Lenny Baker

I must have missed the "juicy" part, OP.

Yeah OP, I seriously question your understanding of juice.

Go to the "Death" section.

THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM, YOU PIG. Because he may have had AIDS is "juicy"? Kill yourself, you vulgar garbage person!!

Well, I see no need for you to kill yourself, but a good spanking seems in order.

OP's wit extends to repeatedly posting "Caftans. Earrings" in multiple threads. That's the sum of it.

Troll adjacent, but in fact, just a stupid twat.

Damn, check out him and James Naughton here.

David Ehrenstein claimed Lenny died from AIDS (back when David posted here)

Note that that's Joanna Gleeson, the Baker's Wife and Monty Halls Daughter and the Mom from Mr. Belvedere in bed with Baker and Naughton.

Lenny is a great name.

r10 = B. Cooper

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It is weird to realize that there was once a successful musical about two couples in Trenton contemplating a foursome.

Ah, the Seventies.

Lenny was a fantastic actor. If you have not seen Next Stop, Greenwich Village, I urge you to seek it out. It's a terrific film with a great performance from Lenny, but also a magnificent cast full of up and comers in very early roles such as Ellen Greene, Christopher Walken, Antonio Fargas, and Jeff Goldblum. Not to mention a delightful turn from Shelley Winters as Baker's mother.

I found the death part to be quite interesting, and to this day there are people who swear Lenny died of an AIDS-related cancer. I think for Lenny, it was much too early in the disease for anyone to really be able to point to a specific cause. He did have cancer in the late 70s, and he was still suffering from it when he went underground in 1980. He was also bisexual, and there are those who claim he never had sex with men.

In the end, it doesn't really matter. Whatever the cause of his death, it cut a life and a terrific career short. We were deprived of many more years of great performances from Lenny.

First thing that I noticed was David E's name. Miss that guy.

More importantly, whatever happened to Ilene Graff, what a talent!

One of the things that surprised me after the AIDS crisis in the USA became less pronounced was how little you heard about men like Baker who (likely) died from it. So many talented and exceptional men in the arts died in the 80s, and we rarely seem to hear about many of them now. It makes me sad.

Lifelong bachelor = Not the marrying kind

Here he is in a 1979 Taxi. He looks thin but still has a voice.

Thanks for the laughs during my daily blocked poster review. Stalking is never good look, so it's especially delicious when people fall for that trap.

Really appreciate your response, R14.

Wow skin and bones.

I love him in the Star Wars movies!

Thanks R14 -- Next Stop, Greenwich Village is indeed a wonderful film with too small an audience. Mazursky really caught the mood of the time and place. I wasn't there, of course, but it seems somewhat magical and realistic at the same time.