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Wild Strawberries is pure beauty.
Yes, it was a sad day today hearing this news.
Frist!
Not only those, but a local guy here in Houston died (cancer): "Marvin Zindler, Eyewitness News."
He's the guy who caused the Chicken Shack in LaGrange (immortilized by ZZ Top and the movie about it) to be closed.
Oh darn it.
Oh well, I was a fan of Tom Snyder, what puzzles me is why doesn't anyone ever mention the radio talk show he had 20 years ago?
Ugh, what a sad day...
A high order death trifecta. A bow in honor of the memory of each. Yes, Wild Strawberries is a top ten of all time.
Love and blessings. Godspeed!
"Have Poise, Have Poise" Bill Walsh to his players as they took the field in the 1982 SuperBowl.
I've been missing Tom for years:(
The average number of deaths is about 5500 per day in the U.S.
The entire population the planet turns over every 100 years.
You get to a certain age when you suddenly realize.
Jeepers, my numbers coming up. Sooner then later.
Scene from The 7th seal where flagellates are shown trudging along, chanting, and beating themselves as they slowly dissolve to nothing. That says a lot about complaining without really doing anything.
Or Jee Wiz, I have more days behind me then I do in ahead of me.
I was at Stanford during the Walsh years. Class act, and hell of a coach. Football has lost one of its very, very best strategists :
To each and every one that has died
A procession of birth we follow
Applicable to all
R.I.P.
PEACE!
Another trio on Nov. 22, 1963
JFK, Aldus Huxley, C. S. Lewis
The dumbest things Bush has said:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushquotes/a/dumbbushquotes.htm?nl=1
Conservative Idiots of the week:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/top10/301
They always go in 3's.
RIP to Walsh, Bergman & Snyder! They all left their mark!
I see that someone else upthread mentioned Houston TV icon Marvin Zindler. Here is the Wikipedia story and a taste of what we will be missing here.
MadMustard, check out the tunes I dedicated to Marvin in the Late Night Music Club. :-)
RE: Tom Snyder
He used to smoke cigarettes on camera, and I wrote him a bunch of times that was a BAD example. He ignored my letters, and continued smoking on camera. I got really annoyed, so I wrote him a letter that I saw WET SNOT dripping down his nose, on camera (which was true), and that he shouldn't smoke on camera. Tom READ my letter in full, ON THE AIR, and said how I was a disgusting person, then he ripped it up, on camera. I believe, if I recall correctly, he gave up smoking on the air. I always liked him, and thought he was a great interviewer, and a lot of fun. He will be missed.
baby jesus has been busy
Escape Clause
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTRmIDLj2To
RIP everybody...also I'm not sure if it was already mentioned but we should add Skip Prosser died, he was 56.
MadMustard -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Zindler
Wiki's correct and I'm not, that it was called the "Chicken Ranch". I said Chicken Shack.
Where I think Wiki may be wrong (and I didn't specify it more clearly) is that from my recollection the song LaGrange predated the downfall of the Chicken Ranch. My recollection on that could very well be incorrect.
Tom was an original. I saw him interview a lady who sold sex aids, and he referred to them as "schtupperware".
Stanley, that was a good choice for Zindler, I bet that would get a smile from old Marv himself.
Hope, as Josef turns away from the dance of death taking place on the hill, and leads his young wife and their child toward the sun breaking through the clouds, at the end of The Seventh Seal.
Apprehension, as Fanny and Alexander face life in a cold, austere house with a disciplinarian stepfather.
Desperation, as Karin goes mad and sees the walls crack open in Through a Glass, Darkly.
Gripping fright, as the young girl looks up at the men who will defile and kill her and give rise to The Virgin Spring. Revenge, as the girl's father tears down a tree to flagellate and cleanse himself before dispatching the murderers.
Hopelessness, as Agnes dies amongst her sisters and their repressed resentments and deceit in Cries and Whispers. Isolation and alienation, as another sick woman is stuck in a hotel room in The Silence.
Media as the message, as the camera swings around wildly on the beach to reveal Bergman and Nyqvist on their platform behind the Actress and the Nurse in Persona, and as the film literally burns through before our eyes.
Acceptance of life and death, as Prof. Borg confronts his empty life and finds meaning in Wild Strawberries, and as the knight and his companions invite Death in from the cold, and later dance away with him across the horizon in The Seventh Seal.
