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#3 death in Hollywood, Dennis Weaver (Chester),
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| Ruy
Posted on 02/27/2006 5:52:22 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
Dennis Weaver passed away today according to Fox News on TV.
TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: breakinghard; chester; dennisweaver; gunsmoke; notbreakinghard; obituary; sammcloud
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I just heard on Fox News that Dennis Weaver has passed away. Anyone else hear it? This is number 3. Daren McGaven, Don Knotts, and now Dennis Weaver.
I suppose Hollywood will try to find some no-talent replacements.
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Yep, waiting for #3. Sorry to see it was him. He gave my faimily many hours of very good entertainment.
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posted on
02/27/2006 5:53:40 PM PST
by
bnelson44
(Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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posted on
02/27/2006 5:54:48 PM PST
by
satchmodog9
(Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
These were three great actors. RIP
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posted on
02/27/2006 5:59:03 PM PST
by
Martina
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
To: satchmodog9
McCloud was a favorite with us, too. There isn't much worth watching on TV anymore....except "24," which is on now!
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posted on
02/27/2006 5:59:46 PM PST
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: bnelson44; Ruy Dias de Bivar
One of the best movies I ever saw was with Dennis Weaver driving through the desert in his car with a driver in a truck trying to kill him. I can't remember the name of the movie, but I could watch it over and over again and never tire of it. It's frightening, and Weaver was so good. Love the ending!
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:00:31 PM PST
by
toldyou
To: dollar_dog
Either that or he spent his money foolishly.
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:01:30 PM PST
by
satchmodog9
(Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
To: toldyou
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:01:31 PM PST
by
WhirlwindAttack
(kill them all and let allah ( piss be upon him ) sort em out. % -)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:01:42 PM PST
by
digger48
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:01:56 PM PST
by
digger48
To: toldyou
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:03:19 PM PST
by
digger48
To: toldyou
That was 'Duel'. I agree on the ending- I particularly appreciated that we were spared the ubiquitous Hollywood gasoline fireball.
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:03:22 PM PST
by
Riley
("What color is the boathouse at Hereford?")
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:03:32 PM PST
by
SIDENET
("IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!")
To: toldyou
I think that was Stephen Speilberg's first directing debut
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:04:36 PM PST
by
Muzzle_em
("Mayor Nagin, what about those buses?")
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I never dreamed it would've been Dennis. I thought maybe Glenn Ford.
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:05:26 PM PST
by
bjs1779
To: Riley
Thanks so much. I just googled it, which is what I should have done in the first place:
1971 Made TV-movie debut, "Duel", directed by Stephen Spielberg
What's amazing, is that it certainly holds your interest, and he is really the only character in it!
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:07:09 PM PST
by
toldyou
To: toldyou
I believe you're talking about "The Duel." Weaver is in a little Dodge Dart, a guy driving a big Autocar truck is trying to kill him. All you ever see of the guy in the truck is his hands. Made by a talented guy named Spielberg...
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:07:38 PM PST
by
185JHP
( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
To: dollar_dog
Well I have news for you. Just about everyone in Hollywood is a liberal. So what? I'm sorry he's dead just the same.
To: toldyou
Ooooh yes! I remember that movie! It was very tense. We were staying at a hotel on the beach in North Carolina the first time we watched it. I can't remember the name of it myself. Don't think they ever did reveal who it was or why they were doing it. I wondered for a long time after that if it might have just been a case of mistaken identity, or maybe someone had a contract out on Weaver's character for some reason. Even when they showed the wrecked truck, I half expected a driverless truck to just right itself and start rolling after him again!
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:08:34 PM PST
by
Twinkie
(Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Gunsmoke
Bit part in Touch of Evil (They got another think commin!)
Gentle Ben
McCloud
Duel
I jusr realized, on the detective series with different stars each week, only COLOMBO is still kicking.
Rock Hudson, McMillan and wife
Richard Boone, Heck Ramsey
Dennis Weaver, McCloud
Peter Falk, Colombo.
I personally didn't care for the shows as they never missed a chance to denigrate handgun ownership. (Rifles were not a target then)
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:09:23 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Islam, the religion of the criminally insane.)
To: Muzzle_em
One of the best movies Stephen Speilberg ever did.
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:09:48 PM PST
by
bnelson44
(Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
To: bjs1779
Hello?
Am I dead yet?
No? Cool...
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:10:00 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: A.A. Cunningham
Anyone else hear it?
