TheLastWolf Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Second fellow high schooler committed suicide. I envy and pity him. Depression sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DMC Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 I agree with others that he was just as good as Chalky White as we was as Omar - even though I stopped watching Boardwalk after the second season. He was also pretty damn hilarious during his stint on Community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 David Simon on Michael K. Williams, who, after reading Season 2 scripts, asked, "Why are we even doing this?" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/12/opinion/michael-k-williams-david-simon-the-wire.html? [paywall] Quote . . . . To Mike, at that moment, we were the white custodians of a rare majority-Black drama in the majority-white world of American television, and we might well be walking away from that unique responsibility. He was asking a big question. To answer, I had to pause and regroup, and reach for an honest answer — the one less likely to please a hungry actor. I told him that we had never imagined “The Wire” as a Black drama, or even as a drama with race as its central theme. We were writing about how power and money are routed in an American city, and being from Baltimore, a majority Black metropolis, we had simply depicted our hometown. And a bigger truth, I argued, is that if we don’t now expand the show’s field of vision beyond what happens on the streets of West Baltimore, then we stay a cops-and-robbers drama, a police procedural. But if we build the rest of the city — its fragile working class, its political world, its schools, its media culture — then we get a chance to say something more. “We want to have a bigger argument about what has gone wrong. Not just in Baltimore, but elsewhere, too.” Mike thought about this for a long moment. Waiting for him, I still worried it would come down to his character’s work. He had done marvelous things with Omar — his smile and the cavernous barrel of a high-powered handgun were the closing moments of the first season — and he was maybe one more good story arc from elevating his character into a star turn. With the leverage he had already acquired, Mike could have sat there and insisted on the writers gilding his every narrative arc. Instead, he stood up, curled the early season two scripts in his hand, nodded, and asked one last question: “So what is this stuff at the port about? What are we going to say?” It’s about the death of work, I told him. When legitimate work itself dies in an American city, I argued, and the last factory standing is the drug corners, then everyone goes to a corner. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 RIP Norm MacDonald He had privately been struggling with cancer for 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyroclasticFlow Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 16 minutes ago, Morpheus said: RIP Norm MacDonald This is terrible news, damn https://deadline.com/2021/09/norm-macdonald-dead-obituary-comedian-saturday-night-live-weekend-update-anchor-was-61-1234833212/amp/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 1 hour ago, Morpheus said: RIP Norm MacDonald What a talented comedian, a master of the shaggy dog story. He was one of Conan's favorite guests and always had him rolling. People thought that Conan had turned a cold shoulder to him for not having him on for his finale on TBS, because of some controversy or other, but I'm guessing that he was in no shape for it these last months. Such a shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumHam Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 Christ I fucking hate this thread. And Cancer. Mostly cancer I guess. He was a really great Weekend Update host. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted September 14, 2021 Author Share Posted September 14, 2021 Damn. Norm may very well be the king of awkward deadpan. Truly a comedic legend that will be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyroclasticFlow Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 My intro to Norm was through Family Guy, when he was voicing Death in the first couple of sesons. I also saw brief bits of him on SNL, never really watched that religiously(have to rewatch his stuff now for sure); but his ‘98 film Dirty Work was one of the films that made me cry from laughing so hard. Pure comedic genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 17 minutes ago, RumHam said: He was a really great Weekend Update host. Amen. I loved him on the Weekend Update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 Norm was definitely my favorite Weekend Update host. His set and behavior at the Bob Saget roast also remains one of my favorite contributions on one of those things. I even loved Dirty Work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GallowKnight Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 Damn that hurts. Norm had the best delivery in comedy. Cancer can fuck right off. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 Remember that joke well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 RIP Willie Garson I mainly know of him only from his small recurring role on Stargate SG-1, though I'm pretty sure I've seen him in a few movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 Well, for me it's actually Mozzie from White Collar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 10 hours ago, A Horse Named Stranger said: Well, for me it's actually Mozzie from White Collar. Me too! He was far and away my favorite character. He was the most interesting character too. He was the real mystery figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 On 9/14/2021 at 3:49 PM, DMC said: Norm was definitely my favorite Weekend Update host. His set and behavior at the Bob Saget roast also remains one of my favorite contributions on one of those things. I even loved Dirty Work. "Hi, real cops?" ... this shit still sends me everytime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 Melvin Van Peebles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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