Photo: Bush with R. Lee "Full Metal Jacket" Ermey

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

"What's your major malfunction, Private Pyle?"



U.S. President George W. Bush (front) talks to actor and veteran R. Lee Remey (R) at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) national convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, August 22, 2005. Bush underscored his policy of keeping U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq until the country establishes a stable government. REUTERS/Jeff Mitchell

NOTE: Reuters misspelled his name it IS R. Lee Ermey.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000388/

R. Lee Ermey

Date of birth (location)
24 March 1944
Emporia, Kansas, USA



Very talented character actor known for his military roles, R. Lee Ermey was in the Marine Corps for eleven years. He rose to the rank of Staff Sergeant, and his Marine service included one and a half tours in Vietnam. After injuries forced him to retire from military service, he moved to the Phillipines, enrolling in the University of Manila, where he studied Criminology and Drama. He appeared in several Phillipino films, before being cast as a Helicopter pilot in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. Due to his Vietnam experiences, Coppola also utilized him as a technical advisor. He got a featured role in Sidney Furie's The Boys in Company C, Playing A drill instructor. Ermey worked with Furie again in Purple Hearts. However, Ermey got his most famous, (or infamous) role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, for which Ermey was nominated for a Golden Globe. Ermey did win the best supporting actor award from The Boston Society of Film Critics. Since then, Ermey has appeared in numerous character roles in such films as Leaving Las Vegas, Se7en, and Dead Man Walking. Ermey, however, prefers comedy to drama, and and has a comedic role in Saving Silverman. Ronald Lee Ermey continues to be one of the best character actors to date, and you can bet that when his name appears in a movies credits, he is going to be top notch in his role.

[gmoney]

1. "I didn't know they stacked shit that high!"

Boy, what I wouldn't give to see Ermey give * the dressing down speech from Full Metal Jacket.

[peekaloo]

2. The only thing that comes from Texas............

[underpants]

3. I would suspect Ermey is a Bush supporter

and if he wasn't he would never let that fact see the light of day. Buttered bread and all.

[lpbk2713]

4. "Private Dubya, you lead this country like old people fugg."

Semper Fi

[edbermac]

5. From now on you're Gomer Pyle!

It looks to me like the best part of you ran down the crack of your mama's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress.

[Orsino]

6. You look like the kinda President...

...who would fuck his fellow citizens up the ass, and not even have the simple goddamned decency to give 'em a reach-around!

I suggest you unfuck yourself!