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Post by Floyd D Barber on Mar 1, 2019 21:48:32 GMT -5
R.I.P Doug Sandom Sandom was the drummer for the Detours, who was replaced by Keith Moon about the time the band changed it's name to The Who. Could be worse, I guess. Imagine being Pete Best and getting replaced by Ringo instead of Keith Moon (nothing against Ringo, but come on).
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Post by Trurl on Mar 2, 2019 7:52:02 GMT -5
RIP Katherine Helmond. She is one of those people I really wished got better roles - she was perfect in Brazil but was stuck doing crap like "Who's the Boss". As long as we can all agree that "Soap" was the zenith of 70's television, and she, Richard Mulligan, and Robert Guillaume were it's heart, soul, and brains, we'll get along just fine. I don't think it's mentioned often enough that Helmond was also wonderful as the Sea Ogre's wife in Time Bandits. Billy Crystal was it's nutsack.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Mar 4, 2019 14:32:12 GMT -5
Goodbye, Luke Perry. You'll always be the guy Krusty shot out of a cannon to get ratings for his comeback special. <3
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 14:52:33 GMT -5
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 4, 2019 17:20:45 GMT -5
Goodbye, Luke Perry. You'll always be the guy Krusty shot out of a cannon to get ratings for his comeback special. <3 To me he’ll always be a scummy preacher who got his dick out in prison and later got murdered The Cask of Amontillado style by the singer from Biohazard. Either way R.I.P. Luke Perry!
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Mar 4, 2019 17:25:53 GMT -5
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Mar 4, 2019 18:45:48 GMT -5
I still remember what a big deal it was that Luke Perry shaved his sideburns off onscreen in the Buffy movie.
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Post by kitchin on Mar 4, 2019 18:48:41 GMT -5
R.I.P Doug SandomSandom was the drummer for the Detours, who was replaced by Keith Moon about the time the band changed it's name to The Who. Could be worse, I guess. Imagine being Pete Best and getting replaced by Ringo instead of Keith Moon (nothing against Ringo, but come on). Ringo was relatable! I Google-imaged Pete Best, and the pics of the Besty Beatles make them look like jerks! I'm not a Beatles expert, so don't slay me if this is how it's already been hashed out.
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Post by kitchin on Mar 4, 2019 18:58:37 GMT -5
I still remember what a big deal it was that Luke Perry shaved his sideburns off onscreen in the Buffy movie. He produced a few westerns for Hallmark after he did Jeremiah for Showtime in the early '00s. I saw the one with Katharine Isabelle & Ricky Schroder and it was not bad. Seemed like he wanted to make the peeps happy with some good-natured swashbuckling.
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Post by nowimnothing on Mar 4, 2019 19:16:26 GMT -5
Goodbye, Luke Perry. You'll always be the guy Krusty shot out of a cannon to get ratings for his comeback special. <3 To me he’ll always be a scummy preacher who got his dick out in prison and later got murdered The Cask of Amontillado style by the singer from Biohazard. Either way R.I.P. Luke Perry! I remember him as the guy who got beat up and pissed on in American Strays, in fact that was one of my selling points when recommending the film to others for many years. It probably doesn't hold up too well.
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 4, 2019 19:26:45 GMT -5
To me he’ll always be a scummy preacher who got his dick out in prison and later got murdered The Cask of Amontillado style by the singer from Biohazard. Either way R.I.P. Luke Perry! I remember him as the guy who got beat up and pissed on in American Strays, in fact that was one of my selling points when recommending the film to others for many years. It probably doesn't hold up too well. Luke Perry's dick appearing on Oz was the thing that got my younger sister to start watching that show.
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 5, 2019 2:44:27 GMT -5
R.I.P. wrestler, actor, human thumb King Kong Bundy.
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Post by Scruff on Mar 5, 2019 8:02:13 GMT -5
I'm oddly really sad about Luke Perry. I wasn't into 90210 when I was a teenager. But I did watch it occasionally. So I'm not sure if I was genuinely not into it or just being an artsy, rebellious teenager weakly trying to go against the zeitgeist. Bit Dylan McKay had the James Dean vibe going for him that I've always found hot.
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Post by kitchin on Mar 5, 2019 8:05:07 GMT -5
R.I.P. wrestler, actor, human thumb King Kong Bundy. He outlived the Vendex Headstart computer, and by a fair margin.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 14:34:09 GMT -5
R.I.P. wrestler, actor, human thumb King Kong Bundy.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Mar 5, 2019 22:35:12 GMT -5
R.I.P. wrestler, actor, human thumb King Kong Bundy. I once met King Kong Bundy at an electronics show in Chicago, back when he was shilling for Vendex. He was signing autographs, I got to the front of the line, and he saw me and said "Hey, I like your shirt. All these guys in suits and ties make me nervous". I almost always wore aloha shirts to satellite dealer conventions and electronics shows, because it sort of made me stand out, and often if I called some rep whose card I picked up at a show, I'd say "It's the guy from (the SBCA show, or CES or whatever) with the aloha shirt", and more often than not, they'd remember me.
We chatted for a bit (there wasn't a long line at that time). I mentioned that I liked his performance in the Richard Pryor movie "Moving", and he laughed and said "So you're the one who saw it." He seemed like a really nice, down to earth guy. R.I.P K.K.B.
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Post by Hachiman on Mar 8, 2019 0:30:16 GMT -5
This is months late, but I just learned that Sister Wendy Beckett died back in December. She was incredibly influential to my relationship with art. I'm still a big art nerd to this day. Mainly due to her and one history teacher, who also was the person who introduced me to her books and videos.
