{"id":6276,"date":"2015-01-12T16:13:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T23:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6276"},"modified":"2015-01-19T16:18:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T23:18:29","slug":"learning-about-cuba-and-having-some-food-taylor-negron-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/12\/learning-about-cuba-and-having-some-food-taylor-negron-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning About Cuba and Having Some Food &#8211; Taylor Negron Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/12\/movies\/taylor-negron-of-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-dies-at-57.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Taylor Negron, of \u2018Fast Times at Ridgemont High,\u2019 Dies at 57<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">By\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\" title=\"More Articles by DAVE ITZKOFF\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/i\/dave_itzkoff\/index.html\" rel=\"author\"><span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"DAVE ITZKOFF\" data-twitter-handle=\"ditzkoff\">DAVE ITZKOFF<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tuENFR-9phU\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"Website.\" href=\"http:\/\/taylornegron.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Negron<\/a>, a comedian and actor who described his style as \u201cCalifornia Gothic\u201d and who brought a funereal, straight-faced sensibility to a career\u2019s worth of character roles in cult comedies like \u201cFast Times at Ridgemont High\u201d and \u201cOne Crazy Summer,\u201d died on Saturday. He was 57.<\/p>\n<p>His death was announced in\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"Video.\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/C9_gzinhJMQ\" target=\"_blank\">an online video<\/a>\u00a0posted by a cousin, Chuck Negron of the rock group Three Dog Night. Chuck Negron did not specify the location or the cause, but\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"Obituary.\" href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/biz\/news\/taylor-negron-dead-at-57-actor-known-for-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-the-last-boy-scout-1201399953\/\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>\u00a0and other Hollywood trade publications reported that Taylor Negron had cancer.<\/p>\n<p>A Los Angeles native, Mr. Negron used his sharp facial features, piercing eyes and deadpan delivery to commandeer screen roles that were intended to last only a few moments. In \u201cFast Times at Ridgemont High,\u201d Amy Heckerling\u2019s celebrated 1982 teenage comedy, he made a lasting impression as\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"Clip.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6J8__fWphE0\">a world-weary pizza deliveryman<\/a>\u00a0who brings a double cheese and sausage pie to the history class of the surfer dude Jeff Spicoli (played by Sean Penn).<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cBetter Off Dead &#8230;\u201d (1985), another teenage comedy, he memorably played\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"Clip.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hiYjXCBmSfI\" target=\"_blank\">a careless, judgmental mailman<\/a>. To other viewers, he was\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"Clip.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zwWrajIdHII\" target=\"_blank\">Rodney Dangerfield\u2019s eccentric son-in-law<\/a>\u00a0in \u201cEasy Money\u201d (1983),\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"Clip.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zEUrQoG7ED8\" target=\"_blank\">a self-assured stand-up comic<\/a>\u00a0in \u201cPunchline\u201d (1988) and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"Clip.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bwVOwIXeJ0U\" target=\"_blank\">an expressive hairdresser<\/a>\u00a0in a 1993 episode of \u201cSeinfeld,\u201d among the many roles he played in a 35-year career.<\/p>\n<p>Born Brad Negron on Aug. 1, 1957, Mr. Negron grew up deeply attuned to the morbid undercurrent of Hollywood\u2019s allure.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/12\/movies\/taylor-negron-of-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-dies-at-57.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Taylor Negron, of \u2018Fast Times at Ridgemont High,\u2019 Dies at 57 By\u00a0DAVE ITZKOFF Taylor Negron, a comedian and actor who described his style as \u201cCalifornia Gothic\u201d and who brought a funereal, straight-faced sensibility to a career\u2019s worth of character roles in cult comedies like \u201cFast Times at Ridgemont High\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}