Members DramatistDreamer Posted December 27, 2023 Members Share Posted December 27, 2023 South Korea is really harsh on drug users. Whereas, in Europe and increasingly, North America, drug use is treated either as a recreational or medicinal activity, in addition to viewing its abuse as a disease as a disease, South Korea treats it as a crime and uses the threat of punishment, even jail time as a result. With Lee Sun-kyun being a high profile celebrity, the charges against him were treated as something of a scandal and he likely believed he would be made an example of. It’s really sad, and S. Korea really needs to change the national tone to reduce what seems like overwhelming pressure to conform to societal expectations. It seems that when people in South Korea take a fall from grace, even if a small one, it’s viewed as if there is no way back from it. Truly tragic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members applcin Posted December 27, 2023 Members Share Posted December 27, 2023 R.I.P. Tom Smothers. https://www.newsnationnow.com/top-headlines/ap-top-headlines/ap-comedian-tom-smothers-one-half-of-the-smothers-brothers-dies-at-86/?fbclid=IwAR0hzfYR4fUvqFEB2KvAE22tvhiW73qTWPl_z8yTO1ZYpWXyfq1cpjqCMn8 Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 27, 2023 Members Share Posted December 27, 2023 (edited) The story of the Smothers Brothers and how Tom was essentially radicalized (by network TV standards, anyway) by their younger, hipper writers and by the way CBS treated them is a fascinating one. I have watched some of that material in the last few years, and while the political content is mild today (although still more than you'd get in many corporate quarters), what I took away was just how much fun it was to see their act and how well most of the material has aged. I suppose that's why they hung on in the public eye for quite a few years in spite of such a scarring and high-profile firing. Here's an interview they did last year, with, fittingly, CBS. Edited December 27, 2023 by DRW50 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted December 29, 2023 Members Share Posted December 29, 2023 Fox 5 in NYC should have had something about Bobby Rivers since he was a very prominent part of their Good Day NY morning team. https://nypost.com/2023/12/28/entertainment/bobby-rivers-dead-food-network-host-vh1-vj-dies-at-70/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted December 30, 2023 Author Members Share Posted December 30, 2023 Damn. Great scene with him and Sissy Spacek from “In the Bedroom.” 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted December 30, 2023 Members Share Posted December 30, 2023 Wilkinson was great in an understated way in In The Bedroom”. Tap dancing great and the other Hines Brother Maurice Hines has passed away. https://variety.com/2023/film/news/maurice-hines-dead-cotton-club-1235858674/?cx_testId=49&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=2#cxrecs_s 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members I Am A Swede Posted December 30, 2023 Members Share Posted December 30, 2023 A true grand old man of Swedish show business, Per Myrberg, passed away a few days ago at the age of 90. A really versatile performer, he was part of the ensemble at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm since the late 1950s, where he starred in plays by Shakespeare, Brecht and Strindberg. But he also had success with more light entertainment. He played Molokov in the first Swedish production of "Chess" in 2002, was the voice of Sebastian in the Swedish version of "The Little Mermaid", and had a monster hit here in 1964 with a Swedish version of "This Ole House".... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted December 30, 2023 Members Share Posted December 30, 2023 Tom Wilkinson was an absolutely towering talent. (Small soap note: That is a very young Austin Williams, Shane Morasco from OLTL, glimpsed in the scene with George Clooney above.) I saw him live in Guys and Dolls many years ago. What a talent. I recommend people see him and his brother at their best in Francis Ford Coppola's recut version of his own Cotton Club film - The Cotton Club Encore - which centers their characters more than the theatrical version and is now free on Amazon Prime. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members applcin Posted December 31, 2023 Members Share Posted December 31, 2023 Comic legend Shecky Greene dies at 97 https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/entertainment-columns/kats/comic-legend-shecky-greene-dies-at-97-2973752/ Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted December 31, 2023 Members Share Posted December 31, 2023 Did anyone remember him from ATWT? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members applcin Posted January 4 Members Share Posted January 4 https://variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/glynis-johns-dead-mary-poppins-mrs-banks-1235861986/ Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 5 Members Share Posted January 5 Sad to hear about Glynis. It was such a nice moment last year when she turned 100 (and still seemed to be lucid). I adored her in Mary Poppins. No idea Send in the Clowns was written for her. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Liberty City Posted January 5 Members Share Posted January 5 Absolutely heartbreaking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted January 5 Members Share Posted January 5 (edited) If this clip isn't used for every single memoriam tribute to her, there should be a riot. RIP Glynis - what a unique talent. 100 is a life very well lived. Edited January 5 by DaytimeFan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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