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One of Curry's best villain roles was on the CBS crime drama Wiseguy, where he was the antagonist of the "Dead Dog Records" story arc in the second season. Series protagonist Vinnie Terranova (Ken Wahl), undercover agent for the Organized Crime Bureau, a (fictional) division of the FBI, takes over a small record label that was seized by the DEA in a case and uses it as a front to investigate corruption in the music business. He takes on a washed-up but knowledgeable hustler of a talent agent as the public face of the label, played by The Eagles' Glenn Frey and signs on once famous singer Diana Price (Debbie Harry) to record a single ostensibly as part of a comeback attempt - (said single is actually a version of "Brite Side" as heard on one of Harry's solo albums) and soon the label comes to the attention of Curry's Winston Newquay, a sleek, sophisticated, ruthless and incredibly crooked record mogul who tries to buy out the label and steal Ms. Price away (he also happens to be her former manager/lover, and is perhaps still obsessed a bit with her). A mesmerizing performance, Curry plays a devilish and smug industry shark so well, especially after he dodges legal consequences for his various shady deals but starts to descend into madness after suffering a series of professional and personal humiliations.

And there's this moment where he's in jail and approached menacingly by another inmate, played by Steven Williams (who played "Mr. X" on the X-Files) who as it turns out, just recognizes Newquay and wants to audition for him:


And there's this moment from said descent into madness where he's dressed in black, oiled up his hair like a 50's hot-rod greaser and is singing Gene Vincent's "Be-Bop-A-Lula" into a mirror


The episodes from this arc are on YouTube because, alas, due to the use of licensed music they've been excluded from any official home video or online release.
 
The saddest thing about these greats passing is, for me, knowing there is no one to take their place. I mean, think about it. Who do we have these days, new talent, that could fill the shoes of a Tim Curry? Or even people like Meryl Streep, Tony Randall, John Ritter, Carol Burnett, Dick van Dyke, Kurt Russell, Jeff Bridges, Christopher Reeve, and so on? Let alone legends like Kirk Douglas, Lloyd Bridges, Spencer Tracy, Betty Davis, Henry Fonda or Jimmy Stewart. There's maybe Tomothy Shallamet? I dunno who else I'd put on that list. Sure isn't gonna be a very long list. I mean, is Taylor Swift on a par with Dolly Parton? Hell, no! Is Rachel Zeigler as good as Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, or Rita Hayworth? Fuck no! When I was a kid, the Golden Age stars were still around, but passing away. Yet we had all the stars of the 70's and 80's picking up the torch. We had stars in the 90's, too. But the last two generations have given us... what? Benedict Cumberbach, Timothy Shallemet, and very, very few others.
 
KeepHopeAlive said:
He became friends with her when met her at the 1978 Academy Awards when she attended with a friend while she was out on bail for her 3rd murder trial.

Edited for accuracy cuz my memory sucks.
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I did not know she went to the Oscars in 1978. I know she was out for a little while in 1976, but twice? SMDH...
 
UtopiaGuy said:
The saddest thing about these greats passing is, for me, knowing there is no one to take their place. I mean, think about it. Who do we have these days, new talent, that could fill the shoes of a Tim Curry? Or even people like Meryl Streep, Tony Randall, John Ritter, Carol Burnett, Dick van Dyke, Kurt Russell, Jeff Bridges, Christopher Reeve, and so on? Let alone legends like Kirk Douglas, Lloyd Bridges, Spencer Tracy, Betty Davis, Henry Fonda or Jimmy Stewart. There's maybe Tomothy Shallamet? I dunno who else I'd put on that list. Sure isn't gonna be a very long list. I mean, is Taylor Swift on a par with Dolly Parton? Hell, no! Is Rachel Zeigler as good as Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, or Rita Hayworth? Fuck no! When I was a kid, the Golden Age stars were still around, but passing away. Yet we had all the stars of the 70's and 80's picking up the torch. We had stars in the 90's, too. But the last two generations have given us... what? Benedict Cumberbach, Timothy Shallemet, and very, very few others.
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Kirsten Dunst. Amy Adams. There's still some good younger stars if you look.
 
Oh man, Im still reeling from Sam Neills passing, Curry going as well is a fucking shocker. When I hear Tim Curry, I always fondly remember the concierge from Home Alone 2 and the Russian from Red Alert 3. Im too young to have experienced Muppets or IT or Rocky Horror picture show in its heyday but he left a great impression on me as a kid. I wrote this when Val Kilmer died but this is even more relevant now than then.

