RIP TORN POLL

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.