Treat Williams Is DEAD to Me!!

No! I loved him

Wow! Good actor. Handsome guy.

How sad. I just watched him in “The Ritz” just a couple of weeks ago. RIP.

Damn. See my post in the celebrity death pool asking which ones ride motorcycles. He was the sex in the creepy Laura Dern movie.

Had a crush on him when he was younger. Handsome and talented man.

Holy shit!

WTF is an old man doing on a motorcycle?

Manchester England Emgland

across the Atlantic sea.

Shocking!

The MAIN thing I remember him for was as Berger in HAIR (1979).

So sad to read this. I remember him from movies in the 80s - such a handsome man.

So talented!

Well it beats dying of cancer or dementia.

He was posting on Twitter only a few hours ago.

TMZ hasn't reported this one, yet.

That’s two Everwood cast members dead in a less than a month

His life looked idyllic in Vermont . So peaceful

Oh no! I met him a few times in the 80s. He and my dad were friends.

He was one of my longtime crushes😢

He blocked me on Twitter! I have no idea why . I’m still so sad about his death . So freakish

This sucks!!

Not only was he a hot piece in his day, he was super-active on social media in recent years and an amusing Trump/GOP critic.

Someone has to say it...he had a great ass but he couldn't live forever!

I wish he had stuck around to see Trump in prison.

Did anyone see the Lifetime movie where he played wife murderer Michael Peterson? The movie itself was so so but he was good in it

Has Viola Davis commented ?

Too soon, R23

....

Treat, dancing on the table in Hair.

Damn! Damn! Damn!

It sounds like the accident was out of his control. But what is a 71 year old doing riding a motorcycle anyway? It's an unnecessary way to lose your life at at age.

He had a hawt ass but he couldn't live foreveh.

Of course Treat got his own cover of After Dark.

October 1981.

I thought he made a good 'Stanley Kowalski' in the '80s TV remake of STREETCAR opposite Ann-Margret and Beverly D'Angelo.

Firs recall him as the bath house boy with the falsetto voice in The Ritz

R7 omg don’t be a Mary at a time like this.

There are quite a few 70 yr olds who do a lot of things that younger people do .

One of those guys who made me sit up and take notice when I was a kid figuring out I liked men. Very handsome. RIP

When will politicians find the courage to take down the murder industry of motorcycles.

The chances of a fatality in a motorcycle accident are approximately 30 times higher than in a car.

Motorcycle accidents have a staggering 80% injury or death rate, while car accidents remain around 20%.

Motorcycle riders over 40 are around 20 times more likely to be injured in the case of an accident than car drivers of the same age.

Even though motorcycles result in just 3% of all registered vehicles, they are accountable for over 5% of highway-related fatalities.

I'm pretty sure I jerked off to his naked ass in "Hair" when I was a teenager. He was cute AF in his youth.

A coworker that did hair for movies and TV and whenever it got picked up she got a full-time gig on that show. I also once told Scott wolf to shut up at a concert in Park City.

I saw him in Follies on Broadway. He was good as well as good-looking.

So young...

Oh no

I get him confused with Brad Davis, career wise.

He was beautiful.

Who would have thought Treat Williams would die before Wendy Williams?

Saw him in an off-Broadway revue of Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong in a theater in the west 20s NYC in the early 80s. He stood directly in front of me as he delivered a song. Penny Marshall and John McEnroe were in attendance. He had a mammoth role in one of Sidney Lumet's best films Prince of the City. Sad.

I hope that he and Charlotte Rae share another dance atop a table in heaven.

Bummer, waaay too young.

He was such a fine piece of ass back in the day.

Damn. Cute guy. Decent actor.

So sad. His naked butt in "Hair" was teen masturbatory stuff for me.

Very sad. No thanks to riding motorcycles. Death machines.

I knew him for a while back in the West Village days. He was a really nice guy but man, he did more coke than any other human being I've ever seen.

R53 Did you trick?

"... he was super-active on social media in recent years and an amusing Trump/GOP critic."

Well now we have a motive.

Motorcycles must be incredibly thrilling to ride to put up with that danger. I can see how people would get addicted

When I was 16, two boys in my HS got in motorcycle accidents which rendered them vegetables in perpetuity. I have only been on one in my life, and if I think about it for any time at all, I shiver inside. Most guys I knew in HS did not get motorcycles as a result. If it had just been one of them, it wouldn't have made as much of a difference. Two made it seem as if our town was cursed.

This happened near my friend Janice’s home in Vermont; here is her nearly 1st hand account:

Matthew (Janice’s friend) was at his auto shop. A client was dropping her car off and turned into Matt’s parking lot pulling in front of Treat Williams on his motorcycle.

