Cha-ching!

this year seems pretty tame compare to past years

I wonder if his grandaughter, Giada De Laurentis, needs a shoulder to cry on? I'm here for you, G.

I'm sure you would be Mark. But you'd better make sure you're wearing shoulder pads. That woman has a HUGE head. That's not a forehead. That's at least a FIVE or SIX head..

I don't think it's the slope of her forehead that most men are looking at.

Is slope or size more important? Hmm. I think BOTH are equally critical...

Oof! Madonna mia! Mille grazie, Lilo!

Nice rack; a forehead like a drive-in movie. And her teeth are almost too perfect.

But I like her show .

I hadn't seen her before. Her forehead seems proportional. Other than her most obvious assets, she has a very prominent jaw line, which makes her more photogenic and suggests power and confidence. She's certainly a very beautiful young lady.

I don't know that she'd be too thrilled having her pictorial debut on these boards occur in the Dead Pool thread. But thanks for posting the picture, Lilo.

Philip Carlo, who produced novels and nonfiction accounts of serial killers and hit men before writing about his own struggles with disease, died on Nov. 8 in Manhattan. He was 61.

Obit

I recently received the Godfather "Family Album" as a gift (for my birthday, which was overlooked by the members, but who cares!? ). In the book there is an interview with Al P. during the shooting of GF. He mentions his girlfriend - Jill Clayburgh. I thought she was a talented actress and very pleasant to the eye. RIP Jill.

You don't your birthday listed anywhere (i.e. in your profile). Are we supposed to be mind readers??

Belated happy birthday, MC.


BTW - How'd you like the book?

So how did the Gangster BB send me an email birthday wish? And yes, you are suppose to read my mind since you too are of the old fart category.

BTW - The book is great. Love the candid photos and I thought Puzo's piece was great. I'm halfway through Pacino's interview. Brando was a nut.

Are there any Hammer film fans out there?
Ingrid Pitt died.
She came to prominence near the end of the classic Hammer period.

Obit

LONDON (Reuters) – Ingrid Pitt, seductive queen of the Hammer horror films who survived a Nazi concentration camp as a girl, has died aged 73, a spokesman for her agent said on Wednesday.

The actress started her screen career in the mid-1960s with roles in Spanish films and minor, uncredited parts in "Doctor Zhivago" and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum."

She appeared in the 1968 classic "Where Eagles Dare" alongside Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, and five years later in the mystery drama "The Wicker Man."

But it was for her roles in erotic horror films "The Vampire Lovers" (1970) and "Countess Dracula" (1971) that she was best known in Britain.

"Underrated as both an actress and a writer, Pitt was a warm but stubbornly enigmatic figure," said Marcus Hearn, a historian of Hammer horror movies and a friend of the actress.

Pitt was also a writer, producing two novels set during the Peron era in Argentina and several horror-related works of fiction.

She was born in Poland in 1937 to a mother of Jewish descent, and was interned in a Nazi concentration camp during World War Two at the age of five -- an experience she recounted in her autobiography "Life's a Scream."...

I received an e-mail from a friend last night informing me of Ingrid Pitt's passing. Very sad. I was (and still am) quite a fan of Hammer Films and remember seeing Ms. Pitt in those movies years ago. (I probably have a few of them on tape in the Archives.) The photo of her with fangs is actually from a 1970 non-Hammer film called The House That Dripped Blood, an excellent anthology of stories where Ingrid Pitt appeared in a segment spoofing horror films (!) opposite the late Jon (Doctor Who) Pertwee.

My friend also told me how, in the recent past, he had encountered Ingrid Pitt at horror/nostalgia conventions. He said she was a genuinely nice, down-to-earth person.

Signor V.

That's always nice to hear that someone who was famous was actually down-to-earth.

Leslie Nielsen, 84, died. The actor best known for his roles as Lt. Drebbin in "The Naked Gun" comedies died from complications of pneumonia.

Oh too bad. I liked the Naked Gun comedies (and wasn't he in the airplane movies too?). For some reason, corny as those movies were, they really made me laugh.

Oh probably only the oldsters will remember, Nielson had the leading man role in Tammy And The Bachelor (1956 or so?) with Debbie Reynolds , if I'm not mistaken. I did a double take when I saw him. He was so young.

TIS

damn...this really makes me sad ...is this the third 'airplane' star to pass away this year?

He was the best dead pan comedian in recent cinematic history. RIP

A lot of folks from my generation don't realize his career spanned several decades. TCM aired a bunch of his early b&w films and I was struck by how rigid and one-dimensional Nielsen's characters were in some of these b-rate productions. But it all sort of added to his later ironic-dead pan style of wit. RIP

Probably the most popular line:

"Can you fly this plane and land it?"

"Surely, you can't be serious."

"Yes I am, and don't call me Shirley."

Than there's the one they've been playing from Airplane with a stewardess saying (roughly) "what's that?" and Drebbin replying, "A big building with patients". LOL


TIS

I heard this morning that Leslie Neilson had died I always did like the Naked Gun movies they were hilarious.


Irvin Kirshner who directed probably the greatest Star Wars movie of all time that being The Empire Strikes Back died as well.

Dandy Don Meredith is the latest addition to the Dear Departed. The former quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys who went on to greater fame as a broadcaster for ABC Sports died at age 72 (brain hemorrhage).

R.I.P. Don

His repartee with Howard Cosell was absolutely priceless. A lot of it was set up probably, but their timing was perfect.
One of their act was when Howard would use his considerable vocabulary in an effort to show "Danderoo" what a rube he was.
Howard would say some layer or coach was "loquacious," and Don would chime in "yeah, and he talks a lot too." It was the only time in NFL history that the announcers put on a better show than the players on the field. Unfortunately toomany announcers today do not understad they lacked the talent of Meredith and Cosell.

RIP Don Meredith

I'm sorry to say that Elizabeth Edwards passed away. She sure had a long fight. I know they've come a long way with helping breast cancer victims. Where I worked alone, I knew three woman who were breast cancer survivors. They are getting there. Hopefully the day will come when it will know longer be a killer.

RIP Elizabeth


TIS


http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/07/eli...T1&iref=BN1

This is sad. RIP Elizabeth.

Our Don of Death is falling down on the job.... I have two kills that I haven't received credit for.... Ron Santo and Norman Wisdom.

Anyone wanna do this again in 2011?

hell yea! i call dips on the wikileaks founder.