<![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies - Defamer Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/defamer.com.png <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies - Defamer Comments]]> http://defamer.com Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:43:16 PST Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:43:16 PST http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4168375 All That Jazz is a wonderful film. I particularly love the dance number with Erszebet Foldi to the tune of "Everything Old Is New Again." Also his clever turn in "The Russia House."("Honor is due,Ned!")

Scheider was a first-rate actor. Honor is due, indeed.

Oldboy

]]> 1:355071:c4168375 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:43:16 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4160581 Rent "Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York" if you can find it.

yvonnjanae

]]> 1:355071:c4160581 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:30:17 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4160484 @Trixie from Toronto: Ditto. And he looked great in shorts.

Little Mintz Sunshine

]]> 1:355071:c4160484 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:21:19 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4156789 It's only an island if you look at it from the water.

shag_carpet_bomb

]]> 1:355071:c4156789 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:47:33 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4156507 :(

R.I.P. RS

Miss d

]]> 1:355071:c4156507 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:33:24 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4156023 He was a badass in The Seven-Ups, a personal favorite.

Tiger_Tanaka

]]> 1:355071:c4156023 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:11:33 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4154812 I had the pleasure of interviewing Roy about 10 years ago. I told him I lost a boyfriend over "Naked Lunch". He was very sorry. I asked him about how he thought he'd be remembered and he said "Do I think Chief Brody is going to be stamped on my tombstone..yes". I asked him how he felt about that and he said "Terrible." He loved "All that Jazz". Thanks for posting.

bugthecat

]]> 1:355071:c4154812 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:22:20 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4153990 Go watch John Frankenheimer's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 52 Pick-Up if you want to see Roy shine. What an actor. The world just got a little emptier today.

MAGNUM

]]> 1:355071:c4153990 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:51:30 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4153376 Great actor. Didn't think I could love this beautiful man any more, until I read in an interview with him once that his first big break was playing a transvestite nun off off Broadway, and that he was mainly into experimental theatre back then. Can't imagine what charisma he must have had on stage, because it burned like hell on film. On Seaquest, I always thought he was smirking at the thought :"From transvestite nuns to this". Who gives face like this any more?

TiaMaria

]]> 1:355071:c4153376 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:31:58 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4151980 Is it safe, Roy?
Yes--yes, it is.


Cacafuego

]]> 1:355071:c4151980 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:46:07 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4151804 No one has mentioned Blue Thunder. He was just as good in the air as he was in the sea. I'll miss him.

Shumina

]]> 1:355071:c4151804 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:40:40 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4150985 I have had a crush on him since I was a young girl. I am not sure what that says about me. But he was great in every way.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> 1:355071:c4150985 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:14:33 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4150933 Thanks for playing that ending for a very strange movie (Fosse glamorizes his tragic death, Broadway style!). I'll best remember him as the badass who told a sonafabitch shark to smile.

Cam/ron

]]> 1:355071:c4150933 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:12:42 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4150675 @Sweet Panda Love: Me too. What a great sendoff using this clip...

R.I.P.

MsMuffinMcGuffin

]]> 1:355071:c4150675 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:03:04 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4149676 Great actor. Rest in peace, Roy.

I think one of his best lines in a movie was this powerful line in Jaws 2, because you knew what the guy had gone through in the first movie:

But I'm telling you, and I'm telling everybody at this table that that's a shark! And I know what a shark looks like, because I've seen one up close. And you'd better do something about this one, because I don't intend to go through that hell again!

Benovite

]]> 1:355071:c4149676 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:28:50 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4149649 he was brilliant in The French Connection too.

IBentMyWookie

]]> 1:355071:c4149649 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:28:04 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4149428 I would like to think that Ben Vereen and the Slim Goodbody Bib Fortuna dancing girls were there in Arkansas when Roy actually passed on.

Sweet Panda Love

]]> 1:355071:c4149428 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:20:56 PST <![CDATA[Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies]]> http://defamer.com/355071/heavens-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-roy-scheider-dies#c4149057 It was a shit movie, but I always loved his performance in 2010. (Maybe it was from a desire to have pet dolphins as a kid.)

Hard to believe he was that old.

TheStarterWife

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