George Plimpton, RIP

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Oh dear.

― ModJ, Friday, 26 September 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

WTF???

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

EVERYONE IS DYING THIS YEAR

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

...and the problem is there are no Moderns to replace them...

― ModJ, Friday, 26 September 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It's like God is really bored and has decided to call up a bunch of people to liven the place up. And trip over the furniture.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Dick Van Dyke better watch out, then!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA YOU'RE RIGHT!!!!!!!!!

― ModJ, Friday, 26 September 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

aside from loose nuts, Jack Tripper was famous for his pratfalls

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I know that! I'm just saying PROTECT YA NECK, DICK!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Who is George Plimpton?

― confused, Friday, 26 September 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I was alarmed, then I realised I wsa thinking of Bill Plympton.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/books/09/26/obit.plimpton.ap/index.html

Shame...probably my favorite remembrance of Plimpton is his look of utter shock in the background as you watch Ali KO Foreman. Great, great writer.

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Alan

― Alan Conceicao, Friday, 26 September 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

My best piece of journalism was based on his whole "participatory" thang. I went undercover as a shopping mall Santa (and at the time I was a skinny 23-year-old).

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 26 September 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

he did alot to help other writers also - RIP

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 26 September 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Very sad. RIP.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 26 September 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Nice at least that he got to see the Paris Review celebrate its 50th anniversary.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 September 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 26 September 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The bestest Intellivision shill ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 September 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

the man knew his fireworks, he did.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 26 September 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I only know him from a Simpsons cameo but it was one of the best episodes of the last five years or so.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

He knew the current President Bush from his days as owner of the Texas Rangers and chatted with him shortly after Election Day 2000, when the outcome was still in doubt.

"He wanted to talk about Sidd Finch," Plimpton recalled. "I thought that was rather odd."

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 26 September 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

Am I the only one who never realized he'd turned Sidd Finch into a novel? I found it today in the coolest used bookstore I've ever seen, and came so close to losing my shit that for thirteen seconds I was actually Dan Perry.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 14 May 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

You were filled with a complete and undying devotion to the Cure? Well done. But for that to truly take effect, you would have had to been in that state for seventeen seconds.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 May 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, you need to hold it for a moment of life

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 May 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

Been reading this oral history of Plimpton's life, George, Being George and thoroughly enjoying it.

― Bag Smart, Street Stupid (Eazy), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:18 (fifteen years ago)

Nice.

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 August 2010 06:13 (fifteen years ago)

He wasn't such a bad egg, for an Ivy Leaguer.

― Aimless, Saturday, 14 August 2010 06:31 (fifteen years ago)

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