We grew up watching his movies on TV
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Oh man…I’m so bummed. Awesome actor who brought the character Leonard Pine to life in Hap and Leonard. I’ve never seen him in anything else, but if he was great in Hap and Leonard, then he had to be great in any character he played.
Why? Why drugs? Just fucking why?
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This made me smile. I’m sure Hap and Leonard is great, but I’d never heard of it; and a comment like this, to me at least, is a bit like saying “Hey, Harrison Ford was great in Witness. I’ve never seen him in anything else …”
Kudos to Williams for making such an impression in so many different roles.
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Wait, you haven’t seen The Wire? Watch it immediately. Seriously, you won’t regret it.
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He was great in The Wire. One of the best characters on one of the greatest shows of all time.
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It’s a bit like The Expanse, but fewer space battles or rail guns. Lots of characters of Amos’s level - all from Baltimore, for that matter. In my head canon, some of the characters in The Wire are Amos’s ancestors.
Now that I think about it, Amos and Omar are almost definitely in my top ten TV characters of the past twenty years - and not a little overlap between the two of them.
(Since @MalcomReynolds has announced his love of The Expanse a few times.)
I’m now imagining this whole thread around Williams’s death just using the one word “Fuck” (even if Omar isn’t in that scene).
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Ha, I never would have thought of this comparison. For me, it’s the best deconstruction of American urban dysfunction and decline (criminal justice, politics, the media, education, etc.) I’ve ever seen on the small screen, and at the same time a highly entertaining story with great characters…something I would’ve considered almost impossible to pull off until I’d seen The Wire.
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Oh, it’s a bit of a silly comparison, very much tailored to MalcomReynolds’s tastes. But they do have a little more in common than I’d have initially thought.
I’m apparently not alone in thinking that.
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Ok. Downloading now. Thanks for the tip.
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Sheeeeeiiiiiiiiit! You’re gonna love it. (you’ll get the reference later)
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Great writing.
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Today a Vox podcast had a post-credits moment, with no explanation, of Omar / Williams whistling “Farmer in the Dell”. For a second or two I wondered what on earth was going on, then I almost teared up.
Time to get around to watching Lovecraft Country.
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Yeah, it really humanizes him. Maybe if @gain read it, he’d change his tune.
Yep. I mean to check out the one @MalcolmReynolds mentioned too.
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This happened a month ago, but I had no idea. Used to listen to him all the time on NPR in the 2000s.
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Maria Mendiola has died at age 69
(2241) Baccara - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie (Starparade 02.06.1977) (VOD) - YouTube
Maria Mendiola, one half of Spanish duo Baccara who had 1977 hit Yes Sir, I Can Boogie dies aged 69 | Daily Mail Online
Another really hard one. Damn these past few weeks have really sucked….
We’ve lost the best news anchor that SNL ever had. 
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Fuck. I was just watching a YouTube video and people were sharing Norm Stories. The video was from a while back so not in response to his death.
The first comment on YouTube was about how other comedians tell stories about Norm like he is dead.
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