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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2020 13:48:06 GMT -5
RIP to Peter Greene, co-founder of Fleetwood Mac. He was 73.
-M
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 25, 2020 16:08:21 GMT -5
RIP to Peter Greene, co-founder of Fleetwood Mac. He was 73. -M That's a shame. I really like his era of Fleetwood Mac. I remember hearing his version of Black Magic Woman, liking it, and then learning he wrote it!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2020 16:43:56 GMT -5
Regis Philbin at 88.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 25, 2020 19:12:50 GMT -5
God bless Peter Greenbaum, safe journey! A good egg and fellow Sooty fan. Peter B's Looners, The Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood mac, The Splinter Group. Rambling Pony, Black Magic Woman, Man Of The World, Albatross, The Green Manalishi, Oh Well.
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Post by brianf on Jul 25, 2020 20:08:35 GMT -5
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 25, 2020 20:54:41 GMT -5
I liked John Saxon too!
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Post by Confessor on Jul 26, 2020 8:18:45 GMT -5
Yeah, real shame about Peter Green. He had a very hard few decades struggling with mental illness, but Christ, he was a great guitar player and a wonderful songwriter. His version of Fleetwood Mac are the only version of the band that I have any time for.
I liked John Saxon as an actor a fair bit too.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 26, 2020 13:12:17 GMT -5
Saxon had an odd career, with some low end material; but, he was usually one of the better, if not best things in the production. He greatly helps Enter the Dragon, from an acting standpoint. Bruce had the charisma and the physical skills; but dialogue wasn't his forte and Jim Kelly wasn't any better. If not for Saxon helping to keep it interesting, parts of that film would be hard to sit through.
Truly memorable as the android that fights Steve Austin in the first season Six Million Dollar Man episode, The Robot. That episode truly made that tv series memorable and probably secured its second season, by itself.
Loved him as Sador, the villain in Battle Beyond the Stars.
He also ended up in the attempts to salvage Gene Roddenbery's Genesis II. Alex Cord starred in the pilot, but a series wasn't picked up. Saxon then starred in a second attempt, using scripts that had been written for a series, titled Planet earth. He then did it again, when Roddenberry reworked it into another pilot, Strange New World.
I also recall him in the NBC telemovie Raid on Entebbe, as Israeli general Peled, based on the hostage rescue mission in Uganda, in 1976.
People tend to forget, based on his work from the 70s onward, that he was marketed in the late 50s as a teen idol, in films.
Comic fans will (or ought to, dagnabit) remember him as Hauptman Radl, who leads a Nazi commando mission that takes over Paradise Island, int he two-part Feminum Mystique, which introduced Debra Winger as Wonder Girl.
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Post by brutalis on Jul 26, 2020 14:05:16 GMT -5
Sad to lose Saxon. He was one of those talents who was a dedicated worker no matter how good or bad the movie was. He did his best to deliver something you could watch and enjoy. I knew anytime John Saxon name appeared in the credits whether movie or television, I was going to watch. LOTS of wonderful western roles in his career along with sci-fi and action. One of a handful actors I will watch in anything. Along with the likes of Robert Urich, Bill Bixby, Ron Perlman and others-hardworking entertainer providing fans with wonderful memories and films to enjoy forever!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 14:13:22 GMT -5
RIP Hollywood legend Olivia de Havilland, she was 104.
Farewell Maid Marian.
-M
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Post by brutalis on Jul 26, 2020 14:47:42 GMT -5
Dang! A beautiful, talented classy actress and one of my 1st fan crushes. I am really not liking the famous deaths of 2020. Next year has to get better, doesn't it??? Pleaaaaaaaaaaaase
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 26, 2020 15:02:12 GMT -5
104 is a pretty damn good run; so, can't feel too sad. Thanks for the movies.
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Post by foxley on Jul 27, 2020 7:57:46 GMT -5
I am trying to think if there are any actresses left from Hollywood's golden age left now that de Havilland is gone, and none are springing to mind. She was the last surviving cast member of Gone With the Wind, which apparently Jack Warner advised her not to do, as he thought it was going to be the biggest flop of the year. She was also one of Errol Flynn's most frequent costars: appearing opposite him in Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Four's a Crowd, Dodge City, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Santa Fe Trail, and They Died With Their Boots On. That should be enough to grant her status as an honorary Aussie in my books,
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 27, 2020 10:22:53 GMT -5
Off the top of my head, the oldest of the actors left from the Golden age might be Norman Lloyd, born in 1914 in Jersey City.
His first credit dates to 1939. Most recently he appeared in "Trainwreck"(2015, in which he improvised his lines.
Probably best known as the saboteur in Hitchcock's "Saboteur" (1942) and Dr. Auschlander in "St. Elsewhere" (1982-88).
Also known for producing and directing numerous episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour," when Hitchcock defied the blacklist to hire him.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 27, 2020 12:38:27 GMT -5
Dang! A beautiful, talented classy actress and one of my 1st fan crushes.
Me too. The Strawberry Blonde and The Great Garrick. She wasn't a woman to be trifled with. She sued the hell out of Warner Brothers in the early 1940s (and won) and helped break the stranglehold the studios had over their actors by making it illegal for them to unilaterally extend contracts.
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