RIP Burt Young

I don't sweat you!

 

Strongly agree. He WAS that guy.

 

I was going to bring up the L&O performance yesterday and it's great to see how beaten to it I was. It's really, really good. The entire episode he's fighting for his innocence, and you believe BOTH that AND that he's a menace. That's the work, man.

 

I saw "Rocky III" (my favorite of the series) in the theater a couple of times and missed that. Then, when it hit HBO and my dad watched it with me for the first time, he caught it right away and it got a laugh out of him. After that, every time I watched that scene, I couldn't unsee it.

It's funny, but I first became aware of Young when he played a fellow trucker of Rubber Duck in the Kris Kristofferson/Ali MacGraw movie "Convoy." I hadn't seen the original "Rocky" on its original run, and when I saw "Rocky II," I was like "That's the guy from 'Convoy'" Silly, I know.

I liked seeing him as Lou in "Back to School." After seeing him mostly play the buffoon in the "Rocky" movies, it was cool to see him play a character with a little more self-confidence and a guy who really wouldn't take any crap. He still had the good lines, though:

Thornton: Home Sweet Home
Lou: I liked the old house better
Thornton: Me, too
Lou: I liked the old wife better

Also: "My two kids, one I put through college; the other, I put through a wall."

But, ultimately, RIP Paulie!

 

So he is. I had just remembered the high-pitched yelling:

I also never noticed the Gadsden flag on his jacket.

 

Nobudduh tellz Paulie whut ta dew. Freedum.

 

He thinks he is so very, very good. And we are so very, very bad.

 

I was just thinking he's looked 83 forever. Only six years older than Sly, but to be fair, Sly's injected about a billion dollars worth of steroids and Botox. I read something somewhere that Burt lived quite the interesting pre-Hollywood life, to the point that some of the shady dudes he played might not have required much acting.

 

WE GO!!!

 

Now who’s that? Al Capone?

 

Who am I? I'm the unsilent majority, big mouth!

 

He and Sparky Anderson took the same aging vitamins.