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Post by foxley on May 31, 2021 17:25:35 GMT -5
Joe Lara, star of the movie Tarzan in Manhattan and Tarzan: The Epic Adventures tv series, is among 7 presumed dead in a Tennesse plane crash.I'm pretty sure it was my first introduction to the character, and I vividly remember watching Tarzan in Manhattan when it aired on CBS in 1989. RIP Good Sir. Not my favourite screen Tarzan, but decent.
R.I.P.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 4, 2021 11:35:01 GMT -5
High powered attorney F Lee Bailey has passed away. Best known for the OJ Simpson Trial, he had made a name for himself long before, representing Dr Sam Sheppard, in an appeal, after his conviction of murdering his wife. Bailey argued before the Supreme Court and won a retrial of Sheppard, in which he was acquitted, which inspired the tv series and film, The Fugitive. He also defended Patty Hearst during her trial for her actions while with the SLA, which she claimed was coerced.
Bailey had hosted television programs in the 60s and was a noted public figure, thanks to media appearances and high profile cases, long before the OJ trial. he was later disbarred in the state of Florida, with Massachusetts reciprocating, after he moved shares of stock from a clients account to his own, to protect them for forfeiture in court.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 4, 2021 12:37:54 GMT -5
High powered attorney F Lee Bailey has passed away. Best known for the OJ Simpson Trial, (...) Really? Bailey was already a household name back in the 1970s when I was a little kid - I was familiar with the name and knew he was some kind of lawyer, even if I didn't know the specific reasons why he was famous.
And I didn't even know he was a member of Simpson's legal team until I read his obit yesterday. Johnnie Cochran is far more identified with the Simpson trial.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 4, 2021 13:49:38 GMT -5
High powered attorney F Lee Bailey has passed away. Best known for the OJ Simpson Trial, (...) Really? Bailey was already a household name back in the 1970s when I was a little kid - I was familiar with the name and knew he was some kind of lawyer, even if I didn't know the specific reasons why he was famous.
And I didn't even know he was a member of Simpson's legal team until I read his obit yesterday. Johnnie Cochran is far more identified with the Simpson trial. Yeah...he was arguably the most famous living private attorney in the U.S. well before OJ. He represented Sheppard, Albert DeSalvo, and Patty Hearst among others. He mostly did press conferences for the OJ defense, though he did cross-examine Mark Fuhrman. He was disbarred for some pretty egregious financial shenanigans and absolutely should have known better.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 4, 2021 14:02:21 GMT -5
Really? Bailey was already a household name back in the 1970s when I was a little kid - I was familiar with the name and knew he was some kind of lawyer, even if I didn't know the specific reasons why he was famous.
And I didn't even know he was a member of Simpson's legal team until I read his obit yesterday. Johnnie Cochran is far more identified with the Simpson trial. Yeah...he was arguably the most famous living private attorney in the U.S. well before OJ. He represented Sheppard, Albert DeSalvo, and Patty Hearst among others. He mostly did press conferences for the OJ defense, though he did cross-examine Mark Fuhrman. He was disbarred for some pretty egregious financial shenanigans and absolutely should have known better.
I didn't know this. I remember him being the inspiration for Perry Mason.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 4, 2021 14:43:51 GMT -5
Yeah...he was arguably the most famous living private attorney in the U.S. well before OJ. He represented Sheppard, Albert DeSalvo, and Patty Hearst among others. He mostly did press conferences for the OJ defense, though he did cross-examine Mark Fuhrman. He was disbarred for some pretty egregious financial shenanigans and absolutely should have known better.
I didn't know this. I remember him being the inspiration for Perry Mason. The first Perry Mason novel predated Bailey’s birth by a couple of months. And Mason was a hit as a radio drama long before Bailey was remotely famous. The inspiration for Mason was a combination of trial attorney Earle Rogers and Mason author Erle Stanley Gardner.
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Post by chadwilliam on Jun 4, 2021 18:24:15 GMT -5
William Shatner's book Star Trek Memories recounted an anecdote in which Melvin Belli (who had appeared as a villain in an episode of Star Trek, hence Shatner bringing him up) and Bailey were having dinner somewhere with a wager that whichever of the two lawyers gets recognized first will have the pleasure of having the other pick up their tab. Belli won the bet and asked the young man which case he recognized him from. "Huh? I thought you were that Gorgan guy from Star Trek".
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 7, 2021 6:53:07 GMT -5
Seeing it reported pretty much everywhere that actor Clarence Williams III has died at the age of 81. He had a very long and prolific career, but to some of us he'll always be best and most fondly remembered as Linc on the Mod Squad (with his awesome catchphrase, "solid").