Rest in Peace, Sister Wendy. Thank you for teaching me about art and for passing on your enthusiasm of it to me and many others. If any of the great painters managed to get to heaven with you, which is doubtful, I hope you finally can ask them all about all the questions they left in their work. If they didn't get there, then I hope they let you occasionally go and chat with them in the other place on some sort of visitor pass program for distinguished souls. If such an arrangement isn't possible, well, I hope you have fun chatting with Fra Angelico for eternity. He seems like he would probably get into heaven.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Mar 9, 2019 16:11:36 GMT -5
R.I.P Jan Michael Vincent I was sort of shocked to learn he was still alive. Watching his slow decent into oblivion was sad for anyone who saw him in the movies at his best. Not just a pretty face, he had the acting chops to match. He was not always a B list movie joke, at one time he had real star power.
He co starred with Charles Bronson in The Mechanic
and he held his own with such greats as Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, Ian Bannen, and Candace Bergan in the great, yet sadly underappreciated western Bite the Bullet (it's a great movie. I highly recommend it)
During the 80's drugs and alcohol ate away at his career and his health and a car accident in 1999 caused injury to his brain and his vocal cords. As time went on, he sank into lower budget, shabbier B movie and direct to dvd drek, until he just disappeared. He eventually became a punch line. But in reality, there was nothing funny about it.
Seeing his decline over the years was kind of like watching an old acquaintance fall apart. R.I.P Jan Michael Vincent
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Post by Celebith on Mar 10, 2019 20:19:00 GMT -5
I loved The Mechanic when I saw it as a kid, but didn't realize how much gay subtext it had until I saw it a few months ago. Did the remake with Statham keep that in?
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Post by Prole Hole on Mar 11, 2019 5:30:07 GMT -5
He was, I feel it also necessary to point out, a stunningly good looking gentleman. I have very striking memories of watching Airwolf which has much to do with those eyes as it did some fancypants helicopter...
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Mar 11, 2019 6:03:12 GMT -5
He was, I feel it also necessary to point out, a stunningly good looking gentleman. I have very striking memories of watching Airwolf which has much to do with those eyes as it did some fancypants helicopter... ...I honestly thought you'd posted to mention that Scottish serial killer who'd just died.
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Post by ArchieLeach on Mar 11, 2019 22:29:58 GMT -5
Aw, shit. Hal Blaine. Chuck Berry had "Johnny B. Goode," Hal Blaine had "Be My Baby." He also had a ton of others.
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Mar 11, 2019 23:38:51 GMT -5
Aw, shit. Hal Blaine. Chuck Berry had "Johnny B. Goode," Hal Blaine had "Be My Baby." He also had a ton of others.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2019 16:51:41 GMT -5
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Mar 17, 2019 18:13:37 GMT -5
Oh no, not Dick Dale! Motherfucker was surf music, and not the twaddly little reverb-heavy kind of surf music, the "hits you like a fucking ocean wave" surf music. Today is a sad day.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Mar 18, 2019 14:25:43 GMT -5
RIP character actor Richard Erdman, one of those guys who always popped up when you least expected it
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Mar 18, 2019 14:40:06 GMT -5
RIP character actor Richard Erdman, one of those guys who always popped up when you least expected it
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Post by repulsionist on Mar 19, 2019 18:03:20 GMT -5
Behind the scenes of the fame machine...Jake Phelps, editor-in-chief/editor-at-large Thrasher Magazine. Before and since his editorship began in 1994 this magazine serves as the tastemaker of street culture. From Lil' Wayne to Justin Bieber, Thrasher gear serves as authenticity. Yes, yes, this fellow was a supreme dick, but his influence and its shaping of consumer culture cannot be ignored. Taking things apart to better understand the mechanism...John Harold Haynes, editor/publisher of Haynes Auto Manuals. I've read a few of the VW Haynes manuals; I owned and used VW Super Beetle 1970 to 1972 Owners Workshop Manual and Volkswagen Golf Gas (1985 - 1992). I wager Floyd D Barber has more than a few of these bibles around his workshop.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Mar 19, 2019 21:07:18 GMT -5
Behind the scenes of the fame machine...Jake Phelps, editor-in-chief/editor-at-large Thrasher Magazine. Before and since his editorship began in 1994 this magazine serves as the tastemaker of street culture. From Lil' Wayne to Justin Bieber, Thrasher gear serves as authenticity. Yes, yes, this fellow was a supreme dick, but his influence and its shaping of consumer culture cannot be ignored. Taking things apart to better understand the mechanism...John Harold Haynes, editor/publisher of Haynes Auto Manuals. I've read a few of the VW Haynes manuals; I owned and used VW Super Beetle 1970 to 1972 Owners Workshop Manual and Volkswagen Golf Gas (1985 - 1992). I wager Floyd D Barber has more than a few of these bibles around his workshop. I have one or two of Chiltons, and a bunch of Haynes manuals. Since the vehicles in my fleet range in date of manufacture from 1941 (tractor) to 2000 (Ford F250) with the average vehicle age being somewhere around 35, I use them frequently. I have been buying them long enough that the last 2 or 3 of my vehicles that I sold, I included the appropriate Haynes manual with it.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Mar 19, 2019 21:10:37 GMT -5
Oh no, not Dick Dale! Motherfucker was surf music, and not the twaddly little reverb-heavy kind of surf music, the "hits you like a fucking ocean wave" surf music. Today is a sad day. I didn't know until yesterday just how sad Dick Dale's story was:
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