Thursday, December 14, 2006

Puttin on the Ritz!




Peter Boyle died Tuesday night at age 71. He will, and probably rightly so, be forever remembered as the irascible Dad to Ray Romano on Everybody Loves Raymond. For every good actor their is a role of a lifetime and for Boyle, that was it.

But he was a journeyman, working for years in the sweat shop known as Hollywood where character actors earn a living in blissful obscurity. Boyle had a fine range and I can think of two other memorable roles right off the top of my head--the political consultant from 1972's The Candidate and of course, this shown here (HT to the Corner).

In fact, it is this one here that I personally will always recall. Perhaps I was just too impressionable at the time I first saw it or maybe it's that good. I don't really know.

I do know it was still good for a laugh 32 years later as we discussed it around the water-cooler yesterday...

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