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The late Bill Paxton was something of a Renaissance man. The Texas native got his start in movies as a set dresser, procuring props for Roger Corman. He dabbled in music, rather successfully, with his new wave band, Martini Ranch. On-screen, Paxton contained similar multitudes, playing crude bullies (Weird Science) and punk-rock vampires (Near Dark), chasing tornadoes (Twister) and romancing Shirley MacLaine (The Evening Star), and heroically not throttling Gloria Stuart after she jerked him around for three hours in Titanic. Paxton could do prestige HBO shows and silly kids’ movies, cowboy westerns and broad comedies. His sudden death in 2017 was a tragedy, cutting short a still-thriving career at the too-soon age of 61, and denying us all the pleasure of watching the actor…

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