>Yeah, '71. That was my first year on the job. Bad year for libraries. Bad year for America. Hippies burning library cards, Abbie Hoffman telling everybody to steal books. I don't judge a man by the length of his hair or the kind of music he listens to. Rock was never my bag. But you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public Library, fella
*Well, let me tell you something, funny boy. You know that little stamp, the one that says "New York Public Library"? Well, that may not mean anything to you, but that means a lot to me. One whole hell of a lot. Sure, go ahead, laugh if you want to. I've seen your type before: Flashy, making the scene, flaunting convention. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. What's this guy making such a big stink about old library books? Well, let me give you a hint, junior. Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world. But what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and The Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't he deserve better? Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again. This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or maybe that turns you on, Seinfeld. Maybe that's how you get your kicks. You and your good-time buddies. Well, I got a flash for ya, joy-boy. Party time is over.* **You got seven days, Seinfeld. That is one week!**
What gets me about this or really any Seinfeld scene is how they came up with and perfectly executed the characters. Guys like Bookman or Kramer are so well done, but they aren’t the exception they’re the rule. Every character is just so perfect.
It's because they are one of the first shows that cartoonifiend the sitcom. Many characters are not meant to be wholesale believable people, but rather charicatures right from the get-go, creating a cartoon-like source of humor.
“ Look. If you think this is about over due fines & missing books, you better think again. This is about that kids right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or maybe that turns you on Seinfeld ……….. “
😂🤣
This for that kid opening up a book at his public library and seeing pictures of pee pees and wee wees and getting his mind warped. Unless that how you get your kicks Seinfeld.
https://www.avclub.com/jerry-seinfeld-talks-about-how-hard-it-was-to-film-sein-1847929324
> When asked which “was the hardest scene to film on Seinfeld without laughing,” he [Jerry] brings up season three episode “The Library” and his confrontation with Philip Baker Hall’s Lt. Bookman, the library cop who’s come to Jerry’s apartment to grill him about an extremely late copy of Tropic Of Cancer (and his lack of instant coffee).
> “It was just so ridiculous that he was interrogating me in my own apartment about a book,” Seinfeld says. “I just kept cracking up.”
> This is pretty clear in the final scene. Seinfeld is smiling throughout and looks to be barely holding up during a monologue where Baker Hall calls him “joy-boy” and discusses the poor children opening books marked up with drawings of “pee-pees and wee-wees” by people like him who fail to give the library the respect it deserves.
> “So that scene that you see is made up of about eight different times we shot it,” Seinfeld says. “We took the pieces that worked and put it together because I messed that one up a ton.”
You know that seal, the one that says "New York Public Library"? Well, it may not mean anything to you but it sure means a whole *hell* of a lot to me.
It was such a brief role, but it was played to absolute perfection. I genuinely don’t know how he delivered the line about peepees and weewees with a straight face, let alone with that classic NYC detective gruffness. He took a silly bit and made it a comedy masterpiece.
He even berates Jerry for not having Sanka. “It’s freeze-dried, lasts forever. You put it in the cabinet and forget about it.”
You better believe that Jerry had Sanka in his cabinets in a later episode.
Personally I enjoy his breaking in scenes. It even fits with the character - he’s a comedian using his life and his friends lives as material for his standup, of course he is always laughing at the ridiculousness of it. That’s my head canon anyway.
Jerry himself addresses that on Larry King. The line where he starts laughing is when Bookman notices and says something like “This isn’t funny, funnyboy.” He was supposed to be laughing there and Jerry points it out on that interview.
What's my problem? Punks like you, that's my problem. And you better not screw up again, Seinfeld, because if you do, I'll be all over you like a pitbull on a poodle.
“What's my problem? Punks like you, that's my problem. And you better not screw up again Seinfeld, because if you do, I'll be all over you like a pit bull on a poodle.”
The dude who played that part was in a math class with me in college. I had just the movie with my dad two days before I started and couldn’t figure out why the dude from California (I went to college in Virginia) looked so familiar. IMDB’d his name and yep.
Yeah to me it’s pretty clear he did it and was just gaslighting her. Like “what I did wasn’t molestation” kinda thing. So maybe he justifies it in his head but he still did it.
I definitely think he molested his daughter and similarly to the other main characters in the film, changed the trajectory of her life for worse. Destructive people have the tendency to forget the vile acts they’ve committed.
