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McParadigm wrote:We're gonna have to abandon this thread at some point. Modern pop culture is about 50-some odd years old, so the list of people who are both loved and also lined up to go is immense. We'll need a goddamn subforum.
For sure. The following people turn 70 this year, and I doubt they'll all make it out of 2016 alive: Sly Stallone, Steven Spielberg, Cher, Tommy Lee Jones, David Lynch, Danny Glover, Donald Trump (please), Eugene Levy, John Waters, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Buffet, Patti Smith, David Gilmour, Barry Gibb...oh, and each of us will probably have a loved one die this year, but, hey, today is Thursday--almost TGIF!
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Stallone will be a tough one for me.
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Leonard Cohen is 81. He'll go soon, and it'll be devastating.
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I have no idea how Kirk Douglas is still alive. He's my favorite actor ever, but I don't think that one will be difficult because of how crazy old he is.
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theplatypus wrote:Leonard Cohen is 81. He'll go soon, and it'll be devastating.
Willie is over 80 too.

Paul, Mick, Keith, and Bob are in their 70's.

Tom Waits is 66 but treated himself hard for a while.

And Shatner is 84 :(
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McParadigm wrote:And Shatner is 84 :(
That's gonna be brutal.
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Turning 75 this year: Bob Dylan, Martha Stewart, Neil Diamond, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, George Clinton

Turning 76 this year: Chuck Norris, Ringo, Al Pacino, Patrick Stewart, Alex Trebek, James Caan

Turning 77 this year: Tina Turner, Ian McKellen, John Cleese

Turning 78 this year: Christopher Lloyd

Turning 79 this year: Morgan Freeman, Bill Cosby, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman

Turning 80 this year: The Pope, Burt Reynolds, John Madden, Robert Redford, Mary Tyler Moore

Turning 85 this year: James Earl Jones, Shatner, Regis Philbin

Turning 90 this year: The Queen, Mel Brooks

Turning 100 this year: Kirk Douglas, Beverly Cleary
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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let's not forget dick van dyke...he just turned 90
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Mecca wrote:I'd be on my toes if I was British and 69
ian mckellan turns 69 next month :?
I won't stand for your lies. I know he's well into his 70s
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Mecca wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Mecca wrote:I'd be on my toes if I was British and 69
ian mckellan turns 69 next month :?
I won't stand for your lies. I know he's well into his 70s
i was actually guessing he was at least 80, but he's only 76
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Townshend and Daltrey will be a kick In the guts
Calibrate your enthusiasm
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I dunno. After 'Robin Williams killed himself,' everything else seems...contextualized.

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Rickman was so great in his few scenes in Dogma
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swan wrote:Rickman was so great in his few scenes in Dogma
Oh man I forgot about that, but yeah.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I haven't seen Dogma in 17 years, but it felt like a dummy's attempt to match profound and funny even at 19. Maybe it's aged well, but that would be a surprise.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I enjoyed Dogma as a teenager. Haven't seen it in many years though.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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