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Thread: RIP Wilford Brimley
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08-01-2020, 10:47 PM #1
RIP Wilford Brimley
Burn in hell 2020.
RIP. Wilford. I’ll never say diabeetus the same way again. Loved you in The Firm and The Natural.I still call it The Jake.
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08-01-2020, 11:44 PM #2
Rip. I ate dinner with him once on an Amtrak from Chicago to Denver.
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08-02-2020, 06:02 AM #3
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08-02-2020, 06:44 AM #4
Wilford and Quaker Oats were a match made in heaven.
Hollywood is going to need some new character actors pretty soon.I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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08-02-2020, 06:53 AM #5
That’s amazing. Amazing he lived to 85.
Rip
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08-02-2020, 08:49 AM #6
My personal favorite:
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08-02-2020, 08:52 AM #7Registered User
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08-02-2020, 09:39 AM #8
85 with the diabeetus is a good run. RIP.
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08-02-2020, 09:40 AM #9
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08-02-2020, 03:17 PM #10Been there, skied that.
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it's just amazing(not that cruz is 56 and still looks good) but WB was 50 in cocoon I really thought he was 65 then. the weight aged him early imo(and the mustach) but still pretty good carrying that weight to 85 most get serious problems carrying weight after 65 or so. my uncle is 74 about WB's size and can barely walk.
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08-02-2020, 03:32 PM #11
Almost forget that WB was in the seminal John Carpenter's The Thing cuz he was sans stache...
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08-02-2020, 04:05 PM #12
I’m not sure you understand what seminal means, that movie was an adaptation of the 1950s movie “The Thing from Another World”. That’s a seminal movie based off a novella.
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08-02-2020, 05:04 PM #13man of ice
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Let's just say it was an "early" John Carpenter movie.
13 years into his career, but almost 40 since then.
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08-02-2020, 05:34 PM #14
Wilford must have been born at age 30 then.
I still call it The Jake.
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08-02-2020, 05:45 PM #15
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08-02-2020, 06:17 PM #16
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08-02-2020, 06:38 PM #17
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08-02-2020, 07:27 PM #18
Not sure what I am missing seeing as a seminal film (i.e a pivotal or landmark film) is one that is influential and important, which John Carpenter's The Thing was (and still is), at least in terms of the horror genre...
Perhaps I might have phrased my post thusly: "Who can forget Brimley's mustacheless turn in the seminal horror film John Carpenter's The Thing" in order to have avoided the semantical quibbling...
Anyway, howzabout getting back to celebrating the man and his work?
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08-02-2020, 07:31 PM #19
It works that way too.
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08-02-2020, 08:54 PM #20Registered User
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08-03-2020, 06:14 AM #21
I thought he was pretty badass in the final scenes Absence of Malice. Thought he was totally mis-cast in the firm. die-A beat us?. spot on.,
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08-03-2020, 06:57 AM #22I still call it The Jake.
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08-03-2020, 12:08 PM #23
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08-03-2020, 12:15 PM #24
Now that he's dead and can't defend himself, Wildford Brimley was a cantankerous asshole. College GF made a cake for a wedding she delivered to his utah ranch and he was terrible to her and ultimately refused to pay and yelled at her for being late and made her cry (an hour before the ceremony). She also saw him hit a horse with a shovel.
When my neighbor told me her dog had the diabeetus and had to take insulin daily, I asked "did she bite Wilford Brimley" and neighbor said "who?". Total waste of a great joke.
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08-03-2020, 12:20 PM #25
This is my favorite (from 2018):
RIP Mr. Brimley.It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.
I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.
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