Matt saw the whole thing. It was bad. Treat told Matt he was taking his sons motorcycle for a test drive. Matt called 911 and helped Treat as much as he could until the rescue squad came. He was air lifted out to the hospital.

Matt knew him. He had worked on his motorcycle before. Treat literally flew off the motorcycle — just because a customer was dropping off her car and turned in front of him.

He said it seemed like it took forever for the squad to get there

Treat was pretty broken up. His body flew through the air and landed hard.

He was slated to appear as the CBS CEO Bill Paley in "Feud: Capote's Women" later this year. I wonder if they had already finished shooting.

The driver was probably on her cell phone.

It reminds me of James Dean’s death, crashing into a car making a left turn

Known to have dabbled in the homosex during his Catholic U days.

He was conscious?

ABC report

I always remember seeing this movie at Blockbuster back in the day.

We watched Hair in my high school music class. The class started laughing and screaming when Treat showed his ass. The teacher told us to calm down because if you've seen one you've seen 'em all. Obviously the teacher wasn't a gay.

I will reserve comment until Susan Dey has her say.

Treat admitted that coke addiction derailed his career.

When I think of him, I always think of the Michelle Pfeiffer movie, The Deep End of the Ocean. It was one of those Lifetime-type movies that ended up in theaters back in the 90s. It was based on a good novel, but the movie didn’t turn out so well. It’s okay, Whoopi Goldberg is in it too. He plays the father.

I saw him in the '70s in the Grease tour. And Follies...and...Captains Courageous.

In 1998, Deep Rising was his chance to be a leading man and an action star, but the movie bombed. It did become a cult classic though, with a sizable following.

[quote] Had a crush on him

Yeah totally me too.

Do not ride a motocycle.

R58 Cause Of Death : Karen

He had ridden motorcycles for decades.

RIP

Until he didn’t

Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths- Rob Reiner and Willie Nelson

There are definitely older guys who love motorcycles. I had a friend whose father died in a motorcycle accident when he was in his 60s

Justine Bateman @JustineBateman Working with Treat Williams in Mamet’s “Speed the Plow” at Williamstown in ‘91 was the start of great friendship. Damn it, damn it. Treat, you were the best. Love you.

Ann-Margret is still riding motorcycles in her 80s.

Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce Treat Williams was a passionate, adventurous, creative man. In a short period of time, he quickly befriended me & his adventurous spirit was infectious. We worked on just 1 film together but occasionally connected over the years. Kind and generous with advice and support. RIP

James Woods @RealJamesWoods Treat and I spent months in Rome filming Once Upon a Time in America. It can be pretty lonely on the road during a long shoot, but his resilient good cheer and sense of humor was a Godsend. I really loved him and am devastated that he’s gone. #RIP #TreatWilliams

Stop helping, James

Kim Cattrall: 'I’m in shock! RIP Dear Treat. My condolences to Pam, Gilles, Ellie and the family. A wonderful actor and friend.'

Sharon Stone: 'Sad news rest in peace brother.'

Melissa Gilbert: 'This is not real. It can’t be. Oh, This one hurts. #rip #treatwilliams.'

I saw him on Broadway in the Pirates of Penzance. He had real charisma and talent.

Looking at his Broadway credits, I see he was also in Over Here! with The Andrews Sisters, which I did see, so I guess I saw him in that, but I have no recollection lol.

Beverly D'Angelo—who is tearing it up on Instagram herself these days—just posted emotionally on IG about their friendship dating back to Hair. They'd been in close touch all these years.

Mr. Williams died on Monday after an S.U.V. crashed into his motorcycle in Dorset, Vt., the Vermont State Police said in a statement.

The crash occurred in the late afternoon near the Vermont-New York State border.

The Vermont State Police said that a southbound S.U.V. attempting to turn left into a parking lot drove into the path of Mr. Williams’s northbound Honda motorcycle, adding that Mr. Williams was “unable to avoid a collision and was thrown from his motorcycle.”

Mr. Williams, who was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, suffered critical injuries and was pronounced dead at a medical center in Albany, N.Y., after being airlifted there, the state police said. The 35-year-old man whose vehicle hit Mr. Williams was not hospitalized.

R20, I hope he didn’t remember blocking you right before he lost control of the road. RIP Delicious Treat

his success wasn’t always assured. After a movie he starred in flopped in 1980 — the comedy “Why Would I Lie?” — Mr. Williams started flying planes for a company in Los Angeles.

“I’d done eight films, none of which had been successful,” he told The New York Times in 1981. “I felt so out of control. I wasn’t working with people I wanted to work with. I was very frustrated.”

