Saturday, October 09, 2004

Always in 3's

This week saw the strangest trio of celebrity deaths yet:

Rodney Dangerfield

Janet Leigh

Jacques Derrida

4 comments:

Nick said...

And all three are interesting in their own way! Well OK 2 are movie stars. Ahh, no relation to current topic<< Look this way all past and present Boreders employees! Who has a picture of our own resident K. Rogers to submit???

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Geoff said...

I always liked Rodney. I'm not a fan of that Bill Murray/Chevey Chase golf movie, but I did like Rodney insulting everyone (particularly Ted Knight's character). He was so self-deprecating and so open with his insecurities.

Janet Leigh ruled in Touch of Evil, and was better in Carpenter's The Fog than in Psycho.

Jacques Derrida resides ambiguously occluded and undocumentable because he's derailed language and morality and standards so completely as to remind us that meaning is meaningless.

You gotta know when to hold 'em.

Nick said...

There was a neat interview with Dangerfield a few months back in Rolling Stone with a harrowing pic of him in bathrobe. He was like D.Urbanite's God of being mean to people.

The Fog--weird mother and daughter team up??

Geoff said...

I don't think Leigh and Lee Curtis were onscreen together once during that flick, though I could be wrong.

I'd give Don Rickels the mean guy crown. I remember seeing him on some lame ass celebrity roast; he was sitting next to Nell Carter and gave her such a hard time!