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Happy Gilmore's ex boss Mr. Larson. The guy who walked around with a nail stuck in his head.
Richard Dawson Kiel (born 1939) is an American actor best known for his role as the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979) as well as the video game Everything or Nothing (he also has cameos in many other James Bond videogames). He's also well known as Mr. Larson in the 1996 comedy Happy Gilmore. -Wikipedia
Happy Gilmore's ex boss Mr. Larson. The guy who walked around with a nail stuck in his head.
Richard Dawson Kiel (born 1939) is an American actor best known for his role as the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979) as well as the video game Everything or Nothing (he also has cameos in many other James Bond videogames). He's also well known as Mr. Larson in the 1996 comedy Happy Gilmore. -Wikipedia
Happy Gilmore is a
1996 sports comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and produced by Robert Simonds
for Universal Pictures. It stars Adam Sandler as the title character, an
unsuccessful ice hockey player who discovers a talent for golf. The screenplay
was written by Sandler and Tim Herlihy. This film was the first of several
collaborations between Sandler and Dugan.
Happy Gilmore (Adam
Sandler) is an aspiring ice hockey player who possesses a powerful and
dangerous slapshot that his late father taught him as a child. However, Happy
also possesses an overaggressive streak and lack of skating talent that
consistently preclude him from joining a hockey team. His grandmother (Frances
Bay), who raised him after his father died, has not paid her taxes for many
years. As such, she owes $270,000 to the IRS, and the house that Happy's
grandfather "built with his bare hands" is about to be seized.
Gilmore has only 3 months to come up with the money or else the house will be
sold. Grandma Gilmore is forced to temporarily move into a retirement home, run
by a sadistic manager named Hal (Ben Stiller in an uncredited role).
While repossessing
Grandma's furniture, a pair of movers challenge Happy to hit golf balls. With
his unorthodox, hockey slapshot-style swing, he hits the ball 400 yards three
times, winning $40 as a result. This gives Happy the idea to go to the driving range
to hustle golfers with his swing. When his progress is noticed by former golf
star and current club pro Chubbs Peterson (Carl Weathers), whose pro golf
career ended when his right hand was bitten off by an alligator, he convinces
Happy to enter a local tournament by telling him he can make the money to buy
back his grandmother's house. Happy wins the tournament and earns a spot on the
Pro Golf Tour (fictionalized golf tour based on the PGA Tour). Chubbs advises
Happy to hold off on joining the tour for six months, so that Chubbs can make
him a better all-around golfer. Against Chubbs' advice, Happy joins the tour
immediately.
On the tour, Happy
makes an instant enemy of pretentious and arrogant star Shooter McGavin
(Christopher McDonald), who sees Happy as both a detriment to golf and a threat
to his career. In addition, Happy discovers that although he has a powerful
drive, his putting is terrible, and his violent outbursts and lack of golf
etiquette eventually prompt Shooter to ask Doug Thompson (Dugan), the
commissioner of the tour, to expel Happy. But Happy's antics are garnering the
tour's highest television ratings, increasing attendance and drawing more
youthful sponsors, and Shooter's request is denied. To help Happy cool down and
start acting more professionally, tour PR head Virginia Venit (Julie Bowen) is
assigned to him by the tour. In addition to a romance forming between the two,
Happy tells Virginia the truth of why he entered the tour and she agrees to
keep it between them. Happy begins to develop a cooler head while continuing to
improve in tournaments much to the chagrin of Shooter, who decides to take matters
into his own hands and hire Donald (Joe Flaherty), a mentally unbalanced fan,
to heckle Happy at the next tournament, the Pepsi Pro-Am, a tournament where
tour pros team up with celebrities.
At the tournament,
Happy is paired with Bob Barker, then host/executive producer of the
long-running CBS Daytime game show, The Price Is Right. Donald immediately
starts taunting and distracting him by calling Happy a jackass, taking Happy's
focus off his game so much that he plays terribly. Exasperated at Happy's poor
performance, Barker even begins heckling him before they break into a
full-scale brawl (which Barker wins). As a result, Happy is suspended from the
tour and fined $25,000. All is not lost as Happy secures an endorsement deal
with Subway, which gives him enough money to buy back Grandma's house and pay
the fine.
However, Happy
discovers that the house is to be sold at an auction – something he did not
know before. Despite bidding the entire sum of his endorsement deal, Happy is
summarily outbid by Shooter, who has purchased the house to leverage a deal
with Happy – he will let him have the house back in return for quitting the
tour. As the house was his sole reason for entering, Happy immediately agrees,
but is dissuaded by Virginia, who tells him that his Grandma would rather see
him succeed at life than have the house, and that his true talent lies in
golfing, not hockey. Happy then decides to make a bet with his rival based on
the upcoming Tour Championship – if Happy places higher than Shooter, he gets
the house back, but if Happy finishes behind Shooter he will leave the tour;
Shooter agrees. Although Virginia is confident Happy will win, Happy is not as
sure and seeks the help of Chubbs. Happy finally admits his own mistakes and
agrees to work with Chubbs. Together they head to a miniature golf course so
Happy can improve his putting, which he does. Pleased with Happy's progress,
Chubbs gives his protege a modified putter, fashioned in the shape of a hockey
stick, as a present to use for the tournament. In return, Happy presents Chubbs
with the head of the alligator that took his hand (which Happy had killed in a
previous tournament). Horrified by the sight, Chubbs reels backward and falls
out an open window to his death.
Determined to win
the tournament for Chubbs, Happy is evenly matched with Shooter after the first
2 rounds. Shooter is stunned that Happy has been keeping up with him, and by
the end of the third day of the tournament, Happy is leading Shooter. In desperation,
Shooter once again calls on Donald. The next day Shooter's plan comes into
action, as Donald hits Happy with a Volkswagen Beetle, which he proceeds to ram
into a television tower at the 18th hole. An injured Happy refuses to forfeit
the tournament, but quickly discovers that he has lost the ability to hit the
long drive and drops from the lead by several shots heading into the final
holes. However, after applying a lesson from Chubbs, and receiving an important
morale boost from Grandma, he is able to refocus and ties Shooter going to the
18th hole. After Shooter makes his shot for par, the TV tower collapses and
blocks Happy's putt for birdie. Happy is forced to take his shot with the tower
in the way, and uses what Chubbs taught him on the miniature golf course to
make a trick shot to win The Tour Championship and the house.
Afterwards, a
hysterical Shooter attempts to steal Happy's gold jacket, but is quickly beaten
up by Happy's old boss, Mr. Larson (Richard Kiel), and an angry mob of
spectators. The film closes with Happy being congratulated by the two-handed
ghost of Chubbs, Abraham Lincoln, and the alligator. -Wikipedia
