RIP TORN POLL

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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

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"

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

one year passes...

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

ten months pass...

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

people, see payday

da croupier, Saturday, 30 January 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link

LOL! love this guy

sonderangerbot, Saturday, 30 January 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link

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

James Mitchell, Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 31 January 2010 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link

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

LaMonte, Sunday, 31 January 2010 03:12 (fourteen years ago) link

xp No, but he dreamed about it.

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

what of the fuck you talkie bout (Pancakes Hackman), Sunday, 31 January 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Bing Crosby, are you listening? (Billy Dods), Sunday, 31 January 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link

That'll be the RIP RIP TORN TORN thread.

StanM, Sunday, 31 January 2010 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

ron paul revulvalution (Pillbox), Sunday, 31 January 2010 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link

lol Pancakes

Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 31 January 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link

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

♖♕♖ (am0n), Sunday, 31 January 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link

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

velko, Monday, 1 February 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link

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

The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 1 February 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link

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

The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link

Home Savings

Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link

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

looks like somewhere an 80 yo drunk would live

The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link

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

if not the bank had it coming, quite frankly.

the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link

Free Rip, He Wanted to Go Home

Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

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

balls, Monday, 13 September 2010 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link

three months pass...

avoids jail

from the lowly milligeir to the mighty gigahongro (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Hatch, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link

six months pass...

watching payday tonight, never seen it before! stoked.

p.s. hi hatch.

one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 8 July 2011 03:16 (twelve years ago) link

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.

Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 July 2011 04:36 (twelve years ago) link

rip torn

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

markers, Friday, 8 July 2011 04:42 (twelve years ago) link

six years pass...

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

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 15:59 (six 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

one year passes...

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

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=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.

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

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.

SHANTY the golden fish portion (stevie), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 09:00 (four years ago) link

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


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