The real-life Marine drill sergeant originally signed on as technical adviser to Stanley Kubrick's feature *Full Metal Jacket*, after a few other military/authority roles, but when Kubrick heard him in an instructional tape in which he went on long rants at extras, he knew he'd found his Gunnery Sergeant Hartman... the rest is classic-film history... 74.
Variety <http://variety.com/2018/film/news/r-lee-ermey-dead-dies-full-metal-jacket-golden-globe-nominee-1202753747/> (link), with a (quite uncensored) companion piece <http://variety.com/2018/film/columns/r-lee-ermey-full-metal-jacket-1202754042/> (link) B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
