Also love the story that he couldn't afford to go to the audition for The Dirty Dozen and Christopher Lee gave him the money because it seemed like a really good opportunity.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Thursday, 20 June 2024 17:39 (three months ago) link
the wrong Donald died
― symsymsym, Thursday, 20 June 2024 17:41 (three months ago) link
xpost Read that it was Plummer, not Lee. Some Christopher somewhere at least.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 June 2024 17:44 (three months ago) link
We could mention the obvious headlines, but the first role that came to mind was his bit -- a cameo really -- in the dire Backdraft playing an arsonist. In the year of Hannibal Lector he's low-key scary.
I watched Six Degrees of Separation again last summer; he's divine as the racist self-absorbed art dealer opposite Stockard Channing.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 June 2024 17:44 (three months ago) link
cannot name a role i didnt just love watching him in. and endlessly fascinating presence on amy screen at any time.
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 June 2024 17:53 (three months ago) link
One of the best Simpsons guest voices too
― subpost master (wins), Thursday, 20 June 2024 17:54 (three months ago) link
xpost Read that it was Plummer, not Lee. Some Christopher somewhere at least.― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 June 2024 17:44
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 June 2024 17:44
I found it out on the Castle of the Living Dead bluray, which is why I think it was Lee.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Thursday, 20 June 2024 17:59 (three months ago) link
Six Degrees of Separation is superb, no idea why nobody seems to talk about it. DS one of the best things in it of course.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 June 2024 18:01 (three months ago) link
Time to watch the "Cloudbusting" video.
― jmm, Thursday, 20 June 2024 18:15 (three months ago) link
I think this might've been the first thing I saw him in - nothing like it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IatwoA00E0
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 20 June 2024 18:22 (three months ago) link
Sutherland at the end of Body Snatchers probably scared me more than any other movie when I was young
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 June 2024 18:30 (three months ago) link
Bottoms-less in Animal House!
― a based robot like Bender (stevie), Thursday, 20 June 2024 18:32 (three months ago) link
THE CLUMSY WAITER!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 June 2024 18:38 (three months ago) link
That movie is still terrifying, and yeah, he's incredible in it.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 20 June 2024 18:44 (three months ago) link
Underrated Part of Body Snatchers: When Brooke Adams literally melts in his arms.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 June 2024 18:47 (three months ago) link
The original Homer Simpson, in Day of the Locust
― henry s, Thursday, 20 June 2024 18:48 (three months ago) link
And his cry of despair xpost
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 June 2024 18:57 (three months ago) link
I bumped the JFK thread the moment I heard. I can't think of another actor clocking in for exactly one scene and more wholly knocking it out of the park than he does in that movie. Just a master class
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 June 2024 23:15 (three months ago) link
Mr Veg and I were talking about how great he was in M*A*SH* as Hawkeye. His choices are so eccentric but so excellent at telling you who this guy is, he just feels so perfectly of that time period — and look I love the tv show & Alda forever but the movie version of Hawkeye, the Sutherland version is so much more naturalistic & human, he is a goddamn delight. And adjacently, Oddball in “Kelly’s Heroes”. Comic relief sure but again with such specific choices & so lived-in that it feels current for the time periodlike with both roles it’s like he’s bringing the counterculture *to* these movies rather than observing it as an outsider or aping something he’s not part of. He gets the good knowing laughs because they feel more like real burn-outs idkWhat a goddamn legend he was.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2024 01:30 (three months ago) link
Ángeles Flórez Peón, 105. Last remaining militiawoman of the Spanish Civil Warhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/world/europe/angeles-florez-peon-dead.html
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 24 June 2024 23:19 (three months ago) link
wau
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 00:15 (three months ago) link
yeah that's amazing. rip, what a life.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 09:15 (three months ago) link
Shifty Shellshock, the frontman of rap rock band Crazy Town who sang the hit song “Butterfly,” has died. He was 49.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 13:04 (three months ago) link
wow. know he was in rough shape but damn.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 13:16 (three months ago) link
Seeing on twitter/x that Rob Stone, the co-founder of music and culture magazine ‘The Fader’ and founder of Cornerstone agency, has died of cancer. He was 55.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 18:42 (three months ago) link
Former Celtic player Landry N'Guemo, 38
https://www.thenational.scot/sport/24416133.former-celtic-midfielder-landry-nguemo-passed-away/
― ailsa, Thursday, 27 June 2024 15:30 (three months ago) link
Country singer, mystery novelist and sometime political candidate Kinky Friedman - definitely one for the "thought he died years ago" file.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 27 June 2024 15:57 (three months ago) link
Finally got his Date With Elvis...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 27 June 2024 16:09 (three months ago) link
ah fuck, i was a huge fan in the 90’s
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 June 2024 17:46 (three months ago) link
Martin Mull
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/martin-mull-dead-funnyman-fernwood-2-night-star-1235935445/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 29 June 2024 00:12 (two months ago) link
oh shit
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 29 June 2024 00:14 (two months ago) link
“He was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials,” she wrote. “He would find that joke funny. He was never not funny. My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and coworkers, by fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and — the sign of a truly exceptional person — by many, many dogs. I loved him tremendously.”
