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flippyshark 02-11-2008 02:08 AM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman (Post 190973)
Ooooh, I think I'm gonna have to watch All That Jazz ... if I can stand the creepiness of a nevertheless great Roy Scheider film that's basically all about his character dying.

I definitely recommend it - it's a fantastic film, but also a downbeat and harsh one. (Fosse was brutally frank about himself here.) It may be particularly chilling to watch the ending in view of
Spoiler:
the final shot of the film - Roy's body being zipped up into a body bag.


Actually, I just re-watched it about three weeks ago. It's a real roller coaster.

innerSpaceman 02-11-2008 08:26 AM

No, no, I'm not going to watch it because it's been recommended here. I want to watch it because it is, like many who posted, my favorite Roy Schedier film.


I hestiate only because his (character's) death is the subject matter, and that might be too heavy. (I still haven't watched Brokeback Mountain since Heath Ledger died, and it's not even his character that dies.)

LSPoorEeyorick 02-11-2008 08:53 AM

Jazz is a favorite in this household, as is Jaws. Bye bye, your life, goodbye...

(That song is on youtube here if you think you can take it; I'm not sure I can yet so I'll watch Jagger and Gideon doing "Everything Old is New Again" instead.)

Alex 02-11-2008 09:00 AM

I've never actually seen All That Jazz. It's on my Netflix queue but is about 150 on the list so I'll see it in a couple years.

Unfortunately, my experience of him as a living actor is as the bit-part actor in bad movies and TV guest experiences but he did have a great run back in the '70s and early '80s.

Interesting that GD thinks of him as perpetually in his 30s. I don't think he ever looked that young. To me he always comes across as in his '50s. Sometimes has a young looking 50 year old, sometimes (as in a recent Law & Order guest spot) as a prematurely old 50s. Like Jack Palance he is someone I can't imagine at 18, or even 25.

Kevy Baby 02-11-2008 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket (Post 190978)
He was 75?! When did that happen?

About a year after he was 74.

NickO'Time 02-11-2008 10:11 AM

Sorry too see him go. I loved him in Blue Thunder.:) I realize it wasn't the best film but it was fun at the time as a kid.

Cadaverous Pallor 02-11-2008 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex (Post 191000)
Interesting that GD thinks of him as perpetually in his 30s.

My husband often gets credit for other people's posts. It's so odd.

Erica, I'm with you on SeaQuest. That and Jaws are what instantly come to mind. Sad to hear he's gone. :(

Alex 02-11-2008 11:31 AM

That time It was just a typo on my part, I did know who said it. Maybe if there was a campaign to move the C farther from the D on a QWERTY keyboard.

Kevy Baby 02-11-2008 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex (Post 191043)
That time It was just a typo on my part, I did know who said it. Maybe if there was a campaign to move the C farther from the D on a QWERTY keyboard.

Or you could just go for a Dvorak keyboard.


Alex 02-11-2008 02:38 PM

I could, but as always it is easier to ask that the world change rather than me.

Besides, I tried switching to a Dvorak keyboard about a year ago and it was a complete failure. As a person who touch types at about 90 WPM with my eyes closed (I used to have a keyboard where I had removed all of the keys and randomly but them back on just for the fun of it, it never slowed me down) typing is now such a feat of muscle memory that trying to reprogram myself failed miserably.


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