RIP Thread

[newarenanow]

That's pretty cool. Also sobering reminder that every day we lose more and more of the WWII vets. I wonder how many are left.

[dodint]

1,017,208 according to VetPop.

No US Veteran from WWI left, Frank Buckles was the last at 110 in 2011.

[blackjack68]

RIP Glen Larson.

Creator of a ton of shows from the 70s and 80s including Knight Rider, Magnum PI and the Fall Guy.

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[tifosi77]

Was a huge fan of 'Battlestar Galactica' as a kid. I liked that the Cylons wore hockey gloves, and there was one episode where the Colonials had to parachute in somewhere and they were wearing hockey helmets.

Hard to believe that show cost $1 million per episode. That's what Star Trek: TNG cost fully ten years later, and that was a big deal.

[Dickie Dunn]

RIP Pittsburgh Power.

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/2014 ... 1411170178

[Digitalgypsy66]

Mike Nichols, Director of The Graduate and Carnal Knowledge passed away suddenly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/movie ... .html?_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

He is one of a few that has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award.

[blackjack68]

The EGOT.

RIP.

So many great productions.

[tifosi77]

My across the street neighbor made many movies with 'Mike' in the 60s and 70s. They had a pretty close friendship. Watch 'Catch-22' sometime; my neighbor is flying one of the B-25. He wasn't rated to fly it, but one of the pilots was a no-show and my neighbor just happened to have twin-engine prop experience (Korea vet) in a similar aircraft. So they put the pilot's ill-fitting wardrobe on my neighbor and he made his feature film debut. He also sold a car to Jack Nicholson while making 'Carnal Knowledge'. You know, like you do.

This is one of my favorite vignettes in any movie, my favorite from a Mike Nichols movie and it also happens to be my favorite Robin Williams scene. The acting and direction in this clip are perfect. Such a beautiful moment of quietness could only be this effective amid the chaos that characterizes the rest of the film.

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RIP Mike.

[PensFanInDC]

Yeah that is a damn good scene from top to bottom.

[tifosi77]

Phrasing.

[PensFanInDC]

Excellent

[eddysnake]

I need to watch The Birdcage. I really love Wolf.

[PensFanInDC]

Never seen it?

[eddysnake]

Never seen it.

[PensFanInDC]

That's gay

[eddysnake]

Here's a nice little write up on how Nichols Virginia Woolf changed the ratings system

http://badassdigest.com/2014/11/20/how- ... tion-code/

[tifosi77]

Wow, the big takeaway from that article for me was that Woolf was nominated in every Oscar category. Impressive.

[dodint]

Never saw it.

[Geezer]

The Graduate was one of those cutting edge defining movies that really played well to the younger crowd at the time. Funny thing was that the older Mrs Robinson was played by Anne Bancroft who was only a few years older than grad Ben played by Dustin Hoffman. The scene with Hoffman and Katherine Ross on the bus at the end has to be one of the classic movie scenes of all time.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf seemed like an over-rated gabfest to me. I saw it when it came out as a teen so maybe I was too young to appreciate it. Great cast with Burton, Taylor, and very young George Segal and Sandy Dennis who I liked in a lot of movies afterward. But someone would have to give me $100 and a case of yeungling to watch Virginia Wolf again.

Catch 22 was a movie that just couldn't translate from book to movie. The book is one of my top 5. Ron Heller never wrote anything after that I liked.

[Gaucho]

The scene with Hoffman and Katherine Ross on the bus at the end has to be one of the classic movie scenes of all time.

Yesssss.

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[tifosi77]

What the hell did we just do?

Classic.

[shafnutz05]

RIP Crack Mayor Marion Barry

[dodint]

Ah. The TK show has material for this week.

[PensFanInDC]

RIP Crack Mayor Marion Barry

WHAT!?

[blackjack68]

Cause of death?

***** set him up!