I guess this would call for a moment of silence...
The Infidel
09-23-07, 10:06 AM
I wonder if he had last words, or if he just waved goodbye.
TallGuyMe
09-23-07, 10:16 AM
um, can't say this makes me sad in the least. sorry.
calhoun07
09-23-07, 10:41 AM
I had no idea he was still alive.
Hokeyboy
09-23-07, 11:05 AM
Look at the bright side, his pantomime "Man in the Box" will never be better!
Too soon?
Obey The D
09-23-07, 11:26 AM
...
Trevor
09-23-07, 11:41 AM
Too soon?
I don't think anything is "too soon" around here.
movielib
09-23-07, 11:43 AM
Look at the bright side, his pantomime "Man in the Box" will never be better!
Too soon?
Yes, it was too soon because you beat me to it. :(
kahuna415
09-23-07, 11:44 AM
Non!
Hokeyboy
09-23-07, 11:57 AM
Non!
Ursa!
dom56
09-23-07, 12:08 PM
A mime is a terrible thing to waste.
PopcornTreeCt
09-23-07, 12:54 PM
The monkey from Friends?
JumpCutz
09-23-07, 12:56 PM
Mime is money.
Lateralus
09-23-07, 01:21 PM
Never heard of him, never saw preform. I wonder if somebody whacked him with an olive loaf.
I'll be really impressed if somebody understands my olive loaf reference.
Lee Harvey Oswald
09-23-07, 04:23 PM
I had no idea he was still alive.
I have no idea who he was.
bwvanh114
09-23-07, 04:45 PM
Never heard of him, never saw preform. I wonder if somebody whacked him with an olive loaf.
I'll be really impressed if somebody understands my olive loaf reference.Wasn't Opus. Was out participating in the great snake massacre.
Giantrobo
09-23-07, 05:20 PM
This morning there was a showing a piece on him and my 1st thought was, "he must've died".
zombiezilla
09-23-07, 07:40 PM
A mime is a terrible thing.
FIXED
Lateralus
09-23-07, 07:43 PM
Wasn't Opus. Was out participating in the great snake massacre.
:up: You got Opus right, I believe he was just walking home from the grocery store with a bag full of groceries when a Mime started messing with him; Opus flipped out and pummeled the poor Mime with his olive loaf... which of course started a week or so of cartoons based on the pummeling. :lol:
Ah here it is:
Dubbed the "Olive Loaf Vigilante", Opus is jailed for pummeling street mimes. (p124, 16 strips)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_County_Babylon
Mosskeeto
09-23-07, 08:34 PM
Here are some excerpts from his notice in today's NY Times:
"He appeared in several movies, including “Barbarella” with Jane Fonda. He spoke just once in his performing career, in Mel Brooks’s “Silent Movie.” He said, “No.”
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"Marcel Marceau was born Marcel Mangel, of Jewish parents in Strasbourg, France, on March 22, 1923. His father, a butcher, was deported to a concentration camp by the Germans in 1944 and never returned. Marcel moved to Paris, with a new surname and false identification papers. Until the liberation of Paris, he worked in the resistance, hiding Jewish children from the Gestapo and the French police, who helped round up Jews for deportation.
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"But that year [1955] he toured North America and was lionized, giving rise to his worldwide popularity and even leading to a greater degree of esteem in his native France. In Hollywood, he played to acclaim for six weeks and was proud that Charles Laughton, Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper and the Marx Brothers came to see him. Harpo Marx, also a silent performer, became a friend."
bwvanh114
09-23-07, 08:49 PM
Opus flipped out and pummeled the poor Mime with his olive loaf.I remember the drawing of Opus standing on the pummeled mime's belly panting or looking shocked or something. Great panel.
Hokeyboy
09-23-07, 09:51 PM
Steve Dallas represented everything *RIGHT* about the 80s. That is all.
aintnosin
09-24-07, 03:28 PM
Another voice silenced. :(
bwvanh114
09-24-07, 06:38 PM
Steve Dallas represented everything *RIGHT* about the 80s. That is all.:lol: :thumbsup: I remember when Cutter John was dating Bobby and Steve got jealous and got a wheelchair of his own. Brilliance!
dork
09-24-07, 06:45 PM
Come on, surely we can get more posts here than the same thread in the Other Forum. I mean, have you seen what kind of idiots hang out over there?
Jon2
09-25-07, 12:04 AM
He spoke just once in his performing career, in Mel Brooks’s “Silent Movie.” He said, “No.”
Even though it was obvious this was coming, that line was and still is hysterically funny and I think it is one of the funniest moments in film. While very much a product of its time (taken in the context of Marcel's body of work), I understand why younger people would not "get it" beyond the contrasting humor of a mime having the only speaking part.
I wasn't familiar with Marceau's personal background. Thanks for the info. Very touching.
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