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Post by Celebith on Dec 18, 2020 8:55:01 GMT -5
RIP Bubba Fett - Jeremy Bulloch passed away from Parkinson's complications. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 19, 2020 20:55:36 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.
If it helps, I read "The Night Manager" before I watched the miniseries. After I read the book I was feeling a bit trepidatious about watching a movie version of it. The book is SO depressing. I knew I wouldn't enjoy watching such a bleak story on film. However, the book is far more bleak and depressing than the miniseries. Like, the miniseries does a lot of alteration to change the ending.
I haven't read or seen "A Most Wanted Man", so I can't comment on that. But, I also found the filmed version of "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" to be less depressing than LeCarre's book.
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Post by Nudeviking on Dec 22, 2020 1:38:53 GMT -5
American footballer and sometime wrestleman Kevin Greene at 58.  |
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Post by Celebith on Dec 23, 2020 9:47:55 GMT -5
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.
If it helps, I read "The Night Manager" before I watched the miniseries. After I read the book I was feeling a bit trepidatious about watching a movie version of it. The book is SO depressing. I knew I wouldn't enjoy watching such a bleak story on film. However, the book is far more bleak and depressing than the miniseries. Like, the miniseries does a lot of alteration to change the ending.
I haven't read or seen "A Most Wanted Man", so I can't comment on that. But, I also found the filmed version of "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" to be less depressing than LeCarre's book.
I'm a bit amazed that they've managed to make movies out of many of his books. They're all varying shades of 'bleak'. |
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Dec 23, 2020 18:49:25 GMT -5
Leslie West, singer/lead guitarist of the one-hit classic rock band Mountain ("Mississippi Queen") dead at seventy-five.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Dec 24, 2020 19:06:52 GMT -5
Leslie West, singer/lead guitarist of the one-hit classic rock band Mountain ("Mississippi Queen") dead at seventy-five. Don't forget his work on Music from Van-Pires! |
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Post by Nudeviking on Dec 27, 2020 3:07:15 GMT -5
Pro-wrestleman Brodie Lee/Luke Harper at 41 on lung disease unrealted to COVID. This is one of the few pro-wrestling related deaths that actually bums me our more than makes me feel guilty for liking wrestling and not just because he's an Upstate New York lad who's only a few months older than me. By all accounts he was a good dude outside of the ring who cared a lot about his family and seemed to be well liked and respected by his peers.  |
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Post by Jimmy James on Dec 27, 2020 13:52:07 GMT -5
RIP Phil Niekro. Always been fascinated by the weird cult within baseball of knuckleball pitchers, existing one or two at a time like jedi masters.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Dec 30, 2020 15:14:38 GMT -5
The weird two-fer of Bob Seger saxophonist Alto Reed and Dawn "Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island" AKA the only one to make any money off the show" Wells" from colon cancer and COVID, respectively.
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Dec 30, 2020 23:38:46 GMT -5
Gilligan's Island was always a part of my childhood. It debuted when I was in grade school, and I don't think it was ever off the air for at least another 30 years. Ginger or Mary Ann? Mary Ann, of course, but as a wise person once said, it can be two things. R.I.P Dawn Wells.
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Post by Jimmy James on Dec 31, 2020 16:59:59 GMT -5
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Post by moimoi on Dec 31, 2020 20:22:15 GMT -5
Me too. The first thing I thought about was how there were reports he'd send other people to appearances under the mask. Like, could he be killing the character? I fear the worst though. Damn you to hell, 2020. |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jan 1, 2021 5:42:08 GMT -5
Me too. The first thing I thought about was how there were reports he'd send other people to appearances under the mask. Like, could he be killing the character? I fear the worst though. Damn you to hell, 2020. 2020 makes sure to give you one last kick in the balls. On certain days, Take Me To Your Leader may be my favorite album of all time. |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Jan 3, 2021 14:52:11 GMT -5
Adolfo "Shabba-Doo" Quinones, choreographer and star of the Breakin' films, age 65. He made the boogaloo electric. RIP.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Jan 5, 2021 8:04:44 GMT -5
Just checking to see if anyone had to sheepishly delete a Tanya Roberts post.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jan 5, 2021 12:23:21 GMT -5
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Jan 5, 2021 12:32:21 GMT -5
The way people acted about this (not here) was so weird. Like, this isn't a hilarious Abe Vigoda situation where Tanya Roberts was never even ill, just forgotten by the public at large. The clarifications that went out to say she was still alive also mentioned she was on a ventilator and in serious condition. I don't understand why anyone thought it was funny to make "she's a zombie!" or "make up your mind" jokes. Also, her boyfriend/partner has been acting suspiciously weird and is already giving interviews. Nobody knows what happened, but I have a feeling we will. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jan 5, 2021 12:48:15 GMT -5
The way people acted about this (not here) was so weird. Like, this isn't a hilarious Abe Vigoda situation where Tanya Roberts was never even ill, just forgotten by the public at large. The clarifications that went out to say she was still alive also mentioned she was on a ventilator and in serious condition. I don't understand why anyone thought it was funny to make "she's a zombie!" or "make up your mind" jokes. Also, her boyfriend/partner has been acting suspiciously weird and is already giving interviews. Nobody knows what happened, but I have a feeling we will. Yeah, it was a really weird, and probably very sad situation. I'm wondering if doctors gave a bad prognosis and her publicist misunderstood it, or if it's one of those ghoulish situations like Gary Coleman had towards the end. I'd like to believe someone simply made a mistake, but that may be giving someone an undeserved benefit of the doubt. |
