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...gives a seminal description of his game: “I basically spit straight goon. Most people just regurgitate conventions and think they’re using words to communicate, so I come in with straight goon and girls don’t know what to do. These guys try to be smooth. I just come to New York and drop goon. And it works, bro.” We coin various expressions for PK-1’s courting: “Tossin’ goon…coughin’ goon…flingin’ goon...
DIED. SPIKE MILLIGAN, 83, British comedian; in Rye, England. With Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers, Milligan ruled Britannia's radio waves in the comic series The Goon Show during the '50s. His absurd, mildly grotesque characters caught on with the Beatles generation: without his work, John Cleese said, there "would have been no Monty Python...
...known for playing the title role in the 1945 gangster classic Dillinger, and enjoyed a resurgence of fame at age 73 playing the sinister leader of a criminal gang in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 cult film Reservoir Dogs. DIED. SPIKE MILLIGAN, 83, irreverent comedian and founding member of The Goon Show, the anarchic 1950s radio series co-starring Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers that redefined modern British humor; in Rye, England. Milligan started his career at the age of 15 singing in music halls. Injured as a soldier during WW II, he first experienced the mental illness that...
...actor, charity worker, author, and longtime TV and radio personality. These were the extensions of an exuberant character, whose spontaneous wit never relied on malice to entertain. For those who grew up in Britain in the '50s, Secombe is best remembered as Neddy Seagoon of radio's long-running Goon Show. With Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Michael Bentine, Secombe gave us our first taste of alternative comedy. In those ordered, respectable times, he created the enjoyable sense of participating in something rather daring and anarchic. Britain has a few people it calls "national treasures," to whom it gives uncritical...
...taunt Jonas and sophomore defenseman Aaron Kim came over to keep him in line, Murphy did the right thing by assessing Jelenic a misconduct, but he failed to give him a minor penalty. Therefore, Yale was rewarded by the sequence with a power play and the loss of a goon...