Celebrity death that bummed you out the most... - Page 17

lookout123 · 06-27-2006, 10:40 PM

Eddie is kaput. The little dog that caused people to think Jack Russel terriers were a good idea is chasing bumpers in heaven.

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=226276&GT1=7703

richlevy · 07-04-2006, 09:41 AM

Jim Baen was a modern sci-fi publisher who tried to maintain the traditions of the past. Baen Books featured a lot of the hard sci-fi that Hugo Gernsback would have liked.

In an era where a lot of 'intellectual property' companies were aggressively pursuing methods to squeeze profits from legacy content, limit sales to libraries and even went so far as to fine 12-year-old girls in an effort to sow fear among their consumers, Baen Books made it their policy to give away old content for free to build new readership.

This approach showed the kind of innovation that is completely foreign to a large corporation.

RIP Jim, and I hope the ********ers at Sony don't get their hands on your legacy.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-04-2006, 09:51 AM

Quote:

Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history,
all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled,
watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed and sold to the people you hate.

Mister Jalopy

Tse Moana · 07-05-2006, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by richlevy

Jim Baen was a modern sci-fi publisher who tried to maintain the traditions of the past. Baen Books featured a lot of the hard sci-fi that Hugo Gernsback would have liked.

I've always loved Baen Books for doing what they do. Sorry to hear of Jim's passing.

Ibby · 07-11-2006, 09:31 AM

Shine On....

velocityboy · 07-11-2006, 10:06 AM

Quote:

Shine On...

That sucks. I grew up on Floyd, even though I was after their time.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-11-2006, 11:05 AM

1967, Apples and Oranges.

dar512 · 07-13-2006, 03:20 PM

Red Buttons died today at 87. I really liked his performance in Hatari.

Elspode · 07-13-2006, 10:22 PM

The scene with the rocket powered monkey catching net...

I was a big Red Buttons fan.

dar512 · 07-17-2006, 07:04 PM

Mickey Spillane died today. He was 88. I've never read any of the Mike Hammer novels. I guess I need to go do that.

dar512 · 08-16-2006, 09:57 AM

Bruno Kirby has died. He was 57. Bruno played best friend to Billy Crystal in both "When Harry met Sally" and "City Slickers".

glatt · 08-16-2006, 11:27 AM

Strange, I was just thinking about Bruno Kirby the other day. We were talking about baby names, and mentioned how some friends named their kid Bruno.

Elspode · 08-16-2006, 12:06 PM

Damn. That's way too young to go.

wolf · 08-18-2006, 12:54 AM

Sad, but my biggest surprise was finding out that his dad was still alive ...

Elspode · 08-31-2006, 08:37 AM

Glenn Ford has passed on at the age of 90. There are so few of the great screen actors of the 20th Century left by now, and Ford was one of the greatest. He could do it all, and in a believeable, Everyman sort of way, whether he was portraying a hero or an average Joe. He was extremely convincing in military roles, probably because he was, in fact, a military man during WWII, and became a Naval Reserve Captain thereafter.

Ford's greatest performances came in "Gilda" and "Blackboard Jungle", two landmark films of the American cinema, but I will, for some reason, always think of him as a Western star. There never was a better cowboy than Glenn Ford.

Thanks for all the great work, Glenn.

06-27-2006, 10:40 PM	#241
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07-04-2006, 09:41 AM	#242
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Jim Baen Jim Baen was a modern sci-fi publisher who tried to maintain the traditions of the past. Baen Books featured a lot of the hard sci-fi that Hugo Gernsback would have liked. In an era where a lot of 'intellectual property' companies were aggressively pursuing methods to squeeze profits from legacy content, limit sales to libraries and even went so far as to fine 12-year-old girls in an effort to sow fear among their consumers, Baen Books made it their policy to give away old content for free to build new readership. This approach showed the kind of innovation that is completely foreign to a large corporation. RIP Jim, and I hope the ******ers at Sony don't get their hands on your legacy. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama**

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Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Shine On.... __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

07-11-2006, 11:05 AM	#247
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	1967, Apples and Oranges. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-13-2006, 03:20 PM	#248
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Red Buttons died today at 87. I really liked his performance in Hatari. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

07-13-2006, 10:22 PM	#249
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	The scene with the rocket powered monkey catching net... I was a big Red Buttons fan. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

07-17-2006, 07:04 PM	#250
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Mickey Spillane died today. He was 88. I've never read any of the Mike Hammer novels. I guess I need to go do that. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

08-16-2006, 09:57 AM	#251
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Bruno Kirby has died. He was 57. Bruno played best friend to Billy Crystal in both "When Harry met Sally" and "City Slickers". __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

08-16-2006, 11:27 AM	#252
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Strange, I was just thinking about Bruno Kirby the other day. We were talking about baby names, and mentioned how some friends named their kid Bruno.

08-16-2006, 12:06 PM	#253
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Damn. That's way too young to go. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

08-18-2006, 12:54 AM	#254
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Sad, but my biggest surprise was finding out that his dad was still alive ... __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

08-31-2006, 08:37 AM	#255
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Glenn Ford has passed on at the age of 90. There are so few of the great screen actors of the 20th Century left by now, and Ford was one of the greatest. He could do it all, and in a believeable, Everyman sort of way, whether he was portraying a hero or an average Joe. He was extremely convincing in military roles, probably because he was, in fact, a military man during WWII, and became a Naval Reserve Captain thereafter. Ford's greatest performances came in "Gilda" and "Blackboard Jungle", two landmark films of the American cinema, but I will, for some reason, always think of him as a Western star. There never was a better cowboy than Glenn Ford. Thanks for all the great work, Glenn. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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