Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moviePig Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Dabney Coleman R.I.P. Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 15:54:02 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 21:54:03 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7632b231e5147245b88ee3cb2ceca6e7"; logging-data="3085223"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+LVAUj/OuQebh4WrqYvAiCWotVxTCQAR8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:7JYXyfOaJkypCmlURUT6JqFeylc= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1780 On 5/18/2024 2:21 PM, suzeeq wrote: > On 5/18/2024 9:53 AM, super70s wrote: >> Thought he was worth a mention in here even if nobody else bothered to. >> >> Maybe it's because he was described by the NYT as "the actor audiences >> loved to hate." >> >> Must have been because of the "9 to 5" role, I certainly never hated him. >> > I've been watching The Guardian in which he plays father to a young > Simon Baker. The two don't really get along. He is a decent actor though. The famed character actor Jack Elam described an important career juncture as one going from "Get me Jack Elam' to "Get me a Jack Elam type". I'm sure "Get me a Dabney Coleman type" had its day.