Played Ross and Monica's Dad.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 8 December 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link
They got famous actors for all the Friends parents.
Rachel: Liebman and Marlo ThomasChandler: Kathleen Turner and Morgan FairchildPhoebe: Bob Balaban and Teri GarrJoey: I forget.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 8 December 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link
pacino/pesci
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 December 2019 03:53 (four years ago) link
whoa
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 December 2019 04:17 (four years ago) link
I saw Ron Leibman's Tony-winning performance as Roy Cohn in Angels in America in '93. (Or rather, the first half of it; by the time I saw the second play months later, F Murray Abraham had replaced him.)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 December 2019 04:30 (four years ago) link
elliott gould was a total badass in the 70s
appearing as a friends dad was far less so
― mookieproof, Sunday, 8 December 2019 07:09 (four years ago) link
Juice Wrld
https://www.tmz.com/2019/12/08/juice-wrld-dead-dies-seizure-chicago-midway-airport-hospital/
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 December 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
Huh. Soundcloud rapper has statistically got to be one of the most dangerous professions aside from firefighters.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 December 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
naw he was one of the best things in the show (Christina Pickles was great too)
Am sure Robert Walker Jr was a nice dude but Charlie X, the only Star Trek episode I remember watching as a little kid, scared the shit out of me, esp his brattish screaming
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Sunday, 8 December 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
the mortality rate of these extremely young rappers is absolutely horrifying
― treeship., Sunday, 8 December 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
lucid dreams was one of the best examples of the soundcloud style, i think, whatever you think of it. unapologetically direct and confessional. also, it shows the kind of range of reference points young people are working from -- the track rips off both sting and yellowcard.
― treeship., Sunday, 8 December 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
Carroll Spinney, Big Bird/Oscar the Grouch, 85.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 8 December 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
SAD
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 8 December 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
Oh no, RIP
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 8 December 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
i shed a tear
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
Rene Auberjonois
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ren-auberjonois-dead-star-trek-benson-actor-dies-at-79-1260677
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 8 December 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
Saw him on stage as the imaginary invalid once
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 8 December 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
Guessing the new Kelly Reichardt will be his last
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 December 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
Oh no! RIP Rene!
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 December 2019 23:33 (four years ago) link
His mother, Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Murat (1913–1986), was a great-great granddaughter of Joachim Murat, one of Napoleon's marshals and King of Naples during the First French Empire, and his wife, Caroline Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest sister.
0_o
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 December 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
Wow
Thinking now of Brewster McCloud, and his very nice prominent placement in the McCabe & Mrs. Miller opening credit sequence
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 December 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
;_;
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 December 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
he had a very likeable face
― calzino, Monday, 9 December 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
he was wonderful
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 December 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
Okay, Big Bird and Odo in one fell swoop is just too much.
― Masters of Engilsh Litera-ture (Old Lunch), Monday, 9 December 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
he is barely in the new Kelly Reichardt alas
good even in crap like Eyes of Laura Mars
his first two film appearances were Lilith and Petulia
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 December 2019 02:30 (four years ago) link
BREAKING: Paul Volcker, the former head of the Federal Reserve who helped shape American economic policy for more than six decades, has died at 92 https://t.co/sEizvjqgwV— NYT Obituaries (@NYTObits) December 9, 2019
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 December 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
RIP Paul Volcker, who said on taking office as Fed chair in October 1979, “The American standard of living must decline,” and then did his best to make that happen.— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) December 9, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 December 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
Apparently that Volcker quote may or may not have been fake news:
https://medium.com/@timbarker_2092/a-note-on-paul-volcker-and-the-standard-of-living-d262f7f83b51
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 9 December 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
good to know or not know
― mark s, Monday, 9 December 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
Kate Figes, writer, 62.
― santa clause four (suzy), Monday, 9 December 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
she related or married to Orlando Figes?
lazy of me, but I can't be bothered checking!
― calzino, Monday, 9 December 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
siblings
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 December 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
And Eva Figes?
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Monday, 9 December 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
She’s their mother.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 9 December 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
Volcker was the last Fed chair to think Big Business is awful and needs regulating.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 December 2019 23:55 (four years ago) link
Erik Loomis:
It’s not as if I am downplaying the role of inflation in the 1970s. When you have inflation clocking at well above 10%, that’s a problem. A fix was needed. The first major problem I have with Volcker and his kind is that thanks to them, we have vastly overlearned the lessons of the 1970s. The people who rule our economy will go to any lengths to hold down inflation, no matter the cost to people. Nothing matters more. Never mind that inflation is simply one of many issues that a balanced economy has to manage, nothing else really matters. Never mind that the global and national economies are vastly different than they were forty years ago. That’s an irrelevancy for those who subscribe to the religion of no inflation. To some extent, it’s like the Populists trying to argue with the laissez-faire establishment of the first Gilded Age that their problems were real and needed relief. So when they managed to semi-takeover the Democratic Party in 1896 with Bryan’s silver beliefs, the economic elite absolutely freaked out that the barbarians were at the gate and they really developed the first modern political election campaign to be sure McKinley won and principles were held to. Once again, we are in an era where people have real financial problems that some inflation (not 20%, but maybe 6-7%) would help alleviate those issues. And once again, economic-religious doctrine gets in the way of any policies that would help working Americans. Volcker has no responsibility for that.
Moreover, Volcker really reveled it. He was happy to cause pain in order to achieve his desired goals. He stated, “The standard of living of the average American has to decline,” leading he and others in the Carter administration to declare fairly open war on the unions helping Americans increase their standard of living. It was Volcker who first brought the ideas of Milton Friedman into the American government when the former took over the Federal Reserve. Carter’s team initially did not want to pick Volcker for the job because he was so rigid and was “very right wing.”
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
i'm not sure it's volcker's fault that the people in power remain obsessed with inflation (or reagan); probably bound to happen when said people are all pushing eighty
let's steal the finnish party leaders imo
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link
this @_TimBarker piece on Volcker and his legacy was excellent and worth reading among what I’m sure will be a lot of hagiography https://t.co/FNE3fFnxdJ— Max Read (@max_read) December 9, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
“The standard of living of the average American has to decline,"
is this not, in so many words, a position many ilxors could be seen as taking bytimes iirc
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 08:49 (four years ago) link
not if you mean the mathematical average aiui
― insecurity bear (sic), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 09:14 (four years ago) link
fair & balanced
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 09:17 (four years ago) link
I didn't know Volcker was considered conservative. In my lifetime I knew him for his involvement with Dodd-Frank and for his support of estate taxes.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 09:31 (four years ago) link
Yuri Luzhkov, former Mayor of Moscow dead at 83. Hugely influential in turning the city into a glittering high-tech megalopolis via development contracts that almost exclusively benefited his wife. A giant of the grift.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 10:00 (four years ago) link
Marie Fredriksson, formerly of Roxette. Kinda surprised she was 61.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 12:24 (four years ago) link
Brain tumor.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 12:33 (four years ago) link
Wow. They had some great songs/productions.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 12:35 (four years ago) link
It wasn't unexpected, as tumour was found years ago, and she hasn't been able to gig since 2016, but it's still sad.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
Screenwriter Barrie Keeffe:
https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/barrie-keeffe-dead-dies-screenwriter-the-long-good-friday-1203431141/?fbclid=IwAR2dSA-RBy5NpMbMyi5gNu0_jTTIC1fBETh-BwkRna6A6RFL1G58UboGj8E
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
'Micks, pig-eyed Micks. Red Mick terrorist scum'.
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link