Pour one out for Rip Torn, who has died at 88. I'm sure that Artie would say something pithy about him, raise an eyebrow, call him a motherfucker and drink a Glenmorangie in his honour.
He was initially cast in Easy Rider, then on set got into a fight with director Dennis Hopper, and Hopper pulls a knife on him and tries to stab him. Torn was an ex-army policeman and disarmed him quickly. Hopper fired him - and then cast Jack Nicholson in the role in which he got his first Oscar nomination.
He later got into a hammer fight with Norman Mailer on set, cos sure, why not?
And of course, he once got so drunk he tried to break into a bank with a shotgun thinking it was his home. He was 79 at the time. A true legend.