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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Nov 8, 2020 12:54:25 GMT -5
TMZ is reporting that Alex Trebek has died at 80. Haven't seen a real source cover it yet. WHAT IS: my deep sadness?
EDIT: maybe he was just waiting for Sean Connery to go first?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2020 13:18:01 GMT -5
maybe he was just waiting for Sean Connery to go first?  |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Nov 10, 2020 1:13:10 GMT -5
Ugh, so sad about Alex Trebek. He was the best.
Been seeing a lot of people pass around this clip over the last couple days, and it is definitely one of my recent favorites:
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Nov 24, 2020 12:08:52 GMT -5
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Nov 29, 2020 10:43:17 GMT -5
David Prowse, 85, best known for inhabiting the armor of Darth Vader but not even getting to be the face of Anakin Skywalker.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Dec 2, 2020 14:27:57 GMT -5
Ben Bova, 88, incredibly prolific sci-fi author; of COVID-19 related pneumonia and stroke
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Post by ABz Bđź‘ąanaz on Dec 2, 2020 16:03:34 GMT -5
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Post by Nudeviking on Dec 3, 2020 1:38:53 GMT -5
French-Canadian Wrestleman, Pat Patterson at 79 due to cancer. The first openly gay professional wrestler, Patterson also is credited with creating the Royal Rumble which is perhaps humanity's single greatest achievement.  |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Dec 3, 2020 23:43:47 GMT -5
"Anything I say. What a wonderful philosophy you have." Toecutter had such a great sense of humor for a psycho.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Dec 8, 2020 7:01:26 GMT -5
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Post by ABz Bđź‘ąanaz on Dec 8, 2020 10:14:37 GMT -5
I had a Chuck Yeager flight sim game on my Commodore 64 of all things, back in the late 80s. RIP. |
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Post by Prole Hole on Dec 11, 2020 5:58:45 GMT -5
Barbara Windsor, at 83, of Alzheimer's. Star mostly of largely interminable Carry On movies where she could regularly be relied upon to be appealingly charming through even the hackiest of material and, latterly, EastEnders. But really, she's just Barbara Windsor and everyone loved her. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55269649 |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Dec 11, 2020 8:59:21 GMT -5
Tiny Lister, whom I knew best as the president in The Fifth Element; 62, possibly of COVID.
Also I really thought he had died like ten years ago?
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Post by Nudeviking on Dec 12, 2020 5:46:13 GMT -5
Korean director Kim Ki-Duk of coronavirus. Dude was a total scumbag who killed animals on film, sexually assaulted actresses and then fled to Europe after being shunned in South Korea for being a scumfuck. I guess he made some okay films if you’re a person who likes films and pays attention to European film festivals and shit and is also able to separate the art (which is hella misogynistic and often depicts animal abuse) from the artist.
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Dec 12, 2020 20:21:30 GMT -5
Charlie Pride, from complications of Covid An amazing entertainer and the first black country music superstar. He was still singing a month ago at 86.
R.I.P. Charlie
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Post by Nudeviking on Dec 12, 2020 21:51:49 GMT -5
Korean director Kim Ki-Duk of coronavirus. Dude was a total scumbag who killed animals on film, sexually assaulted actresses and then fled to Europe after being shunned in South Korea for being a scumfuck. I guess he made some okay films if you’re a person who likes films and pays attention to European film festivals and shit and is also able to separate the art (which is hella misogynistic and often depicts animal abuse) from the artist.
I saw one of his films (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring) and I nearly walked out due to that (and the version I was saw was the edited one since I don’t think the full one was even allowed in the NL due to animal cruelty statutes). It (pretty sure unfairly) put me off of Korean movies and didn’t even seek out another one until Parasite.
However, it was also the first movie I saw with Dutch subtitles and I got everything, which is was neat.
Yeah that one's the worst with regards to the animal cruelty stuff and I could easily see that movie putting one off the entirety of Korean film if it was the first thing one encountered. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 13, 2020 17:24:21 GMT -5
Ugh, RIP John le Carre
One of my favorite writers.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Dec 13, 2020 20:16:25 GMT -5
Ugh, RIP John le Carre
One of my favorite writers.
I had no idea he was still alive! |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 13, 2020 21:25:39 GMT -5
Ugh, RIP John le Carre
One of my favorite writers.
