "Doc" Humes, becoming its first editor in chief. Labov suspected that WWII had something to do about it. Spoke in a mid-Atlantic accent, reflecting a privileged Upper East Side (in New York City) upbringing. He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Starring George Plimpton as Himself, which documents his life, adventures, and work as participatory journalist and editor of the Paris Review, my dad will be playing himself one more time. Of the Murrow Boys, Eric Sevareid held on to the newsreel style the longest; relying on memory, Im betting that we could actually watch the transition away from that to a more vernacular style in the long career of Walter Cronkite. And so fuck was definitely out of the question, but what about I love you? *Originally posted by CBCD * George Plimpton, who has died aged 76, became a best-selling author by not only writing about sporting heroes but by participating in those sports as well. And his apartment, with those windows that looked out onto the East River, became a famous landmark in NYC. Harvard (where he edited the Lampoon), Kings College, His father co-founded the law firm Debevoise Plimpton. [31][32][33] His firework, a Roman candle named "Fat Man",[31][32][33] weighed 720 pounds (330kg)[31] and was expected to rise to 1,000 feet (300m)[33] or more[31] and deliver a wide starburst. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Vault. O ne afternoon this summer, I sat in George Plimpton's study waiting for the gentleman editor, participatory journalist, and beloved gadfly of American letters to arrive. He has the same type of patrician upper-class New Yorker accent as Jane Wyatt. His high Boston accent might have been heard as an influential transitional hybrid, and its interesting how prominent parodies of the speech of Brando, Dean, and Kennedy were at the time: seems a sign that we were noticing a marked change. 3: Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". I always thought it sounded similar to the accent of William F. Buckley, Jr., who I believe was not reared in Boston. I havent heard that he is dead, but if so RIP George. Again with thanks to Jonathan Fields, here's the continuation of George Plimpton's famous interview of Ernest Hemingway from the Paris Review, Summer 1958. History / Biographical Note Biographical Note. These interviews are a collaborative effort, and, I believe, a fascinating contribution to literary history. With such a useful explanation, why do I gripe about the name? This book is the party that was George's life-and it's a big one-attended by scores of famous people, as well as. It sounds like Somerset Maugham, was a favorite putdown. In all my years, Ive never heard this accent in person. It was so tiny that if you saw him in it, you couldnt believe hed be able to get himself out of it. George Plimpton was born on March 18, 1927 in New York City, New York, USA. Archie Moore, after all, had broken his nose. Plimpton died on September 25, 2003, in his New York City apartment from a heart attack later determined to have been caused by a catecholamine surge. Somehow Georgehad gotten it into his head that I was on the verge of becoming a pharmacist before he had called me up a year earlier to tell me the Paris Review was publishing a story I had submittedperhaps because of the pharmacological bent of the subject matter. [28], Plimpton was a demolitions expert in the post-World War II Army. Next up: some sociological explanations of why someone like George Gershwin might have tried to speak like Westbrook Van Voorhis. I hope not. With the evolution of talkies in the late 1920s, voice was first heard in motion pictures. Gay Talese, author:As a young man not long out of university, at 26, 27 years of age, George Plimpton went with his friends to Paris to be benighted in the tradition of Paris culture. All rights reserved. There was one more matter I never heard my dad discuss. She was the daughter of writers Willard R. Espy[39] and Hilda S. Cole, who had, earlier in her career, been a publicity agent for Kate Smith and Fred Waring. They all sound just like George. He was a great addition to the human race. A lifelong New Yorker, he never tasted a bagel or an olive, and he never chewed a stick of gum. In finally hearing the great storyteller tell the one story he would not tell, I could hear, too, his long, reverent silence on the subjectand it reveals his integrity as a journalist, and as a man. He died on September 26, 2003 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. At least, not to me, nor even to my sister, a fact she mentions in the movie. By George Plimpton. Plimpton was .the public face of the New York intellectual: tweedy, eclectic and with a plummy accent he himself described as "Eastern seaboard cosmopolitan." . Plimpton scowled, and said he was perfectly capable of running for himself. Ill pick you up., I had a hard time sleeping that night, as you might imagine. Did he have the celebrated "Boston Brahmin" accent, or was it a psuedo-Brit affectation? On Saturday Night Live, even the great impersonator Dana Carvey couldnt get it quite right. The last time I heard my fathers voice, it was over the telephone. George Plimpton. George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 - September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman. I feel that his work on this and many other language-related matters should be far more widely known than it is. Well, perhaps it's more accurate to say that the book provided entertaining confirmation to millions of people that they -- like the author . George Plimpton. Isnt that what they call it. And so when it was time to say goodbye, we did so simplyno awkwardness, no strangled expressions of affectionand this is why, even though it was the last time we ever spoke, and I would never get the chance again, I do not regret not telling him that I loved him. Vault. George Plimpton The Movie Database (TMDB) Plimpton also appeared in a number of feature films as an extra and in cameo appearances. May a diseased yak squat in your hot tub. He was 76. Revolutionary musket, a stairwell and a housemaster), Besides, third is a very respectable showing! Another entertainment-related explanation for the shift, right about the time of the Eisenhower-Kennedy transition: The plumby announcer voice that hovers over the Atlantic midway between the Eastern Seaboard and England was mortally wounded in 1959. A graduate of Harvard University and King's College, Cambridge, Plimpton was recruited to Paris by Peter Matthiessen in 1952 and signed on to the project shortly thereafter. Researcher and writer Samuel Arbesman filed with NASA to name an asteroid after Plimpton; NASA issued the certificate 7932 Plimpton in 2009. George Plimpton Biography - life, family, children, wife, school, son Its our anniversary. Jonathan Ames, author:Back in the fall of 1999, in preparation for my one and only boxing match, I read George Plimptons great book, Shadow Box, where he recounted his foray into the world of boxing and his famous encounter with Archie Moore. The fake English announcer voice lingered on sporadically until the end of the Johnson administration in newsreels, which themselves ceased production around the same time, but Rod Serlings decision sounded the death knell for that accent. This periodical has carried great weight in the literary world, but has never been financially strong; for its first half-century, it was allegedly largely financed by its publishers and by Plimpton. Discussing the accent he used for Washington in an interview with The Onion AV Club, he explained: The accent back then was probably nothing like what we think of as a Southern accent now or a New England accent now, so we tried to find the root of the accents. You're going to play for us-making some sort of big comeback." "That's right," Plimpton replied in his patrician accent. Exeter Academy after an incident involving a Why Did William F. Buckley Jr. Talk Like That? - Slate Magazine What accent does Logan have in the show? : r/SuccessionTV 'Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself' TV review - SFGATE When he was on the scene, everything was a big happeningan event. She was having lunch at P. J. Clarkes with the publisher Bennet Cerf and his son Chris, and my dad swooped over to the table (he was wearing a cape) and introduced himself in that ridiculously gallant voice: Bennet, Chris, what a pleasant surprise! Vault. Do, Write George Plimpton Has Made A Career Throwing Himself Into **Your transparent jealousy is very unbecoming, Carnac. Thats where there was that cross-section you once found in Parisof literary people, of people who were illiterate, of people down on their luck, and people of status. I remember the Lowell Thomas documentary films of the 50s where Mr. Thomas' mellifluous tones and distinct radio-style pronunciation gave him a respectability that a similar huckster could hardly hope to replicate today by the mere application of such an artifice. The clipped, non-rhotic English accents of George Plimpton and William F. Buckley Jr. were vestigial examples. Shed wandered out to the balcony of a lonely Manhattan cocktail party, and was standing out there, smoking a cigarette and looking down mournfully at the street far below, when from behind her she heard a voice: I know a better way down.. I think that perhaps Harris' portrayal of Dr. Smith made the accent so identified with cowardly buffoonery that no one in the baby boom generation and later would want to use the accent as anything other than a joke. And what have we here? My moms initial impression was that he was a little hoity-toityI mean, who did this guy think he was?, But the second time they met, it was, in fact, my fathers voice that won her over. George Plimpton writer, publisher, amateur lion tamer died in 2003 after 50 years as the founding editor of The Paris Review. Of course, I think he enjoyed the odd persona his voice and mannerisms conferred on him. He looked for ways in which he could make himself a ridiculous figure, and not only on the football field, but in all walks of life. George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 - September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman. Plimpton[2] was born in New York City on March 18, 1927, and spent his childhood there, attending St. Bernard's School and growing up in an apartment duplex on Manhattan's Upper East Side located at 1165 Fifth Avenue. The opposing team: the Detroit Lions. From what other people