You've seen seen him countless times in many popular films. Most often he was referred to as "that creepy looking guy in the subway scene of 'Ghost'".

Today, Vincent Schiavelli died of lung cancer. Of all the characters he played, my personal favorite was the science teacher with the hot wife in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High", Mr. Vargas. Who can forget the immortal line:

"Listen, I just switched to Sanka this morning. So...have a heart?"

Later in the film he has a memorable scene actually holding a human heart.

He was 57 years old. R.I.P.

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1 For some reason, what stands out for me was when he played a carnie freak with a conjoined twin on an episode of the X-Files. Probably remember it, because that episode was outstanding in so many ways.

Posted by: Wordsmith at December 27, 2005 02:40 AM (nrGCx)

2 and who could forget him in one flew over the cuckoo's nest (and yes, that x-files episode was great)

Posted by: a rose is a rose at December 27, 2005 04:53 AM (76+ro)

3 Didn't he also play a teacher in Better Off Dead, the John Cusack cult classic? Everyone wants to go out with Cusack's character's ex-girlfriend Beth, including the weird but cool math teacher, whom you see Beth driving off with in his VW bug after school...

Posted by: Pam at December 27, 2005 12:02 PM (rx9LD)

4 Yeah, that's another one of my favorites: "Lane, this is awkward. But I understand you used to date Beth and I was wondering..."

Posted by: Gary at December 27, 2005 03:05 PM (QoxB+)

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In an interview published in the NY Times, actor Ron Silver was asked about his current beef with the Democrat Party. He said:

"The Democratic Party is becoming the tool of an extreme domestic leftist insurgency led by the Michael Moores and the Cindy Sheehans and other neoreactionary, neoisolationist Americans."

Neoreactionary. I like that. Nowadays, you hear a lot about Neoconservatives (or NeoCons). But this is particularly applicable, because Democrats are the new reactionaries. They're against everything, they say "no" to everything (except defeat) and they fight vigorously to block any kind of reform. In the old days, conservatives were considered to be reactionaries.

Interesting how things change. How would we abbreviate that? NeoWrecks, maybe?

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