Paul Gleason RIP

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nice obit here, The Passing of a Brilliant Bastard

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 May 2006 04:38 (twenty years ago)

according to that, he had a rare form of asbestos-related lung cancer

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 May 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

The Breakfast Club never held my heart much but yeah, he was the best thing in it by a mile. RIP.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 May 2006 04:46 (twenty years ago)

IMDB trivia:

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Attended and played football at Florida State University along with fellow actors Burt Reynolds and Robert Urich.

Reportedly owns (or owned) a restaurant.

Previously married to Monty Hall's daughter, film, TV and stage actress Joanna Gleason (aka Joanna Hall).

1966 graduate of Florida State University

Was chased by Carl Strano's character in an episode of "The A-Team" (1983). They also acted together in an episode of "Hill Street Blues" (1981).

Decided to become an actor in 1961 after seeing Splendor in the Grass (1961) with his friend, author Jack Kerouac.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 May 2006 04:48 (twenty years ago)

isn't he the dude who ends up with the gorilla in Trading Places? Too bad, good character actor - in a better world he would have had his own tv series, something about a sleazy private dick or something.....

― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 29 May 2006 04:49 (twenty years ago)

Didn't you just hate him in Diehard? By that I mean he was really good. RIP

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 29 May 2006 05:00 (twenty years ago)

Aw. I loved him in Trading Places and The Breakfast Club. What a shame.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 29 May 2006 06:34 (twenty years ago)

Sad! Best use of the phrase "Fuck off" in movies -- the scene in TP where he chucks the guy off the payphone.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 29 May 2006 08:37 (twenty years ago)

Ha, just read the obit,that's the first example there, too.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 29 May 2006 08:39 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, that sucks. :-((((

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 29 May 2006 09:06 (twenty years ago)

"Don't mess with me young man, you'll get the horns".

RIP.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 May 2006 11:21 (twenty years ago)

Isn't it "Don't mess with the bull, young man." ?

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 29 May 2006 11:51 (twenty years ago)

i think that's "cut for tv" censoring at it's worst there...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 29 May 2006 12:08 (twenty years ago)

Too bad, good character actor - in a better world he would have had his own tv series, something about a sleazy private dick or something.....

and it would have sucked! what's wrong with being a great character actor?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 May 2006 12:08 (twenty years ago)

this piece of trivia is kinda mindblowing:

Decided to become an actor in 1961 after seeing Splendor in the Grass (1961) with his friend, author Jack Kerouac.

this not so much:

Reportedly owns (or owned) a restaurant.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 May 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

"with his friend, author Jack Kerouac."

WTF!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 29 May 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

"Don't try anything funny or the whore loses a kidney."

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 29 May 2006 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out, is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basketcase, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club.

― INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 12:42 (twenty years ago)

what's wrong with being a great character actor?

-- s1ocki (slytus...), May 29th, 2006.

Nothing, but I'm sure everyone would like to be the star once in a while (and I think it was implied that his hypothetical show wouldn't suck in that I was talking about a better world)

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Other great officious blowhard character actors:

-William Atherton (dude needs more work)
-James P. Tolkan (even played Napoleon!)
-Fred Thompson (actual Nixon admin member/onetime senator from TN)
-would Dennis Franz count?

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

RIP

nobody else could have delivered the line "Excuse me. Fuck off." so perfectly.

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions.

A fitting epitaph for the John Hughes filmography too.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

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