Jack Klugman and Stormin' Norman Schwartzkopf...anyone have either in the pool?
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and Bush Senior is in the ICU........ Maggie Thatcher just left hospital, though.....
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Is this a thread to talk about the death pool thread, or to report on deaths??
I don't see JR from Dallas on here. Like me, who cares? |
Damn, man, Mr. Drummond died.
Whatchoo talking bout, Digr? I'm talking bout Conrad Bain. I thought he'd been dead. |
We really haven't mentioned Aaron Swartz here? Driven to suicide by the fedgov.
Earl Weaver just died as well. |
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Yeah, his death is weird. Its almost like he made a matyr of himself. He was very passionate about his cause.
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The "crime" is interesting.
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But not an untypical. The rich rob the poor...they skate. But rob the rich to give to the poor and its a total other story.
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sounds like Brave New World. Remember Soma- the drug they gave people? there really IS a drug called Soma--it's a muscle relaxer.
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Stan Musial - he was a big deal when I was growing up in St. Louis.
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Stan The Man was 92.
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Michael Winner. Loathe him or loathe him ...
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What I can't believe was not only that I did not have him this year, but a search suggests I have not had him ANY YEAR!?
How can that be? I might have narcolepsy. |
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OH NOV 2012! *checking my 2012 list* Crap. He was 2011 |
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Richard Griffiths. Probably best known for his role in the harry Potter films, but for me will always be: Uncle Monty
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Indeed, always Uncle Monty to me too.
"I mean to have you, even if it must be burglary!" A more innocent time, when male rape was a good subject for humour. The fruitiest voice since Mr Kipling. |
G'bye, Roger Ebert.
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RIP, Roger Ebert. To paraphrase a friend: he had no choice but to be unflinching about what cancer had done to him, and so we didn't flinch back. Well done, sir.
I'm even more impressed by his comments on joy. Well done, sir, indeed. |
I read this:
"We were getting ready to go home today for hospice care, when he looked at us, smiled, and passed away. No struggle, no pain, just a quiet, dignified transition," his wife, Chaz Ebert, said in a statement Thursday. I thought that was nice. I'm a movie buff of sorts and I always enjoyed Siskel and Ebert. I hadn't really seen any of the later stuff with the guy who replaced Gene Siskel. Love his critques or hate them, he was an icon. Here are some great quotes from him: Ebert: The film philosopher -- "Every great film should seem new every time you see it." -- "No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough." -- "If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't." -- "If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy." --from his review of Tom Green's 2001 comedy "Freddy Got Fingered" of which he wrote one of his most scathing reviews: "This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." --Reviewing "Crocodile Dundee II": "I've seen audits that were more thrilling." See you at the movies, Mr Ebert. |
Two Ebert quotes in my quotes file.
Note: The paintings in the Hamptons house are by Jack Vettriano, and the drawings are by Paul Cox. I have no reason for telling you that, but I couldn't stop myself. - Roger Ebert in his review of "Something's Gotta Give" But if you do not have some secret place in your soul that still responds even a little to brave cowboys, beautiful princesses and noble horses, then you are way too grown up and need to cut back on cable news. -- Roger Ebert (Review for Hidalgo) |
"Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way."
—from Battlefield Earth review, May 12, 2000 "If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination." —from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen review, June 23, 2009 "I hated this movie. Hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it." —from North review, July 22, 1994 |
Armageddon (1998):
“Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and you’d have a TV ad. The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense, and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they’re charging to get in, it’s worth more to get out.” Battle: Los Angeles (2011): “Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully inform them they are idiots. Young women: If your date likes this movie, tell him you’ve been thinking it over, and you think you should consider spending some time apart.” The Last Airbender (2011): “The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that.” |
Good ones, IM. He had a sharp tongue and wasn't afraid to use it.
I didn't always agree with Ebert, but I generally knew whether I wanted to see a movie after reading his review. And that's what you want a review for. I'm not sure who I'll be reading now. |
My favorite is the North review. I don't even recall that movie...but his use of 'hated hated hated...' cracks me up.
