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George C. Scott Dead at 71
ozzie writes "George C. Scott, the actor we all know and love from such unbelievably great movies as Dr. Strangelove and Patton died yesterday at the age of 71. Check out ABCNews for more. " Given the current poll, this seems strangely connected - in any case, I remember his role in Dr. Strangelove with fondness. If you haven't seen that classic, rent it tonight.
local news said that the l.a. county coroner's office is holding onto the results of the autopsy...can anyone tell me why ?? anyone know anything further???
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Aint-It-Cool-News has some comments on G.C. Scott.
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I borrowed Dr. Strangelove from the library last night.
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...then you missed the f****** boat, have a nice swim, and check out some of his movies.
"stereotypical nerds/geeks" tend to be classified as such, because of our tendency to appreciate, (among other things which don't score touchdowns or chicks) quality, intellect, artistic talent, and other things . Add to that, the small fact that George C. Scott kicks ass, and there's no wonder why.
GC Scott was definitely quality. If no one has yet mentioned Excorcist III, I have done so now. He and Jack Lemmon almost turned the movie into a comedy.
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I always thought Sam the Eagle was based on Sam Donaldson (check out the eyebrows!)
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My condolences to the family of Mr. Scott.
I may be a bit offtopic or out of line when I say that I hope this doesn't skew the results of the current /. poll. Sympathy votes and poor rationale has pushed several unqualified people to the top of the polls, especially in Minnesota, where I live. Write in Dr. Nick Riviera!
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I am going to watch Dr. Strangelove tonight in his memory...
/. a jinx! hey maybe /. should do a poll of which bill we like the most. bill gates bill clinton bill cosby bill roach buffalo bill
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I'm a youngster.. so who the heck was he? I gather that he's an actor and he did 2 movies.. did he ever do any current movies? anything in the last 18 years?
On a similar note, what's the name of the actor who played the air force pilot in Dr. Stranglove? The one that ends up sitting on top of his plane's H-bomb.
That's Slim Pickens.
"Nookler combat toe-to-toe with the Rooskies!"
All joking aside, engineers tend to be a very well-educated group, interested in a lot more than technical stuff. Find a group of CSE majors and count how many are involved with creating music. I'll bet it's over half.
Then ask them about novels, movies, opera, art, Plato and Aristotle. You'll find out they know a lot more than what happened in the latest SciFi media.
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Yeah. Sterling Hayden played the wacko General Jack T. Ripper.. And Slim Pickens played the Pilot, (something) 'King' Kong. Though the film's most notable performance comes from Peter Sellers (and his identical siblings Peter Sellers and Peter Sellers ;), George C. Scott is fabulous as the rambunctious and irrepressible Turgidson.
"We cannot allow a Mineshaft gap!"
Dr. Strangelove is one of my favorite films, as well as one of the few tolerable-quality Kubrick DVDs.
Mr Scott, I'll miss you, you magnificent bastard..
"...Rent it tonight..." Geez... the /. effect unleashed on movie rental stores. That's almost cruel.
... not since the invention of the VCR.
Scott played the leading role in They Might Be Giants, the film that named the band. He was also great as the effete critic in Mankievicz's All About Eve. Look for them and rent them!
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Does anyone remember that one? GCS played a mental patinet who thought he was Sherlock Holmes? A great little film!
Kinda of ironic filmorgraphy if you ask me, one glorifies the makers of war, while the other mocks them.
Could someone tell me how in any way the sterotypical "nerd" or "geek" would like these movies? This is not ment as a flame just curiously. Basically they are rather political in nature and not related to technology or even sci-fi.
Slashdot social engineering at it's finest
George C. Scott always came across, to me, as an eccentric, but that was never really a bad thing. His roles were always powerful, and always left a good taste in the mouth. Even his "bad guy" characters were likable, deep down. He'll certainly be missed. And first post, btw.
