Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Hedley Lamourned

Harvey Korman, best remembered as the four-armed Julia Child of the cosmos on the Star Wars Holiday Special, has died of complications from an abdominal aortic aneurysm at the age of 80. Korman was a featured supporting player on The Carol Burnett Show, earning 7 Emmy nominations and 4 wins for playing a wide cast of characters, from Rhett Butler to Vicki Lawrence’s dim-witted son-in-law Ed to Mother Marcus, the mother of all yentas. Korman came down with McLean Stevenson Syndrome and left for his own self titled and ill-fated sitcom, which also helped doom The Carol Burnet Show. Of note, The Harvey Korman Show did inspire the episode naming convention of Friends, as each of his three episodes’ titles start with “The One Where…” Mel Brooks made Korman one of his featured players, with major supporting roles as conniving, rubber froggie-loving Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles and as conniving, rubber suit-loving Dr. Charles Montague. Korman earned the enmity of animation fans everywhere as the voice of shark jump-triggering Great Gazoo on The Flintstones, returned as the voice of the Dictabird in the cinematic version of The Flintstones and then helped heap dirt on the franchise’s grave as Wilma’s father in The Flintstones: Viva Rock Vegas. Funeral services were private, and Korman’s corpse fell out of the coffin laughing during Tim Conway’s unscripted eulogy.

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