Sunday, January 25, 2015

Sunday Globe Special: This Obituary No Trouble At All

I'm a little troubled that they left out a credit:

"Taylor Negron of ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High,’ at 57" by Dave Itzkoff, New York Times  January 18, 2015

NEW YORK — Taylor Negron, a comedian and actor who described his style as “California Gothic” and who brought a funereal, straight-faced sensibility to a career’s worth of character roles in cult comedies such as “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and “One Crazy Summer,” died Jan. 10. He was 57.

His death was announced in an online video posted by a cousin, Chuck Negron of the rock group Three Dog Night. Chuck Negron did not specify the location or the cause, but Variety and other Hollywood trade publications reported that Taylor Negron had cancer.

A Los Angeles native, Mr. Negron used his sharp facial features, piercing eyes, and deadpan delivery to commandeer screen roles that were intended to last only a few moments. In “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” Amy Heckerling’s celebrated 1982 teenage comedy, he made a lasting impression as a world-weary pizza deliveryman who brings a double cheese and sausage pie to the history class of the surfer dude Jeff Spicoli (played by Sean Penn).

He memorably played an expressive hairdresser in a 1993 episode of “Seinfeld.”

Of course.

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