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Sorry to hear about your loss. I lost a very best friend about 5 years ago to cancer and it hurts so much. And his was so quick, you didn't really have time to digest what was going on from when he was diagnosed to when he passed. He waited too long to get checked, so when he did, it was very advanced and he died like 2 weeks after finding out.
5 years later, I still miss him everyday. Same will be said for Mario. But just keep a strong support system and if you knew his family keep in touch with them as it will help immensly, at least it did for me. (and still does).
5 years later, I still miss him everyday. Same will be said for Mario. But just keep a strong support system and if you knew his family keep in touch with them as it will help immensly, at least it did for me. (and still does).
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Thanks for the condolences everyone, I know it's a downer kind of thing to post but I just wanted to say something to get it off my chest.
nan, I appreciate you sharing that. I know it isn't easy.
nan, I appreciate you sharing that. I know it isn't easy.
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That was a moving tribute, dodint.
Powerful stuff, man.
RIP Mario.
I obviously never knew Mario, but now I feel a loss for the world.dodint wrote:God damn it, Mario. You silly bastard, why couldn't you stay home yesterday.
Powerful stuff, man.
RIP Mario.
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RIP Lee Marshall, who was the voice of Tony The Tiger since 1995 and also did the WCW "road reports" in the late 90s.
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Booo
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RIP DJ E-Z Rock
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RIP Bob Hoskins.
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NO!Dickie Dunn wrote:RIP Bob Hoskins.
RIP
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Aw man....one of my favorites
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id read Hoskins retired from acting due to parkinsons when looking at Disneys plans for a Roger Rabbit sequel
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Indeed he did. Died from pneumonia. He was 71.pittsoccer33 wrote:id read Hoskins retired from acting due to parkinsons when looking at Disneys plans for a Roger Rabbit sequel
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He was a phenomenal actor.Dickie Dunn wrote:RIP Bob Hoskins.
R.I.P.
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Agreed. He's perfect in Roger Rabbit and a huge reason why that movie works. Anyone else and it might have fallen apart.
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I'll remember Bob Hoskins as Mario
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viva la ben wrote:I'll remember Bob Hoskins as Mario
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He was also in Hook as Smee.
Bob Hoskins was the most cockney man on the planet. I still have no idea how he pulled off Eddie Valiant but he was awesome in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Bob Hoskins was the most cockney man on the planet. I still have no idea how he pulled off Eddie Valiant but he was awesome in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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Band Manager in The Wall.
And Shattered which I thought was really good, but no one ever talks about.
RIP, Mr. Hoskins.
And Shattered which I thought was really good, but no one ever talks about.
RIP, Mr. Hoskins.
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I'll always remember him as Smee. Also thought he was great in Unleashed (aka Danny the Dog) with Jet Li and Morgan Freeman.
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Eddie Valiant will always be the role I identify him with, no doubt.
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I first saw Bob Hoskins in "The Long Good Friday" and "Mona Lisa". I became a fan at that point.
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No Mermaids love?
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RIP Kevin Sharp, country singer who had battled cancer since he was a teenager.
RIP Kevin Sharp, country singer who had battled cancer since he was a teenager.
Sharp grew up wanting to be a singer. According to a 1998 story from Music City News, Sharp -- who grew up in a large family that included a number of foster children -- was a high school athlete and participated in a Sacramento, California, light-opera company.
It was during his senior year in high school that he was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer that had spread to his lungs. The ailment led to Sharp meeting producer and songwriter David Foster through the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
Foster, known for his work with such artists as Celine Dion and Michael Buble, helped support Sharp through years of chemotherapy and a determination to wean himself from painkillers after the cancer went into remission.
In the mid-'90s, after working at an amusement park to make ends meet, Sharp landed a record deal and went to No. 1 on the country charts with "Nobody Knows." He followed that hit with a handful of others, including "She's Sure Taking It Well" and "If You Love Somebody."
The early success, he said, was "like learning how to swim by somebody throwing you into the deep end of the swimming pool," he told Country Weekly in 2012.
But he didn't forget the Make-a-Wish Foundation through his own highs and lows, becoming a representative and getting a tattoo of the organization's logo on his chest.
In later years, he traveled the country as a motivational speaker, according to his website, and wrote a book called "Tragedy's Gift."
His willingness to help others kept hope alive in himself, he told Country Weekly.
"If I didn't believe what I try to express and tell others, I wouldn't be here," he said.
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Bill Nunn~ great steeler scout, newspaper man, and athlete.
Blount, White, Greenwood, Shell, Edwards, and John Stallworth- Nunn found these guys; pretty good players.
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Blount, White, Greenwood, Shell, Edwards, and John Stallworth- Nunn found these guys; pretty good players.
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The whole structure started to change,” said Mr. Nunn. “To me, Dan and Chuck were the same type of person. I don’t think they see color, and I don’t say that about a lot of people. I say that sincerely. When we used to line up the draft board, Chuck wasn’t concerned with the dots. There was a time when dots (to designate a player’s race) would be put up on the draft board. That’s the way teams did it. At one time the NFL Scouting Combine identified people by race, and they did it there by using numbers, something like 110 was white and 111 was black. I said that’s illegal. Eventually it was stopped.”
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You beat me to it. He was still helping out at the age of 89.penny lane wrote:Bill Nunn~ great steeler scout, newspaper man, and athlete.
Blount, White, Greenwood, Shell, Edwards, and John Stallworth- Nunn found these guys; pretty good players.
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The whole structure started to change,” said Mr. Nunn. “To me, Dan and Chuck were the same type of person. I don’t think they see color, and I don’t say that about a lot of people. I say that sincerely. When we used to line up the draft board, Chuck wasn’t concerned with the dots. There was a time when dots (to designate a player’s race) would be put up on the draft board. That’s the way teams did it. At one time the NFL Scouting Combine identified people by race, and they did it there by using numbers, something like 110 was white and 111 was black. I said that’s illegal. Eventually it was stopped.”