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That's a long career. He was Tramp in Cool Hand Luke way back in 1967, and worked up until just a couple years ago, but I think he was most memorable in Repo Man (1984).
If you've seen it, then you know the life of a Repo Man is always intense. He lived it well.
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TSB: A lot of the unreported stuff is pretty funny: General Confirms "US Policy Is Not To Defend Canada" In The Event Of A Missile Attack: The current head of NORAD says the Canucks don't really need missile protection because "The North Koreans rather like us." (Why waste all that money and manpower on a weapons race when you can just be friends?) gwb
TSB: My wife says big quake, but everyone is fine. Unfortunately the corrupt, TV star President Piniatta was not injured. Apparently, soap operas uninterrupted so
my mother in law not concerned. gwb
He, Bruce Dern, Strother Martin, L Q Jones, etc provided the flesh to movies. And my all time favorite Sydney Greenstreet, with his immortal line in "Casablanca" "As the highly respected leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca"
James: Coincidently, that movie was on right after Cool Hand Luke on my cable channel the other day. I always like that "Play the Marseillais" scene.
TSB: To Prevent Rebellion, Spain Docks Cruise Ship Housing 16,000 Riot Police In Barcelona Port: (Time to mine the harbor??) gwb
TSB,
The gal who did the singing in that scene died just recently. Also Jake LaMotta passed.
TSB: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-4907764/Activists-force-ship-carrying-Volkswagen-cars-turn-Greenpeace-says.html
Air pollution killing people in London??
Air pollution causes an estimated 40,000 premature deaths a year in the UK and is linked to health problems from childhood illnesses to heart disease and even dementia.
A testing programme last year found that modern diesel cars emit six times more nitrogen oxide in the real world than in laboratories.
(And believe me, that dementia is expensive to treat!! I ran into a lady in the grocery line yesterday who said: "Do you remember me? You treated my son Jay when he was 7 years old." I said sure! How is Jay doing? (He's 39 now.) When you have dementia you lie a lot!!) gwb
TSB: If I were President I would be taking Puerto Rico a lot more seriously. Rather than announcing $700 million in aid to Syria yesterday I would have mobilized the military in Florida to send troops and equipment, food and water to Puerto Rico to assist in the cleanup, provide fuel, evacuate people. Get stores operating again. 3 million people is a lot! Seems like he is ignoring this problem. gwb
TSB: Where have the people gone who lost everything? The news blackout is as complete and strange as the darkness that has descended on Puerto Rico. gwb
James: I saw the Jake LaMotta news. A good long life, and he actually invested the money he won, ending up wiht a $185 million estate. The only boxing champion to do that, I'm sure.
GWB: Puerto Rico is effectively blacked out of the news, what with 100 percent of its power and telephone commo shut down. Every cell phone tower that wasn't destroyed by Irma was destroyed by Maria. You know what I'd like to see? Powerships - big barges with natural gas turbines - parked off PR's ports and used until the utility company is back up and running, which will probably be months from now.
TSB: I think I just discovered the reason for the news blackout. This post is from 2 days ago: Apocalyptic Flood: Puerto Rico River Rises 62ft ABOVE flood stage - Extreme Flash Flood
https://youtu.be/AD7g-wZXg3Q
THERE ARE 77,000 people downstream along these 3 rivers and there was no way to notify them 2 days ago. Maybe figure 40,000 deaths from a 90 year old dam bursting?? I'd do a news blackout too! gwb
Well the hurricanes were in a sense a godsend for Puerto Rico's politicos. They going bankrupt in a very public way. Now they can cover their asses with lots and lots of federal money.
Gents: Puerto Rico, La Isla Bonita, was a political and economic disaster zone before it became a natural one, so, yes, this hurricane will probably transform it into something new. Half the island might move to Florida and not come back. The economy might just as well start over from scratch. Being 70 billion in debt even before the storm, no investors will be interested in reconstruction. FEMA aid is their only cash cow now, until the hotel and tourist industry returns, if it ever does. Doing anything on an island is inherently difficult and expensive, so any future development plan will have to have a serious no-BS kind of real payoff if it is to attract investment. Sad to say, but I don't think PR has a lot of native assets to work with.
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