Mr. Williams eventually came back to show business

Treat was also a pilot.

Hours before he died, Mr. Williams, who lived in Manchester Center, Vt., posted a photo on Twitter that he appeared to have taken from the seat of his lawn mower.

“Mowing today,” he wrote. “Wish I could bottle the scent.”

"Hair" is on PlutoTV's 70's movies channel as I type this.

His Twitter.

Made me sad, he was an excellent actor (despite me hating his Stanley Kowalski).

"I will reserve comment until Susan Dey has her say."

She's trying, but Debra Messing, Susan Sarandon and Alyssa Milano have the lines all tied up.

Enough w/the Susan Dey stuff. It’s not even funny, IMO.

He is in that new Feud series about Capote, hope he got his part filmed.

[quote]Mr. Williams died on Monday after an S.U.V. crashed into his motorcycle in Dorset, Vt.

What was he doing in DORSET, of all places?

I think the only thing it’s known for is that’s where Bill W. of AA fame was born and is buried.

[quote]Who would have thought Treat Williams would die before Wendy Williams?

Or before Keanu? Very upsetting.

Charlotte Rae was ready to eat him up at r27

Treat starred in one of my all-time favorite TV movies, "Bonds of Love." He played a mentally challenged man in a small town who falls in love with a woman who'd been around the block (Kelly McGillis). His brother was the law 'round those parts and wanted Treat at home watching cartoons and shit instead of fucking around with tramps. It's a camp classic chock full of horribly offensive quotes you can share with your friends.

Happy journeys, Treat.

R62 Sure, Jan. We always get those posts in the threads about hot guys. Always reminds me of when Fox News claims "some people say" before uttering bullshit, as if that makes it true.

I saw Mr. Williams on stage as Henry II, in "The Lion in Winter." He was fine/good and it was special seeing an actor with his fame acting in Stockbridge, MA. But like some other well-known actors I know from TV and movies, I never felt I was watching Henry, but Treat Williams acting as Henry.

Jayne Atkinson played Eleanor and for me she's more of a character actor, so I watched Eleanor and left behind Jayne's character from the TV show "24" - which was how I knew her as an actor.

The play and production were fine overall, but man I love the movie, didn't leave loving the play.

BTW - Dorset, VT where Treat lived is a beautiful area, near Manchester, VT which is a low-key, but very pricey get away for the rich.

And if you know the actor Dan Butler (Bulldog on the sitcom Frasier), he will be in the play Misery this summer in Dorset, VT. Butler and his husband have resided in the area for years.

He was so hot and so creepy in Smooth Talk.

R59/R99, he completed his role as Bill Paley in Capote and His Women back in March.

This is so sad. He was a fine actor, and seemed to be in-demand. That’s usually a good sign that he was a good person as well as a talented professional.

He was one of those actors who seemed to crop up in everything I watched during the nineties. I remember him especially fondly from starring alongside the gorgeous Billy Zane in The Phantom. I think the movie was a bomb, but I really liked it!

His death is shocking, but I’m glad that he seemed to have a happy life, right up until its swift end.

R89, The State Police statement makes no sense. The actual accident seems to have been when Vehicle A---the SUV---turned into the lane of the oncoming Vehicle B---the motorcycle.

IOW, it could not accurately be described as Vehicle A "crashed into" Vehicle B, which description is in the State Police statement TWICE.

Vehicle B slammed into Vehicle A. The motorcycle hit the SUV.

This was probably the site of the accident

I assume the southbound car simply didn’t see the northbound motorcycle and turned across the lane into the lot like it wasn’t there.

[quote]Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths- Rob Reiner and Willie Nelson

Well, George Clooney loves motorcycles!

[quote] WTF is an old man doing on a motorcycle?

They should just stick to riding bicycles.

R103 oh that one is a classic!! They would play it non stop in basic cable back in tbe 90s/early 2000s, one of the most gut busting unintentionally funny, quotable t.v movies of all time. It deserves a thread of it's own (Treat is quite good in it, but you know what some in Hollywood say about going full r___rd)

I wouldn't have minded sharing a one bedroom with him in New Orleans.

As proof of the toll exacted by booze and rage, compare Treat Williams to Alec Baldwin. Similar gorgeous looks when young, but 40 years later...

And Alec is 5 years younger.

I have no doubt Treat did not see himself as an old man riding a motorcycle.

I have sped around Rome with a friend on a vespa without a helmet and the high is exhilarating. Nothing bad can happen to you. Or so it feels.

I saw him when he was very young at The Circle in the Square in Once in a Lifetime. Went twice as it's my favorite Kaufman and Hart play.