Bergman was one of the great artists of the 20th Century. His films are intellectual experiences, probing depths previously unexplored by film. They are much-parodied -- the knight playing badminton with Death, on The Young Ones, would be my personal fave -- and not well-appreciated in the US any more. But Bergman is the Shakespeare of film, an artistic foundation for the medium. He lives on in his images, stories, and indelible impact on art and film.
why isn't anyone talking about this guy?
Bill Robinson, a longtime outfielder who played on the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 1979 World Series champions and was the batting coach for World Series winners with the Mets and Florida Marlins, died Sunday in Las Vegas. He was 64.
groucho @ 32:
Fair enough, sir, fair enough.
Dan Ackroyd doing a better Snyder than Snyder.
Dwight Clark catching the pass in the back of the endzone and ending the Cowboys' reign.
Good times, good times...
Few men have had as big of an impact on the game as Bill Walsh, if any. RIP.
I used to work second shift in the late 70's and always watched Snyder's show. He had some great guests. What do we have today? Larry King Live, Nancy disgrace and Glenn Prick. Sweet Baby Jesus you screwed the pooch today.
As someone Bay Area born and raised, I have fond memories of Bill Walsh. He was a brain and a gentleman in a physically brutal sport. With Joe Montana, Dwight Clark, Ronnie Lott, Jerry Rice, Roger Craig, ... and the line!
It was an amazing thing to watch this chess master work his game.
Thank you Bill for all you gave us. Rest in Peace.
> Stanley, that was a good choice for Zindler, I bet that would get a smile from old Marv himself.
Well, those. I feel that he would've especially appriciated that that someone figured out where he got that line from ... . :-)
From the Washington post -
"Dexter Manley and humility, but it ended up saying more about Bill Walsh, beyond the cerebral professor of the sideline we solely made him out to be.
Manley had boasted he was going to clock Joe Montana in November 1986 after Montana had returned from back surgery and the Redskins were about to play the 49ers on "Monday Night Football." Walsh's braniac reputation notwithstanding, Gibbs knew what was coming next.
That night, Walsh dragged his tight end, Russ Francis, slowly across the line and had him crack-back block Manley from the blindside, which sent the Redskins' defensive end to the ground woozy. The next play, Manley was massacred again, until Gibbs watched him waddle toward the sideline, shook his head and said: "See. You keep talking, you're going to be spending more time over here than out there."
Bill, you and your team made my life happier. Thank you for your life, and all you brought to mine. Rest in peace.
A few years prior to joining the Niner organization, Bill Walsh was an assistant coach for Paul Brown's Cincinnati Bengals. There he tutored the great Ken Anderson, a premier QB of his generation, who later squared off against Walsh's Niners in both team's first Super Bowl appearance.
Ultimately, and to Walsh's great shock, Brown went to inordinate lengths to destroy his career in the NFL. Brown was an NFL patriarch, whose word carried great weight in his day.
I suspect that experience played a big part in formulating his minority hiring initiative. As angry as he admittedly was about Brown, he surely came to reflect that black coaches faced far greater
career obstacles than he ever did. Characteristically, he chose to attack that lily white mentality. He instituted a minority hiring program with San Francisco, a program that the NFL shortly thereafter adopted as league policy. Happily, he lived to see two black head coaches square off in a Super Bowl.
Above and beyond even his brilliance as coach, GM, and team president, that contribution alone cemented his reputation in the pantheon of American sport. Of course, the one was not possible without the other. In a very real sense, he was the Branch Rickey of the NFL. He was a brilliant football mind, yes. But, more to the point, he was a good man who performed yeoman service so that others could get a fair shot. RIP, Bill (and Go Niners!).
Jof of the Seventh Seal: And the strict lord Death bids them to dance.
"The genius" used to make fun of the $C band by talking about the "inverted toilet brushes" on their (band members) helmets." You gotta love that kind of lampooning from the same U that gave the world the halftime show "Salute to Polygamy" when BYU came to town. Rest in Peace, O Walsh me bye!.
And I still remember sitting in a dorm room with a buncha other undergrads watching Tom Snyder try to "interview" Charlie Manson. The latter spent the time about three questions behind. Very surreal television.
Stanley Rosenthal @ 4:
The Bill O'Reilly of his day...
Wow...
Makes one wonder what is going on with all these people shuffling off their mortal coat.
Bill Walsh...an opponent I could admire and respect. May you rest in peace.
The '79 Series with Pirates was one of the more fun things I remember happening during the days of disco (although I rooted for the Orioles).
