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Chris chataway has died.
best known for racing with people like zatopek and '4 minute mile' bannister |
Pete Seeger
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I was just talking about him last week with my FIL and he was wondering if old Pete was still alive.
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echo echo echo..... ;)
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It was a nice slide show though. I hadn't seen those 90th birthday party pictures before. And I knew he didn't cooperate with the commie witch hunt, but didn't realize he went to jail for a year over it.
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He was on my list
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Pete Seeger was a hero of mine. And the Weavers reunion on PBS is one of my all-time favorite specials.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman has left the building.
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No way!
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He was an alcohol and heroin kinda guy... helluva actor though.
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Ah man, that's so sad. Mum just phoned me to tell me. We're all big fans of his.
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Just read about that a few minutes ago. Kinda shocking. We were the same age, I thought he was 55-ish.
Suspected overdose, as he was found with a needle in his arm, per YahooNews. He was the subject of a death hoax earlier this week they said. |
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What a shame. The guy had talent. I saw a couple movies just because he was in them.
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So you know he probably had Super Bowl tickets. Are those seats going to go to waste?
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I read somewhere that he was only 15 the first time he went to rehab. Such a massive fucking shame.
I bet Robert Downey Jr. is having an intensely introverted day today. |
Sucks. I thought he was a wonderful actor. RIP Mr Hoffman.
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A perspective on his death. https://trove.com/me/content/4Ssxg?c...External-1-opt
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A perspective on addiction. That wasn't about PSH.
It was an interesting read. Just saying. |
Yeah. It was a good read.
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Oh noes. 69 years old is nothing.
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Sorry to see him go.
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Aw, damn. I didn't realize he was even that old.
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wow...
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Peaches Geldof (25)!
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-26931337 and Mickey Rooney (93) http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26917746 |
RIP John Pinette
Probably best known for his Chinese buffet bit. My friends and I used to say things like this, working at the country club, but I wasn't sure which comedian had come up with it. "You go now. You been here 4 hour!" |
Aw, shit, man. That one got by me somehow. I loved that guy's brand of humor.
Dude was 50. |
MICKEY ROONEY
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Wrestling fans, brace yourselves:
The Ultimate Warrior died Tuesday night, at 54. James Hellwig was walking his wife to the car at a hotel when he keeled over and died. He was inducted to the WWE Hall Of Fame Monday and had this to say: Quote:
No cause of death yet, but... |
I've not been a wrestling fan for many years, but, I can remember watching The Ultimate Warrior when I was a child.
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Sue Townsend, creator of Adrian Mole http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26982680 |
DJ E-Z Rock, real name Rodney Bryce, died Sunday.
E-Z Rock was the DJ for Rob Base. The two mad the big time with "It Takes Two", and "Joy and Pain, among other hits. No cause of death, yet. I bought that CD (Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock "It Takes Two") when it came in 1988. It is one of five rap albums/cd's I own, out of over three hundred. |
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Nooo! I hadn't seen that. That's so sad.
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Pneumonia took him before the Parkinson's could. Not sure how to feel about that.
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I couldn't remember who he was until I opened the link. Now I'm sad. I know he did a ton of stuff but for me he will always be from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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That is sad.
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I just read it...:eek:
I went to see "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and the engine siezed on my 73 Monte Carlo. Vette motor, 375 horse heads, lumpy cam, big honkin' Quadra-Jet...I about cried. Good times, man, good times. |
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re Bob Hoskins, I really enjoyed the film "Unleashed", Hoskins was great, so was Jet Li.
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Hoskins was an actor who was really accessible to independent film makers.
He had a great reputation for being willing to work on small budget productions if he liked the script. He was paid of course, but nowhere near the fees he could earn for international film shoots or even theatre, where he started. His reasoning was that (well-organised) low budget shoots took up a sneeze of his time. He was "one-take-Hoskins" and believed in bringing anyone with talent up through the ranks both in front and behind the camera. And yes, I'm writing as someone who knew people who worked with him. An exceptionally generous man. And yes, I agree with Monster, 71 is no age at all. Dads is 74 today. |
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RIP 'vette motor.
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Rest In Pieces - After the autopsy, sold the heads, intake, and carb. The body went to the junkyard. Couldn't let it set in the yard til I could sell it to someone, so...
Wish I had those heads now. $$$ |
And by coincidence, I just this afternoon saw a movie with Bob Hoskins in it, called "Beyond the Sea." Story of Bobby Darin, starring Kevin Spacey--who does all his own singing in the movie. I guess it's not really surprising that he can sing well, but he can.
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I've never watched that. Is it worth seeing?
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It was good. Not mind-blowing, just about what you'd expect from a movie about the life of a famous singer. But I enjoyed it.
Edit: I take it back, there were a few darn good choreographed dancing scenes, if you're into that. |
I've heard Spacey sing. I think that'll probably carry the thing for me.
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Spacey singing.
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He does excellent voice impressions as well.
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Slight tangent here.
When I lived in London and was sharing a house with people I hated (pre-Cellar) I was stopped in my tracks as I was about to leave the house. A beautiful high tenor voice had just sung "The hills are alive..." It was obviously a recorded voice (the story isn't that exciting) but I had to poke my head round the door of the living room to check it out. And there on the screen was Ewan McGregor, who I knew from gritty independent British films, singing like a tripped out angel in a dream in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge. It's not fair tht some people get looks and talent and intelligence and social conscience and being all round jolly good chaps. And can sing too. But life isn't fair, and where would we be without them after all. |
Little Pete saw Arthur Darvill in Once, the boy can do it all.
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some tennis player chick aged 30 liver cancer. Never heard of her, but 30! :(
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Fuckin' cancer.
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With Spacey, I didn't know the first few impressions, then he did the worst Audrey Hepburn accent I'd ever heard... ( yeah, I worked it out).
But once he got going I was very impressed. Re Elena Baltacha (I'm not a tennis fan but she was raised Scottish so I did know who she was) ouch. Cold water down my spine. Barring an accident I will die of something liver-related, so it always jars for me when someone goes that way. So young too, and SO healthy. |
He said the word 'funny' as Al Pacino...I cackled.
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