Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Everything Else => Topic started by: Mad Dr Jeffe on February 14, 2006, 12:18:55 PM
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/14/obit.brown.ap/index.html
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Phil Brown, an actor who played Luke Skywalker's loving but doomed Uncle Owen in "Star Wars," died Thursday of pneumonia. He was 89.
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Oh, wow. That's awful news. I can't believe it took so long for me to hear about it!
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Uhm...
Was that the highlight of his career? If so, not much of a career :s
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I don't know. But that's all he probably ever had to mention to anyone...
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n the 1950s, Brown was blacklisted during the communist scare in the United States. A longtime progressive, Brown always denied being a communist.
Moving to London, he found work on stage and in such films as "Tropic of Cancer" (1970) and "Twilight's Last Gleaming" (1977).
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Well, not exactly "all" he had to mention, but the SW role is featured prominently on his website: http://www.philbrown.com/index.htm
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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There's nothing here for me now.
I want to go to Alderaan with Obi Wan.
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Well, the lovable Barney Fife is no more. :'( Don Knotts passed away a few hours ago. (http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-02-26T014349Z_01_N25352847_RTRUKOC_0_US-KNOTTS.xml)
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He was great. >:(
Years in the future when Hollywood movies are computer-generated using the identities of all the famous actors of days gone by, Don Knotts must be one of them.
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That is really and truly sad. I love that show, and Barney Fife was one of the biggest reasons why.
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My favorite of his is still The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. I need to own that one someday.
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It's sad that he's gone, but not a huge surprise. He's been in a couple of interviews in the last month where it was obvious that he wasn't doing well. He'll be missed. Personally, I loved The Incredible Mister Limpet. :)
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"Ghost and Mr. Chicken"--my brothers all *loved* that. I need to watch it again. Any of you remember that movie called "The Apple Dumpling Gang" (1975)? Cute movie and funny (of course).
But I knew (and loved) him best as the goofy, exitable Deputy Fife. At least he had a good, long career. What a great man.
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Darren McGavin, best known as the dad in "A Christmas Story" passed away yesterday too.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060226/ap_en_tv/obit_mcgavin;_ylt=AsB9yfO7nAunvJv88m6S0tWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3YXYwNDRrBHNlYwM3NjI-
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The Apple Dumpling Gang is a classic. I was raised on that one. Have you seen the sequel?
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You know, I haven't. Did you like the sequel?
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Yeah, I did, though I haven't seen it in like 15 years.
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Hmm. Well, that one will have to be added into my Netflix queue, then. Oh, how I love Netflix.
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Don Knotts! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
That means no more scooby doo crossovers!
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hmph. Begone! We don't want no Knotts haters here. (This comment in no way reflects the opinions of the poster for said crossovers, which are lame.)
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Who said anything about hatin'?
I *love* Scooby Doo. The best episodes they have are with Sandy Duncan, The Harlem Globetrotters, and Don Knotts.
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and Batman
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Adam We Batman that is.
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There's another batman?
Oh, I guess there was that Christian Bale guy.
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and that Michael Keaton one, and Val Kilmer, and George Cluny.
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and that Michael Keaton one, and Val Kilmer, and George Cluny.
Now you're just making stuff up.
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"Cluny" is how it's spelled in post-modern English. ;)
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Dana Reeve, wife of late Christopher Reeve, dies at age 44 of lung cancer, though she was a non-smoker. She leaves behind her son, 13 years old. So sad. :(
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Stanislaw Lem, a popular science fiction writer whose novel "Solaris" was filmed twice, died Monday in his native Poland, his secretary said. He was 84.