http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i5aff5594745c85c664c3a6ca12a0cae4
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 21:51 (fifteen years ago)
I used to have a copy of this. Great from beginning to end.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OpO9aQGgpME/SLjPkNnObLI/AAAAAAAAAgU/dck44HqFwn0/s320/byhenrygibson+front.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago)
:(
He's the person I would've been if I'd have been on Laugh-In.
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago)
jesus, this year...
― I don't get it, did I write something funny? (stevie), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago)
man this year fucking sucks
RIP loved ya in the Altman movies
― Hat Trick Swayze (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago)
One of my favorite bits he ever did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kXl8LyD_JA
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago)
I always liked '200 Years' from Nashville, especially the surging backing vocals. I've only just learnt that he wrote it himself. I can only find a wide-eyed genuinely patriotic version on youtube though, I'm not posting that.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 22:09 (fifteen years ago)
Man I never knew he played Wilbur in Charlotte's Web!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 22:31 (fifteen years ago)
Really? He hardly even altered his voice for it.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 22:38 (fifteen years ago)
Oh damn, he was such a great Nazi. RIP.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 22:38 (fifteen years ago)
xpost -- been years upon years since I saw it, so that probably had something to do with it.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 22:40 (fifteen years ago)
Was nice to see him in Magnolia. RIP.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 23:43 (fifteen years ago)
: ( sad
very good in nashville and the burbs
― cozwn, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 23:48 (fifteen years ago)
I've never gone on an RIP thread, but I have to here. "I will not tolerate rudeness in the presence of a star...two stars"--maybe the funniest line ever.
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 September 2009 00:08 (fifteen years ago)
Wow, RIP. He was so great in The Long Goodbye, managing to believably bully a bear of a man like Sterling Hayden.
― Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 17 September 2009 00:40 (fifteen years ago)
aw geez...a little more Haven Hamilton?...please?
― henry s, Thursday, 17 September 2009 01:10 (fifteen years ago)
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:38 PM (2 hours ago)
That was Arte Johnson, if you're talking about Laugh-In.
― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Thursday, 17 September 2009 01:20 (fifteen years ago)
Talking about Blues Brothers, I believe...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 September 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago)
oh ok, I never saw that for some reason.
― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Thursday, 17 September 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago)
More Haven: "When I ask for Pig, I want Pig. Now, you get me Pig, and then we'll be ready to record this here tune."
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 September 2009 02:07 (fifteen years ago)
Eric, what about Alan Sues?
Had no idea he was on "Boston Legal."
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 September 2009 02:33 (fifteen years ago)
Made his film debut in Kelp's klass in The Nutty Professor ... I didn't realize he was already doing the poetry shtick then ('63) until I saw an outtake of him reciting while Jerry Lewis stood by.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 September 2009 12:33 (fifteen years ago)
I always thought he was saying 'Henrik Ibsen'.... NYT:
In the early 1960s he and Jon Voight, a college friend, hit on a scheme to get their acting careers off the ground.
“We decided that we would be two brothers from the Ozarks who represented the United States on cultural tours and caused riots wherever they went,” Mr. Voight said on Wednesday. “I gave him the name Henry Gibson, which I got from Henrik Ibsen.”
Mr. Gibson wangled a booking for the act, at which point Mr. Voight bowed out. Mr. Gibson recited his poetry, tickled the audience and was invited back.
The character evolved, and in 1961 Mr. Gibson recorded a poetry album, “The Alligator and Other Poems.” Soon afterward, Jerry Lewis cast him in “The Nutty Professor” (1963). Small and offbeat comic roles followed.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 September 2009 12:48 (fifteen years ago)
“We decided that we would be two brothers from the Ozarks who represented the United States on cultural tours and caused riots wherever they went,” Mr. Voight said on Wednesday.
I see Voight has now gone on to essentially live out this role.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 September 2009 12:51 (fifteen years ago)
I vaguely recall him playing Wrongo Starr on "F Troop."
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago)
(also think after Nashville and TLG, Health was one of his best roles)
"You get your hair cut - you don't belong in Nashville"
RIP
― Random trolling, brutal snubs, darted zings & decisive bans (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 17 September 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago)
Oh, man. Damn.
― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Thursday, 17 September 2009 22:08 (fifteen years ago)
"I was talkin' about the Christy Minstrels just this morning, and now we have Julie Christie here."
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 September 2009 22:11 (fifteen years ago)
awww RIP
― GOVERNMENT TRASH QUEEN ON A THRONE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 18 September 2009 03:50 (fifteen years ago)
rip
― kingfish, Friday, 18 September 2009 04:15 (fifteen years ago)
"This isn't Dallas, it's Nashville!"
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 September 2009 13:53 (fifteen years ago)
poems:
http://www.geocities.com/televisioncity/stage/2125/byhgibson.htm
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 September 2009 14:33 (fifteen years ago)