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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 12:01:25 GMT
My daily paper which is very heavy on cultural news filled its entire front page with a photo of Robin Williams this morning. I'm sure they are regretting it now because they won't dare to do it two days in a row with a photo of Lauren Bacall tomorrow. (I will tell you if I am wrong.)
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Post by questa on Aug 13, 2014 13:31:52 GMT
Isn't it interesting that so many of the great comedians have terribly agonising depression as well as the gift of making us laugh. I remember Tony Hancock taking his life in a hotel in Sydney during a tour, and Spike Milligan who spent years in a very deep depressive state. I know there are more but can't think of names now.
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Post by bjd on Aug 13, 2014 14:29:04 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 13, 2014 20:19:31 GMT
Lauren Bacall, a great beauty & compelling screen presence has died at 89 of a stroke. One of the last true Legends of the silver screen with a capital 'L' imo..she had an innate grace and natural beauty, always seemed so natural and confident on the screen. Who doesn't love her in To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep? where her timeless charismatic charm appeals to both men and women alike. Once seen, never forgotten.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2014 13:51:39 GMT
My daily paper which is very heavy on cultural news filled its entire front page with a photo of Robin Williams this morning. I'm sure they are regretting it now because they won't dare to do it two days in a row with a photo of Lauren Bacall tomorrow. (I will tell you if I am wrong.) I was wrong. They did indeed completely fill the front page with a photo of Lauren Bacall.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 25, 2014 2:02:50 GMT
R. I. P. Richard Attenborough
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2014 13:21:18 GMT
R.I.P. Mike Nichols Director of many great movies of our time. My favorite being Mrs. Robinson
He died this past Wednesday and I kept forgetting to post it.
He was 83.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2014 14:40:41 GMT
And of course you really meant The Graduate.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2014 17:57:47 GMT
And of course you really meant The Graduate. Thank you Kerouac. I hadn't had my quota of a.m. coffee yet.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2014 14:07:16 GMT
Goodbye, Virna Lisi.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 4, 2015 4:32:32 GMT
American kids of my generation will feel a pang to hear that Elly May is gone. Obituary
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 13:43:19 GMT
Interesting note that she was a former Miss New Orleans and Miss Baton Rouge. The radio story on her death said she was a former Miss Louisiana.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2015 5:43:00 GMT
Goodbye, Rod Taylor.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2015 11:46:58 GMT
Goodbye, Anita Ekberg. Nobody will ever forget your famous Trevi fountain scene in La Dolce Vita.
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Post by bjd on Jan 11, 2015 12:34:12 GMT
Did she ever make any other movies? That's also the one I thought of when I heard that she had died.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 11, 2015 12:57:18 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2015 16:54:20 GMT
Did she ever make any other movies? That's also the one I thought of when I heard that she had died. I think that the majority of her movies were Italian (even though she was Swedish) but she was also in King Vidor's War and Peace and, er, some Jerry Lewis movies.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2015 16:56:17 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 11, 2015 18:23:22 GMT
Cheery, you actually managed to find a beefcake photo of Rod Taylor! I used to have the biggest crush on Robert Mitchum until I found out he was a Republican.
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Post by htmb on Jan 11, 2015 18:26:47 GMT
I used to have the biggest crush on Robert Mitchum until I found out he was a Republican. Definitely a deal breaker.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 11, 2015 18:34:38 GMT
Yep. Love flew out the window!
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Post by bjd on Jan 11, 2015 18:47:40 GMT
I was too old for crushes but thought Tom Cruise looked pretty nice, then I discovered he was a scientologist.
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Post by questa on Feb 3, 2015 21:39:24 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2015 21:44:00 GMT
Yes, I saw that the other day... when I was rereading a Miss Marple book.
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Post by lola on Feb 3, 2015 22:05:53 GMT
I thought she was a perfect Lucia.
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Post by questa on Feb 4, 2015 14:00:28 GMT
On television, in close-ups, she could move her face muscles like another language. A flicker of the corner of an eye, a tiny pursing of the corner of her mouth, an instant little flick of a frown or gleam of a smile and the story had leapt forward more than mere words could carry it. Although the Marple series have been repeated so often, I always watched them just to see her performance.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2015 18:05:15 GMT
R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy, "Dr. Spock", age 83
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2015 18:55:28 GMT
That's a bit surprising even though he was no longer young.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 27, 2015 22:26:50 GMT
I just this minute read about it elsewhere & had the same reaction of surprise. He did seem Vulcanly immortal.
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Post by tod2 on Feb 28, 2015 14:36:44 GMT
Fond farewell to a movie icon - Leonard Nimoy - LLAP.
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