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• Dwayne New York City

  January 2021 Posts: 3,093

  Actress Cicely Tyson has passed away.
  
  https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cicely-tyson-groundbreaking-actress-dead-000846734.html
• DRush76

  January 2021 Posts: 533

  I heard about both Cloris Leachman and Cicely Tyson. I have seen both actresses in movies and television shows since I was a girl of six or seven. It feels as if another part of my childhood has passed. By the way, did any of you know that Ms. Tyson had appeared in an episode of the 1965-68 series, "I SPY"?
  
  R.I.P. Ms. Tyson. R.I.P. Ms. Leachman.
• Gerard

  January 2021 Posts: 6,259

  While watching BBC News today, I learned that guitar player, and former member of the Animals, Hilton Vlentine has passed away, aged 77 :
  
  https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/hilton-valentine-founding-animals-guitarist-dies-77-75593817
  
  It's sure that this song wouldn't have been the success it was if there hasn't been for that guitar intro :
  
  
• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'

  January 2021 Posts: 9,428

  Gerard wrote: »

  While watching BBC News today, I learned that guitar player, and former member of the Animals, Hilton Vlentine has passed away, aged 77 :
  
  https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/hilton-valentine-founding-animals-guitarist-dies-77-75593817
  
  It's sure that this song wouldn't have been the success it was if there hasn't been for that guitar intro :
  
  

  
  Yeah, you're right. This is one of the earliest Englsih-language pop/rock songs I remember, and the guitar riff in the beginning will forever remain an icon.
• BeatlesSansEarmuffs

  February 2021 Posts: 3,566

  That guitar riff is a rite of passage for beginning guitar players. Learn it or ... forever be condemned to playing rhythm guitar. Hilton Valentine -- man,what a name! -- will live on in our memories. Here's another Animals cut with HV defining the song from the very beginning:
• Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator

  February 2021 Posts: 41,163

  Actor Dustin Diamond of Saved By The Bell fame has passed away after a recent aggressive cancer diagnosis:
  
  https://www.tmz.com/2021/02/01/dustin-diamond-saved-by-the-bell-star-dead-44-stage-4-cancer-screech/
• Risico007

  February 2021 Posts: 10,022

  Creasy47 wrote: »

  Actor Dustin Diamond of Saved By The Bell fame has passed away after a recent aggressive cancer diagnosis:
  
  https://www.tmz.com/2021/02/01/dustin-diamond-saved-by-the-bell-star-dead-44-stage-4-cancer-screech/

  
  Jeez I liked saved by the bell Rest In Peace man
• Dwayne New York City

  February 2021 Posts: 3,093

  It has been reported that actor Hal Holbrook has died.
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/theater/hal-holbrook-dead.html
  
• Mathis1

  February 2021 edited February 2021 Posts: 8,630

  Aw thats sad news R.I.P. Hal Holbrook, one of THE great character actors .
  Capricorn One Magnum Force, and of course All The Presidents Men.
• MajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator

  February 2021 Posts: 14,315

  Not to mention Father Malone in The Fog.
  
  RIP
• Tracy

  February 2021 edited February 2021 Posts: 1,817

  Very aggressive cancer , 2 months later and mr Diamond is gone
  
  Loved Holbrook as Callaghans corrupt boss
• Dragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com

  February 2021 Posts: 18,947

  Sad news about Hal Holbrook. I watched him just last year for the first time in Magnum Force and he was brilliant in that. I enjoyed the twist at the end as I didn't see it coming at all!
• Gerard

  February 2021 edited February 2021 Posts: 6,259

  Farewell, Sir Tom. You've been an inspiration to millions.
  
  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-55881753
  
  
• Thrasos

  February 2021 Posts: 1,469

  Dragonpol wrote: »

  Sad news about Hal Holbrook. I watched him just last year for the first time in Magnum Force and he was brilliant in that. I enjoyed the twist at the end as I didn't see it coming at all!

  "People are guilty until proven...l mean...Goddamn it, you know what l mean." I agree--as Lieutenant Briggs he was great. A classic film. All The President's Men is a fave of mine too, and just the other day I was thinking about Wall Street, and his role in that.
• Dragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com

  February 2021 Posts: 18,947

  Very sad to hear of the death of the inspirational Captain Sir Tom Moore. Long may his memory last.
• Benny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator

  February 2021 Posts: 15,614

  RIP to Hal Holbrook, a great character actor who seemed to appear in every film in the 70's and 80's. Such was his presence.
  A sad loss to a hero in every sense of the word, Captain Sir Tom Moore. An inspiration to all. The world was a better place by having you in it. RIP.
• Fire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!

  February 2021 Posts: 26,728

  R. I. P. Hal he was memorable in all the films mentioned, good actor. Capricorn One is one of my favourite films I will give it a rewatch sometime this week.
• GoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà

  February 2021 Posts: 7,904

  RIP Mr Holbrook.
  
  Great actor.
• ringfire211

  February 2021 Posts: 688

  CAPRICORN ONE, along with BLACK SUNDAY, are probably my 2 favorite films of the 70s, outside of the Bond films. Criminally underrated!!
  
