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Re: In Memoriam
« Reply #750 on: January 23, 2024, 10:02:39 AM »
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WOW!!!
 
I need to pay more attention to TCM.  I saw that movie in the theater.  I LOVED IT!!!   :PH:
TCM really is great; a few times a week I'll check the guide, and even scan it movie-by-movie for several days to see what's up.  I also think because WB Discovery+ owns TCM, Max is a GREAT streaming service for all of its classic TCM films section

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William O'Connell
« Reply #751 on: February 01, 2024, 08:48:42 AM »
William O'Connell character actor has passed at 94. He was in several Clint Eastwood movies. Best known to Sci Fi fans for the classic Star Trek episode "Journey to Babel". He played the spy disguised as an Andorian.

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Re: William O'Connell
« Reply #752 on: February 01, 2024, 11:31:35 AM »
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William O'Connell character actor has passed at 94. He was in several Clint Eastwood movies. Best known to Sci Fi fans for the classic Star Trek episode "Journey to Babel". He played the spy disguised as an Andorian.
I just watched EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE the other day, and he plays one of the Black Widow bikers (he's also in the sequel); he's also in OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, HIGH PLAINES DRIFTER.  I wonder if he was a buddy of Clint's.  He has quite an extensive list of credits but looked to have retired in the early 1990's.

(FWIW, EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE was only entertaining to me when 1) Clyde the ape was on screen, and 2) the bikers were on screen; and criminally there were no where NEAR enough scenes where Clyde was messing with the bikers - in fact, Clyde was no where to be found during the big climactic fight between Clint & the Black Widows!  IIRC, there were more interactions in ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN w/Clyde & The Bikers, so at least for the sequel the creatives knew what the audience wanted though I remember the original being better than the sequel, though neither one was actually good)

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Re: In Memoriam
« Reply #753 on: February 01, 2024, 04:30:41 PM »
I'm sure he was friends with Clint. Eastwood had a little stock company of actors that appeared in many of his films. Geoffrey Lewis comes to mind. I think your being very generous with any praise for the "Which Way" films. I think they were the nadir of his films.

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Re: In Memoriam
« Reply #754 on: February 02, 2024, 12:17:05 PM »
Carl Weathers

This is a shocker for me!!! 

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Re: In Memoriam
« Reply #755 on: February 02, 2024, 01:03:45 PM »
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Carl Weathers

This is a shocker for me!!! 

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Yeah this hits hard for me; ROCKY came out the year I was born and I feel like I've grown up with Carl Weathers always a part of my life.  From Rocky movies to PREDATOR to ACTION JACKSON through middle school, and then he popped up in HAPPY GILMORE when I was in college; then as a parent he turned up in TOY STORY IV, and of course his late-career turn in the Disney+ Star Wars universe was awesome.

Happy trails Apollo/Dutch/Chubbs/Combat Carl/Greef

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Re: In Memoriam
« Reply #756 on: February 02, 2024, 04:39:50 PM »
MC5 founding guitarist Wayne Kramer died, age 75.  MC5 were a great rock band, coming up opening for bands like Cream; they were a proto-punk working class midwestern band (from Detroit, hence the Motor City 5 moniker) with a heavy politically driven sound with an early Top #30 hit single, "Kick Out The Jams," which has been covered officially by a slew of bands ranging from Blue Oyster Cult to Bad Brans & Henry Rollings to Rage Against the Machine, as well as live by bands like Pearl Jam.  The song is anti-establishment (with 'the jams' = 'society's restrictions') infamously begins with the rallying cry of "Kick out the jams, motherfu$%@rs!" that obviously caused some controversy and was edited for radio play.

Great, iconic band; great, iconic guitarist. 
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Re: In Memoriam
« Reply #757 on: February 09, 2024, 12:01:24 AM »
Mojo Nixon, a redneck artist who came up with joke songs in the late 80s such as “Elvis is Everywhere,” died after a “cardiac event” on a cruise near San Juan, Puerto Rico.  He was 66.

A statement on Facebook read he died in his sleep “after a blazing show, a raging night, closing the bar, taking no prisoners.”

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Re: In Memoriam
« Reply #758 on: February 09, 2024, 09:57:44 AM »
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A statement on Facebook read he died in his sleep “after a blazing show, a raging night, closing the bar, taking no prisoners.

That's how I want to go out.

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Re: In Memoriam
« Reply #759 on: February 09, 2024, 11:39:32 AM »
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Mojo Nixon, a redneck artist who came up with joke songs in the late 80s such as “Elvis is Everywhere,” died after a “cardiac event” on a cruise near San Juan, Puerto Rico.  He was 66.

A statement on Facebook read he died in his sleep “after a blazing show, a raging night, closing the bar, taking no prisoners.”

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He was also a punk rocker at heart, liking to poke fun at the establishment & celebrities (such as the infamous classic, "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child" - with Wynona Ryder starring in the video as Debbie Gibson, IIRC) and recorded albums with punk icon Jello Biafra (lead singer/songwriter for seminal late 70's-mid 80's punk band Dead Kennedys).  He had a fun rockabilly vibe, and I suspect folks would label his music 'psychobilly' (I see that's an actual word, so that's almost certainly his genre label).
I think most recently he retired from performing & was a DJ for awhile, unretired and performed again, etc.  He was a self-described anarchist, and if I'm being blunt when I was in HS and saw/met him in the early 1990's I probably would've been shocked if I heard he lived to be almost 70.

Good entertainer!

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Re: In Memoriam
« Reply #760 on: February 28, 2024, 01:16:11 PM »
Comedian Richard Lewis, who appeared on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” passed away after a heart attack.  He was 76.

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Re: In Memoriam
« Reply #761 on: February 29, 2024, 11:43:03 AM »
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Comedian Richard Lewis, who appeared on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” passed away after a heart attack.  He was 76.

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I grew up watching his stand-up on cable in the 80's, and I always dug his type of humor.  When "Curb Your Enthusiasm" came on I was so hyped to see him a part of it; and it's funny, to hear him tell stories about this real-life close friendship w/Larry David their actions together seemingly often copy/mirror stuff you see in the series (or at the very least sound like they _could_ be scenes in the series).
Real tragic loss: by all accounts a real sweetheart of a human being

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Re: In Memoriam
« Reply #762 on: February 29, 2024, 12:24:14 PM »
He had a sitcom with Jamie Lee Curtis in the late 80s called Anything but Love that was great! I was a Senior in high school at the time and my friend Meredith and I would always recap the previous night's episode at school the next day.