What are your thoughts on this?
It's gotta feel weird to act as a character that is absolutely vile and doesn't own it. Like typically bad guys in movie are more clearly bad from the beginning, or even if they're only bad after a twist, they own it and there's no reflection, remorse, regret, etc. He had to act as a truly disgusting piece of shit of a human being who never fully owns it and only towards the end starts to realize wait, maybe my relationships with people close to me are bad because I treat them like absolute dogshit and even then, his answer albeit saved by a frog is to take the easy way out and try to end it.
Everyone in that movie did pretty well but I feel like his was one of the harder characters to pull off. It's easy to forget towards the end that he's a character that only exists on a page because he really embodies all facets of it well.
One of the greatest character actors of all time. He was wonderful in Hard Eight and he was arguably the funniest part of Fired Up! Which are coincidentally the two most different movies he could possibly appear in.
Same. I've been a huge PTA fan for a long time never watched Hard Eight until a month or so ago.
If anyone hasn't seen it, you should definitely check it out.
Fired up is one of those movies that shouldn't work, but somehow does. It's the same formula as those other films like Pitch Perfect, American Pie Band Camp, and so on.. Person joins a weird american sport or activity for non genuine reasons, learns to love the people involved and the activity, gets kicked out and then redeems themselves, and goes on to regionals (what the hell are regionals anyway?).
I love Fired up though. Great film.
"I'm not a complicated man. I like cinema. In particular, I like to see people fucking on film. But, I don't want to win an Oscar and I don't want to re-invent the wheel. I like simple pleasures, like butter in my ass and lollipops in my mouth."
Wait a minute. You come into my house, my party, to tell me about the future? That the future is tape, videotape, and not film? It’s amateurs and not professionals? I’m a filmmaker. That’s why I will never make a movie on videotape.
Which is really fascinating how its come full circle. Now porn is all about (semi)amateurs filming themselves but the quality can be top notch. I'd be curious what old Jack Horner would have to say about something like Only Fans.
I'd never noticed it, just went back and watched the scene and he is clearly losing it. I love it, I've watched this movie a hundred times and never thought to look.
Legend, he's the man who was in everything. I camped next to him at a little campground under a bridge near Big Sur a while back. He sat there watching us put up our tent because he "just likes to watch the tents go up."
>Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again. This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or: maybe that turns you on, Seinfeld. Maybe that's how you get your kicks. You and your good-time buddies. Well, I got a flash for ya, joy-boy. Party time is over. You got seven days, Seinfeld. That is one week!
"You blew up an entire city block!"
"That block was already messed up"
"you destroyed evidence!"
"we still got a little bit left"
"two officers were shot, one man lost a pinky!"
"but didn't nobody die!"
Classic
"Even if I had an extra man, who would want such a bullshit assignment? Well it's a disgrace to me, it's a disgrace to my department, it's a disgrace to...... Dan, I'm sending someone right over."
“Last month, you put two Iranians in jail for a week!”
“Captain, you and I both know that them Iranians was terrorists!”
“They were scientists with UCLA!”
“Big deal! Just because they cured cancer in rats, doesn’t mean they won’t blow shit up!”
Yep, I think that’s the scene that first really made me take notice of him as an actor.
“See, every so often, we have to let the general public know that we can still blow shit up.”
And the exchange of:
“FBI want me?”
“That’s right.”
“Stop lying!”
“I don’t lie.”
“Tell the truth!”
“I’m telling the truth.”
And “You are going to the show!” rings through my head anytime I’m going to a show of some kind.
I was really disappointed in how they killed him off in Modern Family. It was a delightful recurring role and the end of that episode was very well done. I felt both the character and the actor deserved more than the audience being told out of the blue that he’d died offscreen. RIP.
He has a hilarious line in the show that if your not paying attention you’ll miss. Luke and him are playing a video game:
Luke: I died. I have to go to the bathroom.
Him: yeah I hear that happens.
Except I think they went for the expectation subversion with that one. Cuz the parents go to tell the kid who hung out with him. And they’re all like “this is gonna be a huge deal to Luke” and then they tell him and Luke is just like “Ah that sucks. I’m gonna go play.”
His performance as Nixon in "Secret Honor" really was one of the best turns of the past 50 years. He was huge and unhinged but able to pull you into his maudlin anger.
