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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