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Bubba Smith (Hightower) found dead.

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  • #2
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,526 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Ah thats a bummer although I actually thought he was dead already. Used to love thoose movies when I was a kid. RIP.


  • #3
    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,070 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    RIP


  • #4
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,006 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    RIP
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  • #5
    Sasquatch76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,353 ✭✭✭Sasquatch76


    Sad news. Police Academy movies, as terrible as they were, played a part in my childhood. RIP.


  • #6
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,073 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Writer Ken Levine has written a nice tribute to Bubba here: he acted in two sitcoms Ken was writing.
    He generally played the soft-spoken big man who you did not want to cross. In person he was just the soft-spoken big man. Of course I never said to him, “Y’know, the Oakland Raiders are just a bunch of pansies”. But he was a delightful guy. And what impressed me most was how serious he was about acting. It wasn’t just a lark. He put the same effort into learning how to play comedy as he did crushing quarterbacks into powder. You’d think directors and producers would be intimidated giving this 6' 8" bruiser notes but he was extremely receptive. And the results paid dividends. He was very funny, in an understated way that fit perfectly with his giant presence.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #7
    Mr. Denton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 867 ✭✭✭Mr. Denton


    Sad news. I'd like to instead remember him for all the times he made me laugh during the Police Academy movies. Unfortunately, that never happened.

    RIP


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