THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: The Fake Shemp on November 10, 2006, 05:43:16 PM
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Jack Palance dies at 87
Oscar-winner died of natural causes in his California home
Updated: less than 1 minute ago
LOS ANGELES - Jack Palance, the craggy-faced menace in “Shane,” “Sudden Fear” and other films who turned to comedy at 70 with his Oscar-winning self-parody in “City Slickers,” died Friday.
Palance died of natural causes at his home in Montecito, Calif., surrounded by family, said spokesman Dick Guttman. Palance was 85 according to Associated Press records, but his family gave his age as 87.
When Palance accepted his Oscar for best supporting actor he delighted viewers of the 1992 Academy Awards by dropping to the stage and performing one-armed push-ups to demonstrate his physical prowess.
“That’s nothing, really,” he said slyly. “As far as two-handed push-ups, you can do that all night, and it doesn’t make a difference whether she’s there or not.”
That year’s Oscar host, Billy Crystal, turned the moment into a running joke, making increasingly outlandish remarks about Palance’s accomplishments throughout the night’s awards presentations.
It was a magic moment that epitomized the actor’s 40 years in films. Always the iconoclast, Palance had scorned most of his film roles.
“Most of the stuff I do is garbage,” he once told a reporter, adding that most of the directors he worked with were incompetent.
Movie audiences, however, were electrified by the actor’s chiseled face and hulking presence, and a calm, low voice that made him all the more chilling.
:lol
He was a crazy old fart.
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:(
City Slickers
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I have nightmares of Jack Palance from Scrooged coming to get me when I'm asleep tonight...
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Curly nooo!
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He could do push ups with one hand :/
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Damn. My reaction to this news was me thinking "SON OF A BITCH", just like Jack did in Batman, slamming his fist down on the newspaper and everything.
R.I.P.
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:(
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Need to watch Ripley's now.....
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I WILL HAUNT YOUR DREAMS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!
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(http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/10/palance.death/top.palance.gi.jpg)
I WILL HAUNT YOUR DREAMS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!
How, he totally could've been the Tall Man in a Phantasm remake.
I met Jack Palance once at a local function in PA. He came across as a nice "good ol boy" type of person.
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he raped me outside a south dakota trailer park
he said he'd call but instead he gave me twenty bucks and pushed me out of his toyota into a ditch
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he raped me outside a south dakota trailer park
he said he'd call but instead he gave me twenty bucks and pushed me out of his toyota into a ditch
So that's where you learned it from. :'(
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DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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you broke the rules!
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Hollywood insider knowledge: Jack Palance actually lives on in the earthly vessel called Everett McGill.
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For a minute there I thought Jack Palance had died again. Would've suck to have gone through that twice.
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For a minute there I thought Jack Palance had died again. Would've suck to have gone through that twice.
both Jack Palance and Willco have returned from the grave to haunt us forever :(
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To save this thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1d8L_l1n9M
(Skip to 3:15)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwb2jDGDnnM
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Was the bump really necessary?
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No more than anyone else.
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Wow, I thought he was already dead. ::)
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Are you?
Simple but effective.
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I can quite easily imagine Palance to have been an enthusiastic rape fan.
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Wow, I thought he was already dead. ::)
Same here.
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He's back! In pog form! Remember pogs?
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Pawgs?
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He's back! In pog form! Remember pogs?
with slammers!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z2YBHkhJq8
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq9r50EYJh0
I actually had one of these. :lol
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Wow, I thought he was already dead. ::)
That's how badass Palance was. He toughed his way out from the grave and met his end again only when he chose. He was like a real Curly's Gold, only he was the real thing and not a stupid twin brother.
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Wow, I thought he was already dead. ::)
That's how badass Palance was. He toughed his way out from the grave and met his end again only when he chose. He was like a real Curly's Gold, only he was the real thing and not a stupid twin brother.
Jack Palance for Messiah 2012!
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SLAMMERS! SHAPED LIKE A NINJA STAR!!!!!