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Article: Plummer role puts Mike Wallace in spotlight.
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- The Boston Herald
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- November 1, 1999
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In his nearly 50 years on stage and screen, Christopher Plummer has played plenty of famous men: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Vladimir Nabokov, the Duke of Wellington, John Barrymore. And with his latest film, the fact-based drama "The Insider," the actor adds another well-known name to the roster, that of the notoriously irascible "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace.
It's a different role for the Plummer, 69, for one distinct reason: Wallace is alive.
The movie, which opens Friday, tells the story of how CBS, fearing a billion-dollar lawsuit, initially refused to broadcast Wallace's 1995 interview with tobacco-industry whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand ...