He was 72. How unexpected could it have been?

"He died doing what he loved, which was being on the stage and in a play he was so proud of."

LOL, so trite

Now THAT'S what I call method acting!!

Vote for me so I can feel good about myself

wow, that's almost like... rain. on your wedding day, no less.

joeycolby
He was 72. How unexpected could it have been?

Don't you know? 72 is the new 50.

Yes, truly commited to the character.

Oh the ironity of it!

I don't have anything relevant to add. I just wanted to vote for Extanium

Winterlongone
36 is half of 72. Perhaps it works in multiples or fractions?

YMIGSTC

I believe 'having one thousand spoons when all you need is a knife' is a decent example of irony.

That sounds like a Columbo episode.

"There is a certain poetic irony to his death," Christopher Janson said. "He died doing what he loved, which was being on the stage and in a play he was so proud of."

Excepting that there was absolutely nothing ironic or poetic about it.

Janson portrayed a fictional former U.S. president who dies unexpectedly.

Jack Bauer was framed.

/a vote for me is a vote for the next season of "24" to start before friggin' January

It's a shame, but at least he wasn't in the Life and Death of James Dean. I hear the end is messy, to say the least.

Dwreck: I believe 'having one thousand spoons when all you need is a knife' is a decent example of irony.

No, it's not. It's just an unfortunate circumstance.

WTF everybody - help make Extanium feel good about himself.

/slackass Farkers
// We're the Good Ole' Blues Brothers Boys

Not Impressed

/voting because its there

Maybe ironic, definitely darkly poetic.

Irony would be you need a knife and then someone stabs you.

I'm not sure how this is irony, more like "bound to happen" It is like saying that it is ironic that the gravedigger is buried in the same graveyard he worked in. And besides I want to reuse my graphic.

Dick Shawn, comedian, MAD MAD MAD WORLD, The Producers, dropped dead on stage during his stand up act.



Shawn was performing at the University of California at San Diego in 1987 when he suddenly fell forward on the stage during one of his spiels about the Holocaust. The audience, of course, laughed, thinking it was just a part of his odd schtick. In actuality, the 63-year-old married actor with four children had suffered a fatal heart attack. A not surprising end for this thoroughly offbeat and intriguing personality.

This thread needs a pic of the Good Ole Boys, I can't picture them other than their loud-mouthed leader.

Good night, funnyman.

Way to break a leg, yo.

/goodnight, funnyman

lelio

I just got Chinatown today via Netflix, i am going to double feature it with L.A. Confidential. My girl is a camera assistant/film snob, and she hasn't seen either of these yet! She will flip, we both love noir/crime flicks.

shanrick: OK you Irony Nazis, try to talk your way out of this one.

It's not irony. It's a freaking COINCIDENCE.

Why people think that "irony" means "strange coincidence" I'll never understand. But it doesn't.

He was playing a president? It would be ironic if he were portraying a Republican but in real life was a staunch Democrat. It would be ironic if his character starts a war, but in real life, he is a pacifist. Irony is the incongruity that results when what happens is the opposite of what one would expect to happen.

shanrick: OK you Irony Nazis, try to talk your way out of this one.

On Fark, "irony" is defined as an adjective which is never applicable.

/Ironic, really
//Oops

jayessell

for you...



ACTING!!!!

Wanted for questioning...

You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I've heard of guys not being able to act their way out of a Hefty bag, but this is taking it to far.

guitarpick8210, great level. It would have been better if it had been a live performance of Tosca, though.

There is a raging internet debate over what irony truly is. Whatever you think it is, you're wrong.

/more at 11

And...

SCENE!