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Rip Torn is DEAD to me

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by Anonymousreply 52July 18, 2019 12:44 PM

Cheers....

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by Anonymousreply 1July 10, 2019 2:38 AM

Here's a link.

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by Anonymousreply 2July 10, 2019 2:38 AM

Don't you mean R.I.P. Torn?

by Anonymousreply 3July 10, 2019 2:43 AM

Celebrities die in threes. First it was the Disney Channel kid Cameron Boyce, now Rip Torn. My prediction for death three is Marion Ross.

by Anonymousreply 4July 10, 2019 3:05 AM

Did Maureen McGovern happen to deflower young Cameron before his untimely death? If so, then if she died tomorrow from grief, we'd have Torn between two lovers.

by Anonymousreply 5July 10, 2019 3:08 AM

Ross Perot was #2, Rip is #3

by Anonymousreply 6July 10, 2019 3:08 AM

I always got him mixed up with Rip Taylor LOL!

by Anonymousreply 7July 10, 2019 3:09 AM

Just going by DL protocol, R3, tempting as that might have been.

by Anonymousreply 8July 10, 2019 3:09 AM

Crap, Mary McGregor. Golly, I wonder why I confused them, the names are sooooo different!

by Anonymousreply 9July 10, 2019 3:09 AM

He was married to Geraldine Page for 24 years, and previously to Ann Wedgeworth for six years.

by Anonymousreply 10July 10, 2019 3:11 AM

Loved him in the "Larry Sanders Show".

R.I.P. Rip

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by Anonymousreply 11July 10, 2019 3:15 AM

Dead Silence from Susan Dey.

by Anonymousreply 12July 10, 2019 3:17 AM

Has Bonita Friml commented yet?

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by Anonymousreply 13July 10, 2019 3:26 AM

Great character actor - loved him in Defending Your Life..... Part of a dying breed... Literally....

by Anonymousreply 14July 10, 2019 3:40 AM

Has anyone checked to make sure Kelly Osborne is ok?

by Anonymousreply 15July 10, 2019 3:45 AM

r15, leave her alone. She can't breath right now!

by Anonymousreply 16July 10, 2019 3:55 AM

Never knew he was married to Ann Wedgeworth!

by Anonymousreply 17July 10, 2019 4:06 AM

Amy Wright, his last wife, in The Accidental Tourist.

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by Anonymousreply 18July 10, 2019 4:10 AM

[quote]Amy Wright, his last wife, in The Accidental Tourist.

He was in a relationship with Amy Wright but they weren't married. He and Geraldine Page never divorced and were still married when she died suddenly of a heart attack in 1987. She was playing Madame Arcati in "Blithe Spirit" and never showed up for a matinee and evening performance. She was found dead in her home.

by Anonymousreply 19July 10, 2019 4:20 AM

^^Sorry. He married Amy Wright two hears after Geraldine Page died. But they were in a relationship before Geraldine died.

by Anonymousreply 20July 10, 2019 4:22 AM

Isn't Sissy Spacek his cousin?

by Anonymousreply 21July 10, 2019 4:30 AM

I thought he died a few years ago

by Anonymousreply 22July 10, 2019 4:55 AM

He was supposed to be an awful drunk and caused his nutty children no end of trouble with his boozy shenanigans...like trying to rob a bank!

by Anonymousreply 23July 10, 2019 4:59 AM

Someone on here posted they seen him at a convention recently and he was pretty out of it and needed a lot of assistance from his helper (maybe his son).

by Anonymousreply 24July 10, 2019 5:13 AM

His relationships with Geraldine Page and Amy Wright were concurrent - as stated above, he remained married to Page until her death, they never split. Page and Wright evidently got along fine and even starred onstage together.

by Anonymousreply 25July 10, 2019 5:15 AM

Didn't Whoopi Goldberg sue him over that flop film The Telephone in the late '80s because she hated the film?

by Anonymousreply 26July 10, 2019 5:31 AM

He had his first child with Wright while still married to Page. I remember Page was interviewed about it and her response was "He makes beautiful children".

by Anonymousreply 27July 10, 2019 5:43 AM

Doing the full frontal in The Man Who Fell to Earth, in which he beds students and one grabs his cock and talks to it, was really gutsy for the time and very unusual for an American actor. He brought real presence in character roles to loads of things.

by Anonymousreply 28July 10, 2019 5:55 AM

From the 80s onward he was simply the funny old man in the bad toupee, but in his days as one of the "angry young men" he was one of the better supporting actors.

