I Needed This So Much, and So Do You

I did not know that I needed this, but I really, really did;

Thank you Hank Azaria.

I have been a fan since Herman's Head. 

Robert Redford has Died

I've seen a lot of his films, and I always thought that he was a movie star with the soul of a character actor.  (Meant as a compliment) 

Also, I agree with Charlie Pierce's recommendation regarding the most timley of his oeuvre, it's The Candidate, though 3 Days of the Condor comes close.

I'll leave a discussion of his activism to others better equipped to discuss that.

He was 89. 

He Played Assholes Better than Anyone

I am referring, of course, to Dabney Coleman, who has died at the age of 92.

Interestingly enough, all of the reports about his behavior as a human being were quite positive.

He managed to separate his acting asshole from his normal self, which is more difficult than one would imagine.  

For example, Andy Griffith said that he would never do a character like Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes in A Face in the Crowd because of the toll it inflicted on his family.

Even when Coleman played the most despicable characters, you could not help but smile.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

You may be familiar with James Woods.

He is a twice Oscar nominated actor.

He is very talented, but since the early to mid 1990s, he has been method acting his role as Roy Cohn, the corrupt scumbag lawyer and political fixer in the movie Citizen Cohn in real life.

Really, he's been channeling Roy Cohn for decades.

He's gone off the deep end, becoming a major MAGAt, and endorsing Donald Trump.

So, you could have knocked me over with a plaster of paris bagel and cream cheese paperweight when I discovered that even Woods is sick and tired of Elon Musk's bullsh%$:

In the midst of a libel suit I was targeted by thirty trolls the defendant enlisted to harass me. X will be untenable for people like me, who are willing to share their identities. If he does this, I will have no choice but to retire from this site. https://t.co/QJ9BgLNwFj

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 19, 2023

So, Elon has become too f%$#ing unreasonable, and too f%$#ing incompetent, for James f%$#ing Woods? 

What the f%$#ing f%$#?

The guy who spends hit time on Twitter railing against immigration, the decline of society, the LGBTQ, and Black people, is sick and tired of Elon Musk, a guy who spends hit time on Twitter railing against immigration, the decline of society, the LGBTQ, and Black people.

We live in strange times.

F%$#

Both ground breaking actress Nichelle Nicols and great Boston Celtics center Bill Russell have died.

As Lt. Nyota Uhura on Star Trek, she changed the representation of Black women on TV, showing a hyper professional communications officer on the Enterprise, and was in ½ of the first interracial kiss, along with William Shatner, on a us major network TV program.

Later, she helped recruit minority and women to technical fields, particularly for NASA.

Bill Russell had a good case to be the greatest basketball player of all time, and an even better case as to being the most dominating basketball player of all time, and, in addition to being a lifelong civil rights activist, he was the first Black coach in the NBA in his final two seasons as a player, and first Black coach in the NBA to win an NBA title, and the only player coach to win an NBA title.

Damn, damn, damn.

Damn

Bernard Cribbins has died. he was 93. If the name does not ring a bell, perhaps these pictures will.

He did a lot, but on this side of the pond, he is best remembered as the only actor who played multiple companions for the Doctor in Doctor Who, first as Tom Campbell in the theatrical release Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. in 1966, and later Wilfred Mott with both David Tennant's and Matt Smith's Doctor.

He had a storied career in the UK over 75 years.

I'm sad, and I have the urge to go and blow up a Dalek in his honour.