I am behind on my news. Just found out. That is terrible news. I liked him as an actor and as a person.


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I'm really sad to hear such news. He was one of the actors that I like. I still remember him from one of my favourite movie Somewhere in Time. May he rest in peace. R.I.P.

thetenken wrote:

RIP, Mr. Reeve. You're still a Superman, on and off the screen...

Total agreement.

Condolences to his family and friends.

well..sad that "superman" died..RIP

I read this page, and I think the guy has a little point about mr reeves
http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=creeve

I am sad to hear this news. After all the recovery he suffered from the horse riding accident, and for this to happen!
It's very sad news.
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Ken-chan wrote:

well..sad that "superman" died..RIP I read this page, and I think the guy has a little point about mr reeves http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=creeve

I suppose he might have a point, but the article is rude and insensitive. If the guy showed some more tact, maybe we could accpet his claims, but he's just a ranting idiot....

The only real super man.
damn that was one tough dude. he was so talented. my mother used to be so in love with him.
.... hmmmmmmm if i keep on typing ill start to cry!
i love u super man!
he was a true super hero.

I got really shocked and sad when I heard the news ... RIP.
The TV over here is airing Superman 2 at this very moment ...
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zchendevlemh wrote:

i guess Doomsday really get him

Good GOD..I just realize this..where's your sensitivity..

Was seriously bummed yesterday to hear about his passing... I recalled watching a Christopher Reeve movie back in college with my GF.
-PCM

i nearly cried when i saw it on the news yesterday morning, he was my childhood hero, and im sure some people here, were theirs too. i also like him in Somewhere in Time, that was one of my favorites... RIP

zchendevlemh wrote:

i guess Doomsday really get him

that was uncalled for. im guessing you never had a hero except your porn collection... but keep wishing and you'll be next
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It had to happen someday. i didnt know so many people liked christopher reeves, but i guess i didnt grow up watching him on tv and movies.

i wonder if someone from this forum died, do you think we would find out? Probably not.

Depends on who.

A lot of people here know each other, or have met each other because of this forum. For that, you never can tell if one will know or not if someone died.
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jax wrote:

It had to happen someday.

true but do we really have to joke around about it? like that idiot there..

jax wrote:

i didnt know so many people liked christopher reeves, but i guess i didnt grow up watching him on tv and movies.

hehe bec. ure still young at that time, heck i could barely understand english when i watched superman movies back then (i know that doesnt relate to it, but its part of my childhood)
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From the N.Y. Times:

Jerry Orbach - who won fame on the New York stage as one of the last bona fide leading men of the Broadway musical and global celebrity on television as a New York detective on NBC's "Law & Order" - died on Tuesday night. He was 69.

The cause was prostate cancer, according to his agent, Robert Malcom.

In performances that spanned half a century, the Bronx-born Mr. Orbach came to embody two beloved New York archetypes: the musical matinee idol, to which he gave a refreshingly modern spin with his rugged and idiosyncratic persona, and the shrewd, irascible cop, a role he honed to a razor's edge as Detective Lennie Briscoe on "Law & Order."

After playing that role for 12 seasons, Mr. Orbach left the show at the end of last season with plans to star in "Trial by Jury," a spinoff that is scheduled to have its debut on NBC in the spring. His illness, which he first disclosed earlier this month, figured in the switch; Dick Wolf, the creator of the "Law & Order" programs, said the new program, on which Mr. Orbach was to appear only occasionally, was less taxing.

Whether singing "Try To Remember" as the dashing narrator of "The Fantasticks" in 1960 or trading barbs with fellow detectives and reluctant witnesses on television in recent years, Mr. Orbach exuded a wry, ragged masculinity that was all his own. As a star of musicals, he created a new kind of hero who was leagues away from suave, swaggering Adonises like John Raitt, Howard Keel and Alfred Drake (though like them, he sang in a resonant baritone). And he flourished at a time when the Broadway musical hero was fast becoming an endangered species.

In shows like "Promises, Promises," Neil Simon and Burt Bacharach's 1968 adaptation of the movie "The Apartment," and "42nd Street" in 1981, Mr. Orbach registered as a musical answer to the shaggier leading men who had begun to emerge on American movie screens, actors like Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson. His rough-edged individuality may account for his endurance on the Broadway stage in an era when other promising musical actors - including Larry Kert, Robert Goulet and Robert Morse - proved unable to follow through on their breakthrough successes.