Personally, George C. Scott holds a special place in my heart because he is in two of my favorite movies of all time: Dr. Stangelove and Patton. While he was definately a character actor, I think that George C. Scott plays the powerful person who has a fatal weakness like no other. He had the ability to present a character that could otherwise be dissmissed as a typical arrogant bastard with a skill that I think is still unmatched.
I have been reading past interviews with him this morning and it is very refreshing to see how humble he was. Check out here for a very good bit on his life. It was done before he died.
Come play Heroes of Might and Magic Mini online.
When this movie first came out, the Air Force was able to put enough pressure on the production company to include the warning message at the beginning. Even so, the movie disturbed enough people to force a change in the chain of command, so that only the President could authorize a launch of a nuclear weapon.
A movie changed a very major part of the military and federal beauracracies. Never understimate the power of movies.
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If you haven't seen it, take a look at the flim flam man with G. C. Scott. An enjoyable two hours, with the famous line, "You can't cheat an honest man."
If nobody has ever seen it, A&E's biography of him is superb. I'll bet a dollar it will be on either tonight or as their Biography of the week this weekend. If you can, check it out. It really delves (my new word for the day, probably mispelled it) into his personality and private life.
Matt
George C. Scott refused the Acadamy Award twice: once when he was nominated around 1960(?) and the other time when he actually won for his role in Patton. He would rather watch a hockey game than be a part of an ego inflating "popularity contest."
My kind of actor! He knew he was good, but did not need to play to the Hollywood media blitz. I will miss him.
Romanes eunt domus? People called Romanes, they go the 'ouse? It says Romans go home. No it doesn't. What's Latin fo
Scott played Gen Buck Turgidson, pentagon advisor in the War Room scenes. The general at the Air Force base was Gen Jack D Ripper (heh), played by Sterling Hayden. Slim Pickens (heh -- real name?) played Maj T. J. "King" Kong, the B-52 pilot. (It's also worth noting that James Earl Jones was the plane's radio operator. This must have been one of his first roles, he looked quite young here.) See IMDB's Dr Strangelove page for more information.
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Hmmm. So I guess George was an actor because of his love for the craft. Not for any secondary remunerations. Sounds like a lot of people in the Technology industry who have helped us get where we are now today. Especially the folks whose collective works and ideologies would fall broadly under the Open Source movement.
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A truly great performer, he will be missed. I think I'll rent Hardcore tonight and tip a beer or two to George.
He was a really good guy.
Just FYI for those who haven't seen Dr Strangelove enuf times (its never enuf right?)
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Peter Sellers played 3 roles:
Dr. Strangelove
Mr. Merkin Muffley (The President)
and Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (the brit who was with "the bodily fluids guy"
BUT he was also cast for the part of the rodeo pilot (the bomb rider)... well Kubrick filmed a few days worth with him in that role and decided he din't like him there and decided to use Slim Pickens instead.... a wise decision me thinks.
The movie is incredibly deep (and funny on the surface).... come up with your own theories as to what the "nazi mechanical hand" means... the one that keeps attacking dr strangelove and his wheel chair.
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Sorry to see him go. Patton kicked ass.
George C. Scott - Man Gets Hit By Football. "Arghhhh! My groin!"
He also gave the best rendition of Ebenezer Scrooge I've ever seen, in the television adaptation of Dickens' _A Christmas Carol_ (well worth seeing around the holidays). Scott was extremely talented and his tremendous stage presence will be missed. :-(
His completely kick-@$$ role in 'Exorcist III'
Wasn't he currently in the middle of some stage show on broadway or something?
Blech. Signatures.
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Anyone know anything more about this?
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My mom's going to kick you in the face!
RIP, Mr. Scott. Thanks for some wonderful acting. Dr. Strangelove has brought many a smile to my face over the years, and will continue to do so for many years to come.
I (like many others) voted for this paragon of well-intentioned evil as the most powerful doctor ever. With the aid of George C. Scott's character (whose name I forget), he... ...Oh, that might spoil it for you. ;) Well, if you've seen the movie, you know what I mean. If not, go see it. Dr. Evil will seem like the pale parody he was always meant to be. ;) -c.