By the way Anne Kaufman George's daughter is still alive. She must have met all the amazing greats of the American theater from the 20s on. She said it was normal to have George Gershwin playing your piano.

Treat’s career essentially was put on hold for several years while he struggled with cocaine addiction.

Elizabeth! take care!

I’ve always wondered what his part in The Empire Strikes Back was supposed to be. There’s pics of him with Carrie Fisher on the set. Maybe he just went to Norway to do blow together

I liked him in a lot of movies, especially Smooth Talk

He went to The Kent School and was on the football team. I think Ted Danson went there, too a few years ahead of him. He was a beauty. I think he'd been a semi regular on Blue Bloods, and was pals with Tom Selleck.

R115 - Alec Baldwin is twice the actor Treat was.

My commiserations to Venus and Serena on losing their dad.

Richard Gere: Hey, now you can stop complaining people mistake you for me.

You were a funny guy. RIP Mork.

Handsome guy. I always wondered why Mel Gibson made it big while he always hovered on the fringes of hitting big.

He always had a creepy vibe, though by all accounts was well liked. I wonder why that is.

[quote][R115] - Alec Baldwin is twice the actor Treat was.

Too bad he is a piece of shit.

I just enjoyed reading his Twitter thread; he seems like a real nice guy.

R129 = Ireland Basinger Baldwin

You ungrateful little pig, R131!

[quote][R129] = Ireland Basinger Baldwin

Sure, she's the ONLY person in the world who hates that man.

I got Playgirl for the articles.

Richard Treat Williams, December 1, 1951 – June 12, 2023

RIP

R110, That's what I think, too. And whoever likened the accident to James Dean's has it, also:

The driver of the larger vehicle, and in a driver's seat higher off the ground, simply DID NOT SEE the smaller oncoming vehicle with a driver sitting lower to the ground. The shapes did not register before the initial turning, and into the turn it was too late.

I hate those goddamn SUVs.

Hair - Let the Sunshine In

Treat Williams in one of the most moving and emotional songs from a movie ending ever...

Would he have had a bigger career had his name not been Treat?

Just asking............

He would have had a bigger career if he didn’t become addicted to cocaine.

^ Me too.

Sad, sad, sad...

James Brolin, soon to be 82, still rides motorcycles - sometimes with his wife Barbra, 81, on the back of the bike.

No more!

Griffin Dunne, Hart Brochner and Treat Williams.

All good looking talented actors that never quite made it big.

Bochner.

Sigh. Was he the victim of delusional thinking ('Gonna get on this awesome huge HAWG and RIIIIIIIIDE!) that comes with the male climacteric? So many old coots think they're the studs they may have been in their 20s and 30s and have no business riding motorcycles or 'slaying' a guitar on stage, or going after ridiculously too-young love interests because they still think they have it. In any case, regrettable.

I don’t think riding a motorcycle on those smooth, beautiful, nearly empty roads of Vermont is showing off.

R147 will age and that motherfucker better only sit in their recliner, eat frozen dinners and watch game shows!

He always seemed more catalog model than actor. His acting was fine, but his appearance never sold me in movies.

[quote]I saw him on Broadway in the Pirates of Penzance. He had real charisma and talent.

I saw him years ago in The Glass Menagerie at the Kenyon Festival Theatre, just after Paul Newman got behind the KFT program. The GM is not one of my favorite plays, but you could tell he was something special (if I recall, Amanda Plummer was Laura and she was just weird).

My brother rode motorcycles and ended up in traction for 6 months. Cars turning left in front of motorcycles because they don't see them is one of the most common causes of crashes.

Can you imagine being the lady who killed him?

Some are reporting a 35 year old male was the driver of the SUV.

He had a star turn in one of the better episodes of Law and Order SVU - he played a famous football player Ala Frank Gifford who keeps sleeping with under age girls but obviously has brain disorder from his years playing football - his wife was exasperated and so was his lawyer Andre Bragher. That episode seems to play once a week. He is very good as he gets increasingly confused on the stand. …. But he will always be Berger to me.

He was in Over There! and Grease on stage in his early 20's. He worked with Travolta before Travolta hit it big, and I mean he was 1000 times hotter.

I also loved him since my older brother and his friends took me to see "Hair." I know it is a flawed movie (big flop, IIRC), but it always gets me.

Treat and his fine ass on the left.

[quote]That’s two Everwood cast members dead in a less than a month

Who's the other one?

I saw him play Danny in Grease on Broadway. Dangerously sexy. Met him in the early 80's. Serious blow addiction that warped his personality at the time.

He's in here...somewhere.