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by Anonymousreply 29July 10, 2019 5:56 AM

I think he played the murderer in an episode of 'Columbo'.

by Anonymousreply 30July 10, 2019 5:58 AM

His mugshot was an inspired work.

by Anonymousreply 31July 10, 2019 6:00 AM

R23, he didn't try to rob a bank, he was found breaking into one a few doors down from his house in Connecticut. He thought he was in his own house. That's pretty damn drunk.

by Anonymousreply 32July 10, 2019 6:22 AM

R21 Yes.

by Anonymousreply 33July 10, 2019 6:24 AM

He's had to wait his whole life for people to be able to use his first name like this. Sad.

by Anonymousreply 34July 10, 2019 6:32 AM

[quote] He's had to wait his whole life for people to be able to use his first name like this.

The world still isn't ready for that.

Born Elmore Rual Torn, Jr

by Anonymousreply 35July 10, 2019 6:44 AM

His wedding must have been been announced as the Torn Page wedding.

by Anonymousreply 36July 10, 2019 8:45 AM

He was a fun actor.

by Anonymousreply 37July 10, 2019 9:18 AM

I literally saw him on TV last night and thought he was already dead.

by Anonymousreply 38July 10, 2019 9:53 AM

He may have been a good actor overall, but he appeared hammy in everything I've seen him in.

by Anonymousreply 39July 10, 2019 9:54 AM

One of my favorite actors, especially in his later career years.

by Anonymousreply 40July 10, 2019 9:56 AM

He was very funny in Freddy Got Fingered. There is a scene where he pulls his pants down to expose his arse checks and says something like "Go ahead, fuck your daddy" to Tom Green who played his son.

by Anonymousreply 41July 10, 2019 10:01 AM

[quote]Was a close friend from boyhood of actor Larry Blyden. As boys, friends would refer to the two as "Torn and Bleedin'," Bleiden being the original spelling of the latter's name.

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by Anonymousreply 42July 10, 2019 10:19 AM

His mother's maiden name was Spacek and she was Sissy's aunt.

by Anonymousreply 43July 10, 2019 10:31 AM

[quote]Someone on here posted they seen him at a convention recently

Oh, dear!

by Anonymousreply 44July 10, 2019 11:14 AM

R41 & R42 Freddy Got Fingered, Torn and Bleed’n-What are you trying to say? What type of a tribute is this??

by Anonymousreply 45July 10, 2019 11:42 AM

A delight on “Larry Sanders”, and as R30 noted, he matched wits with Columbo on “Death Hits the Jackpot”. His final scene with Peter Falk and conspirator Jamie Rose was a lot of fun.

by Anonymousreply 46July 10, 2019 11:54 AM

[quote]I literally saw him on TV last night and thought he was already dead.

As opposed to having seen him on TV metaphorically?

by Anonymousreply 47July 10, 2019 12:01 PM

Testing....

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by Anonymousreply 48July 10, 2019 2:37 PM

^ Was that from Columbo? Is she “Death”?

by Anonymousreply 49July 10, 2019 6:41 PM

From an obituary:

A memorable fight with Norman Mailer was immortalized on screen, as Torn improvised a scene in “Maidstone” by hitting Mailer, his director and costar, in the head with a hammer. Mailer retaliated by biting Torn’s ear. And Dennis Hopper repeatedly told a story of Torn being kicked out of “Easy Rider” for pulling a knife on him — though Torn vehemently denied that version of event, saying it was Hopper who pulled the knife. Torn eventually sued Hopper after he told the story on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” and Torn won.

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by Anonymousreply 50July 17, 2019 1:33 AM

More people should have hit Norman Mailer on the head with a hammer.

by Anonymousreply 51July 17, 2019 12:20 PM

Still love him in one of my favorite movies, Summer Rental. Watching him and John Candy drunkenly argue about who would win a fight between Jimmy Cagney and Sylvester Stallone still kills me to this day.

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by Anonymousreply 52July 18, 2019 12:44 PM
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