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Post by Mormel on Feb 17, 2024 6:45:53 GMT -5
I hope the Russian press didn't have the gall to say he died unexpectedly. Navalny was a real hero. He took a stand against the empire, knowing how it was likely to end, because it was the right thing to do. I hope others will continue in his spirit, even though it's going to be an incredible uphill battle. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 17, 2024 21:01:36 GMT -5
I hope the Russian press didn't have the gall to say he died unexpectedly. Navalny was a real hero. He took a stand against the empire, knowing how it was likely to end, because it was the right thing to do. I hope others will continue in his spirit, even though it's going to be an incredible uphill battle. There is always someone among an oppressed people, who will stand up to say, "This is wrong; this will not stand" and inspire others to do the same. It is never easy and the price is high and it is rarely quick, but they come. |
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Post by Calidore on Feb 18, 2024 1:51:49 GMT -5
Enric Badia Romero, longtime artist on Modesty Blaise and creator of Axa, has died at 94.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Feb 18, 2024 2:04:08 GMT -5
Enric Badia Romero, longtime artist on Modesty Blaise and creator of Axa, has died at 94. I only have a small sample of his stuff, but hat I have seen was amazing. Rest well good sir. 94 is a good run. -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 19, 2024 0:11:18 GMT -5
I have all of his Modesty material and a good chunk of Axa and his stuff was just gorgeous. I was just looking at something; can't remember what; but, he popped up as an artist within it, drawing a female character in a very "Modesty" fashion. I cannot, for the life of me, remember what it was.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 20, 2024 9:30:08 GMT -5
Enric Badia Romero, longtime artist on Modesty Blaise and creator of Axa, has died at 94. Axa I remember very clearly from appearing in The Sun newspaper when I was a kid. My Grandparents used to buy that newspaper and any time I was visiting I'd sneak a look...not just for the frequent female nudity in strips like Axa and George & Lynne, but for the Page 3 topless photo too.  I've toyed with the idea of buying an Axa collection as an adult, but never quite pulled the trigger. The artwork in that strip is really great though. Anyway, RIP Enric and thanks for making my innocent childhood just a little less innocent.  |
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Post by berkley on Feb 20, 2024 18:13:56 GMT -5
I have one Axa collection but haven't read it for so long I can't recall much apart from the artwork being nice and of course the attractive lead character as drawn by Romero. I think I prefer him that one, probably because it was his own creation and there are other Modesty artists I like better.
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Post by Calidore on Feb 21, 2024 22:41:58 GMT -5
Tony Ganios, who played the good-hearted big dude Perry in that other 1979 gang movie, The Wanderers (which is fantastic btw), has died at 64.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 22, 2024 1:21:15 GMT -5
Also RIP actor Paul D'Amato, who played "Dr Hook," Tim McCracken, in Slap Shot and appeared in The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate In relation to this board, he was the visual inspiration for how John Byrne drew Wolverine, without the mask.  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 22, 2024 1:24:00 GMT -5
And for fans of the British original The Office, Ewen MacIntosh, who played Keith Bishop, has passed away...
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Post by Calidore on Feb 23, 2024 21:52:06 GMT -5
Roni Stoneman, of the great country/bluegrass musical family, has passed at 85. She's probably best known for being a regular on Hee Haw for 20 years or so.
Here's a clip from the musical anthology film The Road to Nashville of the Stonemans doing what they do on "Goin' Up Cripple Creek", with Donna hopping around like the stage is electrified while Roni stands ramrod straight with an occasional move for comedy effect, both tearing it up on their respective instruments (mandolin and banjo respectively).
And another clip of Roni soloing the same tune at 78, playing a little slower, but still....
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 23, 2024 22:40:05 GMT -5
Awwwwwww....I loved Roni, on Hee-Haw, especially with Gordie Tapp, as the bickering couple. Then, you'd see and hear Roni on the banjo, when the show's musicians would do a number.
Great musician and great comic timing.
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Post by Calidore on Feb 24, 2024 10:36:49 GMT -5
Awwwwwww....I loved Roni, on Hee-Haw, especially with Gordie Tapp, as the bickering couple. Then, you'd see and hear Roni on the banjo, when the show's musicians would do a number. Great musician and great comic timing. Hee Haw wasn't my jam, but even so, I've still heard about Roni being a highlight. Just had a look, and her older sister Donna, the mandolinist in the first clip I posted, is now the last survivor of Pop Stoneman's children. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 24, 2024 19:48:42 GMT -5
Awwwwwww....I loved Roni, on Hee-Haw, especially with Gordie Tapp, as the bickering couple. Then, you'd see and hear Roni on the banjo, when the show's musicians would do a number. Great musician and great comic timing. Hee Haw wasn't my jam, but even so, I've still heard about Roni being a highlight. Just had a look, and her older sister Donna, the mandolinist in the first clip I posted, is now the last survivor of Pop Stoneman's children. I grew up with Hee Haw, on Saturday nights, though I've never been a major country music fan. However, I always did like the more blue grass numbers and any wild hillbilly music, which is probably a family trait. Not necessarily the wild part; but, my dad's family was from deep southern Illinois, near the Indiana border and not too much further down to Kentucky. They were farmers, so there is a bit of hillbilly in the blood. Looking back on it, I tend to like a lot more country music from the 60s and early to mid-70s, including stuff I would have seen on Hee Haw and love the more energetic blue grass stuff. Some of the comedic skits fit right in with some of my relatives' sense of humor, especially my uncle Delbert. He was the rowdier of the three boys, on my dad's side. My dad was the quiet, dependable one and my uncle Denny was a mixture of both, though more like my dad than Delbert. When we'd visit my grandparents farm and get together with my uncle Delbert (who still lived down there) and my cousins, Hee-Haw and similar entertainment were the order of the day. My grandfather played violin, but would be more accurately called a fiddle player. Roni was always hilarious, then you'd see her play the banjo and were just amazed at the way her hands flew across it. I can still do the "Where oh where are you tonight..." song and the "Gloom, despair and agony on me" song, from heart. You'd never know it from my music collection, though. |
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Post by tartanphantom on Feb 24, 2024 20:51:51 GMT -5
Believe it or not, Roni Stoneman used to babysit for my band's fiddle player when she (the fiddler) was young. They were next-door neighbors. This was well after Hee-Haw, in the early 1990's. Roni was semi-retired at the time, still doing occasional appearances and session work.
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