Patrick McGoohan Has Finally Escaped the Village

posted by Jett Loe

From the Guardian.

The Prisoner was a favorite of mine growing up – I’ll update this post later with my thoughts.

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Hammer into Anvil below; all the episodes of the Prisoner can be found here.

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The good Dr. has found this nice piece on Patrick:

Patrick McGoohan, 1928-2009

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Nice little story from the talkback of Aint it Cool:

“I actually knew Mr. McGoohan… a little by CaptainCosmos    Jan 15th, 2009 12:23:32 AM

Back in 97 I started bartending at a little Tex-Mex joint in Santa Monica, and as the new guy, got stuck with the Monday lunch shift for about my first year. Well, at least 2 times a week, in the early afternoon, Patrick McGoohan would come by for one or two quick drinks. Well Vodka with a splash of OJ–no ice. Sometimes he’d slam it, and be out the door, but sometimes if it was a quiet day, he’d hang for a bit and shoot the shit with me. He was kind of a brusque, crusty Englishman, but still very classy, and seemed just as interested to find out about me and my life, aspirations, whatever, as he was happy to share andecdotes about his vast and varied life. Most people don’t know it, but he was one of the hardest working and most sought aftr “script doctors” in Hollywood. He was always working on touching up a script, usually with no credit. He also really, really wanted to get a feature film of The Prisoner made, and at the time hoped that his friend Mel Gibson would play #6. Here’s one last thing — he once told me that back in the 60′s he punched Mick fucking Jagger in the kisser for hitting on his wife at a London nightclub! True story. He actually seemed to take a lot of pride in that one. Okay, this is so far down on the talkback that I’m sure no one will read it, but I wanted to remember Patrick once again, and say we’ll miss him dearly. He was indeed MUCH more than a number.”

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