Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

So many bastards, so little time.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

“But what about the lurkers?”

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

The revolution will be supervised.

In my day, never was longer.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

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    PST

    I saw Mahoney perform several times here in Chicago, most recently in 2015 at Steppenwolf. I had no idea until today that he grew up in England. I always thought of him as a local. Oddly enough, the play we saw that year, The Herd, takes place in London, and my wife and I both noticed that unlike the rest of the cast, Mahoney didn’t speak with a British accent. Very sorry to see him pass, especially since 77 doesn’t seem all that old to me anymore.

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    Mnemosyne

    I knew him slightly and had dinner (in a group) with him a couple of times. Really nice guy. His health hadn’t been good for a while so we were expecting this news, but it’s still sad.

    @PST:

    He worked really hard to lose his accent. And the original Steppenwolf theater was in the basement of my (now-gone) Catholic school in Highland Park.

    (The Steppenwolfers who say it was in the basement of Immaculate Conception church in Highland Park are misremembering — it was in the basement of the adjacent parochial school, which is now condos.)

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    So many good character parts that I would see him in, a lot of times recognizing him in rematches after he blew up on Frazier

    @PST: I always wanted to see him on stage, sad I won’t now

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I remember a story that Oprah wanted to have the whole cast of Frazier on during the last season, but he thought it was a silly idea and wouldn’t do it

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    satby

    I always thought if my dad had lived long enough he would have been very much like Martin Crane. Mahoney wasn’t born there, but he was a Chicagoan through and through.

  11. 11.

    Tokyokie

    He was one of my favorite character actors, able to convey genuine warmth or quiet menace with equal ability, depending on the nature of the role.

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    OldDave

    Mahoney also voiced General Rogard in one of my favorite Brad Bird animations, “The Iron Giant”.

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    @satby: Hi satby!

    This is said. He was one of thereat character actors. Now I want to find an episode of Burn Notice where he is a menace.

  16. 16.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne:
    No email until I can afford to repair or replace defunct iPad, but you can PM me through the FB messenger app. Now I’m intrigued!

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    PST

    @Mnemosyne:

    We saw him in 2001 at the Geffen. He was good, but Lindsay Crouse blew everyone else off the stage.

    Funny to see her name in this context. I was trying to think of times I saw Mahoney on stage, and one was a two man play with Mike Nussbaum, a great Chicago actor even older than him. Nussbaum was in the cast of House of Games with Lindsay Crouse, a movie with scenes that have stayed with me a long time.

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    Miss Bianca

    @satby: ooh! Was he “Management”, by chance?

    (Been binge-watching “Burn Notice” because I am a huge Bruce Campbell freak, but been loving the rest of the casting!)

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    Ruckus

    @Tenar Arha:
    He did make that show. Without him it would just have been 2 pompous idiots who wanted to be assholes but didn’t have the upbringing.

  27. 27.

    Miss Bianca

    @NotMax: Did he play Artie?

    (I actually played Bunny Flingus my sophomore year in high school. Looking back on it, I still can’t believe the administration let my drama teacher direct that play! Kind of racy for high school.)

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    Tehanu

    He was absolutely brilliant as William Faulkner in the Coen Bros. movie Barton Fink. I’m so sorry he’s gone, what a shame.

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    Skippy-san

    “There is never an egg timer around when you need one.”-from his role in The American President.

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