The Great Actor Gangsters are sleeping with the fishes

[Billy Dat]

In one month...Henry Hill, Sonny Corleone and Paulie Walnuts.

I feel like I've been stabbed in the heart!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6RAouUo3ik

[budwom]

always loved Sopranos episodes beginning with Pauli or Christopher walking into Tony's house carrying a new box with a microwave or food processor in it.

I can relate...years ago I ordered a Dell computer, watched its progress from Texas to NJ...but when it got to the warehouse in Secaucus, it was never seen again. Hope Carmela enjoyed it.

[dudog84]

I've been wanting to share the news that Philip Baker Hall passed last month. One of those guys that you instantly recognize but usually can't name, so I didn't want to start a thread. After all, I once started a thread that an American Nobel Laureate in Literature had passed, and 1 person noticed. I don't like to clutter up the board.

Anyway, my lasting memory of Philip Baker Hall is as the library cop Mr. Bookman in Seinfeld. I figured he had to have played a gangster somewhere, and he played a crime boss in an episode of Monk. Still, here's one of the most memorable Seinfeld scenes ever:



Never broke character while Jerry could barely hold it together.

R.I.P.

Edit: And while I'm at it, Monty Norman, who composed the James Bond theme, has died at 94. R.I.P.

[bundabergdevil]

In one month...Henry Hill, Sonny Corleone and Paulie Walnuts.

I feel like I've been stabbed in the heart!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6RAouUo3ik

Some great, great characters. Paulie on The Sopranos is just amazing...so many of those Sopranos characters were incredibly rich. Except AJ. Brat.

[tommy]

Some great, great characters. Paulie on The Sopranos is just amazing...so many of those Sopranos characters were incredibly rich. Except AJ. Brat.

And Tony Sirico had the extra benefit of having lived a real life of crime in his younger days before discovering acting, which he did “in the can.” You talk about bringing authenticity to a role! And nobody could give the “pointed index finger and pinky together” like Paulie Walnuts. RIP.

[budwom]

And Tony Sirico had the extra benefit of having lived a real life of crime in his younger days before discovering acting, which he did “in the can.” You talk about bringing authenticity to a role! And nobody could give the “pointed index finger and pinky together” like Paulie Walnuts. RIP.

yeah, I think the Times obit mentioned he'd been arrested twenty some times beginning at age seven...

[OZZIE4DUKE]

I've been wanting to share the news that Philip Baker Hall passed last month. One of those guys that you instantly recognize but usually can't name, so I didn't want to start a thread. After all, I once started a thread that an American Nobel Laureate in Literature had passed, and 1 person noticed. I don't like to clutter up the board.

Anyway, my lasting memory of Philip Baker Hall is as the library cop Mr. Bookman in Seinfeld. I figured he had to have played a gangster somewhere, and he played a crime boss in an episode of Monk. Still, here's one of the most memorable Seinfeld scenes ever:



Never broke character while Jerry could barely hold it together.

R.I.P.

Edit: And while I'm at it, Monty Norman, who composed the James Bond theme, has died at 94. R.I.P.

That was very funny! It was like listening to Jack Webb in a Dragnet scene!

[MartyClark]

Some great, great characters. Paulie on The Sopranos is just amazing...so many of those Sopranos characters were incredibly rich. Except AJ. Brat.

I loved most of the actors on The Sopranos. The guy I couldn't stand was Michael Imperioli. I'm not a violent guy but I always felt like someone should just punch him in the face.

[Rich]

In one month...Henry Hill, Sonny Corleone and Paulie Walnuts.

I feel like I've been stabbed in the heart!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6RAouUo3ik

I grew up with Henry Hill's son, Gregg. We used to play tennis together on the Junior High (Middle) School team and we practiced together at the local indoor tennis courts with a pro. Then I remember hearing about the Lufthansa Heist, which was a big part of Goodfellas, and never saw him again.

I love the depictions of the mafia on TV and the movies as much as anyone, but the fallout on others, including family, is really sad. In 2004 he and his sister wrote their story, which is interesting and heartbreaking.

https://www.amazon.com/Run-Mafia-Chi.../dp/044652770X

[bundabergdevil]

I loved most of the actors on The Sopranos. The guy I couldn't stand was Michael Imperioli. I'm not a violent guy but I always felt like someone should just punch him in the face.

You must have been very pleased with his character arc then.

[Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15]

I grew up with Henry Hill's son, Gregg. We used to play tennis together on the Junior High (Middle) School team and we practiced together at the local indoor tennis courts with a pro. Then I remember hearing about the Lufthansa Heist, which was a big part of Goodfellas, and never saw him again.

I love the depictions of the mafia on TV and the movies as much as anyone, but the fallout on others, including family, is really sad. In 2004 he and his sister wrote their story, which is interesting and heartbreaking.

https://www.amazon.com/Run-Mafia-Chi.../dp/044652770X

That's pretty wild. Goodfellas was a great flick.

[CrazyNotCrazie]

I grew up with Henry Hill's son, Gregg. We used to play tennis together on the Junior High (Middle) School team and we practiced together at the local indoor tennis courts with a pro. Then I remember hearing about the Lufthansa Heist, which was a big part of Goodfellas, and never saw him again.

I love the depictions of the mafia on TV and the movies as much as anyone, but the fallout on others, including family, is really sad. In 2004 he and his sister wrote their story, which is interesting and heartbreaking.

https://www.amazon.com/Run-Mafia-Chi.../dp/044652770X

Did he amuse you?

[brevity]

I've been wanting to share the news that Philip Baker Hall passed last month. One of those guys that you instantly recognize but usually can't name, so I didn't want to start a thread. After all, I once started a thread that an American Nobel Laureate in Literature had passed, and 1 person noticed. I don't like to clutter up the board.

Anyway, my lasting memory of Philip Baker Hall is as the library cop Mr. Bookman in Seinfeld...

Not long after reading this post a couple of weeks ago, I came across Philip Baker Hall on an episode of Good Times, one of his earliest acting credits. JJ and his girlfriend (Debbie Allen!) skip their senior prom, leave Chicago, and cross into the Indiana border to elope. Hall plays a motel manager. Found a clip:

[CrazyNotCrazie]

Now Paul Sorvino. This is getting creepy.

https://apnews.com/article/paul-sorv...05ed8cdf6aa237

[brevity]

Now Paul Sorvino. This is getting creepy.

https://apnews.com/article/paul-sorv...05ed8cdf6aa237

Bad year for tough guys. My favorite Paul Sorvino role is his most unlikely one, the Southern preacher in Oh, God!



I don't why the video title says 1997, because it's from 1977, predating the peak of televangelism.

[OldPhiKap]

Yikes! Someone better check on Abe Vigoda.

[duke74]

Yikes! Someone better check on Abe Vigoda.

Too late. He's greeting them. Died in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Vigoda

[OldPhiKap]

Too late. He's greeting them. Died in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Vigoda

I know. Bad joke; he was rumored to be dead several times before he finally passed.

[duke74]

I know. Bad joke; he was rumored to be dead several times before he finally passed.

Totally missed that one. Sorry.

[dudog84]

I know. Bad joke; he was rumored to be dead several times before he finally passed.

We need sound on the board for your rimshots.