Snyder's second show ("Late Late" or whatever the fuck it was called) was my favorite of his endeavors. His interviews with James Woods and Alec Baldwin were two of the funniest things I have ever seen on television.
I've only watched one Bergman film all the way through, so I'm not qualified to comment on him except to say that without Bergman we wouldn't have Woody Allen, and that alone is enough of a reason to give tribute.
Ok I take it back about ol Marv, but didn't he wear makeup everywhere?
Can't say I know much about Bergman but I did enjoy Tom's interviews while in college in the '90s and I'd take a study break late at night. And Bill Walsh....well, he'll always be inseparable from those great 49er teams. And Eddie Robinson was a hell of a hitting coach on the '86 Mets.
With reference to the above poster who noted that on 11/22/63 Aldous Huxley, JFK, and CS Lewis died. Another day when there were a couple of prominent deaths: 9/12/03 Johnny Cash and John Ritter. Don't ask me why I remember that except I think I was still in mourning for Johnny when word came out about John Ritter. I think.......
Not really at all the O'Really of his day, LL. In fact the main thing Marv pointed out in taking down the Chicken Ranch, is that the Sherriff of the county that LaGrange resides in was protecting the Chicken Ranch. It was a "Stupid elephants, see 'em holding each other's tails" message that Marv got out, IMHO.
> Ok I take it back about ol Marv, but didn’t he wear makeup everywhere?
Sorry, I didn't see that before I responded. I imagine he did wear makeup everywhere, but I guess that's what TV people do.
Stanley Rosenthal @ 49:
Yeah, I seemed to remember him as a really flashy guy, but he definitely was a man of the people and did expose the hypocrisy of the sheriff protecting the Chicken Ranch. He was bigger than life and called things as he saw them and he helped many many people... so on balance he was a good person and worthy of our respect.
Not to pile on a blogger having WordPress troubles, but John Cole tried killing and reconstituting his blogroll and now has this site and DailyKos both listed as "Center to Right."
Made me giggle, thought you'd enjoy.
Interesting tidbits, Zindler's (Marv's dad's clothing store) used to be across the street (Post Oak) from where Channel 2 (our NBC affiliate that he according to the Wiki got his start in TV) used to be (for the longest time after that, it was a 3 building complex that also housed some CC radio stations, now they've adding a couple of residential buildings.)
The picture on the front page of my website (http://www.thesequencers.us) led to my appearance on what show he later became associated with (Channel 13 (our ABC affiliate), Eyewitness News) in their old 'Closer To Home Segment'. My appearance was I think in October of either '70, '71 or '72 ... it was supposed to be my "15 minutes of fame" (but as Little Jack Melody later said "Let's stretch this 15 minutes out" ('The Cake Song (On The Blank Generation)'), and the place where that picture was taken resides in Meyerland (where Wiki says that Marv resided for the past many years.) I don't recall Marv ever being my customer there, but I think he moved there after my time working at the Old Hickory Inn. The customer whom I do remember most specificly, is Chris Brown of High Time Octate and Breeze fame ... I think he's the drummer in the drummer's plan (as stated by the Red Hots somewhere on their Uplift MOFO Party Plan album) ...
correction. Old Hickory Inn resides on the edge of Meyerland, in Marilyn Estates (I think is the actual neighborhood. It's basicly across the street (Chimney Rock) from Meyerland.)
Tom Snyder attended the same Milwaukee high school as Gene Wilder.
Ever lasting peace to all the famalies
Che's Lounge @ 36:
Tom Snyder's interview with Charles Manson should be required viewing in broadcasting schools every where. THAT is how an interview with a mass murderer should be done (maybe Timmeh Russert should watch it, just to get a few pointers on how to really interview Dick Cheney). I mean, really. Can you imagine Larry King doing that interview?? "Uh, so Charlie, why do ya think people don't like ya??" As for Nancy Grace - she'd shit her panties sitting in the same room with someone every bit as psychotic as she is. Tom Snyder was one of the greats at a time when the media still stood for something. RIP Tom!
Let's get real. We have a lot of work to do if we are going to create the future that these guys would be proud of. The worst stories are about those who die and no one cares and no one cared about. We have to study. The Monetary Policy of this country. The Federal Reserve. We have to expose. Corruption and Greed. Long week ahead of us still. Peace.
Wow, double whammy for the Bay Area.
And now Michaelangelo Antonioni too!!!!! :( Time to watch L'Avventura, or La Notte, or Red Desert in memory...
