RIP Thread

[ExPatriatePen]

Snow falls on the pyramids and Lawrence of Arabia dies. Coincidence?

[PensFanInDC]

Club Paradise. What a movie.

RIP

[canaan]

Peter O'toole dead at 81

total bummer

[JS©]

I actually had a friend text me saying that he heard somebody from Tool died but couldn't find anything online.

[eddysnake]

Becket was always my favorite O' Toole movie, if you want to see acting in it's finest, put on that movie.

[eddysnake]

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[redwill]

There are many drinking anecdotes about Peter O'Toole. My favorite is that he and a friend were drinking extensively in a pub and then decided to take in a show at the theater across the street. As they're sitting there, O'Toole nudges his friend and says, "You'll love this bit, this is where I come in ... BLOODY HELL!"

More famous is that he and Richard Harris were drinking during an intermission. They rushed back to the stage. Harris slipped, fell, and slid to the edge of the stage. A lady in the front row said, "SIR! You're drunk!" Harris said, "Madam, if you think I'm pissed, wait 'til you see O'Toole."

Maybe both apocryphal, but funny.

[Lt. Dish]

Joan Fontaine 1917-2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/arts/ ... .html?_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

She was in several movies that, imo, are just terrific.

[Lt. Dish]

Becket was always my favorite O' Toole movie, if you want to see acting in it's finest, put on that movie.

The man knew how to bring it. Wonderful actor, larger-than-life personality.

[Gaucho]

Joan Fontaine 1917-2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/arts/ ... .html?_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

She was in several movies that, imo, are just terrific.

Yes. RIP.

[Lt. Dish]

Joan Fontaine 1917-2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/arts/ ... .html?_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

She was in several movies that, imo, are just terrific.

Yes. RIP.

Suspicion is one of my favorite movies ever (I'm a huge Hitchcock fan). Rebecca, adapted from a book I love, was one of the few movies that lived up to the book, imo, even with some deviations Hitchcock implemented. The Constant Nymph is on my list of movies I want to see.

Her older sister, Olivia de Havilland, is stlll alive, and until yesterday, they went almost their entire lives hating each other. What a waste. Only siblings to have each won Oscars.

[columbia]

RIP Ray Price:

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[since1970]

Joan Fontaine 1917-2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/arts/ ... .html?_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

She was in several movies that, imo, are just terrific.

Yes. RIP.

Suspicion is one of my favorite movies ever (I'm a huge Hitchcock fan). Rebecca, adapted from a book I love, was one of the few movies that lived up to the book, imo, even with some deviations Hitchcock implemented. The Constant Nymph is on my list of movies I want to see.

Her older sister, Olivia de Havilland, is stlll alive, and until yesterday, they went almost their entire lives hating each other. What a waste. Only siblings to have each won Oscars.

Suspicion is a fabulous movie, and she was wonderful in it, and how the hell did Cary Grant never win an Oscar, overlooked because he "played Cary Grant"? Joan Fontaine/Eleanor Parker/Peter O'Toole, looks like I have to refresh my memory with some bodies of work this weekend

[Factorial]

RIP Tom Laughlin aka Billy Jack:



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/movie ... obituaries" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[blackjack68]

Harold Camping who predicted the end of the world has died.

It's a little drizzly out, but I'd hardly call it the end of the world.

(Courtesy of Gilbert Gottfried)

[PensFanInDC]

There will be an influx of jokes coming. Some will be funny, most will not.

[ExPatriatePen]

Harold Camping who predicted the end of the world has died.

It's a little drizzly out, but I'd hardly call it the end of the world.

(Courtesy of Gilbert Gottfried)

It's the end of his world.

[Gaucho]

RIP Ronnie Biggs

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/peopl ... 12029.html

[viva la ben]

RIP Al Goldstein

[tifosi77]

Aw, man....

[Shyster]

RIP Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25497013" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[mac5155]

Crazy to think he survived that long, living in Siberia in the 1920s. Also never knew his company has produced only about 10% of AKs in existence. Never patented the design until 1997

[Shyster]

I've always liked this picture. It's Kalashnikov with Eugene Stoner (the inventor of the AR-15/M-16), and each one is holding an example of the other's rifle:



I can understand how one could be ambivalent toward Kalashnikov and his products, but the man was a engineering genius. I didn't realize that he also designed more than a hundred other firearms in addition to the AK. Kalashnikov probably sits only behind John Moses Browning as the most prolific and successful firearms designer in history.

[JS©]

So yes, dear Facebook friends, I will RIP Paul Walker and not Roger Rodas. It's an unfortunate tragedy that he died (and his 8-year old son tried to pull him from the burning car), but it does not make me a sh|thead for not mourning his passing.

I'm surprised it took this long to write one of these articles.

http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/12/27/pau ... r-twitter/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Link to the "hoax" page is in the article. I won't waste my time linking it or even doing a c&p from the site itself.

[Shyster]

RIP Andy Granatelli, the former CEO of STP Oil Treatment and legendary Indy-racing team owner and sponsor. Granatelli entered some of the most innovative and radical cars in the history of the Indianapolis 500, including the 1967 and 1968 turbine-powered cars. His blue-and red STP sponsorship of Richard Petty in NASCAR also produced one of the most iconic racing liveries of all time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/30/sport ... .html?_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;