Mr. Blue indeed

EDITORIAL

Brian Dennehy and Enron Let Us Down

I have always thought of Brian Dennehy as a good, solid actor who fared best when he portrayed a character caught between his sense of conscience and his sense of duty. Think of the sheriff in Rambo or even the district attorney in The Burden of Proof. A quick Internet search provides a list of some 177 titles in which he has appeared, often as cop, sheriff, or marshal.

But it was a different Brian Dennehy who played a character called Mr. Blue in a recently aired made for television movie called The Crooked E. Of his 177 film roles, Dennehy apparently took some parts not for the art, but for the paycheck. The Mr. Blue role was one of the latter.

Certainly, the scriptwriters didn't help, but Dennehy hammed it up as Mr. Blue, an...