I had no idea he was still alive!
He published new novels in both 2017 and 2019. Haven't read 2019's yet.
Edited to add: In Twitter's Trending Topics, the death of John le Carre is categorized under the "Politics" heading.
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Post by Dellarigg on Dec 14, 2020 9:04:00 GMT -5
I had no idea he was still alive!
He published new novels in both 2017 and 2019. Haven't read 2019's yet.
Edited to add: In Twitter's Trending Topics, the death of John le Carre is categorized under the "Politics" heading.
A lot of the stuff I've seen has been quotes from a recent interview in which he sets about Brexit and Boris Johnson. He wasn't a fan.
I've never been sure what to make of him. I read The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and liked it, then I read A Perfect Spy and liked it a lot less, and I've tried about three times to get into The Little Drummer Girl with no success. Maybe I'll give it another go. Plot heavy stuff isn't really my thing.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Dec 14, 2020 11:45:07 GMT -5
He published new novels in both 2017 and 2019. Haven't read 2019's yet.
Edited to add: In Twitter's Trending Topics, the death of John le Carre is categorized under the "Politics" heading.
A lot of the stuff I've seen has been quotes from a recent interview in which he sets about Brexit and Boris Johnson. He wasn't a fan.
I've never been sure what to make of him. I read The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and liked it, then I read A Perfect Spy and liked it a lot less, and I've tried about three times to get into The Little Drummer Girl with no success. Maybe I'll give it another go. Plot heavy stuff isn't really my thing.
I don't know if I've ever even read anything by him - espionage isn't my thing. |
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Post by Dellarigg on Dec 14, 2020 11:59:47 GMT -5
A lot of the stuff I've seen has been quotes from a recent interview in which he sets about Brexit and Boris Johnson. He wasn't a fan.
I've never been sure what to make of him. I read The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and liked it, then I read A Perfect Spy and liked it a lot less, and I've tried about three times to get into The Little Drummer Girl with no success. Maybe I'll give it another go. Plot heavy stuff isn't really my thing.
I don't know if I've ever even read anything by him - espionage isn't my thing. Lots of people are saying he was a good enough writer to transcend the limits of the spy genre. Well, maybe, I dunno, couldn't say really. |
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Post by Dellarigg on Dec 15, 2020 12:07:48 GMT -5
After all that, I've started The Little Drummer Girl again. Aye, it's pretty good.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Dec 15, 2020 12:14:30 GMT -5
After all that, I've started The Little Drummer Girl again. Aye, it's pretty good. I started The Night Manager over the summer. I really need to some focus time to finish it. At the same time I bought, I also bought The Constant Gardner, so I plan to read that eventually, as well. I read A Most Wanted Man last spring because I thought I should read it before watching the movie, but now that I've read it, I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch the movie. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Dec 15, 2020 17:25:39 GMT -5
There are a lot of le Carre novels and some of them are WAY easier to get into than others. They're definitely not "spy thrillers" in the traditional beach-reading mode, though, they demand a fair bit of up-front attention and willingness to not know what's going on for a while, which I think takes people by surprise.
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Post by Celebith on Dec 16, 2020 0:39:38 GMT -5
Korean director Kim Ki-Duk of coronavirus. Dude was a total scumbag who killed animals on film, sexually assaulted actresses and then fled to Europe after being shunned in South Korea for being a scumfuck. I guess he made some okay films if you’re a person who likes films and pays attention to European film festivals and shit and is also able to separate the art (which is hella misogynistic and often depicts animal abuse) from the artist. I didn't know what an asshole he was, which makes me feel a lot better about not liking any of his movies. Even the critically acclaimed ones were pretty skeevy and unenjoyable. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Dec 17, 2020 2:27:07 GMT -5
Sam Jayne of 90s and early 00s indie rock bands Lync and Love as Laughter. Found dead in his car at 46 of something other than "criminality."
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Post by Nudeviking on Dec 17, 2020 3:39:36 GMT -5
Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin at age 76.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Dec 17, 2020 7:23:23 GMT -5
Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin at age 76. In 2018. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Dec 17, 2020 7:25:04 GMT -5
Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin at age 76. In 2018. It popped up in my newsfeed today. Must have been some glitch in the matrix shit. |
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