I can't remember the first thing I saw him in, but I remember thinking he was the creepiest looking guy I ever saw. Then he got lots of "nice guy" parts, and I got used to his face. Go figure.
OK I can seriously personally attest to this one. I went to California ONCE in my life in 1988 or 89 to visit one of my best friends with another of my best friends. The friend that lived there was an employee of a Disney owned entity so we did the obligatory free Disneyland trip.
While there, near the Matterhorn or something like that ride (one that they don't have at Disney World where I went a million times living in FL), we saw him eating ice cream. He was wearing a fanny pack turned frontwards, was a bit chunkier and already starting to bald.
I said, "Hey, that's that guy...the teacher from Ferris Bueller! (of course I was mistaken, he was in Fast Times)".
Honestly, he wasn't frightening. Kind of pathetic actually, watching the ice cream drip onto his shirt.
So that was my one brush with "fame". I need to get out more!
I dd bump into him once, almost literally. I was behind him on a line at the American Express office in Rome when I first moved here about 20 years ago. We chatted. It was neat.
I always think of him in those opening moments of Amadeus.
He was married to Allyce Beasley, who played Miss DePesto, (the secretary) on "Moonlighting." Can you imagine what their poor children must look like? Talk about scary!!
No lie here, I admit it freely.
ReplyDeleteThe dude was super-creepy looking!
I would need clean drawers.
ReplyDeleteNah...he will always be Mr. Vargas from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" telling me to give him a break because he was off caffeine.
ReplyDeleteQuick Trivia - the actress who played his wife in that film, Lana Clarkson, was the woman that Phil Spector killed back in 2003. I shit you not.
Shit I would run fast in the other direction.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember the first thing I saw him in, but I remember thinking he was the creepiest looking guy I ever saw. Then he got lots of "nice guy" parts, and I got used to his face. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteIt's the white under the iris in his eyes. That accentuates the creepiness. Among other things.
ReplyDeleteHe was super creepy in Ghost (as the subway ghost).
ReplyDeleteOK I can seriously personally attest to this one. I went to California ONCE in my life in 1988 or 89 to visit one of my best friends with another of my best friends. The friend that lived there was an employee of a Disney owned entity so we did the obligatory free Disneyland trip.
ReplyDeleteWhile there, near the Matterhorn or something like that ride (one that they don't have at Disney World where I went a million times living in FL), we saw him eating ice cream. He was wearing a fanny pack turned frontwards, was a bit chunkier and already starting to bald.
I said, "Hey, that's that guy...the teacher from Ferris Bueller! (of course I was mistaken, he was in Fast Times)".
Honestly, he wasn't frightening. Kind of pathetic actually, watching the ice cream drip onto his shirt.
So that was my one brush with "fame". I need to get out more!
I dd bump into him once, almost literally. I was behind him on a line at the American Express office in Rome when I first moved here about 20 years ago. We chatted. It was neat.
ReplyDeleteI always think of him in those opening moments of Amadeus.
Isn't that Horshack?
ReplyDeleteRon Palillo missed a golden opportunity, then.
for me, he'll always be the ghost who kicks the can on the NYC subway in "ghost".
ReplyDeletewe have a guy here at work who looks JUST FUCKING LIKE him. He laugh behind his back about it all the time... im a child.
2 of you met him?
ReplyDeleteYeah sure.
I thought he was freakin' scary in Better Off Dead, too and that was a comedy. A face not even a mother could love.
ReplyDeleteHe get's creapier in every movie his in !
ReplyDeleteBUT ... great actor !
That's the dude from Ghost..."GET OFF MY TRAIN!!!"
ReplyDeleteMr. Kerber, a strangely popular geometry teacher.
ReplyDeleteYes he scares me
Oh man he look like a super duper ghost....
ReplyDeleteHe is one freaky looking guy. How does someone like that decide to be an actor?
ReplyDeleteDominica - he's probably creepier now.
ReplyDeleteBecause he's dead.
Crack me up! It's true though...I'd turn right around and take off in the other direction!
ReplyDeleteHell yeah.
ReplyDeleteHe was married to Allyce Beasley, who played Miss DePesto, (the secretary) on "Moonlighting." Can you imagine what their poor children must look like? Talk about scary!!
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