A fan letter to Christopher Plummer

Dear Mr. Plummer: Who was it that said at twilight, colors are at their most intense? It's an apt description of your screen career in the past four years. From your acidulous voicework in "Up" and "My Dog Tulip," to your mellow performances as the Faustian father in "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus," as Leo Tolstoy in "The Last Station" and as the septuagenarian who throws his own coming-out party in "Beginners," I can't think of another actor whose work is so electric. I think I've forgiven you for that crack that "working with Julie Andrews is like being hit over the head with a Hallmark card."