Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Jan 5, 2024 18:19:34 GMT -5
RIP to actor and recording artist David Soul, perhaps best known for his roles in Starsky & Hutch and Salem's Lot. He was 80. Awww, that's a shame. I used to love watching him and Paul Glaser in Starsky & Hutch back in the 70s and early 80s. I've re-watched an awful lot of that show in recent years and it still holds up surprisingly well, but then it was quite gritty for its era and surprisingly progressive in a lot of ways too. Both Sgt. David Starsky and Sgt. Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson absolutely defined '70s cool for me in their iconic red and white Gran Torino. Soul was also enjoyable as a bad guy in the film Magnum Force with Clint Eastwood. And, of course, I can remember him as a pop star pin-up and teen heartthrob in the late '70s too. He always seemed like a genuinely decent guy whenever I saw him being interviewed. |
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Post by Calidore on Jan 5, 2024 21:08:27 GMT -5
An especially tragic one: A small plane crash has taken the lives of actor Christian Oliver (Snake Oiler in Speed Racer among many credits), his 10 and 12 year old daughters, and the pilot.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 5, 2024 21:44:27 GMT -5
Starsky & Hutch was a big favorite (more for Huggy Bear than the cops, though) and I also enjoyed him in Magnum Force (along with Robert Urich and Tim Matheson). I saw him in Hanoi Hilton; but, that was so long ago and Michael Moriarty is the only cast member I can recall with any clarity (his voice and line delivery are a big part of that).
I think it was Little Britain I saw him in and hadn't realized he was living in the UK and was a bigger pop culture figure there. I remember when his song was on the charts; but ballads have rarely been my thing and I was more inclined to listen to ELO than his stuff, in that era (or Earth, Wind and Fire).
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 5, 2024 21:46:48 GMT -5
An especially tragic one: A small plane crash has taken the lives of actor Christian Oliver (Snake Oiler in Speed Racer among many credits), his 10 and 12 year old daughters, and the pilot. Not familiar with his work, but such an event is a tragedy for anyone. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 6, 2024 13:00:56 GMT -5
Here's the 2023 TCM Remembers montage.....
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Post by spoon on Jan 7, 2024 14:59:17 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 7, 2024 20:43:47 GMT -5
Wow....I have seen both films several times and it never clicked that the actress in Tron was also Lacey Underall, in Caddyshack. Must have been the lighting and effects, in Tron. I saw a mention that she was from Chicago and was involved in fundraising for the Illinois Military Relief fund, to help families of deployed servicemembers. That gets her top ranking with me, regardless of what she did in Hollywood. Sad that she was alone, when she passed. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 8, 2024 16:11:00 GMT -5
Just saw the news that German footballer Franz Beckenbauer has passed away at age of 78. During his career, he was one of the stars and key players for the West German national team (earning the nickname 'Der Kaiser') that won the 1972 European Cup and the 1974 World Cup. After retiring from active playing, he became the national team's coach and led them to another World Cup victory in 1990. I became familiar with him as a pretty young kid, because in the late 1970s he came to the US to play for the star-studded New York Cosmos in the North American Soccer League...  L to R: Italian star-striker Giorgio Chinaglia, Pele, the greatest ever, and Beckenbauer when all three were playing for the Cosmos. Back in 1977, I got their autographs when they were in Portland, OR for the 1977 NASL championship game (which they won, beating the Seattle Sounders 2-1). Unfortunately, I lost that little notebook that had all of those autographs a long time ago... |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 8, 2024 22:06:22 GMT -5
Beckenbauer was also there for Germany's 1-0 loss to the Greeks, in Munich, in '72.....
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 10, 2024 15:43:58 GMT -5
RIP to Jennell Jacquays, writer, illustrator and game designer who made significant contributions to both the ttrpg world and the computer gaming world. (Some gamers may know them as Paul Jacquays, the name they used in the early days of rpgs and on many of their best known supplements from Judges Guild like Caverns of Thracia, Dark Tower, etc. In computer games they made significant contributions to Quake II, Age of Empires III and Halo Wars). They were 67.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 10, 2024 15:59:16 GMT -5
Also RIP to Tracy Torme, writer and producer who was co-creator fot eh series Sliders and a writer for Star Trek: TNG and for the film Fire in the Sky. He was 64.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 10, 2024 16:29:49 GMT -5
Also RIP to Tracy Torme, writer and producer who was co-creator fot eh series Sliders and a writer for Star Trek: TNG and for the film Fire in the Sky. He was 64. -M He was the son of crooner Mel Torme, composer of The Christmas Song a.k.a. Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.
Cei-U! I summon the luminous lineage!
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 10, 2024 21:24:54 GMT -5
RIP to Hugo and Nebula winning sci-fi and fantasy writer Terry Brisson. Best known for short stories such as "Bears Discover Fire" and "They're Made out of Meat." He was 81.
Man the Reaper has been busy so far this year.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 11, 2024 17:34:55 GMT -5
I'm not sure if anyone mentioned it but Bud Harrelson shortstop for the 1969 WS champ New York Mets, passed away at 79 from advanced Alzheimers.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 11, 2024 18:02:20 GMT -5
I'm not sure if anyone mentioned it but Bud Harrelson shortstop for the 1969 WS champ New York Mets, passed away at 79 from advanced Alzheimers. Oh, no... Jeez, I loved that guy when I was a Mets fan. Great fielder, smart player, and took it to Rose big-time in the ‘73 playoffs when Rose figured he was all that and a bowl haircut. Sorry to hear that he had to go that way. |
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