Charlie K

The web snuck up people, didn't it? Moved into their lives as seamlessly as technology seems to do. The microwave. The VCR. The cell phone. But the web is the gateway to information. Questions you would never have bothered to look up can be checked with so little effort.

They are showing the 1991 Steven Spielberg's Hook. Not his best film, but still very entertaining. Part of the reinterpretation of the venerable tale involves Hook's plan to be a better father to Peter Pan's son than his real father.

The son, a shy uncertain kid, is played by Charlie Korsmo. Made me wonder, what exactly happened to Charlie Korsmo? Turns out, not much. At least, acting-wise. He made one more film after Hook, and that was 7 years later, and pretty much nothing else after that. He was apparently offered a role in the Terminator movies.

Instead, turns out he was a bit of a geek. He majored in physics at MIT, and then obtained a law degree at Yale about two years ago. There have been some very bright actors, though they are few and far between. It's perhaps no surprise that child actors, who are already precocious in acting, might be precocious in other subjects too.

Too bad he's a staunch conservative.