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#7826 Post by Roger Ryan » Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:12 am

domino harvey wrote:
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Max Wright of ALF, the Norm Show, and, uh, the tabloids
Just to restore a little dignity to his passing, Wright was really good in All That Jazz, and Reds as well.

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#7828 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Jul 03, 2019 11:00 am

Paul Benjamin died June 28th, per Spike Lee's Instagram

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#7829 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Jul 03, 2019 4:23 pm

Former Giants QB Jared Lorenzen

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#7832 Post by Jack Kubrick » Thu Jul 04, 2019 12:10 am

flyonthewall2983 wrote:
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MAD Magazine
R.I.P. to young Mayor Pete.

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#7833 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Jul 04, 2019 3:48 am

I had always expected it to get blown up by a crazed Naval commander turned boy band manager.

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#7834 Post by dustybooks » Thu Jul 04, 2019 1:22 pm

While never especially consistent, MAD had some really brilliant moments in its first thirty years. I practically memorized the anthologies that came out in the ‘90s (Mad About the Sixties, etc). I even subscribed for a time when I was a kid but became annoyed with it when it started carrying (real) ads. Looking back now, its greatest legacy is probably the very early Kurtzman period when it was just an intricately detailed comic book. I’m not much of a comics reader but the sheer ingenuity in those early issues hooked even me.

The most surprising thing about the magazine when I came of age in the ‘90s was how much of the staff had remained consistent for 25-35 years. People like Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragones and Frank Jacobs made their entire careers there.

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#7835 Post by domino harvey » Thu Jul 04, 2019 4:52 pm

I was obsessed with Mad (and Cracked) when I was a kid. Several years ago I bought a lot on eBay of Mad magazines from my early 90s heyday of doggedly pursuing the latest issues and Super Specials at grocery stores, recognizing every last cover from my own childhood collection, and it was the single worst case of "You can't go home again" anti-nostalgia cure I've ever encountered. They're unreadable, and I must have blocked out how much of their humor is on the plane of forwards from your aunt-level political "satire"-- I must have just glossed over all the politics as a kid because I didn't care or get it, but it's suffocating and worse, unfunny, to try to engage with it as an adult (though who else are these gags aimed at??). But then there's lots of bathroom humor to make the whole thing seem "edgy" to an eight year old, so I'm sure that's what I responded to. The magazine still played a big part in my life when I was younger, but it was also a reminder that sometimes fond memories of things are more valuable than reality

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#7839 Post by Blutarsky » Sun Jul 07, 2019 3:18 am

Link is not working for me but Cameron Boyce, a major fixture on Disney Channel’s movies and series died at 20 due to a seizure. Really sucks considering he had his talent being hindered by those mammoth contracts and monotonous series they had him in.

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#7840 Post by colinr0380 » Sun Jul 07, 2019 7:10 am

He had a very early role as the son of Keifer Sutherland's character in that seemingly very post Ring and J-horror in general influenced film Mirrors. And was the little brother to Michelle Monaghan's love interest in Eagle Eye. After that it looks like it was Adam Sandler films and Disney movies (He's also in Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer, which gets regular screenings on the BBC during school holidays)

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#7841 Post by bearcuborg » Tue Jul 09, 2019 11:24 am

Ross Perot

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#7842 Post by Feego » Tue Jul 09, 2019 11:44 am

As a kid in the 90s, I was more familiar with Perot as a subject of sketch-comedy ridicule than as a political candidate. The impersonation on Nickelodeon's All That is particularly bizarre and memorable.

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#7843 Post by bearcuborg » Tue Jul 09, 2019 1:04 pm

Likewise, and the same goes for Admiral Stockdale. However, I just discovered that actor Stephen Lang is doing a one man show about Medal of Honor recipients, with Stockdale’s story being one of them. He went through some horrifying years in captivity.

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#7844 Post by Blutarsky » Tue Jul 09, 2019 1:07 pm

Feego wrote:
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As a kid in the 90s, I was more familiar with Perot as a subject of sketch-comedy ridicule than as a political candidate. The impersonation on Nickelodeon's All That is particularly bizarre and memorable.
Most of those All That sketches teeter on surrealism at a point. For me though, I was born in the heat of SNL election coverage. Having Carvey playing Perot and the late great Phil Hartman as James Stockdale will forever be ingrained in my memory.

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#7846 Post by Lemmy Caution » Wed Jul 10, 2019 8:30 am

What was interesting to me was how Perot aired half-hour info programs explaining the debt using charts, and people tuned in for these policy discussions.

I'd think that social media (youtube? something streamy?) could support such discussions today.
The Dems really need to figure out to get issues across to the public. Since their policies, especially economic policies, tend to be way more popular than those on the right.

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#7848 Post by JSC » Wed Jul 10, 2019 8:54 am

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by MichaelB » Wed Jul 10, 2019 8:29 am
Freddie Jones.
A great character actor. He was excellent as Sweeney Todd in the series Mystery and Imagination,
as well as his roles in The Man who Haunted Himself, Juggernaut, and The Elephant Man.

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#7850 Post by Randall Maysin » Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:28 am

A great actress and a very entertaining, unique presence. Rest in peace!!

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