WWTBAM Bored

"You're gonna need a bigger boat"...definitely one of the better known quotes from movies. Age 75.

Very sad, he was a wonderful actor.

I can envision his final moments being like the scenes from "All That Jazz" where his character goes to the great beyond.

I especially liked him in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. Unfortunately for Scheider, after he did the sequel to 2001 A Space Odyssey in 1984, his career essentially fizzled out. It's a shame.

Scheider is the second cast member of NBC's "SeaQuest DSV" to pass away in the last year. Jonathan Brandis died last year from an apparent suicide.

RIP, Roy.

Very creepy bizarre coincidence.

I was talking with a co-worker on Friday on a different subject and happened to mention Sorcerer, which was a very underrated film Scheider did in the 1970's, a remake of the French classic The Wages of Fear.

The discussion actually came about when we were talking about foreign literature and I mentioned that I had read the book version of Wages of Fear in high school (in French) as part of a French assignment. Essentially everyone else was picking classy stuff and I picked the hardboiled pulp novel to read. Then I mentioned that it was made into a movie remade as a Scheider film.

Scheider had a good everyday average guy quality to him which served him well as Chief Brody in Jaws. Another guilty pleasure he appeared in that I watch any chance I can is Blue Thunder, with some great helicopter chase footage. The last half hour of the movie has a lot of good effects and stunt work, none of it computerized as it would be today.