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Subject: Re: Dabney Coleman R.I.P.
Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 18:59:19 -0400
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On 5/18/2024 5:40 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>> super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> 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.
>>
>> 9 to 5 was a lousy movie.
> 
> Agreed

But it was a cultural 'event' that, e.g., every viewer remembers.


>> Coleman absolutely played unsympathetic characters but he was a terrific
>> actor.
>>
>> As this is a tv newsgroup, let's recall his two tv series, Buffalo Bill
>> and The Slap Maxwell story (which gave the world Meaghan Gallager and
>> her glorious long hair).