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I suppose I'm missing some horribly obvious joke here, so... haha you sure got me! Wow!
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But...my masterplan...
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This news will be really disturbing to urgeok........give him support people.
A former drummer for the Swedish pop band ABBA has been found dead in the garden of his house on the island of Majorca. Ola Brunkert, 62, is believed to have been the only session musician to have appeared on all the group's recordings. A police spokeswoman said an autopsy was being carried out but investigations indicated the death was an accident and no foul play is suspected. She said a neighbour found Mr Brunkert's body on Sunday in the garden of his house in the town of Arta. Police believe he fell and cut his neck indoors. He then apparently tried to leave the house to seek help but collapsed in the garden. |
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that is a shame :( i thought these guys lived to be 120 years of age .. |
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Ah well, too bad there's no chance of an ABBA reunion. ;) |
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suuuure there is ... he wasnt one of the main 4 - he was a session musician. so i expect to see you at the "when the fjords freeze over " tour. |
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Not so much to get into mainstream news, I think I just did it to do it. Also, Phil Fucking Collins was something I saw on a shirt, I liked it, and couldn't think of where else to put something about a phil collins shirt, so, I made him die for a while? |
R.I.P.
Anthony Minghella, the Oscar-winning director and writer of “The English Patient,” has died suddenly. He was 54. http://www.nndb.com/people/513/00003...ella-sized.jpg A spokesman said he suffered a brain hemorrhage at 5 a.m. Tuesday morning at Charing Cross Hospital in London, where he had undergone a routine operation on his neck. Minghella most recently directed the BBC/HBO telepic “No 1 Ladies Detective Agency,” based on Alexander McCall Smith’s novel set in Botswana, which is due to premiere March 23 on BBC1. His last movie was “Breaking and Entering.” His other credits include “Cold Mountain,” “The Talented Mr Ripley” and “Truly Madly Deeply.” He recently stepped down as chairman of the British Film Institute. He was a partner with Sydney Pollack in Mirage Enterprises. |
R.I.P. to Minghella.
It's a shame because he was in my eyes very young. |
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wow - i didn't even know he was still alive.
made it to 90 - good on him - he lived to see a lot of changes - was his own time machine. |
Arthur C. Clarke was in trouble for pedophilia not to long ago wasn't he? I remember something on the news.
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Yea he was, but later exonerated of all charges.
R.I.P. Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who wrote the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" with Stanley Kubrick and more than 100 books, died today in his adopted home of Sri Lanka. He was 90. http://www.nndb.com/people/725/000023656/clarke-sm.jpg Clarke had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s and sometimes used a wheelchair. Clarke moved to Sri Lanka in 1956, lured by his interest in marine diving which he said was as close as he could get to the weightless feeling of space. His TV programs "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World" and "Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers" ran during the 1980s. He based "2001" on an earlier story "The Sentinel," and then worked on the novel and the screenplay for "2001" simultaneously. His sequel novel "2010" was made into a film directed by Peter Hyams. A film version of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" is reportedly in the works with director David Fincher. In addition to several futuristic concepts created in "2001," Clarke was credited with the concept of communications satellites in 1945, decades before they became a reality. Geosynchronous orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative to the ground, are called Clarke orbits. He joined American broadcaster Walter Cronkite as commentator on the U.S. Apollo moonshots in the late 1960s. |
The veterans here will know this guy...