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 29 June 2024 00:14 (two months ago) link
rip legend, so great
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 June 2024 00:40 (two months ago) link
Damn, he was so great, RIP
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 29 June 2024 02:27 (two months ago) link
I met him once in his San Francisco art gallery. He met with the art class I was in and we all talked about art for a while. He was legit.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 29 June 2024 03:31 (two months ago) link
For my high school friends and I, Fernwood 2 Night was much more of an obsession than SNL. I've always been curious how it would hold up--I expect I'd be disappointed.
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 June 2024 04:17 (two months ago) link
(Or maybe I'd be surprised, I don't know. I tried rewatching Buffalo Bill with Dabney Coleman once and didn't get past an episode or two.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 June 2024 04:21 (two months ago) link
I first thought of this episode. I remember when it aired and it was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen at that point
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 29 June 2024 05:37 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_4Rgz9xTac
:(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04-KLhgorb0
― you'll find this funny, children (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 June 2024 06:25 (two months ago) link
no more dancing abt architecture :(
― mark s, Saturday, 29 June 2024 08:48 (two months ago) link
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 24 June 2024 bookmarkflaglink
:-(
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 29 June 2024 12:09 (two months ago) link
really liked this performance David Wain just posted of Mull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABpWBPGEBRE
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 29 June 2024 17:03 (two months ago) link
He was good on Roseanne as her boss (and later partner) Leon:
Chuck Mitchell : [Leon has just told the poker group that he's gay] W-W-Well, y-y-you know, um, I-I-I know a gay guy. I, uh, his name's Bill. H-H-He lives in Chicago. M-M-Maybe you know him?
Leon Carp : Yeah, yeah, sure I know him. From Chicago. Gay Bill.
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 June 2024 17:17 (two months ago) link
I had somehow never made the connection between his character in Clue and Roseanne's boss.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 29 June 2024 18:08 (two months ago) link
Peter Collins, producer of four Rush albums plus Operation Mindcrime and many others.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Monday, 1 July 2024 03:03 (two months ago) link
Ismail Kadare. Only read The Palace of Dreams and must confess I didn’t realise he was still around.
― Fizzles, Monday, 1 July 2024 10:12 (two months ago) link
Pretty impressive list of credits for Peter Collins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Collins_(record_producer)#Production_discography
― prog's nearly man (Matt #2), Monday, 1 July 2024 11:19 (two months ago) link
Kadare was incredible, RIP.
― Tim, Monday, 1 July 2024 12:10 (two months ago) link
‘Back in the 1960s, when I was studying to become a Sufi saint in North Africa, my Sheikh told me to read the Koran.’Robert Irwin has died age 77. He wrote seventeen pieces for the 𝘓𝘙𝘉, including this, on translating the Koran:https://t.co/XdgtrhQVit— London Review of Books (@LRB) July 1, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 July 2024 15:04 (two months ago) link