Patrick Stewart: Gravitas and Dignity
You had to know this was coming. I write this, whatever it is, as an unabashed fan of Sir Patrick Stewart. Not just because I am a Star Trek devotee, as some of you know, but also because of his brilliant stage acting, especially his Shakespearean roles, of which there were many, and in the end his friendship and acting partnership with his fellow Hall-of-Fame British actor, Ian Mckellen. Two legends interacting like gods on Mount Olympus. Thanks for indulging me. Sir Patrick Stewart, the actor best known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor X in the X-Men films, died just a few days ago at his home in Los Angeles on October 28th. He was 86. Before anything else, Stewart was a wonderful and gifted Shakespearean actor, trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, and spent much of his career playing authority figures and men in charge: kings, captains, and t...