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Post by Warmonger on May 23, 2017 14:21:16 GMT -5
Cortez Kennedy, Hall of Fame DT for the Seahawks, dead at 48.
Guy was an absolute monster in the 90's.
RIP
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Post by Confessor on May 23, 2017 18:02:10 GMT -5
I still prefered Moore as Simon Templar, to James Bond; the role suited him better. My favorite non-Bond or Saint role was ffolkes (aka North Sea Hijack, aka Assault Force), where he is Rufus Excalibur ffolkes, a mercenary security expert, who has to stop a terrorist takeover of North Sea oil platforms (carried out by Tony Perkins). The recently passed Michael Parks also appeared in that one. Of course, there is also The Wild Geese, though Moore was the least convincing mercenary in that bunch. He had some great lines, though. I think my favourite Roger Moore role outside of Bond was in The Cannonball Run, where he played "the guy who looks like Roger Moore".  Seymour Goldfarb, Jr. The guy who looks like Roger Moore and even signs his name as such, while acting just like James Bond. Brilliant. |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2017 19:38:46 GMT -5
Cortez Kennedy, Hall of Fame DT for the Seahawks, dead at 48. Guy was an absolute monster in the 90's. RIP This is shocking news and I just can't believe this news until I've double checked the internet. I was a former Seahawks Season Ticket Holder for nearly 20 years from 1984 to 2003 and he was a great interior lineman for the Seahawks that was a force to be reckon with. I was watching one game in the Kingdome and he blasted three offensive lineman to get to the quarterback for a 12 yards loss. I've know it was against the San Diego Chargers on the last game of the season at home. I've met him 3 times during his entire career as a Seahawk and he was one the nicest gentleman you've ever meet. He loves his fans and enjoy chatting with them. I got his autograph on a program that has him on the cover. Man, this really a shocking thing to learn today. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 5, 2017 13:49:14 GMT -5
Veteran British actor Peter Sallis, best known for playing Noman Clegg in the long running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine and the voice of Wallace in the Wallace & Gromit animations, has died aged 96.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 6, 2017 10:42:36 GMT -5
The US press about Sallis is all about Wallace & Gromit; but, I first discovered Sallis in Last of the Summer Wine, back in the mid-80s, when the series was broadcast on A&E (which was like a cable version of a PBS station, in those days). Their weekend evening programming was all Britcoms of the era and Last Of the Summer Wine was part of it. I also saw Butterflies, Solo, Black Adder I & II, Yes Minister, The Faint-Hearted Feminist and Father, Dear Father.
Sallis was a fine actor and comedian and his character was a delight.
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 6, 2017 12:50:46 GMT -5
The US press about Sallis is all about Wallace & Gromit; but, I first discovered Sallis in Last of the Summer Wine, back in the mid-80s, when the series was broadcast on A&E (which was like a cable version of a PBS station, in those days). Their weekend evening programming was all Britcoms of the era and Last Of the Summer Wine was part of it. I also saw Butterflies, Solo, Black Adder I & II, Yes Minister, The Faint-Hearted Feminist and Father, Dear Father. Sallis was a fine actor and comedian and his character was a delight. He was a versatile actor, too. I saw him last night playing a villain in an early sixties episode of The Avengers, and he also appeared in episodes of The Persuaders and Doctor Who (he played dropout scientist Penley in the 1967 serial The Ice Warriors). |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 9, 2017 21:57:32 GMT -5
RIP to actress Glenne Headly, well known here as Tess Truehart, in Warren beatty's Dick Tracy.  She was a member of Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theater Company (and was married to fellow company member John Malkovich, for a time) and got her film break with Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, appeared in Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo and also appeared in Mr Holland's Opus. She died at the young age of 62. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2017 7:40:18 GMT -5
Glenne Headly was a charming actress that made her mark in Dick Tracy, Sgt. Bilko, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, and appeared in television and among other things. She was excellent complimentary actress that I learned to love and she was a sweetheart in doing Tess Trueheart in Dick Tracy. Love her in Mr Holland's Opus; and that's one of my favorite role of Glenne.
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Post by Dizzy D on Jun 10, 2017 11:13:41 GMT -5
Adam West, the one, true Batman, has died, aged 88. He had leukemia for a while now.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2017 11:23:19 GMT -5
Some of my Favorite Pictures of Adam West 
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2017 11:47:22 GMT -5
Devastating news.  |
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Post by kurrgomaul on Jun 10, 2017 13:15:52 GMT -5
No. NO! I think I speak for everyone when I say, whenever there was an obstacle in out lives, whenever there was a bully we stood up to, we channeled West's Batman.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2017 13:18:06 GMT -5
MY Batman has passed. My new avatar is a final Bat Signal to you, Mr. Adam West.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 10, 2017 13:33:00 GMT -5
Aw, hell.................
There were two Batmen, when I was a kid: Olan Soule and Adam West. Soule was the voice of Batman on the Superman/Batman Hour, from Filmation (The Adv. of Batman, when it was spun off on its own) and returned to the character for the Super Friends. Adam West was the living Batman. I was pretty young, maybe 4, when I first saw part of the movie. West inhabited the character and it didn't feel like a spoof, to me. That was the genius of how he played it; kids saw him as heroic, adults as a tongue-in-cheek parody. Like Clayton Moore and the Lone Ranger, he was unable to escape the shadow of the role; so, like Moore, he embraced it and it was good to him.
I've seen West in a few things from the 70s, when he was desperately trying to leave the role behind and he was fine; but, the material was bad (Happy Hooker goes Hollywood, for example). Once he just gave in and had fun, he really came alive in roles.
Leukemia doesn't surprise me; he sounded very weak in that animated Batman 66 dvd release, recently.
We salute you, Caped Crusader!
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 10, 2017 13:35:15 GMT -5
This has been a bad few weeks: Roger Moore, Glenne Headly, Adam West. Simon Templer & James Bond, Tess Truehart, and, now, Batman; if ever there was a time for heroes it is now.
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