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Charles Sidney Grodin (April 21, 1935 – May 18, 2021) was an American actor, comedian, author, and television talk show host. Grodin began his acting career in the 1960s appearing in TV serials including The Virginian. After a small part in Rosemary's Baby in 1968, he played the lead in Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and supporting roles in Mike Nichols's Catch-22 (1970), the 1976 remake of King Kong, and Warren Beatty's Heaven Can Wait (1978). Known for his deadpan delivery and often cast as a put-upon straight man, Grodin became familiar as a supporting actor in many Hollywood comedies of the era, including Real Life (1979), Seems Like Old Times (1980), The Great Muppet Caper (1981), Ishtar (1987), Dave (1993), and Clifford (1994). Grodin co-starred in the action comedy Midnight Run (1988) and in the family film Beethoven (1992). He made frequent appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman. In the mid-1990s, Grodin retired from acting and wrote autobiographies; he became a talk show host on CNBC and in 2000 a political commentator for 60 Minutes II. He returned to acting with a handful of roles in the mid-2010s, including in Louis C.K.'s FX show Louie and Noah Baumbach's film While We're Young (2014). Grodin won several awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special in 1978 for the Paul Simon Special alongside Chevy Chase, Lorne Michaels, Paul Simon, and Lily Tomlin. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for The Heartbreak Kid in 1972. He won Best Actor at the 1988 Valladolid International Film Festival for Midnight Run, and the American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his performance in Dave in 1993.
Charles Grodin
George Newton
for George Newton in Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2: The Revenge of Doom
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Within the timeframe of the 1940s to present day, The toons of the world of Roger Rabbit have faced difficulties staying relevant as for one reason or another, many of the classic cartoons from the first have retired aside from the select few that include Roger, Jessica, Baby Herman and Benny the Cab. Despite having good work as two bit parts aside from miscellaneous work as entertainment at birthday parties and bar mitzvahs. A flashback before the main events of the film reveal the funeral of Eddie Valiant and many of the toons alongside his wife. Dolores and his friend, Lt Santino and some of the toons helped from the days of Valiant and Valiant. Everyone mourns the loss of Eddie. Within a darks and desolate place in Los Angeles, relatives of the Toon Patrol resurrect or make a new version of Doom that plans to destroy the toons by remaking and redoing them with subpar but profitable remakes that will lead to them falling out of favor with the general public and in the process allows him to take his revenge upon Roger and all of the toons for killing him and ruining his plans for the last time. Stay Tooned
