The universe has been telling me to rewatch Michael Clayton a lot lately. May this be the final domino effect
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:37 (four months ago) link
A solid actor. I'll vouch for his priapic Benjamin Franklin in John Adams.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:40 (four months ago) link
oh yeah he was fantastic in John Adams. I'd forgotten that was him tbh.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:41 (four months ago) link
Founding Father as Founding Fuckhound
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:44 (four months ago) link
first saw him in essex boys and he stood out in that sub ritchie romp for me
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:46 (four months ago) link
The voice that Tom Wilkinson used for Franklin continues to astonish me: Northamptonshire via Boston, Philadelphia, and London, schoolmasterly, sly, falsely modest. He had to have sounded just like that.— Justin Sherin (@wychstreet) December 30, 2023
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:49 (four months ago) link
"best known for his role in The Full Monty"? What the fuck is going on over there?
Thankfully (and miraculously) he wasn't in any Harry Potter movies because, in the UK, they take preference over absolutely anything anyone has ever done in the rest of their career.
― The Italian Yob (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:50 (four months ago) link
https://t.co/C4mKpQkBLO— Sotiris Tsern (@SotirisTsern) December 30, 2023
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:51 (four months ago) link
Excellent in ... In the Bedroom?
The tribute all of us want after passing.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:52 (four months ago) link
that's settled it - I'm doing John Adams again!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:54 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I7f4ALqojg
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:57 (four months ago) link
This is lovely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7o5kWrbJJE
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:59 (four months ago) link
my memory of his Franklin is that he was so completely suited to the horny decadence in Paris that he blended in seamlessly and grumpy, prudish, self-important J Adams arrival was a total buzzkill. I think that was the part of the series that stuck with me the most.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:16 (four months ago) link
His IMDb resume is seriously impressive. Long list of quality projects. Besides Sense and Sensibility, my initial role association was Juntao in Rush Hour. He had Alan Rickman range, romantically charming and believably threatening.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:34 (four months ago) link
Thank calzino for my new screen name
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:43 (four months ago) link
I just need to make a half decent one for myself now!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 30 December 2023 19:05 (four months ago) link
"completely suited to the horny decadence"
...is the new "addicted to the shindig"
...which was the new "knee-deep in the hoopla"
...which was the new "feelin' groovy."
Change my mind
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 30 December 2023 19:56 (four months ago) link
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 December 2023 20:19 (four months ago) link
in which Tom Wilkinson, in his greatest and perhaps most challenging role, played a mirror.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 20:25 (four months ago) link
https://deadline.com/2023/12/richard-romanus-dead-actor-mean-streets-the-sopranos-was-80-obituary-1235683695/
Richard Romanus -- pretty excellent in Mean Streets as Michael, the too-nice loan shark who's a bit more dangerous than he appears.
― omar little, Sunday, 31 December 2023 03:10 (four months ago) link
Terrific also as the voice of lethal cabby Harry Canyon in the dystopian noir segment of Heavy Metal.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 31 December 2023 05:27 (four months ago) link
Fantastic in Mean Streets. "Now's the time."
― clemenza, Sunday, 31 December 2023 06:21 (four months ago) link
RIP
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 31 December 2023 08:14 (four months ago) link
Australian Olympic ex-cyclist Melissa Hoskins
https://www.globalcyclingnetwork.com/racing/news/rohan-dennis-charged-in-relation-to-the-death-of-his-wife-melissa-hoskins
― StanM, Sunday, 31 December 2023 09:58 (four months ago) link
Jeezo.
― Madchen, Sunday, 31 December 2023 10:36 (four months ago) link
John Pilger.
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 31 December 2023 11:50 (four months ago) link
oof
― The Italian Yob (Tom D.), Sunday, 31 December 2023 11:57 (four months ago) link
Shecky Greene
https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/shecky-greene-dead-comedian-vegas-sinatra-presley-1235858881/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 31 December 2023 21:21 (four months ago) link
“Frank Sinatra once saved my life,” Greene quipped. “A bunch of guys were beating on me and Frank said, ‘OK, that’s enough.’ ”
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 31 December 2023 21:23 (four months ago) link
dang i thought he was long goneRIP legend!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 31 December 2023 21:25 (four months ago) link
https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2011/06/the-legend-of-shecky-greene.html
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 31 December 2023 21:46 (four months ago) link
lolled pretty hard at that Sinatra gag
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 31 December 2023 21:50 (four months ago) link
Comedian Shecky Greene has passed away. He was 97. Here he is on the cover of Night Life in Chicago Magazine, dated May 1955 where he performed at Chez Peree Restaurant in Chicago. R.I.P. #RIPSheckyGreene #RIPSheckGreene @sheckygreene pic.twitter.com/8T0Ifd8TBN— Vanished Chicagoland (@vanishedchicago) December 31, 2023
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Sunday, 31 December 2023 22:04 (four months ago) link
Shecky played Christie Lane--a stand-up comedian and a stand-up guy--in what I usually name as my favourite bad movie, The Love Machine.
― clemenza, Sunday, 31 December 2023 22:38 (four months ago) link
NASCAR's Cale Yarborough
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/31/sport/nascar-cale-yarborough-death/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwh4jqd6HMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mucSyo9yLLQ
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 January 2024 02:15 (four months ago) link
British comics artist John M Burns, who drew everything from George and Lynne in The Sun to The Bionic Woman in Look-In.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 1 January 2024 09:08 (four months ago) link
Which inspired this Viz parody (nsfw) https://www.flickr.com/photos/stillunusual/13389387073
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 January 2024 09:16 (four months ago) link
Sad coincidence of Richard Rampton, the brilliant lead barrister in the Irving v Lipstadt libel case, and Tom Wilkinson, who played him in the movie "Denial", both dying in late December, within days of one another.— Sir Richard Evans (@RichardEvans36) January 1, 2024
― Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:04 (four months ago) link
RIP 2023, i never liked you anyway
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:15 (four months ago) link
Les McCann, 88
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDMQqDUtv4
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 1 January 2024 19:35 (four months ago) link
Time for a new thread. Rolling Obituary Thread 2024
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 January 2024 19:49 (four months ago) link
Time for a new thread.
Rolling Obituary Thread 2024
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 January 2024 19:50 (four months ago) link
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 January 2024 19:51 (four months ago) link
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 January 2024 19:52 (four months ago) link
Yikes!
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 January 2024 19:54 (four months ago) link
Susan Backlinie, actress/stuntwoman featured in the opening of jaws
― jbn, Thursday, 16 May 2024 16:11 (seven hours ago) link