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Nicol Williamson has died
#25Nicol Williamson has died
Posted: 1/26/12 at 6:34am
I think he'll be remembered most for his film work in both Excalibur and Return to Oz.
And his legend as a crazy, difficult actor will all but fade away, except for the odd footnote.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#26Nicol Williamson has died
Posted: 1/26/12 at 7:35amHe was one of the most brilliant, original and mesmerizing Hamlets I have ever seen. Everything felt fresh and spontaneous. Rest in peace.
#27Nicol Williamson has died
Posted: 1/26/12 at 7:43am
Evan Handler is an incredibly talented actor and a very good memoirist. He was absolutely adorable in his pre-leukemia days, in the original productions of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues.
Here he is in a 1985 Manhattan Theatre Club production of Donald Margulies "What's Wrong With This Picture," with Marcia Jean Kurtz, Bob Dishy and Florence Stanley:
He wrote two excellent memoirs: The first, in 1996, was called "Time on Fire," about his battle with acute myeloid leukemia, which he was told was incurable, at age 24.
The second, "It's Only Temporary," was about his life after.
It was written in 2008 while he was filming the Sex in the City series, in which he played Harry, Charlotte's bald-headed and Jewish husband.
He's on the series Californication now.
#28Nicol Williamson has died
Posted: 1/26/12 at 8:59am
Has anyone seen the movie version of John Osborne's "Inadmissable Evidence?". I've heard Nicol Williamson was quite astonishing in it and of course he created the role of Bill Maitland on stage.
I saw the recent revival of the play at the Donmar in London and Douglas Hodge was wonderful in the part but they tell me that the sheer manic lunacy of the character was only ever really captured by Williamson.
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#29Nicol Williamson has died
Posted: 1/26/12 at 9:36am
Evan was a big old wussy boy. Call me when he's done a production with Mandy Patinkin.
--Toni Collette, The Wild Party
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#30Nicol Williamson has died
Posted: 1/26/12 at 1:47pm
"Evan was a big old wussy boy. Call me when he's done a production with Mandy Patinkin. -Toni Collette, The Wild Party"
Pretty sure she spoke in jest, Goth. At least I hope so.
"I think he'll be remembered most for his film work in both Excalibur and Return to Oz.
And his legend as a crazy, difficult actor will all but fade away, except for the odd footnote."
Time will tell, Best12:
NY Times obit
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#31Nicol Williamson has died
Posted: 1/26/12 at 2:02pm
"Pretty sure she spoke in jest, Goth. At least I hope so."
She didn't really say that. I just made it up as a joke because she went through physical abuse onstage as well.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#32Nicol Williamson has died
Posted: 1/26/12 at 8:48pmI went back to my old Playbill, saw IHH in April of 91 and Evan was still in it...
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#33Nicol Williamson has died
Posted: 1/26/12 at 8:52pmIf he is remembered at all, it will be for "Inadmissible Evidence," both on Broadway and on film, his surprisingly good singing voice in the otherwise negligible "Rex" and his outrageous behavior on stage.
#34Nicol Williamson has died
Posted: 1/26/12 at 11:49pm
Basically nothing that hasn't been said before.
Riedel on Williamson
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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