R.I.P. Paul Scofield Oscar-winning British thesp Paul Scofield has died at the age of 86. He had been suffering from leukemia. http://www.nndb.com/people/950/00003...l-scofield.jpg His agent Rosalind Chatto confirmed the actor, who won the best actor Academy award in 1967 for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in “A Man For All Seasons,” passed away Wednesday in a hospital near his home in the south of England. Though Scofield was more prolific on stage- Richard Burton once remarked “of the 10 greatest moments in theatre, eight are Scofield’s”- the thesp often sparkled when plying his trade on the big-screen. Aside from his role in “A Man For All Seasons”- a part he also performed on stage - Scofield drew plaudits for his perfs in Tony Richardson’s “A Delicate Balance” alongside KatherIne Hepburn in 1973, Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 adaptation of “Henry V,” Robert Redford’s “Quiz Show” in 1995, and Nicolas Hytner’s “The Crucible” the following year. Born on Jan. 21, 1922 in Hurstpierpoint on the south coast of England, Scofield made his professional acting debut in London in January 1940. He went on to work regularly with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Scofield made an acclaimed debut on Broadway in 1961 in the stage version of “A Man For All Seasons,” winning a Tony for his efforts. His performances were often marked by his rich voice and powerful presence. His turn as King Lear in 1971’s screen and stage version of William Shakespeare’s tragedy was voted the greatest Shakespearean performance ever in a 2004 poll of actors at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Awarded a CBE in 1956, Scofield reportedly turned down the offer of a knighthood on more than one occasion. He was made a Companion of Honour in 2001, one of Blighty’s top honours and limited to 65 living people at any one time. Scofield is survived by his wife, actress Joy Parker, and their two children. |
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Finally - i've been waiting for the #65 spot for several years now. |
Stand-up Comedy in the spotlight...finally
oops...nvm me.
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For serious actors they didn't get much better. RIP.
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Actor Richard Widmark, who earned an Oscar nomination playing a psychopath in 1947's film noir "Kiss of Death," has died aged 93, a medical official in his home state of Connecticut said on Wednesday.
Widmark was blond and slightly built during his prime and brought an edgy nervousness to the outcasts and heavies he played in Hollywood's film noir heyday -- a list of roles that The New York Times once described as a "gallery of reprobates." Widmark, whose long career was marked by playing villains, tough guys and cowboys, died on Monday at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, the Times reported. An official with the Connecticut's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Farmington confirmed that Widmark had died but declined to provide further details. Widmark's most memorable role may have been his first. As Tommy Udo, he gleefully pushed a wheelchair-bound woman down a flight of stairs in "Kiss of Death" with a maniacal laugh that made a lasting impression on moviegoers. Widmark would go on to prove he could play a wide range of characters in more than 60 movies, but the Udo role earned him his only Oscar nomination. "One will remember that nasty little creep with the wild eyes and high-pitched laugh, neurotic to the core, which Richard Widmark has turned into one of his finest roles," Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton wrote in "A Panorama of American Film Noir 1941-1953." 'WHEN IN DOUBT, I'D LAUGH' Widmark told an interviewer that the laugh was born of nervousness. http://www.cantonrep.com/photos/2008...mw_widmark.jpg |
heres hoping this thread remains a short one
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Herb Peterson, who invented the ubiquitous Egg McMuffin as a way to introduce breakfast to McDonald's restaurants, has died, a Southern California McDonald's official said Wednesday. He was 89.
http://www.aolcdn.com/aolnews_photos...26220909990002 89.....he must not have supported his own product. |
Ahh...for all the times I enjoyed one of those...
R.I.P. Herb. |
Film legend Charlton Heston passed away from unspecified causes.He was 84.
R.I.P |
I'd say 84 falls pretty much under "specified".
Yeah, just heard about this. Can't say how many of his films I ever saw, but The Omega Man was great... RIP |
Ahh...dammit.
I loved that guy, especially in Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, and most of all, Planet of the Apes. R.I.P. Charlton, you will be missed, and very fondly remembered. :( |
Not to mention The Omega Man & Soylent Green.
He came to our local playhouse for a Q & A when I was a teenager. RIP! |
Damn REST IN PEACE you god damn dirty ape.
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Ah, so yeah I've seen pretty much all of those (not soylent green though), there was some good stuff there.
Didn't like how Michael Moore attacked him just for having a difference of opinion about the rifle association thing...it's not like he was a fanatic. Well, 84 IMHO is a good long run. |
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Lovely Hazel...
