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Post by Remi on Aug 6, 2009 18:05:16 GMT -5
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Amanda
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Post by Amanda on Aug 6, 2009 18:08:03 GMT -5
I know! So sad.
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Post by texasgal on Aug 6, 2009 22:58:10 GMT -5
I heard of his death this afternoon. So sad. He made some wonderful movies that have become classics. (And yikes! He was only one year older than I am!)
RIP John Hughes.
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Post by lonegazer on Aug 7, 2009 4:06:17 GMT -5
I must have seen all of his '80s film as they were like my era. I didn't realise he retired from the film world 10 years ago. It's nice that he's been recognised by the British media too, but then his films were very popular.
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Post by texasgal on Aug 7, 2009 17:16:39 GMT -5
There was a nice long tribute to John Hughes in today's paper. My goodness, I didn't realize he was from Lansing, Michigan - my home state.
He did such great work, it's such a shame he's gone.
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Post by tinalouise on Aug 26, 2009 0:55:55 GMT -5
Ted
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Post by texasgal on Aug 26, 2009 5:48:26 GMT -5
Tinalouse, are you referring to Sen. Edward Kennedy? Yes, I just saw that announcement on the news when I started up my pc this morning.
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Post by tinalouise on Aug 26, 2009 8:59:31 GMT -5
Yes.
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Post by Remi on Aug 26, 2009 9:40:04 GMT -5
RIP Senator Kennedy.
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Post by texasgal on Aug 26, 2009 21:58:39 GMT -5
RIP Senator Kennedy.
Also, best-selling crime story author Dominick Dunne has died today at age 83.
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Post by texasgal on Sept 2, 2009 22:03:54 GMT -5
Award-winning conductor Erich Kunzel has died today at the age of 74. Maestro Kunzel had been diagnosed with liver, colon and pancreatic cancer in April. Kunzel headed the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra since it was founded three decades ago. He had led the National Symphony on the Capitol lawn in nationally televised Memorial Day and Independence Day concerts since 1991.
Below are excerpts of an interview with Janelle Gelfand, music critic for The Enquirer in Cincinnati about Kunzel's work.
Host:
There is no orchestra in the world that has spent more time at the top of classical crossover charts than the Cincinnati Pops. And the man who put it there was Erich Kunzel.
Erich Kunzel was named conductor of the Cincinnati Pops orchestra when it was created back in 1977 to bring to the masses a combination of classical music, Broadway tunes and movie scores.
Host:
Erich Kunzel recorded more than 125 albums and he sold millions of recordings. What was it about this orchestra's music that was so appealing to so many people?
Ms. GELFAND:
He was a real music man. His performances were splashy. They were exuberant. And he always made it look like fun. He was a showman, and nothing could be too outrageous or even too corny for Erich Kunzel. In his concerts in Cincinnati on Halloween he'd have the musicians dress in costume, and he'd make his entrance in a coffin.
Host:
I know he loved to incorporate real cannons into performances of the "1812 Overture," Tchaikovsky's famous piece, and coordinate patriotic marches with Fourth of July fireworks.
Ms. GELFAND:
The whole package. And he had his finger on every detail of every concert, of every project that he was recording.
Perhaps his greatest legacy was introducing tens of thousands of people to orchestral music through 38 years of free concerts in regional parks, and they were literally hanging out of the trees. He knew how to connect to audiences.
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Post by texasgal on Sept 14, 2009 21:39:57 GMT -5
Patrick Swayze has died today at the age of 57 after a 20-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Patrick is best known for his starring roles in Dirty Dancing and Ghost.
Pancreatic cancer is particularly lethal, and I'm amazed Patrick survived this long. But it's still very sad news, especially for someone this young and who was otherwise healthy.
Text below was cut & pasted from msn movie news:
Publicist: Patrick Swayze dies at 57
Sept. 14, 2009, 7:05 PM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers' hearts with "Dirty Dancing" and then broke them with "Ghost," died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
He had kept working despite the diagnosis, putting together a memoir with his wife and shooting "The Beast," an A&E drama series for which he had already made the pilot. It drew a respectable 1.3 million viewers when the 13 episodes ran in 2009, but A&E said it had reluctantly decided not to renew it for a second season.
Swayze said he opted not to use painkilling drugs while making "The Beast" because they would have taken the edge off his performance. He acknowledged that time might be running out given the grim nature of the disease.
C. Thomas Howell, who co-starred with Swayze in "The Outsiders," "Grandview U.S.A." and "Red Dawn", said: "I have always had a special place in my heart for Patrick. While I was fortunate enough to work with him in three films, it was our passion for horses that forged a friendship between us that I treasure to this day. Not only did we lose a fine actor today, I lost my older `Outsiders' brother."
Ashton Kutcher — whose wife, Demi Moore, co-starred with Swayze in "Ghost" — wrote: "RIP P Swayze." Kutcher also linked to a YouTube clip of the actor poking fun at himself in a classic "Saturday Night Live" sketch, in which he played a wannabe Chippendales dancer alongside the corpulent — and frighteningly shirtless — Chris Farley.
Larry King wrote: "Patrick Swayze was a wonderful actor & a terrific guy. He put his heart in everything. He was an extraordinary fighter in his battle with cancer." King added that he'd do a tribute to Swayze on his CNN program Tuesday night.
A three-time Golden Globe nominee, Swayze became a star with his performance as the misunderstood bad-boy Johnny Castle in "Dirty Dancing." As the son of a choreographer who began his career in musical theater, he seemed a natural to play the role.
A coming-of-age romance starring Jennifer Grey as an idealistic young woman on vacation with her family and Swayze as the Catskills resort's sexy (and much older) dance instructor, the film made great use of both his grace on his feet and his muscular physique.
It became an international phenomenon in the summer of 1987, spawning albums, an Oscar-winning hit song in "(I've Had) the Time of My Life," stage productions and a sequel, 2004's "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights," in which he made a cameo.
Swayze performed and co-wrote a song on the soundtrack, the ballad "She's Like the Wind," inspired by his wife, Lisa Niemi.
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Post by Remi on Sept 15, 2009 4:55:32 GMT -5
God bless him. He was a fighter, huh?
Thanks Tex!
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Post by floot on Sept 15, 2009 5:24:00 GMT -5
Definitely a surprise he lasted this long rather than a surprise he's gone, but still really sad news.
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Post by negirl on Sept 15, 2009 5:41:44 GMT -5
It's so sad!  May he rest in peace. He will be missed |
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