R.I.P.
"...So fire up the colorotini, sit back, relax, and watch the pictures now as they fly through the air..."
Upon hearing those words I would do just that. Sit back, relax, and know I was in for some quality entertainment. R.I.P. Tommy.
Bill Walsh proved that good people, behaving properly, can succeed at the highest levels even in a super-competitive environment like the NFL. The effect he's had on sports in general will be felt for generations.
As classy and respectable as they come, Bill Walsh, you'll be missed.
TC @ 48:
So long as we're talking iconic death dates - got one coming up here soon: August 16th. 1948 = Babe Ruth. 1977 = Elvis.
Hey look at the way this explanation of the mortgage market is worded in this article from msnbc. The context is the question "Why did my 401K get clobbered by the housing mess?"
This is the explanation from a veteran financial reporter,
"Plenty of players in the mortgage lending frenzy have already gotten burned. Dozens of the companies that went overboard lending to people who couldn’t handle their monthly payments have already paid the price: going out of business after being swamped by losses from an avalanche of bad loans that went bust."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20039819/
People who couldn't handle their payments? The market is crashing due to irresponsible lending practices by the banks. These practices have been detailed over the last 5 to 10 years. He completely mis identifies the cause and lays the blame on the consumer "who couldn't handle" it.
This is how the skewed bankruptcy reform was hammered through with no reform for business and making debt inescapable. With pundits like this puke that are apologists for any kind of unethical business practice.
typical . . . lumping an artistic genius in a post with media celebrity and football coach. And sandwiching him bwt them! C'mon, did it never occur to your to give Bergman his own post. And these comments ought to tell you a lot about your readership at C&L. How many of them concern Bergman and his films?
dumbed down blog for a dumbed down country . . . no real news yet, eh?
But wait . . . what was that? . . . did Bill O. just fart?
Rest in Peace.
I think Bergman's greatest contribution was his west coast offense.
the more I think about it . . . jesus christ you guys devote entire blogs to your cats! Bergman doesn't even get his own post. I'd really like to hear somebody defend this move. Honestly, you should be ashamed of yourselves at C&L. YOu could have at least listed him first! I mean, alphabetizing the list would have accomplished that, but no you wanted Walsh first, didn't you? Pathetic.
Come on Lud. Bergman is the best part of the sandwich. Snyder and Walsh are just a couple of slices of bread. I think C&L is paying great tribute by making him the meat.
Daily Reading pt 1...
FBI, IRS search home of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) looking for connections to his relationship with a wealthy contractor as part of a public corruption investigation. Wonder if they will find any e-mail on his computer, you know, in those series of tubes.
- http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2007/07/fbi_irs_search_home_of_sen_ted...
The 223 million dollar Bridge to nowehere man, the single biggest advocate for the extortion of the Internet (ie, he's the #1 enemy of Net Neutrality)
New Study Finds Global Warming Has Doubled the Number of Hurricanes - http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070730/ts_nm/weather_hurricanes_dc
The number of Atlantic hurricanes in an average season has doubled in the last century due in part to warmer seas and changing wind patterns caused by global warming, according to a study released on Sunday.
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Tomgram: Chip Ward, How Efficiency Maximizes Catastrophe on Global Warming (scroll down for the article) - http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174826
Diesel-Driven Bee Slums and Impotent Turkeys "Resilience thinking," the cutting edge of environmental science, may someday replace "efficiency" as the organizing principle of our economy.
Congress To Finally Probe Massive 2002 Klamath Fish Kill: Water Levels Halved by Cheney and Political Appointees over Scientists' Objections (causing over 60+ Million in damages)
- http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_62275.shtml http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=892 http://www.blueoregon.com/2007/07/cheneysmith-kla.html
Brushing aside scientific analyses, Bush administration appointees drastically reduced water flows in the Klamath River leading to the largest fish kill in the history of the Pacific Northwest, according to testimony released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). In the wake of press reports about the involvement of Vice President Dick Cheney, Congress is now asking how high up the orders came to cut water flows in the Klamath.
NY Times misreads stock market trends - http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=07&year=...
Dangers of a Cornered George Bush - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/072707a.html
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Daily Reading pt 2...
'President Bush's plan to veto a children's health insurance bill could leave about 200,000 California children uninsured and disrupt Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's goal of providing universal coverage, state officials said.'
- http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070730-9999-1n30health.html
More on this from PAUL KRUGMAN: An Immoral Philosophy - http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2007/07/paul-krugman-immoral...
