Actor Bill Paxton dies, age 61
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My best memory: the freaking out Colonial Marine in the Aliens movie.
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Aliens, Apollo 13, Titanic & Weird Science off the top of my head.
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Excellent. I had forgotten Weird Science--his character reminded me of a drunk LSU fan.OGSB wrote:Aliens, Apollo 13, Titanic & Weird Science off the top of my head.
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And with three wives and 10+ kids to support!
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"Big Love" reminds me of Simpson's joke (may have been told by Lenny, Carl and Moe): "Definition of bigamy is one wife too many. Strange it's the same definition as monogamy."WaveProf wrote:And with three wives and 10+ kids to support!
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Aw, man... I liked him!
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Heh, I was afraid that might be the case but I literally Google his name and found that link. Apparently the Internet (not just me) confuses the two.OGSB wrote:That's Bill Pullman.
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For some reason I always confuse Pullman with Jeff Daniels.PeteRasche wrote:Heh, I was afraid that might be the case but I literally Google his name and found that link. Apparently the Internet (not just me) confuses the two.OGSB wrote:That's Bill Pullman.
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He was in twister with Helen Hunt. Played a reformed storm chaser who fell off the wagon.
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In 2005, I interviewed Bill Paxton for his directorial work on "The Greatest Game Every Played"... it wasn't a big money maker at the box office, but was a great story about Francis Ouimet and his incredible upset at the US Open in 1913. Bill was an incredibly nice guy.. I had told him that Maxim Magazine had published a list of the 20 biggest movie douche bags and that Chet from "Weird Science" was on the list. He laughed and asked "who was number 1".. and I said "Niedermeyer"... he laughed and said "That's funny... I actually based Chet as sort of a hybrid of Niedermeyer and Sergeant Carter". RIP Bill... one of Hollywood's nice guys.. gone.
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That movie is very historically true. He did a great job with the story. One of my favorite sports movies. LeBoeuf was excellent, too bad he's b@t-kah-kah crazy in real life.Johnny Mac wrote:In 2005, I interviewed Bill Paxton for his directorial work on "The Greatest Game Every Played"... it wasn't a big money maker at the box office, but was a great story about Francis Ouimet and his incredible upset at the US Open in 1913. Bill was an incredibly nice guy.. I had told him that Maxim Magazine had published a list of the 20 biggest movie douche bags and that Chet from "Weird Science" was on the list. He laughed and asked "who was number 1".. and I said "Niedermeyer"... he laughed and said "That's funny... I actually based Chet as sort of a hybrid of Niedermeyer and Sergeant Carter". RIP Bill... one of Hollywood's nice guys.. gone.
RIP, Bill.
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being a golfer and a golf fan, my first question to him was "where did you find all of those wooden shafted clubs?" He said some guy owned a massive collection and loaned them to the movie... he was impressed that I noticed the detail because apparently he was quite proud of his and the production crew's effort to procure them to maintain that historical accuracyRotorooter wrote:That movie is very historically true. He did a great job with the story. One of my favorite sports movies. LeBoeuf was excellent, too bad he's b@t-kah-kah crazy in real life.
RIP, Bill.
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Wow, nicely done!Johnny Mac wrote:In 2005, I interviewed Bill Paxton for his directorial work on "The Greatest Game Every Played"... it wasn't a big money maker at the box office, but was a great story about Francis Ouimet and his incredible upset at the US Open in 1913. Bill was an incredibly nice guy.. I had told him that Maxim Magazine had published a list of the 20 biggest movie douche bags and that Chet from "Weird Science" was on the list. He laughed and asked "who was number 1".. and I said "Niedermeyer"... he laughed and said "That's funny... I actually based Chet as sort of a hybrid of Niedermeyer and Sergeant Carter". RIP Bill... one of Hollywood's nice guys.. gone.
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JMac, Thanks for the great story. I never much liked Weird Science. If they had the courage of their convictions and made it R rated like Animal House, it simply would have been raunchier and funnier. However Chet was classic just like Niedermeyer regardless of the rating.Rotorooter wrote:That movie is very historically true. He did a great job with the story. One of my favorite sports movies. LeBoeuf was excellent, too bad he's b@t-kah-kah crazy in real life.Johnny Mac wrote:In 2005, I interviewed Bill Paxton for his directorial work on "The Greatest Game Every Played"... it wasn't a big money maker at the box office, but was a great story about Francis Ouimet and his incredible upset at the US Open in 1913. Bill was an incredibly nice guy.. I had told him that Maxim Magazine had published a list of the 20 biggest movie douche bags and that Chet from "Weird Science" was on the list. He laughed and asked "who was number 1".. and I said "Niedermeyer"... he laughed and said "That's funny... I actually based Chet as sort of a hybrid of Niedermeyer and Sergeant Carter". RIP Bill... one of Hollywood's nice guys.. gone.
RIP, Bill.
Meanwhile this only proves the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is still operative.
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funniest part about that movie today is seeing Robert Downey Jr. then and what he has become nowBaywave1 wrote:JMac, Thanks for the great story. I never much liked Weird Science.
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Of course there's a part of Captain America Civil War where you get to see him looking just like he did in Back To School... (that technology blows me away, just like how Michael Douglas in Ant-Man looked exactly like he did in Wall Street)Johnny Mac wrote:funniest part about that movie today is seeing Robert Downey Jr. then and what he has become nowBaywave1 wrote:JMac, Thanks for the great story. I never much liked Weird Science.
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In a ton of great movies and everyone who's met him has said he was a legitimately good guy. 61 is too young these days. Sad.
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Being 60, I concur.GretnaGrn wrote:In a ton of great movies and everyone who's met him has said he was a legitimately good guy. 61 is too young these days. Sad.
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Not far behind you, and I also agree. Got word that one of my patients died this am; he was 72, and I think it was too soon.TUPF wrote:Being 60, I concur.GretnaGrn wrote:In a ton of great movies and everyone who's met him has said he was a legitimately good guy. 61 is too young these days. Sad.
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