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Jan 5, 2021 12:57:19 GMT -5
The way people acted about this (not here) was so weird. Like, this isn't a hilarious Abe Vigoda situation where Tanya Roberts was never even ill, just forgotten by the public at large. The clarifications that went out to say she was still alive also mentioned she was on a ventilator and in serious condition. I don't understand why anyone thought it was funny to make "she's a zombie!" or "make up your mind" jokes. Also, her boyfriend/partner has been acting suspiciously weird and is already giving interviews. Nobody knows what happened, but I have a feeling we will. The fact that she wasn't the one personally making the retraction tells me it's probably not looking too great--in a situation like this I'm waiting to joke about it until the event she makes the first one. This is the first time I've seen a death "hoax" (if that's the proper term since I can't tell if this was just an honest mistake) play out in real time rather than hearing about it afterward (and the first one I've seen coming from reputable sources) so it's a bit morbidly fascinating to watch everything unfold. |
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Jan 5, 2021 13:47:08 GMT -5
The way people acted about this (not here) was so weird. Like, this isn't a hilarious Abe Vigoda situation where Tanya Roberts was never even ill, just forgotten by the public at large. The clarifications that went out to say she was still alive also mentioned she was on a ventilator and in serious condition. I don't understand why anyone thought it was funny to make "she's a zombie!" or "make up your mind" jokes. Also, her boyfriend/partner has been acting suspiciously weird and is already giving interviews. Nobody knows what happened, but I have a feeling we will. Yeah, it was a really weird, and probably very sad situation. I'm wondering if doctors gave a bad prognosis and her publicist misunderstood it, or if it's one of those ghoulish situations like Gary Coleman had towards the end. I'd like to believe someone simply made a mistake, but that may be giving someone an undeserved benefit of the doubt. The initial report to her publicist actually came from the boyfriend/partner, who claimed he held her in his arms as she died. He then retracted it, because that didn't happen, and it was "she's still very much alive." Then it was "she's alive but in critical condition."
There is something so, so weird about this, and it's really unsettling.
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Post by Nudeviking on Jan 5, 2021 19:12:04 GMT -5
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jan 5, 2021 19:44:43 GMT -5
When my uncle (in his 90's) was in the hospital a few years ago, my aunt (in her 80's) called me in tears telling me the hospital had called her and said he had died (she wasn't physically in any shape to go see him at that time). She then called back, maybe 1/2 an hour later absolutely seething and said they called back and told her "Oops, our mistake, he was still alive." I can't even imagine what going through that must have been like. She called a third time maybe an hour after that, sounding just wrecked, and said they told her he was really, no kidding, actually dead this time, and that she asked them something to the effect of "Well, are you assholes sure this time? Did you put a mirror under his fucking nose?" She was a sweet old lady, and was always nice to me, but heaven help you if you pissed her off. |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jan 9, 2021 8:15:36 GMT -5
Prolific director, and creator of the "Up" documentary series Michael Apted. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jan 12, 2021 10:35:53 GMT -5
Complete and utter piece of shit Sheldon Adelson.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jan 14, 2021 13:49:41 GMT -5
Siegfried, of Sigfried and Roy, 81, of pancreatic cancer. Sigfried survived his partner by eight months, which in RonaTime is like twelve years.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Jan 15, 2021 3:33:48 GMT -5
New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, dead at sixty-nine from cancer.
One of the highlights of my concert-going past was at his acoustic show at a tiny club in 2014, re-scheduled after it had been canceled at a slightly larger tiny club for embarrassingly low ticket sales. At some point early in his set, he pointed me out in the "crowd" (a few dozen people at the most) and asked me to go "backstage" (the corner of the room covered by a curtain) and grab him a drink. No idea what it was, but it was some tiny shot of green liquid in something the size of a Nyquil cap. I told him it was an honor and handed it up to him before he downed it and went on to the next song. Brush with greatness or something like that.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Jan 17, 2021 12:30:22 GMT -5
Everyone's favorite record-producing murderer Phil Spector, dead at eighty-one. In his honor, I'll blast the Ramones' "End of the Century" album and think about how much it would have sounded had it been produced by almost anyone else.
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jan 17, 2021 22:47:22 GMT -5
Everyone's favorite record-producing murderer Phil Spector, dead at eighty-one. In his honor, I'll blast the Ramones' "End of the Century" album and think about how much it would have sounded had it been produced by almost anyone else. Even in the few minutes he was onscreen playing the character who sold Captain America and Billy the "white powder" they hid in the teardrop tank of that Harley in Easy Rider, it was pretty obvious that Spector was creepy and weird. Some great music came out of his studio, but man, what a piece of shit. |
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Jan 21, 2021 23:59:30 GMT -5
RIP Mira Furlan of Babylon 5 fame. Notification from J. Michael Straczynski's FB page: |
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Post by Jimmy James on Jan 22, 2021 10:54:46 GMT -5
ABz B👹anaz broke the news in the Shoutbox, but I'll have to pour one* out for Hank Aaron this evening. * 
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