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Post by foxley on Oct 12, 2020 15:26:31 GMT -5
Margaret Nolan, actress who appeared in the James Bond movie " Goldfinger" dead at 76. Weird synchronicity. Being unable to have full theatres due to COVID, our local cinemas are currently showing a mix of new releases and classic films in an attempt to maximise their turnover. On Sunday, I saw Goldfinger on the big screen.
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Post by berkley on Oct 12, 2020 17:45:01 GMT -5
Margaret Nolan, actress who appeared in the James Bond movie " Goldfinger" dead at 76. Weird synchronicity. Being unable to have full theatres due to COVID, our local cinemas are currently showing a mix of new releases and classic films in an attempt to maximise their turnover. On Sunday, I saw Goldfinger on the big screen.
I saw several of the Connery and Moore Bonds on the big screen a few years ago and it was great to see them that way, most of them for the first time, except for one of the later Roger Moore movies.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 12, 2020 19:29:06 GMT -5
Gameshow host Tom Kennedy has passed away at age 93. Known primarily as host for Name That Tune but MANY other game shows and so many television guest appearances. Grew up watching him all the time on daytime TV. RIP
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 12, 2020 21:26:00 GMT -5
Gameshow host Tom Kennedy has passed away at age 93. Known primarily as host for Name That Tune but MANY other game shows and so many television guest appearances. Grew up watching him all the time on daytime TV. RIP You don’t say...
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 12, 2020 22:18:22 GMT -5
Gameshow host Tom Kennedy has passed away at age 93. Known primarily as host for Name That Tune but MANY other game shows and so many television guest appearances. Grew up watching him all the time on daytime TV. RIP You don’t say... I see what you did there...
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 12, 2020 22:42:08 GMT -5
I see what you did there... Another dues-paying member of the Old B*st*rds Club. BTW, his brother was/ is Jack Narz.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 14, 2020 11:26:22 GMT -5
Veteran character actress Conchata Ferrell has died at the age of 77 on October 12. She was perhaps best known most recently for playing the housekeeper in Two and Half Men (a show I rarely watched and do not like - with Ferrell being the only worthwhile character in it), but she'd been continuously working in TV and movies since the 1970s. A really talented and funny woman.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 14, 2020 12:57:53 GMT -5
Margaret Nolan, actress who appeared in the James Bond movie " Goldfinger" dead at 76. Weird synchronicity. Being unable to have full theatres due to COVID, our local cinemas are currently showing a mix of new releases and classic films in an attempt to maximise their turnover. On Sunday, I saw Goldfinger on the big screen.
I wouldn't mind seeing some classic on the big screen. But not for full price...
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 14, 2020 13:29:44 GMT -5
Veteran character actress Conchata Ferrell has died at the age of 77 on October 12. She was perhaps best known most recently for playing the housekeeper in Two and Half Men (a show I rarely watched and do not like - with Ferrell being the only worthwhile character in it), but she'd been continuously working in TV and movies since the 1970s. A really talented and funny woman. She was an acclaimed theatrical actress, too, winning the Obie, Drama Desk and World Theater Award, for The Sea Horse. She played several sarcastic nurses on tv and the restaurant owner in Mystic Pizza, which helped launch a few careers. My wife liked Two and a Half Men (I was lukewarm, at best) and, yes, she was the best part, along with Melanie Lynskey (Rose) and Holland Taylor (also the best part of Bosom Buddies). She was also nominated for an Emmy, for LA Law.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2020 23:49:07 GMT -5
RIP to Spencer Davis, leader of the eponymous 60's rock group The Spencer Davis Group. He was 81. Gimme Some Lovin' and I'm a Man will always be a favorites of mine (though both had Steve Winwood on vocals not Spencer), but the produced a lot of good music. -M
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Post by junkmonkey on Oct 21, 2020 13:05:50 GMT -5
RIP to Spencer Davis, leader of the eponymous 60's rock group The Spencer Davis Group. He was 81. Gimme Some Lovin' and I'm a Man will always be a favorites of mine (though both had Steve Winwood on vocals not Spencer), but the produced a lot of good music. -M Keep on Runnin' was the first 45 single I ever bought. I still have it.
(For the younger members of this forum, '45s' were round pieces of plastic with recorded sound on both sides played on a 'record player'. They lasted all of 5 minutes at the most and you had to stop the machine and turn them over to play the other side - which was usually shit so you usually only did that once.)
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 21, 2020 13:25:27 GMT -5
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(For the younger members of this forum, '45s' were round pieces of plastic with recorded sound on both sides played on a 'record player'. They lasted all of 5 minutes at the most and you had to stop the machine and turn them over to play the other side - which was usually shit so you usually only did that once.) Usually, but not always. I remember that the B-side on Sweet's "Fox on the Run" 45 was "Burn on the Flame" - which I liked better than the A-side track.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 21, 2020 13:42:32 GMT -5
RIP to Spencer Davis, leader of the eponymous 60's rock group The Spencer Davis Group. He was 81. Gimme Some Lovin' and I'm a Man will always be a favorites of mine (though both had Steve Winwood on vocals not Spencer), but the produced a lot of good music. -M Keep on Runnin' was the first 45 single I ever bought. I still have it.
(For the younger members of this forum, '45s' were round pieces of plastic with recorded sound on both sides played on a 'record player'. They lasted all of 5 minutes at the most and you had to stop the machine and turn them over to play the other side - which was usually shit so you usually only did that once.) Never bought a Beatles 45, I guess.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 21, 2020 13:48:07 GMT -5
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(For the younger members of this forum, '45s' were round pieces of plastic with recorded sound on both sides played on a 'record player'. They lasted all of 5 minutes at the most and you had to stop the machine and turn them over to play the other side - which was usually shit so you usually only did that once.) Usually, but not always. I remember that the B-side on Sweet's "Fox on the Run" 45 was "Burn on the Flame" - which I liked better than the A-side track. There were a lot of great B-sides. And there were a number of absolutely historic B-sides, including; Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & the Comets Green Onions - Booker T & the MGs Hound Dog - Elvis Presley Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers No that wasn't the norm. But never dismiss the B-side out of hand.
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Post by Confessor on Oct 21, 2020 18:50:41 GMT -5
I think you can tell the real worth of a band/artist by their B-sides. At best, they can be the place where musicians can stretch out and indulge some of their weirder and more interesting tendencies or where they can hide absolute musical gold. And when you get a B-side that is dynamite it's an absolute joy! As Prince Hal noted above, the Beatles B-sides were almost always brilliant, but actually, a lot of my favourite bands/artists produced killer b-sides. Just to correct one of Slam_Bradley's examples of brilliant and historic B-sides above, I believe that Elvis's "Hound Dog" was actually the A-side; it was Don't Be Cruel that was the B-side...but yeah, same thing, killer song (arguably better than Hound Dog).
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