He’s still doing pretty well too. The imdb.com site has several projects in the works for him. I mainly decided to do a quick plug because I’ve been out sick for most of the week and my friend Helen feels he’s an attractive man. That or she thinks he’s very funny. To me he’s very smart and generous with his time. Smart for his law degree from Cambridge which would explain his performance in A Fish Called Wanda and the MP skits. Generous for all the educational programs he still does for the “educational” networks when he could use his time on more lucrative productions. A great example is a special he recently did for the Food Network on how to select wine which I purchased for the same Helen on DVD as a gift. I myself am pretty clueless about wine other than the “rule” of red with red meat and white with fish and poultry yet I’m pretty partial to white overall, reds tend to have an aftertaste I dislike. Cleese made the show entertaining as it was informative with his rude waiter and struggling diner characters and then he held a wine-tasting party at his California home to illustrate the point of price doesn’t equal good.
In honor of his birthday, I want to recommend a little known movie of his I saw in college 19 years ago at Milwaukee’s Oriental Theater, when art house theaters weren’t subdivided into multiplexes too. Clockwise is probably one of the best examples of John Cleese “being” the stereotypical, uptight, punctual and pompous character he has perfected over the years.
He’s intelligent, funny, genuinely sweet, and attractive (even at his age)… that adds up to HOT! In fact, he’s probably the only actor I have a small crush on (I prefer interesting people), so that says a lot about how much I like him.