Walter Matthau is Dead to Me

Walter Matthau, the foghorn-voiced movie villain who became a master of crotchety comedy with his Oscar-winning "The Fortune Cookie," followed by "The Odd Couple" and "Grumpy Old Men," died of a heart attack. He was 79.

Ha….he died in 1999, duh

OP is posting from the year 2000

Are you the one who posted this thread about Mike Tyson's daughter dying in 2009?

NOOOOOO!!

Someone check on Jack Lemmon, quick!

No, it's true. He was resurrected, saw tonight's Tony's and was like .... fuck no.

[quote] who became a master of crotchety comedy

You don't need a master's degree to that. Any fool can do that.

I'm getting some breaking news about Rock Hudson...

Oh darn. I was looking forward to Hello Dolly II. Mama was ready to sign on.

Celebrity deaths come in threes. I hope the Grim Reaper doesn't take Marlon Brando next.

OP, I have some bad news for you about Diana, Princess of Wales...

Horace Vandergelder...you go your way, and I'll go mine.

R13 She's only seriously injured.

I have some horrible news coming out of California: Some idiot pulled out in front of a major young movie star heading to a race in the car in which he was supposed to compete. The star was announced DOA at the hospital. I hope it wasn't James Dean!

I'm at liberty. We were talking about Out to Sea: Back on the Ship to start shooting soon.

Just don't take Totie Fields next.

That wasn't Walter. It was his reincarnation.

I was so confused when it said he was in his 70s and just died. He was ancient 30 years ago 😂

You forgot to sign your post, Ms. Rainer @ r20.

R21 No, just her good leg.

[quote]OP, I have some bad news for you about Diana, Princess of Wales...

I heard her face got it...

There's a rumor that Diana will be starring in a musical comedy about her life with Brooke Shields as Fergie.

R10 The rumor that Rock Hudson is gay is ridiculous.

BEARKING NEWS: Hindenburg Catches Fire! Oh, the humanity!

I recall he died before Jack Lemmon who died in 2001. They appeared in several films together. I had to read the name in the title three times to make sure I was identifying the correct person.

R1 omg thank you! I could have sworn he died like 20 years ago and thought I was going insane when I saw this thread 😂

[quote]Are you the one who posted this thread about Mike Tyson's daughter dying in 2009?

Yeah, obviously. OP is the MRA who has been stinking up the place for a few days, and he's posting all these threads about old topics to up his karma. If you start threads that earn a lot of replies, you're not so easy to FF off the board.

It doesn't hurt that it also bumps current topics off the front page. DL pretty much only exists to give worthless pieces of shit like him attention, apparently.

I was flying into Atlanta recently and the Bad News Bears movie came up on my movie options list. Strange, I remember liking that film growing up.

I didn’t realize until recently what a nasty piece of work he was. He terrorized a very fragile Art Carney on Broadway in The Odd Couple.

Now that he's outta the way, I'll have that crotchety thang all to myself.

OP is time traveling again.

Did he support trans rights?

Did he sleep with penis'd women?

You just know he kept V8 juice lined up in his basement next to dusty old Playboys.

What’s bearking about Matthau?

Yep, R39 , I myself read that in Carney's unauthorized biography just a few years ago. I was disappointed to learn that because up to that point, I had liked Matthau. But fuck him; I'll choose the actor who appeared in "The Star Wars Holiday Special" and "The Muppets Take Manhattan" in addition to creating "Ed Norton", the template for every TV best friend since, over a bullying ham who thought way too highly of himself.

R45 Carney is all but forgotten, Matthau is an icon

Has Barbra Streisand weighed in?

[quote] Carney is all but forgotten, Matthau is an icon

Art Carney won a Best Actor Oscar. Matthau had to settle for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.

The minute some asshole dies, we all want to make him a saint.

I’ve watched the video of Walter Matthau peeing on me 5 times today. I’m so fucking sad he was such a great guy :(

In spite of what the Qunts say....JFK Jr. is dead to us, too.

She's partying like it's 1999...hasn't stopped.

This just in. Gary Burghoff who played Walter O'Reilly in TV 's "M*A*S*H " has died. Here on the line is Liza to tell us about the mashed potatoes they served twenty years ago at the opening night cast party of "The Old Couple".

Thank you Larry. The potatoes were fabulosh!

Didn’t Maggie Smith say that Herb Ross made Matthau cry on the set of California Suite? I can’t imagine anyone making Matthau cry on a movie set or anywhere else.

Has anyone checked in with Michael Jackson?

R56 Wasn't Herb Ross a prissy, precious non-gay heterosexual????

Some pointless trivia for you: Dan Castellaneta originally based Homer Simpson's voice on Walter Matthau's. By season two, he had changed the voice significantly to allow for greater expressiveness.