“Villains, like blondes, have more fun.”
– Actor John ColicosClose your eyes and try to imagine James Callis of the new “Battlestar Galactica” declaring, “At long last I’ve overtaken Adama with sufficient strength to blow him out of the sky!”Or announcing, “I’ve decided that the city of Gamoray will be my seat of power. From it, I will decide how and where I will extend my dominion throughout the star system.”Hmmm…it just doesn’t quite right, does it?It’s no knock on Callis, but his Baltar bears no resemblance to John Colicos’ original.But, then, no one ever did villains quite as well as Colicos. The late Canadian actor took a great Shakespearean tradition and flair and took it to the dark side.”Leading men are so cliched,” he told an interviewer in 1989. “They’re so boring, so predictable. …