A sad Jaws farewell - Roy Scheider is gone
 

I just got home and found out that Roy Scheider has died. Obviously, for a big JAWS fan like me, this is terrible news. In truth, my favorite Scheider performance is in ALL THAT JAZZ, and I can scarcely think about Bob Fosse without actually picturing Roy's "Joe Gideon." Nothing more to add except :(

That sucks. He was such a cool actor. I think I need to watch Sorceror again this week.

:(

Wow, I guess he's always just remained the same age in my mind as he was when I was 14/15 when I last really caught him on Seaquest DSV. I guess time has just passed...

What a sad day, indeed.

RIP

He WAS Bob Fosse in All that Jazz - and possibly my favorite performance of his fine career. :(

Again, another film he was in that I loved.

Wow, I'm a little stunned.

I forgot about that show. I thought it was cool. He will be missed.

How many Small World or Pirates Swankings has there been when someone mutters "We're gonna need a bigger boat."

RIP - :(

OMG, Jaws came up in conversations I had last night and again tonight. Now I feel it was premonitionatory. Oh no! What a fantastic actor.

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.

He was 75?! When did that happen? I guess he always seemed perpetually 30something to me...

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


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

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.)

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.)

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.

About a year after he was 74.

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.

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. :(

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.

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.

That, sadly, is the downfall of the Dvorak. It is a proven better layout to increase speed, but getting the American public to change is, well, impossible.

For those who don't know, the QWERTY keyboard was designed specifically to slow down typists. In the early days of mechanical typewriters, they were finding that users would type too fast and keys were frequently getting stuck. The layout not only forced the typist to slow down, but also separated frequently used keys to minimize jams.

Well, that's a given!

Oh, and, sorry for taking this thread so far off topic!

Maybe Roy was in a movie with a typewriter at one point.

From Roy to QUERTY in a few shorts posts. Astounding.

Not sure if you're being ironic. "Jaws" had a shot of him typing.

Well, I don't really need to go any faster. One change from 50 years ago is that I am rarely ever typing a large amount of pre-defined text where absolute maximum speed is advantageous. I can already type about as fast as I think when doing my normal making it up as I go typing tasks.

And yes, I was being ironic. The scene of him (poorly) typing up reports is all I could think of during the (apparently continuing) keyboard derail of the Roy Scheider Death Lament Thread.