Thursday, July 29, 2010

ROY STORY 2: Halladay, Oswalt ... go ahead, name your favorite Roys in history and culture. I'll start it with "Orbison".

41 comments:

  1. Carmichael Harold9:24 PM

    Rogers (the fast food restaurant and not the cowboy).  As a kid, there were few things I enjoyed more than a Double R Burger after a little league game.

    My least favorite is probably Patrick Roy, and only partially because it took me about five years until I realized I was mispronouncing his name.

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  2. Maggie9:29 PM

    Roy Scheider - police chief Martin Brody

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  3. Laura9:33 PM

    Roy Clark from Hee Haw. 

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  4. Not to mention Heywood Floyd.  And CIA Chief Russell somethingorother in The Russia House.

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  5. Adam C.9:40 PM

    Yippee-ki-yay: "Roy," John McClane's nom de walkie-talkie in Die Hard.

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  6. calliekl9:43 PM

    "Roy! Oh, Roy!"
    "My name is TRAVIS."

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  7. bill.9:45 PM

    Hobbs. But not the Robert Redford version.
    Blount Jr. loved his crossword puzzles in Spy and his cranky appearances on Wait Wait.

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  8. bill.9:48 PM

    and Scylla, brother of the marathon man

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  9. Adam C.9:49 PM

    Which of course is a reference to Rogers (the cowboy and not the restaurant).

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  10. Charles Carmicheal9:49 PM

    Roy

    just Roy

    Simpson's Boarder and Cool Dude....Forever linked with Poochie!

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  11. Adam C.9:51 PM

    -ale with cheese.

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  12. Joseph J. Finn9:51 PM

    Hell, you have both of mine.  Especially Roy Blount, Jr (recently read his Alphabet Juice and it's both funny and a delight for word lovers like me).

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  13. What does Roy call a Whopper?

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  14. Adam C.10:00 PM

    Dunno; Roy didn't go to Burger King.

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  15. The Other Kate10:26 PM

    Acuff, Professor Bittan, Hobbs....

    Hands-down least-favorite's got to be Cohn, right?

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  16. The Other Kate10:30 PM

    and Bob Fosse -- er, whatever his name was. Joe Gideon.

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  17. pretty good character in Angels In America: You don't know what all I know. I don't know what all I know. Half this shit I make up and I'm still right, learned that in the 50's.

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  18. The Other Kate10:34 PM

    Opps, missed this Hobbs before I posted the same. Yes, non-Redford verson, non-Redford ending. What's the last line, again? Something like,  "Roy Hobbs hung his head and cried." Brutal.

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  19. close...

    When Roy looked into the boy's eyes he wnated to say it wasn't but couldn't, and he lifted his hands to his face and wept many bitter tears.

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  20. Jordan10:44 PM

    Funny enough, I was just watching the video of Hex serving Broad Street Justice on Chelios, and at the end Roy (pronounced by the announcers as Patrick Rwa, like in  Rwanda) starts challenging him (from across the ice as Hextall is being held back by multiple refs), and I can't help but think how much I don't like him.

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  21. Anonymous11:27 PM

    Batty.

    He's seen things you people wouldn't believe.

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  22. ... Jones Jr. The reason I love boxing. Hell, I even enjoyed his album.


    Siegfried & ... . The Mirage just isn't the same place now. And as unbelievably awful as Father of the Pride was, the parts with S&R were confoundingly funny. (Not that S&R wrote or performed any of it, but still.) Looking back, I'd really like to know if the S&R bits were funny on their own, or just in comparison to the horror that the rest of the show was. I always thought that those bits would have made hysterical 5-minute shorts.

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  23. Nicole7:01 AM

    Roy Anderson, Pam's former fiance on The Office, because of his fantastic mugshot.

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  24. Coy Roy, who just needs to listen to Paul Simon's disentanglement advice.

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  25. christy in nyc8:13 AM

    Yup, IRL Cohn and fictionalized Cohn are basically at opposite ends of the spectrum.

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  26. Leslie8:19 AM

    Roy Hinckley, better known as The Professor from Gilligan's Island

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  27. KCosmo8:47 AM

    All theater starts at 8.  HOLD.

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  28. bill.9:31 AM

    Tin Cup McAvoy

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  29. J. Bowman9:39 AM

    Cobb, aka Matthew Quigley.

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  30. Watts9:46 AM

    Roy G. Biv

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  31. Marsha11:24 AM

    Singing, dancing cats. HOLD.

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  32. Judge Roy Bean.

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  33. OMG: Ed Norton, Primal Fear.

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  34. Jim Bell1:31 PM

    <span>“Five years from now nobody is going to remember the US Open – who won, who lost, but they’re going to remember your 12, Roy. It’s…it’s immortal!” Molly Griswold</span>

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  35. Jim Bell1:32 PM

    I have a cable channel that seems to show this movie every night.  I love this movie and now watch it once a week....

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  36. Edward Norton, Primal Fear.  Or was that Aaron?

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  37. Jordan1:37 PM

    No love for Lichtenstein?

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  38. isaac_spaceman2:32 PM

    Sing me a song that everybody knows -- I'll bet you it belongs to Acuff-Rose. 

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  39. Benner3:05 PM

    Does George Roy Hill count?

    Arundhati Roy?

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  40. Jenn.7:15 PM

    I'm waiting to decide.  If Oswalt chokes as a member of the Phillies, he would definitely be my favorite Roy. 

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  41. Anonymous10:16 PM

    Buck Henry's Uncle Roy.

    --bd

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