Oh no! I loved that character. (I’m a bit surprised he was still alive, TBH.)
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My husband and I said the same exact thing. Loved him as Lily Olay’s gunfighter boyfriend “Texas Jack” in The Great Race.
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Local celebrity of a sort:
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Just to flesh out the info in that one-box:
Born in 1945 inside the Theresienstadt concentration camp, Wolf was a rare child survivor of the Czechoslovakian ghetto-labor camp where between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis and their collaborators executed approximately 90 percent of the 15,000 children imprisoned there. “The story goes that his mother [Ruth Wolf] was told to stand in a line with [Wolf] — one line was for execution, one was to go on,” says Brantner. “They put her in the execution line, but as it kept moving, she snuck into the other line.”
When Ruth Wolf reached the front of the queue, the guard noticed the switch. “I want to live with my child,” she told him. The guard, for reasons unknown, ultimately let them go. “Otherwise, this would not all be here,” says Brantner, who has spent more than three decades working at the Bagel. “It’s incredible that he survived.”
Truly a part of history.
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Bold move for a man with a face like a frying pan.
RIP, Mr. Storch.
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Just watched this episode over the weekend. Larry as a driving instructor.
And I’m really going to lobby God when I get to heaven to allow anyone that makes it to 99 to see 100.
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He was Elaine’s dad?
Is that any way to talk about the original ghostbuster?
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Meh, I kinda imagine him as the sort who’d laugh along with a joke like that.
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You ain’t afraid of no ghost.
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I haven’t read an obit yet that mentioned Flesh and Bone, which maybe wasn’t great, but worth mentioning.
(pedantry follows)
The WaPo obit described his Godfather character as “trigger-happy Sonny” – I haven’t watched Godfather in a while (2 or 3 months), but I don’t remember Sonny firing a gun. I think he picked one up at home before he realized it was Clemenza was at the door. I guess it’s synonymous with short-tempered but I think it’s confusing in that context.
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Man. Mob tough guys having a rough day.
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I’ve never seen The Godfather, I wonder if I’m the only one.
I was born in '64 so I wouldn’t have seen it first run but I have had 50 years to at least rent it or see it on cable but nope.
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Some people get mentioned as catharsis. Ian Brady and Charles Manson are in this thread.
Edit: I didn’t see that it had already been discussed.
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Every now and then there is an obituary that arguably could be cross-posted in the Unicorn Chaser thread without being off topic.
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John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman coined the term Fuckulogies for just these circumstances.
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MAD spoofed it (of course) but I didn’t see that until 1983 (8th grade for me), when it was in a Super Special. I’d heard of the film, but hadn’t otherwise been interested in seeing it. A few months later, I was down the street at one of my first babysitting gigs; my charges had gone to bed and Godfather was on. (This was not long after cable TV came to our neighborhood.) Thanks to MAD, I already had a general idea of the plot. I’d seen Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back when I was a younger kid, but after those, Godfather was the first time I remember thinking “wow, I didn’t know a movie could be so great!” Not long afterward, Part 2 was on.
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And did you feel it was better than Pt. I? I generally agree with listicles that rate it as one of the very few sequels that exceeded the original.
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The original film might be better by some kind of measure, but I like Part 2 better. (If that makes sense?) I’m still bugged by “Michael Corleone says hello” and the messy, imprecise shootout that follows, yet Roth “meant” to do that so I’m not sure it’s “better.” But I’m more likely to watch Part 2 again than the original.
And,
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