Plummer Having An Oscar Year
This Saturday, Christopher Plummer will be appearing with the New York Philharmonic to narrate “Henry V,” while the orchestra performs Sir William Walton’s score for the Olivier version of the play. Plummer is having a lively time of it these days: Both his supporting turn as an elderly just-out-of-the-closet man in “Beginners” and his star turn in “Barrymore” are generating Oscar talk. He will be in one of the holiday season’s biggest hits, the Hollywood version of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” Plummer is 81. A few years ago, he published a thoroughly engaging memoir, “In Spite of Myself,” in which he revealed that he has long referred to the movie that made him famous, “The Sound of Music,” as “S & M.”
