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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 9, 2022 5:27:06 GMT
Even though I was not a fan -- I've never even seen Grease -- I admired the lady for her commitment to helping others.
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Post by lugg on Aug 9, 2022 20:54:45 GMT
I've never even seen Grease
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 9, 2022 21:37:36 GMT
Before you get up from falling down on the floor, you might as well know that I've never seen an episode of Dallas, either. ('course, I'm proud about that).
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 9, 2022 22:04:31 GMT
And I have never seen a single episode of Little House on the Prairie.
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Post by htmb on Aug 10, 2022 0:40:54 GMT
Oh, my. Such deprived people.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 10, 2022 5:24:23 GMT
My kids still have every episode on DVD of the German dubbed version, Meine Kleine Farm. All 206 episodes.
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 10, 2022 6:41:43 GMT
I've never seen an episode of Dallas, Then you missed a couple of iconic 80s moments: Joan Collins and Linda Evans having a punch-up in a fountain (shoulder pads at dawn!), and (guess who) Joan Collins carted off to jail, and in the next scene busy in her cell tucking into a massive tin of caviar. Not to mention the hair that never moves, even when the wind's blowing a hoolie across the breakfast table on the terrace.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 10, 2022 16:28:13 GMT
Alas. For better or for worse, the 80s are burned into our brains. We honor Joan and Linda for their contributions, but not for their roles in Dallas. Did you perhaps mean Dynasty, Patrick? In my deathless thread, Kensington Palace + royal fashions, 80s high fashion is featured, including some of the gowns which earned Princess Diana the moniker of "Dynasty Di", after the tv series which featured the Mesdames Collins and Evans.
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 10, 2022 16:38:10 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 10, 2022 21:02:35 GMT
And to think how recently you were a'swellin with pride to relate the fountain fight!
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Post by htmb on Aug 10, 2022 21:42:49 GMT
It was "Sue Ellen" on Dallas, played by Linda Gray, who was married to Larry Hangman’s character, J.R. Ewing.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 10, 2022 22:01:28 GMT
I can't respond to that because I'm laughing too hard!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 12, 2022 19:02:53 GMT
Actress Anne Heche has died as expected after her car accident. Age 53.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 13, 2022 0:55:54 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 13, 2022 1:46:31 GMT
Her life was pretty sad in many ways. She seemed like a genuinely nice person, though.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 17, 2022 12:45:14 GMT
Director Wolfgang Petersen has died of pancreatic cancer. Das Boot, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, Outbreak (monkey virus movie!)....
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Post by Kimby on Aug 29, 2022 23:58:00 GMT
Robert LuPone is dead of pancreatic cancer.
“ The brother of theater legend Patti LuPone, Bob LuPone was a star of stage and screen in his own right. He earned a Tony nomination for his portrayal of Zach in the original production of A Chorus Line, while television audiences would recognize him as Dr. Bruce Cusamano, the physician of Tony Soprano and his family on The Sopranos.”
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 7, 2022 13:01:31 GMT
French film director Just Jaeckin had died. Goodbye Emmanuelle.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 8, 2022 0:18:12 GMT
¥œs, I saw that in media here, Funny , all the Emmanuels I know here are men, not women. then there is "Manu"...
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Post by bjd on Sept 13, 2022 10:01:31 GMT
We are getting our own overblown coverage this morning with the death of Jean-Luc Godard, age 91. I confess I only saw one of his films and didn't understand what was going on but just learned that it was his Maoist period so that explains it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 13, 2022 10:38:51 GMT
In other Swiss film news, director Alain Tanner also died a couple of days ago. La Salamandre was my all time favourite film for many years.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 13, 2022 13:22:28 GMT
We are getting our own overblown coverage this morning with the death of Jean-Luc Godard, age 91. I confess I only saw one of his films and didn't understand what was going on but just learned that it was his Maoist period so that explains it. BBC article. Apparently he inspired Tarantino and Scorsese among others. (Must check library for his films.)
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 13, 2022 15:52:56 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Sept 14, 2022 19:26:12 GMT
Thanks K2. I’ve had a nagging feeling I was forgetting something…
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Post by Kimby on Sept 24, 2022 2:22:24 GMT
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Post by casimira on Sept 24, 2022 13:20:18 GMT
I just saw this earlier this a.m. Thanks for posting it Kimby.
Her role as Nurse Ratchett (brilliant name for the character she portrayed) deservedly received all the awards you posted.
Her role was a conglomeration of several nurses I worked with during my days of working in psychiatry for 16 years all rolled into one.
That in itself made her portrayal even creepier.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 12, 2022 2:47:16 GMT
Angela Lansbury is dead, 5 days before turning 97. Here's a clip from her very first movie scene. Gaslight
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 12, 2022 14:24:38 GMT
I remember reading that everybody in the (television) acting profession hated her because she was a total bitch, which explains why she was nominated for an Emmy Award 18 times without ever winning, because her peers would not vote for her. She finally got a lifetime achievement award. (Biggest bitch ever?)
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 13, 2022 2:48:24 GMT
I remember her as Elizabeth Taylor's older sister in National Velvet & the few, better forgotten, times I saw glimpses of her in Murder, She Wrote. Those glimpses prompted me to call a certain type of very old-fashioned stagy acting (holding up both hands & widening eyes to show surprise, for instance) The Angela Lansbury School of Acting.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 14, 2022 17:05:34 GMT
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