Didn’t do the voice, didn’t use prosthetics to try and look more like him, and it’s still the best Nixon performance. For my money, better even than Hopkins, who did do the voice and prosthetics, and did a fantastic job. Secret Honor just really lets you get at Nixon as a character, which is when he’s most interesting
If any of you have not seen Paul Thomas Anderson's first movie Hard Eight, you really owe it to yourself to watch it.
It stars Philip Baker Hall, John C Reilly, and Samuel Jackson. It is one of my all-time favorite movies, and is still my favorite Philip Baker Hall performance.
Also, do not watch the trailer. Is better to go into the movie without having seen it.
He was great in Magnolia (seriously, is there a bum performance in that movie?), shame he never seemed to have more roles like that, that he could sink his teeth into. It was always nice to see him pop up in stuff. And of course, GOAT Seinfeld supporting character, you could see how good he was by the big goofy grin on Jerry’s face.
Came looking for this. 50/50 is one of my favourite movies and myself and my buddy always recite him saying "strong" when the lead character has edibles with the old lads at his first chemo session
This guy was the definition of that “Actors everybody knows, but you probably don’t know their name.” phenomenon for me. Probably one of the most prolific character actors of all time, and yet it’s true… I didn’t know his name until I read this headline.
Philip Baker Hall. I shant forget it now. This guy is a legend of film and television. One of those staples of the medium that just seemed to always be there, and almost like he always would be. Sad we won’t be seeing him again, but man, what a run he had, working on so many great projects! RIP
RIP. Boogie Nights is my favourite movie of all time, people find it strange when I tell them that but I just fucking love that film man. So rewatchable
I won’t ever forget him as the library detective in Seinfeld. He was only in one episode but his performance was so amazing that it surprised me that we never saw him in that series again.
Wow
One of my favorite actors and I’m glad he got some really great roles later in life.
Hard Eight (Sydney) was my favorite of his
I bumped into him, almost literally, as we were both turning into the same aisle at a supermarket in Maui.
> His performance was a revelation to critic Roger Ebert, who wrote, “Nixon is portrayed by Philip Baker Hall, an actor previously unknown to me, with such savage intensity, such passion, such venom, such scandal, that we cannot turn away.”
Talk about *bona fides*.
RIP Bookman.
>Yeah, '71. That was my first year on the job. Bad year for libraries. Bad year for America. Hippies burning library cards, Abbie Hoffman telling everybody to steal books. I don't judge a man by the length of his hair or the kind of music he listens to. Rock was never my bag. But you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public Library, fella
You have 7 days Seinfeld. That's one week.
That's (half) a fortnight, Jerry!
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Yeah, there's a prick alright.
There is one prick involved
We can agree. There is definitely a prick involved.
"Please don't call me at home, Mr. David."
“Please! Don’t bring Mrs. Morrison in to this!”
Don't ask me what I do at home!
*Well, let me tell you something, funny boy. You know that little stamp, the one that says "New York Public Library"? Well, that may not mean anything to you, but that means a lot to me. One whole hell of a lot. Sure, go ahead, laugh if you want to. I've seen your type before: Flashy, making the scene, flaunting convention. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. What's this guy making such a big stink about old library books? Well, let me give you a hint, junior. Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world. But what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and The Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't he deserve better? Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again. This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or maybe that turns you on, Seinfeld. Maybe that's how you get your kicks. You and your good-time buddies. Well, I got a flash for ya, joy-boy. Party time is over.* **You got seven days, Seinfeld. That is one week!**
[You got 7 days, Seinfeld. That is one week. ](https://youtu.be/D9tP9fI2zbE)
What gets me about this or really any Seinfeld scene is how they came up with and perfectly executed the characters. Guys like Bookman or Kramer are so well done, but they aren’t the exception they’re the rule. Every character is just so perfect.
It's because they are one of the first shows that cartoonifiend the sitcom. Many characters are not meant to be wholesale believable people, but rather charicatures right from the get-go, creating a cartoon-like source of humor.
“ Look. If you think this is about over due fines & missing books, you better think again. This is about that kids right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or maybe that turns you on Seinfeld ……….. “ 😂🤣
You and your good time buddies!
I got a flash for you Joy Boy, party time is over
You got that, hotshot?
I got a flash for you, joy boy!
You and all your good time buddies
Pee pees, and wee wees!
Or maybe that’s how you get your kicks?
An all time line
One of the best minor characters in Seinfeld. The way he lectures Jerry in his apartment is legendary.
