Mandy Patinkin on 60 Minutes

Thanks for the heads up, John.  We watch 60 minutes. They do a good job with their stories. I'll look forward to this.

There is a Celebrity Train Layouts with Mandy available? from TM Books and Video

Thanks for the heads up.  Who is he?

Art

He was one of the main characters in the Princess Bride movie.

Thanks for the info. I'll have to DVR that. He is also a singer having released several albums.

I HAVE HAD MANY PHONE CONVERSTAIONS WITH MADY AS I PROVIDED ANIMATION FOR HIS LAYOUT BACK AROUND 2000. HE ALSO DID A PBS SHOW AROUND THEN.

HIS LOVE OF SINGING IS HIS REAL PASSION, MORE SO THAN ACTING.

HE PREFORMED IN COLUMBUS AND MY THEN WIFE AND CHILDREN ATTENDED THE CONCERT AND GOT TO DO THE BACKSTAGE STUFF, PARTY ECT AND THEN HE DID GO TO MY HOME AND SEE THE REST OF THE ANIMATION THE HE HAD NOT PURCHASED YET.I WAS AT OUR TRADE SHOW IN FLORIDA AND MISSED THE CONSERT.

 I WAS PUT TOGETHER WITH HIM, AND OTHERS, THRU A PERSON AT YORK THAT BUILT HIS LAYOUT AND WAS ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR INTERESTING THINGS.

I STILL HAVE A PHONE NUMBER FOR HIM IN NY, OUTSIDE OF THE CITY.

Gentlemen,

   Looks like this will be the 1st decent thing in years on 60 minutes.

PCRR/Dave

Thanks for the heads up. 

"Hello.  My name is Inigo Montoya.  You killed my father.  Prepare to die."

Some of the best lines in any movie, ever.

In "Chicago Hope" there was a episode or 2 of him with the trains set up in his office.

This time of the year CBS usually runs late of Sunday night due to football. It is a moving target for your DVR.

Brad

"You keep using that word.  I do not think it means what you think it means."

He did some significant interviews with Tom Snyder, dealing with their shared love of model trains. He is a big Lionel Guy. You can find the interviews, or parts thereof, on YouTube.

Thanks for the heads up.

Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies.  The dialog in the movie is almost verbatim from the book.  Mandy and Andre The Giant are my favorite actors (characters) in the movie.  Peter Falk is excellent as the Grandfather also.

Mandy Patinkin was kind enough to autorgraph a few stills from the movie for my daughters.  They were quite young and Princess Bride was their favorite movie.

I love that movie, too.  William Goldman, the novelist and screenwriter, said it was by far and away his favorite work.  That's some pretty heady stuff considering Goldman also wrote Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, Marathon Man, A Bridge Too Far, Absolute Power, and a dozen others I'm forgetting.

Goldman's ability to write memorable dialog is a treasure. In one of his books, he confessed that his secret vice was to go to a screening of "Butch Cassidy" and listen to everyone in the theater saying, "Who are those guys?"  His other memorable line from All the President's Men is "Follow the money."

SJS

thanks for the heads up!

We will take a look, John. Thanks for the heads up.

Joe Stachler who did the TM Video said Mandy was wonderful to work with. He had a great time.

I don't think 60 Minutes is worried. There obviously are millions who disagree with your analysis. 

"60 Minutes, the most successful television broadcast in history, is in its 47th season on the CBS Television Network. The broadcast begun in 1968 is still a hit in 2014, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Over the 2013-14 season, 60 Minutes continued its dominance as the number-one news program, drawing an average of 12.2 million viewers per week - almost twice the audience of its nearest network news magazine competitor and three million viewers ahead of the most-watched daily network evening news broadcast."

Mandy Patinkin is a cool guy, IMHO.  He also starred with Glenn Close in a pleasant film called "Maxie", concerning the ghost of a 1920s dancer (Ruth Gordon) upending their life by inhabiting Glenn Closes's body.

Got to the layout for about 2 minutes. Lots of Lionel in the background. He's a tough man to listen to. Very fast talker and high energy. 

just watched it. Cool to get that kind of exposure on National TV

Nice layout but he runs his trains fast.

Brad

I saw Mandy Patinkin in the 1980s as Che in the musical "Evita" in the acoustically perfect Benedum Theatre in Pittsburgh.  It was a hot date, too.

He was excellent, by the way.

George

Why not?  He runs his trains like he talks.  Nothing wrong in that. To each his own.

Yup, Mandy, Bob Simon and a cameraman on their hands and knees crawling under his layout! Awesome! 

As you followed the interview, you get a sampling of the genius, or may be obsessive/compulsive personality.  Eventually you are thinking: How did he work model railroading into all of that?? But there it was.   Quite a personality, maybe one of kind?   It would have been interesting to know the LHS that worked with him. You're thinking the LHS personality would be almost the same.  

Thanks,   I would have miss it.

Mike CT

We liked it a lot.  Nice show. 

Great Documentary, and TM Video's did Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra, Tom Snyder, and Mandy Pantakin, and they are all very interesting. Thanks for the notification...Happy Railroading.

Wow, quite the difference from his calm presence on the TM video I watched a few years ago.  I feel like I don't even know this guy now after watching this latest interview.  Interesting man.

Certainly was an interesting piece though when he says, "We modeled..." or "We made..." makes me wonder who the other person in "We" is and exactly how much of the modeling was done by Mandy.

BTW, has anybody on this forum equipped the underside of their layout with obvious permanent workshop type florescent tube lighting similar to what was shown on Mandy's layout?

He has a nice set up and he runs his trains fast. I like trains running fast. He may or may not have had some "expert" help creating a great layout ,

Brent

Good show. Interesting man. Great layout.