Reaperwatch 2008: Weep for The Wicked

[Desertpuma]

Damn ...

[Bill Whitmore]

http://movies.msn.com/movies/year-in-review/in-memoriam/?photoidx=1

I can honestly say, having looked through this, that number 46 has changed my life more than any of the others.

[VisualStatic]

http://movies.msn.com/movies/year-in-review/in-memoriam/?photoidx=1

I can honestly say, having looked through this, that number 46 has changed my life more than any of the others.

Son of a..... there were some in there I didn't know about......   Death you b......

[OverNinja]

Van Johnson at 92 (CNN).

[TheAuldGrump]

Gods, I had not realized that two of the Kingston Trio died this year. Damn.

The Auld Grump

[Wolverine]

Here's one for the Brits: Kathy Staff has died. If you don't recognise the name, you'd probably recognise her most famous TV character... Nora Batty (from Last of the Summer's Wine).

To be honest, I'm actually surprised she was still alive.

[ThunderMonkey]

Star Wars...

I never saw that one coming.

I watched the "Star Wars Clone Wars" movie. I felt stupid. I felt like I was too smart to watch the movie, and I never even finished watching it.

The dialog was tripe and the plot was about as unique as any story-driven video game.

My seven year old thought it was great, and I could see how it would be entertaining for young girls.

Star Wars (1977-2008). You had a great run buddy.

[Wolverine]

Oddly enough, the series that follows on from the movie isn't quite as bad. Mainly because it isn't all Anakin and his Padawan.

You get Yoda taking on a Droid tank... single-handed

[ThunderMonkey]

Oddly enough, the series that follows on from the movie isn't quite as bad. Mainly because it isn't all Anakin and his Padawan.

You get Yoda taking on a Droid tank... single-handed

Really? My plan was to get the series when it comes out on disc. I'll stick to that plan, then.

[Mister Andersen]

Oddly enough, the series that follows on from the movie isn't quite as bad.

You are kidding? The quality fo the voice work seems to have gotten worse, while they've really ramped up the (dark)comedy value of the battledroids

[OverNinja]

Celine Cawley, former Bond girl murdered.

She was one of The Girls and appeared uncredited.

[Slippery_jim_digris]

The Reaper is working OT!

'Apocalypse Now' actor Sam Bottoms dies
Dec. 18, 2008, 3:05 PM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sam Bottoms, who had small but memorable roles in the 1970s classics "Apocalypse Now" and "The Last Picture Show," has died. He was 53.

Bottoms, one of four actor-brothers, died Tuesday of brain cancer at his home in Los Angeles, wife Laura Bickford said.

In "Apocalypse Now," Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic, Bottoms played pro surfer-turned-soldie r Lance B. Johnson, who takes to the waves amid bombs and bullets under the orders of the maniacal, surfing-mad Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore played by Robert Duvall.

"He was a handsome, tall young man and very sweet-natured and seemed to be right for that part," Coppola said Wednesday. "Sam was a good actor. Of course, he comes from a family that had a lot of theatrical activity."

In his 1971 film debut, a 15-year-old Bottoms starred alongside his best-known brother, Timothy, in "The Last Picture Show," playing a mute and mentally handicapped boy forced by friends to lose his virginity to a prostitute.

Sam Bottoms said he was in Texas to visit his brother, who was the film's lead, when director Peter Bogdanovich saw him and cast him in the part.

Brothers Joseph and Ben are also actors.

Sam Bottoms was born in Santa Barbara in 1955, the third of four sons of sculptor James "Bud" Bottoms. He began acting in local theater at age 10.

After his 1970s films, Sam Bottoms went on to appear in the Clint Eastwood westerns "The Outlaw Josey Wales" and "Bronco Billy," and Coppola's 1987 Vietnam film "Gardens of Stone."

He more recently appeared in the films "Seabiscuit" and "Shopgirl."

He is survived by his three brothers, his parents and his wife.

[OverNinja]

Majel Roddenberry.

Maybe Death has a bonus program going on this year.

[Desertpuma]

Damn ... at least she got in one last hurrah being the voice of computer in JJ Abrams Star Trek

[OverNinja]

"Deep Throat", W. Mark Felt.