Robert Dornan: “I would title my short remarks today, ``Gregory Peck, Film Legend, Says It All.'' Here is a small article from a paper…”

“I would title my short remarks today, ``Gregory Peck, Film Legend, Says It All.'' Here is a small article from a paper last week that film legend Gregory Peck says there is no place for him in Hollywood any longer because today's movies are too full of sex and violence. The 80-year-old star, looking 10 years younger if not more, still elegant, whose last movie was ``Cape Fear,'' says he is finished. Peck blasted new films for containing gratuitous violence, overt sex, and the massacre of the English language. Even though I know it is all fake, I still do not like to see a bullet going through someone's eyeball, generally in slow motion. He said today's movie heroes are sleazebags. They are motivated by hatred, greed, violence. They are all rude, vulgar, ill-educated, and incapable of making an effort because they are totally selfish and devoid of moral values. He had especially harsh words for Joe Pesci, the star of ``Good Fellows'' and ``Casino.'' ``He is so far on the anti-hero side that he is almost not human. I myself have played gunslingers, sailors, intellectuals, peasants, and adventurers. I have played Abraham Lincoln and the terrible Dr. Mengele of Auschwitz, as well as a few drunks and bad boys, but generally, like James Stewart and Gary Cooper, my characters were dignified and brave men who did their duty.'' Peck said there is only one decent hero in recent movies: Babe the Pig.”