MovieChat Forums > Phil Hartman Discussion > killed 20 years ago today

RIP

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I agree. There are so many tragic deaths to reckon with, but Phil getting killed by his wife was a stunner. Just watch the guy work. He seemed as amiable as Andy Taylor (Griffith) on the AG Show.
I remember one silly SNL skit with Tonto, a gorilla and Frankenstein, Lovitz-Hartman-Nealon I think, and they could not contain themselves. They barely got through the skit and couldn't stay in character, and it's so fun to watch. And of course Phil could do such great voice work, and again, with comedy.
Whenever I remember Phil Hartman I'm always so saddened - and stunned - with how his life ended.

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He was too good for this world, just way too good.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLyJ4QMj-5M

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Your link got blocked by NBC in my country. But I appreciate the effort. I could probably find it on my own and I'm not tech-inclined, but I'm guessing you know exactly what I'm talking about. Much love for PH. Much more talented than people realize. He had Everyman looks, but a sparkle in his eyes that said he knows more than what he's delivering.

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It was usually Tarzan, Tonto, and Frankenstein. Was there one with a gorilla?

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Just going off memory, which isn't reliable.

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Yeah, me too. I think Hartman did "Frankenstein", Lovitz did "Tonto", and Nealon did "Tarzan".

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http://www.agcwebpages.com/BLINDITEMS/2021/AUGUST.html

60. ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 08/05 **14**

https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2021/08/todays-blind-items-other-way.html

The Other Way: This A list dual threat actor was always accused of cheating on his wife. He was never accused by anyone who knew him, other than his wife. She was paranoid. She spent tons of his money on detectives to follow him. She would hire her drug dealers to do the same thing. When she didn't have enough money to pay them, she would sleep with them. That is the crazy thing. She was the one who was sleeping with multiple partners and doing so several times each week while her husband remained faithful. Those who discovered this after the fact, realized that she was cheating so much that she reasoned her husband was doing the same thing and couldn't be convinced otherwise which finally pushed her over the edge. Phil Hartman/Brynn Hartman (The Tragic Story Behind The Death Of Phil Hartman)

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Phil would smoke massive amount of weed..he often visited strip clubs for lapdances, telling them how beautiful they were. Phil was in to himself, often ignoring Brynn's cries for help. Brynn was no better, she'd berate Phil in front of his friends. She'd yell and scream at him all the time. There were many breakups, then reconciliation. Phil wanted a pretty wife, he didn't want the cost of a divorce, even though they were never going to work things out. Maybe at the end he finally told her he had enough, that he was finally divorcing her. She wasn't going to let that happen.

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Drugs make people paranoid. Fuck everyone who wants to legalize it. I pray y'all end up like Phil.

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Because keeping drugs illegal worked so well here, right?

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If you think making drugs legal is a great idea, come up to Portland, Oregon and drive through what used to be called America's "Most Livable City." It looks like the city dump or some third world hellscape. It used to be a genuinely pretty city.

"Progressives," as if that's progress.

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Legalizing drugs doesn't make them safe to use, and I invite anyone who thinks that legalization will solve all drug-related problems to lookup "meth heart" or deal with a junkie in person. Or even deal with someone who's addicted to prescription drugs.

But as for Mr. and Mrs. Hartmann, never fuck crazy! Never get too close to crazy, never stay with crazy, never marry crazy, and above all NEVER breed with crazy. Crazy only gets worse with time and enmeshment.

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San Francisco, too. It was beautiful when I lived there in the '70s, and even better the last time I was there, in 2002. "Hellscape" is the perfect term for what it has been turned into now.

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