I'm reminded from these posts that I saw Treat onstage several times, in OVER HERE!, ONCE IN A LIFETIME, a musical version of TREASURE ISLAND at Manhattan Theatre Club, SPEED THE PLOW at Williamstown and at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven as Tom in Glass Menagerie with Joanne Woodward. Strange (or sad?) that Paul Newman had seen his Tom a couple of times (Kenyon ^^^) but still cast John Malkovich as Tom in his film of the play.

I think Treat was a better film actor. Onstage he was rather forgettable.

EVERWOOD deaths...

Stephanie Niznik

John Beasley

Treat Williams

Gregory Smith's career

[quote] The driver of the larger vehicle, and in a driver's seat higher off the ground, simply DID NOT SEE the smaller oncoming vehicle with a driver sitting lower to the ground.

"Did not see" doesn't mean "wasn't visible." People on motorcycles and pedestrians are visible (unless there's a lighting issue). The problem is that people in cars are looking out for ... other cars.

As a car driver, I'm guilty of this, too. I'm looking out for other cars, not motorcyclists and pedestrians. I really have to remind myself to look out for everything.

threads above mentioned turns in regional theater .... Glass Menagerie and Lion in Winter.

Anybody else see him regionally over the years? Or know of shows he performed in?

thx

[quote]a musical version of TREASURE ISLAND at Manhattan Theatre Club

Oh dear.

R162 - I'm no fan of Malkovich but I think he was the best thing about that version of The Glass Menagerie. I AM a fan of Woodward but somehow her Amanda didn't work. Treat would have been as bland as Karen Allen as Laura.

[quote] I’ve always wondered what his part in The Empire Strikes Back was supposed to be

He was one of the background rebel soldiers at the ice base. Back then lots of celebrities were doing uncredited Star Wars cameos

FOLLIES

r166, oh thank you, you've just proved again how forgettable poor Treat could be onstage.

R164, NS, S.

Here's another comparison: President Biden just the other day tripped on a stage sandbag.

Was the sandbag "not visible"? No! Of course it was visible! But not noticeable if you are not expecting it to be there; not noticeable if you are thinking of your goal; and not noticeable, to reiterate, if the object is way below your line of vision.

[quote](if I recall, Amanda Plummer was Laura and she was just weird).

Amanda Plummer has been just weird in every role she has ever played.

Yes I saw her on stage in Agnes of God. At one point someone in the audience yelled out "Get thee to a nunnery!" We all cracked up and I think even Geraldine Page as the Mother Superior had a smile.

Treat Williams' cameo in The Empire Strikes Back is as one of the Rebel soldiers outside the Hoth base, waiting for the Empire to attack. It's just before the giant Imperial Walkers arrive.

Here's Treat and Carrie Fisher on the set, no doubt after snorting up a pile of blow.

Enjoyed watching him as Neal Caffrey’s father in White Collar.

Here's Treat and Mark Hamill on the ESB set. I like to think they went and sucked each other off right after this pic was taken.

It's only called a cameo if you're a star making a guest appearance. If you're a nobody it's called a bit part.

Whatever you call it, r177. Either meaning is pretty clear.

It wasn’t a lady R153

He was a low hangin man

Amanda Plummer was wonderful a very very long time ago in A Taste Of Honey.

R171 I have to disagree. If you watch the video again, you can see Biden was surrounded by people, including his security detail. I doubt even if he did look down to his side he would've even noticed the sandbag since so many people were standing around it and 'hiding it'. It's not like it was an open space and it was in his line of vision, but he just wasn't expecting it to be as close as it was. That stage was crowded with people.

Amanda Plummer in A TASTE OF HONEY - wasn't that her NY debut? At that point nobody realized she'd be giving the same eccentric performance in everything she did.

Man this one really bummed me out.....He was so mesmerising in Smooth Talk.....I felt like I had lost my virginity just by watching him in that movie...

anybody in the industry that could enlighten us as to why Treat's career came to a screeching halt in the 80s, please do so.

drug use is mentioned above.

[quote]drug use is mentioned above.

That's because it was due to his drug use, r185!!!

He had a hot ass and a huge cock but he couldn't live forever.

He breathed. He took up space. He was present.

Or something like that.

He hit me in the head with a fondue pot.

He made me wetter than the Amazon!

He died the same way that Lawrence Of Arabia did. They both died in a place named Dorset too. LoA in Dorset England and TW in Dorset Vt.

Good grief, r182, you practically say the same thing I did! I SAID he couldn't see it. I SAID it wasn't in his line of vision. I SAID he wasn't expecting it.

I'm ridin' with Biden 2024, so it's all cool! 😎

Has Crisp Rat said anything?

A 24 yr old rear ended our car on a clear beautiful afternoon in 2021. He was riding a hHarley so fast, weaving in and out of traffic, cutting cars off. He in us so hard, he came out of his shoes. He hit his head on a guard rail. His brains were all over the road.