Mr. Orbach may indeed have been the last of a breed: no male star since has matched the breadth and continuity of his career in musicals. Though he originated the part of the corrupt, silver-tongued lawyer Billy Flynn in Bob Fosse's 1975 production of the musical "Chicago," Mr. Orbach was at his best as a tough cookie with a melting center.

Writing in The New York Times of "Promises, Promises," the critic Clive Barnes said of Mr. Orbach's portrayal of the haplessly ambitious, morally bewildered hero: "He makes gangle into a verb because that is just what he does. He gangles. He also sings most effectively, dances most occasionally, and acts with an engaging and perfectly controlled sense of desperation."

Yet he was equally persuasive in 1981 as the dictatorial director in David Merrick's Broadway version of the movie "42nd Street," in which he managed to instill new vitality into the hoariest of show-biz clichés. When, at the conclusion of the show's opening night performance, Merrick shocked the audience and cast by announcing that its director, Gower Champion, had died, it was Mr. Orbach who had the taste and authority to request that the curtain come down.

Mr.. Orbach's other important roles on stage included Mack the Knife in the landmark off-Broadway production of "The Threepenny Opera" in the late 1950's and El Gallo, the benevolently interactive narrator in "The Fantasticks," which was staged at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in 1960 and went on to become the longest-running musical in New York. Walter Kerr, writing about that performance in The New York Herald Tribune, said, "Mr. Orbach is no doubt on his way."

He also appeared as the misanthropic puppeteer in "Carnival" in 1961 and was nominated for a Tony award for playing Sky Masterson in the 1965 revival of "Guys and Dolls." He won the Tony for best actor in a musical for "Promises, Promises."
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This was pretty shocking news... I had no idea that he was even ill.

I was really looking forward to seeing him in Law & Order: Trial by Jury later this season.

My condolences to his friends and his family.

My condolences even though I don't know of him.....
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RIP, Lou.

Condolences to your friends and family.


LOS ANGELES - Lou Rawls, the velvet-voiced singer who started as a church choir boy and went on to record such classic tunes as "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine," died Friday of cancer. He was 72.

Rawls died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was hospitalized last month for treatment of lung and brain cancer, said his publicist, Paul Shefrin. His wife, Nina, was at his bedside when he died.

Rawls' family and Shefrin said the singer was 72, although other records indicate he was 70.

Rawls' deep, smooth voice was his trademark, and he used it in a variety of genres.

"I've gone the full spectrum, from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop," Rawls once said on his Web site. "And the public has accepted what I've done through it all."

A longtime community activist, Rawls played a major role in United Negro College Fund telethons in the 1980s that raised more than $200 million. In the '60s he often visited schools, playgrounds and community centers.

Rawls' introduction to music came in his hometown of Chicago from his grandmother, who loved gospel. He moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1950s to join a touring gospel group, the Pilgrim Travelers.

After a two-year stint in the Army, Rawls rejoined the Pilgrim Travelers in Los Angeles, where he sang with his childhood friend Sam Cooke. Rawls performed with Dick Clark at the Hollywood Bowl in 1959, and he later he opened for The Beatles at Crosley Field in Cincinnati.

Rawls was playing small blues and R&B clubs in Los Angeles when his four-octave range caught the ear of a Capitol Records producer, who signed him to the label in 1962.

His debut effort, "Stormy Monday," recorded with the Les McCann Trio, was the first of his 52 albums. In 1966, his "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing" topped the charts and earned Rawls his first two Grammy nominations.

He won three Grammys in a career that spanned nearly five decades and included the hits "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)," "Natural Man" and "Lady Love." He released his most recent album, "Seasons 4 U," in 1998 on his own label, Rawls & Brokaw Records.

But his trademark will always be "You'll Never Find," released in 1976 and written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, architects of the classic "Philadelphia Sound."

Rawls also appeared in 18 movies, including "Leaving Las Vegas" and "Blues Brothers 2000," and 16 television series, including "Fantasy Island" and "The Fall Guy."

In 1976, Rawls became the corporate spokesman for the Anheuser-Busch Cos. breweries.

Rawls was diagnosed with lung cancer in December 2004 and brain cancer in May 2005.

Besides his wife, Rawls is survived by four children: Louanna Rawls, Lou Rawls Jr., Kendra Smith and Aiden Rawls.

I just read that online. Once the cancer spreads to the brain,

awe... RIP good man!