Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

:-(

Was particularly good in Tootsie. RIP

RIP Pappy ODaniel and Waring Hudsucker

and Sgt. Moretti :(

Weird that for all the Tootsies and Dog Day Afternoons he was in, my immediately association with him is always as Holly Hunter's father in Home From The Holidays (which is underrated, and which it's been far too long since I've watched).

i always think of him in O Brother Where Art Thou

search: Twilight's Last Gleaming, True Confessions

Saw him as the ex-prez in The Best Man on Broadway in 2000. He was very heavy but the line readings were gossamer.

NYT:

Mr. Durning was also remembered for his combat service, which he avoided discussing publicly until later in life. He spoke at memorial ceremonies in Washington, and in 2008 France awarded him the National Order of the Legion of Honor.

In the Parade interview, he recalled the hand-to-hand combat. “I was crossing a field somewhere in Belgium,” he said. “A German soldier ran toward me carrying a bayonet. He couldn’t have been more than 14 or 15. I didn’t see a soldier. I saw a boy. Even though he was coming at me, I couldn’t shoot.”

They grappled, he recounted later — he was stabbed seven or eight times — until finally he grasped a rock and made it a weapon. After killing the youth, he said, he held him in his arms and wept.

Mr. Durning said the memories never left him, even when performing, even when he became, however briefly, someone else.

“There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don’t want anyone to know about,” he told Parade. “There’s terror and repulsion in us, the terrible spot that we don’t talk about. That place that no one knows about — horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.”

For whatever reason, him yelling "I don't give a fuck!" in Sharkey's Machine has always been one of my favorite lines in a film. RIP.

Two consecutive best supporting actress noms in the early eighties (never saw Best Little Whorehouse in Texas).

He plays this beautifully:

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

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

(not the scene i was hoping to find, but a good, and appropriate, one)

"Languishing!! Goddamn campaign is languishing!!"

"Eckard! You may as well start draftin' my concession speech right now."
"OK Pappy."
"I'm just makin' a point, ya stupid sonovabitch! Gimme back my hat!"
"Pappy just makin' a point."
"Shut up!!"

(it's a lot funnier when you see it)

love this guy, RIP

My favourite moment of his is right at the end of Alfred's first clip above: where he fake-punches Hoffman out of exasperation/affection after Hoffman confesses. It's like Keaton fake-strangling his girl in The General.

Let's all dance a little sidestep in his honor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJG75FJkjr8

http://www.youtube.com/v/RiKy3ktxw6M

Someday I will figure out how to embed videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiKy3ktxw6M

sigh

Fontella Bass

Oh no you didn't, WmC .

I didn't do it! It was a heart attack!

I think it was the image posted here that did it: "Rescue Me" (Denis Leary firefighter show on FX) - anyone?

seeing on twitter that norman schwarzkopf is dead

RIP Fontella Bass, Stormin Norman, not quite so much, but still.

Jean Harris, Scarsdale diet doc killer.

tony greig

Former Indy 500 driver, wannabe actor, and hard-luck case Salt Walther. Perhaps most remembered for this crash in 1973

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-IsOuo5be8

http://www.tmz.com/2007/12/04/rapper-pimp-c-found-dead-in-hollywood-hotel-room/

aw shit of course that happened five years ago.

Not going to be missed: Sir Irvine Patnick.

Ray Collins, singer with the Mothers

need new thread

Rolling Obituary Thread 2013.