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  • #16
    A bit too soon people...

    I'll miss his movies. I enjoyed most of them. Especially all the Denzel Washington movies.

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    • #17
      Well he probably ended it because he wanted to be renemberd as a young man, not an old one.

      The thing that bugs me is that all these rich people which could have almost anything they wanted kill themselves, but the really poor people in places in Africa, or even middle class citizens like me or you keep on going.

      Then again, it may have been the fame itself that drove him to it. I'd probably kill myself at about 60 if it were not for my religeous views (I still think suicide should be legal though).
      Originally posted by IonFan
      (even if the ear sucking helped get me off faster)
      Originally posted by Big Daddy Caesar
      If I had things like the internet and a laptop as a kid, I never would have left my room as a teenager.
      Originally posted by Quaker
      I am the Geoff Johns of the GLCMB.

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      • #18
        That's fucked up.

        Love True Romance.

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        • #19
          I think ............nah, I can't do it.

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          • #20
            Can't say I've ever heard his name before this.

            Like the movies though. Just never have been one to care who directed a movie.

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Deadpool View Post
              The thing that bugs me is that all these rich people which could have almost anything they wanted kill themselves, but the really poor people in places in Africa, or even middle class citizens like me or you keep on going.
              Not all depression is fueled by environmental factors. He may have had clinical depression, or he may even have found out that he was about to die from something horrible to die from, like some form of late stage cancer.

              Don't simplify suicide, because it's not a simple matter.
              Now you'd never call Erwin a "Wussy"
              Nor label his working day "cushy"
              But you might have to question
              His endless obsession
              With superpositional pussy.

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              • #22
                Yo.

                this guy did Last Boy Scout & Top Gun? damn...........

                /salute
                /kneel
                /mourn




                Tazer


                Originally posted by Andrew NDB
                Geoff Johns should have a 10 mile restraining order from comic books, let alone films.

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Razorgod View Post
                  Don't simplify suicide, because it's not a simple matter.
                  Exactly.

                  Nobody really knows how someone else is feeling, they might be all smiles and cool when you see them, but deep inside they are hurting, I'm sure most of us have felt like shit and dont show it.

                  Thats why suicide always surprises people, just because you have all the money in the world dont mean you're happy, a poor man can live a happy fore-filling life, money has nothing to do with it.

                  Robinson beat me to a Prometheus joke but atleast I wont be going to hell for it :P got to save it for a Scott Hall joke.

                  Seriously though sad news for his family, had no idea myself he directed so many movies I like.

                  THE MEN CALLED STING

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                  • #24
                    I haven't thoroughly read the story, just glossed over it. There's no foul play suspected here? He just woke up one morning and lept off a bridge? Depression or not, there's got to be more to this story.

                    I enjoyed most of his movies. A tragic ending to a great career. RIP.

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                    • #25
                      It was a surprise to me when I heard this news. I'm not going to speculate on his death.

                      Top Gun is one of my favorite movies of all times. It's actually the movie I saw most at a movie theater; 7 times.
                      You just witnessed the strength of geek knowledge. N.W.A., Nerd With Attitude. Straight out of Vulcan!

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Razorgod View Post
                        Not all depression is fueled by environmental factors. He may have had clinical depression, or he may even have found out that he was about to die from something horrible to die from, like some form of late stage cancer.

                        Don't simplify suicide, because it's not a simple matter.
                        You know what, you don't know how right you are.

                        You're completely right about that. I come from a family with alot of depression in it, so I should probably know alot more than depression than some, I think I already have a bit of it already. And I live in a bigger house than most of my peers. (then again, I have a very small cirle of freinds)
                        Originally posted by IonFan
                        (even if the ear sucking helped get me off faster)
                        Originally posted by Big Daddy Caesar
                        If I had things like the internet and a laptop as a kid, I never would have left my room as a teenager.
                        Originally posted by Quaker
                        I am the Geoff Johns of the GLCMB.

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                        • #27
                          Legendary Songwriter Hal David Dead at 91

                          http://news.yahoo.com/legendary-song...205354931.html

                          LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hal David, the stylish, heartfelt lyricist who teamed with Burt Bacharach on dozens of timeless songs for movies, television and a variety of recording artists in the 1960s and beyond, has died. He was 91.

                          David died of complications from a stroke Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to his wife Eunice David.

                          He had suffered a major stroke in March and was stricken again on Tuesday, she said.

                          "Even at the end, Hal always had a song in his head," Eunice David said. "He was always writing notes, or asking me to take a note down, so he wouldn't forget a lyric."

                          Bacharach and David were among the most successful teams in modern history, with top 40 hits including "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head," ''(They Long to Be) Close to You" and "That's What Friends Are For." Although most associated with Dionne Warwick, their music was recorded by many of the top acts of their time, from the Beatles and Barbra Streisand to Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin. They won an Oscar for "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (from the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"), Grammys and Tonys for the songs from the hit Broadway musical "Promises, Promises."

                          David joined the board of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1974 and served as president 1980 to 1986. He was head of the Songwriters Hall of Fame from 2001 to 2011, and was Chairman Emeritus at his death.

                          "As a lyric writer, Hal was simple, concise and poetic -- conveying volumes of meaning in fewest possible words and always in service to the music," ASCAP's current president, the songwriter Paul Williams, said in a statement. "It is no wonder that so many of his lyrics have become part of our everyday vocabulary and his songs... the backdrop of our lives."

                          In May, Bacharach and David received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song during a White House tribute concert attended by President Barack Obama.

