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08-03-2020 , 01:34 AM

#3526

chillrob

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 23,179

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Wilford Brimley was 50 years old when he played an old man in Cocoon. For contrast, Keanu Reeves is 55.

Lol, that is funny - I'm 51. I saw that movie way back when, but I don't really remember what the actors looked like, just the general plot. Did they artificially age the actors, or did he just naturally always look like an old man? I guess really old actors couldn't act as sprightly as they were supposed to be after being rejuvenated.

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08-03-2020 , 02:37 AM

#3527

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,382

They grayed his hair some, but they didn't use make-up - he just always looked older than he was. The other actors were the correct ages.

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08-03-2020 , 05:56 AM

#3528

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 24,130

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Originally Posted by Zeno

Wilford Brimley, otherwise known as Mr. Mumbles, should have died 80 years ago. As he is roasting in Hell now, perhaps Satan can give him Pointers on enunciation and how to clearly pronounce words like, Go and Shoe and Moreover. I hope Mr. Mumbles tongue is burning red hot right now. The Blubbering Slob.

I want further elaboration.

In the years I've been viewing this thread, this is perhaps the most scathing eulogy I've seen.

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08-03-2020 , 01:27 PM

#3529

xander biscuits

watching a movie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 40,165

Yeah

No scandal on his wikipedia page

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08-03-2020 , 01:39 PM

#3530

Dominic

Tripod

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Zeno just likes bring an ass.

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08-03-2020 , 05:17 PM

#3531

Phat Mack

Twat-Waffle

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12,689

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Zeno just likes bring an ass.

No. His generous nature and sunny disposition compel him to share his valuable opinions. Sorta like the Mother Teresa of twoplustwo.

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08-03-2020 , 05:20 PM

#3532

Phat Mack

Twat-Waffle

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12,689

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Originally Posted by xander biscuits

I have the same reaction whenever I glance at Ang Lee's filmography.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Life of Pi
Taking Woodstock
Brokeback Mountain
Hulk
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Ice Storm
Sense and Sensibility

Good comparison. Plus, everybody seems to have one Ang Lee film they don't like, but do like to rag on.

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08-05-2020 , 04:24 PM

#3533

AllInNTheDark

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Originally Posted by Dominic

They grayed his hair some, but they didn't use make-up - he just always looked older than he was. The other actors were the correct ages.

Sounds like there was some form of make-up:

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In order to look the part, Brimley bleached his hair and moustache to turn them gray, and had wrinkles and liver spots drawn on his face.

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Zeno just likes bring an ass.

Is he the same guy that basically called Neil Peart a hack when his death was announced?

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Originally Posted by xander biscuits

Yeah

No scandal on his wikipedia page

I wouldn't call it a scandal, but this was a bit of a head-scratcher:

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He spoke against the banning of cockfighting in New Mexico on the basis of his support of individual rights.

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08-06-2020 , 10:53 AM

#3534

Mulezen

grinder

Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 604

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...988_story.html
The obit is an interesting summation of an important life...as best I can determine PETE Hamill never hawked oatmeal

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08-06-2020 , 02:57 PM

#3535

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,382

Pete Hamill is one of the very best writers who has ever lived....just brilliant

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08-06-2020 , 09:28 PM

#3536

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 93,123

I remember liking his memoir A Drinking Life quite a bit. I do not think he was one of the very best writers who ever lived though, that's a laughable contention. He was a very good tabloid newspaper columnist though, I will say that.

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08-07-2020 , 10:08 PM

#3537

Phat Mack

Twat-Waffle

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Hamill was a great writer -- a master of his craft.

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08-12-2020 , 12:44 AM

#3538

Gioco

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Trini Lopez, dead at age 83, on Tuesday, August 11, 2020, at Rancho Mirage, California.

https://guitar.com/news/trini-lopez-dead-at-83/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/a...opez-dead.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...9a6_story.html

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08-14-2020 , 09:39 AM

#3539

Phat Mack

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Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12,689

Watari Tetsuya, Star of Tokyo Drifter, at 78.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuya_Watari

It's almost 55 years later and I *still* want a baby blue suit...

RIP

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08-15-2020 , 09:18 AM

#3540

John Cole

Lounge Nighthawk

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 19,204

After Orson Welles, the best voice in film, Linda Manz, dead at 58. "And the days of heaven shall be upon the Earth."

Sent from my Moto G (5) Plus using Tapatalk

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08-15-2020 , 01:37 PM

#3541

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,382

geeze, that's so young

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08-15-2020 , 01:43 PM

#3542

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,382

Out Of the Blue is the Manz performance everyone should see.

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08-19-2020 , 02:13 AM

#3543

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,382

Ben Cross, 72

Great, great actor....probably most-well-known as the Jewish athlete who won't run on the Sabbath in Chariots Of Fire. Also played Spock's father, Sarak, in the Star Trek reboot.

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08-25-2020 , 10:53 PM

#3544

Phat Mack

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Benny Chan Muk-sing, protégé of Johnnie To and director of New Police Story and Moment of Romance.

Obit: https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/enter...me-pop-culture

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08-27-2020 , 08:23 AM

#3545

DC2LV

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Ben Cross, 72

Great, great actor....probably most-well-known as the Jewish athlete who won't run on the Sabbath in Chariots Of Fire. Also played Spock's father, Sarak, in the Star Trek reboot.

It's not the Jewish athlete who won't run on the Sabbath (which of course would have been Saturday for him), it's the devout Christian athlete who wouldn't run on a Sunday.

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08-27-2020 , 12:23 PM

#3546

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,382

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Originally Posted by DC2LV

It's not the Jewish athlete who won't run on the Sabbath (which of course would have been Saturday for him), it's the devout Christian athlete who wouldn't run on a Sunday.

you're right, I conflated them

need to rewatch that

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08-27-2020 , 04:24 PM

#3547

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,617

I pray as I run; so I can run seven days a week.

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08-27-2020 , 11:12 PM

#3548

Mulezen

grinder

Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 604

^ Probably without stopping

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08-28-2020 , 05:22 PM

#3549

Phat Mack

Twat-Waffle

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12,689

I answer prayers as I run, it's part of My heavenly routine. I call it multitasking.

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08-28-2020 , 10:23 PM

#3550

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,382

Chadwick Boseman, brilliant actor, dead of colon cancer. He was 43.

I had no idea he was sick.

Best known as Black Panther, but so, so good as Jackie Robinson and James Brown in other movies.

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