Red_Dragon wrote:

rest in peace alan
i couldn't help but think of this scene...

 Red_Dragon wrote:

noooo...

Alan Arkin

 lily34 wrote:

Epic!  

 Beez wrote:

OMG 

"women love a good shin."

he will be moderately missed.

James Loveless Obituary 2023 - Pulaski Funeral Home

I hope my obit is half as epic as this one....
RIP James

 DaveInSaoMiguel wrote:
This is scary. They are starting to be younger than me. May they rest in RockHeaven.

Teresa Taylor, Butthole Surfers Drummer, Dies at 60

 Pedro1874 wrote:
Thanks! - I was just gonna watch the mini-series Whitehouse Plumbers. This comes in handy to get a better understanding of what went on before and at the time.

That 2009 documentary is only available in German on YT, afaict: "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers".

https://www.mostdangerousman.o...


There's a 2003 Hollywood movie with James Spader that "kinda" reflects on it, too:

Although it was quickly established that the papers were authentic, they remained secret. It was not until 2005 that the NSA released some of the documents, and only in 2011, 40 years later, has the U.S. government lifted the secrecy and put all the documents on the Internet.
When watching the 2009 documentary, one might come to think that nothing has changed since that year in 1971: Internet, of course, media organizations in the hands of ever fewer folks (Dan, pre-internet forwarded the papers to 17 different press-orgs.).
Snowden, yes. - Assange, yes, yes.  - Still, the situation might have gotten worse, while what we've been educated as understanding as "democracy" still desperately keeps trying to go "imperial".

 R_P wrote: 
The Godfather of Whistleblowers.  "The most dangerous man in America"  from who else?  But THE most dangerous man in America and he is still ALIVE!  Henry Kissinger.
RIP Daniel. Watch a  wonderful documentary 2009 and understand.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319726/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_3_nm_5_q_The%2520most%2520dangerous%2520man%2520in%2520America

 Red_Dragon wrote:
If you have a chance, check out Glenda in one of her final roles.  She was as good as she ever was, and it was such a poignant story:  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/maste...

Daniel Ellsberg *

Daniel Ellsberg

 Red_Dragon wrote:

aww. my dad LOVED her.

Glenda Jackson

 maryte wrote:

Dammit. Cormac McCarthy's books got me through the Rona. 
I had put his first book in queue from my library a few weeks ago.
Went through Blood Meridian twice. 
The trilogy beginning with All the Pretty Horses was damned amazing. 
Didn't enjoy The Sunset Limited at all. 
And the No Country book was very close, but not exactly the movie.  

He was not a Feel Good Happy Ending writer.
RIP

 Manbird wrote:


I think he sprung from the womb a curmudgeon.

 maryte wrote:

One of my favorite authors but he was a bit of  toerag in the interview I saw.

Rebecca Fahrvergnugen

Cormac McCarthy