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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 30, 2019 3:44:25 GMT -5
Just saw the news about Singleton. Damn, that's sad - and scary, as we're basically the same age.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2019 17:44:07 GMT -5
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Confessor
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Not Bucky O'Hare!
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Post by Confessor on May 2, 2019 22:08:40 GMT -5
Oh no...what a shame. He always seemed like a lovely fella. A real shame.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 3, 2019 10:20:05 GMT -5
Also played the Minotaur in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger.
This is what you start facing when you get to a certain age; saying goodbye to your past and your friends. Mayhew really brought life to what could have just been a guy in a suit. He also seemed, in interviews, to be a wonderful, pleasant person.
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Post by The Captain on May 3, 2019 11:19:21 GMT -5
This is what you start facing when you get to a certain age; saying goodbye to your past and your friends. Mayhew really brought life to what could have just been a guy in a suit. He also seemed, in interviews, to be a wonderful, pleasant person. This is so true. There is a local Pittsburgh band that has a song entitled "More Yesterdays than Tomorrows", and as I hit 45 last year, that song has started to have a lot more meaning to me. Granted, I'm right at the low end of that range (provided God's plan is for me to live a normal lifespan), but with Luke Perry and John Singleton both passing recently in their early 50s, the eventuality of death is far more real than it was even five years ago.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2019 23:54:12 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2019 18:25:23 GMT -5
I met Peter Mayhem once and he is the most nicest and kindest person that I met and loves talking to his fans about Star Wars and for Chris Reccardi ... my niece met him and it is a tragedy that he died at his age. She adores him and find him a very fascinating person to talk to. My niece loved the Powerpuff Girls.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2019 20:47:54 GMT -5
This is what you start facing when you get to a certain age; saying goodbye to your past and your friends. Mayhew really brought life to what could have just been a guy in a suit. He also seemed, in interviews, to be a wonderful, pleasant person. This is so true. There is a local Pittsburgh band that has a song entitled "More Yesterdays than Tomorrows", and as I hit 45 last year, that song has started to have a lot more meaning to me. Granted, I'm right at the low end of that range (provided God's plan is for me to live a normal lifespan), but with Luke Perry and John Singleton both passing recently in their early 50s, the eventuality of death is far more real than it was even five years ago. I get it. I am in my late 50's and sometimes it feels like the majority of my social gatherings involve funerals. I have lost quite a few family members and friends over the last 5 years. The hardest was my brother-in-law 4 years ago. He died at 52 from cancer. He was my best friend in college and the reason I have been married for 35 years to his sister! Anyways even now as his oldest children are having kids they feel "cheated" because he would have LOVED being a grandfather. His wife has since remarried to a great guy but his children still grieve and his absence is still felt.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 8, 2019 1:45:15 GMT -5
I's like to tell you guys that the sense of approaching mortality will fade soon, but it doesn't, not completely. I'm 62, and I spent last Sunday at a memorial for a good friend who died of cancer at 63. My wife is 72 and my mother is about to turn 88, so this kind of thing has been on my mind.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 8, 2019 16:27:51 GMT -5
NPR had an interesting obituary for Christian Inspiration writer Rachel Held Evans. I am an atheist; but raised in a Christian household and my grandfather was a Baptist preacher (of a very small congregation). I always had respect for the central message of Christianity, as much as I did the same central concepts of other faiths, which I found to be universal, even as my study and questioning led me to conclude the absence of a divine entity. As a bookseller, I witnessed the sharp rise in Christian publishing, especially Christian Inspiration. However, I was saddened by the extensive number of "God wants you to be wealthy" books, "burn in Hell" books, and females subordinating themselves to their husbands books, not to mention the more cynical hollow self- help books, disguised as theology-based. Evans was a rare writer who wasn't afraid to look at her own faith and talk to others who believed differently and found herself forced to re-examine her own beliefs. I found this quote very telling.... "I thought I was called to challenge the atheists, but the atheists ended up challenging me," she wrote in a 2016 post detailing her college graduation years earlier. "I thought God wanted to use me to show gay people how to be straight. Instead God used gay people to show me how to be Christian.". She challenged the Church, as a hierarchical organization, about the roles of LGBTQ Christians and being Pro-Life; but finding Hillary Clinton a more Christian choice than Donald Trump. It is rare to see someone writing about topics of faith who isn't preaching to the converted, same as political writers. My experience as a bookseller showed that most people read books which reaffirmed their own beliefs (politics, religion or history), rather than challenged them. Most authors catered to that notion. Evans definitely did not. She was a rare one, indeed. She was only 37, and passed away from a sudden illness.
