The Beastmaster (1982) .... Maax
How did I forget this one.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Men in Black II (2002) .... Zed
tommy lee jones is excellent in this
― and what, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
his closing scene with rosario dawson is seriously great acting
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M%2BTwKh59L._AA240_.jpg
Coming January 8th.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
not hating, but...i'm not sure i've ever seen this guy in anything where i was really impressed or thought he was super funny. but then I haven't seen a whole of Larry Sanders, that's kind of the big one for him, right?
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
ban alex in baltimore
― and what, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i actually really liked men in black 2... even david cross is funny in it
― and what, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
NOT HATING, I'm just saying, convince me, it's possible i'm being blinded by Dodgeball/Freddy Got Fingered type bullshit.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Zed: You miss her, it happens to all of us. There was this young, hot thing I knew once. When our bodies were intertwined in the positions of the Kama Sutra... Agent J: Zed! Come on, man! Damn!
― and what, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
men in black (I) is so so good
― gff, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
artie is about my favourite tv character ever.
― stevie, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Torn Poll, you left us too soon. RIP.
― Casuistry, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
wow he's played LBJ, nixon and reagan. has anyone else played 3 presidents?
― mizzell, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
he's funny in dodgeball though.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Always have wanted to see Blind ambition.
The Mailer film where he bites Norman in a real brawl ain't here
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
The Man WHo Fell To Earth features Rip's wang.
― Lolpez, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
His most acclaimed film role in maybe 30 years is missing:
Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Defending Your Life?
― Scott CE, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
extreme prejudice
― omar little, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
im in love with Artie
― sunny successor, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
the fact that this didn't make the poll saddens me. Not your fault, and what, it has unfortunately and unfairly been forgotten by pretty much everybody. Easily Willie's best (that I've seen) and I think even Kael liked it!
Anyway, Torn is awesome as a sleazy concert promoter.
― will, Friday, 2 November 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Apart-Rip-Torn/dp/6305769443
write in vote for 'Coming Apart'
― Milton Parker, Friday, 2 November 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTjMEWlifpE
Mailer v. Torn
― milo z, Friday, 2 November 2007 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Monday, 5 November 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Wtf, Dodgeball is a great movie, and he's really funny in it.
― Tuomas, Monday, 5 November 2007 00:09 (sixteen years ago) link
dodgeball is terrible, but he comes closest to being funny in it.
― horseshoe, Monday, 5 November 2007 01:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean, compared to everyone else in Dodgeball.
― horseshoe, Monday, 5 November 2007 01:46 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 November 2007 02:03 (sixteen years ago) link
gotta go for artie
― s1ocki, Monday, 5 November 2007 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 5 November 2007 06:29 (sixteen years ago) link
R.I.P Torn Poll
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 5 November 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i always get this guy confused with the bloke from Trading Places, but i've had this discussion on ile before..
― Ste, Monday, 5 November 2007 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
eddie murphy?
― darraghmac, Monday, 5 November 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
"look at the S car go!"
― Ste, Monday, 5 November 2007 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Eazy, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
when he was married to Geraldine Page, their doorbell said PAGE/TORN.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Freddy Got Fingered robbed.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 6 November 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I read Geraldine Page as Geraldine Chaplin and was wondering what Carlos Saura thought about all this.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 8 November 2007 02:42 (sixteen years ago) link
"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.
― scott seward, Thursday, 8 November 2007 02:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Heard lots of good things about Payday.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 8 November 2007 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Also missing from poll: Rip Torn vs. Dennis Hopper.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 8 November 2007 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link
R.I.P. TORN CURTAIN
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 8 November 2007 03:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I believe the fight I am alluding to occurred at an earlier incarnation of Serendipity.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 8 November 2007 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link
-- 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"
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 8 November 2007 10:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"Tu va arrêter ce taré"
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 8 November 2007 10:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, that should be "Tu va l'arrêter ce taré" - which makes more sense.
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 8 November 2007 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
getting his own selective retro in NYC:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-03-04/film/rip-torn-roaring-at-anthology/
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― velko, Saturday, 30 January 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Why yes I think I do, thank you.
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
apparently it was '68.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
yeow
amiri baraka & eldridge cleaver sections on vimeo/yt. must watch whole thing.
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
RIP
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
i am v sad about this one
― jou're much too jung, girl (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 12:53 (four years ago) link
One of the most gloriously unwieldy acting careers ever
― Simon H., Wednesday, 10 July 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
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.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 13:01 (four years ago) link
It's not a problem because they're all the greatest in the greatest show of all time.
― jou're much too jung, girl (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
All of what you say is 100% otm.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
yeah it's impossible to imagine the show without those three characters played by those three specific actors
it's a GESTALT maaaaan
― A comical 'blobbumentary' programme (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
Coming Apart is really something. I saw him introduce it once & he seemed especially proud of it.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
looks like a decent iteration of it is here:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34oj7g
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
who in our darkest hour has not wanted to betray Jesus, or go after Mailer with a hammer?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
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
― andrew m., Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
well shit nm. you've seen the man anyway.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
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
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
TBF, I'm sure he was naked and wielding a samurai sword most of the rest of the time.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
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.”
― andrew m., Wednesday, 10 July 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
lmao, what a hero
― A comical 'blobbumentary' programme (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
I have a soft spot for his small turn in Wonder Boys as the politely smug best-selling novelist.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
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
― the hissing of summer jawns (stevie), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
'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.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
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
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
Sissy Spacek's cousin!
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
Terry Southern and Rip Torn in NYC, '73. pic.twitter.com/OoG6va8qCl— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 10, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
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.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
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.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
that's how you do it
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
Doesn't seem to have been posted (be forewarned about the language):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78IRyUrA2Ug
― clemenza, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
never saw the "Blind Ambition" miniseries, but imagine Rip letting loose with a non-network Nixon
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
I'd forgotten all about that. Not available on Amazon, but all five hours are on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M91dQVw3bLshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YutsrmLb5xU
Image looks acceptable. I can move that over to the TV, so I'll definitely watch that.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
The first embed doesn't work--you have to watch it on YouTube (which does work).
― clemenza, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link
I think Tambor is breaking in that heckling scene
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Thursday, 11 July 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF94LvnRlKA#
that lazy bastard
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Thursday, 11 July 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link
Never realized that Artie was never given a surname--he's just Artie or Arthur on IMDB and Wikipedia.
― clemenza, Friday, 12 July 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link
He played a character named Artie once before, too, in a somewhat less reputable project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zMaGnKmaRA
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 12 July 2019 12:24 (four years ago) link
obit roundup
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6485-rip-torn-intense-disturbing-and-very-very-funny
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 July 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 July 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
hahahahahahaha
― SHANTY the golden fish portion (stevie), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 09:00 (four years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 11:31 (four years ago) link