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07-08-2024 , 12:29 AM

#5526

Gioco

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Alice Munro, author, dead at age 92, on Monday, May 13, 2024, at Port Hope, Ontario, Canada.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/b...71c2ca9e9bcc7a

Fixing my own post: Alice Munro, author who blamed her 9 year old daughter for being sexually molested by Munro's then husband, on Monday May 13, 2024, at Port Hope, Ontario, Canada.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/b...ter-abuse.html

Despite all this, Skinner wrote, Munro went back to Fremlin and remained with him for the rest of his life.

“She said that she had been ‘told too late,’” Skinner wrote, that “she loved him too much, and that our misogynistic culture was to blame if I expected her to deny her own needs, sacrifice for her children and make up for the failings of men. She was adamant that whatever had happened was between me and my stepfather. It had nothing to do with her.”

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07-08-2024 , 02:32 AM

#5527

chillrob

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What a disgusting person. And blaming the "misogynistic culture" for a woman who could easily support herself staying with a man who abused her own daughter.

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07-11-2024 , 01:12 PM

#5528

Dominic

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Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,376

Shelly Duval, iconic and oddly endearing actress, 75.

What a screen presence. RIP

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07-11-2024 , 01:37 PM

#5529

John Cole

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Shelly Duval, iconic and oddly endearing actress, 75.

What a screen presence. RIP

She played a great Olive Oyl in Popeye, an underrated film.

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07-11-2024 , 02:20 PM

#5530

Dominic

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Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,376

Loved her series, Fairy Tale Theater

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07-11-2024 , 03:59 PM

#5531

kioshk

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oddly endearing, well put

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07-11-2024 , 06:38 PM

#5532

Phat Mack

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Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12,688

She made such a seamless transition from preacher's wife to hooker in McCabe and Mrs Miller.

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07-11-2024 , 08:13 PM

#5533

REDeYeS00

always sloppy

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 25,814

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Originally Posted by kioshk

oddly endearing, well put

specifically this

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07-12-2024 , 09:50 AM

#5534

diebitter

Grotesquely Handsome

Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 66,455

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Shelly Duval, iconic and oddly endearing actress, 75.

What a screen presence. RIP

Also the creative force behind 4 rather fine anthology series: Fairy Tale Theatre (the best of the bunch), Tall Tales and Legends, Nightmare Classics (I really like their attempt at 'Turn of the Screw' with Amy Irving and a young but very charismatic Balthazar Getty), and Bedtime Stories.

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07-12-2024 , 09:53 AM

#5535

diebitter

Grotesquely Handsome

Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 66,455

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Originally Posted by REDeYeS00

specifically this

I think she qualifies as grotesquely pretty. I say this with love and respect only, and I like to think she'd laugh at the description.

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07-13-2024 , 06:06 PM

#5536

John Cole

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Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 19,202

Dr. Ruth and Richard Simmons.

Both had that ability to appeal, somehow, to wide audiences.

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07-13-2024 , 07:15 PM

#5537

REDeYeS00

always sloppy

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 25,814

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Originally Posted by John Cole

Dr. Ruth and Richard Simmons.

Both had that ability to appeal, somehow, to wide audiences.

as you wish wise overlord

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07-14-2024 , 03:48 PM

#5538

Dominic

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Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,376

Actress Shannen Doherty, 51.

Cancer sucks.

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07-14-2024 , 03:57 PM

#5539

chillrob

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Actress Shannen Doherty, 51.

Cancer sucks.

Depressing to hear of someone younger than me dying of natural causes, sure makes me feel old.

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07-14-2024 , 04:36 PM

#5540

REDeYeS00

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Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 25,814

Heathers is so good.

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07-14-2024 , 08:59 PM

#5541

702guy

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Depressing to hear of someone younger than me dying of natural causes, sure makes me feel old.

she's literally my age. whenever I hear about someone my age dying of cancer/natural causes it really makes me think about my own mortality and this sick feeling that my clock is getting a lot closer to :00.

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Heathers is so good.

yup. plus she was a star (for a while at least) on a couple of extremely successful TV series. if u r in a certain age demographic range (i.e. mine), u definitely were familiar with shannen doherty.

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07-15-2024 , 02:05 AM

#5542

Dominic

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Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,376

James B. Sikking, long-time character actor in shows like Hill Street Blues, and Doogie Howzer's dad, at 90.

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07-15-2024 , 10:36 AM

#5543

John Cole

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Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 19,202

"she's literally my age. whenever I hear about someone my age dying of cancer/natural causes it really makes me think about my own mortality and this sick feeling that my clock is getting a lot closer to :00."

Wait until you hit 60 and you realize you might not have much time left. Depressing.

But when it hit 70, somehow I felt liberated. At 60 it's a feeling. At 70 I knew it and decided I want to make the best of it. I'm trying because that feeling becomes knowledge.

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