Dig A Hole: Robert Prosky
December 10th, 2008 by Scott Marks
Robert Prosky as Will Darnell in John Carpenter’s “Christine”
Robert Prosky made his film debut as the heavy in Michael Mann’sThief. He instantly caught my eye (and ear) with one of the most venal, racially charged, profanity laced, uncalled for and subsequently most memorable lines of dialog in 80s cinema: “I’ll put your **** wife on the street to be ****** in the *** by ******* and ****** ******.” Wanna’ buy a vowel? The name Robert Prosky instantly sprang to the top of my “must watch” list.
Robert Joseph Porzuczek was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of a butcher and grocer. He received a degree in Economics from Temple University and later worked as a bookkeeper with the Federal Reserve Bank while taking acting classes at the American Theatre Wing in New York. Before cracking film and television, Prosky appeared in numerous productions at the Arena Stage in Washington, DC, most notably as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. Prosky racked up over 100 credits to his name while at the Arena Stage. He also originated the role of Shelly Levene in David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross for which he received a Tony nomination. It was the first of two Tony nominations for Prosky. In 1988 he was up for Best Actor in A Walk In the Woods (1988).
Robert Prosky made his feature film debut at the age of 51and went on to a very proseprous career that boasted over 70 film and television credits. Aside from Thief, Prosky is best remembered, at least by me, as the unsavory body shop owner who is carred to death by John Carpenter’s Christine and the Al Lewis substitute kid’s show host in Joe Dante’s Gremlins 2: The New Batch. He also had memorable bits in Broadcast News, Things Change and Hoffa.
Two of his sons, Andy and John Prosky, are also film, TV, and stage actors. The three starred together in two stage productions of Arthur Miller’s The Price, in which they played three brothers.
Prosky died earlier today, five days short of his 78th birthday, of complications following a heart procedure. He lived on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
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40- YEAR-OLD VIRGIN actor Shelley Malil’s bail set at $10 million
August 14th, 2008 by Scott Marks
Kendra Beebe & Shelley Malil
During his Wednesday afternoon arraignment before a Vista courtroom packed with entertainment reporters, Shelley Malil pleaded not guilty to charges that he stabbed his ex-girlfriend Kendra Beebe more than 20 times during an attack in her San Marcos home.
Bail had originally been set at $2 million, but Judge Marshall Y. Hockett upped it to $10 million, more than double the $4 million that prosecutors had requested. Malil, 43, of Sherman Oaks. He is charged with attempted murder and allegedly using a knife to cause great bodily injury.
Prosecutor Steven Carver told the court that there is evidence that the assault was willful and premeditated. The Union-Tribune reports that the violence erupted on the back patio of Ms. Beebe’s home and continued through the house. A companion of Ms. Beebe’s managed to wrestle the weapon from the crazed Malil who had a second knife, and continued to attack his ex on the front patio. A heroic neighbor came to Ms. Beebe’s rescue and put an end to the assault.
Maili fled the scene as soon as he heard police sirens blaring in the distance. He was later apprehended at the Oceanside Amtrack station while en route to meet his lawyer.
Ms. Beebe, a 35-year-old mother of two, was transported to a hospital where she was treated for, among other things, a punctured right lung; a penetrated left lung; and a stab in her throat that just missed an artery. She is expected to survive.
Courtroom observers gasped when Judge Hockett announced that he had set bail at $10 million. Hockett said that in light of the gravity of the offense, he considered Malil “a danger to public safety and a danger to Malil himself.”
No motive has been given for Malil’s violent attack. If convicted, he faces life in prison where he will undoubtedly be nicknamed “the 40-Second Virgin.”
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