Edited to add: a more recent image, so nobody will think I'm being ageist:
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 7, 2021 7:26:58 GMT -5
Clarence Williams III was the nominal villain in one of my guiltiest pleasures, the stoner comedy Half-Baked. He'll be missed.
Cei-U! I summon the sense of loss!
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 7, 2021 11:03:07 GMT -5
Williams was the coolest dude on tv, in the early 70s, One of my personal favorites of his roles was his part in I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, as the militant, married to a white woman (Eve "Jan Brady" Plum), with two blond kids who speak in militant rhetoric. I don't think I had ever seen him do comedy before and he was brilliant in it.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 7, 2021 11:12:47 GMT -5
Also passing away was a liberator and witness to history: former Red Army tank soldier David Dushman. He was 98. Dushman took part in the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, some of the bloodiest fighting of the war. He was one of 69 men from his 12,000 strength division to survive the war. On January 27, 1945, his unit approached a large compound, with electrical fencing, watch towers, gates and several buildings, including large industrial-looking structures. His tank flattened the electrical fencing; but what he found inside startled him. There were dead bodies lying there and living skeletons sitting among them or emerging from huts. The place they had found was Auschwitz-Birkenau. Dushman said they stumbled out of the buildings and lay among the dead. The soldiers threw them all the canned food they had, then went hunting for fascists. After the war, Dushman became a fencing coach for the Soviet Women's National Team and was a coach at the 1972 Olympics, in Munich, where he witnessed the massacre of the Israeli athletes. He would visit schools and wear his medals at veterans gatherings, telling eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to generations born after the war. Dushman was the last survivor of the Liberators of Auschwitz.
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Post by Ozymandias on Jun 10, 2021 5:02:26 GMT -5
RIP to John Paul Leon, comic artist Just saw this on Kurt Busiek's FB page... -M I just read this on FB. He was only 49, dead by Cancer. I remember him from the Earth X series. Yeah, me too. Just found out reading ASM #68. I guess they'll be running the obituary trough the entire Marvel line, this month.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 13, 2021 18:56:30 GMT -5
Character actor Ned Beatty has passed away, at 83. For the comic book world, he was Otis, Luthor's inept henchman, in Superman I & II. However, he was in a wealth of great films, like All the Presidents Men, Network, Nashville, Silver Streak, The Fourth Protocol and more, including Deliverance, which gets remembered for one part of his performance, more than anything else. He also appeared in not so great films, like the 1990 Captain America film that never got released to US theaters. He was good friends with Burt Reynolds and appeared in several of his films, including Deliverance, White Lightning, WW and the Dixie Dance Kings and Strker Ace. He also wasn't afraid of taking tv roles and had memorable turns in MASH (as a chaplain), The Waltons, Kojak The Rockford Files, Hawaii 5-O, regular apeparances on Roseanne, as Dan's father, the TV movie friendly Fire and Law & Order, to name a few. He won the Drama Desk Award, for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and was nominated for an Oscar, for Network, an Emmy, for friendly Fire and Last Train Home, and a Golden Globe for Hear My Song. RIP and enjoy Otisburg!
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Post by foxley on Jun 13, 2021 20:53:24 GMT -5
Character actor Ned Beatty has passed away, at 83. For the comic book world, he was Otis, Luthor's inept henchman, in Superman I & II. However, he was in a wealth of great films, like All the Presidents Men, Network, Nashville, Silver Streak, The Fourth Protocol and more, including Deliverance, which gets remembered for one part of his performance, more than anything else. He also appeared in not so great films, like the 1990 Captain America film that never got released to US theaters. He was good friends with Burt Reynolds and appeared in several of his films, including Deliverance, White Lightning, WW and the Dixie Dance Kings and Strker Ace. He also wasn't afraid of taking tv roles and had memorable turns in MASH (as a chaplain), The Waltons, Kojak The Rockford Files, Hawaii 5-O, regular apeparances on Roseanne, as Dan's father, the TV movie friendly Fire and Law & Order, to name a few. He won the Drama Desk Award, for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and was nominated for an Oscar, for Network, an Emmy, for friendly Fire and Last Train Home, and a Golden Globe for Hear My Song. RIP and enjoy Otisburg! I have to admit, as soon as I read this, my first thought was Deliverance. But it is an awesome movie, even without the line he is most famous for.
And he was the voice of the evil Tortoise John in Rango, which is an awesome animated film: part A Fistful of Dollars/part Chinatown/part The Shakiest Gun in the West.
R.I.P. Ned Beatty.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 17, 2021 13:24:37 GMT -5
R.I.P. Frank Bonner. Probably best known as Herb Tarlek the loud-mouthed and loud-suited advertising agent on WKRP in Cincinnati. Bonner was all over the TV in the 70s and 80s.
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