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Post by berkley on May 26, 2024 22:55:13 GMT -5
Doug Ingle, lead vocalist, organist and songwriter with Iron Butterfly of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" fame, has died at age 78. Iron Butterfly were an important element in moving the '60s counter-culture's music away from the psychedelia and whimsy of 1966 and 1967 towards something much heavier and more menacing. The long version of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" from the album of the same name is heavy, trippy, spooky, and really something else. www.billboard.com/music/music-news/doug-ingle-dead-iron-butterfly-singer-organist-dies-obituary-1235693242/That's the only song I really know by them. I like it but I've probably found it more interesting as a precursor to what came afterwards from the bands they influenced than as a piece of music in itself - which is totally unfair on my part, but of course you can't control your spontaneous internal reactions to these things, you can only think about them and try to decide whether they should continue to determine your future, not spontaneous but conscious actions. So I've always meant to listen to more of their stuff and I will do. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 27, 2024 14:40:06 GMT -5
Just saw the news that former NBA pro and later sportscaster Bill Walton has died at the age of 71 (f***in' cancer again).    ( the way he's burned into my memory) For me, someone who grew up about a half-drive south of Portland, OR, he's best known as the absolute star of the Portland Trailblazers in the 1970s who, among other things, led them to the NBA title in 1977 in their victory over the powerhouse Philadelphia 76ers. He also had a reputation as being a bit of an unapologetic (apparently pot-smoking) hippie and, particularly endearing to me, a lifelong fan of the Grateful Dead...  |
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Post by Ricky Jackson on May 27, 2024 14:45:35 GMT -5
One of the great post game celebrations in history. Walton is mobbed like the Beatles by the fans!
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Post by Prince Hal on May 27, 2024 15:15:33 GMT -5
Bill Walton was also a vital member of what may have been the greatest NBA team ever, the 1985-86 Boston Celtics.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 27, 2024 15:36:52 GMT -5
One of the great post game celebrations in history. Walton is mobbed like the Beatles by the fans! Oh, yeah. I remember that quite well - even though we were watching it on our family's grainy b&w TV. And that entire play-off season was quite memorable, as everyone in the state seemed to progressively lose their s**t more and more as the Blazers advanced. By the time the finals rolled around, and Portland came back from a two-game deficit, it was a full-on mania. (It seemed like you could hear a popular arena chant, "Rip City", everywhere.)
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Post by commond on May 27, 2024 15:53:11 GMT -5
That's sad news about Bill. I absolutely loved his tongue-in-cheek commentary on basketball games. We used to get an international feed of ESPN in New Zealand with a few NBA games per week and Bill was often on the call.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 27, 2024 17:38:42 GMT -5
If anyone had ever adapted Fritz Lieber's stories to film, I always wanted to see Bill Walton play Fafhrd. His height and red hair made him ideal for the role.
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Post by driver1980 on May 28, 2024 6:30:07 GMT -5
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Post by kirby101 on May 28, 2024 18:42:24 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 2, 2024 19:16:14 GMT -5
RIP to French actor and international star Philippe Leroy, at age 93.  Born in Paris, in 1930, to an aristocratic family, as Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu. His ancestors included Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulie, historian Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu and architect Jean-Francois Leroy. He spent time abroad, working on an ocean liner and a year in New York City. He served as a paratroop officer in the French Foreign Legion, with the 2nd Legion Parachute Regiment, serving in Indochina and, as a reserve officer, in Algeria. He was decorated with the Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur, the Crois de guerre des theatresd'operations exterieures and the Cross for Military Valour, leaving the service with the rank of captain. He made his acting debut in the crime film The Hole, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA, as Best Foreign Actor. He appeared in such films as 55 Days in Peking, Buona Sera Mrs Campbell, the controversial film The Night Porter, and La Femme Nikita, as the head of the division, where Nikita is training. On tv, he starred in a mini-series The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci. My favorite films of his are a pair of heist comedies, where he plays a professor who plans the thefts and develops the technology: The Seven Golden Men, where they steal the bullion from a Swiss bank vault, and the sequel, The Seven Golden Men Strike Again, where they are hired by the CIA to kidnap and brainwash a Caribbean dictator (essentially Castro). They are great fun. He moved to Italy in the 60s and worked in many Italian films (including the Seven Golden Men films), as well as in France and other European productions. He continued to jump out of airplanes, as a hobby and carried out a jump on his 80th birthday. |
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Post by berkley on Jun 2, 2024 23:31:48 GMT -5
I have a lot of his films on my to-watch list but skimming through his filmography the only one I know I've seen is La Femme Nikita.
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Post by foxley on Jun 5, 2024 3:29:41 GMT -5
R.I.P. to Australian TV and radio star John Blackman who has passed away at the age of 76. Blackman was best known for being the voiceover man on Hey, Hey, It's Saturday, voicing characters like Dickie Knee, the Angel and Doctor Ben Dover.  |
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Post by Calidore on Jun 5, 2024 9:44:56 GMT -5
Sad R.I.P. to William Russell, who played original Doctor Who companion Ian Chesterton. (I hadn't known he was also one of the Kryptonian Elders in the 1978 Superman movie.) He was 99.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 5, 2024 10:08:28 GMT -5
Sad R.I.P. to William Russell, who played original Doctor Who companion Ian Chesterton. (I hadn't known he was also one of the Kryptonian Elders in the 1978 Superman movie.) He was 99. Saw him in the recent era episode where they had the support group, for the former Doctor companions. Janet Fielding and Sophie Aldred said that he had trouble memorizing his lines, so they just fed them to him and he repeated them back; but, it didn't come across that way in the final edit. He was also in The Great Escape...  He played Sorren, one of the lookouts, who always had a pipe. |
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Post by Calidore on Jun 5, 2024 19:16:58 GMT -5
Sad R.I.P. to William Russell, who played original Doctor Who companion Ian Chesterton. (I hadn't known he was also one of the Kryptonian Elders in the 1978 Superman movie.) He was 99. Saw him in the recent era episode where they had the support group, for the former Doctor companions. Janet Fielding and Sophie Aldred said that he had trouble memorizing his lines, so they just fed them to him and he repeated them back; but, it didn't come across that way in the final edit. He was also in The Great Escape... He played Sorren, one of the lookouts, who always had a pipe.
I like that story about Sophie and Janet helping him with his lines. Cool that the Companion Support Group extended into real life as well.
The Great Escape is one of those classics that I've never managed to see, despite it being on the to-watch list for decades. One day....
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