{"id":5476,"date":"2004-03-04T15:04:16","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T22:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/03\/04\/gary-gordon.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T13:23:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T19:23:03","slug":"gary_gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/04\/gary_gordon.html","title":{"rendered":"Gary Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gary Oldman <\/a>… as Commissioner Gordon<\/a>? <\/p>\n

Um … well … isn’t that … uh … disturbing.<\/p>\n

Oldman has signed as Commissioner Gordon in the newest Batman flick, Batman Begins<\/i><\/a>. The film’s acutally looking pretty British overall, between Oldman, Michael Caine as Alfred, Christian Bale as Bats himself, and Liam Neeson as “Ducard, mentor to Bruce Wayne.”<\/p>\n

Well, I suppose if we can have an nearly-all-American Robin Hood<\/i><\/a>, it’s fair to have a largely-British Batman<\/i>. (Interestingly, Morgan Freeman’s in both.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gary Oldman … as Commissioner Gordon? Um … well … isn’t that … uh … disturbing. Oldman has signed as Commissioner Gordon in the newest Batman flick, Batman Begins. 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