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[Leftovers] R.I.P. Karl Malden

Will O'Hargan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:21:20 +0000

Veteran actor and American Express pitchman Karl Malden died at age 97 today, continuing a bizarre string of celebrity deaths. Malden was an Academy Award winning actor, for his work on A Streetcar Named Desire and appeared in several other films including On the Waterfront and Patton. While he is best known to younger audiences as the man who said “don’t leave home without it”, we here at Bewildered Society would like to remember him for his final on-screen role, as Father Thomas Cavanaugh on the episode Take This the Sabbath Day of “The West Wing”. It was basically an extended cameo, however the parable he delivers was considered for our list of The Ten Best Aaron Sorkin Speeches. Below is that parable.

You can see the full scene here.

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[EPICS FAIL] When tweeting death rumors, correctly spell the deceased’s name

Dave Studinski — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:03:03 +0000

UPDATE: The trending topics continue to reflect the nature of word-of-mouth rumor dissemination:

That covered up topic there?

*giggle*

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[SYSK] R.I.P. Ron Silver

Will O'Hargan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:20:12 +0000

Ron Silver died of cancer yesterday. A veteran stage actor, he will be remembered as ‘Bruno’ from The West Wing to most of the BS.com staff. In his memory I present his best West Wing moment, that landed just outside of the Top Ten Aaron Sorkin Speeches list.

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