Celebrities We Lost 2024
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@Rathenhope NO
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This one kills me as someone who has very cherished memories of watching the Rocky movies with my grandfather. I loved Carl Weathers, and was happy to see his resurgence in The Mandalorian.
I don't know what I'm doing. Poke at Seven Nations sevennations.aresmush.com port 2021
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@Testament said in Celebrities We Lost 2024:
This one kills me as someone who has very cherished memories of watching the Rocky movies with my grandfather. I loved Carl Weathers, and was happy to see his resurgence in The Mandalorian.
Same. RIP Action Jackson.
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Country musician Toby Keith.
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@GF Good riddance.
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@Jenn I donāt follow country music. Whatād he do?
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@GF A lot of racist bigotry, and super awful politics and war mongering. Not all that abnormal in the US, but still pretty gross none the less.
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@Jenn Ah, thatāll do it. Yeah, Iām glad heās not around to do that any more.
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@GF He did a song called āCourtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)ā
Now, Courtesy Of The Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) wasnāt directly responsible for anything that happened in the wake of the September 11 attack on the WTC, and really Toby Keith wasnāt either. The end of the end of history drove the country insane, and the response was directed by the highest powers of government and abated by national media desperate to avoid being called āun-Americanā and eager for reels of unscheduled Middle Eastern demolition video to run at primetime. Some people were terrified, some people were furious, some people were all but openly gleeful that we had a new enemy to define ourselves against now that the commies were out of the picture.
Toby Keith didnāt start any of that, and he wasnāt the only person involved in any of that, but he tied his public image and his work to that angry nationalist hornetās nest that defined America in the 2000s and most definitively with Courtesy Of The Red, White and Blue (The Angry American). That aggressive, jingoistic āwith us or against usā warmongering that defined āAmericanā by an eagerness for vengeance while seeing the sort of person caught up in trivialities like personal liberty, the rule of law, or whether the country we were invading had anything to do with the people who attacked us as Americaās enemies would be his message and his brand from 2002 on when he released an album that had Courtesy Of The Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) as its opener and closer.
Again, Iām acknowledging that there are a lot of people who did a lot worse in those days than than release Courtesy Of The Red White and Blue (The Angry American), but Toby Keith chose to tie himself so tightly to that ugly part of our history (and a very direct āourā hereāyou might have inferred that this is a bit of a sore spot, something of a formative period for me) and he did very well off of it. He made it his identity and now he can be one more person for whom it is his legacy.
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@SpaceKhomeini said in Celebrities We Lost 2024:
I guess Don Henley outlived him after all.
The punk rock death watch continues.
Please stop posting things that make me sad, thanks.
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I donāt post much, Iāll grant, although in this case, itās about someone whom I admired much. Not a deep nor broad body of work, just a simple actor who was a great friend to the fans, played a lovable goofball in one of his major roles, and did not behave badly. One of my favorite go-to ācomfort moviesā is now a much less strong place for that loss. My heart grieves with his family and friends.
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@OnceWas NOOOOOOOO (See my avatar)
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Comedian and actor Richard Lewis.
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@GF said in Celebrities We Lost 2024:
Comedian and actor Richard Lewis.
Hands up if you found out via the Larry David statement