George C. Scott has started some kind of a cross-story thread here on /., or maybe I've just been reading too many comments ;).
Hmmm, first there's the mention of Dr. Strangelove, then the Transmeta story, where someone proposed they were building a "doomsday machine", and then out of the blue, this guy dies!
What's next? Are we going to find out that GSC has been seeding Transmeta with VC money, too?
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You still forgot Dr. Who in the current poll, don't try to gloss over that error!
Odd subject? yes, but relevant for me.
This past year as I enjoyed my last year of HS, I had the honor of being in a physics class with a teacher who was genuinely insane (Mr. Clark, you out there?) Anyways, he showed us movies whenever he was bored of our idiocity (by his own words I believe).
So, it is because of him that I got to witness Dr. Strangelove, and I must say, Kubrick made a great movie, and G. C. Scott did a great job.
It's sad to hear he's gone, even though I never knew him...
Who would you most like to see George C. slap in the face?
support gun control: take guns from cops
His precise quote on the Academy Awards was that they were "offensive, barbarous and innately corrupt."
OT: does anyone besides me think that the Muppet character Sam the Eagle was based on him?
spawn_of_yog_sothoth
If you're looking for further info on what this great actor did, visit his entry on the Internet Movie DataBase.
My personal favorite is only slightly obscure. It was his portrayal of a bitter old man in 12 Angry Men, a film (based on a play) which follows the deliberation of a jury in a murder trial. Very emotional, and given the content, suprisingly non-preachy.
What Blockbuster really needs is a twenny-tun nookler duvice fused for airburst at ten thousand feet.
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Damn, I wondered if anyone else remembered this one. Definitely a `B' movie, but also a terrific role for Scott. All the media reports so far have missed this movie in their lists of performances.
The whole rant about "usurping our precious bodily fluids!".
Not to mention that the subject line "G.C. Scott: The Voice of Drugs" would make a great name for a band.
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General "Buck" Turgidson (Scott): Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless *distinguishable*, postwar environments: one where you got twenty million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people killed.
President Merkin Muffley (Sellers): You're talking about mass murder, General, not war!
General "Buck" Turgidson (Scott): Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.
...and all around human being. His roles were played magnificently in every case.
And a great legacy of films to enjoy.
I have to admit I'm a little peeved looking at some of the posts people are making.
Dr. Strangelove is "not nerdy"? "Patton" glorified war?
It must be sad to be so ignorant. First off, GCS played a variey of roles from romantic, to comedic to dramatic. He was a great actor, and I'm sure he pored over those scripts reading lines and praticing his art. Sounds somewhat nerdy.
Second, Kubrick was *eccentric* to say the least. His movie "Dr. Strangelove" was full of spoofs of technology. And the actors! Peter Sellers, GCS, Slim Pickens? All doing fantastic roles...once again, that kind of concentrated effort and eccentricity spells "nerd" to me.
Patton? a glorification of war? Many parts of the movie show how ugly war is. Few people would want "war" after seeing it, but I bet a lot of men would like to be Patton. It's a biography of a man who truly thought he was a reincarnated leader of men. A *biography*, and a fairly accurate one.
Besides, sometimes war is necessary. Like when another country wants to destroy yours and take what you have. Ghandi's pacifism doesn't seem to be working so well in India right now. When the shit hits the fan, give us Patton, or someone like him, to lead the troops. Not for the glory, but for the win.
George C. Scott also did the best portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge since Alister Sinn. It was made for TV several years ago, but it is also available on video.
:::sigh::: I feel as though my own grandfather has died.
I am shocked by the departure of this great craftsman. We were just talking about him in my community theater group, relishing memories of his superb performances.
"It is never to late to be what you might have become."
IIRC, it was Slim Pickens who rode the bomb at the end.