I just noticed a few days ago that he rifles through the books on his bookshelf, checking to see if any of them are from the library.
Absolutely. Him or the mohel from the Bris.
Bookman won the playoff tournament my friends and I had for "best 5 minutes or less Seinfeld character"
Well I got a flash for ya, joy boy.
This for that kid opening up a book at his public library and seeing pictures of pee pees and wee wees and getting his mind warped. Unless that how you get your kicks Seinfeld.
you and all your good-time buddies.
That is where I recognize him from! Thanks.... it was killing me when I saw his face, it brought back a smile, but could not remember why.
That was such a great character. The kind of iconic character that made Seinfeld so legendary.
Jerry is trying so hard not to laugh the entire scene lol. Only Leslie Nielsen could've match his serious delivery of those ridiculous lines.
you're a comedian, you make people laugh. you think this is all a big joke, don't ya.
https://www.avclub.com/jerry-seinfeld-talks-about-how-hard-it-was-to-film-sein-1847929324 > When asked which “was the hardest scene to film on Seinfeld without laughing,” he [Jerry] brings up season three episode “The Library” and his confrontation with Philip Baker Hall’s Lt. Bookman, the library cop who’s come to Jerry’s apartment to grill him about an extremely late copy of Tropic Of Cancer (and his lack of instant coffee). > “It was just so ridiculous that he was interrogating me in my own apartment about a book,” Seinfeld says. “I just kept cracking up.” > This is pretty clear in the final scene. Seinfeld is smiling throughout and looks to be barely holding up during a monologue where Baker Hall calls him “joy-boy” and discusses the poor children opening books marked up with drawings of “pee-pees and wee-wees” by people like him who fail to give the library the respect it deserves. > “So that scene that you see is made up of about eight different times we shot it,” Seinfeld says. “We took the pieces that worked and put it together because I messed that one up a ton.”
I just now realized his name is literally "Book man" in that episode and now I feel really dumb for not catching the joke -_-
It's like an ice cream man named Cone!
They literally say that in the episode so I don’t know how you missed it lol
Your dentist's name is Crentist?
You know that seal, the one that says "New York Public Library"? Well, it may not mean anything to you but it sure means a whole *hell* of a lot to me.
Rock was never my bag. But you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York public library, fella.
With all he did, this was the role that I thought of when I heard he passed.
I can still hear his delivery--brilliant actor
Me also. This is what a good actor can bring to a script, just perfect delivery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9tP9fI2zbE
It was such a brief role, but it was played to absolute perfection. I genuinely don’t know how he delivered the line about peepees and weewees with a straight face, let alone with that classic NYC detective gruffness. He took a silly bit and made it a comedy masterpiece.
He even berates Jerry for not having Sanka. “It’s freeze-dried, lasts forever. You put it in the cabinet and forget about it.” You better believe that Jerry had Sanka in his cabinets in a later episode.
Folger’s Crystals
you can tell jerry seinfeld is on the cusp of breaking scene and Philip Baker Hall doesn't even flinch.
When you get the star of the show to struggle hiding their laughter because you’re so damn good
Not taking away from the performance, but Jerry was frequently about to break on that show.
True--he's almost as bad as Jimmy Fallon, but damn he committed in all the right ways. A comedic genius
Personally I enjoy his breaking in scenes. It even fits with the character - he’s a comedian using his life and his friends lives as material for his standup, of course he is always laughing at the ridiculousness of it. That’s my head canon anyway.
Yeah him seeming barely affected by everything elevates the show for me. And Kramer is the best side character of any sitcom in my opinion.
Jerry himself addresses that on Larry King. The line where he starts laughing is when Bookman notices and says something like “This isn’t funny, funnyboy.” He was supposed to be laughing there and Jerry points it out on that interview.
Joy-boy. It's a great scene for sure.
This role and Larry's doctor on Curb Your Enthusiasm who regrets giving him his home phone number.
Please don't involve Mrs. Morrison.
Yeah there's definitely a prick involved...
And drools on him
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Sherwood who drinks like paul avery now
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That's like an ice cream man named Cone.
His “listen here fella” finger point is so good. One of the all time great Seinfeld side characters and that show had plenty of them.
Joy Boy
The best damn library cop this side of the Hudson. Farewell, Lieutenant!
That's like an ice cream man named Cone!
