When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way. From your first cigarette, to your last dyin’ day. And that goes double for Russ Tamblyn, the actor, dancer, and choreographer best known for his role as Riff, the leader of the Jets in the Oscar winner for Best Picture in 1961, West Side Story. Tamblyn had appeared at one of the Hollywood Collectors Shows at the Winter Hollywood Show this year along with fellow cast members from that film. But during his appearance at the same show on Saturday, October 9, 2010, he was there as part of the Twin Peaks reunion. In that TV series, he portrayed Dr. Lawrence Jacoby, the eccentric psychiatrist that murder victim Laura Palmer was seeing just before her death.
Although (shame of shames) I have not yet seen West Side Story, getting a signed photo of Russ Tamblyn from that film still trumped getting one from Twin Peaks, which I have both seen and love. Tamblyn also had roles in such notable classic films as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and How the West Was Won.
Like the majority of the other cast members of Twin Peaks, he was very kind and only charging $20 for his signed photos, which included a free photo with him.
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