Yes, definitely a brilliant piece of Black Comedy. Peter Sellers also had a great role in that movie. That, and Atomic Cafe are two really well done, introspective pieces on that era... It seems Scott was very good at playing Generals, eh? George C. Scott was a good actor in the time that it meant something in Hollywood. Not that Keanu Reeves or Sarah Michelle Geller need to have teeth removed to become better actors, but the narrative between director/actors/audience seems to have diminished to the point of mere visual effect. Watch Dr. Stranglove several times and you glimpse a little more each pass. Watch The latest "Big" Movie several times and you get a headache. We all mourn the loss of a great actor...
He's Dead Jim!
It's the flourinated water dammit! That movie made some good points.
You're thinking of the wrong character. That was Sterling Hayden (General Jack D. Ripper), not George C. Scott (General "Buck" Turgidson). Scott was the general who is sleeping with his secretary at the begining of the movie.
Though I don't understand why it's posted on slashdot, this is a significant loss to the entertainment community... one of the significant members of a different era of filmmaking has passed. It is big news, IMO. But, why is it on slashdot? Especially after the big argument about how slashdot is purely technical which was why the statement on the Taiwan quake didn't really focus on the *people* it killed...
about another recently departed motion pictrure maker...
"Stanley (Kubrick) was a genius," he said, chuckling, "but he was as crazy as a shithouse mouse."
hmm..
I used to watch Patton (the first scene, in front of the flag) with my football team before games, quite inspirational, that.
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Another good bit that he was in recently was an HBO remake of the 12 Angry Men. He played the angry man who wasn't on speaking terms with his son. As always, he did a damn fine job in that. Jack Lemmon was playing the man with the knife... seeing them together was absolutely awesome. Proof that his talent did not diminish with age. If any of you fans missed that one, get it... you won't be disappointed.
I have to agree with the fella above who liked him in A Christmas Carol - he was brilliant.
And I have never seen Dr. Strangelove... something that I plan to fix very soon after seeing it spoken so well of.
Cheers
Hell is being intelligent in a world full of idiots.
His facial expressions and gestures are even better than his quotes in Strangelove. Watch the movie and just pay close attention to those. It'll leave you in tears. It's even funnier than any of the three Sellers characters or Slim Pickins' plane ride.
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Strangelove's brief apperance was pretty good tho
Fun fact about the movie: The plane captain was going to be a fourth Sellers role, but he was unsure about the Texan accent, so they used Slim Pickins instead. And, when the movie was being filmed, Kubrick didn't tell Pickins that the movie was a comedy. He thought he was the hero.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww.....
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will have additional poignancy this year. Of all the ACC versions that I've seen it was the best. Possibly because it stuck pretty closely to the book.
My other favorite was They Might Be Giants. Neither film got the attention they deserved.
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Another great quote I forgot to mention is from the movie "The Exorcist III" (A surprisingly great horror flick, specially considering how bad "The Exorcist II" was). George C. Scott plays the detective going after a serial killer.
In one scene, he is meeting his childhood friend (now a priest) for a movie, and while in the lobby, the priest asks the detective why he just doesn't go home, and the detective says in typical George C. Scott quiet yet authoritively(sp?) angry fashion:
"My wife's mother is visiting, Father, and Tuesday she's cooking us a carp. It's a tasty fish, I'm not against it. But because it's supposedly filled with impurities, Mary's mother buys it alive, and for three days now it's been swimming in my bathtub. Up and down. Cleaning out the impurities. And I hate it. I can't stand the sight of it moving it's gills. Now, you're standing very close to me, Father. Have you noticed? Yes. I haven't had a bath in days. So I never go home until the carp is asleep. I'm afraid that if I see it while it's swimming, I'll kill it."
He didn't want to be Scrooge, but aced it anyway. "I played him as the lonliest man in the world." he said, and managed to go through an entire spectrum of emotion in two hours. From his solitary Christmas eve meal (of Scotch oatmeal, very much in period) to cowering in fear at the thought of his own demise, to hoisting Tiny Tim aloft in wild manic glee, he made you BELIEVE the story, so much so that I kept saying "This is modern. This is not Dickens at all. The scriptwriters must have tossed this or that in for TV." Nope. I wanted to break my own nose. And I'm a girl.
teleny, friend of cats.
Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by makingthe other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big league ball player, the toughest boxer.
Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.
Now, an Army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Saturday Evening Post don't know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating.
We have the finest food and equipment, the best spirit and the best men in the world. You know, by God I actually pity those poor bastards we're going up against. By God, I do. We're not just going to shoot the bastards, we're going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun bastards by the bushel.
Now, some of you boys, I know, are wondering whether or not you'll chicken out under fire. Don't worry about it. I can assure you that you will all do your duty. The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood. Shoot them in the belly. When you put your hand into a bunch of goo that a moment before was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do.
Now there's another thing I want you to remember. I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We're going to hold onto him by the nose and we're going to kick him in the ass. We're going to kick the hell out of him all the time and we're gonna go through him like crap through a goose.
There's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home. And you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what did you do in the great World War II, you won't have to say, "Well, I
shoveled shit in Louisiana."
Alright now, you sons-of-bitches, you know how I feel. Oh, and I will be proud to lead you wonderful guys into battle - anytime, anywhere.
That's all.
Fine. Don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out. Looser.
General Patton's "Taps" They Might Be Giants. He was. George C. Scott bows out. Actor, director "East Side, West Side", stage and screen "They'll see the big board! Refused that Oscar. "All glory is fleeting," but Legacy remains. - Lawrence Person lawrence@bga.com
Here is a link to the IMDB info page on Mr. Scott. I think it is safe to say that he will be greatly missed. It's just too bad that in recent years he has mostly been in TV guest appearances.
To quote his character from Dr. Strangelove... "Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines." Well, now you don't need one. :-(
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
Even if they did how hard is it to kill a 71 year old man? If he is scared enough statistically speaking he would die of a heart attack before the goons even layed a finger on him.
Slashdot social engineering at it's finest
Time to dig out the Dr. Strangelove DVD and watch it tonight. What a great character!
Between that and his role in "Patton", we should all remember him with fondness.
That, and he was the first person to refuse a major award, calling the Oscar a "Self serving meat parade", according to NPR this morning.
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He won best actor for "Patton", didn't even
come to the ceremony. That's cool.
Just wonder how realistic that movie is?
He played a cool con man in "The Flim Flam Man".
But yeah, Dr. Strangelove is a fine movie.
"Where is Major Kong?"
"you are going to have to answer to the Coca
Cola company"
If you want a true glimpse into the mind of a madman, go rent Exorcist III instead. It has some of the most bizarre acting on his part.
He has a lot of good scenes involving screaming things at people that have no business being screamed. It's a whole lot of fun.
If you happent to be in New York, wait until December and watch the amazing new 35mm print at Film Forum, running from late December through early January (in a typically Film Forum-ish nod to Y2K). Strangelove is worth seeing projected.
And to think I voted for some other Dr.
I'd like to point out that George C. Scott also supplied the "Voice of Drugs" in _Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue_, a Bush-era special in which every Sat morning cartoon character in the world vies against Mr. Scott's character for the soul of a 12 year old boy whose friends want him to try crack.
It's great, especially since you can tell that the cartoonists resented their assigment. They compensate with a few background gags.
Cnn website is saying the coroner's report says he died of natural causes. Man that sentence has some bad grammar.
Quote from article:
He died of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
Rest well Patton, you deserve it.
Matt
Um, it also says "Stuff that matters." George C. Scott influenced the lives of many Slashdotters including myself. I consider his death stuff that matters Anonymous Coward.
Matt
Rent them all...
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It is definately sad to see the Doc go.
Sosumi. just kidding. DONT!
Thanks for the quote. I needed to read it again.
Matt
It was a movie about a fat kid that wanted to go out with the most popular chic in school. G.C.S played the grandfather in the movie. The soundtrack to the movie was mostly music by Green Day.
Favorite GCS Quote from the movie:
Screw Em.......Who gives a damn about what anyone else thinks.
... now this is sad. Patton was one of my favorite movies, I don't know how many times I saw it. Well, I'd always thought Patten was the best US WWII general.. but still. Dr. Stranglove was good too, and I can't imagine anyone else pulling of that part as well.
