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blackjack68
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Postby blackjack68 » Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:37 am

The first "rock star" of evangelists.

Filled up stadiums, had access to many presidents and was the first to preach behind the Iron Curtain.

Very little controversy compared to his contemporaries.
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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:38 am

Billy Graham is one of the most fascinating people of the 20th century. What a life he led.
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Postby columbia » Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:58 am

rip Billy Graham @ 99
I thought he was already dead. :?
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Postby columbia » Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:00 am

The first "rock star" of evangelists.

Filled up stadiums, had access to many presidents and was the first to preach behind the Iron Curtain.

Very little controversy compared to his contemporaries.
My Mom saw Billy Graham at a tent revival in the early 50s; like on election day, her church bussed them in. @shafnutz05
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Postby Gaucho » Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:21 am

The good die young.
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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:30 am

The good die young.
Was Billy Graham a bad person? I know he was influential, but I always thought he was someone that seemed to practice what he preached. Genuinely asking because I've never heard him to be associated with the Bakkers of the world.
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Postby Viva la Ben » Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:33 am

Check out the Billy Graham-Nixon tapes.
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Postby columbia » Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:35 am

I wasn't a fan of POTUSes (including Obama and Clinton) essentially making pilgrimages to see him (even if it was in the WH); that's on them, but not my thing for elected officials.
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Postby Gaucho » Wed Feb 21, 2018 11:18 am

The GREAT Billy Graham is dead. There was nobody like him! He will be missed by Christians and all religions. A very special man.
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Postby meow » Wed Feb 21, 2018 11:20 am

The city of Charlotte is distraught over this currently.
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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Feb 21, 2018 12:35 pm

The first "rock star" of evangelists.

Filled up stadiums, had access to many presidents and was the first to preach behind the Iron Curtain.

Very little controversy compared to his contemporaries.
Actually he was the last of that breed.

Going back to George Whitefield and John Wesley in the 18th, Horatius Bonar and Charles Finney to Billy Sunday and D.L. Moody in the 19th and early 20th century, Graham was the final of that line of evangalists.

His real mark in American history was integration. He refused to allow segregated seating at his rally's going back to the 1940's and was the first major figure to embrace MLK.
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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:17 pm

TIL Billy Graham held one of his earlier crusades (1949) in Altoona. He returned to Philly and Pittsburgh later (the latter right after he gave the invocation at the notorious 1968 Democratic Convention)
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Postby eddy » Mon Feb 26, 2018 2:22 pm

RIP Mike Walker
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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Mon Feb 26, 2018 2:23 pm

RIP Mike Walker
Oh, man. From the Stern Show's Gossip Game. Forgotten about that bit. Good stuff.
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Postby blackjack68 » Mon Feb 26, 2018 2:51 pm

Everybody too young to remember Nanette Fabray.

RIP at 97.

http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/nanette ... 202709309/
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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Feb 27, 2018 4:45 pm

RIP Lewis Gilbert, the director of "Sink the Bismarck!", 3 Bond films ("You Only Live Twice," ''The Spy Who Loved Me", "Moonraker"), "Educating Rita", and "Alfie". Passed away on Friday at 97 in Monaco.
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Postby Factorial » Tue Feb 27, 2018 4:52 pm

Everybody too young to remember Nanette Fabray.

RIP at 97.

http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/nanette ... 202709309/
I remember her as Ann Romano's mother on "One Day at a Time."
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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Feb 27, 2018 6:45 pm

RIP Lewis Gilbert, the director of "Sink the Bismarck!", 3 Bond films ("You Only Live Twice," ''The Spy Who Loved Me", "Moonraker"), "Educating Rita", and "Alfie". Passed away on Friday at 97 in Monaco.
TSWLM is one of my favorites...RIP.
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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Feb 27, 2018 6:47 pm

I should've paged you, Shaf. I kinda shared that about Lewis because I knew you were a Bond fan.
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Postby columbia » Tue Feb 27, 2018 6:50 pm

Alfie: now that’s old school
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Postby Dickie Dunn » Tue Feb 27, 2018 8:36 pm

Alfie? The Jude Law movie?
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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Feb 27, 2018 8:58 pm

Is srs?
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Postby Dickie Dunn » Tue Feb 27, 2018 10:00 pm

Rarely ever
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Postby Dickie Dunn » Wed Feb 28, 2018 10:02 am

Producer Benjamin Melniker died Monday at the age of 104. Spent the early part of his career as an executive at MGM and was responsible for Ben-Hur, Dr. Zhivago, 2001, and other old stuff. In 1979 he teamed with Michael Uslan to buy the move rights to Batman and was a producer on literally every Batman related film property (live action, animated, direct to video) since 1989. Melniker also produced Mitchell, which became a great MST3K episode, and a bunch of other stuff like Swamp Thing, National Treasure, Constantine, etc. 104 is a hell of a run.
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Postby columbia » Wed Feb 28, 2018 9:38 pm

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Extremely sad to hear of the passing of Pittsburgh broadcasting legend Adam Lynch. A friend, a colleague, and one of the classiest people ever to work in Pittsburgh TV. Or anywhere else. Condolences to his family
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