I bet we would have had a lot of snarky laughs together. But yeah, I don't agree with all his reviews either. |
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Just this morning I read an article on Ebert's review of "The Brown Bunny", (here) directed by and starring Vincent Gallo.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/ar...t-72.html?_r=0
There is a secret that has been kept from man 2,000 years There is a secret that has been kept from man 2,000 years And that secret is that there are only twelve people on the earth at any given time That there are only twelve people on the earth at any given time And these people have been symbolized Down through the ages of mankind, by many symbols They were called: Twelve tribes of Israel Twelve sons of Jacob Twelve gates of Heaven Twelve inches in a foot Twelve months to the year Twelve men on the jury Twelve days of Christmas Twelve disciples of Jesus Christ Twelve manners of fruit on the tree by the side of the river Good for the healing of all nations Good for the healing of all nations And these people are And these people are: Aries, who is… I am, ain’t I? Taurus, who is… I have, don’t I? Gemini, who is… I think, I think… I think so much I wish I could stop thinking Cancer, who is… I feel, I feel, and there are no words to describe how I feel Leo, who is… I will, o’er my will Virgo, who is… I analyze, I analyze Libra, who is… I balance, I balance, I balance between those who know and those who do not know Scorpio, who is… I desire, I desire, I desire… Sagittarius, who is… I see, I see… I see so much in what I’m doing I cannot finish what I’m doing Capricorn, who is… I use, I use… I use all of my experience in order to survive Aquarius, who is… I know, I know… why do I know when no one around me knows what I know Pisces, who is… I believe, I believe… or there is nothing for me to believe in These are the twelve people who inherit the earth You are one of them and there are only eleven others And if you get to know the eleven others You will be able to get along with everyone all over the world… all over the world |
Damn.
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Wow. That's some scary synchronicity. I was just listening to the Woodstock album on Sunday. And I hadn't listened to it for about a year.
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One door closes, another door opens, eh?
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Model T Ford. Crazy ass blues singer.
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Should have said T model Ford
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Steve, my ex-housemate - said he was a nightmare to work with.
A real "never work with your heroes" situation. But of course he wasn't really working with him (people on his level have praised his generosity and geniality) but working for him. It's possible he treated Steve like an lowly employee and he resented that. Then again, this is the man who gave me 24 hours notice to leave his house (Steve, not Mel Smith) so it is completely possible he was a bad judge of character. I'm sad too. With Geoffrey Perkins dying young I worry that it's my generation now, the so-called alternative generation, that will start to be picked off. |
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Actress Karen Black, best known by me for scaring the shit out of me in "Trilogy of Terror".
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I saw her in 'The Pyx' in the 70s.
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August Schellenberg (1936–2013), died a few days ago. I knew him as 'Geepaw', the title character's grandfather on "Saving Grace". |
Also, Julie Harris.
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Poet Seamus Heaney dead at 74.
awww, i loved the poem "Under the Bleachers." |
Boxer/actor, former WBO champion, great-nephew to John Wayne, 'Tommy Gunn' in "Rocky V", Tommy Morrison died Sunday night.
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David Frost as well.
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Hello, good evening, welcome and goodbye.
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Maybe not so famous outside of the DC area, but
this guy: Attachment 45360 died over the weekend. It's being investigated as a possible suicide. I'd encountered him a few times over the last 15 years while he worked security at the 9:30 club in DC. He was a local celebrity of sorts. I never knew his name, and probably most people didn't. But a lot of people around here knew who he was. |
RIP, famous person's dog: Sarah Silverman's dog, Duck. She writes a fine tribute to him which, of course, reminds me of Pearl. Both dogs lived far longer than they were expected.
http://cellar.org/2013/ducksilverman.jpg |
That's great. i really like Sarah Silverman. She's funny and real.
RIP Duck. |
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Whoa! I didn't see that coming.
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