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="AG/DC":156cssbw]Can you imagine how much ear hair Abe Vigoda has now?[/quote:156cssbw]
Hey, the man starred in two classics, The Godfather and Good Burger. A little respect please.
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seawolf17
Aug 05 2008 08:02 AM
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Plus, Abe revisited his Godfather role for the "Godfather" video game, which is fucking AWESOME on the Wii.
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Benjamin Grimm
Aug 05 2008 08:22 AM
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Good Burger? Is that that Keenan and Kel movie?
When I think Abe Vigoda, I don't think Godfather (I don't even remember him in that); I think Barney Miller.
Nice to see that Harry Morgan is still alive. I probably would have guessed that he wasn't.
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themetfairy
Aug 05 2008 08:35 AM
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I remember seeing Good Burger with my kids. I think they ranged in age from 3 to 10 at the time. Based on my standard of finding something that would entertain all of them, it was a hit.
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SteveJRogers
Aug 05 2008 10:32 AM
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The other day I was told that country music legend Merle Haggard had died.
I then went to Google news to search for a link to the obit to post in the Bring Out Your Dead thread, but couldn't find it since Haggard is very much alive at present time.
Still have no idea where my source got the info about The Hag's suppossed passing.
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metirish
Aug 29 2008 09:21 AM
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Steve Jobs is not dead , Bloomberg mistakenly published obit for Jobs today after reporter had updated it .
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metirish
Sep 09 2008 02:30 PM
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US intelligence officials are reporting that Kim Jong Il may be gravely ill.The "Dear Leader" may have suffered a stroke.
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AG/DC
Sep 09 2008 11:20 PM
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/09/world.war.one.memorial/index.html" target="blank">Frank Buckles</a>, you ungrateful wretches.
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Frayed Knot
Sep 10 2008 07:00 AM
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="metirish":3e4vfel6]US intelligence officials are reporting that Kim Jong Il may be gravely ill.The "Dear Leader" may have suffered a stroke.[/quote:3e4vfel6]
There's been a rumor, apparently out of Japan, that KJI is either sick and is replaced with a double for public appearences or has actually been dead for several years.
Letterman's 'TopTen' the other night dealt with ways to tell if you were dealing with a fake Kim Jong Il, and also trotted out the 456th rendition of the line where he wonders if he's been replaced by his cousin Menta Li Il.
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metirish
Sep 10 2008 07:20 AM
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I read that this morning , fascinating stuff to think that there might have been a double for at least five years and that there are probably multiple doubles(not uncommon for men like him).
Kim Jong Il didn't show up the other day for a 60th anniversary parade for NK.
DPRK said today none of this is true.
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AG/DC
Sep 10 2008 07:59 AM
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Official news releases from the DPRK are more useful for entertainment than information.
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Frayed Knot
Sep 10 2008 08:04 AM
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The old Kremlin news releases were always fun.
If the leader had "a cold" it probably meant he was at death's door, and "the flu" meant he had been dead for at least a week already but they still needed time to figure out how to spin it.
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TheOldMole
Dec 10 2008 08:05 AM
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[url=http://www.carter100.com/:1whm2by0]Elliot Carter[/url:1whm2by0], 100 years old tomorrow.
Here's a performance of a piece composed in 2003:
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And here's a recent interview with Mr. Carter.
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TheOldMole
Dec 12 2008 07:46 AM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/arts/ ... ml?_r=1&hp
| ]Classical music tends to lionize the great composer cut down in youth, but Elliott Carter made a mockery of that trope on Thursday. Mr. Carter, the dean of American composers, celebrated his 100th birthday, on the day, with a concert at Carnegie Hall.
Elliott Carter arrived early for Thursday night’s Carnegie Hall concert. Daniel Barenboim was to play Mr. Carter’s “Interventions.”
He had a piece on the program, of course, but not some chestnut written when he was a student in Paris in the 1930s or an avant-gardist in New York in the 1950s or a Pulitzer Prize winner in the 1960s or a setter of American poetry in the 1970s or a begetter of chamber music and concertos in the 1980s.
Mr. Carter wrote the 17-minute piece, for piano and orchestra, just last year, at 98. In fact, since he turned 90, Mr. Carter has poured out more than 40 published works, an extraordinary burst of creativity at a stage when most people would be making peace with mortality. |
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metirish
Dec 12 2008 08:01 PM
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Joe Pepitone.
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Valadius
Dec 12 2008 08:13 PM
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William B. Saxbe, former Senator and Attorney General, 92 and still kicking.
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Valadius
Dec 14 2008 08:55 AM
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[url=http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ap-t25-woodenclassic&prov=ap&type=lgns:j0r6j59d]John Wooden[/url:j0r6j59d], 98, whose great-grandson, Tyler Trapani, is a walk-on freshman guard at UCLA this season.
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Farmer Ted
Dec 15 2008 09:26 AM
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Karl Malden, 96.
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metirish
Dec 18 2008 12:30 PM
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Clemens squeeze Mindy McCready in the hospital after an apparent suicide attempt Thursday , she slit her wrists.
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Edgy DC
Dec 18 2008 12:38 PM
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Hey, Zeus.
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Valadius
Dec 22 2008 10:43 AM
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Jack LaLanne, 94.
