Among his numerous other credits and exploits, George Plimpton appeared in Lawrence of Arabia and The Simpsons. George Plimpton did it all: The co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, ...

"I saw him the other day. He was full of energy," said Kaufman, who said she had known Plimpton for 40 years. "He was talking about a trip he took with his family to the tip of South America." Said ...

Just about everything George Plimpton did, he did pretty well. He made it all look so smooth and lanky-graceful -- writing, editing, befriending, competing, acting, emceeing, even dying. He died ...

NEW YORK -- George Plimpton, the gentleman editor, literary patron and "participatory journalist" whose fumbling exploits included boxing, trapeze-flying and, most famously, quarterbacking for the ...

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