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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 1, 2021 8:11:40 GMT -5
Well I invented pizza with pineapple on top. You monster!
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 1, 2021 11:10:56 GMT -5
Well I invented pizza with pineapple on top. You should have a holiday named after you. And it should always fall on a Monday.
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 1, 2021 11:36:26 GMT -5
RIP to former Red Sox player and broadcaster Jerry Remy. He'd been battling cancer for the past few years, but was unable to beat it. He was 68. -M This was a heartbreaker. No better partner in the booth and for more years than anyone can remember now. A hard worker, a fine ballplayer, humble, self-deprecating even, and for all his popularity and success, his life was laced with tragedy. He was a lucky stretch by Lou Piniella in right from a triple that would have scored Burleson and tied the '78 playoff game and scoring the winning run on Rice's long fly to deep right. I can see all of that as if it happened ten minutes ago. We all miss him already. PS: mrp, you may have heard also about the death of Bob Neumeier a couple of days ago. He was an excellent broadcast journalist who could turn a phrase with the best of them. Dry wit, honest, loved the horses and was expert on handicapping them. He and Lobel were the mainstays of Channel 4, WBZ. Something I never knew about him until I read a couple of tributes in the Globe was that he was the Hartford Whalers' play-by-play guy and the one who culled through the music library looking for a theme song when he happened upon "Brass Bonanza."
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2021 11:45:40 GMT -5
I rememeber Neumeier from my time living in Boston during my university years, and I have fond memories of Brass Bonanza, but I was a wee lad when I first heard it so announcer names weren't something I was aware of at the time, but learned of them later.
-M
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 1, 2021 11:56:40 GMT -5
I rememeber Neumeier from my time living in Boston during my university years, and I have fond memories of Brass Bonanza, but I was a wee lad when I first heard it so announcer names weren't something I was aware of at the time, but learned of them later. -M I keep forgetting how frikkin' old I am.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2021 12:13:43 GMT -5
I remember Neumeier from my time living in Boston during my university years, and I have fond memories of Brass Bonanza, but I was a wee lad when I first heard it so announcer names weren't something I was aware of at the time, but learned of them later. -M I keep forgetting how frikkin' old I am. I was born in '69 and went to my first Whalers game at age 5 or 6 in '75, so Brass Bonanza was almost hard-wired into my childhood, but its origins remained a mystery to me until the internet age when such questions could be explored with more ease. -M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 2, 2021 10:29:32 GMT -5
R. I. P. Pat Martino. Martino was simply one of the great modern jazz guitarists. His dedication to his instrument transcended his health when he had to re-learn to play following a brain aneurysm. Even with him gone it's still "Sunny."
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 4, 2021 12:18:48 GMT -5
Ronnie Wilson, of The Gap Band has passed away at 73....
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Post by foxley on Nov 7, 2021 16:03:15 GMT -5
My apologies if this has already been posted, but I just on a folk music program on radio that Paddy Moloney, the co-founder and leader of Irish band the Chieftains, died on Oct. 12.
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Post by foxley on Nov 8, 2021 6:50:36 GMT -5
As I haven't seen anyone else mention it. Terrance "Astro" Wilson, former vocalist for the British reggae group UB40 passed away on 6 Nov. following a short illness. He was 64.
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Post by Dizzy D on Nov 9, 2021 4:37:44 GMT -5
I didn't see it mentioned here, but actor Dean Stockwell died 2 days ago.
I think most people will know him because he has been in many, many movies and TV-series (starting his career in 1945 with a small hiatus in the 1960s). The most famous among this crowd probably being Quantum Leap, The Twilight Zone and the early 2000s version of Battlestar Galactica. He received an Academy Award nominee for his supporting role in Married to the Mob.
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Post by foxley on Nov 9, 2021 4:50:10 GMT -5
I didn't see it mentioned here, but actor Dean Stockwell died 2 days ago. I think most people will know him because he has been in many, many movies and TV-series (starting his career in 1945 with a small hiatus in the 1960s). The most famous among this crowd probably being Quantum Leap, The Twilight Zone and the early 2000s version of Battlestar Galactica. He received an Academy Award nominee for his supporting role in Married to the Mob. I had not heard this. Sad news.
He was brilliant as Al in Quantum Leap. He also played the title role in 1950's Kim, alongside Errol Flynn.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 9, 2021 12:38:55 GMT -5
And Dr Yueh in David Lynch's Dune, as well as Lynch's Blue Velvet.
One of the various roles he did that I particularly liked was in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone, where he plays Capt. Horner Thomas, the company commander of the group of the Old Guard, who stand duty at Arlington National Cemetery. He has some great scenes in the film, largely as an antagonist to James Caan, who wants to transfer to a training position, to have a more direct role in preparing soldiers for Vietnam, instead of burying those who didn't survive. Great little film that was largely ignored (it's not without its issues; but, you can say that about a lot of Coppola).
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 9, 2021 13:46:50 GMT -5
I didn't see it mentioned here, but actor Dean Stockwell died 2 days ago. I think most people will know him because he has been in many, many movies and TV-series (starting his career in 1945 with a small hiatus in the 1960s). The most famous among this crowd probably being Quantum Leap, The Twilight Zone and the early 2000s version of Battlestar Galactica. He received an Academy Award nominee for his supporting role in Married to the Mob. An excellent actor from childhood through adulthood. One of the few child actors who is never cloying or cutesy. In addition to some of the roles mentioned alread, I'd recommend catching his work in The Secret Garden (1949), with the equally wonderful Margaret O'Brien; Cattle Drive, a Western variation on Captains Courageous, starring Joel McCrea; and Compulsion (1959), based on the Leopold and Loeb murder case (he plays the Leopold character). Oh, just recalled a couple of others. He does a fine job as Nick Charles' son in Song of the Thin Man and is especially good as Gregory Peck's son in Gentleman's Agreement (1947).
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 9, 2021 13:50:04 GMT -5
I was reading some interviews with Stockwell and he hated acting in dramas as a child. He liked the few comedies he was allowed to do, but his Mom would come home and tell him he had a new role and he'd ask "Is it a crying movie? I hate the crying movies."
R.I.P.
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