"The Federal Communications Commission will set the rules tomorrow governing the auction of $15 billion of public airwaves, a decision with stakes so high that the major U.S. cellular carriers and Google have spent millions of dollars on a lobbying campaign in an attempt to influence the outcome. The decision could dramatically alter the nation's cellphone industry."
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/29/AR200707...
Google, the giant Internet search company, wants to extend its popular tools, which include e-mail and video, to the rapidly expanding mobile phone market. To do so, it may spend billions to build a new, open network it says will loosen the grip telecom operators have over how consumers use their cellphones.
Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis: What Will YOU Do When the GOP Cancels the 2008 Election? -- A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution - http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1201
Coming of Age in Bush's America! 'Imagine being on the brink of adolescence in the year 2000. . . Now imagine that it is seven years later and you have just grown into adulthood, and you gradually realize that in a frighteningly short a time your entire world has become unraveled. In just seven years, everything good that once was there is gone, and your country has come apart at the seams before your very eyes.'
- http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=651
Has a good listing of the crimes against the country committed by the GOP & Bush since '00...
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U.S. generals expect to need a large contingent of troops in Iraq until the middle of 2009, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said on Monday. No surprise there. Bush is letting our GIs die so that he and Cheney can blame someone else for "losing the war." - http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070730/ts_nm/iraq_petraeus_dc;_ylt=AnzM44hw...
Lets get this straight....its saving our troops, not 'losing a war'...
Bergman was a genius and a true original.
Being a Bears fan, I had a love-hate thing for Walsh, but I always respected him as a great coach.
Snyder was a great entertainer and interviewer. A bit loopy and a bit serious. He was entertaining and often on the cutting edge.
Bush bites....
I too, as a Bears fan share your thoughts on Walsh. He was a great innovator, revolutionized the game, and his 'coaching tree' speaks for itself
I am unfortunately not too familiar with Bergman, but from what people have said, looks like we lost another great mind.
I vaguely remember Snyder (his later work), but he had an open mind and he did put it out there...
What about Michel Serrault?
Think Cage aux Folles, King of Hearts....
He was one of the greats. His departure is not even updated in IMDB yet.
Stephanie Miller foretold Walsh yesterday when she lamented on her radio show about Bergman and Snyder and ruefully said "they say it comes in threes"
Another big loss today:
Italian visionary Antonioni dies at 94
Xan Brooks and agencies
Tuesday July 31, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the most innovative and distinctive film-makers of the 20th century, has died at the age of 94. The Italian director died at his home in Rome on Monday evening, less than 24 hours after the death of Ingmar Bergman - that other great giant of European art-house cinema.
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Away from his native Italy, Antonioni made his English language debut with the epoch-catching London thriller Blowup in 1966. He later moved to America to shoot the counter-culture romp Zabriskie Point and ushered Jack Nicholson through Europe in his existential odyssey, The Passenger.
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more:
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2138468,00.html
As someone who took graduate "Ingmar Bergman in the Context of Contemporary Swedish Literature" and must have seen 40 some movies, many several times, it's a big deal. Not just the direction and his cameraman's photography, he went to some raw philosophical places from the mid 60s into the 80s. I can't remember ever seeing a video release of Face to Face for instance. I've suspected because Liv Ullman's rendition of a nervous breakdown is more painful than anyone wants to pay to see.
Snyder was always interestingly "real". I think in the radio show he mellowed out and just seemed like a very nice guy you'd like to listen to.
Rest in peace Michelangelo
Obituary
Michelangelo Antonioni
Penelope Houston
Tuesday July 31, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
In May 1960, Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura was the sensation of the Cannes film festival. The screening was one of the noisiest and most uncomfortable on record. The second half of the film played to an angry accompaniment of shouts and catcalls from sections of the audience.
Affronted critics leapt to the director's defence. In 1962, L'Avventura was runner-up in Sight and Sound's poll of the top ten films of all time, coming closer than anything else in four runnings of the event to toppling Citizen Kane from its decennial perch. In 1972 L'Avventura held fifth place, in 1982 it was seventh, but by 1992 and 2002 it was out of the money. This seemed a fair enough reflection of altered attitudes, the eclipse of the European art-house cinema which Antonioni's work exemplified. In the 1960s, a handful of directors looked to be taking films across new frontiers of expression. A cinema dominated by Hollywood special effects (dinosaurs, aliens in space) no longer expects to deliver that kind of adventure, though in 1995 Hollywood itself made amends by awarding Antonioni an Oscar for lifetime achievement. He was among the risk takers of cinema, at a time when the risks were there to be taken.
more:
http://film.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/0,,2138557,00.html
I was going to point out Michel Serrault but then Michalangelo Antonioni (blow up) died today as well.
