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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 29, 2020 7:33:19 GMT -5
Someone at my job told me that the 2nd Black Panther film is completed. Is it true ?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2020 9:43:35 GMT -5
I am in awe of his inner strength and self discipline. To stay fit enough to be a star in a super hero movie is hard enough when healthy. To do this while undergoing treatment for cancer? Unreal. Cancer sucks. I feel for his family. RIP Mr Boseman.
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Post by brutalis on Aug 29, 2020 9:44:20 GMT -5
Someone at my job told me that the 2nd Black Panther film is completed. Is it true ? No. It hasn't begun any filming yet. Hope now it won't be done for awhile if at all.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2020 12:46:42 GMT -5
Former UConn Huskies and Portlan Trailblazer star Clifford Robinson has passed. He was 53. No more will his trademark headband grace the courts. RIP.
-M
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 29, 2020 13:24:04 GMT -5
Man, the bad news hits just keep coming. Boseman and now Robinson - who was also apparently dealing with cancer. Robinson was part of that sweet Trailblazers line-up in the late '80s/early '90s, along with Drexler, Porter and Buck Williams, the last time I really paid any attention to the NBA.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 29, 2020 19:25:12 GMT -5
I had this to say on Facebook.
We had gone to a family gathering in Pocatello. The wind was blowing horribly and it was planting season so the dust was incredibly thick and visibility was frequently less than a couple feet in front of the vehicle.
The interstate was closed and we ended up going through Aberdeen to get there. The weather didn’t calm down and by the time it was time to leave, not only was the interstate closed but so was every side road I tried. We pulled into the mall in Pocatello and decided to see a movie and hope the roads were passable when it was done.
We aren’t a baseball family, but the best option with the boys seemed to be the movie “42” about Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. We watched and I think it was the first time I’d really seen Chadwick Boseman in anything. And while the film wasn’t without its problems his performance was excellent and it gave us a chance to talk to the boys about a time when not all our best were allowed to show what they could do. A time that is unfortunately still not entirely behind us.
R. I. P. Chadwick Boseman. Thank you for bringing Jackie Robinson, T’Challa, Thurgood Marshall and other heroes to life for us.
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 29, 2020 19:57:00 GMT -5
I was really impressed with his young James Brown, who was heroic in many ways.
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Post by spoon on Aug 29, 2020 21:46:02 GMT -5
Someone at my job told me that the 2nd Black Panther film is completed. Is it true ? No. It hasn't begun any filming yet. Hope now it won't be done for awhile if at all. Boseman death is such a shock and a tragedy. He's gone far too soon. I've heard rumors for a while that T'Challa sister was going to take over as Black Panther in the movies. It seemed odd to me to change course so drastically, because the first movie was so successful. I wondered if Boseman wasn't really into the role, or if it was an effort promote more female heroes in the MCU, or wishful thinking by Letitia Wright's fan. Now, I wonder Boseman's prognosis was part of this. I was taken by surprise by his death, but wonder if other people knew.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2020 23:08:36 GMT -5
No. It hasn't begun any filming yet. Hope now it won't be done for awhile if at all. Boseman death is such a shock and a tragedy. He's gone far too soon. I've heard rumors for a while that T'Challa sister was going to take over as Black Panther in the movies. It seemed odd to me to change course so drastically, because the first movie was so successful. I wondered if Boseman wasn't really into the role, or if it was an effort promote more female heroes in the MCU, or wishful thinking by Letitia Wright's fan. Now, I wonder Boseman's prognosis was part of this. I was taken by surprise by his death, but wonder if other people knew. Shuri became Black Panther for a while in the comics too, so it's probably just speculation that the movie would follow the comics lead. -M
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2020 23:20:16 GMT -5
Just saw this one in tribute to Chadwick Boseman, and had to share... -M
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2020 7:36:59 GMT -5
Ryan Coogler's tribute to Chadwick Boseman:
-M
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Post by foxley on Aug 31, 2020 9:12:31 GMT -5
I saw some amazing pictures posted online of Boseman walking around a hospital visiting sick children and bringing a smile to their faces, with a huge smile of his face the whole time. He was doing this while he was in the hospital undergoing treatment for his own cancer. That's a class act.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2020 13:09:22 GMT -5
RIP to legendary college basketball coach John Thompson, who passed at age 78. His Hall of Fame career included several milestones, including being the first African American coach to win the NCAA basketball championship. My alma mater was a Big East rival of Georgetown, so I never rooted for him, but I always respected him.
-M
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 31, 2020 16:54:54 GMT -5
RIP to legendary college basketball coach John Thompson, who passed at age 78. His Hall of Fame career included several milestones, including being the first African American coach to win the NCAA basketball championship. My alma mater was a Big East rival of Georgetown, so I never rooted for him, but I always respected him. -M As the great sportswriter and political commentator Charles Pierce wrote today, "Stubborn, infuriating, charming, principled, with a glare that could melt concrete and a laugh that could move mountains, a child of segregation and an unashamed capitalist, a coach who turned a moribund program into both a national champion and a national cultural touchstone in a troubled time, John Thompson contained multitudes."
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 31, 2020 21:42:05 GMT -5
I posted this elsewhere, but it does apply here. RIP to bodybuilder, pro wrestler, artist, actor and stuntman Ric Drasin. Drasin was from Bakersfield and his fathert took him to see wrestling there. He would go on to train for wrestling with legendary woman wrestler Johnnie Mae Young (aka Mae Young). She had a little room opposite the wrestling offices at the Olympic Auditorium, in Los Angeles, and trained Drassin as her schedule allowed. He entered pro wrestling in the late 60s, for the Los Angeles office. He was also involved in the So. Cal bodybuilding scene and was friends with the big names of the 70s, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, and Franco Columbo. Drassin was also an artist and it was he who designed the iconic Gold's Gym logo, which has been used ever since, on their franchises across the country and around the world. Drasin, like many So Cal wrestlers and bodybuilders, also worked as a stuntman and actor in various tv shows and movies. Of note for this board is that he acted as the in-between stage in the transformation of Bill Bixby's David Banner and Lou Ferrigno's Hulk. Drasin also tried promoting wrestling, for a time. The LeBell promotion, which ran pro wrestling in the Los Angeles area, had declined steadily across the late 70s and was near death in the early 80s. Mike LeBell sold off his tv interest to Vince McMahon, around 1983, putting the WWF programming on in their place, while acting as the California promoter for WWF events. Drasin tried to run an indie promotion, known as the American Wrestling Federation, in So. Cal and Arizona, in the late 80s, but without great success. Audiences were too used to the big stage of the WWF and WCW/Jim Crockett, by that point. Drasin continued in his various pursuits, though an injury left him unable to lift weights like he used to.
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