He’s one of the very first guys who put the Mellotron on the map. Unmistakable sound.
RIP
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:39 pm
by Steve of phpBB
Damn.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:35 pm
by wlu_lax6
Sonja Christopher...first contestant ever voted off Survivor.
Terry Anderson..journalist held as a hostage in Lebanon for years.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:03 pm
by wlu_lax6
Zach Norman--Romancing the Stone, Cadillac Men, A-team, Baywatch. One of those folks you would say..oh I recognize him.
Dingaan Thobela...the Rose of Soweto....WBO Lightweight, WBA Lightweight, a WBC super-middleweight world champ
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:20 pm
by Giff
I remember loving Romancing the Stone when I was a kid. Wonder how awful it is.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:45 pm
by Johnny Carwash
Giff wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:20 pm
I remember loving Romancing the Stone when I was a kid. Wonder how awful it is.
It was and still is awesome. As was Zack Norman in it. RIP.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:47 pm
by rass
Giff wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:20 pm
I remember loving Romancing the Stone when I was a kid. Wonder how awful it is.
Me too, and I bet it’s at least ok. Those two are honest to goodness movie stars, and they made a sequel. And at least one more movie with DeVito.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:00 pm
by sancarlos
I don’t remember much about the story, but Kathleen Turner was gorgeous in those days.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:47 pm
by DaveInSeattle
Giff wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:20 pm
I remember loving Romancing the Stone when I was a kid. Wonder how awful it is.
I watched it a while back with my girls, and I thought it was still great. You can tell that Michael Douglas had a BLAST doing that movie.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Wed May 01, 2024 7:22 am
by A_B
watched it a couple of months ago and I thought it held up pretty well. The mudslide scene is one of my earlier in theater moments I remember.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 10:45 am
by rass
Theoden King
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 10:52 am
by Shirley
Maybe not the greatest speech (which is fine, because like 10 guys could probably hear it), but what a great scene.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 11:08 am
by Baloney
rass wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 10:45 am
Theoden King
I remember him from being in The Boys From the Black Stuff as Yosser Hughes and his catch phrase "Gizza job". Reflected how grim life was in Liverpool under Thatcher while I was in College there.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 12:44 pm
by L-Jam3
Was in the first two movies that made $1 billion worldwide gross.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Thu May 09, 2024 8:49 pm
by brian
Jimmy Johnson.
No, not that Jimmy Johnson.
Not the other one either.
The one that played for the 49ers in the 60s.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Thu May 09, 2024 11:09 pm
by sancarlos
brian wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 8:49 pm
Jimmy Johnson.
No, not that Jimmy Johnson.
Not the other one either.
The one that played for the 49ers in the 60s.
His career was derailed by a blindside crack back block that blew out his knee. Was said to be the best cornerback in the NFL before the injury. Was said to be the reason they made crack back blocks illegal.
David Sanborn, whose keening cry on alto saxophone was as bright and steadfast as a lighthouse beacon during a career that spanned nearly 60 years and included collaborations with everyone from David Bowie to Stevie Wonder, died on Sunday in Tarrytown, N.Y. He was 78.
...
The key to Sanborn's success was his sound, which ran sweet-tart with a bracing bite, like the wedge of lime on a salt-rimmed cocktail glass. He'd adapted that tone from his childhood hero, Hank Crawford, a former music director with Ray Charles — but he made it as personal as his speaking voice, and carried it into a dazzling range of settings. Sanborn performed at Woodstock as a member of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, with whom he logged his earliest recording credits. He can be heard amiably wailing on "Tuesday Heartbreak," from Wonder's Talking Book album, and James Taylor's "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)." His sax famously delivers the opening salvo on Bowie's "Young Americans," as well as a running commentary throughout the song.
Saw him multiple times during the 80's...was always a great show.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 12:32 pm
by mister d
You guys like to put ones I don't know so here's one for the Boston-area swampers:
If he counted as a celebrity, he was easily the one I saw most living there.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Thu May 16, 2024 9:46 am
by degenerasian
Darren Dutchyshen was the face of TSN Sportscentre forever. Was the Canadian Scott Van Pelt.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Thu May 16, 2024 3:06 pm
by L-Jam3
The Mirage, whose opening in 1989 reignited Vegas into its 90s boom, to close in July to be converted to a new Hard Rock in 2027.
Dabney Coleman, a Texas-born character actor who created an acclaimed gallery of comically macho throwbacks in films including “9 to 5” and “Tootsie” and TV shows such as “The Slap Maxwell Story” and “Buffalo Bill,” died May 16 at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 92.
Met him once...the GF's daughter dated a Nordstrom kid for most of High School and college, so one year we got the invite to the Nordstrom family Christmas party. He was a nice grandfatherly guy.
That was the same party where I met Steve Ballmer (he lived down the street). Ballmer was wearing an epically ugly Christmas sweater.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Mon May 20, 2024 5:48 pm
by Giff
I’ll go look at a $90 t-shirt in his honor tomorrow.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Mon May 20, 2024 8:14 pm
by mister d
wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 11:08 amIvan Boesky
I was going to post a fake name hoping you'd google the same way I had to, but then I read his wiki and it was kind of interesting so fuck me.
wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 11:08 amIvan Boesky
I was going to post a fake name hoping you'd google the same way I had to, but then I read his wiki and it was kind of interesting so fuck me.
You didn’t know who Ivan Boesky was? I guess he’s not a household name like he was in the 80s but he was an OG Wall Street swindler.
He was only the real-life Gordon Gekko... (I need to see Wall Street at some point).
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 10:52 am
by mister d
Yeah. Was 8 when he was sentenced and never saw Wall Street.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 11:23 am
by L-Jam3
Wall Street is the Citizen Kane of movies that people completely miss the point of. Finance bros live to idolize Gordon Gekko, when in reality Oliver Stone was critiquing guys like him and was demonizing him, also pointing out that he really wasn't that good of an investor. The "Greed is Good" speech was to show that Gekko was really a monster.
