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Post by Calidore on Oct 21, 2023 13:51:55 GMT -5
One for the soccer fans here: Sir Bobby Charlton has passed at 86.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 21, 2023 18:03:47 GMT -5
One for the soccer fans here: Sir Bobby Charlton has passed at 86. My only knowledge is some comedic references to his comb-over, on a couple of British tv shows. |
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Post by Confessor on Oct 22, 2023 10:36:33 GMT -5
One for the soccer fans here: Sir Bobby Charlton has passed at 86. I frickin' hate football, but Bobby Charlton was a great player who was able to lay claim to all of the game's major honours – FA Cup, Football League, and European Cup with Manchester United. He was also a key player in the 1966 World Cup-winning game against West Germany. Charlton's death leaves only Sir Geoff Hurst as the last surviving player from the England team that secured that iconic victory against Germany. He was also a survivor of one of footballs darkest moments, the Munich air crash, in which eight of his Manchester United team-mates, along with three United staff members and 12 other passengers were killed. Charlton was thrown clear of the wreckage, but the incident haunted him for the rest of his life. He was renowned for being a really nice bloke too and a great sportsman. He won't be forgotten any time soon. |
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Post by Calidore on Oct 22, 2023 10:38:33 GMT -5
Deleted: Confessor beat me by two minutes and wrote it better. |
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Post by Calidore on Oct 24, 2023 21:52:56 GMT -5
Richard Roundtree, probably best known for Shaft, has died at 81.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 25, 2023 2:04:14 GMT -5
Just saw the news about Roundtree. What a bummer.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 25, 2023 12:03:24 GMT -5
There is nothing cooler than the opening of Shaft, as Roundtree walks along the street, to the music of Isaac Hayes, and you can tell that he owns the pavement he walks on.....
Shaft is basically how I see a Luke Cage movie, if it was ever filmed. It needs to be set in the early 70s, with a Soul soundtrack.
I loved all of those old Blaxploitation films....Shaft, Super Fly, Coffy, Foxy Brown, Cleopatra Jones (both of them), Black Belt Jones, Black Samurai, Black Samson, Three the Hard Way...even Dolemite.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 25, 2023 18:50:49 GMT -5
He was a bad mother shut your mouth.
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Post by commond on Oct 25, 2023 19:05:16 GMT -5
Looks like you gonna have to close it yo'self, *shitty*!
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Post by Calidore on Oct 25, 2023 19:28:11 GMT -5
There is nothing cooler than the opening of Shaft, as Roundtree walks along the street, to the music of Isaac Hayes, and you can tell that he owns the pavement he walks on..... Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips talked about this at the beginning of his appreciation: "It is so all there, in the first two minutes. Manhattan, 1971. Noise. Grime. The mean streets two years before Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets.” Isaac Hayes’ “Theme from Shaft” — still the greatest-ever Oscar-winning song, just ahead of “Thanks for the Memory” — strides in underneath the “Shaft” opening credits sequence at the 30-second mark, as the camera glides by a grindhouse marquee advertising “The Wild Females.” He hasn’t even made his entrance yet, and they’re already lining up for him? Damn right. Then, up from the subway, there he is, in leather and a turtleneck, cutting across a sea of sedans heading downtown. “Up yours!” says the private eye whose resume will forever lead with the lyric “sex machine to all the chicks.” Two years earlier, Ratso Rizzo in “Midnight Cowboy” came up with “I’m walkin’ here!” in a similar situation. Confronted by what you can only assume is the same pushy driver, John Shaft needs only two words (”Up yours!”) and one finger to handle the man. Two minutes into the opening credits, Richard Roundtree was a star." Shaft is basically how I see a Luke Cage movie, if it was ever filmed. It needs to be set in the early 70s, with a Soul soundtrack. Absolutely. I would go back to the theaters to see that. |
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Post by tartanphantom on Oct 25, 2023 21:56:01 GMT -5
There is nothing cooler than the opening of Shaft, as Roundtree walks along the street, to the music of Isaac Hayes, and you can tell that he owns the pavement he walks on..... Shaft is basically how I see a Luke Cage movie, if it was ever filmed. It needs to be set in the early 70s, with a Soul soundtrack. I loved all of those old Blaxploitation films....Shaft, Super Fly, Coffy, Foxy Brown, Cleopatra Jones (both of them), Black Belt Jones, Black Samurai, Black Samson, Three the Hard Way...even Dolemite.
Then, of course, there's this homage...
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Post by berkley on Oct 25, 2023 22:14:03 GMT -5
There is nothing cooler than the opening of Shaft, as Roundtree walks along the street, to the music of Isaac Hayes, and you can tell that he owns the pavement he walks on..... Shaft is basically how I see a Luke Cage movie, if it was ever filmed. It needs to be set in the early 70s, with a Soul soundtrack. I loved all of those old Blaxploitation films....Shaft, Super Fly, Coffy, Foxy Brown, Cleopatra Jones (both of them), Black Belt Jones, Black Samurai, Black Samson, Three the Hard Way...even Dolemite.
Then, of course, there's this homage...
[I'm Gonna Get You Sucka]
I remember watching that on video a few years after it came out and enjoying it but haven't seen it since so I forget the details. I've been told that another, later Blaxploitation tribute/parody, Undercover Brother, is quite funny too but haven't got round to trying it yet myself, so can't confirm or deny.
Shaft is great, of course, and Roundtree very charismatic as the lead.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 26, 2023 0:10:32 GMT -5
Then, of course, there's this homage...
[I'm Gonna Get You Sucka]
I remember watching that on video a few years after it came out and enjoying it but haven't seen it since so I forget the details. I've been told that another, later Blaxploitation tribute/parody, Undercover Brother, is quite funny too but haven't got round to trying it yet myself, so can't confirm or deny.
Shaft is great, of course, and Roundtree very charismatic as the lead.
Undercover Brother is hilarious and an excellent film. I can also recommend Black Dynamite, if you haven't seen that. I love the scene in I'm Gonna Get You Sucka where they reveal John Vernon, to Keenan Ivory Wayans and then they bring up the famous stars who appeared in exploitation movies, like Shelly Winters, in Cleopatra Jones. The best is Antonio Vargas, as Fly Guy, back on the streets, after being in prison..... |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 26, 2023 0:13:21 GMT -5
ps Roundtree later reunited with a bunch of stars of Blaxploitation films, in Original Gangstas. Excellent little film, with just about everybody of note.
Richard Roundtree, Ron O' Neal, Pam Grier, Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Isabel Sanford...even Wings Hauser and Charles Napier.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 26, 2023 11:00:30 GMT -5
I am a huge fan of the movie Shaft and a ton of that has to do with Richard Roundtree. Shaft is both an important movie and a very good movie. Important in that it showed that there was an audience for movies aimed at an urban audience rather than the generic audience that Hollywood had aimed at for decades. Roundtree is a great thinking action hero in that movie.
Beyond Shaft he was a very good actor that had a hard time finding quality film roles but was able to find work on stage and on TV.
R.I.P.
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