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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 5, 2014 15:23:28 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 13:11:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 13:55:07 GMT
Sad to see her go. RIP Ms Temple.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 21:46:26 GMT
Goodbye also to Gabriel Axel, Danish director of Babette's Feast.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2014 21:38:14 GMT
Even though he was better known on television than in the cinema, goodbye, Sid Caesar.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2014 23:40:23 GMT
Goodbye, director Harold Ramis. No more Ghostbusters or Groundhog Day. They might have to extend the Oscar ceremony on Sunday with all of the tributes that they'll have to do.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2014 4:16:34 GMT
Goodbye, Mickey Rooney. I have to admit that I preferred the way he looked when he was young than in the final years.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 7, 2014 5:27:26 GMT
Just saw the news elsewhere. Besides seeing him in umpteen movies on tv, which seemed to air regularly right through the 70s, he was great to watch on talk shows. One thing he talked about was the difficulty of getting good roles in the post Andy Hardy years after he got out of the army. He said something like, "They didn't think I was cute anymore."
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2014 18:02:44 GMT
Goodbye Rik Mayall. You were weird. Age 56 is a weird age to die.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2014 22:46:11 GMT
A fond farewell to one of my favorite actors, Eli Wallach. Died of natural causes at age 98 at his home in NYC. I remember him in The Rose Tattoo, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and later a brief part in Mystic River. He was also a very nice man. He was a regular on weekends and in the summertime at a small luncheonette where I was a waitress in High School. No pretense, always pleasant and a generous tipper. R.I.P. Mr.Wallach.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2014 17:27:52 GMT
I just listened to a very cool interview with Eli Wallach circa 1990 on NPR, Fresh Air with Terri Gros. I am in the process of trying to copy and paste it but often times they don't post the pod cast until after the interview is over and there's a repeat broadcast at 7pm. In any event, it was fabulous, and all the elements of his personality, his humility, compassion, sense of humor etc. all shined through along with many obscure facts about his career. One in particular was that he did his own stunt tricks in The Good The Bad and The Ugly and The Magnificent Seven. His love of Mexico and his being a trained horse rider. A boy from Brooklyn who went to college in Texas in the 1930's because the tuition was only $30.00 a year!!! Indeed a fascinating and lovely man.
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Post by htmb on Jun 27, 2014 17:34:34 GMT
Thank you for filling us in on bits and pieces about bus life and personality, Casimira. I always liked him, too, and it is certainly nice to hear he was such a good guy.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2014 23:25:14 GMT
I just heard on the news that Robin Williams died from an apparent suicide. So very, very, sad. No more details that I can report at this time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 4:54:49 GMT
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Post by bjd on Aug 12, 2014 5:26:51 GMT
That is a shock -- I remember watching his stand-up comedy routines years ago and falling off the couch laughing. As well as some films which were great.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 12, 2014 6:01:16 GMT
So right, Bjd. I just saw mention of his death on Facebook & came over here to see if it had been posted. Very sad. Thanks for that LATimes article, Kerouac.
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Post by bjd on Aug 12, 2014 8:29:32 GMT
I was just listening to the news on the radio and they mentioned his death. Then they played two excerpts from his movies -- dubbed into French!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 13:14:16 GMT
Well, since that is the only voice that most French spectators know of him... I'm sure he spoke perfect Cantonese, too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 14:01:28 GMT
Yes, depression has killed another high-profile sufferer. To me, it seems very similar to the Phillip Seymour Hoffman case; both highly creative people who couldn't cope and turned to substance abuse. It just caught up with Robin Williams 20 years later.
I am always sad when I contemplate someone's utter isolation at the moment of death by suicide. His wife had last seen him Sunday night; by Monday noon he was dead. What a terrible, lonely night that must have been.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 14:24:13 GMT
I agree Lizzy. Williams had a history of depression, and, who knows the level of psychic pain he suffered despite his comic flair.
While I love, loved his comedy routines and roles, the more serious, dramatic roles that he portrayed really do smack upon a different aspect of his personality. A darker side.Fine and dandy on the stage or portrayed in film but, how it played out in his personal life quite a different story.
In retrospect, his comic routines, while hilarious, had such a manic type aspect to them, whether chemically induced or part of his personality. One could speculate endlessly ...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 14:27:47 GMT
I met him briefly when he was filming Mrs. Doubtfire in San Francisco, on one of the days that he was filming scenes as a man.
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Post by htmb on Aug 12, 2014 16:18:15 GMT
Were you able to form much of an impression as to his personality?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 16:21:54 GMT
He was the classic 'funny guy' both on and off screen. Some people might call it a compulsive disorder.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 16:26:14 GMT
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Post by htmb on Aug 12, 2014 16:27:35 GMT
He performed here in 1982 at a big homecoming event we have in the fall (Gator Growl). I was out of town, so did not attend. Many members of the community were offended by his colorful humor, but others, including the students, of course, absolutely had a ball.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 18:23:02 GMT
France 2, the main public television channel, has changed its programming to show Good Morning Vietnam tonight.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 12, 2014 19:52:45 GMT
So very sad, the poor darling man. He was so talented, I remember watching him on tv and laughing soooo much, especially at his stand-up.
My heart goes out to his family.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 13, 2014 3:18:35 GMT
Lauren Bacall, a great beauty & compelling screen presence has died at 89 of a stroke.
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Post by bjd on Aug 13, 2014 11:17:29 GMT
I just watched the news on France 24. They interviewed 2 guys in the States, maybe in LA since they showed Bacall's star on the sidewalk. "She was as big as Kim Kardashian!", said one guy, not even especially young. Words fail me.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 13, 2014 11:26:47 GMT
It is indeed sad that Robin Williams got to the point where he no longer had the desire to live. I'm sure he must have gone through this many times during his lifetime when so deeply depressed nothing and no-one meant more to him than death. I awoke with the announcement on SKY News yesterday and the discussion on his suicide continued this morning. Two newspaper reviewers took the media to task for having revealed intimate details of how he actually went about his demise. Too much information and totally unnecessary they said. I don't know what these details revealed.
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