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Post by Kimby on Mar 2, 2024 1:48:42 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Mar 29, 2024 23:47:58 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 30, 2024 3:11:01 GMT
Doesn't Roots now seem like a long, long time ago? I think you're right about it being the first mini-series (1977), something I remember as being a very big deal concept that year. Just looked up Shogun, which I remember as coming along not that much later (1980). Just looked at the Wikipedia entry on Louis Gosset, Jr. He started acting professionally before he was even out of high school: His high school teacher had encouraged him to audition for a Broadway part, resulting in his selection for a role in the Broadway version of Take a Giant Step in 1953. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1954, he attended New York University, declining an athletic scholarship.[... he was offered the opportunity to play for the New York Knicks; he turned down the offer to instead accept a role in A Raisin in the Sun.
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Post by fumobici on Mar 30, 2024 3:48:46 GMT
Doesn't Roots now seem like a long, long time ago? Indeed I was a veritable child then and I'm old enough to collect retirement now. So I suppose it really is.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 31, 2024 10:11:49 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 7, 2024 17:16:04 GMT
Time for actor Cole Brings Plenty to join club 27. He was in the Yellowstone prequel, 1923.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 11, 2024 16:43:40 GMT
OJ has left the room. Besides being an NFL hero, he also appeared in movies, TV shows and commercials. But he was most notorious for possibly murdering his wife and for a “slow speed chase” in a white Bronco. variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/oj-simpson-dead-cancer-1235967744/“He appeared in films such as “The Klansman,” “The Cassandra Crossing” and “The Towering Inferno,” as well as the miniseries “Roots,” while still in the NFL. After retiring from football, he starred in three “Naked Gun” movies and the comedy “Back to the Beach.” He had completed a two-hour long pilot for the adventure series “Frogmen” when his arrest brought the project for NBC to an abrupt halt.” IMDB Trivia: “Was considered for the title role in The Terminator (1984), but producers feared he was "too nice" to be taken seriously as a cold-blooded killer.”
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 11, 2024 17:09:11 GMT
I knew that OJ had been in movies, but that was more than I thought.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2024 18:18:27 GMT
IMDB Trivia: “Was considered for the title role in The Terminator (1984), but producers feared he was "too nice" to be taken seriously as a cold-blooded killer.” Here is a very weird wrinkle to the whole murder story, from the NYTimes obituary: "In 2006, he sold a book manuscript, titled “If I Did It,” and a prospective TV interview, giving a “hypothetical” account of murders he had always denied committing. A public outcry ended both projects, but Mr. Goldman’s family secured the book rights, added material imputing guilt to Mr. Simpson and had it published." (Mr. Goldman = Ronald L. Goldman
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 5, 2024 17:10:49 GMT
The lovely Bernard Hill has passed away aged 79. He came to our attention playing Yosser Hughes in the BBC drama The Boys from the Blackstuff. Better known internationally for his roles as King Théoden in Lord of the Rings ..and as Captain Edward Smith in Titanic. He also appeared in Wolf Hall as the Duke of Norfolk.
Lovely actor, I liked him.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 5, 2024 17:20:02 GMT
The lovely Bernard Hill has passed away aged 79. He came to our attention playing Yosser Hughes in the BBC drama The Boys from the Blackstuff. Better known internationally for his roles as King Théoden in Lord of the Rings ..and as Captain Edward Smith in Titanic. He also appeared in Wolf Hall as the Duke of Norfolk. Lovely actor, I liked him. Gissa job....
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Post by kerouac2 on May 12, 2024 18:41:20 GMT
Roger Corman, the American king of low budget horror movies, will no longer entertain us. Roger Corman dies at 98
I think that my personal favourite was A Bucket of Blood about a dimwit restaurant employee who covers a cat he killed with plaster and passes it off as a piece of art. There is soon great demand for similiar artworks, so the inevitable happens...
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