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03-26-2016 , 09:45 PM

#876

Dominic

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Originally Posted by Zeno

The Walton's should have been nuked off their piss-ant mountain.

It was a wonderfully nostalgic, simple show that was innately about goodness, and good people.

My mother and her parents grew up next to a mountain in North Carolina just like Walton's Mountain, and I used to watch the show with my Mom all of the time...and she always marveled at how much the show got right about rural NC life back then.

So **** you.

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03-27-2016 , 12:34 PM

#877

Zeno

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Originally Posted by Dominic

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03-28-2016 , 12:38 AM

#878

Cranberry Tea

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No love for old-school hip-hop pioneer Phife Dawg? Died far too young at 45, gave this world some of the chillest music to smoke up to ever.

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03-28-2016 , 12:57 AM

#879

microbet

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Everyone else itt is too old to think of any hip hop as old school.

45 is very young for sure. Didn't even make it to his prime.

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03-29-2016 , 01:01 PM

#880

mrbaseball

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RIP Patty Duke - Patty liked to rock and roll a hotdog made her lose control

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03-29-2016 , 01:06 PM

#881

kioshk

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I remember Patty Duke had some bipolar issues in the 70s and would often act bizarrely on talk shows. "Cousins, identical cousins...!"

Last edited by kioshk; 03-29-2016 at 01:12 PM.

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03-29-2016 , 02:25 PM

#882

RoyHobbs

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Patty Duke passed away from sepsis stemming from a ruptured intestine @ 69. What a horrible way to go.

I always thought her cousin Cathy Lane was much " hotter " than Patty.

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03-29-2016 , 05:29 PM

#883

Zeno

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Jim Harrison, Poet, Novelist and Essayist, is Dead at 78, [Dec.11, 1937 - Mar. 26, 2016] NY Times obit linked below, worth a read.

jim-harrison-free-spirited-writer-dies-at-78

"The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense." -Jim Harrison

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03-29-2016 , 06:11 PM

#884

Dominic

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Character actor James Noble, best known for the TV show Benson. He was 91.

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04-06-2016 , 12:15 AM

#885

legend42

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Originally Posted by chillrob

Larry Sanders was great, but I don't think I would call it a sitcom. Apparently his older show was closer to one but still different in that all the characters knew they had an audience? I hadn't even heard of the earlier self-titled show until now, am going to check it out.

They're both sitcoms. Unconventional (and in the case of LS, elevated) sitcoms sure, but that's their milieu.

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04-06-2016 , 02:01 PM

#886

Gioco

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Merle Haggard dead on his 79th birthday.

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04-06-2016 , 02:14 PM

#887

kioshk

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Love me some Merle Haggard, top 5 country singer evaa. What a voice.

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04-06-2016 , 03:34 PM

#888

BigPoppa

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Jim Harrison, then Merle Haggard. ****

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04-06-2016 , 03:36 PM

#889

BigPoppa

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Seem that America once created a type better than anyone, the genius **** up who lived on his own terms and didn't really GAF what you think about it. Not sure we're still making any of them.

I think we just had more space for someone like Haggard or Bukowski than they'd have found elsewhere.

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04-07-2016 , 06:41 AM

#890

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

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I'm bad. My first reaction was, oh he's the one that was married to Julia Roberts. No. He wasn't.

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04-07-2016 , 10:37 AM

#891

Phat Mack

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Originally Posted by Bighurt52235

I'm bad. My first reaction was, oh he's the one that was married to Julia Roberts. No. He wasn't.

Wait, you thought Merle Haggard was Lyle Lovett?

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04-07-2016 , 01:20 PM

#892

kioshk

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Good Slate piece on Haggard. Refers to him as country music's Sinatra, which is quite apt imo. "...restrained yet penetrating, always in full command of each note’s emotional resonance."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/...e_america.html

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04-07-2016 , 03:47 PM

#893

Bighurt52235

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Originally Posted by Phat Mack

Wait, you thought Merle Haggard was Lyle Lovett?

I didn't necessarily think he was him, but for whatever reason I associate them in my mind. Honestly I can't name a single song by either of them. Not my era and certainly not my genre.

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04-07-2016 , 05:51 PM

#894

Zeno

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Originally Posted by Bighurt52235

I didn't necessarily think he was him, but for whatever reason I associate them in my mind. Honestly I can't name a single song by either of them. Not my era and certainly not my genre.