Plato Shrimp / The Morgue

**Posted by Rampop II** 1/30/2023 11:07 pm

**Posted by Rampop II** 1/30/2023 11:10 pm

R.I.P. Cindy Williams.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 1/31/2023 12:21 pm

RIP Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday

**Posted by crumbsroom** 1/31/2023 5:36 pm

I'm not even sure if I've ever seen a full episode of The Addam's Family.

I definitely saw lots of Laverne and Shirley though

RIP Cindy Williams

**Posted by Rampop II** 2/01/2023 5:41 am

Jinnistan wrote:
RIP Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday

Now that's a GIF.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 2/04/2023 5:11 pm

Melinda Dillon (Slap Shot, Close Encounters, A Christmas Story, Bound For Glory, Harry and the Hendersons, Magnolia) passed away quietly last month without a whisper from the entertainment media.

Fun fact: Melinda Dillon's screen debut was also the screen debut for Sun Ra, the 1959 short film, The Cry of Jazz.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 2/09/2023 4:59 pm

I have to admit. I'm not a big fan of Burt Bacharach or his style of shmaltzy loungey syrupy saccharine weasel-swill. But there are a number of interpretations that manage to transcend some of his songs into something approaching immortality. So not a complete waste of polyester.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 2/11/2023 11:57 pm

I've only seen this one film by Carlos Saura, who died yesterday, but it's a good one, a surreal psychological thriller about obsession that sits well alongside contemporaries like Hitchcock and Bunuel. I probably should try to check more of his work out.

**Posted by crumbsroom** 2/12/2023 12:24 am

Jinnistan wrote:

I've only seen this one film by Carlos Saura, who died yesterday, but it's a good one, a surreal psychological thriller about obsession that sits well alongside contemporaries like Hitchcock and Bunuel. I probably should try to check more of his work out.

I've got some of his dance films on Dvd that I've yet to watch, and I've had all of his films on Criterion on my 'to watch' list for months.

Maybe now is the time?

**Posted by crumbsroom** 2/12/2023 6:00 pm

Oh damn, Trugoy the Dove died

**Posted by Jinnistan** 2/12/2023 7:15 pm

crumbsroom wrote:
Oh damn, Trugoy the Dove died

Looks like possible congestive heart failure. At 54. Goddamn shame.

**Posted by Rock** 2/15/2023 4:14 pm

Raquel Welch

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64657781.amp

**Posted by Jinnistan** 2/15/2023 7:26 pm

Maybe we should do something to celebrate the remaining members of one of the sexiest generations before it starts to get weird.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 2/20/2023 12:48 am

The Belz.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 2/21/2023 12:06 am

This is a bit pre-emptive. As of midnight tonight, Jimmy Carter is still ticking. But I wanted to get in first. Carter has been put on hospice care to spend his "remaining time" at home with loved ones. The 98-year-old is already the longest living president of all time. Also the most underrated of modern presidents, hobbled by economic and global pressures beyond his control. He's Exhibit 'A' for why being a genuinely decent man is a disadvantage for being an effective president. Obama better start building some houses, because Carter also has the most honorable post-presidency legacy as a charitable ambassador of good will. We should celebrate the man while he still might hear us. But prepare yourselves for all of the pundits who have been ignoring him all these years to come out of the woodwork in the coming weeks to sing his posthumous praises.

**Posted by Rock** 2/21/2023 12:27 am

He shares my birthday so obviously he is a good man.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 2/21/2023 12:32 am

I had no idea you were that old. Don't go gently, Rock.

**Posted by Rock** 2/21/2023 12:50 am

Obviously I’ve never met the man, but there were a few members of his administration present when I saw the Barbara Kopple doc about the failed Delta Force mission to rescue the hostages during the Iran Hostage Crisis. I thought it depicted him in a pretty honourable light.

Perhaps a bit too nice and not enough of a politician to be an effective president (I got the impression that due to his inexperience, he leaned heavily an advisors who didn’t share his humanitarian concerns), but I think in the grand scheme of things we’d be better off with more like him.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 2/21/2023 1:18 am

Rock wrote:
(I got the impression that due to his inexperience, he leaned heavily an advisors who didn’t share his humanitarian concerns)

Carter did rely heavily on David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski who founded the Trilateral Commision a few years earlier. This group can be truly described as neoliberal, preferencing the coercion of corporate investment over the development of public infrastructure in the third world. Their policy papers included such well-known nuggets as a complaint about "the excess of democracy" and Brzezinski's suggestion for using the "technotronic" economy as a means of sedating popular unrest, which in addition to the diplomatic elite nature of the TC has given rise to all manner of conspiracy theories. Like most of these kinds of elitist movements, they tend to be bipartisan and not reliant on any given president to get the agenda established.

**Posted by Rampop II** 2/22/2023 8:56 pm

Jinnistan wrote:
We should celebrate the man while he still might hear us.

Hospice care often involves the patient being snowed under with opiates far exceeding any limits typically allowed. I dated a hospice nurse. By the time you've reached end–of–life care, standard concerns about opiates no longer apply. The priority is to get you comfortable under the immense pain of whatever it is that's killing you. In this case it's brain cancer. In all likelihood, the altitude of President Carter's consciousness is already far beyond earshot by now.

Godspeed.