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RIP Ed Gale, the physical actor for Howard the Duck in the 1986 movie, as well as Chucky in the first two Child's Play movies.
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Andy E. Nystrom wrote:
RIP Ed Gale, the physical actor for Howard the Duck in the 1986 movie, as well as Chucky in the first two Child's Play movies.
Gale had a guest role on an episode of Friday the 13th: The Series (American title), a horror TV show in the late 80's about newly inherited antiques show owners/cousins (and their occult-expert friend) who learn that their uncle, the previous owner, had placed curses on all the antiques he sold (and the unsold back stock they inherited and sold before they learned about the curses part) because he literally Made a Deal with The Devil. The episode's plot involved a ventriloquist whose career was on the rise, but his dummy kept demanding that he kill people so that the dummy would slowly transform into a living creature. The guilt of killing drove the ventriloquist insane, so the dummy found another ventriloquist to share in their "act." Half-way through the episode, they switched out the prop dummy initially being used with Ed Gale dressed up in an outfit identical to the one on the prop dummy to further suggest that the transformation to human was continuing, but at that point it got a little too ridiculous. (Oh, and the dummy turned out to not be one of the cursed antiques. It was revealed that a boutonnière attached to the dummy's jacket was previously owned by no less than Adolph Hitler and was behind all the mayhem.)
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RIP Loretta Swit (Hot Lips Houlihan on TV version of MASH)
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This is one of the ones that hits hard: RIP Jim Shooter. The original Handbooks came about under his watch of course.
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Andy E. Nystrom wrote:
This is one of the ones that hits hard: RIP Jim Shooter. The original Handbooks came about under his watch of course.
I always had this fantasy that, should Marvel ever publish new Handbooks again, they might do "entries" on notable Marvel creators a la the one done for Mark Gruenwald in the last Hardcover Handbook. Folks like Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, etc. I know there was a kind of one done in the 80s somewhere for Jim Shooter, but he absolutely would be one of those creators deserving of such an entry.
RIP Jim Shooter