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40 minutes ago, DanRydell said:

He was our neighbor for a bit when he lived here while filming Michael.

Michael rocks. Fight me. Great road trip movie. 

Mr. Brooks is criminally underrated. I blame Dane Cook. The Hurt - Costner scenes are all great. 

The Big Chill is a great movie. One of the better modern "bottle episode" movies out there. 

Probably needed more screen time in a History of Violence, but he was a good reveal as the big bad. 

He probably f***ed around with TV too much, but indies don't pay the bills. 

RIP to a great actor. 

 

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4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Big Chill is amazing to me now that I'm in their age range.

Yeah, I watched it again in the last year and thought it was still awesome.

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15 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

The Big Chill is a great movie. One of the better modern "bottle episode" movies out there. 

6 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Yeah, I watched it again in the last year and thought it was still awesome.

Imagine making The Big Chill now.  80% of the screen time would be them on their cell phones.

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4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Imagine making The Big Chill now.  80% of the screen time would be them on their cell phones.

I'm patiently waiting for the Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, and Pete Davidson remake where they text each other from different rooms in Alex's house. 

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No way. That sucks. Yeah, Altered States was awesome, Body Heat was hot. Kathleen Turner in her prime and with a nod to a young Ted Danson in a minor role. The Accidental Tourist was also an excellent flick. I haven’t seen that one in ages. Young, quirky Geena Davis. Mrowr.

RIP, Bill. You were always great. 

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5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Big Chill is amazing to me now that I'm in their age range.

That soundtrack album was huge.

But I’m also obligated by contract to add: Fuck Michigan. 😛

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6 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Sad to see.

Just watched Gorky Park, too.

Thanks for the reminder.  I had never seen that, but read the Arkady Renko series of books.  Just finished it.

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Fuck, this one stings for me. I was always a big fan because he picked great roles and great movies. Anyone remember him in Smoke? 

RIP to a great underrated actor of the 80's and beyond.

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I love Broadcast News.  It takes a confident actor to be willing to take a role where you will be the butt of a lot of dumb blond jokes and try to be the straight man while Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter act circles around you.

He played Hank Paulson in Too Big To Fail, which I thought was the least of the 3 big Great Recession movies (Margin Call and Big Short), but he does an excellent job of plumbing Hank Paulson trying to keep his shit together as the world falls apart. 
 

RIP

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9 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

That soundtrack album was huge.

But I’m also obligated by contract to add: Fuck Michigan. 😛

I haven't seen in in years.  But yeah, most memorable to me for the soundtrack and the Motown resurgence it caused.  I was too young to appreciate at the time.

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1 hour ago, Bateshorn said:

I love Broadcast News.  It takes a confident actor to be willing to take a role where you will be the butt of a lot of dumb blond jokes and try to be the straight man while Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter act circles around you.

He played Hank Paulson in Too Big To Fail, which I thought was the least of the 3 big Great Recession movies (Margin Call and Big Short), but he does an excellent job of plumbing Hank Paulson trying to keep his shit together as the world falls apart. 
 

RIP

Both of these. 

Broadcast News is definitely dated but still a great film. A lot of us developed our Holly Hunter crush watching that.

And loved him and the rest of the ensemble cast in Too Big To Fail.

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Stupid.  I was thinking back on his roles and his sort of understated, patrician (episcopacy, American aristocrat) aura and thought, "he should have been in The Good Shepherd," which is a movie I thoroughly enjoy.

Of course, he was, but a relatively minor role that I had forgotten.

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12 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Yeah, I watched it again in the last year and thought it was still awesome.

I wore out that soundtrack when I was a kid.  My parents always had that thing playing.  RIP WH

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3 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

I love Broadcast News.  It takes a confident actor to be willing to take a role where you will be the butt of a lot of dumb blond jokes and try to be the straight man while Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter act circles around you.

He played Hank Paulson in Too Big To Fail, which I thought was the least of the 3 big Great Recession movies (Margin Call and Big Short), but he does an excellent job of plumbing Hank Paulson trying to keep his shit together as the world falls apart. 
 

RIP

Agreed on both counts. Broadcast News is one of the top 10 favorite films of all time. The amazing thing is that it basically predicted where we were going with "newswertainment" in the mid/late 80s.

And yeah he was fantastic as Hank Paulson in Too Big to Fail. "The Big Short" and "Too Big to Fail" make a great double feature. The cool thing is that, in terms of the timeline, Too Big to Fail picks up almost exactly where The Big Short leaves off.

And also agreed that The Big Chill is great. I always loved his timing/delivery of this line when he's in the car with Mary Kay Place leaving the funeral:

MKP: "The last time I spoke with Alex, we had an argument..."

WH: ....[beat]...      "That's probably why he killed himself." :D 

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18 hours ago, deac_tracy said:

I remember him more for Body Heat and being an abusive piece of shit to Marlee Matlin.

I never heard about the abusive piece of shit part until after he died.  

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scanning his oeuvre wiki.....  you can't have a full career regardless of oscars if you didn't work with woody allen at least once, which he did in Alice (1990).

confirmation of oldness.......

woody allen is eightyfuckingsix

soon-yi previn is fiftyfuckingone

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On 3/13/2022 at 5:29 PM, deac_tracy said:

I remember him more for Body Heat and being an abusive piece of shit to Marlee Matlin.

Wow.  More women are coming forward about him being abusive. 

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Wow.  More women are coming forward about him being abusive. 


I read the account from his second wife Sandra Jennings. He routinely beat the fuck out of her. He might have been a fine actor but he was a piece of shit.
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29 minutes ago, Texzilla58 said:

 


I read the account from his second wife Sandra Jennings. He routinely beat the fuck out of her. He might have been a fine actor but he was a piece of shit.

 

Seems to have been kept on the down-low for the most part, but he was apparently a raging alcoholic and drug addict for much of his life.  And some of the reported abusive episodes have been tied to binge drinking/usage by both parties.

I heard an interview with him on NPR from some time back where he very strongly alluded to having participated in AA and conducted meetings in prisons.

Being a drunk is not an excuse, but I'm afraid that abusive behavior like that is fairly common among alcoholics, who wouldn't otherwise do it.

And, apparently, he had been sober for a couple of decades at the time of his death, to the point that he refused narcotic painkillers for treatment of his cancer.

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Sorry routinely beating your woman goes beyond drunken and drugged episodes. He beat his women when he was fucked up, and when he was not. I refuse to celebrate celebrities for their art when they are abusive mobsters. He can prepare a place in hell for pederast Woody Allen, child rapist Polanski, and a long list of others.

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