Bye-Bye Bruno

TheCharacterMan
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Bruno Kirby, the actor, is dead at age 57 of leukemia.

Most folks, if they can conjure him up at all likely remember the raspy-voiced Mr. Kirby as the sidekick in all those Billy Crystal movies like 'City Slickers' and 'When Harry Met Sally'.

And he was good in all that stuff and the Godfather movies too.

But I will always think of him as the faux Jan Wenner 'Marty Lewis' in the flawed but fabulous 'Where The Buffalo Roam' in which Bill Murray as HST tells Kirby as Wenner/Lewis not to worry because:

"You move like a cat, Marty."

And from what I understand, when he played softball with Mr. Crystal and Meathead (Rob Reiner), Kirby always did have the somewhat feline, yet slightly off-kilter, moves of a young Yogi Berra.

Darn.

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