Loved his voice and prose.
Hey, todayās a two-fer!
BBC News - Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, found dead in US prison cell
Thatās super-sadā¦
BBC News - Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian PM, dies at 86
Iām sure Bunga Bunga in hell is totally gonna be worth it.
1941, Once upon a time in Americaā¦
ETA: this is really the one I always associate with him from Hair, despite the fact that heās only one of many singers in it:
Oh heck, thatās a callback from this:
I think what I liked about him most was how he would put himself into a character 100%, no matter how small or ridiculous the part. I think it served him well later in his career.
One example I would support is his role as James Bennett/Sam Phelps in the Matt Bomer series White Collar.
I remembered him from this.
Me from this one:
Itās pretty skeevy. Also based on a Joyce Carol Oates story. Both got me started on thinking that she sometimes displays a kind of perverse streak in her writing.
Yikes. I saw that in his filmography while trying to remember the title of Flashpoint. Maybe Iāll give it a miss
Iāve read several of his novels. Blood Meridian was the best I thought, because itās so brutally honest about U.S. history. So brutal though that I donāt think I could do it again.
After reading āThe Road,ā someone asked me if Iād be watching the movie.
āFuck noā was all I could say.
I watched the movie for The Road in our local āartā theater. Never again. ::shudder::
It was so brilliantly bleak a read I couldnāt imagine subjecting myself to that story in 3d.