Zero Wolfe

(Additional accolades for Monty)

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He Liked his Grits "Regular"
(More merit for Monty)
Maury Chaykin, who gave up the Great White Way for the Great White North, has died at the age of 61. Born in Brooklyn, Chaykin believed the exchange rate would offer more leading man opportunities for an unattractive lump of dough and he became a Canadian citizen. The ubiquitous character actor played the unhinged major who wets himself, sends Lieutenant Dunbar into the middle of nowhere to keep an eye on the wildlife, then shoots himself in Dances with Wolves, helped David Lightman hack into the WOPR in WarGames, was the lawyer who forced the New York Rangers to play a game in the middle of nowhere in Mystery, Alaska, was an expert witness on the preparation of grits in My Cousin Vinny, thundered as Harvey Weingard on Entourage, helped raise his motherless nephew in Unstrung Heroes, and embodied the similarly doughy detective Nero Wolfe. Among the hosers, he won the Genie, Canada’s stupidly named version of the Oscar, for Whale Music where he played an unsettled reclusive rocker – think Brian Wilson and add ‘eh’ at the end of every sentence, and was the patriarch of a dysfunctional suburban family in the dark sitcom Less Than Kind.