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05-29-2017 , 01:55 AM

#1551

Phat Mack

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05-29-2017 , 07:46 PM

#1552

microbet

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Originally Posted by AllInNTheDark

RIP Greg Allman

Also dead: Zbigniew Brzezinski

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On November 9, 1979, Brzezinski was woken at 3 am by a phone call with a startling message: The Soviets had just launched 250 nuclear weapons at the United States. Minutes later, Brzezinski received another call: The early-warning system actually showed 2,000 missiles heading toward the United States.[31] As Brzezinski prepared to phone President Jimmy Carter to plan a full-scale response, he received a third call: It was a false alarm. An early warning training tape generating indications of a large-scale Soviet nuclear attack had somehow transferred to the actual early warning network, which triggered an all-too-real scramble.

RIP Brzezinski. Whatever else you did, thanks for waiting a few minutes there.

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05-30-2017 , 08:35 AM

#1553

kioshk

Nixonian

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Manuel "Panama Manny" Noriega has died, 81. He ran Panama until we invaded his ass a while back.

I always liked Brzezinski's style. Go Zbig or go home, baby.

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06-04-2017 , 01:52 PM

#1554

mrbaseball

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RIP Jimmy Piersall

He was an outfielder for my Chicago White Sox and later became a broadcaster for them.

Early in his career he battled mental illness and they even made a movie about him, "Fear Strikes Out" starring a pre-Psycho Anthony Perkins as Piersall.

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06-04-2017 , 03:30 PM

#1555

Phat Mack

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I always loved Piersall. Anybody who takes a can of bug spray with him to the outfield has my undying admiration.

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06-04-2017 , 10:12 PM

#1556

kioshk

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Wasn't he mainly a Red Sox guy? A little before my time, I mostly knew of him from the movie Fear Strikes Out. He sounds like quite a character, probably way tougher being mentally ill back then.

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06-04-2017 , 11:03 PM

#1557

Phat Mack

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Yeah, mainly a Red Sox, but I remember him playing a few games as one of Casey Stengel's Mets in 63.

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06-09-2017 , 01:09 PM

#1558

Dominic

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Glenne Headly, actress, 63

Always interesting actor, founding Steppenwolfe member with ex-husband John Malkovich, more know for her stage work than her films, but still recognizable as the wife in Mr. Holland's Opus and the high-priced lawyer in The Night Of. She also co-starred in ER and Monk.

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06-09-2017 , 01:19 PM

#1559

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

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What about John Malkovich and Steppenwolf?

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06-09-2017 , 01:47 PM

#1560

Dominic

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Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Chicago theatre company founded in 1974 by Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney, and Jeff Perry

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06-09-2017 , 06:50 PM

#1561

kioshk

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I remember her, she was just in that HBO show The Night Of playing the evil lady lawyer. Also in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

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06-10-2017 , 12:10 PM

#1562

diebitter

Grotesquely Handsome

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Adam West

Very sad about this one.

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06-10-2017 , 12:16 PM

#1563

TimTimSalabim

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RIP Batman

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06-10-2017 , 12:30 PM

#1564

biggerboat

you're gonna need one

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Pow

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06-10-2017 , 12:37 PM

#1565

BustoRhymes

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06-10-2017 , 01:06 PM

#1566

thethethe

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06-10-2017 , 01:19 PM

#1567

Gioco

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Originally Posted by diebitter

Adam West

Very sad about this one.

Just when we really need him.

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06-10-2017 , 02:21 PM

#1568

mrbaseball

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RIP The BEST Batman

When I was about 11 years old and this first hit the TV it was my one and only must watch TV show. Mr. West was perfect.

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06-10-2017 , 02:26 PM

#1569

Dominic

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No one else will ever be Batman to me.

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06-10-2017 , 04:42 PM

#1570

Cranberry Tea

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Adam West's groovy 60's Batman is by far my favorite Batman. Remember the Bat Shark Repellant Spray?

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06-10-2017 , 06:23 PM

#1571

Gioco

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Adam West, dead in Los Angeles, California, at age 88 on Friday, June 9, 2017, from leukemia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/a...=top-news&_r=0

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06-10-2017 , 07:42 PM

#1572

REDeYeS00

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yeah...some of my earliest TV memories in the early 70s were of watching West play batman. when i was but a wee lad i had the toy car that towed the bat boat and shot plastic misslies. when i was but an adolescent lad i became very much aware of julie newmar, eartha kitt, and yvonne craig (and of course lee meriweather in the movie).

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06-11-2017 , 02:27 AM

#1573

Phat Mack

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Originally Posted by Cranberry Tea

Adam West's groovy 60's Batman is by far my favorite Batman. Remember the Bat Shark Repellant Spray?

I know I could find the "Bat Can of Bat Shark Repellant Aerosol" on youtube with a little searching, but my memories of it are so grand that I don't want them ruined by reality 50 years after the fact. Pretty sure he is dangling from a helicopter, half swallowed by a foam rubber shark, before he can get his hands on it and get it deployed.

Easily the pinnacle of 20th Century artistic achievement.

I have a great story of watching the Batman TV show being projected on a bedsheet in the driving rain at Dong Ha in 1967, but I'll leave that for another day -- probably would have had to have been there, anyway.

RIP, the only real Batman. POW!!!

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06-11-2017 , 08:23 AM

#1574

kioshk

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As a kid I didn't even get that Batman was camp. I thought it was just very dramatic and a little scary, still loved it. West doing that slow talking thing was awesome, he might have been even better than Shatner at that.