Actually, I think Bill Murray might be perturbed at being referred to as a 20th Century actor: he’s still making films.
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I wondered if this would show up here. Look up memento mori.
me·men·to mo·ri
memento mori; plural noun: memento mori
an object serving as a warning or reminder of death, such as a skull.
You typed faster this time!
A memento mori was generally depicted as a skull, though many times they were distorted and unrecognizable in the actual painting. Watch this comment get disappeared too.
I think he wore that cap in “The Life Aquatic.”
Long time since I read the Iris Murdoch novel with that title, but I recall it as specially good.
My first thought was Commandant Cousteau.
Why would the comment get disappeared, beckoningchasm?
“Actually, I think Bill Murray might be perturbed at being referred to as a 20th Century actor: he’s still making films.”
Actors, like sports stars, are dated from when they first make the bigs. They don’t get remembered as well for that final year when they only appeared in 37 games, and hit .234. “Lost in Translation” may have been his best work as an actor, but he’s still that guy from “Caddyshack” first.
CIDU Bill – I have no idea. I type the comment, click “Post Comment” and it just never appears anywhere. Probably like this one.
Wayno is nowhere near as good as Piraro. Wayno’s stuff is mainly puns.
Can’t disagree that Piraro is a step above his collaborator / designated successor perhaps. But at the same time, they are doing a far better job of managing this transition than some others have. Think of Guy & Rodd for example…
And speaking of puns in Bizarro, I don’t know if it was somebody posting an isolated retro, or if Piraro did actually announce a plan to revive a Sunday feature of fan-submitted (and credited) puns or cliché phrases which he will illustrate with visual puns.
He mentioned it in the two previous Blogs. If anyone would like the information, let me know.
“Consider me as you pass by/As you are now, so once was I/As I am now, soon you shall be/Prepare for death and follow me.”
I usually really hate Wayno, but I have to admit this was an excellent pun. (And there is nothing wrong with puns as humor).
Perhaps, James, but if they’re still playing, they might reasonably say “Hello? Still here, okay? Went 3-for-4 last night?”
I suspect we just saw a big surge in the number of non-Catholics who know what “memento mori” means.
“if they’re still playing, they might reasonably say “Hello? Still here, okay? Went 3-for-4 last night?””
An actor’s performance depends on a lot of things besides the actor’s own skill and dedication to craft. So sometimes, an actor’s best performance comes near the end of their working lives. But that isn’t typical. Sticking with Mr. Murray, his role in “Zombieland” was one that he was born to play. But his best? Probably “Caddyshack”, or “Ghostbusters”, films from the beginning of his career. For an extreme case, consider Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson… they’re best known for a role they played as infants.
So it’s now seen as a Catholic thing? I love how they seamlessly appropriate “pagan” things…
It originally dates back at least to the Roman Republic, where triumphant returning heroes literally had someone assigned to whisper it in their ears as they were paraded down the streets — don’t let this go to your head, remember you will die, that is, you are not a god!
larK: Next thing you know, Catholics will appropriate crucifixion. The Romans did that first, too!
I knew of memento mori from art history, often found in 16th century paintings. Sometimes the mm imagery was anamorphic.
I would agree with JP that Bill Murray did some excellent acting in “Lost in Translation“, but he was the only redeeming feature in an otherwise worthless movie. I particularly hated the ending, in which the director deliberately made the last exchange between him and the leading lady unintelligible.
Keanu Reeves has been in a bunch of movies, and the series he’s in now is drawing plenty of paying customers. But he’ll always be Ted “Theodore” Logan. Jim Carrey will always be Ace Ventura, although for me he’s Wiploc the alien in “Earth Girls are Easy”, and when he isn’t Wiploc, he’s Fire Marshal Bill.
To me, Jim Carrey will always be Truman.
As you prefer. I didn’t particularly enjoy that particular movie, although Mr. Carrey did some good work in it, I thought he was a little bit too over-the-top. Whereas his natural skill lies in playing characters that are way, way, WAY over-the-top. “Liar, liar” and “Bruce Almighty” used his talents well, but neither of them as effectively as “In Living Color” did. He had a ton of great characters on ILC… Fire Marshal Bill is one of the more understated ones. Vanilla White was great, but for degree of over-the-topness, I think it would be hard to beat Vera DeMilo. To quote two other characters from that show, “Two Snaps UP!”
