colonial Posted March 20, 2024 Posted March 20, 2024 Walsh was actually in a movie that was released earlier this month. It's a Mario Van Peebles Western called "Outlaw Posse." Currently available to rent on Prime and YT.
Zimbra Posted March 20, 2024 Posted March 20, 2024 1 hour ago, odessasteps said: Thought he had already died Yeah, I was sure he was gone in the pandemic. Guess I'm glad he wasn't and sad he is.
(BP) Posted March 21, 2024 Posted March 21, 2024 He played John Goodman’s father in a few episodes of Righteous Gemstones, and when he first popped up I felt like I’d seen a ghost.
piranesi Posted March 21, 2024 Posted March 21, 2024 (edited) I too have this weird Mandela effect memory of seeing a news story using the “motherscratcher” clip from Raising Arizona so,e time in the 2020s. I wonder if it was being referenced for some other reason like he….did something that none of us remember? I guess if he was still working it could be for him getting cast in something and it wasn’t the “news” so much as like twitter. All that stuff blends together now. while I’m typing this I remember that when Trey Wilson died the clip they all played was from Bull Durham not Raising Arizona an I kinda think one news source would have had the vision. Edited March 21, 2024 by piranesi
Curt McGirt Posted March 21, 2024 Posted March 21, 2024 So that's why I got a totally unexplanatory "love this guy" post on FB from someone today Walsh was fucking great. If you think you thought he was the living face of evil in Blood Simple, go watch him in Straight Time playing Dustin Hoffman-as-Eddie Bunker's rotten-ass parole officer. You'll wanna throw your shoe through the screen. And what a work ethic, the dude made an average of 3-5 film roles a year until 2000, on top of TV appearances. In 1986 he made it into six movies and six TV shows! In 2019 he was back to five movies and seven episodes of a TV series plus the two Righteous Gemstones eps. Fuck, man. RIP 1
RazorbladeKiss87 Posted March 21, 2024 Posted March 21, 2024 On 3/12/2024 at 4:08 PM, Elsalvajeloco said: I believe the suicide or one of them was Kagney Linn Karter, and that's a pretty big name in the industry. She had been suffering from mental health issues sincing retiring and was barely recognizable in the picture I saw. She was living in Ohio and had started a pole dancing school. Emily Willis is the girl in a coma. It's a scary time to be an addict. I've lost count of how many people I know or have been acquainted with who have overdosed in the last few years. I count myself as extremely lucky I wasn't one of them. 1
Curt McGirt Posted March 21, 2024 Posted March 21, 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/movies/m-emmet-walsh-dead
Zimbra Posted March 21, 2024 Posted March 21, 2024 17 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: So that's why I got a totally unexplanatory "love this guy" post on FB from someone today Walsh was fucking great. If you think you thought he was the living face of evil in Blood Simple, go watch him in Straight Time playing Dustin Hoffman-as-Eddie Bunker's rotten-ass parole officer. You'll wanna throw your shoe through the screen. And what a work ethic, the dude made an average of 3-5 film roles a year until 2000, on top of TV appearances. In 1986 he made it into six movies and six TV shows! In 2019 he was back to five movies and seven episodes of a TV series plus the two Righteous Gemstones eps. Fuck, man. RIP Straight Time is so goddamned good. 2
Elsalvajeloco Posted March 21, 2024 Posted March 21, 2024 Man, Straight Time is one of my favorite films. However, totally forgot he was in that. 1
Curt McGirt Posted March 22, 2024 Posted March 22, 2024 Read No Beast So Fierce sometime, it's worth it. I really need to get some more of Bunker's stuff because he was a helluva writer. 1
Curt McGirt Posted March 23, 2024 Posted March 23, 2024 Okay now, THIS is a great obit. https://www.rogerebert.com/tributes/i-need-your-magic-m-emmett-walsh-1935-2024 1
Zimbra Posted March 29, 2024 Posted March 29, 2024 Fuck, Lou Gossett Jr died at age 87. It's an Iron Eagle weekend, I guess. 4
(BP) Posted March 29, 2024 Posted March 29, 2024 Gossett is absolutely fantastic in the HBO Watchmen series. I was happy to see him get a showcase at that stage of his career. 2
AxB Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 Chance Perdomo, from Gen V and the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, has died aged 27. Motorcycle crash. 2
Cliff Hanger Posted April 2, 2024 Posted April 2, 2024 RIP to Joe Flaherty, best known for SCTV (where his recurring roles included station owner Guy Caballero, newscaster and kids' horror host "Count" Floyd Robertson, and Vic Hedges) and as Mr. Weir on Freaks and Geeks. 2
colonial Posted April 2, 2024 Posted April 2, 2024 Saw just now that Martin Short announced a fundraising drive last month to get a FT caregiver for Joe, who was in "failing health." Went on an SCTV binge a few weeks back ... all cast members were great, but Joe, Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin were the rocks of the show. I think they were there for every episode and could be the utility players that such shows need. Now I want to see a wrestling company adopt a Guy Caballero gimmick with a guy who only uses a wheelchair for "respect" and simply walks around because he can. Also a shame that Netflix never released its SCTV tribute while Joe was with us. 2
Travis Sheldon Posted April 2, 2024 Posted April 2, 2024 Damn, Count Floyd actually introduced me to Ingmar Bergman. R.I.P. Joe
FourPostMassacre Posted April 2, 2024 Posted April 2, 2024 On 3/29/2024 at 9:26 AM, Zimbra said: Fuck, Lou Gossett Jr died at age 87. It's an Iron Eagle weekend, I guess. The OG of bringing a movie’s quality up just knowing he was in it. A good example being I have seen Diggstown more times than I care to admit.
Mister TV Posted April 2, 2024 Posted April 2, 2024 Know one knew Flaherty was playing this as a drunk until the editing room. 1
Contentious C Posted April 3, 2024 Posted April 3, 2024 10 hours ago, colonial said: Saw just now that Martin Short announced a fundraising drive last month to get a FT caregiver for Joe, who was in "failing health." I wonder what some of these fools are doing with their money - and I mean the likes of Short - that he couldn't just pay it himself.
Travis Sheldon Posted April 3, 2024 Posted April 3, 2024 2 hours ago, Contentious C said: I wonder what some of these fools are doing with their money - and I mean the likes of Short - that he couldn't just pay it himself. He obviously thought Joe would pull himself up by the bootstraps. Joe got the last laugh.
Cobra Commander Posted April 4, 2024 Posted April 4, 2024 On 4/2/2024 at 9:45 AM, colonial said: Now I want to see a wrestling company adopt a Guy Caballero gimmick with a guy who only uses a wheelchair for "respect" and simply walks around because he can. this would be a solid Vince McMahon gimmick if not for 1) Vince likely having no idea what the fuck SCTV was 2) Vince's current/future legal problems
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