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Don't ask me what the hell's going on here.
I have no idea.
But thankfully all of 1985's infamous flop Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins starring Fred Ward is uploaded to YouTube, because it allowed me to scan through it and find the brief moment of screen-time given to Tom McBride, aka "the dude who dies in the wheelchair in Friday the 13th Part 2 that I have loved forever." We've spoken about Tom before; how he died of AIDS and that there's a documentary about that (you can actually watch a clip from the doc online now too), but this is the first time I'd seen his lil' cameo in Remo.
He plays an actor on a soap opera that Joel Grey is watching in the film. Joel Grey, yes, in yellow face. This is presumably a footnote that Joel Grey would prefer gets washed from his résumé - sorry Joel, but in order to find Tom, we had to.
Tom would have turned 62 today.
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in this film Joel Grey speaks the greatest line ever committed to celluloid:
ReplyDelete"A warrior is not a mountain goat. It is wise to remember this."
Tom was beautiful and it hurts the heart to know that he was gone early
ReplyDeleteSo young and so dreamy