Kevin Peter Hall as Harry and Predator
You may not recognize the name but you know his work.
Kevin Peter Hall may not have been well known outside of Hollywood but in Hollywood he was a big man. Seriously! He was 7' 2.5". That made him one of the tallest men in Hollywood and until yesterday I had never known his name.
Kevin Peter Hall as the helicopter pilot in the Predator
Yesterday I was talking with Kevin's youngest and shortest(6' 9") brother Jaime(the middle brother is 6' 11") when he mentioned his brother had been an actor and had been in some movies. And then he told me which roles. I was floored and wondered why I hadn't heard the name before. I must admit, I'm not a sci-fi buff so maybe that's one reason, but these were major characters, why didn't I know who was behind their masks? I wanted to know more.
As a quick side-note, they get their height honestly, their dad is 6' 6" and mom is 6' 2".
Jaime told me his brother had died of pneumonia at the age of 35. I found this curious and went looking. What I found was Kevin had the misfortune to have had a car accident in the 1980's where he had gotten a blood transfusion which turned out to be tainted with the AIDS virus. It was timing. Kevin's accident occurred before there was proper screening for AIDS.
All of this made me wonder. Kevin could have been our generation's Lon Chaney. However, that was not to be because we and his family were deprived of his continued presence due to the length of time it took to get a handle on AIDS.
On with the games!!
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1) If you comment you have to recommend all comments. (in order to receive mojo you have to give mojo. It's only good mojo manners.)
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A. At least 300 different commenters and 1000 comments by 1:30 PM EST and 1500 by 5:00 PM EST Friday Night that it's posted.
B. 100 recommends for each comment, at least.
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H. Overload the servers with recommends, not to mention dominate Top Comments Mojo list. (we do tend to mess with the site with all of our recommends at one time)(also, to dominate the Top Comments Top Mojo we need at least 50 comments with over 200 recommends, see guideline B)
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MKinTN posted a diary to help everyone achieve greater success called How to Succeed at Mojo Friday Without Really Trying.
For those of you new to MF (Mojo Friday) we have our own lingo about a few things. Thank's to MF'er Jez (the link will explain) go to this diary for a little more fun and explanation. Official Mojo Friday Snecktionary.