{"id":29109,"date":"2023-06-20T10:05:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T15:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/?p=29109"},"modified":"2023-06-21T08:28:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T13:28:12","slug":"rip-treat-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2023\/06\/20\/rip-treat-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Treat Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I know he passed away in a motorcycle accident last week but given what a heavy week was last week, I put him off with some others out of respect for our four-legged fuzzballs, still missing them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Treat was a pretty cool actor who made even mediocre flicks better. I just didn&#8217;t appreciate his skill at raising quality until I saw him in the lead for\u00a0<em>Deep Rising<\/em>, the Horror movie that got Stephen Sommers the opportunity to be make the best Mummy movie in 1999. I&#8217;d say Treat&#8217;s acting alongside Wes Studi and Kevin J. O&#8217;Connor are what put this over the top from\u00a0<em>meh<\/em> to hilarious and awesome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Other roles I recall and loved Treat in before and after <em>Rising<\/em> which I also saw out of chronological order.\u00a0<em>1941<\/em>, he&#8217;s the asshole soldier trying to *ahem!* assault a woman who just came to win a dancing contest with her draft ineligible boyfriend;\u00a0<em>The Phantom<\/em>, which should&#8217;ve been a success but he was great as the hero&#8217;s nemesis;\u00a0<em>Things to do in Denver When You&#8217;re Dead<\/em>, he was funny in a very gross way yet memorable;\u00a0<em>Dead Heat<\/em>, a failed vehicle to make Joe Piscopo a movie star. This wasn&#8217;t Treat&#8217;s fault, I side with Joe Bob&#8217;s explanation, when mix two genres like Horror-Comedy, it needs to be 80\/20 of one with the other, never 50\/50; on\u00a0<em>The Simpsons<\/em>, he got to be himself with a joke about himself; and if you ever get a chance to see it, I highly recommend\u00a0<em>The Ritz<\/em> in which he&#8217;s a PI hired by Jerry Stiller to bust James Coco in a gay bath house. It&#8217;s actually a comedy which may not have aged well since Coco is hiding there because Stiller is trying to murder him. Lastly, I never knew this until the great Mark Hamill posted it on his Twitter feed in honor of this hardworking, modest and well-loved guy. Treat was an uncredited Hoth rebel in <em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Farewell Treat! You made the world a better place through all your work and characters! You contributed to so much which is why so many in Hollywood will miss you!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know he passed away in a motorcycle accident last week but given what a heavy week was last week, I put him off with some others out of respect for our four-legged fuzzballs, still missing them. Treat was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2023\/06\/20\/rip-treat-williams\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[269,457,66,291,144,122,184],"class_list":["post-29109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-action","tag-celebrity-obituary","tag-comedy","tag-drama","tag-eighties","tag-horror","tag-nineties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29110,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29109\/revisions\/29110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}