(I can’t confirm it now, but I remember a legend that the NYT did a story about Meat Loaf…and, as is their custom on second and subsequent reference, referred to him as “Mr. Loaf”.)
Edited to add 1/22: Since I posted this obit, the NYT has added a note to their coverage discussing the “Mr. Loaf” story. They assert it is not true. And apparently he preferred to be called “Meat”:
A Hollywood Meatloaf story on the day of his departure.
So, in the early naught years I managed a softball team named The Big Walrus (just because) and on said team was friend, actor and musician @WEarlBrown.
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My wife and I were talking just a couple of days ago, about how it seems like so many celebrities die in the month of January. And not just Meatloaf has died now, but also Louie Anderson, the comedian, also passed away, at age 68.
As a side note, the movie, The Wild Geese, which I have seen a couple of times, is available on Amazon Prime Video for free.
Another movie that I have seen a couple of times, as well as having read the book, was called Too Late the Hero. With Clif Robertson and Michael Caine, it was also another war movie, about the British and the Japanese, with Clif Robertson being an American assigned to the British unit whose mission was to take out a Japanese transmitter before the Allies convoy could get to where they could be attacked and destroyed. While not a war movie like many, with less shoot em up action, and more drama and infighting between the allies’ side, it was probably one of the best war dramas of my youth, along with others that come to mind such as the movie Anzio. With Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, and Robert Ryan, as well as a bunch of others, I remember watching this on Saturday Night at the Movies, on NBC television.
My parents would often work for my uncle who owned a bar, and my dad would tend bar, and my mom would wait tables, and my twin brother and I would watch television, often old movies on that movie night. And that was the big channel of the three networks that we got. NBC on Saturday was always good for either an old war movie, a horror film, often some stupid thing like a teen romp, or a really bad sci fi film. But since we were born in 1960, and a lot of these movies came out in the late 60’s or early 70’s, they were just right for our age.
The thing about those movies back then is, compared to what they are making today, I would rather watch a dozen of them, than a single one of most of the crap that is made now. At least half of what is filmed now is remakes of what has come before, even if they don’t admit it, or call it the same name, part 2, or such. It is like there is no room in Hollywood for any new ideas or no ability for anyone to be able to write anything original anymore. If they do, it is something so convoluted that it is hard to understand, or 3 hours long. I mean, Cloud Atlas, or Inception? How confusing can you make a movie and still expect someone to pay to watch it?
I have a theory that people who are on the edge try to hang on through Christmas and the New Year, so they don’t ruin the holidays for those close to them, and because the New Year seems like a good point to get to.
Once the New Year passes, there’s really nothing to hold on for, and they go ahead and let go.
I’ll have to add “Too Late the Hero” to the big movie list. Thanks for the tip.
My wife and I were talking just a couple of days ago, about how it seems like so many celebrities die in the month of January. And not just Meatloaf has died now, but also Louie Anderson, the comedian, also passed away, at age 68.
As a side note, the movie, The Wild Geese, which I have seen a couple of times, is available on Amazon Prime Video for free.
Another movie that I have seen a couple of times, as well as having read the book, was called Too Late the Hero. With Clif Robertson and Michael Caine, it was also another war movie, about the British and the Japanese, with Clif Robertson being an American assigned to the British unit whose mission was to take out a Japanese transmitter before the Allies convoy could get to where they could be attacked and destroyed. While not a war movie like many, with less shoot em up action, and more drama and infighting between the allies’ side, it was probably one of the best war dramas of my youth, along with others that come to mind such as the movie Anzio. With Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, and Robert Ryan, as well as a bunch of others, I remember watching this on Saturday Night at the Movies, on NBC television.
My parents would often work for my uncle who owned a bar, and my dad would tend bar, and my mom would wait tables, and my twin brother and I would watch television, often old movies on that movie night. And that was the big channel of the three networks that we got. NBC on Saturday was always good for either an old war movie, a horror film, often some stupid thing like a teen romp, or a really bad sci fi film. But since we were born in 1960, and a lot of these movies came out in the late 60’s or early 70’s, they were just right for our age.
The thing about those movies back then is, compared to what they are making today, I would rather watch a dozen of them, than a single one of most of the crap that is made now. At least half of what is filmed now is remakes of what has come before, even if they don’t admit it, or call it the same name, part 2, or such. It is like there is no room in Hollywood for any new ideas or no ability for anyone to be able to write anything original anymore. If they do, it is something so convoluted that it is hard to understand, or 3 hours long. I mean, Cloud Atlas, or Inception? How confusing can you make a movie and still expect someone to pay to watch it?
I have a theory that people who are on the edge try to hang on through Christmas and the New Year, so they don’t ruin the holidays for those close to them, and because the New Year seems like a good point to get to.
Once the New Year passes, there’s really nothing to hold on for, and they go ahead and let go.
I’ll have to add “Too Late the Hero” to the big movie list. Thanks for the tip.