He’s gone but I’ll never forget it, ever. I hate motorcycles

[quote] She said it was normal to have George Gershwin playing your piano.

Oh honey, that was a euphemism for oral sex.

Well this sucks. First Ray Liotta and now Treat Williams, and yet that drunken asswipe Alec Baldwin lives on.

Supposedly, he had a multi-year affair with Dana Delaney but they never married.

I wonder if the SUV driver went into shock.

He was blinded by the glare off Treat's sunnies.

[quote] Supposedly, he had a multi-year affair with Dana Delaney but they never married.

Dana truly has been a connoisseur of some of the biggest and/or finest cock in Hollywood.

Spilled so many teenage loads to him in THIRD DEGREE BURN.

Didn't a lot of his movies tank? He seemed to get good reviews, but he never played the 'celebrity' code like a Travolta.

I don't think the name "Treat" did him any favors in his career. With his gorgeous looks, he should have gone by the name "Trick" instead, and built up his gay following.

Treat was actually his middle name (Richard Treat Williams). Robert Treat Paine, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was an ancestor of his.

Treat for the eyes. Truth in advertising.

I think Prince of the City was supposed to make him a star but it was not the hit people were expecting. I got the feeling he was being groomed for Gere like stardom.

Ugly

A few summers ago a local motor cyclist was coming down the steep hill near my home, way too fast. A car making a left turn cut him off - he manager to swerve around it and not hit it, but ended up losing control and scraping several dozen feet down the metal guardrail to the right of the road. His helmet saved his life, but he still ended up with serious internal injuries and losing an arm.

The driver is employed by the local theatre playhouse, as is his husband.

Tom Selleck, who worked with Williams on Blue Bloods, wrote in a statement: “It has been said that we are all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly. My friend Treat was aptly named and occupied his chair so well. I will miss him but I will not forget him. Well done, my friend.”

R210 I bet Tom sampled those treats.

R209 - interesting. Imagine if the driver felt 'No I will not give way because I am NOT one of your fans!'

Was that chair a rim chair?

Treat appeared in a production of American Buffalo at the theater in 2017. He and the driver were most likely acquaintances. The driver must be devastated.

^ Treat is not feeling too good either.

I’m thinking Treat may be in a better place than the rest of us R215.

I assume the OP's photo was post mortem and before the embalming.

My memory is his first 3 big films were all lukewarm at the box office

Hair, 1941 and Prince of the City...

I think it was Prince of the City in which he was "discovered" to star. Has anyone ever seen it (I haven't)? It seemed to have everything going for it but was a huge bomb.

I saw it when it was released in 1981 with two high school friends. I was hot for Treat and that carried me through the long movie, but I remember one of my friends saying, "The only thing I got out of that was a sore ass." It was no "Dog Day Afternoon," but Treat was a prince.

Prince of the City is great film. It's one of my favorites and I think it's Lumet's best. Sad about Treat's death. If any good can come out of. tragedy, it may be that Treat's passing sparks a renewed interest in this film. I worked at the Fulron Opera House in Lancaster, PA where Treat's photos hung in the rehearsal studio. He attended Franklin and Marshall in Lancaster and his Broadway career took off soon after his graduation. He was particularly loved at the Fulton at that time (mid 70's).

[QUOTE] He was particularly loved at the Fulton at that time (mid 70's).

I can't imagine why...

R200, lol overcompensation for her gay desires

Pauline Kael wrote about Treat in Prince of the City.

He has a very closed face - the kind of opaque face that is like a brick wall in front of the camera. He plays each scene as an acting exercise - going through so much teary, spiritual agony that you want to throw something at him.

I wanted to throw my phone number at Treat, and a brick at Kael.

I hate you 2023!

R53 How distasteful of you to put him on blast now that he is deceased. So disrespectful to the family, the legacy, and his personal spirit.

R203 and R204 if he’d kept his given name he’d be just another actor called Richard Williams, so either his agent asked him to change or he had to choose something else to get his Equity card if there was already a Richard Williams with one.

This is why there are so many actors with three names - to make theirs unique.

R227 Hortense has entered the conversation.

Why are people like r227 still on Datalounge? Hon we ALWAYS want to know the dish on celebs, the good the bad and the ugly, at anytime.

Death threads are a key place for this, they draw out people who knew the deceased or at least know good unposted dish on them. I hope we hear more.

R230 He could tastefully disclosed he and Treat did coke together. But to infer that he did more coke than anyone else, was an insatiable coke addict, so addicted as to be defining characteristic is very very ghetto.

