R.I.P. 2020
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@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
Andy Gill from Gang of Four has bought the farm. Thrash it out buddy.
Great band
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@canefan said in R.I.P. 2020:
@booboo said in R.I.P. 2020:
Most famous for the Lamburger.
I remember that being low hanging fruit for Mcphail and Gadsby back in the day
The wetaburger the burgerburger
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@Crucial said in R.I.P. 2020:
@booboo said in R.I.P. 2020:
Most famous for the Lamburger.
People took the piss but it did the job it was intended to, which was to start NZ producers thinking a bit more outside the box instead of relying on primary produce.
I think it was more about trying to add value and jobs processing primary produce here rather than sending boatloads of carcasses overseas .
Obviously he was right and I don’t understand why every time I drive past the wharf in Wellington I see logs piled up ready to ship overseas when I see mills shutting down a couple of times a year.It says in one obituary Moore left school at 15, I didn’t know that . It makes going on to be pm , WTO commissioner and US ambassador even more impressive accomplishments.
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@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Mike Moore left school at 14. One of the last politicians, like Poland's Lech Wales, to do manual jobs before entering public office. Most politicians now seem to have spent their whole careers in the politics, PR & media bubbles.
Some articles say 15, his widow Yvonne says 14 she also said he had cancer when he was in his 30s and given months to live but obviously managed to beat it.
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Ivan Kral most famously of Patti Smith Group dead at 71.
Who'd have thought that from this photo, it was the wild one that was the last one standing
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Kirk Douglas, aged 103
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/119321567/actor-kirk-douglas-dies-at-age-103
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It was only a matter of time.... 103 is an amazing age!
As I’ve said previously:
ACE IN THE HOLE (Billy Wilder)
PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick)
SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (John Frankenheimer)
Three of the best Hollywood movies ever made, and he was the star.
Also smart enough to buy the film rights to One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and get it to son Michael. Rest In Peace!
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Yeah, a very good innings but sad all the same. Spartacus predates me but it’s still the first movie I remember seeing. As @Salacious-Crumb says, he starred in some all time classics. A true legend.
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Spartacus was a film Kirk produced as well as starred in. He offered film to David Lean, who passed on it, then was given to Anthony Mann. Douglas fired him after a week and replaced him with Kubrick, who he worked with on Paths of Glory. Stanley has disowned the film, it’s the one in his career he didn’t have complete control. I quite like the film, the soundtrack especially. And I’m always reminded of the Flintstones episode where Wilma wins Stony Curtis in a “Slave For a Day” contest. Likely aging myself.
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My first Douglas film was Tough Guys. Fairly sure it wouldn't hold up now but I loved that movie as a kid.
20000 Leagues was also a childhood favourite. By the time I got to adulthood, I found it harder and harder to watch some of his stuff because it was all bravado and bad set-piece when compared to what was being pumped out at the time. Now though I love me some Spartacus.
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@raznomore said in R.I.P. 2020:
My first Douglas film was Tough Guys. Fairly sure it wouldn't hold up now but I loved that movie as a kid.
20000 Leagues was also a childhood favourite. By the time I got to adulthood, I found it harder and harder to watch some of his stuff because it was all bravado and bad set-piece when compared to what was being pumped out at the time. Now though I love me some Spartacus.
Tough Guys still holds up.
One of my favourites and always watch when it's on.
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Champion
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Heroes of Telemark -
@MiketheSnow Just took a quick look at his filmography, there are quite a few good ones I forgot (Tales From The Crypt, anybody?), and especially LONELY ARE THE BRAVE (1962) - wikipedia tells me it was Douglas’ personal fave.
“President John F. Kennedy watched the movie in the White House in November 1962. In his memoir Conversations with Kennedy, Ben Bradlee wrote, "Jackie read off the list of what was available, and the President selected the one [film] we had all unanimously voted against, a brutal, sadistic little Western called Lonely Are the Brave."[8]”
