Wednesday

 

Aw no: another one of the good guys dead. CHRIS PENN. Dead at forty. Found dead, alone, at home. I don't know why but this one has hit me like a truck. Maybe cos Penn was one of the few contemporary equivalents of that Harry Dean Stanton/Warren Oates quiet- unpretty- guy supporting-Joe claque I so loved. Maybe because his performance in Abel Ferrara's The Funeral has been in my all-time Top Ten since the night I saw it. Not fucking right: just not fucking right.

posted by Ian 1/25/2006 08:03:00 PM

Comments:

and no one wore a shellsuit like Chris...

# posted by  Loki : 26/1/06

 

The Funeral was one of my favorites too...he'll be greatly missed

# posted by  hijacked frequencies : 26/1/06

 

But his greatest moment was surely Footloose, no?

"Let's hear it for the boy..."

# posted by  Tim Footman : 29/1/06

 

his iconic performance as "that guy" in "that movie"...

# posted by  TRUE : 30/1/06

 

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