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Saw him as the ex-prez in The Best Man on Broadway in 2000. He was very heavy but the line readings were gossamer.
NYT:
Mr. Durning was also remembered for his combat service, which he avoided discussing publicly until later in life. He spoke at memorial ceremonies in Washington, and in 2008 France awarded him the National Order of the Legion of Honor.
In the Parade interview, he recalled the hand-to-hand combat. “I was crossing a field somewhere in Belgium,” he said. “A German soldier ran toward me carrying a bayonet. He couldn’t have been more than 14 or 15. I didn’t see a soldier. I saw a boy. Even though he was coming at me, I couldn’t shoot.”
They grappled, he recounted later — he was stabbed seven or eight times — until finally he grasped a rock and made it a weapon. After killing the youth, he said, he held him in his arms and wept.
Mr. Durning said the memories never left him, even when performing, even when he became, however briefly, someone else.
“There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don’t want anyone to know about,” he told Parade. “There’s terror and repulsion in us, the terrible spot that we don’t talk about. That place that no one knows about — horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.”
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
For whatever reason, him yelling "I don't give a fuck!" in Sharkey's Machine has always been one of my favorite lines in a film. RIP.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
"Eckard! You may as well start draftin' my concession speech right now."
"OK Pappy."
"I'm just makin' a point, ya stupid sonovabitch! Gimme back my hat!"
"Pappy just makin' a point."
"Shut up!!"
(it's a lot funnier when you see it)
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
My favourite moment of his is right at the end of Alfred's first clip above: where he fake-punches Hoffman out of exasperation/affection after Hoffman confesses. It's like Keaton fake-strangling his girl in The General.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Fontella Bass, Stormin Norman, not quite so much, but still.
― Alba, Friday, 28 December 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link