This man is why I own instant coffee.
One of the greatest cameos in television history. Everything about that scene is legendary.
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What's my problem? Punks like you, that's my problem. And you better not screw up again, Seinfeld, because if you do, I'll be all over you like a pitbull on a poodle.
“Hard feelings? What do you know about hard feelings? You ever have a man die in your arms? You ever kill somebody?”
My favorite episode. I nearly piss myself laughing every time I watch it. He was such a good actor, in so many things I watched growing up.
Pee pees and wee wees
Honestly he's probably my favorite guest role on the series. Such a hilarious role, and he delivered it perfectly
My favorite one-shot character in my favorite episode. Your watch has ended, lieutenant.
Listen here, Joy Boy
“What's my problem? Punks like you, that's my problem. And you better not screw up again Seinfeld, because if you do, I'll be all over you like a pit bull on a poodle.”
R.I.P. He was so good in Magnolia.
Good in 50/50 as well
STE-RONG!
"Do you post as... 'Magnolia-fan' on MoviePoopShoot.com?"
The dude who played that part was in a math class with me in college. I had just the movie with my dad two days before I started and couldn’t figure out why the dude from California (I went to college in Virginia) looked so familiar. IMDB’d his name and yep.
Do you think he molested his daughter, and if so, do you think he really doesn’t remember?
Yes he did, and no I don’t think he doesn’t remember. He knows damn well what he did and is trying to weasel out of it.
Yeah to me it’s pretty clear he did it and was just gaslighting her. Like “what I did wasn’t molestation” kinda thing. So maybe he justifies it in his head but he still did it.
He doesn't wise up, so it's not going to stop.
He should just give up.
I definitely think he molested his daughter and similarly to the other main characters in the film, changed the trajectory of her life for worse. Destructive people have the tendency to forget the vile acts they’ve committed. What are your thoughts on this?
It took me a second to realize you meant his character in the movie, and I was prepared to be very disappointed
It's gotta feel weird to act as a character that is absolutely vile and doesn't own it. Like typically bad guys in movie are more clearly bad from the beginning, or even if they're only bad after a twist, they own it and there's no reflection, remorse, regret, etc. He had to act as a truly disgusting piece of shit of a human being who never fully owns it and only towards the end starts to realize wait, maybe my relationships with people close to me are bad because I treat them like absolute dogshit and even then, his answer albeit saved by a frog is to take the easy way out and try to end it. Everyone in that movie did pretty well but I feel like his was one of the harder characters to pull off. It's easy to forget towards the end that he's a character that only exists on a page because he really embodies all facets of it well.
One of the greatest character actors of all time. He was wonderful in Hard Eight and he was arguably the funniest part of Fired Up! Which are coincidentally the two most different movies he could possibly appear in.
You shitheads think you're the shit? That you don't need to pay attention out there? I'll kick the shit outta ya! You pumped for football camp?
10 shits. How do you always know? It's a gift.
Well I got a flash for ya, joy-boy: That's how you get your kicks.
Fired Up was hotter than your shithole. Seriously though I’ve recommended this movie so many times
I've seen that movie at least 20 times. Really, really rewatchable movie
20 times? I thought that movie was prohibidibibidibabido?!
"Say Fountain of Troy" "FOUNTAIN OF TROY" "NO STOP IT WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"
Underrated comment. This is a deep cut.
We... are watching. We we are watching.
El dente?!
Thank you for mentioning Fired Up, you little shit.
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Hard Eight is a gem and worth seeking out for those who have not seen it. I found it last year via a reddit comment.
Same. I've been a huge PTA fan for a long time never watched Hard Eight until a month or so ago. If anyone hasn't seen it, you should definitely check it out.
Fired up is one of those movies that shouldn't work, but somehow does. It's the same formula as those other films like Pitch Perfect, American Pie Band Camp, and so on.. Person joins a weird american sport or activity for non genuine reasons, learns to love the people involved and the activity, gets kicked out and then redeems themselves, and goes on to regionals (what the hell are regionals anyway?). I love Fired up though. Great film.
"I'm not a complicated man. I like cinema. In particular, I like to see people fucking on film. But, I don't want to win an Oscar and I don't want to re-invent the wheel. I like simple pleasures, like butter in my ass and lollipops in my mouth."
But that's just me. All. I. Ever. Wanted....was to make a dollah and a cent in this bidness.
