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She was the first to get attention as a female journalist, I think she was a co anchor for national news back when there were just three big networks.

But you're right, there was nothing particularly special about her or her style.

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01-01-2023 , 09:22 PM

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I was too young to see her anchor, but I was never impressed by her interviewing style or her comments as a presenter on 20/20.

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01-01-2023 , 11:22 PM

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I suspect that first-rate women journalists go back to the Civil War, but she was the first woman to become a TV anchor

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01-01-2023 , 11:41 PM

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Tony Vaccaro. Photog with an Argus C3. Later a fashion photographer. 100.

I’m fairly certain the above photo was taken during the Battle of the Bulge. Tony was a simple foot Solider during WW II, carrying a simple camera.

And yes, Tony was a remarkably gifted photographer.

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01-02-2023 , 02:13 AM

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Yes, the Battle of Bulge. There are other photos he is more famous for, but I thought this one was less likely to upset anyone .

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01-09-2023 , 11:45 AM

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Michael Snow, Canadian experimental filmmaker, at 94. Some of you may remember my review of Snow's three and a half hour epic film La Region Centrale a few years ago.

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01-09-2023 , 05:08 PM

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lol oh yes we remember

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01-09-2023 , 06:18 PM

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Poet Charles Simic at 84. One of the greats.

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01-11-2023 , 06:21 PM

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Jeff Beck.

GOAT party record:

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01-11-2023 , 06:40 PM

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Damn…RIP Jeff Beck

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01-11-2023 , 06:40 PM

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Jeff Beck, guitarist extraordinaire, dead at age 78 on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, near Surrey, England. I first saw him in Antonioni's Blow Up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/a...beck-dead.html

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01-11-2023 , 07:12 PM

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This one really hits hard.

RIP

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01-11-2023 , 07:25 PM

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RIP a truly legendary guitarist

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01-11-2023 , 08:44 PM

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I was 10 years old when my sister brought Truth home and put it on the stereo.

I kept bugging her to put on ‘the cat song’ every time she’d fire up some tunes because her records were in her room and off-limits.

The combo of Beck’s guitar and Stewart’s voice was overpowering.

One day she told me she couldn’t play it because she had only borrowed the record from a friend. I later bought my own copy at Builder’s Emporium, back when hardware stores had music departments.

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01-11-2023 , 08:52 PM

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Truth is a hell of an album. Basically Led Zeppelin stole it and based their entire sound on it.

Unfortunately, the follow up was not nearly as good, and after that he went in a direction which I had absolutely no interest in, so I am glad LZ took up the mantle.

I can only imagine all the great rock albums he could have made with Rod or any other great singer, but I can't blame him for following his muse.

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01-11-2023 , 09:17 PM

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fantastic story, thank you

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01-12-2023 , 01:02 PM

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Oh man Charles White.

RIP

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01-12-2023 , 09:51 PM

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She had heart attack earlier today, rushed to hospital, was in a coma.

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01-12-2023 , 10:19 PM

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jesus christ, wtf

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01-13-2023 , 03:28 PM

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RIP Robbie

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01-13-2023 , 03:43 PM

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Wow.

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01-16-2023 , 10:02 PM

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harkin

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RIP Gina

Two films that were a big impact in my childhood were Never So Few, where she was capable of smothering Frank Sinatra, and Woman Of Straw, which I tagged along with my old man to see because James Bond was in it.

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01-17-2023 , 04:23 PM

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Gina was fabulous and not just because she was a film star and one of the most beautiful women in the word. Later in life She had a respectable career as a photojournalist and was active in humanitarian causes and made large and worthy monetary donations. Gina was certainly not a one dimensional woman.