After more than half a century of incredible work in show business, Tim Curry tragically passed away at the age of 80.
  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
    118·
    2 days ago

    Tim Curry, Star. I don’t know where I saw it but my favorite quote about him:

    “Tim Curry was in a lot of one star films but he was the reason those films had that star.”

      • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
        10·
        2 days ago

        Lexx

        holy shit, i haven’t heard/thought about that show in over 20 years!

        you just reminded me of a period in my life where i was entering puberty and living off a steady diet of zev bellringer and seven of nine… before we had access to internet boobs.

        • [object Object]@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 day ago

          Eva Habermann did in fact have one scene in the whole show where she was tits out. Of course, that scene occurred in Stanley’s dream.

          • cenzorrll@piefed.caEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            I have it downloaded, but I also have a 13 year old kid, there’s so much random weird sexual shit that I know they’d walk in at the worst possible scenes.

    • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      Comedy - drama.

      Dolly Parton owns a Country and Western bar that is sitting on a giant oil well. Evil billionaire Dabney Coleman wants to get it without paying what it’s worth. He hires crooked lawman Jackie Gleason to arrest Dolly on trumped up charges.

      Dolly goes in front of Judge Patti LaBelle, who sentences her to six hundred hours of community service. Coleman and Gleason want her jailed, so Gleason sends her to work at the state psychiatric facility, a place that amke’s Batman’s Arkham look like a kindergarten.

      Tim is a long term catatonic who hasn’t spoken since the death of his long term partner. He’s been laying in filth for years.

      While being forced to clean near his cell, Dolly starts singing to raise her spirits. One of the other staff hears it and puts in on the PA system.

      Tim starts singing along with her, the first time he’s shown any response to anything in years.

      The administrator, Paul Reubens, decides to make Dolly responsible for Tim. Apparently he comes from a pretty influential family, and curing him would be a big win for Paul.

      Tim only responds to music. His actual personality remains buried as he morphs through Elvis, Janet Jackson, Tom Waites, Maria Callas, and others.

      Meanwhile, Coleman has come up with a legal loophole to let him seize the bar. Gleason has been intercepting US mail informing Dolly she must appear in front of a judge or face having her bar declared a public menace.

      Dolly finds out about this hearing at the last minute and has to race to get there on time [montage with car crashes, motorcycles, etc etc]

      Dolly got the note and ran out of a session with Tim. He picks up the note and has a profound change [ we can make this funny or compelling, Tim can do either.] Suddenly himself again, he marches to the administrator’s office…

      Dolly gets to the courtroom seconds before judgement is passed. She looks like an insane woman from her adventure. The crooked judge [ Tommy Lee Jones ]and Coleman’s lawyers [pick your own lineup of sleazoids] let her rattle on. “Let her talk, she’s making our case for us!”

      At the last possible second, Tim and the administrator arrive. Turns out, Tim is a accredited member of the bar. Even in his hospital gown and bathrobe he easily refutes the entire case as Dolly stares on in wonder.

      And it turns out that Coleman is actually Tim’s cousin who signed him into ‘treatment’ years ago to get control of the family fortune. Tim demands that the judge deem him compos mentis and give him back control of his estate. And finally Tim points to Gleason as one of the members of the mob that killed his partner all those years ago.

      At the big party Dolly throws for herself Tim arrives dressed as like Elton John on acid. Dolly’s frineds are horrified at first, but once he starts singing they start rolling with it.

      After the performance Tim comes to Dolly. She’s afraid he’s lost his mind again. He acts nuts for a few minutes then starts speaking rationally again. He thanks her for everything she’s done and they finish with a great duet.

        • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          I once suggested Akroyd for a replacement as Bruce Wayne in the Tim Burton Batman movies.

          Tall, big jaw, good at physical stuff, and great with voices. Bulk him up and let him go.

          Feel free to add anything else.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    2 days ago

    RIP to the absolute fucking GOAT. Didn’t matter if the movie sucked. He was good every. single. time.

    • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.caEnglish
      71·
      2 days ago

      what you are asking for, is not going to turn out how you think it will. the only way americans are going to get their government back is an insurrection

      • orbitz@lemmy.ca
        5·
        2 days ago

        Yeah but perhaps the rest of us countries get a breather, like a trade war with Canada. What the fuck did we do?

        Mean I agree they need a political enema, which I think we said the same thing.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    38·
    2 days ago

    Okay…hear me out on this.

    What if…every time the grim reaper comes for Donald Trump, he bribes him into taking a different Home Alone 2 Co-star until none are left.

  • KC_Royalz@lemmy.world
    411·
    2 days ago

    Ok Death has become incompetent at its job. Due to death wrongly taking the good people and not the bad. I nominate death to be fired and replaced. Can I get a second Aye!