R.I.P. I am at a loss for words...:( April 17, 2008 Hazel Court, an English actress who co-starred with the likes of Boris Karloff and Vincent Price in popular horror movies of the 1950s and '60s, has died. She was 82. Court died early Tuesday of a heart attack at her home near Lake Tahoe, daughter Sally Walsh said Wednesday. While she had a substantial acting career both in England and on American TV, Court was perhaps best known for her work in such films as 1963's "The Raven." She co-starred with Price, Karloff and Peter Lorre in director Roger Corman's take on the classic Edgar Allan Poe poem. Corman directed her in five movies. Like other "scream queens" of the era, Court often relied on her cleavage and her ability to shriek in fear and die horrible deaths for her roles. "The Premature Burial," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Curse of Frankenstein" and "Devil Girl from Mars" helped propel her to cult status and brought her fan mail even in her later years. "She'd probably get over 100 pieces of fan mail a month and she would reply to every single one," her daughter said. Court had finished an autobiography, "Hazel Court - Horror Queen," which will be published in Britain, Walsh said. The daughter of a professional cricket player, Court was born Feb. 10, 1926, in the English town of Sutton Coldfield. As a teenager, she was appearing in stage productions when she was spotted and signed by the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, which owned movie studios and theaters. She got her first movie bit part by the time she was 18 and went on to become a popular actress and pinup girl, her daughter said. "She was one of the great beauties of all time," Walsh said. "She was a redhead with really green eyes and almost ... the perfect face. She was on the cover of almost every magazine." Court co-starred with Patrick O'Neal in the 1957 British TV comedy series "Dick and the Duchess." In the late 1950s, she came to the United States to work on the TV show "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." Besides acting, Court was a commissioned sculptor and painter whose works appeared in public galleries. Court is survived by daughters Walsh and Courtney Taylor, son Jonathan Taylor and stepdaughters Anne Taylor Fleming and Avery Taylor. |
R.I.P. Sister Hazel
ain't too many old timers left......Christopher Lee.....thats all I can think of |
One of the great scream queens. RIP Hazel Court.
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That sucks. She was incredible in Masque of the Red Death.
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RIP Ollie Johnston. You may not know who he is so here's his IMDB page. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0426508/ He was 95.
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Wow- he worked on a lot of classic animated films!
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John Phillip Law, the strikingly handsome 1960s movie actor who portrayed an angel in the futuristic "Barbarella" and a lovesick Russian seaman in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," has died May 13 in Los Angeles.
He was 70. http://www.nndb.com/people/494/000043365/jp-law.jpg With vivid eyes, blond hair and imposing physique, Law was much in demand by filmmakers in the late 1960s and early '70s. He gained wide notice in 1966 with Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner and Theo Bikel in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," Norman Jewison's Cold War comedy in which a Soviet submarine runs aground off a peaceful New England island town. He played the sweet Russian youth who falls in love with a local American girl in the film, which was nominated for four Oscars including best picture, actor (Arkin) and director. French director Roger Vadim put Law's looks to good use in his 1968 science fiction film, "Barbarella," which starred Vadim's then-wife, Jane Fonda, as a sexy space traveler in the far-away future. Law wore wings to portray Pygar, a blind angel. "I've had more kicks out of playing far-out things," Law told the Los Angeles Times in 1966. "It's like putting on a funny face and going out in front of people and going, 'yaaaaaa.'" He was World War I ace Baron Manfred von Richtofen in the 1971 "The Red Baron" and Charlton Heston's son in "The Hawaiians," a 1970 sequel to "Hawaii," based on James Michener's sprawling novel "Hawaii." In Otto Preminger's 1967 film, "Hurry Sundown," he was a war veteran struggling to preserve his farm against a land speculator played by Michael Caine. He continued his career in a variety of U.S. and foreign films and television over the past 30 years, including appearances in "The Young and the Restless" and "Murder, She Wrote." Law was a California native, and worked in the theater in New York for a brief time before breaking into the movies, spending some time in the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, whose directors included the great Elia Kazan. NOTABLE BRIEF FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
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WoW......he was 70 already....where does the fucking time go.