  And MAGNUM FORCE is every bit as good as DIRTY HARRY. It’s the next 3 films that really dropped the ball.
  
  RIP Hal Holbrook
• Mathis1

  February 2021 Posts: 8,630

  ringfire211 wrote: »

  CAPRICORN ONE, along with BLACK SUNDAY, are probably my 2 favorite films of the 70s, outside of the Bond films. Criminally underrated!!
  
  And MAGNUM FORCE is every bit as good as DIRTY HARRY. It’s the next 3 films that really dropped the ball.
  
  RIP Hal Holbrook

  
  Love 'Black Sunday' great direction by John Frankenheimar. That ending is superb! And Bruce Dern is brilliant in it!
• ringfire211

  February 2021 edited February 2021 Posts: 688

  Mathis1 wrote: »

  ringfire211 wrote: »

  CAPRICORN ONE, along with BLACK SUNDAY, are probably my 2 favorite films of the 70s, outside of the Bond films. Criminally underrated!!
  
  And MAGNUM FORCE is every bit as good as DIRTY HARRY. It’s the next 3 films that really dropped the ball.
  
  RIP Hal Holbrook

  
  Love 'Black Sunday' great direction by John Frankenheimar. That ending is superb! And Bruce Dern is brilliant in it!

  Absolutely!!! And a suspenseful score by John Williams to boot!
  
  But the Jerry Goldsmith score for CAPRICORN ONE is even more sublime!!
  
  
• Mathis1

  February 2021 Posts: 8,630

  ringfire211 wrote: »

  Mathis1 wrote: »

  ringfire211 wrote: »

  CAPRICORN ONE, along with BLACK SUNDAY, are probably my 2 favorite films of the 70s, outside of the Bond films. Criminally underrated!!
  
  And MAGNUM FORCE is every bit as good as DIRTY HARRY. It’s the next 3 films that really dropped the ball.
  
  RIP Hal Holbrook

  
  Love 'Black Sunday' great direction by John Frankenheimar. That ending is superb! And Bruce Dern is brilliant in it!

  Absolutely!!! And a suspenseful score by John Williams to boot!
  
  But the Jerry Goldsmith score for CAPRICORN ONE is even more sublime!!
  

  
  Totally agree!
• talos7 New Orleans

  February 2021 edited February 2021 Posts: 8,711

  Mike Henry , who some called the “ James Bond “ Tarzan
  
  https://variety.com/2021/film/news/mike-henry-tarzan-actor-dies-1234900132/?fbclid=IwAR1NPyCwuWv7zDBWw0VVopiWjqGJb6witg5B3Z2ZxSEs-DqbguFcyrDj4eM
  
  
  
  
  
• BT3366

  February 2021 Posts: 1,992

  talos7 wrote: »

  Mike Henry , who some called the “ James Bond “ Tarzan
  
  https://variety.com/2021/film/news/mike-henry-tarzan-actor-dies-1234900132/?fbclid=IwAR1NPyCwuWv7zDBWw0VVopiWjqGJb6witg5B3Z2ZxSEs-DqbguFcyrDj4eM
  
  
  
  

  
  I've heard that comparison before. It's undeniable in those pictures. I think I saw one or two of those films and he did a good job from what I recall. No worse than Ron Ely of the Tarzan TV series of the time, at the very least. I didn't realize he was in so many other films during the '70s. I'll be looking for him more closely next time I watch those.
• talos7 New Orleans

  February 2021 Posts: 8,711

  His Tarzan and the City of Gold really had a Bond vibe and presented a more educated Tarzan. The reviews of the time noted the spy touches.
  
  http://doubleosection.blogspot.com/2009/10/our-man-in-jungle-movie-review-tarzan.html?m=1
  
  He was an American, so that ruled him out , but had a great look for the part.
  
  
  
• Fire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!

  February 2021 Posts: 26,728

  
  R. I. P. Mike Henry
• Thunderfinger Das Boot Hill

  February 2021 Posts: 45,489

  Mike Henry as Tarzan is one of my childhood memories. I think I saw Tarzan and The Great River as a small kid and later I had the false memory of having seen Sean Connery as Tarzan in an old movie.
• Gerard

  February 2021 Posts: 6,259

  Well...
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan%27s_Greatest_Adventure
  
  Not as Tarzan, but as a villain. Close enough, right ?
• Tokoloshe2 Northern Ireland

  February 2021 edited February 2021 Posts: 1,183

  Not a celebrity... but this may be the best obituary ever written. Worth a read:
  
  http://www.cobbsfuneralhome.ca/obituaries/151483
  
  I hope that when my time comes to shuffle off the mortal coil, someone can write something even a fraction as wonderful as that.
• Dragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com

  February 2021 Posts: 18,947

  Tokoloshe2 wrote: »

  Not a celebrity... but this may be the best obituary ever written. Worth a read:
  
  http://www.cobbsfuneralhome.ca/obituaries/151483
  
  I hope that when my time comes to shuffle off the mortal coil, someone can write something even a fraction as wonderful as that.

  
  That's quite a read. Thanks for sharing! :)