RIP TORN POLL

Actor Rip Torn was arrested in December 2006 in Westchester, New York and charged with drunk driving after his 1995 Chevy Cavalier collided with a tractor-trailer as he attempted to make a turn. When state police arrived at the scene, the 75-year-old actor refused a Breathalyzer before being taken to a Somers police station where the below mug shot was snapped.

1995 Chevy Cavalier - Rip Torn: just another over-entitled Hollywood auto fetishist.

lol Pancakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AzmhorISf4

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/media/2010/02/0201_rip_torn_bn_splash.jpg

man you gotta be REALLY drunk to think you live in a bank

lol I just saw a photo of the bank in question and y'know it really DOES look like someone's house

Home Savings

http://www.hotmommagossip.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Litchfield_Bankcorp.jpg

looks like somewhere an 80 yo drunk would live

is that a shop of his house + a bank sign?

if not the bank had it coming, quite frankly.

Free Rip, He Wanted to Go Home

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ripped_torn_cleans_up_his_act_jHjizBgkRcXTfssyNOzWFK

http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2010/09/12/news/photos_stories/Cropped/rip_torn--300x300.jpg

man first leonard cohen now rip torn - that taylor swift gets around!

avoids jail

Meanwhile, only ONE vote for Payday on this poll? What the hell is wrong with you people?

watching payday tonight, never seen it before! stoked.

p.s. hi hatch.

I found a Payday lobby card at an antique mall a few weeks back. Only $3. Torn isn't on it though--it's one of the women.

rip torn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV1XWJN3nJo

I'm not gonna try to describe the Godard-abandoned Pennebaker semidocumentary 1 PM, but if you ever wanted to see Rip and Jean-Luc putting on an interactive-theatre piece in a Bushwick classroom circa 1970, here you go.

https://vimeo.com/86071508

Why yes I think I do, thank you.

apparently it was '68.

yeow

amiri baraka & eldridge cleaver sections on vimeo/yt. must watch whole thing.

RIP

i am v sad about this one

One of the most gloriously unwieldy acting careers ever

I seem to vacillate every time I rewatch Larry Sanders on whether Artie or Hank is the greatest character of all time. I think I came down Artie this last time round.

I just loved seeing Torn in anything and everything. He had an unmatched energy, for sure.

It's not a problem because they're all the greatest in the greatest show of all time.

All of what you say is 100% otm.

yeah it's impossible to imagine the show without those three characters played by those three specific actors

it's a GESTALT maaaaan

on the New York stage (I saw him in The Young Man from Atlanta in '97):

http://iobdb.com/CreditableEntity/5720

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/rip-torn-16349

Coming Apart is really something. I saw him introduce it once & he seemed especially proud of it.

looks like a decent iteration of it is here:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34oj7g

I've been re-watching some Larry Sanders today, from a horribly compressed torrent (90 eps crushed to 2.6 gig!) but the quality of his tour de force as Artie is undiminished.

who in our darkest hour has not wanted to betray Jesus, or go after Mailer with a hammer?

dang. R.I.P. you treasure.

am compelled to report the last time i got to enjoy him was in a recent viewing of '85's summer rental, which was a fam favorite for me from when we as a fam first started renting videos around, well, '85.

scully, left, and jack chester, right, try to recall how many beers they drank.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090098/mediaviewer/rm4290523904

well shit nm. you've seen the man anyway.

in my memory that time he broke into the bank because he thought it was his house, he was also naked and carrying a samurai sword

the internet has gone mandela effect at me abt the last two facts

TBF, I'm sure he was naked and wielding a samurai sword most of the rest of the time.

this one hurts, always loved seeing him pop up.

unfortunately, his turn as the slimy record exec that insists on Lou Reed producing Paul Simon's comeback album in "One Trick Pony" is not on youtube

two funny anecdotes from conchata ferrell on working with rip in heartland, taken from a 2014 av club interview.

they wanted to deliver a calf live for the camera and in character, so they were on "calf alert" all night and it came time:

So we went out to birth this calf, and Rip and I had gone through it. You have to reach up inside the cow and hook a rope to the front legs of the calf as it’s being born. So we’re out there, we’re going through this and doing it, and at one point there was a conversation going on between Fred and Dick Pearce about where they should shoot this from, and Rip looked up and went, “Guys? We can’t put it back. We’ve got to get this done!"

AVC: Given your comments about the conditions, how tolerant was Rip Torn of the mountains and the prairies?

CF: Well, Rip was actually very good at it. I will tell you, though… [Hesitates.] I shouldn’t tell this story, but it was my first or second day, and we were rehearsing, and when we were leaving rehearsal, Rip had a car, and he said, “Do you want me to show you the town?” I said, “Sure!” So, you know, he’s driving around, he’s showing me this and showing me that, and I said, “My God, how long have you been here?” And he said, “Oh, I just got here two days ago.” And I went, “How in the world are you so familiar with everything?” He goes, “I make it a point to know every way out of town in any town I’m in.”

lmao, what a hero

I probably said this somewhere else on a Larry Sanders thread or something but Artie is such a perfect character, he's a weirdly ideal friend - rabidly loyal, reliable, willing to do absolutely anything, gruff or good-natured according to the needs of the situation. I would think everyone would like to have someone like that in their corner.

I have a soft spot for his small turn in Wonder Boys as the politely smug best-selling novelist.

I met Rip Torn at Terry Southern's wake in George Plimpton's apartment. He was drinking Scotch on the rocks and very convivial. We chatted for a bit, then I did something I never do: ask for an autograph. Not for me, but for my father. pic.twitter.com/3mNLnsfvmp

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 10, 2019

Dad was a big Larry Sanders fan (as am I), and loved Rip's Artie. Rip smiled and said in his booming voice, "Let's write to dear old Dad!" He wrote a very sweet letter on Plimpton's stationary, signed it, handed it to me, then lifted his glass and toasted my Dad.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 10, 2019

right now I want to see the ep of Larry Sanders where he gets drunk after hours in the studio with the eastern european janitor

'Artie After Hours'! No idea why I had that episode title right there at the forefront my brain but there you go. It's great.

i watched the larry sanders show for the first time ever in late 2017/early 2018 during a marriage breakup and artie brought me a lot of succor.

also he sounded like a real fucken piece of work irl.

rip rip

Sissy Spacek's cousin!

Terry Southern and Rip Torn in NYC, '73. pic.twitter.com/OoG6va8qCl

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 10, 2019