Re: RIP John Pinette
I remember him for his character in the (good) Punisher film (as opposed to the 80's Dolph Lundgren one--which was tolerable, but not that good--or Punisher: War Zone, which I never saw and which failed to incite any enthusiasm on my part to see it...)
I really enjoyed his role in that...he managed to be comic relief without being a clown about it (well, any more of a clown than the character was written to be, anyway). Another example of comics adapting to 'dramatic' roles more successfully than dramatic actors adapting to comic roles...
Read a little bit about who he was, as a person, as well, from some of the other comics he'd worked with. The guy was, truly, a class act.