RIP TORN POLL

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

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.