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BigTimeOperator · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:02 am Post subject:

R.I.P.
Larry 'Bud' Melman

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Donno · Joined: 13 Mar 2004 Posts: 657 Location: Wild West Philly

So sad. I loved that guy. I will eat toast on a stick in his honor tonight. And maybe freshen up with a hot towel.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/21/obit.melman.ap/index.html
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Donno · Joined: 13 Mar 2004 Posts: 657 Location: Wild West Philly

Robert Clark, director of A Christmas Story, Porky's, and Turk 182...

LOS ANGELES, California (AP -- Film director Robert Clark, best known for the holiday classic "A Christmas Story," was killed with his son Wednesday in a head-on crash with a vehicle steered into the wrong lane by a drunken driver, police and the filmmaker's assistant said.

Clark, 67, and son Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, were killed in the accident in Pacific Palisades, said Lyne Leavy, Clark's personal assistant.

The two men were in an Infiniti that collided head-on with a GMC Yukon around 2:30 a.m. PDT, said Lt. Paul Vernon, a police spokesman. The driver of the other car was under the influence of alcohol and was driving without a license, Vernon said.

The driver, Hector Velazquez-Nava, 24, of Los Angeles, remained hospitalized and will be booked for investigation of gross vehicular manslaughter after being treated, Vernon said. A female passenger in his car also was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and released, police said.

In Clark's most famous film, all 9-year-old Ralphie Parker wants for Christmas is an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle.

His mother, teacher and Santa Claus all warn: "You'll shoot your eye out, kid."

A school bully named Scut Farkus, a leg lamp, a freezing flagpole mishap and some four-letter defiance helped the movie become a seasonal fixture with "It's A Wonderful Life" and "Miracle on 34th Street."

Scott Schwartz, who played Flick in "A Christmas Story" and kept in touch with Clark, called Clark one of the "nicest, sweetest guys that you'd ever want to come in contact with."

"It's a tragic day for all of us who knew and loved Bob Clark," Schwartz said. "Bob was a fun-loving, jelly-roll kind of guy who will be sorely missed."

Clark specialized in horror movies and thrillers early in his career, directing such 1970s flicks as "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things," "Murder by Decree," "Breaking Point" and "Black Christmas," which was remade last year.

His breakout success came with 1981's sex farce "Porky's," a coming-of-age romp that he followed two years later with "Porky's II: The Next Day."

In 1983, "A Christmas Story" marked a career high for Clark. Darrin McGavin, Melinda Dillon and Peter Billingsley starred in the adaptation of Jean Shepard's childhood memoir of a boy in the 1940s.

The film was a modest theatrical success, but critics loved it.

In 1994, Clark directed a forgettable sequel, "It Runs in the Family," featuring Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen and Kieran Culkin in a continuation of Shepard's memoirs.

In recent years, Clark made family comedies that were savaged by critics, including "Karate Dog," "Baby Geniuses" and its sequel, "Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2."

Among Clark's other movies were Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton's "Rhinestone," Timothy Hutton's "Turk 182!", and Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd's "Loose Cannons."

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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BigTimeOperator · Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:18 am Post subject:

Porky's really was the greatest comedy trilogy in the history of movies

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The Tarantula · Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:18 am Post subject:

I saw Porky's on TV here recently. I have no idea why it was so intriguing at the time. I sat through most of it, and all I saw was too much dude asses.

At least Revenge of the Nerds had a payoff.
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The Tarantula · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:24 pm Post subject:

Kurt Vonnegut died. I don't know if he fits in with this thread, but hey.
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Rory · Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 1560 Location: Chicago

Man, I'm actually pretty devastated. Though he was an old ass bastard. RIP, Kurt.

Donno · Joined: 13 Mar 2004 Posts: 657 Location: Wild West Philly

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He was a genius.
I'm very sad he's not in this world anymore.
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Adict4DeadMilk · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:44 pm Post subject:

Tis a sad day. Hi oh
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The Lamp Incident · Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 5090 Location: PVD, rho die land

Lay off the shrooms before posting on a message board, hahaha.
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Adict4DeadMilk · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:10 pm Post subject:

me?
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BigTimeOperator · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:11 am Post subject:

R.i.p.
Don Ho

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070415/ap_on_en_mu/obit_ho
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The Lamp Incident · Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 5090 Location: PVD, rho die land

JERRY FALWELL HAS BITTEN THE DUST!!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/15/jerry.falwell.ap/index.html
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Spoon · Joined: 11 Jul 2003 Posts: 1503 Location: New Hampshire

You beat me to it, Lamp. Came here for no other reason than to break the news.

No. No death for me, thank you.
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