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"We have a T-Rex" RIP

Saw him in The Great Escape just today. Yet another sad loss.

Oh man. RIP.

RIP In Peace Dinosaur man

RIP.

R.I.P. Another sad loss.

Of course I'll always remember him for The Great Escape, but the memory I'll always have was of an event that occurred during the filming of the 1994 remake of A Miracle on 34th Street. My wife (then GF) and I were performing as extras for the parade scene. While resetting between takes, a golf cart comes down Central Park West carrying none other than Sir Richard Attenborough in costume. Although his driver/attendant showed no interest in slowing down among us peons, my wife - who had never seen The Great Escape - dashed past all of us paralyzed drooling fanbois and ran towards the cart yelling, "Santa!" Well, that man - already a knight of the realm and beholden to a bunch of extras not in the least - stopped, let my wife sit next to him, take some pics, and mug with him for an NBC magazine show. A man may become succesful, famous, even powerful within his own spheres; but character, generosity, and gregariousness are not qualities that are acquired with fame.

Mikey wrote:Of course I'll always remember him for The Great Escape, but the memory I'll always have was of an event that occurred during the filming of the 1994 remake of A Miracle on 34th Street. My wife (then GF) and I were performing as extras for the parade scene. While resetting between takes, a golf cart comes down Central Park West carrying none other than Sir Richard Attenborough in costume. Although his driver/attendant showed no interest in slowing down among us peons, my wife - who had never seen The Great Escape - dashed past all of us paralyzed drooling fanbois and ran towards the cart yelling, "Santa!" Well, that man - already a knight of the realm and beholden to a bunch of extras not in the least - stopped, let my wife sit next to him, take some pics, and mug with him for an NBC magazine show. A man may become succesful, famous, even powerful within his own spheres; but character, generosity, and gregariousness are not qualities that are acquired with fame.

That's a legit touching story. Thank you for posting it.