R.I.P. sir......enjoyed you in these....I didn't see the rest Night Train to Terror (1985) Attack Force Z (5-Feb-1982) Tarzan, the Ape Man (24-Jul-1981) The Cassandra Crossing (18-Dec-1976) The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (5-Apr-1974) I love the Sinbad movies The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming |
May 24, 2008
Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86. http://www.nndb.com/people/888/00002...artin-crop.jpg Martin, who went on to become one of television's busiest directors after splitting with Dan Rowan in the late 1970s, died Saturday night of respiratory complications at a hospital in Santa Monica, family spokesman Barry Greenberg said. "He had had some pretty severe respiratory problems for many years, and he had pretty much stopped breathing a week ago," Greenberg said. Martin had lost the use of one of his lungs as a teenager, and needed supplemental oxygen for most of the day in his later years. He was surrounded by family and friends when he died just after 6 p.m., Greenberg said. "Laugh-in," which debuted in January 1968, was unlike any comedy-variety show before it. Rather than relying on a series of tightly scripted song-and-dance segments, it offered up a steady, almost stream-of-consciousness run of non-sequitur jokes, political satire and madhouse antics from a cast of talented young actors and comedians that also included Ruth Buzzi, Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson, Jo Anne Worley and announcer Gary Owens. Presiding over it all were Rowan and Martin, the veteran nightclub comics whose standup banter put their own distinct spin on the show. Like all straight men, Rowan provided the voice of reason, striving to correct his partner's absurdities. Martin, meanwhile, was full of bogus, often risque theories about life, which he appeared to hold with unwavering certainty. Against this backdrop, audiences were taken from scene to scene by quick, sometimes psychedelic-looking visual cuts, where they might see Hawn, Worley and other women dancing in bathing suits with political slogans, or sometimes just nonsense, painted on their bodies. Other times, Gibson, clutching a flower, would recite nonsensical poetry or Johnson would impersonate a comical Nazi spy. "Laugh-In" astounded audiences and critics alike. For two years the show topped the Nielsen ratings, and its catchphrases_ "Sock it to me," "You bet your sweet bippy" and "Look that up in your Funk and Wagnall's" — were recited across the country. Stars such as John Wayne and Kirk Douglas were delighted to make brief appearances, and even Richard Nixon, running for president in 1968, dropped in to shout a befuddled sounding, "Sock it to me!" His opponent, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, was offered equal time but declined because his handlers thought it would appear undignified. The novelty of "Laugh-In" diminished with each season, however, and as major players such as Hawn and Tomlin moved on to bigger careers, interest in the series faded. After the show folded in 1973, Rowan and Martin capitalized on their fame with a series of high-paid engagements around the country. They parted amicably in 1977. "Dan has diabetes, and his doctor advised him to cool it," Martin told The Associated Press at the time. Rowan, a sailing enthusiast, spent his last years touring the canals of Europe on a houseboat. He died in 1987. Martin moved onto the game-show circuit, but quickly tired of it. After he complained about the lack of challenges in his career, fellow comic Bob Newhart's agent suggested he take up directing. He was reluctant at first, but after observing on "The Bob Newhart Show," he decided to try. He would recall later that it was "like being thrown into the deep end of the swimming pool and being told to sink or swim." Soon he was one of the industry's busiest TV directors, working on numerous episodes of "Newhart" as well as such shows as "In the Heat of the Night," "Archie Bunker's Place" and "Family Ties." After an early failed marriage, he was for years a confirmed bachelor. He finally settled down in middle age, marrying Dolly Read, a former bunny at the Playboy Club in London. Survivors include his wife and two sons, actor Richard Martin and Cary Martin. At Martin's request there will be no funeral, Greenberg said. Martin lost the use of his right lung when he was 17, something that never bothered him until his final years, when he required oxygen 18 hours a day. Arriving for a party celebrating his 80th birthday, he fainted and was treated by doctors and paramedics. The party continued, however, and he cracked, "Boy, did I make an entrance!" R.I.P. Dick. |
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