Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Mr. Deep Freeze

Or

The Good, the Bad and the Dead

Eli Wallach, best remembered as the third Mr. Freeze on Batman, has died at the age of 98. He outlived all but one of The Magnificent Seven, reminding us that evil will always triumph over good, because good has worse health care, and leaves only Clint Eastwood from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He stole Carroll Baker from Karl Malden in Baby Doll, had a front row seat for Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable playing out the string in The Misfits, and saw Francis Ford Coppola shovel dirt on the legacy of The Godfather as Don Altobello, who gets a poisoned cannoli as his reward for trying to double-cross Michael Corleone. Other roles included a bitter screenwriter in the only parts of The Holiday worth watching, a blackilisted TV writer in the only scenes worth watching in Studio 60, and an aged banker in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which still didn’t make that worth watching.


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