Determined to make Sir John A. Macdonald, Whom he portrays in the CBC-TV movie Riel, as informal as possible, Christopher Plummer even plays Canada's (...)

Original Toronto Star caption: Determined to make Sir John A. Macdonald, Whom he portrays in the CBC-TV movie Riel, as informal as possible, Christopher Plummer even plays Canada's first prime minister drunk in one scene. It's part of a push to shake off his typecasting as stiff, dour, too-grand characters.