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In looking over Bob's exhaustive overview, I can't say that I've enjoyed anything in which Rip Torn appeared. That's more a reflection of A) My lousy taste or B) The sad state of cinema and TV since Torn's endless career began.
And, in looking over The Ripper's Wikipedia page, he seemed like one giant artistic pain in the ass.
You need to see Beach Red for a start phelps.
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Jul 15, 2019 - 3:04 PM
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In DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY, “White Goodman” (Ben Stiller) is the egomaniacal owner of Globo Gym, a gleaming monolith of fitness, intent to take over Average Joe's, a rundown gym run by charismatic underachiever “Peter LaFleur” (Vince Vaughn). A foreclosing bank has commissioned attorney “Kate Veatch” (Christine Taylor) to finalize the takeover, but she is drawn to Peter and his team of social rejects and wants to help them. In a bid to keep gym ownership, Peter and the team from Average Joe's decide to enter a national Dodgeball competition, hoping to win the $50,000 prize. But first there are the training sessions with Rip Torn's wheel-chair-bound coach “Patches O'Houlihan,” whose philosophy is “If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.”
Of his trainees, Patches says, "It's like watching a bunch of retards trying to hump a doorknob." This is a reference to what 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Coach Herb Brooks said to his team when they were preparing for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York: "It's like watching a monkey trying to hump a football."
Rawson Marshall Thurber wrote and directed this 2004 comedy. Theodore Shapiro’s score has not had a release.
Rip Torn in DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY
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Jul 15, 2019 - 4:09 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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In 2007’s BEE MOVIE, “Barry B. Benson” (Jerry Seinfeld), a bee just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by “Vanessa Bloome” (Renée Zellweger), a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue them. Rip Torn has a small role in the film as a bee general, “Lou Lo Duca.”
”Barry B. Benson” [center] (Jerry Seinfeld) and “Lou Lo Duca” [right] (Rip Torn) in BEE MOVIE
Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner directed the film, which was co-written by Jerry Seinfeld. Rupert Gregson-Williams’s score was released by Sony Classical.
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Jul 15, 2019 - 5:04 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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In 2007 and 2008, Rip Torn made five guest appearances on “30 Rock” as the fictional Chief Executive Officer of General Electric, “Don Geiss.” He was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, but lost to Tim Conway, who guest-starred in the same sitcom.
After BEE MOVIE, Torn appeared in a dozen or so little-seen films until he retired in 2012. Torn once said, “Everybody says, ‘You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.’ I say, ‘Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star’.”
Whether or not Rip Torn was a star is up for debate. But there’s no debate that he was an actor.
Rip Torn and Tuesday Weld in “Naked City” (1962)
Rip Torn, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson in SONGWRITER (1984)
Rip Torn in MISUNDERSTOOD (1984)
Kevin Pollack, Alan Alda, and Rip Torn in CANADIAN BACON (1995)
Rip Torn and Jeffrey Tambor in “The Larry Sanders Show”
Tracy Morgan and Rip Torn in “30 Rock”
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The Dimucci Deluge
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In looking over Bob's exhaustive overview, I can't say that I've enjoyed anything in which Rip Torn appeared. That's more a reflection of A) My lousy taste or B) The sad state of cinema and TV since Torn's endless career began.
And, in looking over The Ripper's Wikipedia page, he seemed like one giant artistic pain in the ass.
If you like Britcoms you SHOULD LOVE Larry Sanders.
But, you. probably won't 
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It looks like almost half the threads on page 1 right now are obits. We pretty much should have a separate forum. General Discussion - Trading Post - Non-Film Score Discussion - Obituaries....
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