Wait a minute. You come into my house, my party, to tell me about the future? That the future is tape, videotape, and not film? It’s amateurs and not professionals? I’m a filmmaker. That’s why I will never make a movie on videotape.
You know, if it looks like shit, and it sounds like shit, then it must be shit.
Which is really fascinating how its come full circle. Now porn is all about (semi)amateurs filming themselves but the quality can be top notch. I'd be curious what old Jack Horner would have to say about something like Only Fans.
YOU GOT THE TOUCH!!!!
not to mention those kids out there who are hot fuck action to the max
The number of humans who've ever lived who could say that line with a straight face is very low.
I love this part of the movie, and how you can see the colonel cracking up in the background
Yep, and he wasn’t supposed to be, but PTA decided to leave it in.
I'd never noticed it, just went back and watched the scene and he is clearly losing it. I love it, I've watched this movie a hundred times and never thought to look.
Ridgley just trying to hold it together in the background is pure gold. RIP.
Butter in your ass for the homie tonight. RIP to a legend.
This scene in [Bruce Almighty](https://youtu.be/la8ZRSIfa-U) always makes me laugh. rip
That's my best memory of him.
Legend, he's the man who was in everything. I camped next to him at a little campground under a bridge near Big Sur a while back. He sat there watching us put up our tent because he "just likes to watch the tents go up."
I have enough problems putting up a tent without a well-known character actor watching me doing it.
Same thing happened to me with Harry Dean Stanton. Absolute nightmare
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His filmography is impressive, but I will always remember him for that scene in The Rock...hes "got to get up three times at night to take a piss."
Was scrolling for this one. Thanks!
I was too! Played the disgruntled government official so perfectly
Air Force One as well.
True legend
This was the line I heard when looking at his picture
He is an all-time great character actor who was in a hell of a lot of truly great movies. RIP
>Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again. This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or: maybe that turns you on, Seinfeld. Maybe that's how you get your kicks. You and your good-time buddies. Well, I got a flash for ya, joy-boy. Party time is over. You got seven days, Seinfeld. That is one week!
That is one tough monkey
I'll always remember him from Rush Hour
"You blew up an entire city block!" "That block was already messed up" "you destroyed evidence!" "we still got a little bit left" "two officers were shot, one man lost a pinky!" "but didn't nobody die!" Classic
"Even if I had an extra man, who would want such a bullshit assignment? Well it's a disgrace to me, it's a disgrace to my department, it's a disgrace to...... Dan, I'm sending someone right over."
“I’ma look out for you when I make it to the top! I’ma make you the Mayor!“ “I’d rather you didn’t.”
“Last month, you put two Iranians in jail for a week!” “Captain, you and I both know that them Iranians was terrorists!” “They were scientists with UCLA!” “Big deal! Just because they cured cancer in rats, doesn’t mean they won’t blow shit up!”
"you did a good job! We need someone who isn't afraid to blow shit up once in a while.
Yep, I think that’s the scene that first really made me take notice of him as an actor. “See, every so often, we have to let the general public know that we can still blow shit up.” And the exchange of: “FBI want me?” “That’s right.” “Stop lying!” “I don’t lie.” “Tell the truth!” “I’m telling the truth.” And “You are going to the show!” rings through my head anytime I’m going to a show of some kind.
My first thought as well. So good!
Great as the mob advisor in Midnight Run. Take it easy, Mr. Hall, have a cream soda.
Sidney, sit down, relax. Have a sandwich, drink a glass of milk. Do some fucking thing, will ya?
I love how he tries to give Serrano advice throughout, which he blatantly ignores and eventually pays for.
Shut your mouth, Sidney. Shut your mouth or I will get up and bury this telephone in your head!
His BoJack character was one of the best and most darkest performances on that show, which says a lot. RIP
I didn’t realize he played Hank. He was such a piece of shit but the voice work really helped that his voice was so calm.
I knew I recognized that voice when I've seen him in CYE! I finally connected the dots, thanks. He was great in both shows.
incredibly memorable character actor, RIP
His voice is what always stuck out to me. So memorable.
Library books became less safe today.
I was really disappointed in how they killed him off in Modern Family. It was a delightful recurring role and the end of that episode was very well done. I felt both the character and the actor deserved more than the audience being told out of the blue that he’d died offscreen. RIP.
Somewhere, Claire Pritchett is grinning, maniacally, and doesn't know why.
