(09-19-2022 06:45 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(09-18-2022 09:24 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  Irene Papas, Greek actress that starred in such movies as The Guns of Navaronne and Zorba The Greek alongside Sean Connery, dead at 96.

Sean Connery wasn’t in either of those movies.

Quote:Marsha Hunt was blacklisted by the Republicans at the time for being a Communist which she said she was not a communist and never was interested in it. How many actors, actresses and others in Hollywood back in that time got blackballed and never had a job for a while?

The film industry has always rewarded/punished people for political reasons.

(09-20-2022 02:34 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(09-19-2022 06:45 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(09-18-2022 09:24 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  Irene Papas, Greek actress that starred in such movies as The Guns of Navaronne and Zorba The Greek alongside Sean Connery, dead at 96.

Sean Connery wasn’t in either of those movies.

My bad. I got that and Zardoz mixed up.

(09-18-2022 09:24 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  Irene Papas, Greek actress that starred in such movies as The Guns of Navaronne and Zorba The Greek

(09-20-2022 07:41 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(09-18-2022 09:24 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  Irene Papas, Greek actress that starred in such movies as The Guns of Navaronne and Zorba The Greek

Guns of Navarone is one of my all-time favorite movies. The scene that starts when David Niven has discovered the damage done by the traitor, and ends with Papas shooting the traitor, is one of the most intense movie scenes I know.

Quote:I think seeing the first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan on the Big Screen is the most intense movie experience I've had, and I had one uncle who was in the third wave to hit Omaha. I walked away with a deeper respect for a man whom I held in high esteem already. Unglaublich!

Quote:Hartman played on all of the Doobie Brothers’ hits in the 1970s. He also played on the 1989 reunion album Cycles and 1991’s Brotherhood. Hartman retired from the band in 1992 but was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as part of the Doobie Brothers in 2020.

(09-29-2022 09:49 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  Coolio dead at age 59. He died in a friend's bathroom, supposedly of a heart attack.

"Weird" Al is saddened by this loss...

Artist: "Weird" Al Yankovic
Album: Bad Hair Day
Tune: "Amish Paradise"
Original Songwriter: Stevie Wonder (Coolio's 'Gangster's Paradise' itself is a reworking of the Stevie Wonder song "Pastime Paradise")
March 12, 1996 Scotti Brothers Records

(09-29-2022 09:56 AM)JRsec Wrote:  I don't know of any guy who would want to go on the can. Weird Al. There's an 80's flashback! MTV was a hoot and Weird AL was better listened to that way! Wait! I just had the Dire Straits album flashback! My daughters wore me out with it! I'm afraid it set the stage for today's protests, "Money for Nothin' and Your Chicks for Free!"

Quote:...Primo had developed the Eyewitness News concept earlier, and was recruited from KYW-TV in Philadelphia, where he had great success with his new approach to storytelling, and brought on talent like Tom Snyder.

While many people helped grow and spread the concept of Eyewitness News, Primo was the one who came up with the idea. Primo dispatched reporters into the field and then back into the studio to share their stories with the anchors, serving as eyewitnesses. Those reporters reflected the diversity of the community.

Primo believed the people presenting the news should look and sound like the audiences they served.

"I was determined to make the reporters the most important element of the program - they were the eyewitnesses," said Primo.

He hired many of Channel 7's legendary anchors and reporters from Geraldo Rivera to Rose Ann Scamardella....The Daily News once described him as 'the man who almost single-handedly changed the face of broadcast journalism.'...

Quote:Judge Silberman’s contributions to our nation transcend his stellar service as a judge. Characteristically, [his decisions are] rooted in the Constitution and a deeply principled grasp of the judicial role, which is more than can be said about the high court’s 1964 decision, so beloved by the media and by progressives who look to the judiciary to drive their policy preferences through the Constitution’s strictures....