Aging is a difficult process, its never pleasant, an eternal fight trying to stay anchored to the world as it changes rapidly around you. Often one isnt aware of it happening, until it has already happened and has permanently changed the self. Being one born right at the beginning of the Millennium, I’m old and I just have come to grips with it, with the exceptionally long time which has passed. Throughout my life, my perception of my age and the time period I live in has come from my perception of media I enjoy and I seem to have nebulously lived in the past for a very long time. On April 1st 2025, the world lost Val Kilmer, one of the underrated yet prominent actors of 1990s Hollywood. With this, unofficially, we seem to have started losing the last great generation of the Hollywood Actor to the forces of time. I found this personally shocking, despite Kilmer being relatively out of sight and out of mind, he was among the people I considered being of my parents generation, the elders if they can be so called. The thought of losing my elders forced me to perceive myself within the current state of the world, coming to the realization that I am indeed old, I will eventually lose all the people I came to idolize and revere as a child and inherit an unfamiliar alien world. Its not like it has not already happened with the loss of people like Robin Williams but with Kilmer it feels a lot more inevitable at this point in time than 10 years ago. The anticipation of losing more of the last great Hollywoodians is a frightening prospect and the idea of the 90s and early oughts, a more carefree and happy time, now being a very distant past is even more so. I presume this is a sentiment everyone has shared at some point of time, the people born in the 60s and 70s must’ve felt this way when Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen or Jack Lemmon died back in the 80s and 90s, that familiar person who you grew up with as a child, suddenly gone. Its not just with people but with products too, things like the Bucket List and the Last Samurai, the Wii and the PS2, the things which I glimpsed on cable television after school among many more being over 20 years old is terrifying. I don’t know if it’s a unique symptom of the post 2012 world, the world of the late 2010s and early 2020s, a time when everything is oversaturated, undervalued, overbearing and crumbling to the ground but I do get the feeling that this is a much worse world, not just a view tainted by the adulting process. And it is unfortunate that being some of the recent inductees into the adult world, I and many others seem to be inheriting a dying civilization slowly descending into a dystopia while watching my elders die off. I am old, an old romantic in a young body, inheriting a cold alien dystopia and watching my elders die, grasping onto fading memories for some semblance of comfort as things seem only downhill from here.
And with that Ill say
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Told my goblin about Tim Curry's passing. Goblin was confused, because Goblin hasn't seen Legend in forever, and has yet to watch Rocky Horror Picture Show (we're fixing that this Halloween just for shits and giggles). However, goblin instantly recognized him when I brought up the stupid sludge monster from Fern Gully.

We might blow the dust off that thing and appreciate him happily singing about his toxic love.
 
Diet Coke 4 Life said:
Told my goblin about Tim Curry's passing. Goblin was confused, because Goblin hasn't seen Legend in forever, and has yet to watch Rocky Horror Picture Show (we're fixing that this Halloween just for shits and giggles). However, goblin instantly recognized him when I brought up the stupid sludge monster from Fern Gully.

We might blow the dust off that thing and appreciate him happily singing about his toxic love.
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The best thing about Fern Gully.
 
UtopiaGuy said:
The saddest thing about these greats passing is, for me, knowing there is no one to take their place. I mean, think about it. Who do we have these days, new talent, that could fill the shoes of a Tim Curry? Or even people like Meryl Streep, Tony Randall, John Ritter, Carol Burnett, Dick van Dyke, Kurt Russell, Jeff Bridges, Christopher Reeve, and so on? Let alone legends like Kirk Douglas, Lloyd Bridges, Spencer Tracy, Betty Davis, Henry Fonda or Jimmy Stewart. There's maybe Tomothy Shallamet? I dunno who else I'd put on that list. Sure isn't gonna be a very long list. I mean, is Taylor Swift on a par with Dolly Parton? Hell, no! Is Rachel Zeigler as good as Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, or Rita Hayworth? Fuck no! When I was a kid, the Golden Age stars were still around, but passing away. Yet we had all the stars of the 70's and 80's picking up the torch. We had stars in the 90's, too. But the last two generations have given us... what? Benedict Cumberbach, Timothy Shallemet, and very, very few others.
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They said this during the golden age and people replaced them. A new crop will appear. Robert Patterson is definitely one of them. Give it time.
 
funwithshemales69 said:
Oh man, Im still reeling from Sam Neills passing, Curry going as well is a fucking shocker. When I hear Tim Curry, I always fondly remember the concierge from Home Alone 2 and the Russian from Red Alert 3. Im too young to have experienced Muppets or IT or Rocky Horror picture show in its heyday but he left a great impression on me as a kid. I wrote this when Val Kilmer died but this is even more relevant now than then.
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I haven't seen so much rapid star death like this since 2016.
 
Real Retard Posting Hours said:
They said this during the golden age and people replaced them. A new crop will appear. Robert Patterson is definitely one of them. Give it time.
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I doubt it, RobPat is an exception, a welcome exception but an exception nonetheless. I cant name one actor below 50 who is worthy of being in Hollywood Annals, just cause theyre merely actors, vain ones even. Actors of the Golden Age and a bit after were soldiers, scientists, engineers, artists, polymaths of all sorts who happened to pursue acting. That informed their acting and cultivated a larger than life status. We dont have that anymore and now everything seems to be dopamine and vanity. The 80s and 90s generation is probably the last who is like that (Dolph Lundgren being an accomplished Chemist, Rowan Atkinson having an Oxford Engineering Degree, Arnold Schwarzenegger being a bodybuilder and a politician and whatnot). From the 2000s you have people like Chris Evans, RDJ, Zac Efron, Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler etc who are just actors, sometimes with crack addictions and other maladies. Theyve not even had theatre training most of the time like the 90s and before generations.
 
Scarlett Johansson said:
Gotta wrap Cher, Julie Andrews, Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Mel Brooks, Eva Marie Saint, etc in bubble wrap! Must be protected at all costs.
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I'd add Sir Patrick Stewart and Weird Al Yankovic to those who must be protected at all costs. And yes I know Al's a bit younger than the other names on the list, but he's one of the most wholesome people in all of showbusiness.
 
Sinner's Sandwich said:
I'm dreading the day when Bruce Campbell leaves this earth.
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Didn't Bruce recently reveal he has throat cancer? I don't think it has as high a mortality rate as other cancers but still worrying.

Anyway, RIP Tim. You'll always be the real Pennywise, who scarred me for life at 12. Fuck that Swedish goober and his dumb Winnie the Pooh voice.
 
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