He did seem humorless

He was conscious after crash.

Treat Williams was “alert” and talking to paramedics before succumbing to his injuries from a motorcycle crash on Monday, a witness said.

“He was totally alert, answering questions,” Matt Rapphahn, the owner of Long Trail Auto, which is adjacent to the crash site in Dorset, Vermont., told the Daily Mail on Wednesday.

Rapphahn said he was standing right outside his shop when the accident occurred.

“I saw Treat go flying through the air,” he recalled, adding that the Everwood star was wearing a helmet. “The tire was still spinning.”

Williams was flown to Albany Medical Center in New York, where he was pronounced dead at the age of 71, reports Page Six.

The other driver has been identified as Ryan Koss, 35, who was driving his Honda Element SUV on Route 30 and was turning into the auto shop parking lot when he collided with Williams.

More from the paper that cannot be named.

[quote]r53 I knew him for a while back in the West Village days. He was a really nice guy but man, he did more coke than any other human being I've ever seen.

[quote]R227 How distasteful of you to put him on blast now that he is deceased. So disrespectful to the family, the legacy, and his personal spirit.

You think his family logs onto DataLounge?

I told you he was still awake after the crash…

R58

(But I did get the sex of the driver wrong, sorry.)

R240 - But not the gender preference.

So he knew Treat. I guess he's feeling not too great. Will he go to the funeral?

Maybe in sunglasses.

r231 Treat himself admitted several times in interviews that his heavy cocaine and drug use derailed his career in its early years. It wasn't exactly a secret, that he was a heavy drug user back in the day (as were many of his peers).

The scene in Hair where he openly urinates in front of Jon Savage possibly single handedly launched my watersports kink.

Treat Williams' Motorcycle Crash Witness Says Seeing Accident Was a 'Traumatic Experience'

Has Susan Dey commented yet?

Another let's make it all about me.

He was a better fuck than David Cassidy. RIP

R248 I thought you were gonna link to some celebrity making his death all about them …it’s his DAUGHTER, come on.

*RIP* Treat Williams, and thank you for the memories.

See something you like buddy?

Sounds like the guy in the SUV was at fault. He wasn't thinking when he made that left turn and wasn't looking carefully enough to see Treat riding towards him. Treat probably thought the guy would stop before he made the turn having the right of way.

r253, that was a similar issue to James Dean, except Dean was in a car instead of a motorcycle.

[quote] Treat Williams' Motorcycle Crash Witness Says Seeing Accident Was a 'Traumatic Experience'

But not nearly as traumatic as it was for Treat Williams.

His wife was Pam Van Sant. Is she related to Gus?

Taylor Kinney

“My thoughts and prayers are with Treat’s family," actor Taylor Kinney, who stars as Kelly Severide on NBC drama "Chicago Fire," wrote in a statement to People. Williams played Benny Severide, Kinney's TV dad, a firefighter who reentered his son's life after being largely absent. Williams was a regular in Season 2 of the show, helping his son with issues on the job and with family. Williams also made appearances in later seasons.

“[Williams] was a father figure to everyone on set," Kinney continued. "I’ll always relish our conversations and his uncanny ability to light up a room.

My dogs live for treats

[quote] [R230] He could tastefully disclosed he and Treat did coke together.

MARY.

R258 = Themis.

Obituary in local paper.

To the Rutland Herald and the obit writer/editor. Paragraphs are your and the reader's friend. Check them out sometime!

You can certainly feel the family's grief through that obituary because it is repetitive, like the writer could not yet let go.

Interestingly, they left the mention of Treat's career milestones to others.

Another star who I guess is not the next Christian prophet as he did not rise three days later.

R264 wins the coveted "WTHAYTA Post on DL" Award.

Laid to rest in Vermont on Tuesday.

*RIP*

Dana Delany broke her Twitter-silence yesterday

Dana D has some of the craziest fans of the crazy lesbian variety.

R268 I adore her. I wonder what SATC would have been like with her as Carrie.

R269 - Less improbable?

Seems she is RL friends with Kim Cattrall, so maybe less toxic

[Quote] Sigh. Was he the victim of delusional thinking ('Gonna get on this awesome huge HAWG and RIIIIIIIIDE!) that comes with the male climacteric? So many old coots think they're the studs they may have been in their 20s and 30s and have no business riding motorcycles or 'slaying' a guitar on stage, or going after ridiculously too-young love interests because they still think they have it. In any case, regrettable.

He was the victim of a driver. It happens to people of all ages. Cyclists and pedestrians as well

I went to dinner with him several times and when the check came … well let’s just say he didn’t live up to his name.

He had an "old guys rule" moment...thought he could handle a motorcycle...ended in tears.

