Talk:Vic Tayback/Archives/2013

Interview in TV Guide
In the course of an interview with a TV Guide reporter, didn't Vic Tayback complain that he put so much into his role in Alice that it was going to give him a heart attack, and that he had asked the director to give him a role emphasizing his romantic side, as opposed to his irascible side?198.177.27.23 06:14, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Band reference
Moving this here, as the article clearly indicates that it is about the actor Vic Tayback, making this passage completely irrelevant.


 * Vic Tayback was also an infamous band consisting of Mason Stone (guitar and vocals), Al "Rizzo" (guitar and vocals), Zeke Tiernan (bass guitar), and Dean Goldsworthy (drums).

If there isn't sufficient cause to create an article about this band, and someone deems it absolutely necessary to mention the band in this article, it certainly would not be mentioned in the introduction, from where I removed the passage. 71.200.140.35 (talk) 14:54, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Tayback's Arab ancestry barely mentioned
Why does the article mention only in passing(especially since the article is part of "WikiProject Syria"), that Mr. Tayback was of Syrian ancestry? As such, he was one of the first of a wave of Arab-Americans who gained prominence in the entertainment world in the 1970's, 80's and '90s[including Casey Kasem, F. Murray Abraham, and the pop singer Tiffany. Prior to them, the only prominent Arab-American in American popular culture was Danny Thomas. Tayback is also distinctive in being the only Arab-American celebrity of the period whose ancestry wasn't Lebanese.

Ken Burch 28 January 2009, 08:09 (UTC)

References and tag
This article is tagged as having no references or source but shows two. The first, here is a non-credited web page, and the second, here is from a Chicago Tribune article that carries the warning; 'Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission.'. There is a large number of external links that need to be checked. Otr500 (talk) 04:38, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Vic Tayback - Filmography
The article had very interesting coverage of Vic Tayback's TV career, but it mentioned only one movie, "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore." I was hoping to find the name of another movie he had been in thru the article, but THERE IS NO FILMOGRAPHY in the article mentioning his many movie roles. Next is a filmography for him that appears to be complete and is much more than just the one movie mentioned in Wikipedia:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0851861/

The movie I was trying to find was "Loverboy" (1989). There is a very famous scene in "Wayne's World" (1992) that was copied from "Loverboy." In the "Loverboy" version, Vic Tayback, and other irate husbands, are riding in a car bopping their heads to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" during the guitar solo (as later done in "Wayne's World"). I thought the Wikipedia article on "Bohemian Rhapsody" might mention this, but it mentioned only the later movie. I wrote the following on the Wikipedia talk page for that article:

Movie use BEFORE Wayne's World

As mentioned in the article, Bohemian Rhapsody got a lot of attention from its inclusion in the 1992 movie "Wayne's World." Yet, in this article, and in a Wikipedia article on Vic Tayback, there is NO mention of the use of this song in the 1989 movie "Loverboy." The "Wayne's World" scene with Bohemian Rhapsody WAS ALMOST AN EXACT COPY of the SAME SCENE from "Loverboy." In both scenes, a group of men were in a car when the song came on the radio and the men started bopping their heads during the guitar solo in the song. In "Loverboy," the Queen song was playing as the men were on their way to confront the pizza delivery boy (Patrick Demsey) (whose mother was played by Kate Jackson) who had become the town's male prostitute and had been with the wives of those men (one of whom was played by Vic Tayback). When I first saw "Wayne's World," I considered that the scene was an homage to the "Loverboy" scene. But since I've never seen an acknowledgement of this, it appears to be a rip off.

Loverboy cast site: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097790/fullcredits#cast — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swrathell (talk • contribs) 23:55, 16 May 2012 (UTC)