RIP TORN POLL

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NOT HATING, I'm just saying, convince me, it's possible i'm being blinded by Dodgeball/Freddy Got Fingered type bullshit.

Wtf, Dodgeball is a great movie, and he's really funny in it.

dodgeball is terrible, but he comes closest to being funny in it.

I mean, compared to everyone else in Dodgeball.

Kael and Torn is one of the great crit romances of the last 30 years.

He's been fine in lots of movies, but The Beastmaster is tops if only for the way he works those pigtails with skull and bones hairbraids.

gotta go for artie

also dodgeball is funny

I'm voting for The Man Who Fell To Earth because of this speech he gives that starts: "I'm a bit of a cliche you see, the disillusioned scientist. That goes with the alcoholic actor, the spaced-out spaceman, blah, blah, blah."

And yeah, like Morbius I wondered where Forty Shades was at.

R.I.P Torn Poll

i always get this guy confused with the bloke from Trading Places, but i've had this discussion on ile before..

eddie murphy?

"look at the S car go!"

This list is missing Heartland. He's the lead. It's about homesteaders in Wyoming in the late 1800s, and it's great, and he's great in it.

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when he was married to Geraldine Page, their doorbell said PAGE/TORN.

Freddy Got Fingered robbed.

I read Geraldine Page as Geraldine Chaplin and was wondering what Carlos Saura thought about all this.

"This list is missing Heartland. He's the lead."

i love that movie. so good. hardly anyone has ever seen it though. i love payday too. i will trade in my vhs copy for a dvd copy. now that i know there is one.

Heard lots of good things about Payday.

Also missing from poll: Rip Torn vs. Dennis Hopper.

R.I.P. TORN CURTAIN

I believe the fight I am alluding to occurred at an earlier incarnation of Serendipity.

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

Mailer v. Torn

-- milo z, Friday, 2 November 2007 20:41 (6 days ago) Link

He really goes for him with that hammer, but it's surely Mailer who is doing the biting. It seems even better with the French substitles.

"Lache la marteau"

"Tu va arrêter ce taré"

Sorry, that should be "Tu va l'arrêter ce taré" - which makes more sense.

getting his own selective retro in NYC:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-03-04/film/rip-torn-roaring-at-anthology/

http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/

Rip Torn Busted for Allegedly Breaking Into Bank

Posted Jan 30th 2010 1:29PM by TMZ Staff

Rip Torn was arrested Friday night for allegedly breaking into a bank while drunk and armed with a loaded revolver.

State police responded to an alarm at the Litchfield Bancorp building in Salisbury, CT at 9:40 PM last night. Police say they found Torn "with a loaded revolver" and he was "highly intoxicated."

Law enforcement sources tell us Torn gained access through a broken window, which they believe Torn broke himself.

Torn was taken to the Troop B barracks in North Canaan and is being held on $100,000 bond.

Cops say Torn was charged with carrying a pistol without a permit, carrying a firearm while intoxicated, first-degree burglary, first-degree criminal trespass and third-degree criminal mischief.

According to the Register Citizen, he is scheduled to appear in court on February 1.

Rip has had previous alcohol-related arrests -- one of which yielded the greatest mug shot in the history of mankind.

people, see payday

LOL! love this guy

F5'ing for updates: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/riptornmug1.html

pretty gangsta for a guy in his mid 70s, you didn't see George Burns doing this shit.

torn's stories about being miles davis' neighbour are great.

xp No, but he dreamed about it.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S5M51T6PL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Jeez, what a guy. When this was revived I assumed he must have died.

That'll be the RIP RIP TORN TORN thread.

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?

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

He seems like someone you'd happily and regularly invite to stay with you for several weeks at a time even though you know half of your furniture will be destroyed by the time he leaves/gets hauled off to the pokey.

On September 8, 1963, [Geraldine Page] married actor Rip Torn, who was six years her junior, in Pinal, Arizona. They had three children: a daughter, actress Angelica Page, and twin sons, Anthony "Tony" and Jonathan "Jon" Torn.

Beginning in the early 1980s, Page and Torn lived separately after he started dating actress Amy Wright; Torn had first met Wright in 1976 and began an affair shortly after. Page was aware of Torn and Wright's relationship, and appeared onstage opposite Wright in the 1977 Off-Broadway production of The Stronger, under Torn's direction. In 1983, Torn fathered a child with Wright. Upon the birth of the child, Page was questioned about her marriage by columnist Cindy Adams, to which she responded: "Of course Rip and I are still married. We've been married for years. We're staying married. What's the big fuss?" In spite of their separation, Page and Torn remained married until her death; her daughter described their relationship as still "close" up until Page died in 1987.

that's how you do it

Doesn't seem to have been posted (be forewarned about the language):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78IRyUrA2Ug

never saw the "Blind Ambition" miniseries, but imagine Rip letting loose with a non-network Nixon

I'd forgotten all about that. Not available on Amazon, but all five hours are on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M91dQVw3bLs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YutsrmLb5xU

Image looks acceptable. I can move that over to the TV, so I'll definitely watch that.

The first embed doesn't work--you have to watch it on YouTube (which does work).

I think Tambor is breaking in that heckling scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF94LvnRlKA#

that lazy bastard

Never realized that Artie was never given a surname--he's just Artie or Arthur on IMDB and Wikipedia.

He played a character named Artie once before, too, in a somewhat less reputable project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zMaGnKmaRA

obit roundup

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6485-rip-torn-intense-disturbing-and-very-very-funny

You: We stan Rip Torn, the hero who hit Norman Mailer in the head with a hammer.
Me, an cinephile: I think you mean the hero who hit Justin Long with a wrench pic.twitter.com/hyNnxB3u8W

— J.D. Connor (@jdconnor) July 10, 2019

Torn’s absolute commitment to the role is not matched by Mailer’s, and the two-hander becomes a macho stand-off, ended by Torn when – to calm one of Mailer’s children who’s crying in fright – he says, “It was just a scene in your daddy’s Hollywood whorehouse movie.”

from the S+S obit.

hahahahahahaha

Watched Artie After Hours again at the weekend, and a bunch of other eps of Larry Sanders. That show was godhead.

Lol @ Hopper being sued by Torn for keeping up that stupid story.

Poll doesn't include several items. Definitely a few things to check out, not least to see how he constructed the Artie character.