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Post by The Captain on May 8, 2019 16:49:29 GMT -5
NPR had an interesting obituary for Christian Inspiration writer Rachel Held Evans. I am an atheist; but raised in a Christian household and my grandfather was a Baptist preacher (of a very small congregation). I always had respect for the central message of Christianity, as much as I did the same central concepts of other faiths, which I found to be universal, even as my study and questioning led me to conclude the absence of a divine entity. As a bookseller, I witnessed the sharp rise in Christian publishing, especially Christian Inspiration. However, I was saddened by the extensive number of "God wants you to be wealthy" books, "burn in Hell" books, and females subordinating themselves to their husbands books, not to mention the more cynical hollow self- help books, disguised as theology-based. Evans was a rare writer who wasn't afraid to look at her own faith and talk to others who believed differently and found herself forced to re-examine her own beliefs. I found this quote very telling.... "I thought I was called to challenge the atheists, but the atheists ended up challenging me," she wrote in a 2016 post detailing her college graduation years earlier. "I thought God wanted to use me to show gay people how to be straight. Instead God used gay people to show me how to be Christian.". She challenged the Church, as a hierarchical organization, about the roles of LGBTQ Christians and being Pro-Life; but finding Hillary Clinton a more Christian choice than Donald Trump. It is rare to see someone writing about topics of faith who isn't preaching to the converted, same as political writers. My experience as a bookseller showed that most people read books which reaffirmed their own beliefs (politics, religion or history), rather than challenged them. Most authors catered to that notion. Evans definitely did not. She was a rare one, indeed. She was only 37, and passed away from a sudden illness. Yeah, the Evangelical wing of the Church didn't like Evans all that much, which means she was probably doing Christianity right. After her passing, I read some of her old posts on CNN's Faith blog, and she was constantly challenging the "good people" on their closed-mindedness about the LGBTQ community, particularly those who were Christian, and examining why millennials were leaving the church in droves. Of course, that put her squarely in the crosshairs of the Religious Right, who felt that her message of inclusiveness, social justice, and compassion towards others wasn't truly Christian, as "real" Christians are supposed to use God as a vending machine for their wants, do good deeds so they can be blessed with money, shun anyone who doesn't dress right or act right or look right or love right, and make sure that everyone knows what they are against, not what they are for. Mind you, I'm not completely on board with everything she wrote about. Her book "A Year of Christian Womanhood" had her doing some pretty "out there" things, such as obeying her husband fully and without question or camping out in their front yard during her period, because they are in the Bible, but looking past those types of things, she had a good message that Christianity needed, and without her voice in the community, if no one steps up and fills that void, the Religious Right will continue to exclude, rather than include, populations despite what Jesus taught.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2019 0:11:38 GMT -5
RIP Peggy Lipton, best known for her roles in The Mod Squad and Twin Peaks. She was 72. -M
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Post by beccabear67 on May 12, 2019 13:16:13 GMT -5
RIP Peggy Lipton, best known for her roles in The Mod Squad and Twin Peaks. She was 72. -M Used to have her lone vinyl LP record.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 12, 2019 21:40:24 GMT -5
RIP Peggy Lipton, best known for her roles in The Mod Squad and Twin Peaks. She was 72. -M Also wife of Quincy Jones and mother of actress Rashida Jones. Loved the Mod Squad, when I was little; can't remember an episode; but, loved it then.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 12, 2019 22:09:54 GMT -5
Also passing away, tragically, was Cesar Cuauhtemoc Gonzalez Barron, aka Silver King, one of the most popular luchadors in Mexico and the actor who played Ramses, in Nacho Libre. He was 51. He was wrestling in a match in London, in the UK, and collapsed of an apparent heart attack. Sliver King was the son of lucha libre legend Manuel Gonzalez Rivera, better known as the masked rudo Dr Wagner. Dr Wagner was one of the biggest stars of lucha libre, in the 1960s and 70s, headlining many matches in Arena Mexico, the "Madison Square Garden," of Mexico City. His two sons would follow him into lucha libre, wrestling as Silver King and Dr Wagner Jr. Silver King made his debut at the age of 16, in 1985. He worked for the Universal Wrestling Association, the main rival to the dominant Empressa Mexicana de Luch Libre (EMLL), the oldest and most prestigious promotion in Mexico. He was unmasked in a match against El Hijo del Santo, the son of the original El Santo, who starred in multiple lucha libre movies in the 60s and 70s (including Santo contra Las Mujeres Vampira, aka Samson vs the Vampire Women, as seen on MST3K). After unmasking, he teamed with his uncle, who wrestled as El Texano, as Los Cowboys, a heel teem. They were massive stars in mexico and competed in the US, for WCW, in 1992. Silver King would come back to work as a single in 1997, during the height of the wrestling boom. One of WCW's strengths was the use of Mexican luchadors and Japanese wrestlers, plus Americans who worked in mexico and Japan, in fast-paced, high flying styles. Silver King was one of the larger luchadors and was know for his graceful and accurate moonsault, a backflip off the top rope, onto an opponent. He also wrestled in Japan as Black Tiger, the rival of Tiger Mask, based on the Japanese manga. He was the third wrestler to portray Black Tiger, after Marc "Rollerball" Rocco (from the UK, the first Black Tiger) and Eddie Guerrero (the second). In 2005 he was cast to play the heel champion Ramses, who fights Jack Black in the final match, in Nacho Libre. The film was loosely inspired by the story of Frey Tormenta (Friar Storm) an actual Catholic priest who wrestled as a luchador, to raise money for his parish. The film helped revive a stagnant career for Silver King and he began to appear as Ramses, wearing the mask from the film. At one point in time, he was married to fellow second generation wrestler, Xochitl Hamada, daughter of Japanese wrestler Gran Hamada (who had found fame and success in mexico, when he was considered too small for Japanese wrestling, which brought him back to Japan). Hamada wrestled extensively in Mexico in Japan, as did her sister Ayako, who also wrestled in the US, for TNA. The couple eventually divorced. Silver King was one of the best in his field and did much to put together the climactic match in Nacho Libre.
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