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Post by Duragizer on May 9, 2021 20:37:26 GMT -5
I've seen two Whitesnake videos with her, but I remember her mostly from Witchboard.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 11, 2021 12:25:27 GMT -5
Anthropologist, writer and radio personality Serge Bouchard just passed away.
That loss really hurts. He was such a lovely person, such a deeply human individual. In the French-speaking part of Canada, he was like our own real-life Gandalf; wise, kind, and unassumingly all-knowing. Plus he loved the simple pleasures of life.
He was such a comfort to me, decades ago, when I hurt my back and had to stay in bed for five days... His radio show L'aventure, in which he told the story of Captain Bligh and of the mutiny on the Bounty, made me forget the pain. Thanks, Mr. Bouchard, and may you rest in peace.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 11, 2021 12:51:33 GMT -5
R. I. P. Curtis Fuller. One of the great trombonists of the past half century plus. Beyond his lead sessions, which were frequently excellent, Fuller was the trombonist on one of jazz's seminal albums, John Coltrane's "Blue Train."
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 11, 2021 13:20:03 GMT -5
R. I. P. Colt Brennan. He was an opponent, but he always made the Boise State-Hawaii games interesting. It was he who made it worthwhile to stay up to 1:00 a.m. to watch Hawaii play. A truly great college football player. 37 is crazy young.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2021 19:23:12 GMT -5
R. I. P. Colt Brennan. He was an opponent, but he always made the Boise State-Hawaii games interesting. It was he who made it worthwhile to stay up to 1:00 a.m. to watch Hawaii play. A truly great college football player. 37 is crazy young. He was fun to watch. When my ex went to Hawaii with her family, I had her grab me a Rainbow Warrior t-shirt because I'd watched so many games with him.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 11, 2021 19:37:01 GMT -5
Sad day for movie fans, as a genuine link to the Golden Age of Hollywood, Norman Lloyd, is dead at 106. He worked on stage, screen and television from the 30s through the 50s with the likes of Chaplin, Welles and Hitchcock, and was a brilliant character actor into his nineties in films as varied as “Dead Poets Society” and “Trainwreck,” and was a mainstay on “St. Elsewhere” as Dr. Auschlander. Urbane, unpretentious, and blessed with a capacious memory even after he passed the century mark, Lloyd survived being “graylisted” in the 50s thanks to Hitchcock’s TV show. His iconic role is probably as the title character in “Saboteur,” a sneering rodent of a villain who has a notoriously excruciating final scene. I also loved him because though he was reared in Brooklyn, he was born in my hometown. Here he is in "Saboteur," 1942, and just a year or so ago, I think in an interview with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 11, 2021 23:25:24 GMT -5
Sad day for movie fans, as a genuine link to the Golden Age of Hollywood, Norman Lloyd, is dead at 106. He worked on stage, screen and television from the 30s through the 50s with the likes of Chaplin, Welles and Hitchcock, and was a brilliant character actor into his nineties in films as varied as “Dead Poets Society” and “Trainwreck,” and was a mainstay on “St. Elsewhere” as Dr. Auschlander. Urbane, unpretentious, and blessed with a capacious memory even after he passed the century mark, Lloyd survived being “graylisted” in the 50s thanks to Hitchcock’s TV show. His iconic role is probably as the title character in “Saboteur,” a sneering rodent of a villain who has a notoriously excruciating final scene. I also loved him because though he was reared in Brooklyn, he was born in my hometown. Great actor; one of those who you recognize, but don't always recall from where.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 12, 2021 0:19:48 GMT -5
Kind of ticked off this wasn't bigger news; but it should have been. RIP to actress Billie Hayes... Doesn't look familiar? How about this photo... Hayes was probably best known to late Baby Boomers and early Gen-Xers as Witchiepoo, the crazy and slightly incompetent villain of the Krofft Brother's Saturday Morning series, HR Pufnstuf, with Jack Wild as Jimmy, the boy who ends up marooned on the Living Island, and Lennie Weinrib voicing Puf, the mayor. Hayes cackled her way through bizarre stories and schemes, always demented, but never truly scary (she was too bumbling for that). She would work with the Kroffts on Liddsville, as Weanie the Genie (who lived inside the magic ring that Mark (The Munster's Butch Patrick) had found, which was sought by Hoodoo, the magician (Charles Nelson Reilly). She would also reprise Witchiepoo here and later played the character, alongside The Wizard of Oz's Margaret Hamilton, in the Paul Lynde Halloween Special (the infamous one with KISS) and on the Bay City Rollers Show (which spun out of the Krofft Super Show). She also did an episode of Bewitched, as a storybook witch, rather like Witchiepoo. She did a lot of voicework in her later career, but she had started out in theater and played Mamie Yokum, in the Broadway production of Li'l Abner, as well as the film version of the musical. She had toured in Hello Dolly Ms Hayes was 96 and enjoyed a long life and was a joy to kids everywhere. I've read some interviews and a retrospective of the Krofft shows (where she was interviewed) and she loved children and her work there afforded her much interaction with kids. She passed away on April 29, after parking her souped up broom, no doubt. A nice tribute here.... A scene from her Bewitched episode... A period interview.....
