The RIP Thread...

[Paul B]

yup, they left a concert and were headed home to L.A. I read that the dead are the pilot, copilot, an assistant to travis and his bodyguard.

 

[MasterBlaster]

A lotta rockers have died in planes.

 

[OTGBOSTON]

The stars didn't die. They took an early flight 'cuz one of their assistants was trying to get home for the birth of his child...he didn't make it

 

[vharrison]

RIP Paul Newman

 

[SkwerI]

Paul Newman's website, it may become overloaded from too much traffic soon.
http://www.newmansown.com/

 

[Altissimus]

Wow Paul Newman...we rented "Sometimes aGreat Notion" a couple of years ago , I had read the book and seen the movie many years ago ...the people who I watched it with had never heard of it ... they were moved by the powerful , crazy , storyline...This film was the first time Paul Newman was in the directors chair...as well as acting alead role...RIP!

 

[stehansen]

Wasn't he married to the same woman all those years? And I don't recall reading any articles about him doing something stupid, only articles about him doing cool stuff like charity work or helping out aspiring actors and such.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Paul was a cool dude.

 

[Paul B]

RIP Paul Newman...
My faves are cool hand luke, butch cassidy and the sundance kid & Blaze.

 

[Bodean]

Paul Newman will always be the best.

Smoothest.................Hands down.

 

[Blinky]

Rest in peace Paul Newman. Definitely the smoothest.

 

[Cobleskill]

Cool hand Luke was great. Im shakin it boss, I'm shakin it. I'm still shakin it boss.

 

[Paul B]

shakin the tree boss.. shakin the tree.

 

[Old Monkey]

I have Nobody's Fool on DVD, that's one of my favorites of his.

 

[stehansen]

I have Nobody's Fool on DVD, that's one of my favorite of his.

Me too OM.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I liked when he ate all those hardboiled eggs in Cool Hand Luke.

 

[cory]

He did one of the best logging movies ever IMO, "Never Give an Inch," with Henry Fonda. They played hard core PNW loggers. There's good treefelling scenes in it. Henry gets nailed by a barber chair and loses his arm. Paul Newman cuts some smartass union guy's desk in half with a big old McCullogh. I haven't seen it in years but it was a good flick.

BTW, "Sometimes a Great Notion" is the book that "Never Give an Inch" was based on.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Sometimes A Great Notion IS that logging movie.

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[Altissimus]

Yeah..."Never Give An Inch" was Hank Stampere's motto...that and "Son Of A Bitch!!!"

 

[cory]

Sometimes A Great Notion IS that logging movie.

Oops. So never give an inch is the book.

 

[MasterBlaster]

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[Old Monkey]

I would have pulled the fuel line out of the saw and used it as a snorkel.

 

[cory]

MB, amazing find.

Darin, that's a heckuva good idea.

 

[Paul B]

I missed this when it happened but I was poking around the interweb for another reason and bumped into this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax
The inventor of the dungeons and dragons game (which I played in high school, in fact I still have the manuals in near perfect condition if anyone is looking to buy... )

RIP Gary Gygax

 

[MasterBlaster]

RIP, Dom DeLuise.