2025 - IN MEMORIAM - MOVIES & TV

[Curt McGirt]

I've always wanted to see his lead in Clean, Shaven, but it's probably a pretty hard watch since he plays a schizophrenic -- and it's filmed from his POV. Like when he thinks there's transmitters under his skin and has to cut them out. 

He had problems with dope and coke in the '90s and was found after a neighbor called in a wellness check for music playing all night. Let's hope it's not what it could be. 

[Curt McGirt]

https://archive.org/details/clean-shaven-1993-lodge-kerrigan

In case you, too, want to watch Clean, Shaven

3 1/2 stars from Roger Ebert https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/clean-shaven-1995

[Dolfan in NYC]

It's being reported in a few places...  But apparently director Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered in their LA house today.  

He was 78.

[odessasteps]

I just saw this recently again. 
 

 

[odessasteps]

When Archie meet Michael, flashback ep to start S2.

[The Natural]

29 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

It's being reported in a few places...  But apparently director Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered in their LA house today.  

He was 78.

Bugger. This Is Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride are classics. Didn't know we shared the same birthday, 6th of March. RIP.

[Dolfan in NYC]

It appears the Reiner's son is the main suspect in their deaths

[Curt McGirt]

Gonna have to gather my thoughts about him

RIP

[The Natural]

16 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

It appears the Reiner's son is the main suspect in their deaths

Jesus.

[Craig H]

I just re-watched the Wolf of Wall Street in part to just re-watch his scenes. 

[odessasteps]

I remember when the joke was “who would have guessed Hollywoods best directors were Meathead, Laverne and Richie Cunningham?’

Edited December 15, 2025 by odessasteps

[Curt McGirt]

Just FYI, HBO has been playing This Is Spinal Tap and the sequel. HBO2 has them on back to back at 5:30 Central. 

I caught the end of the first and beginning of the second last night. 

[driver]

Damn.

[colonial]

Daytime icon Tony Geary, Luke on General Hospital, has died  at 78.

 

 

 

 

[Pete]

14 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

Gonna have to gather my thoughts about him

RIP

The shithead has made his thoughts abundantly clear. Even Republicans are going "Christ, what an asshole."

[Curt McGirt]

Dunno why I'm tagged in that, but yeah, we were just discussing it on the Discord. I'm hoping, fingers crossed, that his tweet makes the nightly news. The egotism and grandiosity and delusion are all there in a nutshell. It's sickening.

[Dolfan in NYC]

14 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

It appears the Reiner's son is the main suspect in their deaths

Their son has been charged with the murders of Mr. & Mrs. Reiner.  $4m bail.  

They allegedly got into a very heated argument earlier this weekend at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party. TMZ has further details and they are... horrific. 

 

[Curt McGirt]

Anyway I had to stop and think awhile because I greatly respected Reiner. Misery is great, one of the best Stephen King films ever made. A Few Good Men, which I had no idea he directed, is great; a call for the American military to look at itself in the mirror and see that what's there is not pretty. Spinal Tap of course is fucking great for a million reasons. The Princess Bride is great and iconic and I never even watched it until a few years ago, when it could have been an enormous part of my childhood growing up. Now, Stand By Me, that WAS a big part of my childhood. It's still the best King adaptation (forget Shawshank and Green Mile and even The Shining). It gets his late '50s/early '60s in a way that nobody else could. It's nostalgic, it's sad, it's touching, it's everything you'd want in a film like that and it turns me into a puddle of tears every time. It's turning me that way thinking about it right now. 

But I also remember him as Meathead because there were these All In The Family marathons on Nick at Nite before they completely went under. That taught me a lot about a recent past that I was unaware of and the issues of those days. He was funny and relatable and a great comedic actor. So the combination of the two, director and actor, is so different and so weird. 

So, rest in peace to a very talented guy. 

Oh, and fuck South Park for their portrayal of him. 

[Curt McGirt]

You might not want to read the TMZ report. Just be forewarned.

[J.H.]

TonyvGeary has passed. Ma8nly known for playing Luke on General Hispital, he was also the villain in the Fat Boys theatrical film Disirderlies

James

[odessasteps]

Kids today prob wouldn’t believe how big Luke and Laura was at the time.

[J.H.]

24 minutes ago, odessasteps said:

Kids today prob wouldn’t believe how big Luke and Laura was at the time.

No lie! I was in 9 at the time and everyone was talking about it. 30 million people watched the wedding of Luke & Laura. It was huge!

James

[Mister TV]

Anthony Geary guest starred on All in the Family, he played Mike's friend in the "Judging Books by Covers" episode, it's the episode that Nixon rants about in an Oval Office recording.

 

[Technico Support]

4 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

Dunno why I'm tagged in that, but yeah, we were just discussing it on the Discord. I'm hoping, fingers crossed, that his tweet makes the nightly news. The egotism and grandiosity and delusion are all there in a nutshell. It's sickening.

Who cares if it makes the news?  It’ll be forgotten tomorrow in our 24 hour news cycle, and buried by our complicit media.

[Curt McGirt]

Point taken... but I still hope it happens. It'd be a good morality litmus test and/or would just be nice and surprising.