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Post by brutalis on Apr 6, 2017 15:38:35 GMT -5
RIP Don Rickles, classic insult comedian, who passed at age 90.  -M Everyone place frowns on your Mr. Potato Heads in remembrance of Goody Rickles passing. Even Darkseid is sad at this news  |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Apr 6, 2017 15:57:30 GMT -5
Poor Bob Newhart. Sorry to hear this. Rickles doesn't get to die, that hockey puck! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2017 16:24:20 GMT -5
I met Don Rickles once on the set of Hollywood Square in 1974 - ironically it was one of his last showing on that show and I couldn't get his autograph because he was hurrying to get the center square; and I was fortunate to have to listen to him about his experiences as a celebrity those days.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 6, 2017 17:50:16 GMT -5
Rickles was one of the funniest people that ever existed.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 6, 2017 21:46:58 GMT -5
RIP, ya hockey puck!
Really good actor, which tends to get forgotten. He kills in guest appearances on the Dick Van Dyke Show and Gilligan's Island, and is fantastic in stuff like Kelly's Heroes and Casino. His tv show, CPO Sharkey, was actually pretty good, for its short length.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 6, 2017 22:34:01 GMT -5
RIP, ya hockey puck! Really good actor, which tends to get forgotten. He kills in guest appearances on the Dick Van Dyke Show and Gilligan's Island, and is fantastic in stuff like Kelly's Heroes and Casino. His tv show, CPO Sharkey, was actually pretty good, for its short length. He really did show range in Casino. And Kelly's Heroes is just a joy from snap to whistle. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2017 0:43:08 GMT -5
RIP, ya hockey puck! Really good actor, which tends to get forgotten. He kills in guest appearances on the Dick Van Dyke Show and Gilligan's Island, and is fantastic in stuff like Kelly's Heroes and Casino. His tv show, CPO Sharkey, was actually pretty good, for its short length. He really did show range in Casino. And Kelly's Heroes is just a joy from snap to whistle. I loved him in Kelly's Heroes ... here's a great clip from that movie. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 20:17:42 GMT -5
RIP John Giels, guitarist of the J. Giels band NPR obit-M |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 20:53:11 GMT -5
RIP John Giels, guitarist of the J. Giels band, link here NPR obit-M Namesake of the band too. . and oddly I'm seeing people mourning how they'll miss hearing the songs. I mean, Peter Wolf is still alive (not that he has sung J.Giels stuff in years). . but kind of shocking how many don't seem to know that the singer in J. Giels was Peter Wolf, not J. Giels. still.. R.I.P. to a great guitarist. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 22:48:58 GMT -5
I never got to see Giels play live, but I did get a Peter Wolf Experience in the late 80s after Giels broke up. I was at a George Thorogood show in Boston sponsored by WBCN (the FM station Wolf got his start at as a DJ) and the stage backdrop was a brick wall with a wolf silhouette, and halfway through the show Thorogood brought out Peter Wolf to do a few songs with him (1 Destroyers song, 1 Wolf solo tune and a 1 Giels number if I remember correctly).
But I have fond memories of the Giels band. Love Stinks was one of the first lps I ever bought with my own money, the video for the title track was the first music video I ever saw at the house of some friends of my parents who had HBO before the dawn of MTV, and No Anchovies Please off that albums is one of my favorite novelty songs of all time. They've produced a lot of music I like. But then how can you go wrong with a band who has a member called Magic Dick who blows trumpet?
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 12, 2017 6:29:51 GMT -5
RIP John Giels, guitarist of the J. Giels band, link here NPR obit-M It always raises an eyebrow when someone dies relatively young from "natural Causes". |
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Post by foxley on Apr 12, 2017 7:06:30 GMT -5
Vale John Clarke, brilliant New Zealand/Australian comedian, writer and satirist. Star of The Games, inventor of farnarkling, and one half of Clarke and Dawe - probably the finest political satire act Australia has ever produced.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 12, 2017 8:05:11 GMT -5
RIP John Giels, guitarist of the J. Giels band, link here NPR obit-M It always raises an eyebrow when someone dies relatively young from "natural Causes". Dude was 71. There's nothing unusual about that at all. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 12, 2017 9:38:56 GMT -5
RIP Dorothy Mengering, better known as David Letterman's mother, at age 95. Dorothy was a natural comedian and it was always a joy to see her on the show. The best was the 1994 Winter Olympics, from Lilehammer, Norway, where she was a "special correspondent." She'd introduce Dave to the people she had met: Nancy Kerrigan, Dan Jansen, Hilary Clinton, and Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf. Just a sweet and wonderful lady. Condolences to David, on what has to be the hardest birthday ever.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 16, 2017 8:07:46 GMT -5
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