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Otaku-sempai
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Feb 26 2017, 4:46pm
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Bill Paxton, R.I.P.
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Actor Bill Paxton dies at 61 due to complications from surgery: https://www.aol.com/...om-surgery/21721993/
I'll always remember Paxton as Colonial Marine Private Hudson ("He's Hicks.") in James Cameron's Aliens. Condolences to Mr. Paxton's family, friends, colleagues and admirers.
HUDSON: Game over, man! Game over!
"He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows." -- Favorite proverb of the wizard Ningauble of the Seven Eyes
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Ataahua
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Feb 26 2017, 6:08pm
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Ah hell. That's really sad to hear.
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Hudson was my favourite role of his. RIP.
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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Annael
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Feb 26 2017, 6:35pm
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Oh, that is way too soon.
Just watched "Apollo 13" again, another one of his.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the words begin to move around … The words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young.
-- Gaston Bachelard
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cats16
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Feb 26 2017, 9:42pm
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Will have to give Twister another look sometime soon. He had a reputation for being the nicest, friendliest person around Hollywood.
Far too young...
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N.E. Brigand
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Feb 27 2017, 6:04am
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Check out "One False Move" (1992).
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Probably his best performance and best film.
He's also excellent in the even darker Frailty (2001).
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Starling
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Feb 27 2017, 6:07am
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was my favourite role of his.
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the 13th warrior
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Feb 27 2017, 6:37am
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Let's not forget Bill in Aliens w/Newt, and also Titanic....
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Hello 0-S, nice idea. Bill Paxton was always rock solid, believable and had a humorous edge to his performances. Great quote from Aliens picked by you. I'll throw in the one when Ripley tells everyone that if Newt the little girl survived the aliens, so can they and Paxton says, "Ok put her in charge...."
I will toss in a curveball that his support role as the tycoon explorer in Titanic was one of my faves. In a way he drives and sets up the story, and gives it a spine, a through line: the salvage operation, discovery of the Rose Dawson picture, the connection to the real Rose, his learning about her and her story and Jack. There's a great contrast between his disappointment that the safe he salvages has nothing and then discovering the picture and a fantastic hidden story of the night to remember. He went after one treasure and found another: "Rose Dawson you are my new best friend...."
Farewell Mr. Paxton, you will be missed.....
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Annael
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Feb 27 2017, 5:37pm
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touching when Jennifer Aniston started crying when
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she added his name to the list of people they mourned at the Oscars.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the words begin to move around … The words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young.
-- Gaston Bachelard
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Yngwulff
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Feb 28 2017, 3:48am
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Remember what I said about people seein' a bright light before they die? It ain't true. I can't see a damn thing.
“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
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