First an 80 year old celebrity... Dammit not Dolly Parton Ok fine, a well known 80 year old who is in home alone 2 at the plaza hotel... dammit, not Tim curry... Another 80 year old who was in home alone 2 at the plaza hotel maybe?

Third time lucky!

Famous people deaths usually come in threes… 🤞

he was pretty fantastic and epically creepy in Lexx

Comedy - drama.

Dolly Parton owns a Country and Western bar that is sitting on a giant oil well. Evil billionaire Dabney Coleman wants to get it without paying what it's worth. He hires crooked lawman Jackie Gleason to arrest Dolly on trumped up charges.

Dolly goes in front of Judge Patti LaBelle, who sentences her to six hundred hours of community service. Coleman and Gleason want her jailed, so Gleason sends her to work at the state psychiatric facility, a place that amke's Batman's Arkham look like a kindergarten.

Tim is a long term catatonic who hasn't spoken since the death of his long term partner. He's been laying in filth for years.

While being forced to clean near his cell, Dolly starts singing to raise her spirits. One of the other staff hears it and puts in on the PA system.

Tim starts singing along with her, the first time he's shown any response to anything in years.

The administrator, Paul Reubens, decides to make Dolly responsible for Tim. Apparently he comes from a pretty influential family, and curing him would be a big win for Paul.

Tim only responds to music. His actual personality remains buried as he morphs through Elvis, Janet Jackson, Tom Waites, Maria Callas, and others.

Meanwhile, Coleman has come up with a legal loophole to let him seize the bar. Gleason has been intercepting US mail informing Dolly she must appear in front of a judge or face having her bar declared a public menace.

Dolly finds out about this hearing at the last minute and has to race to get there on time [montage with car crashes, motorcycles, etc etc]

Dolly got the note and ran out of a session with Tim. He picks up the note and has a profound change [ we can make this funny or compelling, Tim can do either.] Suddenly himself again, he marches to the administrator's office...

Dolly gets to the courtroom seconds before judgement is passed. She looks like an insane woman from her adventure. The crooked judge [ Tommy Lee Jones ]and Coleman's lawyers [pick your own lineup of sleazoids] let her rattle on. "Let her talk, she's making our case for us!"

At the last possible second, Tim and the administrator arrive. Turns out, Tim is a accredited member of the bar. Even in his hospital gown and bathrobe he easily refutes the entire case as Dolly stares on in wonder.

And it turns out that Coleman is actually Tim's cousin who signed him into 'treatment' years ago to get control of the family fortune. Tim demands that the judge deem him compos mentis and give him back control of his estate. And finally Tim points to Gleason as one of the members of the mob that killed his partner all those years ago.

At the big party Dolly throws for herself Tim arrives dressed as like Elton John on acid. Dolly's frineds are horrified at first, but once he starts singing they start rolling with it.

After the performance Tim comes to Dolly. She's afraid he's lost his mind again. He acts nuts for a few minutes then starts speaking rationally again. He thanks her for everything she's done and they finish with a great duet.

They die in threes, so there's still hope. 🤞🏽

Aye! Replace him woth Luigi.

Full quote:

RIP Chancellor Ymper Trymon

Then death is as corrupt as Trump and needs fired

I don't remember Dolly Parton being in Home Alone 2, though.

SPACE!!!

(leaving this here for those like me, who needed context)

Monkey paw curls…

I'm sorry to be nit-picky, but I think learning that was a requirement BEFORE you get to Heaven.

To be fair, the man had pretty serious health issues. He suffered a massive stroke years ago and hasn't been able to fully recover from it. What a terrible day.