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Post by foxley on May 12, 2021 7:19:30 GMT -5
Sad news. As an Gen-Xer, she will always be Witchiepoo to be to me. For some reason The ABC (Australia's national public broadcaster) used to show reruns of H.R. Pufnstuf during the lunch breaks in the televised cricket during the summer. Why they went for something as trippy as that is anyone's guess.
And, on the subject of witches, Hayes was the voice actress for Orgach, one the three witches in Disney's The Black Cauldron (an underrated film, even though I hate what they did to the ending).
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Post by codystarbuck on May 12, 2021 11:04:47 GMT -5
Sad news. As an Gen-Xer, she will always be Witchiepoo to be to me. For some reason The ABC (Australia's national public broadcaster) used to show reruns of H.R. Pufnstuf during the lunch breaks in the televised cricket during the summer. Why they went for something as trippy as that is anyone's guess. And, on the subject of witches, Hayes was the voice actress for Orgach, one the three witches in Disney's The Black Cauldron (an underrated film, even though I hate what they did to the ending). Maybe it was to wake the audience up. Nothing was more surreal than Liddsville.... Made HrR Pufnstuf look like Masterpiece Theater.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 12, 2021 11:11:42 GMT -5
Sad news. As an Gen-Xer, she will always be Witchiepoo to be to me. For some reason The ABC (Australia's national public broadcaster) used to show reruns of H.R. Pufnstuf during the lunch breaks in the televised cricket during the summer. Why they went for something as trippy as that is anyone's guess. And, on the subject of witches, Hayes was the voice actress for Orgach, one the three witches in Disney's The Black Cauldron (an underrated film, even though I hate what they did to the ending). Maybe it was to wake the audience up. Nothing was more surreal than Liddsville.... Made HrR Pufnstuf look like Masterpiece Theater. It was the Koo koo kookiest.
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Post by foxley on May 12, 2021 16:59:05 GMT -5
Sad news. As an Gen-Xer, she will always be Witchiepoo to be to me. For some reason The ABC (Australia's national public broadcaster) used to show reruns of H.R. Pufnstuf during the lunch breaks in the televised cricket during the summer. Why they went for something as trippy as that is anyone's guess. And, on the subject of witches, Hayes was the voice actress for Orgach, one the three witches in Disney's The Black Cauldron (an underrated film, even though I hate what they did to the ending). Maybe it was to wake the audience up. Nothing was more surreal than Liddsville.... Made HrR Pufnstuf look like Masterpiece Theater. Not the thread in which to discuss the merits (or otherwise) of The Black Cauldron, which I consider to fall into the 'worthy but flawed' category.
I've never seen Lidsville. I'm not sure if it was ever aired in Australia. I may need to track it down.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 12, 2021 17:10:53 GMT -5
Maybe it was to wake the audience up. Nothing was more surreal than Liddsville.... Made HrR Pufnstuf look like Masterpiece Theater. Not the thread in which to discuss the merits (or otherwise) of The Black Cauldron, which I consider to fall into the 'worthy but flawed' category.
I've never seen Lidsville. I'm not sure if it was ever aired in Australia. I may need to track it down.
I have never seen Black Cauldron. The only Disney animated film I saw of that era was Robin Hood, and that was years later, on tv. Come to think of it, in the 70s, about the only Disney movies we saw were live action, like Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Return From Witch Mountain and Candleshoe. Had to wait a bit to finally see Freaky Friday. I know Billy Hayes voiced one of the witches in it, but, as I said, haven't seen it. She did a lot of voicework in her later years. I also missed her on General Hospital, as Robert Scorpio's WSB mentor. That must have been a hoot.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 13, 2021 19:05:30 GMT -5
RIP to Pervis Staples, one of the founding members of the Staple Singers. Pervis was the second of 5 children, whose father would have them sit in a circle and sing, while he played guitar, while their mother worked nights at a hotel. This would lead to a career as the iconic gospel and pop group. Pervis was actually the one to convince their father to move from pure gospel into pop and rock, after introducing him to Bob Dylan and his song, "Blowin' in the Wind.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2021 18:58:19 GMT -5
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