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Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.36.20
| Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 06:04 pm: | |
Paul Newman |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.186
| Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 06:53 pm: | |
Great shame - RIP... |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.203
| Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 08:08 pm: | |
I think he's great in ABSENCE OF MALICE. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126
| Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 10:29 pm: | |
What? Paul Newman? Cool Hand Luke? Fuck, this is terrible, absolutely terrible... :-( |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126
| Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 11:00 pm: | |
The epitome of cool, and one of the best films ever made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4lp6UL8rBQ&feature=related RIP. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126
| Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 11:04 pm: | |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzVzJ21fHeU&feature=related
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Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.182.197
| Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 11:12 pm: | |
He made a lot of good movies: COOL HAND LUKE, THE HUSTLER, THE STING, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, THE VERDICT, and of course BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (to name just a few). He always struck me as being a nice guy, too. It's very sad to see this generation of fine actors passing away. |
Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 11:25 pm: | |
I'll add Hud, Hombre and Exodus. |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.203
| Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 12:30 am: | |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei92WBU57vE&NR=1 |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113
| Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 01:06 am: | |
Goddamit... That's a real loss to acting. RIP indeed. gcw |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126
| Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 01:42 am: | |
It's like yet another piece of my childhood stripped away. The day Clint Eastwood dies, I'm simply giving up, btw. I always thought he was immortal. :-/ |
Stu (Stu) Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.100.0
| Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 09:39 am: | |
I heard a couple of weeks back that he had come out of hospital to spend his final days with his family but I hadn't heard anything more so I was hoping it had been a false alarm. Obviously not. Shame. |
Stu (Stu) Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.100.0
| Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 09:44 am: | |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y87EaadjqM |
Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.180.178.236
| Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 10:23 am: | |
Such a sad day. What a great man he was - have read many stories about his kindness and generosity. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126
| Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 03:04 pm: | |
I'm still upset about this. I've had such a shit week, followed by a shit weekend, and Newman's death caps it all. Not having a father figure in my life as a young boy, I over-idolised actors like Newman, Eastwood and Cushing. Pathetic, I know, but it helped when I needed it at a tender age. :-/ |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 03:54 pm: | |
>>>Not having a father figure in my life as a young boy, I over-idolised Didn't we all, mate. But at least you chose some cool role models. I think mine was Glenn Hoddle. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 10:17 am: | |
But Zed, surely you know that the shit weekend follows the shit week. Just as night follows day... Seriously, I'm sorry to hear that. Hope matters improve soon. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 10:28 am: | |
Chicken Ceasar dressing! He was 83 - to quote that Altman film 'An old man's death is not a tragedy'. Sad, yes, but a time to appreciate what he gave us rather than feel so bad he's gone. He got to make a dent on the world and do a lot of stuff - that's good! |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.112.60
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 12:00 pm: | |
Oh, I thought you said before that Altman's film said that an old man's death is a tragedy. To me, that seems much more profound. Acceptance of mortality will one day seem so sad. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 12:02 pm: | |
The death of a good man like Newman is a tragedy whatever his age - especially when there's so much scum still living in this world. I'll never ever accept mortality. |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.203
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 12:34 pm: | |
Oh, you will - in the end. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 12:55 pm: | |
Oh, I don't accept it, but sometimes we have to or we'd go nuts with grief. I spent half an hour crying thinking my gerbil was going to die on Friday and he's three! Actually, my wife just lost a cousin over the weekend to cancer - he's about two years older than me, with young kids. It's really hit her. The Paul Newman thing was put into perspective by it somewhat. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 01:36 pm: | |
Nope. I'll never accept it, merely block it out and pretend that I'm immortal. The best line ever written in poetry: "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light". |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 01:37 pm: | |
my wife just lost a cousin over the weekend to cancer - he's about two years older than me, with young kids. That's tragic, mate. Tragic. |
John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 01:46 pm: | |
The best line ever written in poetry: "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light". Well naturally - it was Welsh! |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 01:53 pm: | |
I always prefer Yeats' grim summation of the human condition: "Sick with desire/And fastened to a dying animal." Irish, you know. |
John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 02:08 pm: | |
Sounds like university to me |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113
| Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 09:16 pm: | |
I think old people accept their mortality...I dunno, I mean, if you didn't you have old people having hysterics & panic attacks running down the street. Or maybe they do and we just don't notice...after all we don't notice old people do we? Probably because we fear ageing. gcw |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136
| Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 12:03 am: | |
Marie's dad, at 87, is in the process of forgetting everything. I think we just slip into a sort of blankness, and don't give a hoot whatever happens. Being young and near death must be petrifying, though. I thought I had a cancerous knacker once and the terror was just dreadful - nothing can evoke it. |
Albie (Albie)
Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.14.96
| Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 04:08 pm: | |
I've never seen the fear of a cancerous ball. Lop it off. Bye. |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113
| Posted on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 - 06:25 pm: | |
..they've been nuthin' but trouble to me... gcw |