                          Bacharach, 83, thanked Obama, saying the award for his life's work topped even the Oscars and Grammys he won for individual projects. David could not attend because he was recovering from a stroke. Eunice David accepted on his behalf.

                          "It was thrilling," she said. "Even though he wasn't there, Hal said it was the highest honor he had ever received."

                          More than 55 years after their first songs hit the airwaves, Obama said "these guys have still got it." He noted their music is still being recorded by such artists as Alicia Keys and John Legend.

                          "Above all, they stayed true to themselves," Obama said. "And with an unmistakable authenticity, they captured the emotions of our daily lives — the good times, the bad times, and everything in between."

                          David and Bacharach met when both worked in the Brill Building, New York's legendary Tin Pan Alley song factory where writers cranked out songs and attempted to sell them to music publishers. They scored their first big hit with "Magic Moments," a million-selling record for Perry Como.

                          In 1962 they began writing for a young singer named Dionne Warwick, whose versatile voice conveyed the emotion of David's lyrics and easily handled the changing patterns of Bacharach's melodies. Together the trio created a succession of popular songs including "Don't Make Me Over," ''Walk On By," ''I Say a Little Prayer," ''Do You Know the Way to San Jose," ''Trains and Boats and Planes," ''Anyone Who Has a Heart," ''You'll Never Get to Heaven" and "Always Something There to Remind Me," a hit in the 1980s for the synth pop band Naked Eyes.

                          Bacharach and David also wrote hits for numerous other singers: "This Guy's in Love with You" (trumpeter Herb Alpert in his vocal debut), "Make It Easy on Yourself" (Jerry Butler), "What the World Needs Now is Love" (Jackie DeShannon) and "Wishin' and Hopin'" (Dusty Springfield). They also turned out title songs for the movies "What's New, Pussycat" (Tom Jones), "Wives and Lovers" (Jack Jones) and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence" (Gene Pitney).

                          In a 1999 interview, David explained his success as a lyricist this way: "Try and tell a narrative. The songs should be like a little film, told in three or four minutes. Try to say things as simply as possible, which is probably the most difficult thing to do."

                          The writer, who lived in New York, often flew to Los Angeles, where he and Bacharach would hole up for a few weeks of intense songwriting. Sometimes they conferred by long-distance telephone; "I Say a Little Prayer" was written that way.

                          David would recall working on a song that seemed to go nowhere. They stuck it in a desk drawer and left it there for months.

                          "This was particularly disappointing to me. I had thought of the idea at least two years before showing it to Burt," David wrote in a brief essay on his Web site, www.haldavid.com. "I was stuck. I kept thinking of lines like, 'Lord, we don't need planes that fly higher or faster ...' and they all seemed wrong. Why, I didn't know. But the idea stayed with me.

                          "Then, one day, I thought of, 'Lord, we don't need another mountain,' and all at once I knew how the lyric should be written. Things like planes and trains and cars are man-made, and things like mountains and rivers and valleys are created by someone or something we call God. There was now a oneness of idea and language instead of a conflict. It had taken me two years to put my finger on it."

                          And so they had another smash: "What the World Needs Now is Love"

                          The hit-making team broke up after the 1973 musical remake of "Lost Horizon." They had devoted two years to the movie, only to see it scorned by critics and audiences alike. Bacharach became so depressed he sequestered himself in his vacation home and refused to work.

                          Bacharach and David sued each other and Warwick sued them both. The cases were settled out of court in 1979 and the three went their separate ways. They reconciled in 1992 for Warwick's recording of "Sunny Weather Lover."

                          David, meanwhile, went on to collaborate successfully with several other composers: John Barry with the title song of the James Bond film "Moonraker;" Albert Hammond with "To All the Girls I've Loved Before," which Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson sang as a duet; and Henry Mancini with "The Greatest Gift" in "The Return of the Pink Panther."

                          Born in New York City, David had attended public schools before studying journalism at New York University. He served in the Army during World War II, mostly as a member of an entertainment unit in the South Pacific. After the war, he worked as a copywriter at the New York Post, but music was his passion and he had written lyrics for Sammy Kaye, Guy Lombardo and other bandleaders before hooking up with Bacharach.

                          He married Anne Rauchman in 1947 and the couple had two sons.

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                          • #28
                            Rest in Peace, Mr. David.

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                            • #29
                              Michael Clarke Duncan dead at 54

                              http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.1150806

                              LOS ANGELES — Michael Clarke Duncan's fiancee says the Oscar nominee for "The Green Mile" has died while being hospitalized following a July heart attack.

                              Publicist Joy Fehily released a statement from Clarke's fiancée, the Rev. Omarosa Manigault, saying the 54-year-old actor died Monday morning in a Los Angeles hospital after nearly two months of treatment following the July 13 heart attack.

                              The 6-foot-5, 300 pound Duncan appeared in dozens of films, including such box office hits as "Armageddon," ''Planet of the Apes" and "Kung Fu Panda."

                              Duncan had a handful of minor roles before "The Green Mile" brought him an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. The 1999 film, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, starred Tom Hanks as a corrections officer at a penitentiary in the 1930s. Duncan played John Coffey, a convicted murderer.

                              All I can say is wow. He didn't live long enough. He will be missed.

                              I guess this means that a Green Lantern sequel is a definite no.

                              RIP!
                              Mister.Weirdo
                              Guardian of the Universe
                              Last edited by Mister.Weirdo; 09-03-2012, 10:03 PM.

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                              • #30
                                That's just incredibly sad.

                                Rest in Peace, sir.

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