Kilby – oh good, someone else who did not like “Lost in Translation”.
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I wondered if this would show up here. Look up memento mori.
me·men·to mo·ri
memento mori; plural noun: memento mori
an object serving as a warning or reminder of death, such as a skull.
You typed faster this time!
A memento mori was generally depicted as a skull, though many times they were distorted and unrecognizable in the actual painting. Watch this comment get disappeared too.
I think he wore that cap in “The Life Aquatic.”
Long time since I read the Iris Murdoch novel with that title, but I recall it as specially good.
My first thought was Commandant Cousteau.
Why would the comment get disappeared, beckoningchasm?
“Actually, I think Bill Murray might be perturbed at being referred to as a 20th Century actor: he’s still making films.”
Actors, like sports stars, are dated from when they first make the bigs. They don’t get remembered as well for that final year when they only appeared in 37 games, and hit .234. “Lost in Translation” may have been his best work as an actor, but he’s still that guy from “Caddyshack” first.
CIDU Bill – I have no idea. I type the comment, click “Post Comment” and it just never appears anywhere. Probably like this one.
Wayno is nowhere near as good as Piraro. Wayno’s stuff is mainly puns.
Can’t disagree that Piraro is a step above his collaborator / designated successor perhaps. But at the same time, they are doing a far better job of managing this transition than some others have. Think of Guy & Rodd for example…
And speaking of puns in Bizarro, I don’t know if it was somebody posting an isolated retro, or if Piraro did actually announce a plan to revive a Sunday feature of fan-submitted (and credited) puns or cliché phrases which he will illustrate with visual puns.
He mentioned it in the two previous Blogs. If anyone would like the information, let me know.
“Consider me as you pass by/As you are now, so once was I/As I am now, soon you shall be/Prepare for death and follow me.”
I usually really hate Wayno, but I have to admit this was an excellent pun. (And there is nothing wrong with puns as humor).
Perhaps, James, but if they’re still playing, they might reasonably say “Hello? Still here, okay? Went 3-for-4 last night?”
I suspect we just saw a big surge in the number of non-Catholics who know what “memento mori” means.
“if they’re still playing, they might reasonably say “Hello? Still here, okay? Went 3-for-4 last night?””
An actor’s performance depends on a lot of things besides the actor’s own skill and dedication to craft. So sometimes, an actor’s best performance comes near the end of their working lives. But that isn’t typical. Sticking with Mr. Murray, his role in “Zombieland” was one that he was born to play. But his best? Probably “Caddyshack”, or “Ghostbusters”, films from the beginning of his career. For an extreme case, consider Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson… they’re best known for a role they played as infants.
So it’s now seen as a Catholic thing? I love how they seamlessly appropriate “pagan” things…
It originally dates back at least to the Roman Republic, where triumphant returning heroes literally had someone assigned to whisper it in their ears as they were paraded down the streets — don’t let this go to your head, remember you will die, that is, you are not a god!
larK: Next thing you know, Catholics will appropriate crucifixion. The Romans did that first, too!
I knew of memento mori from art history, often found in 16th century paintings. Sometimes the mm imagery was anamorphic.
I would agree with JP that Bill Murray did some excellent acting in “Lost in Translation“, but he was the only redeeming feature in an otherwise worthless movie. I particularly hated the ending, in which the director deliberately made the last exchange between him and the leading lady unintelligible.
Keanu Reeves has been in a bunch of movies, and the series he’s in now is drawing plenty of paying customers. But he’ll always be Ted “Theodore” Logan. Jim Carrey will always be Ace Ventura, although for me he’s Wiploc the alien in “Earth Girls are Easy”, and when he isn’t Wiploc, he’s Fire Marshal Bill.
To me, Jim Carrey will always be Truman.
As you prefer. I didn’t particularly enjoy that particular movie, although Mr. Carrey did some good work in it, I thought he was a little bit too over-the-top. Whereas his natural skill lies in playing characters that are way, way, WAY over-the-top. “Liar, liar” and “Bruce Almighty” used his talents well, but neither of them as effectively as “In Living Color” did. He had a ton of great characters on ILC… Fire Marshal Bill is one of the more understated ones. Vanilla White was great, but for degree of over-the-topness, I think it would be hard to beat Vera DeMilo. To quote two other characters from that show, “Two Snaps UP!”
Kilby – oh good, someone else who did not like “Lost in Translation”.