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Posted: Apr 14, 2021 - 9:59am
ScottFromWyoming wrote: Condolences if the family disbursed all the money. I have a feeling they have their toes in the sand somewhere. Yeah, who knows. Either way they're lying mighty low - with good reasons. c.

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Posted: Apr 14, 2021 - 9:09am
cc_rider wrote: Bernie Madoff. I expect lots of folks are not all that broken up about his passing. Condolences to his family though. c. Condolences if the family disbursed all the money. I have a feeling they have their toes in the sand somewhere.

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Posted: Apr 14, 2021 - 8:45am
Bernie Madoff. I expect lots of folks are not all that broken up about his passing. Condolences to his family though. c.

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Posted: Mar 29, 2021 - 1:27pm

Steely_D wrote:

cc_rider wrote:

Larry McMurtry

Yes, there’s the movie. But if you’ve never read Lonesome Dove and its surrounding books, you’re really missing some great writing.

Thanks, I will check him out.

Don't miss Annie Proulx.

I had a go at screenwriting, both original stories and adaptions. The only worthwhile scripts turned out to be those adapted from really good short stories. Not surprisingly, mediocre fiction makes for bad scripts. I guessed that Annie Proulx must be a wonderful storyteller since the Brokeback Mountain movie turned out so well, and that was right.

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Posted: Mar 27, 2021 - 5:09pm

Antigone wrote:

Beverly Cleary

I have a memory of her visiting my elementary school in Berkeley when the Henry Huggins books came out. We had a small library in the school and she had something to do with it and was there somewhat often for a year or two or so. That was 4th, 5th and 6th grade for me. One of her children may have attended the same school. Very fuzzy. That was a long, long time ago. She did spend a lot of time in Berkeley of and on. I do remember her though because the meeting the lady who actually wrote the books was indeed a special treat for a young kid.

She contributed a lot of joy to this world.

To a wonderful life well lived. {#Cheers}

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Posted: Mar 27, 2021 - 2:21pm
Beverly Cleary

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Posted: Mar 26, 2021 - 11:24pm

Steely_D wrote:

cc_rider wrote:

Larry McMurtry

Yes, thereâs the movie. But if youâve never read Lonesome Dove and its surrounding books, youâre really missing some great writing.

I should read LD. The TV mini-series adapted from it was outstanding.

McMurtry was an interesting guy. IIRC he had a used bookstore in DC and would buy book collections from famous people in town, including the considerable holdings of Alice Roosevelt (Teddy's daughter).

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Posted: Mar 26, 2021 - 8:49pm
cc_rider wrote: Larry McMurtry Yes, thereâs the movie. But if youâve never read Lonesome Dove and its surrounding books, youâre really missing some great writing.

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Posted: Mar 26, 2021 - 3:14pm
maryte wrote: cc_rider wrote: Larry McMurtry I saw the obit page on the RAFT and that you were the most recent poster and knew it was about McMurtry. Yeah, that's a tough one. Apparently Death was the only thing that could stop him from writing. c.

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Posted: Mar 26, 2021 - 1:23pm
cc_rider wrote: Larry McMurtry I saw the obit page on the RAFT and that you were the most recent poster and knew it was about McMurtry.

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Posted: Mar 26, 2021 - 11:12am
Larry McMurtry

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Posted: Mar 25, 2021 - 12:35pm
Lazy8 wrote: Sabine Schmitz Cancer... that sucks.

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Posted: Mar 25, 2021 - 9:27am
George Segal dead at 87 I thought he looked a little ill when I saw him on the Goldbergs show the other day. Says complications from bypass surgery.

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Posted: Mar 19, 2021 - 8:14pm
Sabine Schmitz

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Posted: Mar 16, 2021 - 11:49am
GeneP59 wrote: Live and Let Die Yaphet He was also brilliant as Lieutenant Al Giardello onHomicide: Life on the Street. One of the great tragedies of our streaming era is that the rights to the distribution of the series are so tangled that it's not likely you'll see the show on Netflix and the like.

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Posted: Mar 16, 2021 - 9:53am
rgio wrote: Yaphet Kotto - dead at 81 Alien was one of those teen movies...that I saw over and over and over again. Live and Let Die Yaphet

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Posted: Mar 16, 2021 - 6:28am
Yaphet Kotto - dead at 81 Alien was one of those teen movies...that I saw over and over and over again.

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