So, AYH is back here while the other site is temporarily down starting with:
What!?
CNN.com – Character actor Bruno Kirby, 57, dies – Aug 15, 2006:
I guess that I’ve reached the age when the names in the news obituaries are suddenly and depressing familiar. I started noticing this when I stopped using the memorial section of award shows to go to the bathroom, and I cold actually rattle off a list of the recently deceased that had been overlooked from the list. Still, there are names that are just shockers when I see them in the headline aggregator. River Phoenix was my first big shock, Robert Palmer was a relatively recent one. And now Bruno Kirby. Kirby was entirely too young to die, and of leukemia off all things.
I had been wondering what happened to Kirby, as it seemed he had quite a working streak for a while there. Rarely the biggest part of any movie, he was always memorable. In fact, normally I have to look up credit specifics for an actor, but off the top of my head I can drop his turn as the assistant editor who babysits a stoned Al Brooks in Modern Romance “So — the ‘ludes kicked in.”, young Clemenza in The Godfather II, Harry’s knucklehead journalist friend who yells “Babyfishmouth!” like it means something during charades in When Harry Met Sally, the uptight officer in Good Morning, Vietnam “Sir, In my heart I know I’m funny”. I don’t even know why they bothered to make City SLickers II without him. (Well, for that matter why they made City Slickers II at all, but anyway…)
I was looking forward to him being a regular Hollywood sleazebag-muckity-muck on Entourage.
Definitely an actor that will be missed.
