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Old 06-18-2017, 07:22 AM
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Stephen Furst of Animal House and Babylon 5 fame dies at 63. Tragic.


http://www.tmz.com/2017/06/17/steph...mal-house-dead/
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Old 06-18-2017, 08:34 PM
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Sad to see.

I met Stephen Furst about 20 years ago!

Here is my story.

I met Stephen at a Sci-fi Con in 1996, over twenty years ago.

Stephen played 'Vir' the assistant to 'Ambassador Londo Malarie' from Centari Prime.
His character was meek and mild but he was very smart.

Anyway, at the con, I was listening to anther actor, Micheal O'Hare, (who played Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair on B5) reading from a book when Stephen accidentally bumped into me. He said "I'm sorry" like his character in Babylon 5. "Your fine" I said back.
It took me a minute to realize who was standing next to me?
A very thin Stephen Furst!
Stephen was very heavy in the first three seasons of B5.
When Micheal O'Hare's time was up, Stephen told me what had happen to him.
After the the third season ended, Stephen wound up in the hospital due to diabetes.
During his stay, he had Chinese food delivered to his room.
The doctor could 'smell' the food and said to Stephen, "If you eat all that, you will die."
Stephen gave the nurses the food and stuck to his new diet and lost over a hundred pounds.

Stephen was quite charming and endearing to all that met him including me.

R.I.P Stephen and it was great pleasure to meet you!
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Old 06-18-2017, 11:32 PM
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Man, what a bummer.

He was also great in St. Elsewhere



Both that and Babylon-5 had incredible casting and writing which the actors delivered on.



And B-5 fans will recognize this wave as the thing that the character he played, "Vir", wanted most at the time....




From this video scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47DfQcHMYLY
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Yes - I loved that Vir moment.

Sad to see another B5 cast member gone before his time. I'll be 62 this year....his passing at 63 makes me more aware of the blessing the time I have can be if I make good use of it.

Rest well, Stephen.
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Old 06-19-2017, 09:25 AM
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Sad to see.

I met Stephen Furst about 20 years ago!

Here is my story.

I met Stephen at a Sci-fi Con in 1996, over twenty years ago.

Stephen played 'Vir' the assistant to 'Ambassador Londo Malarie' from Centari Prime.
His character was meek and mild but he was very smart.

Anyway, at the con, I was listening to anther actor, Micheal O'Hare, (who played Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair on B5) reading from a book when Stephen accidentally bumped into me. He said "I'm sorry" like his character in Babylon 5. "Your fine" I said back.
It took me a minute to realize who was standing next to me?
A very thin Stephen Furst!
Stephen was very heavy in the first three seasons of B5.
When Micheal O'Hare's time was up, Stephen told me what had happen to him.
After the the third season ended, Stephen wound up in the hospital due to diabetes.
During his stay, he had Chinese food delivered to his room.
The doctor could 'smell' the food and said to Stephen, "If you eat all that, you will die."
Stephen gave the nurses the food and stuck to his new diet and lost over a hundred pounds.

Stephen was quite charming and endearing to all that met him including me.

R.I.P Stephen and it was great pleasure to meet you!


What a wonderful experience! Thanks for sharing.
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I have said for years, this is why we should have cloning. There should be an endless supply of sci-fi actors for re-boots.
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This really stinks !
Flounder was great.

Animal House is the GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE.

Started a trend of "Food Fights" in High School and College cafeterias that never should have stopped.

During my Senior Year of High School we PLANNED a mega-food-fight with 2 weeks left before Graduation. It was much larger than the original "Animal House" scene. I personally splatted an entire Chef Salad tray loaded with Thousand Island into the face of a Sophomore that was trying to escape the Mayhem/Melee/Chaos/Havoc/Spree by scurrying under a table. As he was approaching the spot I was at, I just simply stuck the tray in front of his face and tilted it. SPLATTO !
I also have a vivid memory of a "Lunch Room Monitor lady" being beaned in the back of the head with an entire Cheeseburger. People were opening up the entire tops (not just one side for a drinking "spout") of Milk-Cartons and just randomly flinging them into the air to maximize the mess.
So many Seniors were involved (and there were no monitor cameras back in 1988) that there were too many to individually punish; the only thing that came of it was the Student Council for the class of 1988 was forced to clean up the mess (should have been the Janitors, it was THEIR JOB) and the rest got a "stern talking to" over the school PA system.

It was GOOD, CLEAN, HARMLESS, NON-VIOLENT, REBELLIOUS FUN that hurt nobody, but maybe that day's cafeteria budget. Food thievery during the Melee was rampant.
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