Jack Palance RIP

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― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

{:(

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

:-(

I am hoping that, just like the other three times someone told me he was dead, that this is wrong.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

Strangely my favorite Jack Palance movie is one of his more ridiculously miscasts: The Professionals.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

;_;

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

Goddamn, what a rotten day! RIP.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

fuckfuckfuck :( :( :(

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

bummercity

probably cranking out one-arm pushups w/jesus, tho

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

my money's on jesus, btw

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

CNN story.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

:( RIP

Maybe I'll watch my Attack! DVD this weekend.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty great guy, eh? Rest in peace.

― From the Moon to Pluto Back Down to Earth (Rrrickey), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

I was just now explaining Shane to someone who only knew him for City Slickers.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

this sucks

― diane airbus (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

I love the "craggy-faced menace" description.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

I can't think of a single movie in which Palance is anything other than great or bugfuck insane great. Stuff like Cocaine Cowboys (Palance as a rock band manager co-starring Andy Warhol as himself!) and Che (Palance as Fidel Castro!) would just be anonymous miasma without Palance chewing up the scenery, filmstock, the extras, etc.)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

His delight in rottenness was never put to better use than in Godard's Contempt, although my undimmed affection rests on scaring a young Alfred as host of "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" in the early eightihes.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Fave non-insane Palance movies: Panic In The Streets and Flight To Tangier

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Also noteworthy: Sudden Fear, in which Palance's leer and makeup are scarier than Joan Crawford's.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Random stuff from the IMDB bio:

According to a website honoring movie celebrities that flew in B-24s, Palance burned his face severely while bailing out of a B-24 which was on fire during a training flight in Tucson in 1942 (that would probably have been the Davis-Monthan Army Air Corps base at that time) and after several surgeries was discharged in 1944. He is described as a "pilot in training".

Speaks six languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Italian, Spanish, French and English.

Once fell asleep in his square during a taping of "The Hollywood Squares" (1966).

While an understudy to Marlon Brando in the Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire," Brando, who was into athletics, rigged up a punching bag in the theater's boiler room and invited Jack to work out with him. One night, Jack threw a hard punch that missed the bag and landed square on Brando's nose. The star had to be hospitalized and understudy Palance created his own big break by going on for Brando. Jack's reviews as Stanley Kowalski helped get him a 20th Century-Fox contract.

"The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed."

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

oh no!

;;

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

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― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Fave Palance moments on MST3K:

-The Jack Palance impersonation kit
-All of Angel's Revenge

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 10 November 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Arrr... Forgot Outlaw

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 10 November 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

I was gonna say!

"Because you are acting like a BITCH in HEAT, and NOT like a QUEEN!"

"Jack, you are WAY off script!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 November 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

RIP

"i crap bigger than you"

― latebloomer and his 'Cyborg Companion', Hacker (latebloomer), Friday, 10 November 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

Was just saying yesterday how his Rudi Cox in 'Bagdad Cafe' was one of the all-time great supporting roles - was it his first comedy?

― Huey in Melbourne (Huey in Melbourne), Friday, 10 November 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

He was hilarious in Batman.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 10 November 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

I just saw "Contempt" last year, finally.

― From the Moon to Pluto Back Down to Earth (Rrrickey), Friday, 10 November 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

"you...are my number one....guyyy"

― latebloomer and his 'Cyborg Companion', Hacker (latebloomer), Friday, 10 November 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Aw man.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 10 November 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Pick up the gun..."

― Iago Galdston (Iago), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

great in everything, esp Le Mepris & Sudden Fear

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

I second the warm "Ripley's" memories. At a very young age, I was taught that Jack Palance was a personality to be reckoned with.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

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― don weiner (don weiner), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

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― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

My first Palance film was a version of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde that I saw on TV, and everything I've seen him in since recalls that.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

kinski meets palance. STAND BACK!

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― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

DR.JEKYLL

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― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

"i crap bigger than you"

He was the best thing in that movie by a mile, and the best reason to see it. But as far as quotes go, nothing touches "Pick up the gun."

― carbon neutral (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

Always the iconoclast, Palance had scorned most of his movie roles.
"Most of the stuff I do is garbage," he once told a reporter, adding that most of the directors he worked with were incompetent, too.

"Most of them shouldn't even be directing traffic," he said.

My kind of working stiff -- and he found the right combinations often enough too.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

Believe It......................
....................OR NOT!

