A.O. Scott's Uncle Eli Passes at Age 98
There’s a rather unusual video sitting towards to top of the New York Times obituary for actor Eli Wallach. Ahead of Wallach’s lifetime achievement Oscar in 2010, the actor – then 95 – welcomed grand nephew A.O. Scott to his Upper West Side apartment for a warm-hearted conversation. Wallach was Scott’s Great Uncle.
“I keep forgetting my lines,” Wallach jokes at the end of the video. “Just ad lib,” Scott replies.
This is a marvelous way to remember Wallach.
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