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06-22-2020 , 12:29 AM

#3426

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,617

Larry Csonka was my favorite of that famous threesome backfield. Aside from his cool name, Csonka used to eat a big bowl of concrete for breakfast every morning; washed down with six giant bloody Mary’s.

Those Dolphin’s were the monsters of football.

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06-22-2020 , 12:34 PM

#3427

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,374

My first favorite NFL team was the dolphins, during their Super bowl years. I remember watching the SB where they beat the Redskins for the perfect season.

A few years later, the WFL formed, and stole Csonka, Kiick, and Paul Warfield from the Dolphins, so I switched allegiances to the Buffalo Bills. No one in the WFL wanted any of their players.

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06-22-2020 , 02:51 PM

#3428

parisron

Carpal \'Tunnel

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06-22-2020 , 03:12 PM

#3429

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,374

his private life was much more interesting than his movies....and I like some of his movies lol

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06-28-2020 , 06:28 PM

#3430

Gioco

veteran

Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,417

Charles Webb, author of The Graduate (yep, the book that became the movie), husband of Fred (that should pique your interest), and anti-materialist supreme, died on June 16, 2020, in East Sussex, England at age 81.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/b...gtype=Homepage

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06-30-2020 , 09:44 AM

#3431

John Cole

Lounge Nighthawk

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 19,202

Carl Reiner, 98.

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06-30-2020 , 10:04 AM

#3432

biggerboat

you're gonna need one

Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 49,842

I mean, he was old. But damn.

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06-30-2020 , 10:11 AM

#3433

xander biscuits

watching a movie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 40,163

RIP

Mel Brooks is gonna have to find someone else to watch TV with every night now.

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06-30-2020 , 10:21 AM

#3434

coolnout

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 12,430

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Originally Posted by xander biscuits

RIP

Mel Brooks is gonna have to find someone else to watch TV with every night now.

Yeah, Mel just turned 94 the other day. Sporting them Black Lives Matter t-shirts.

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06-30-2020 , 03:02 PM

#3435

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,374

I feel bad for Mel for losing his best friend...what a twosome.

98 years old! Amazing. Odd to be sad over someone reaching that age and then dying, but, man, was he a giant. While he didn't invent the sitcom, he sure perfected it.

I'm sad he won't see Trump go to prison. He was always lambasting him on Twitter lol.

There are few people who deserve the label, "legend," but Carl Reiner was one.

Reiner, Lucile Ball, Jackie Gleason, Sid Caesar....what a golden age of comedy that was.

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06-30-2020 , 04:38 PM

#3436

Rebelp

banned

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 3,773

The Lucie ball show was so good, when mainstream comedy was surrealist

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06-30-2020 , 05:57 PM

#3437

Phat Mack

Twat-Waffle

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12,688

The first thing I thought of was the off-screen presence of Alan Brady on the Dick Van Dyke Show. I remember him as the prototypical egocentric buffoon.

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06-30-2020 , 06:10 PM

#3438

mrbaseball

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RIP Carl Reiner, a true comedy legend

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07-02-2020 , 04:14 PM

#3439

Gioco

veteran

Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,417

Hugh Downs, dead at age 99, on Wednesday, July 1, 2020, at Scottsdale, AZ.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/a...gtype=Homepage

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07-06-2020 , 03:47 AM

#3440

AllInNTheDark

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Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 3,256

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Hugh Downs, dead at age 99, on Wednesday, July 1, 2020, at Scottsdale, AZ.

RIP Hugh. I guess it was fitting he died in 2020.

Another big one today: Ennio Morricone

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07-06-2020 , 03:57 AM

#3441

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,374

RIP the great Ennio Morricone.

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07-06-2020 , 05:00 AM

#3442

corpus vile

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Quite apart from A list stuff he did an absolute ton of Italian horror movie scores RIP to an absolute legend

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07-06-2020 , 08:27 AM

#3443

Phat Mack

Twat-Waffle

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12,688

Saddenz. RIP.

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07-06-2020 , 09:48 AM

#3444

diebitter

Grotesquely Handsome

Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 66,455

The theme of Once Upon a Time In The West is second favourite piece of music ever, right behind Ode To Joy.

Thank Ennio, you moved a lot of people for many years, you're a great.

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07-06-2020 , 09:52 AM

#3445

diebitter

Grotesquely Handsome

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07-06-2020 , 12:10 PM

#3446

Phat Mack

Twat-Waffle

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12,688

I first heard Moricone when I wanderd into a theater in SoCal in the 60s and saw Fistful of Dollars. Was he a musician or a sound effects guy? He was so inventive, unique and imaginative that it never occured to me to ask if he was good or not. He was in his own category, and he was there pretty much alone. Genius.