Peter Boyle

Pardon the shrink wrapped picture above.

Peter Boyle died today. Among great roles in films such as Honeymoon In Vegas, Young Frankenstein and Where The Buffalo Roam, Boyle played Jack in the Dream Team a comedy about a bunch of wackos who get out of the mental institute to see a yankees game with their shrink. The shrink is knocked unconscious and these bats run loose in Manhattan. Christopher Lloyd played a nut who still beleived himself to be a practicing physician. Michael Keaton was a headcase. Basically the same role he played in Batman (and most other films) with a little less anger and paranoia depending on how you look at it. But Peter Boyle was the memorable Jack McDermott, a one time rich man from Scarsdale, NY, who was drastically missing his marbles, believing himself to be God. It doesn't get any better than that.

His best scene in the film was where he entered an African-American Church and gravitated towards the dias. He began a sermon, getting the congregation all worked up and then started taking his clothes off. And that was when they threw his ass out on the street. Some dialogue from the film, surely never to be repeated in any other movie:

Stop! Who dares to tow the van of the living Christ?

Father, forgive us for we have sinned! We parked our car in a forbidden zone!

[Begins to undress] We are all naked in the eyes of the lord.

I fear my doctor may have been seized by the Romans!

I was pulling down a hundred big ones a year while you and Satan were chasing Daryl Hannah!