Damn, I liked Alex Karras. I especially enjoyed his role in Victor/Victoria, in which he played James Garner’s bodyguard.
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Karras was also excellent as James Garner’s gay bodyguard in Victor Victoria.
And he was really good in Victor/Victoria as James Garner’s character’s bodyguard who was gay.
Really? Gay?
I’ve never seen the movie. Are you surprised he played a gay guy or is the character not really directly said to be gay?
All I remember about Victor, Victoria is the gold digging girlfriend pulling hair from James Garner’s chest, and seeing Julie Andrew’s ass.
Mostly the latter.
Thanks for the Victor/Victoria reminder; one of my all time fav movies and Alex Karras was great in it. Sorry he’s gone.
No, he says himself at one point, to his boss James Garner, that he’s gay.
He broke in on Garner and Julie Andrews in bed together, Andrews has been impersonating a man, so Karras thinks his BOSS is gay. He retreats to his room, and Garner follows him, trying to explain that it wasn’t what he thought it was. Karras opens the door, smiling but with tears in his eyes saying, “Boss, if a man like you has the guts to admit he’s gay, so can I!” He hugs him and kisses him on the cheek, while Garner stands there with a stunned ox look on his face.
Watch the movie, it’s funnier when you see it in context.
So was Julie Andrews.
All of her.
Turhan Bey, 90, dies in Vienna Austria.
I don’t think I’ve seen any of his movies, but I remember him fondly as the Centauri Emperor. That’s the second B5 alumni to die in the last two weeks.
I saw it in a theatre as a double feature with My Favorite Year, another great movie that’s not as well remembered as it should be.
Joe Siracuse, of the band Sons of Azrael, has died at age 29.
Beano Cook, a longtime staple of the Pittsburgh sports scene and an ESPN college football studio commentator since 1986, has gone deep. He was 81.
Perhaps those folks have been getting busy livin’. {shrug}
Gary Collins has skipped out on the smorgasbord of life:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/13/entertainment-us-collins-idUSBRE89C0HM20121013
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, dead at the age of 82.
Don’t forget he was the Minbari Turval a little later as well.
And Sternvogel jumps from 67th to 49th place, while Duke goes from 76th to 68th.
And next years bandwagon gets lighter.