And so farewell Roy Scheider

[rozk]

I know that for most of my f-list he is the Police Chief from Jaws, but for me he is definitively and forever the dying jerk of a choreographer from Bob Fosse's autobiographical metafiction All that Jazz. One of the ways I coped with my various medical issues in the past was the fantasy that my death would be this good a production number.

Goodbye Roy.

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

"Show time!"

All That Jazz is one of the films that has made the most impression on me, and to me he will always be the main character in that film, with a side order of 2010. I'm not even sure I've actually seen Jaws all the way through ...

... a great actor, and I'd have liked to have seen him and Martin Landau perform together as they'd have made an interesting pair of brothers ...

[sphinxvictorian.livejournal.com]

There's an idea. You're right! He and Landau would have been very interesting together!

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

One of the great moments of cinema: when he turns around in the shower, and you see that he's smoking.

He was damned good.

[mckennl.livejournal.com]

Ha! That was the moment I was just going to mention too, so awesome.

He's rockin' the guyliner in that clip. Fabulous.

Ah, Jaws is worth seeing all the way through, his reading of "We're going to need a bigger boat" is perfection.

[sphinxvictorian.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on this. I think All That Jazz was his finest performance! Glitzy and melancholy all at once, you can't do better than that!

"It's Showtime!" *jazz hands*