considering how deliberately self-referential community is (and increasingly so), it's weird to me to see it analyzed in such literal terms. demanding clarification on chang, for example, seems especially ridiculous, since his whole character at this point basically exists as a meta-joke about how irrelevant he is to…

i doubt it

oh, come on

he died, can you believe it?

hey, you know the guy from those movies? he's dead. he died.

seriously. like, can we have a little bit of vicarious gratitude here?

what if he had hit it big earlier in his life, causing him to take an irreconcilably different path, and then those great performances we love from later in his life never happened?

this list is silly. some of those people have great careers. philip baker hall? really?