Another celebrity gone

**george7** · 1st July 09, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown

Bringing the total to -- oh -- 42 "passings" in the entertainment industry since January 1st. Not that I'm counting...

That's not even counting the Politicians.

I don't think that there's more death these days, I think the cameras are just pointed over there.

Anybody connected with the media? Could we point some cameras at kittens in trees?

**GDub** · 1st July 09, 09:17 PM

Karl Malden was a GREAT actor. He did Hollywood big time. And, he lived a very long life and was married to his wife Mona for 70 years! She survives him. WOW! RIP Karl.

**McClef** · 2nd July 09, 01:40 AM

How sad about them both and I am unanimous in that.

**Scotus** · 2nd July 09, 03:10 AM

As GDub said, he celebrated his 70th wedding anniversary this past December. That's great. His best role, in my opinion, was in On the Waterfront.

**Jock Scot** · 2nd July 09, 03:24 AM

Originally Posted by McClef

How sad about them both and I am unanimous in that.

Very good Trefor! Me too.

**macwilkin** · 2nd July 09, 06:40 AM

Originally Posted by Scotus

As GDub said, he celebrated his 70th wedding anniversary this past December. That's great. His best role, in my opinion, was in On the Waterfront.

"Boys, this is MY church!"

What a scene!

While I loved him as Omar Bradley, I would agree that Fr. Corrigan was his best role.

May light perpetual shine upon him.

T.

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 2nd July 09, 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by george7

That's not even counting the Politicians.

I don't think that there's more death these days, I think the cameras are just pointed over there.

Anybody connected with the media? Could we point some cameras at kittens in trees?

Only on "slow news" Sundays... Let's face it. With the globalization of the television industry, "The News" has become another form of televised entertainment, with the result that it has surrendered its objectivity in order to build ratings and hold on to viewers for what ever program follows it. In depth reporting rarely has any depth at all, largely due to the television practice of hiring actors to report what's going on in the world around us.

Television, globally, has declined over the past forty years to the point that it has become an electronic side show, designed to hold the attention span of those lacking the ability to amuse -- or inform -- themselves. It has become an addictive palliative for the simple minded majority of our society.

Marx, writing in the 1860s, said that religion was the opiate of the masses. Today that opiate is television.

**Coinneach** · 2nd July 09, 07:39 AM

A minor actor, perhaps, but with a great voice....Harve Presnell has just left us.

(The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Paint Your Wagon and many others.)

**Galician** · 2nd July 09, 09:34 AM

Wow, I remember all three and appreciated their work. "Are You Being Served" was a big hit with my family; my mother made me get up early on a Saturday morning to pick her up and drive her out to the suburbs to meet John Inman.

Does anyone remember Malden as the minister in Disney's adaptation of "Pollyanna?"

**kiltedsawyer** · 2nd July 09, 09:51 AM

Wow, I had to look up Harve Presnell, he was one of those actors you always recognized but didn't know by name. Still, he was one of the lucky ones who got to do what he loved for a living. Hey that's an idea for an off topic thread.
Respectfully,
David