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Bring Out Your Dead (Part Whatever v2.0)

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I hear that yesterday Zeus sentenced Poseidon and Apollo to build the walls of Troy after their failed coup.
 
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Oscar winning actor Cliff Robertson at 88. Won for "Charly," played JFK in "PT 109" and an especially evil CIA dude in "Three Days of the Condor."
 
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Kepler said:
He was outstanding in Three Days of the Condor, still the best depiction of agency work ever put on film.
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Is that is "boring sitting round reading books" part? Or the "killing innocent domestics" part? :p
(anything with Faye dunnaway is a great movie, btw.. ;))
 
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mookie1995 said:
Is that is "boring sitting round reading books" part? Or the "killing innocent domestics" part? :p
(anything with Faye dunnaway is a great movie, btw.. ;))
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Incidentally, Faye was married for a while to Peter Wolf, lead singer of the J. Geils Band. At the time she was the most popular actress in the world. I've often wondered what he brought to the marriage. :eek:

And Robertson was married for years to actress Dina Merrill, whose parents were E. F. Hutton and Marjorie Merriweather Post. Would that qualify as a power couple?
 
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mookie1995 said:
Is that is "boring sitting round reading books" part? Or the "killing innocent domestics" part? :p
(anything with Faye dunnaway is a great movie, btw.. ;))
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The "boring sitting around reading books" part and the "unremitting paranoia and feeling/acting above the law" part.

Anyway, you should know that no one is innocent.

The movie was quite prescient about one thing at least, though.

Turner: Do we have plans to invade the Middle East?
Higgins: Are you crazy?
Turner: Am I?
Higgins: Look, Turner…
Turner: Do we have plans?
Higgins: No. Absolutely not. We have games. That's all. We play games. What if? How many men? What would it take? Is there a cheaper way to destabilize a regime? That's what we're paid to do.
Turner: So Atwood just took the games too seriously. He was really going to do it, wasn't he?
Higgins: A renegade operation. Atwood knew 54/12 would never authorize it, not with the heat on the company.
Turner: What if there hadn't been any heat? Suppose I hadn't stumbled on their plan?
Higgins: Different ballgame. Fact is, there was nothing wrong with the plan. Oh, the plan was all right, the plan would've worked.
Turner: Boy, what is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth.
Higgins: No. It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In ten or fifteen years, food. Plutonium. And maybe even sooner. Now, what do you think the people are going to want us to do then?
Turner: Ask them.
Higgins: Not now — then! Ask them when they're running out. Ask them when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask them when their engines stop. Ask them when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You want to know something? They won't want us to ask them. They'll just want us to get it for them.
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Old Pio said:
Incidentally, Faye was married for a while to Peter Wolf, lead singer of the J. Geils Band. At the time she was the most popular actress in the world. I've often wondered what he brought to the marriage. :eek:
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Magic Dick? ;)
 
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J Geils was like Genesis and Billy Joel. They did not start sucking until 1980.
 
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Scarlet said:
Andy Whitfield. He played Spartacus on the Starz series. Cancer sucks. He was really good in that series.
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Jenny is crushed-loved to watch this fellow as the invincible gladiator. The series with him was exceptional-it is still going to be good but it would have been fabulous with him for the full run. Lymphoma is never a great diagnosis but he must have had a particularly aggressive form. Truly gone way too young.:(
 
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Kepler said:
J Geils was like Genesis and Billy Joel. They did not start sucking until 1980.
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After years of blowing "featured" bands off stage and absolutely wrecking concert halls from coast to coast, they finally got a couple of hits (Freezeframe and Centerfold) and disbanded. They achieved immortality with songs like: "First I look at the Purse." "Pack fair and square, baby don't try to give me no air" "Hard Drivin' Man."

As Wolf used to say: "take out your false teeth mama, I want to suck on your gums"
 
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Scarlet said:
Andy Whitfield. He played Spartacus on the Starz series. Cancer sucks. He was really good in that series.
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That blows. And I'm really disappointed that they chose to go on with the series with a new actor, even if he did have Whitfield's blessing. I guess money trumps everything.
 
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That blows. And I'm really disappointed that they chose to go on with the series with a new actor, even if he did have Whitfield's blessing. I guess money trumps everything.
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Does the "money trumps everything" ethos still come into play when it's the wishes of the person being replaced? I guess I just don't get why it's so wrong to recast the role.
 
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rufus said:
That blows. And I'm really disappointed that they chose to go on with the series with a new actor, even if he did have Whitfield's blessing. I guess money trumps everything.
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Those of us old enough remember when they switched actors playing Darrin in the Bewitched TV series. I could hardly tell there was a difference.
 
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DrDemento said:
Those of us old enough remember when they switched actors playing Darrin in the Bewitched TV series. I could hardly tell there was a difference.
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Not nearly as significant, of course, but they swapped actresses who played Roseanne's older daughter and then brought the original back, IIRC. Again, no one noticed.
 
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