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RIP actor Ron Silver, 62
« on: March 15, 2009, 08:46:34 PM »
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Re: RIP actor Ron Silver, 62
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2009, 07:35:35 AM »
Quote from: Wayback on March 15, 2009, 08:46:34 PM
Actor Ron Silver, 62, of cancer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090316/ap_on_en_tv/obit_silver

Enemies: a Love Story is one of the great forgotten films of the last 25 years; he shoulda been Oscar-nommed for that as well as Reversal of Fortune. But his reversal of politial affiliation was unFortune-ate.
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Re: RIP actor Ron Silver, 62
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2009, 09:17:30 AM »
His daughter Ali is a TIME editorial-dept. employee whom I see and e-mail with regularly.  I had no idea her father was ill.
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Re: RIP actor Ron Silver, 62
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2009, 10:00:27 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on March 16, 2009, 07:35:35 AM
Quote from: Wayback on March 15, 2009, 08:46:34 PM
Actor Ron Silver, 62, of cancer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090316/ap_on_en_tv/obit_silver

Enemies: a Love Story is one of the great forgotten films of the last 25 years; he shoulda been Oscar-nommed for that as well as Reversal of Fortune. But his reversal of politial affiliation was unFortune-ate.

Interesting bio.  That Tony he won for Speed the Plow was opposite Madonna, one of the few time in her acting career she got rave reviews. I had no idea about his 9/11-Republican-ness, so it seems a little late to hold that against him, especially reading that he (like I) got a Master's Degree in Chinese History. 

I mean, wtf are the odds of me having that in common with anyone famous?

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Re: RIP actor Ron Silver, 62
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2009, 10:09:27 AM »
Quote from: mshray on March 16, 2009, 10:00:27 AM
I had no idea about his 9/11-Republican-ness, so it seems a little late to hold that against him


unfortunately, he made a big deal of it -- spoke at the 2004 GOP convention and praised Bush to the skies.  I can understand being shaken up by 9/11 (who wasn't?) and if you lived in NYC even moreso, but someone putting his brain on hold and overlooking everything evil Bush/Cheney did in the intervening years is something that drives me crazy. I lost a longtime friend last year over this sort of thing -- suddenly he was haninging out in cyberspace with Michele Malkin and reading the Weekly Standard and I could not pretend it didn't matter.
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Re: RIP actor Ron Silver, 62
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2009, 10:40:13 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on March 16, 2009, 10:09:27 AM
Quote from: mshray on March 16, 2009, 10:00:27 AM
I had no idea about his 9/11-Republican-ness, so it seems a little late to hold that against him


unfortunately, he made a big deal of it -- spoke at the 2004 GOP convention and praised Bush to the skies.  I can understand being shaken up by 9/11 (who wasn't?) and if you lived in NYC even moreso, but someone putting his brain on hold and overlooking everything evil Bush/Cheney did in the intervening years is something that drives me crazy. I lost a longtime friend last year over this sort of thing -- suddenly he was haninging out in cyberspace with Michele Malkin and reading the Weekly Strandard and I could not pretend it didn't matter.

I would have been highly pissed if I'd known, it just slipped under my radar.  History will be unkind enough to W and his rabid supporters.
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