***Quite a few people have.***
Well, that's the story of my life! A day late and a dollar short!
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:13:05 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Islam, the religion of the criminally insane.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Gunsmoke....We were little kids and had to go to bed....but,as if they didnt know...we sat at the top of the stairs and listened....
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:15:34 PM PST
by
t1b8zs
To: dollar_dog
I knew they were Democrats. I just didn't know Dennis was a Liberal. Jesse Jackson for President? Come on.
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:16:47 PM PST
by
FryingPan101
(Goodbye Don Knotts and Darren McGavin and Dennis Weaver.)
To: Twinkie
I think the guy in the truck was just telling him he was bigger. I got that feeling last week when I drove the entire length of the Pennsylvania turnpike. After a while, I was so happy to see the trucks parked on the side of the road or in the rest stops for the night!
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:18:31 PM PST
by
toldyou
To: t1b8zs
Saturday nights...my dad & I played Cribbage and then watched Gunsmoke. Each week. My favorite night of the week...
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Daren, Don, and Dennis... it was a bad week for "D"s.
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:20:15 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs.)
To: Twinkie
The story " Duel" was originally published in Playboy Mag.
I forget the author of the piece.
The story in my opinion, was more suspensful than the movie--although the movie was very well done.
The ugly truck should have won an award.
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:21:00 PM PST
by
Duffboy
To: Brad's Gramma
Yup.....Cant go there any more....that was "wholesome family" entertainment
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:21:58 PM PST
by
t1b8zs
To: t1b8zs
Gunsmoke....We were little kids and had to go to bed....but,as if they didnt know...we sat at the top of the stairs and listened.... They made you do that on a Saturday night? !! Don't tell me they made you suffer through the worst hour of television right before Gunsmoke, Lawrence Welk!
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:23:35 PM PST
by
bjs1779
To: Swordmaker
I loved that Colecheck(sp) stuff..especially being a photographer when he would bring out that "Kodak Insatmatic".That was always a hoot!!
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:25:11 PM PST
by
t1b8zs
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Rock Hudson, McMillan and wife
Richard Boone, Heck Ramsey
Dennis Weaver, McCloud
Peter Falk, Colombo.
george peppard, banacek.
To: bjs1779
Ahhhhh Woner-Full Ahhhhhh Woner-Fullll
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:26:24 PM PST
by
t1b8zs
To: t1b8zs
Ahhhhh Woner-Full Ahhhhhh Woner-Fullll You know what you can do with those bubbles! : )
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:27:31 PM PST
by
bjs1779
To: bjs1779
Had to be there and you were...
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:28:51 PM PST
by
t1b8zs
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:28:54 PM PST
by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
To: satchmodog9
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:29:08 PM PST
by
GOP_Proud
(Jack Bauer wears Dick Cheney jammies.)
To: Junior
WOWWWWWW
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:32:29 PM PST
by
t1b8zs
To: t1b8zs
It sure was...
Remember Sunday nights? We HAD to watch the Ed Sullivan show. I HATED that one....
To: Brad's Gramma
1st viewing of "The Beatles"
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:34:10 PM PST
by
t1b8zs
To: t1b8zs
Had to be there and you were... Do you know how many episodes of Have Gun - Will Travel I missed on account of that guy?
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:34:39 PM PST
by
bjs1779
To: bjs1779
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:35:34 PM PST
by
t1b8zs
To: Brad's Gramma
Jack Benny was cool though!
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:35:36 PM PST
by
bjs1779
To: toldyou
oh yeah, what a movie!!!
Duel
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:35:46 PM PST
by
ferri
(Be Politically Incorrect: Support the Constitution!)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Also Stone, 1980 show sbout a cop who wrote crime novels. The episodes I saw were quite good, but it only ran 11 episodes.
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:36:36 PM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(Liberal comes from "liber" the Latin word for "free" - Liberal Republic, you know it makes sense)
To: t1b8zs
Yes sir. Richard Boone in his prime.
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:36:42 PM PST
by
bjs1779
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I remember that Dennis Weaver came to my high school probably 4 years ago to talk to our entire high school about the use of soybeans as an alternative fuel source. We didn't realize how big of a star he was or used to be. However, we did all enjoy when he began to tell us all to question authority. It was definitely an interesting memory to have.
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posted on
02/27/2006 6:37:13 PM PST
by
underdognewsgrl
("As many soaring voices, forever changed by Your mercy. It was beautiful." RIP Five Iron Frenzy)
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