This is quite depressing...
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Maybe AC first post and all that followup are auto-magically ranked at (-1: troll). We'll see if the same happens to me.
_Finding The Way Home_, also known as _Mittleman's Hardware_, filmed in Denton, Texas. Almost as good as _Necessary Roughness_. Took forever to come out and was a TV movie. Whee!
Priest: "I saw a bible by your bedside, do you find time to read it?"
Patton: "Every god damn day" =]
Patton: "Rommell! you magnificent bastard... I READ YOUR BOOK!"
GSC as the general in Dr Strangelove: "You can't let him in here... he'll.... he'll see the big board!"
when he and the ambasador from russia are fighting,
President: "Gentlemen.. you can't fight in the war room!" hehe oh the irony
And the whole scene about the bombers flyin' in low, "if the pilot is real good" =] heh oh my
argh I know I'm forgetting some REAL good ones... lets make this a quote thread =]
Patton: "My soul thirsth for thee",
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How ironic that I ordered the Dr. Strangelove DVD just a few days ago. I hope it comes here soon.
Besides Strangelove, if you haven't seen him in Patton you're missing out. He becomes the character of Patton so completely and so believably that it is hard to imagine that there was a General Patton who WASN'T George C. Scott.
Doug
"But Mr. President, the war room? He'll see the big board!" -- George C. Scott in Dr. Strangelove
Venn ist das nurnstuck git und Slotermeyer? Ya! Beigerhund das oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
Even though I really liked Patton and Dr. SL, I've come to think that my personal fav is his reprise of Scrooge in a remake of A Christmas Carol. *Shug* dunno why, but I find his Scrooge the most convincing.
NPR replayed an interview they had with him from a couple of years ago. It's was pretty good. It seems he was somewhat of a recluse, and George responded:
"I don't like to go anywhere. I don't like to see anyone. Hell, the only fella more reclusive than me is Charley Bronson. We're neighbors and we never see each other."
The above roughly paraphrased. GCS will be missed.
"shop smart:shop s-mart" ash
The Yahoo / Reuters news piece notes that he twice turned down awards -- first a best actor Oscar for Patton, then an Emmy the next year for an Arthur Miller play. Turned them down on grounds that "he did not feel it was right to compete with other actors."
I can't speak for anyone else, but I admire that. Would any of today's actors do that? I doubt it.
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Was he the lunatic American camp commander with the thing about flouridisation? That was a great role, and played hilariously.
On a similar note, what's the name of the actor who played the air force pilot in Dr. Stranglove? The one that ends up sitting on top of his plane's H-bomb. I've seen him in loads of films playing tobacco chewing Louisianans (at least I guess that's what his accent was).
Chris Wareham
George C. Scott, always, liked many, many, commas. They, gave him, pause for, thought. However.
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CNN reports:
Veteran actor George C. Scott died of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, the Ventura County Coroner's office said Thursday.
The rest was just a rehash of the Associated Press article... I'm damn sad to see him go.
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For those who are realaudio-enabled, NPR had a really cool obit this afternoon, available here. They got some of my favorite bits, but they left out one of my personal favorites, Day of the Dolphin (okay, the movie's not that great, but Scott sure as hell is...)
Anyway, the best part of the piece is when Rex Reed is quoted as calling George C. Scott "the meanest Richard III ever seen by human eyes".
I don't doubt it a bit...
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give it up for our home GSC, till I join 'ya
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How can you give priority to Strangelove? (I might have seen that movie, but I don't remember)
Did the slashdot poll kill him?
There was a mid-eighties British band that lifted their name from the film All ABout Eve. Unfortunately they went from being an exciting live band to a dismal studio band - something to do with signing to a major label with big ideas on what they should sound like ...
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Oh great. now Blockbuster is going to get /.-ed.
He was great, and definalty will be missed.
i admire him for calling hollywood (and to a greater extent, the world) on the popularity contest that it is (refusing the oscar). rip george, you rocked.