Fifth Avenue Forum

Posted: **Mon May 13, 2024 5:05 pm**

What a brilliant loon he was.

Posted: **Mon May 13, 2024 5:14 pm**

I saw DD's GIF first and thought we lost Kramer

Posted: **Tue May 14, 2024 4:59 pm**

I was gonna make a smooth jazz joke but Bootsy’s endorsement is cred enough for me not to.

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2024 5:16 pm**

Sanborn was a sax legend.

Posted: **Thu May 16, 2024 11:57 am**

**** cancer.

Posted: **Thu May 16, 2024 12:04 pm**

for those who don't watch TSN regularly, you might at least recognize Dutch from the Pierre McGuire "long stick" clip.

Posted: **Fri May 17, 2024 8:26 am**

Dutch was very good. rip

Posted: **Fri May 17, 2024 4:33 pm**

RIP to Dabney Coleman at 92. a great sleazy bad guy in so many 80s movies.

Posted: **Fri May 17, 2024 6:46 pm**

I remember him best from when he was the bad boss Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda strung up in 9 to 5.

Posted: **Fri May 17, 2024 7:01 pm**

The most recent thing that trips my memory is Boardwalk Empire. He had a very prolific career.

Posted: **Fri May 17, 2024 9:53 pm**

Cool dude, always enjoyed him. Wargames is what I remember him best for.

Posted: **Fri May 17, 2024 10:14 pm**

Buffalo Bill was an entertaining two seasons of Dabney. Betcha nobody remembers that.

Posted: **Fri May 17, 2024 10:48 pm**

I remember that he had a show called that, but I don't remember anything else about it. Like, was he a weather man or a private investigator or the ghost of a mob accountant trying to right the misdeeds of his life. Either way I'm sure hijinks ensued.

Posted: **Fri May 17, 2024 10:58 pm**

I remember him mostly from his appearances on tv in the 70's and also from the Inspector Gadget movie my son and I saw in 1998.

And then on video lots of times.

He played the crooked cop to the crooked mayor. Shot in Pgh.

Posted: **Sun May 19, 2024 5:26 pm**

Posted: **Fri May 24, 2024 10:35 am**

RIP doge

Posted: **Fri May 24, 2024 11:27 am**

Morgan Spurlock, 53 (super size me guy)

Posted: **Fri May 24, 2024 2:32 pm**

Guess eating all that McDonald’s was bad for him.

Posted: **Fri May 24, 2024 2:35 pm**

Weird. I feel like I've seen multiple posts/articles in the last week about Supersize Me. In hindsight, that documentary was problematic. Still, Spurlock did a TON for documentary film. His 30 Days show was really interesting as well. **** cancer.

Posted: **Fri May 24, 2024 3:32 pm**

I just read that the bass player from Train slipped and fell in a shower and died at 58.

Posted: **Fri May 24, 2024 5:20 pm**

Spurlock was Schrödinger's director. Simultaneously the best and worst of documentary filmmaking. Very good at crafting and presenting a narrative, very bad at disclosing pertinent information that might otherwise affect the interpretation of that narrative.

(Michael Moore is in this camp, too, imo.)

Posted: **Fri May 24, 2024 5:22 pm**

Spurlock was Schrödinger's director. Simultaneously the best and worst of documentary filmmaking. Very good at crafting and presenting a narrative, very bad at disclosing pertinent information that might otherwise affect the interpretation of that narrative.

(Michael Moore is in this camp, too, imo.)

I'm sure you were aware of this:

For 60 days, beginning April 27, 2011, the city of Altoona, Pennsylvania (home of Sheetz, one of the movie's major sponsors) ceremonially changed its name to "POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Pennsylvania" to help Spurlock promote the film, and received $25,000 for doing so.

Posted: **Fri May 24, 2024 5:24 pm**

I was not, in fact, aware of that. Or if I was I had since forgotten. And also was not aware of or had forgotten about the Sheetz connection.