The RIP thread
I actually quite like Private Dancer. Turner has grown on me over the years. Big fan of all things Motown but always considered her almost dad rock ish due to her universal appeal. But she was an immense stage presence and top performer.
She’s what? 70-odd here?
impressive
A real “that guy who’s name you don’t know in a movie, but recognize the face” Treat Williams dead at 71 due to a motorcycle-accident. Pretty badass way to go at that age. Or stupid
Disney+ has Deep Rising if you want to watch a really fun bad movie he was in.
It is but I felt it had really dated in the latest revisit about a year ago.
Gabrielle Anwar is still an absolute sort at 53.
Gabrielle Anphwoar more like
Cormac McCarthy. I’ve still not read Blood Meridian.
Noooo! Easily my favourite writer. His books were incredibly vivid. Reading a paragraph felt like an entire chapter. RIP
No way…..gutted
Blood Meridian is absolutely incredible.
I have Suttree lined up for my holiday and recently read Child of God. Such a literary talent. RIP
Millsy might actually be my favourite book. Blew me away.
Me too. I distinctly remember feeling like i’d been punched in the stomach and having the wind knocked out of me on a few occasions while reading ‘Blood Meridian’. In a good way Some of the scenes in that book are not for the faint of heart. Some of the violence makes The Old Testament feel like a hug.
Millsy Agree with you on the vivid writing. He could make tumbleweed and scrub brush almost ethereal at times.
Ridiculously good writing. It helped that he wasn’t fond of the old punctuations.
RIP Cormac McCarthy
Read blood meridian, no country, and the road - all amazing, but nothing captures the father son relationship better than the road, think I was in tears at the end.
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Also found it far more frightening than blood meridian, that scenario feels like it could be 10 years away.