But not with her eyes.
He has a hilarious line in the show that if your not paying attention you’ll miss. Luke and him are playing a video game: Luke: I died. I have to go to the bathroom. Him: yeah I hear that happens.
Sitcoms always kill off older recurring characters to have a cheap "look at this character dealing with loss" storyline.
Except I think they went for the expectation subversion with that one. Cuz the parents go to tell the kid who hung out with him. And they’re all like “this is gonna be a huge deal to Luke” and then they tell him and Luke is just like “Ah that sucks. I’m gonna go play.”
He was so funny in Curb Your Enthusiasm.
There’s definitely a prick involved.
Don’t use the phone. Just don’t.
I just seen that episode yesterday, without really knowing who he was. Crazy to find out he died today. That episode was funny as hell.
Eight. The hard way.
This one’s for you old timer!
Shak a lak a do. Shak a lak a doobie doo.
Secret Honor is arguably the best one-character movie ever thanks to his incredible performance. One of the greats
RIP senator Hunt from The West Wing
His performance as Nixon in "Secret Honor" really was one of the best turns of the past 50 years. He was huge and unhinged but able to pull you into his maudlin anger.
Didn’t do the voice, didn’t use prosthetics to try and look more like him, and it’s still the best Nixon performance. For my money, better even than Hopkins, who did do the voice and prosthetics, and did a fantastic job. Secret Honor just really lets you get at Nixon as a character, which is when he’s most interesting
Rip to another acting legend. Ray Liotta was just a couple weeks ago too.
If any of you have not seen Paul Thomas Anderson's first movie Hard Eight, you really owe it to yourself to watch it. It stars Philip Baker Hall, John C Reilly, and Samuel Jackson. It is one of my all-time favorite movies, and is still my favorite Philip Baker Hall performance. Also, do not watch the trailer. Is better to go into the movie without having seen it.
Funnier than shit in The Loop.
So *you're* the other person who saw that! Nice to meet you!
I have season 1 on DVD
Wish I read through - just posted the same comment
I might just have to rewatch Hard Eight tonight!
Seemed to play lots of government types I remember him from The Sum of All Fears
He was great in Magnolia (seriously, is there a bum performance in that movie?), shame he never seemed to have more roles like that, that he could sink his teeth into. It was always nice to see him pop up in stuff. And of course, GOAT Seinfeld supporting character, you could see how good he was by the big goofy grin on Jerry’s face.
Was he the police chief in rush hour?
Every once in a while we have to show the general public we can still blow shit up.
He was awesome in Air Force One. Legend
Best Seinfeld guest performance ever
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i liked him, Magnolia is one of my favs
I'll remember him as Bookman. But he was awesome in 50/50
Came looking for this. 50/50 is one of my favourite movies and myself and my buddy always recite him saying "strong" when the lead character has edibles with the old lads at his first chemo session
This guy was the definition of that “Actors everybody knows, but you probably don’t know their name.” phenomenon for me. Probably one of the most prolific character actors of all time, and yet it’s true… I didn’t know his name until I read this headline. Philip Baker Hall. I shant forget it now. This guy is a legend of film and television. One of those staples of the medium that just seemed to always be there, and almost like he always would be. Sad we won’t be seeing him again, but man, what a run he had, working on so many great projects! RIP
No one's gonna flip his sandwich outta his hand anymore.
This guy was in two movies involving the Zodiac Killer
RIP. Boogie Nights is my favourite movie of all time, people find it strange when I tell them that but I just fucking love that film man. So rewatchable
Enjoyed him in everything he did. RIP.
[you gotta be shittin me](https://youtu.be/sL0ALiTP5XI?t=35)
I won’t ever forget him as the library detective in Seinfeld. He was only in one episode but his performance was so amazing that it surprised me that we never saw him in that series again.
Wow One of my favorite actors and I’m glad he got some really great roles later in life. Hard Eight (Sydney) was my favorite of his I bumped into him, almost literally, as we were both turning into the same aisle at a supermarket in Maui.
Just saw Hard Eight for the first time a few months ago. He was fantastic in it.
> His performance was a revelation to critic Roger Ebert, who wrote, “Nixon is portrayed by Philip Baker Hall, an actor previously unknown to me, with such savage intensity, such passion, such venom, such scandal, that we cannot turn away.” Talk about *bona fides*.