had told me, I knew a little bit about itthat my father (and mother) had been right by Bobbys side in California when he was shot, that my father had tackled Sirhan Sirhan to the ground, and wrestled the gun from his handbut not a word of it came from my dad himself. NYC speech in the sixties, in some ways, flipped prestige markers. In another cartoon in The New Yorker, a patient looks up at the masked surgeon about to operate on him and asks, "Wait a minute! [41] She is the daughter of James Chittenden Dudley,[42] a managing partner of Manhattan-based investment firm Dudley and Company, and geologist Elisabeth Claypool. These are some of the things my father could not say: Shit. Fuck. I love you. His curses were never actually curse-words, though it was perhaps because of this that they held such weight. George Ames Plimpton (1927 - 2003) - Genealogy - geni family tree :rolleyes: Ive got news for you, buddy, youre not even second in line! 26 Feb 2023 12:18:23 After his discharge, Plimpton returned to Harvard and finished his undergraduate education. The Moth | The Art and Craft of Storytelling Its a shot from a YouTube video that itself is a fascinating time-capsule portrait of language change. Tom Nowatzke, fullback, Detroit Lions (In the 1960s, Plimpton briefly played with the Detroit Lions asresearch for the best-selling book Paper Lion, which was later made into a film):I was the No. The name George Plimpton is synonymous with a kind of all-in participatory journalism. (My dads been dead nearly ten years: not that he held many in his life, but what grudges could he possibly be holding on to now? The clenched jaw tight-bite bit: the lockjaw dentiloquist. Now, in George, Being George, 200 friends, lovers and rivals detail Plimpton's remarkable exploits. Its strange to think, but he would have been eighty-five this year: fourteen years older than my mom, fifty years older than me. Those of us whose families are from Larchmont (that would be me) just call it lockjaw. George had three siblings: Francis Taylor Pearsons Plimpton Jr., Oakes Ames Plimpton,[15] and Sarah Gay Plimpton. And similarly on the role of ridicule in speeding the move away from this accent: This is only partly facetious, but I think I know who was the American to speak "Announcer." So we got together and, after some preliminaries, he popped the question that he was really there to ask. Starring George Plimpton as Himself" - is meant as a wink-wink to Plimpton's career as a "participatory journalist." As a writer for Sports . The point of the flipped prestige markers is that generally the fewer the Rs, the fancier the person. I only wish I could not tell him again, just one more time. Isnt that what they call it. Peter Matthiesen, author, co-founder of the Paris Review:I was in Liberia, of all places, and George met me in Monrovia. [13], Plimpton's son described him as a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant and wrote that both of Plimpton's parents were descended from Mayflower passengers.[14]. When George Plimpton Met the Best Bartender in Brooklyn [citation needed], Outside the literary world, Plimpton was famous for competing in professional sporting events and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur. That is the tendency of Americans trying to sound more British, or Brits trying to sound more Yank, to split the difference and speak in an accent whose home ground is no real country but somewhere in the middle of the sea. That Weirdo Announcer-Voice Accent: Where It Came From and Why It Went He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review, as well as his patrician demeanor and accent. An Evening With George Plimpton - 2000 - YouTube The presentation was called Freedom of the American Road and was made 60 years ago, in 1955, as part of the campaign to build support for the new Interstate Highway system. (And, OK, Im not a linguist, but Im married to one!) By strange coincidence, I actually became quite good friends with his (ex-)in-laws here in Manhattan. His dish was Spaghetti Bolognese. How George Plimpton's Sports Books Presaged the First-Person Media Age After St. Bernard's School, Plimpton attended Phillips Exeter Academy (from which he was expelled just shy of graduation), and Daytona Beach High School, where he received his high school diploma,[16] before entering Harvard College in July 1944. I think it was an affectation people adopted because they thought it made them sound much more intelligent! Back to Plimpton I dont remember the LL affect at all. Whether on the football field or on a golf course or in a poem or an essay, the notion of human talent in whatever form excited him. Consider his duties as host of Mousterpiece Theatre (my first intro to my father as celebrity), a childrens TV show in which he debated the adventures and psyches of Donald Duck and Goofy in that marvelously serious voice: Is Donald Duck really a strident existentialist and a hero? How wonderfulwhat fun!to have a constant reminder emerging from your lips that life was absurd, and identity, too; all of it a great game to be played at, enjoyed. George Plimpton's duplex apartment on the Upper East Side hit the market for $5.495 million on April 18.
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