Farewell, Hedy* Lamarr
May. 29th, 2008 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomAw, jeez. Just saw this in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
unclelumpy's LJ about ten seconds before Yahoo News had it. Actor Harvey Korman, known to us for many wonderful roles in movies and on TV, has passed away at the age of 81. Damn, damn, damn. He was one of the really great ones.
What's your favorite Korman role? I have a tough time deciding between Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles and Dr. Montague in High Anxiety... and then I remember him as The Great Gazoo in The Flintstones.
ETA: A number of people have mentioned that Korman was in the godawful Star Wars Holiday Special from 1978. Absolutely true. But this is not a reason to diss Harvey. (Or Art Carney, for that matter, or even Bea Arthur. Maybe Diahann Carroll.) First, he was as good as he always is, even with the lame-o material. Second, there's a Rifftrax that makes it all worthwhile.
unclelumpy's LJ about ten seconds before Yahoo News had it. Actor Harvey Korman, known to us for many wonderful roles in movies and on TV, has passed away at the age of 81. Damn, damn, damn. He was one of the really great ones.What's your favorite Korman role? I have a tough time deciding between Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles and Dr. Montague in High Anxiety... and then I remember him as The Great Gazoo in The Flintstones.
ETA: A number of people have mentioned that Korman was in the godawful Star Wars Holiday Special from 1978. Absolutely true. But this is not a reason to diss Harvey. (Or Art Carney, for that matter, or even Bea Arthur. Maybe Diahann Carroll.) First, he was as good as he always is, even with the lame-o material. Second, there's a Rifftrax that makes it all worthwhile.
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Date: 2008-05-30 01:19 am (UTC)He was the best thing in there.
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Date: 2008-05-30 05:06 am (UTC)Harvey was a hoot.
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Date: 2008-05-29 11:55 pm (UTC)*Sadness*
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Date: 2008-05-29 11:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-30 12:01 am (UTC)...the three roles he did in The Star Wars Christmas Special.
Nyah!
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Date: 2008-05-30 12:27 am (UTC)Hedly LaMarr. "Now go do that voodoo that you do so well."
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Date: 2008-05-30 12:54 am (UTC)"Kinky. Sign here."
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Date: 2008-05-30 01:18 am (UTC)Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aRMZ4ePmMM
Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjhtxfSMIWk
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Date: 2008-05-30 01:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-30 01:28 am (UTC)It's strange watching old Mel Brooks movies because you become so aware of how many of the actors are dead. Watching "Young Frankenstein" is like watching something from an impossibly distant era because half the actors are dead now (and Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks both look like they have one foot in the grave).
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Date: 2008-05-30 02:03 am (UTC)That's right! I always forget he was Gazoo!
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Date: 2008-05-30 02:10 am (UTC)...Monty Rushmore, the drugged-out host of "Americathon"!
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Date: 2008-05-30 02:17 am (UTC)I want to say Count DeMoney just to be different, but I have to go with Hedley Lamarr. Wow he made me laugh.
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Date: 2008-05-30 02:41 am (UTC)I had no idea all that time that Harvey Korman had died. Wow. It's so creepy.
And yeah, Hedley Lamarr is a classic role. And let's not forget, he was the voice of The Great Gazoo (on The Flintstones), who I HATED. :/
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Date: 2008-05-30 02:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-30 03:07 am (UTC)He will be sorely missed.
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Date: 2008-05-30 03:18 am (UTC)But I just saw something that made me twinge with geekiness. Harvey Korman was in the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special. I had to look at it three times to make sure I read it right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Korman
There's the link for proof.
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Date: 2008-05-30 03:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-30 04:18 am (UTC)Korman was a comedy neutrino, who could tear through brilliant material and godawful dreck with equal aplomb.
It's hard to choose a favorite role. Among the ones not mentioned above (at least when I started on this; I've been interrupted a few times), I've always loved Count DeMoney (DeMonet!) in History of the World, Part I. Like pretty much every Mel Brooks-penned character post Young Frankenstein, it's all about coarse acting and low comedy; but Korman brought Noel Coward-level panache to the role, while remaining completely committed to the stupidity at hand.
A profoundly gifted, under-appreciated comic actor. He will be missed.
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Date: 2008-05-30 07:32 am (UTC)TV? Every desperate time he tried to keep a straight face around Tim Conway (the "dentist" sketch may be the nadir) ...and failed so beautifully.
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