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I'll go golfing in honor of your birthday Vin.
Thanks Bro (we can say stuff like that now that that Nazi SDB is gone...). Please get at least 3 eagles for me too.
Movie trailer voice guy (also seen on Geico commercial)
http://www.tmz.com/2008/09/02/don-la...er-in-a-world/
Sadly, Mr Paul Newman
$150m in charitable donations is certainly admirable
One of my favorite actors.
Just watched Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid tonight. Sad to think that movie was made over 40 years ago. I kept telling my wife, "I bet you those trees aren't even there anymore" and "see that adolescent kid in the corner with the pushcart? He's in his 50s now."
I have shot pool my whole life, so paul newman was an important actor to me. The Color of Money and the hustler were both great movies.
Hustler....Color of Money.....Cool Hand Luke......The Sting.....Butch And Sundance....and on...and on....A Real Legend.....One of the last maybe....God knows we won't be saying all this when Cruise passes...
Dude lived a long life and believed in the responsibility of people well off to be as charitable as possible to the less fortunate.
SLAPSHOT
No one died, but thought I'd mention TCM is doing its tribute to Paul Newman.
Levi Stubbs.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-10-17-voa73.cfmQuote:
Levi Stubbs, the lead singer of legendary U.S. rhythm and blues vocal group the Four Tops, has died at the age of 72.
Stubbs, who had been ill recently, died at his home in Detroit, Michigan.
Stubbs was known for his deep, soulful voice, and for helping to create some of the top hits among the so-called "Motown" groups of the 1960s. The Four Tops were made famous by such classic songs as "Reach Out", "I Can't Help Myself", and "Standing in the Shadows of Love."
The Four Tops formed in the early in 1950s while all the members were in high school.
They went on to sell millions of records, performing for four decades with the same members. But with Stubbs' death, only one of the original Four Tops, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, is still living.
Some information for this report was provided by AP.
Was just going to come in here and post that. Very sad day for people who like good music.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Douche Baggins
All those old Motown singers got set up with a "role." They worked a personality angle that offset them from the other Motown stars. Smokey Robinson was the Pretty Boy, Marvin Gaye was the Respectable Church Boy, Stevie Wonder was the Precocious Kid, David Ruffin was the Ladies' Man.
But Levi Stubbs was just Levi Stubbs. He was hood as fuck. He was dark-skinned, he sang with a rough, deep voice, and the Four Tops had probably the funkiest tracks in Motown, leveraging the awesome Funk Brothers rhythm section on most of their tracks.
The first time you hear "Reach Out" you dig the beat. But the more you listen to it, it starts to sound like a symphony. And when you see it performed, with the synchronized moves, it's awesome. The world has lost a great performer and a huge piece of the Motown story.
Great post Swami.
Reach Out is one of my all-time favorite songs, Motown or otherwise. I couldn't imagine anyone else ever singing it. I'm very sad to say that I never saw it performed live.
RIP Ricardo Montalban.
A toast to you:
KHHAAAAAAAANNN!
http://nuncscio.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/khan.jpg
Not gonna lie.
Never heard of him.
That sucks.
He was great in The Naked Gun, too.
My dad owned a LeBaron with Corinthian leather... sigh.
Damn, should've read the text...thought Shattner died.
Rip Ricardo.
This doesn't surprise me. Here's a role that you might remember him:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wilfredo Ledezma
He was the voice of the cow that Peter and Brian helped escape from the slaughterhouse in a recent Family Guy episodes.
Shattner would/will deserve his own thread... probably a separate forum for it. That will be a sad, sad day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahoe
Bukdow would've lied. Kudos to Wil for being honest AND for not knowing how to use Google.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wilfredo Ledezma
Soft Corinthian Leather!!! I love how it plows down the road like a tractor, and when it stops it bobs back and forth like a boat. LOL
John Updike
Paul Harvey 90
Oh Gourd! So soon? Oh man, why do all the good ones have to die so young??Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahoe
Norm Van Lier and Red Kerr on the same day...Both pinnacles of chicago basketball. Both annoying as shit but strange that they passed on the same day...If you watched a Bulls game for the last 15 years you got a steady dose of the two....
I liked NVL as a player.
I'm embarrassed to say that I never appreciated the likes of Stormin' Norman and Jerry Sloan when they were players. At around that time, it was all about Dr. J and flashy O for me...
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Originally Posted by Tahoe
I wonder if the radio show will continue.
Usually they have Ron Chapman do it when Paul's not there.
I know Americans are whacky fucking sickeningly nostalgic`about things like that, but the show must NOT go on. It was Paul Harvey's show, done in his inimitable way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wilfredo Ledezma
As a matter of fact, they should just re run it forever. Will anybody ever really know that the news he's reporting actually happened in 1967? Who the fuck really listens to the radio when it's on, especially the news? Shit, most of the time people in cars are on the cell phone or texting or wolfing down a Big Mac. That is, when they're not mixing drinks.
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An Indian reported to be the world's oldest man has died in the western city of Jaipur, his family said.
Habib Miyan, who died Monday, claimed to be 138 years old and was listed as the country's oldest man in India's Limca Book of Records.
But without a birth certificate giving formal proof of his age, Habib Miyan, who played clarinet in a maharaja's band before retiring 70 years ago, could not prove his longevity.
However, his pension book showed his birth date as May 20, 1879 — which would make him 129.
The oldest living person according to the Guinness World Records is 115-year-old Edna Parker, who lives in an Indiana nursing home. Japanese woman Yone Minagawa died last year at 114.
Thousands of people thronged Habib Miyan's funeral on Tuesday in Jaipur, 340km from Jodhpur, following a bout of fever and dysentery, his niece Munni told AFP.
"If you treat your body well, the body will treat you well," Habib Miyan would tell anyone who asked him the secret of his long life, another relative Mehmood Khan, told the Calcutta Telegraph.
Habib Miyan made international headlines in 2004 when he fulfilled a long-cherished ambition of visiting the Muslim holy city of Mecca, becoming one of the oldest people to complete the pilgrimage.
Habib Miyan, whose wife died around 70 years ago, lived in a Muslim quarter of Jaipur, a popular tourist hub in the western state of Rajasthan.
He retired in 1938 from the court of then Jaipur king, Raja Man Singh, where he played clarinet in the royal orchestra.
He had been blind for more than half a century and his mobility was limited in recent years but he underwent hip replacement surgery last year, according to media reports.
He spent most of his time in his house, praying and telling stories to his vast extended family of 140 people.
On Monday, Habib Miyan called Rajesh Nagpal, a bank clerk who had made public his longevity, over to the house where generations of his family had lived and told him: "I am going to go now," the Telegraph reported.
He died soon after.
Nagpal was working in a bank in Jaipur in 1998 when he noticed the old man who would come to collect his pension and dug out his records.
The chance discovery changed Habib Miyan's life and the media started flocking to his doorstep to hear his memories.
This is good news. I'm going to be around to haunt you fuckers for a long, long time.
U WISH!
Just got off the treadmill and I feel like I'm 20.
Fixed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahoe
And stay off the sauce.
Now that's going too far. Alcohol is a preservative. You wanna die early? Excercise. Just ask Jimmy Fixx.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahoe