{"id":886,"date":"2009-04-20T14:28:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T18:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=886"},"modified":"2009-04-20T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T18:30:12","slug":"billy-dee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2009\/04\/billy-dee\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Dee!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isn’t Lando a handsome devil?<\/p>\n

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I’d like to sing the praises of this man for just a minute.\u00a0 Who else could’ve played Harrison Ford’s old buddy \/ president of a cloudy oasis planet \/ Ewok air support commander Lando Calrissian<\/a> with quite as much flair as this guy.\u00a0 Certainly not Mark Hamil….<\/p>\n

What ever happened to dear old Billy Dee?\u00a0 He was great as Harvey Dent in Tim Burton’s Batman.\u00a0 Then POOF!\u00a0 Nothing.<\/p>\n

Maybe it was that after playing Harvey Dent in the first one, he thought he’d get to play Harvey Two-Face in ‘That Horrible Batman Movie We’d All Like to Forget<\/a>.’\u00a0 As it turned out, no.\u00a0 That dubious honor was handed to other three-namer, Tommy Lee Jones, who chewed up the scenery like a termite.<\/p>\n

Did that leave him with such a bad taste in his mouth that he left the screen forever?\u00a0 Did the industry just lose interest and relegate him to various TV and video game appearances (basically, the actor’s graveyard)?\u00a0 Or is he, as we speak, staging a comeback?\u00a0 Only time will tell.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here: let Billy Dee sell you some Colt 45.\u00a0 It’ll make him (and you) feel better.<\/p>\n

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Isn’t Lando a handsome devil? I’d like to sing the praises of this man for just a minute.\u00a0 Who else could’ve played Harrison Ford’s old buddy \/ president of a cloudy oasis planet \/ Ewok air support commander Lando Calrissian with quite as much flair as this guy.\u00a0 Certainly not Mark Hamil…. What ever happened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[365,364,366,8],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-general-nerdiness","tag-batman","tag-billy-dee-williams","tag-lando-calrissian","tag-star-wars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}