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TheOldMole
Jun 09 2009 10:08 AM
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Happy 94th birthday Les Paul.
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Edgy DC
Jun 09 2009 10:18 AM
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That ad probably sold more Gibsons than Coorses.
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seawolf17
Jun 19 2009 02:07 PM
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[url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090619/ap_en_tv/us_cronkite_ill:p8ahkr8r]Walter Cronkite[/url:p8ahkr8r], although perhaps not for long.
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Benjamin Grimm
Jun 19 2009 02:10 PM
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What about Farrah Fawcett? Wasn't she in her final hours about four weeks ago?
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metirish
Jun 19 2009 02:14 PM
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I just instinctively took my glasses off after reading about Cronkite.
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metirish
Jun 26 2009 08:24 AM
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Jeff Glodblum is not dead
Weird , from an article on Jacko
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Meanwhile another web hoax triggered false reports that American actor Jeff Goldblum had also died in a tragic fall while filming a movie in New Zealand.
It was suggested that Harrison Ford, who was working with Goldblum on a movie called Morning Glory, may have also met an untimely demise.
Unfortunately, an Australian entertainment reporter Richard Wilkins relayed the news of Goldblum's supposed death on Channel Nine's Today show.
This caused a flurry of calls to New Zealand police forcing Inspector Kerry Watson to issue a statement: 'Police at Kerikeri are receiving phone calls regarding a person falling from a cliff at Kauri Cliff,' she said.
'There is no such incident and police have no information to provide'.
Despite this, the viral was picked up by Twitter and spread like wildfire. The internet rumour became so popular that actor Kevin Spacey felt obliged to check if it was true.
He wrote on his Twitter page: 'Jeff Goldblum is alive and well. I just spoke to his manager. Stop these stupid rumors.' |
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Benjamin Grimm
Jun 26 2009 08:32 AM
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I just spoke to Tupac's manager. Does that mean that he's still alive?
My theory is that Jeff Goldblum faked his own death as part of a plot to put Harrison Ford in charge of the United Nations.
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Benjamin Grimm
Jul 16 2009 06:52 AM
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I don't know what made me think of him, but I checked and Art Rust Jr. is still alive. (He'll be 82 in October.)
Was he the first sports-talk phone-in radio show host in New York? (He's the first one I remember. Can we blame him for all that's happened since?)
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Frayed Knot
Jul 16 2009 07:33 AM
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| ="Benjamin Grimm"]I don't know what made me think of him, but I checked and Art Rust Jr. is still alive. (He'll be 82 in October.)
Was he the first sports-talk phone-in radio show host in New York? (He's the first one I remember. Can we blame him for all that's happened since?) |
I remember John Sterling doing sports talk (WMCA - 570) before I remember Art Rust (WABC - 770) although it's possible they existed for a time concurrently. Sterling played the angry know-it-all role (you don't know what you're talking about .. get off my phone!!) that was stereotype on political talk shows.
Other than that there were certainly other individual sports talk shows existing as niche programming on otherwise all-purpose stations but I'm not sure about in NYC. WFAN's first afternoon guy Pete Franklin was hired because of a long stint running such a show in Cleveland which could sometimes be picked up in the NY area.
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MFS62
Jul 16 2009 07:33 AM
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Thank you, BG. I was thionkling about him the other day, too. I not only listened to him, but was a semi-frequent caller. I liked his show because he let the callers talk to his sports guests. I got to speak to people I never would have had a chance to meet, and discuss a variety of topics. (e.g. - Computerized graphics used for training long jumpers with Carl Lewis, Linebacker play against the wishbone with Joe Paterno, Boxing with Bert Sugar, SB III and referreeing tennis with Johnny Sample, catching the spitball with Bob Uecker, etc).
But most of all, Art and I talked about the American Football League.
Once, Art called me at my home to discuss soemthing I had said, and his producer invited me to a Holiday party in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, I had a conflict and couldn't attend. I would have loved to have gone.
I'm not sure if it was before or just after Art, but Bill Maser also had a sports talk show. His big thing was callers trying to stump him with sports trivia questions.
Thanks,
Later
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Jul 16 2009 09:32 AM
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"Titanic" actress Gloria Stuart is one away from rolling over the odometer-- she turned 99 on July 4th.
Also, from the sports world: Wizard of Westwood John Wooden, 97; labor leader/HOF shaftee Marvin Miller, 92.
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Edgy DC
Jul 16 2009 11:37 AM
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Frank McCourt is slipping away, according to Malachy.
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metirish
Jul 17 2009 02:10 PM
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="Edgy DC":2t25ymyg]Frank McCourt is slipping away, according to Malachy.[/quote:2t25ymyg]
Just read this....very sad
Frank McCourt gravely ill, brother says
'Angela's Ashes' author 'not expected to live'
By HILLEL ITALIE | AP National Writer
7:49 AM EDT, July 17, 2009
NEW YORK - Frank McCourt is gravely ill with meningitis and is unlikely to survive, the author's brother said Thursday.
Malachy McCourt said that his 78-year-old brother, best known for the million-selling "Angela's Ashes," is in a New York hospice, "his faculties shutting down."
"He is not expected to live," said McCourt, himself an author and performer.
Frank McCourt was recently treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, but his brother says he had been doing well until about two weeks ago, when he contracted meningitis.
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