You were there, were you, R274? Or did someone tell you that he admitted to that before he died?

The SUV turned IN FRONT OF HIM.

What about "unavoidable crash" do you ranters about his age, the "male climacteric," and "old coots" NOT UNDERSTAND??

Just from current photos I totally see him on a motorcycle. I mean he wasn't George Burns who I couldn't see on a motorcycle at 30.

Prince of the City had some sleeper potential when it was 1st released because it had its supporters.

I tried to watch it last year for the 1st time and, erm, it seems pretty dated. Looks like a tv movie. Treat is not wholly convincing as a...tough guy cop or whatever he was supposed to be. He didn't quite anchor the film.

But he was great in other things, like Hair. And a total DILF. Well, not anymore.

RIP TREAT

[Quote] ('Gonna get on this awesome huge HAWG and RIIIIIIIIDE!) that comes with the male climacteric?

sounds like R147 could use something throbbing between his legs

R137 Teen killed at bus stop by 29-year-old who fell asleep at the wheel.

(^.^) R147

R147 Don't judge all 'old' people by the leader of the free world

R280, I doubt if r137 is implying in the least that he is somehow bizarrely unaware of "normal car" accidents. His single declaration stands by itself.

In any case, your offering but one example is hardly anything worth a "Just sayin'."

People kill R283 not SUVs

R284 Sure, but what about self-driving Teslas?

SUVs are shit. They're huge and block vision. I don't care how many you own.

Did you even bother to read the article R285?

"The number of deaths involving automated vehicles is small compared with the overall number of traffic deaths in the U.S. Nearly 43,000 people were killed on U.S. roads last year, the highest number in 16 years, after Americans returned to the roads as the pandemic eased. Authorities blamed reckless behavior such as speeding and driving while impaired by drugs or alcohol for much of the increase."

I would legit fuck is corpse!

At least he died living to the fullest instead of spending the rest if his life in a nursing home.

Are those the only choices, Dear?

The anniversary plans must go on.

Wow...is it just me? Or does young Pam Van Zant resemble young Dana Delany at first glance?

Treat Williams’ Wife Honors Late Everwood Actor in Anniversary Message After His Death

Yeah, what of it, r291? Now all she can do is celebrate a memory. Be a little generous.

Why was he hanging out with that right wing asshole Tom Selleck?

[Quote] Sigh. Was he the victim of delusional thinking

Not exactly R147

Driver charged with negligence in crash that killed Treat Williams The driver, Ryan Koss, 35, of Dorset, was issued a citation Tuesday evening for grossly negligent operation causing death, state police said. He was released and ordered to appear in court in September to be formally charged.

Tom gives magnificent head.

Tom worked his way through the entire male cast of the original "Cats" before deciding to marry one of the female kitties.

I saw Treat a couple of times at the NYCB. I was surprised he was a Balanchine fan. This was a long time ago when they mostly did Mr. B.

I have a crush on the gay who killed Treat Williams.

R300 People here can be such idiots.

For anyone not reading the entire thread, that driver is gay.

You can't tell that from a photo R302. In Vermont everyone looks gay.

At his prime I would have tricked with Treat, he wasn't no fun sized.

R300, It must be tough living with the guilt of having killed someone you knew.

R305 It's actually not a big deal.

R305 . . .

I killed my friend, so therefore, no biggie......

Remember to always tip your escorts handsomely.

Dorset Theatre Festival creative director Ryan Koss pleads not guilty to gross negligence while driving charges.

R310, You mean, Treat Williams was killed by a fag?

From R310’s article:

“According to a police affidavit, witnesses told police that William's motorcycle hit the vehicle and he was ejected. Williams, who was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, hit the windshield of the Honda Element and then flew off, landing on the pavement with severe injuries. He was treated at the scene and then removed to the Manchester Fire Department, where he was airlifted to Albany Medical Center. Williams succumbed to his injuries shortly before 7 p.m.”

R312, Honda Element

Who the hell can see clearly anyone around them in one of those behemoths let alone a man on a motorcycle. And how does some podunk festival theater director afford and maintain such an expensive monstrosity. A rich boyfriend, family or he's using festival funds.

R314, Production was discontinued in 2011.

“Why was Honda Element discontinued?

But after an initial sales surge, the Element aged quickly, analysts said. “The Element was never significantly updated in its nine-year history, so it couldn't stand the competition from Scion xB, Kia Soul, Nissan Cube and others,” said Michelle Krebs, an analyst with Edmunds.com, the auto information company.“

[R. 168] including Princes Harry and William! Here’s a list of the celebrities who filmed cameos for Star Wars stormtroopers —some were cut—like the Royals….

this is sad