RIP

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 11 November 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

See also The Big Knife, a 1955 Robert Aldrich movie that he's great in. And him doing one-handed pushups at 70 at the Oscars.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 11 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

"The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed."

Is that one of his quotes? if he never did anything else he'd be remembered for that alone.

RIP big man.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 11 November 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

There are lot of great behind the scenes stories regarding Contempt (many of them funnier than the actual film). The best Palance one was that things soured so much between him and Godard that he started conducting all his conversations with the director through an Italian AD who, as it happened, didn't speak English (Godard could).

RIP

― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Saturday, 11 November 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

And of course there's the Playhouse 90 version of Requiem For A Heavyweight (the best boxing movie evah?)

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/P/htmlP/playhouse90/plahouse90IMAGE/playhouse90.jpg

― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Saturday, 11 November 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCI3jrI2Cg4

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 12 November 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

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― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 12 November 2006 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

aw, jack palance, you were genuine and great and those push-ups made a big impression on me, honestly, it seemed like real-life cowboy-hero stuff in the midst of pomp and half-assed comedy. cool. restinpeace.

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Sunday, 12 November 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

RIP.

Yeah, "Pick up the gun" is my favourite Palance quote too (anyone see Bill Hicks' "Revelations" when he compares that moment in Shane to the U.S. arming little nations, then attacking them because "See! He had a gun!"?)

― shorty (shorty), Sunday, 12 November 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

My fave films of his are the Aldriches, Attack! and The Big Knife.

The lengthy NY Times obit amazingly included no mention of Contempt. I guess they know their readership has no truck with foreign films older than Amelie.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

"I like gods. I like them very much. I know exactly how they feel.
Exactly." - J.P., Contempt

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

at last, a chance to see his Fidel on the big screen:

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/fcs/che.html

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

I got to hang out at Palance's ranch in Bakersfield sometime around 1990. My mom and his then wife Elaine are old friends. He invited some other acquaintances over, fed us well, showed us his emu farm and that night recited Poe's "The Raven" to us from memory. The guest room I stayed in had a huge stack of old Stephen King paperbacks and I read Cujo til I fell asleep. Anyway, cool guy.

― stfumato (wanko ergo sum), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 15:44 (seventeen years ago)

Now that's a story! An emu farm, who knew.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 15:46 (seventeen years ago)

whoa!

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

My parents' German shepherd-Chinese foofoo dog mutt looks like Jack Palance.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 16:14 (seventeen years ago)

Now turning 40, Mitch Roberts is at ease with himself and full of confidence. He is doing well at work his marriage is good and he is happy. His friend Phil is causing him some trouble as he has Mitch's old job but isn't working well and further stress arrives for Mitch in the shape of his deadbeat brother Glen. However the trio get excited when Mitch discovers a map to hidden gold in the lining of Curly's hat. But can the group recover the gold successfully? Is it even real? And is Mitch just imagining that Curly has come back from the grave to haunt him?

― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 16:16 (seventeen years ago)

He invited some other acquaintances over, fed us well, showed us his emu farm and that night recited Poe's "The Raven" to us from memory.

awesome

― latebloomer, Thursday, 16 October 2008 04:51 (seventeen years ago)

well i'm looking for youth not experience

― abusive comments (PappaWheelie V), Thursday, 16 October 2008 04:58 (seventeen years ago)

Brilliant story wanko!

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 16 October 2008 06:16 (seventeen years ago)

Watching The Horsemen tonight. Jack is great (and wonderfully ridiculous) as a former Afghani buskashi champion. (Frankenheimer directs)

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 23 October 2008 05:46 (seventeen years ago)

his Fidel in Che! is just Jack doing Jack (he doesn't even have the beard til just before they march into Havana). The high/lowlight is Omar Sharif's Che pulling Fidel's tooth while they're talking strategy in the hills.

Later Fidel is seen pirate-broadcasting "PEOple of CUba... burn every BLADE of SUGAR..."

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 17:34 (seventeen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Jack Palance's 100th birthday was on Tuesday, and i saw no observance.

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 February 2020 18:57 (six years ago)

I watched The Big Knife in his honor three Sundays ago, plus an '83 episode of Ripley's Believe It or Not! in which he recited e.e. cummings as if he were a lion bringing down a wildebeest.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:00 (six years ago)

Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnRaJomVETQ

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:00 (six years ago)

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