Rip Torn was one of my favorite actors in Hollywood. His performance in The Larry Sanders Show (HBO comedy) was so good, which IMO is one of the funniest series ever on HBO. Rip and Gary Shandling had an amazing comedic energy between them that I cannot ever see being duplicated.

I saw Rip on the boardwalk near the Coronado Bridge in San Diego once. No one else around. We just nodded and said "hi" to each other, and just kept walking. Nonetheless, it was a very memorable moment for me.

I posted this a little over a week ago - when I saw it I immediately thought of "Death Hits the Jackpot". Rip Torn was terrific in that episode - one of my favorites of the recent Columbos.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/michigan-man-won-80-million-234817589.html