Tuesday, December 22, 2009

RIP Arnold Stang

He was the Chunky man when I was little, but also Top Cat fercrissakes. You all probably know more about him than I but if he was on the tube you knew hilarity would result.
NYT Obit here


6 comments:

Unknown said...

Arnold Stang, Brittany Murphy, Connie Hines, Gene Barry, Yvonne King, Jennifer Jones, Alaina Reed Hall--all doing their best to fuck up the end-of-year magazine deadlines.

The Hound said...

and he played Sinatra's sidekick in Man With The Golden Arm, one of my all time favorites!

Vince said...

Aww, heck. I'll always enjoy him in It's a Mad (4x) World - "Oiwin! We're gonna hafta KILL 'im!"
Through the magic of internet radio I recently heard his PSA on STDs. Weird...

Vince said...

Okay, I also remember him fondly for his radio ads for 'Mini Mist' spray shampoo - they were in the form of phone calls where he was relentlessly asking a girl for a date and he plugged the product when her excuse for dumping him was 'having to wash her hair'.

And he played a lot of characters in the Famous Studios cartoons, including the geeky Shorty who made Popeye's life a living hell.

Tom said...

Yes - "The Man With the Golden Arm" is a must-see motion picture. Arnold Stang playing Frank Sinatra's sidekick.

Donna Lethal said...

God, I love that pic w/Zsa Zsa. It was so weird, this post didn't show up before when I posted that other interview. My google home page is acting up. I loved him "The Man with the Golden Arm," - I once found a (sadly, silent, due to a faulty soundtrack) film of those Charles Atlas ads that you'd see in the back of Ring Magazines. Arnold was the guy who got sand kicked in his face.