Just think... had they all been military personnel, we'd wait till the end of the month and "fully" honor them all in a cost and time saving joint Memorial Service.
I'll never forget Tom Snyder interviewing KISS...Ace Frehley was ripped and brought much needed levity to the proceedings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jzve-Tmd70
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvFNs3_uaUg
As a 49r fan for over 30 years this is truly a very sad day for all of us on the left coast.Bill Walsh will be truly missed and fondly remembered.Now the 49rs will fight and win this season for Coach Walsh...look out here come the 9rs......
Dahgrostab'ph-r-i @ 27:
Yes, it was really sad to hear about Skip and the others. Also, Bill Robinson died. He was 64. Keith had a nice piece on him and Tom Snyder last night. Robinson had a 16-year playing career as an outfielder for the Braves, Yankees, Phillies and Pirates from 1966-83. Robinson also served as an analyst for ESPN's Baseball Tonight in 1990-91. Currently, he was the Dodgers' Minor League hitting coordinator and was the hitting coach for the Mets when they won the World Series title in 1986 and the Marlins when they won in 2003. RIP Bill, Tom, Ingmar, Skip, Marvin, and Bill!
smchris @ 75:
*WHEW* That Was Close!
Remember me as you pass by
As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, so you shall be
Prepare for death and follow me.
King of Mean @ 24:
Great story! That kind of thing sums up why I always enjoyed watching his show so much. He was the original televised late night 'train wreck', and David Letterman knows it too ;-)
ludswiggy @ 65:
I would comment about how much I personally adore Bergman's films, "Wild Strawberries" and "The Seventh Seal", but that would just come across as insincere gushing. Intellectuals ... lol
"....one of the things about Europe is that the governments are afraid of people, they are afraid of protest and reaction from people whereas in the states people are afraid of the government , they are afraid protesting.........."
from sicko movie by Michael Moore
sorry
site monitor could you fix my last line to:
from sicko movie by Michael Moore
We can add Michelangelo Antonioni to the list.
recommend_sicko @ 92:
We mostly all understood what you meant to say, speaking for myself :-)
Stanley Rosenthal @ 4:
SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE!
RIP, Marv. You and your blue sunglasses will be sorely missed.
so who won the pool?
I only got two out of three. :-(
I'm very sad to hear about Bergman, and Antonioni as well. Nice appreciation, Laszlo Panaflex. I begged my way into a Bergman class as a college freshman and watched some of his films more times than I can count - I was actually just starting the full-length TV version of Fanny and Alexander when I got the news. I'll write up a proper blog appreciation when I'm no longer traveling.
Rest in Peace gentlemen, you have all left your mark on this life in your own individual manners. Walsh in sports, Bergman in cinema, and Synder in T.V. journalism. And rest in peace to all the others mentioned who passed in this last week and weekend who were significant or had left a positive impression on others. To the list I wish to add the name Pete Wilson, a bay area news figure who was an institution on air around these parts for longer than I have lived here. He too will be missed by his family and friends... Rest in peace to all and to the rest of us, I add part of that famous signoff of the late Ed Murrow... Good luck...JD
I guess when many brutes die on one day my hero is sadly missed! Michel Serrault, 79; French star of 'La Cage aux Folles' a great actor and inspiration is gone, where some taught us how to crush, others taught us how to embrace.
bob bruman @ 99:
That's a lovely way to sum it up. :)
To understand what Bill Walsh did for Northern and Central Calif....you would have to of been there and been a part of it to understand...........not to mention the fans spread out throughout the country.......and the feeling is still going strong...Thank You Bill...my sincerest condolencences to the Walsh Family.One day down at the beach Bill Walsh showed up(he lived right across the street)and the surf was about 15 feet...His jaw dropped and he said "WOW...Now thats a sport".His enthusiasm was contagious.....
I glad to see Michaelangelo Antonioni was not omitted in this tragic line-up. He's way up there with the Hitchcocks, the Kubriks, you name it. The first film of his making I saw was Zabriskie Point, with the unforgettable eery music of Pink Floyd. I'm sure someone will remember those slow motion shots!
Often copied but never surpassed. Here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f8DbODGsUM
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