I first saw David Strathairn in an old short lived TV series called The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, where he played an awkwardly eccentric used bookstore owner and nearly romantic interest of the title character, played by Blair Brown. Strathairn has shown up in numerous roles over the years, my favorite being the blind sound prodigy in the quirky spy thriller, Sneakers.
Most astonishingly, Strathairn recently played Edward R. Murrow in George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck.
Darren Kuropatwa (A Difference) points us to a YouTube video of the closing speech from Strathairn’s Murrow, and wonders of what the speech would be about today. An amazing message!
I’ve been exploring YouTube. At a suggestion from my wife I looked up this video clip from “Good Night and Good Luck;” George Clooney’s film about Edward R. Murrow. In this closing speech he’s talking about the television … . if he were alive today, amidst all the talk about things like MySpace, might he give the exact same speech … about the computer?
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Wow. Profound. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but have just decided that I shall. Soon.
This should go down as one of the great speeches of all time! And you’re right – “this instrument” could just as easily be the iPod, the PC, the PSP, the mobile phone.
Oh and by the way, any man who rates “Sneakers” is alright in my book 🙂