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Charles Bronson dies (2003)
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Posted on 08/31/2003 7:19:53 PM PDT by hemogoblin

That's it - just came in our newsroom


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KEYWORDS: 2003obituaries; 2003obituary; bronson; charlesbronson; obituary
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To: Uno Animo
Bad Guy:

"Guns make you nervous?"

Bronson:

"No... Idiots with guns makes me nervous."


61 posted on 08/31/2003 8:13:15 PM PDT by ambrose (If You're Not Outraged, You're Not Paying Attention...)
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To: hemogoblin
"Kid, if you're reading this, I didn't make it back...and you just tripped a thirteen-second timer. Boom...you're dead!"
62 posted on 08/31/2003 8:14:14 PM PDT by RichInOC (Is it October 7 yet?)
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To: hemogoblin
And so a great man and movie legend passes from life, but never from our hearts.

May he go in peace and with God's blessings upon him.

Shalom, chaver. L'hitraot.

63 posted on 08/31/2003 8:18:47 PM PDT by Imal (The World According to Imal: http://imal.blogspot.com)
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To: a_Turk
Unfortunately, they don't make them anywhere near like Bronson in Hollywood anymore.
64 posted on 08/31/2003 8:19:14 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: hemogoblin
I grew up watching those movies. I must have watched Death Wish III about a million times.
65 posted on 08/31/2003 8:21:14 PM PDT by RightWingNilla
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To: hemogoblin
Charles Bronson was one of those actors whose movies I figured must be good because he was in them. I was never disappointed May he rest in peace.
66 posted on 08/31/2003 8:22:53 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: hemogoblin
Charles Bronson movies rocked! Rest in peace, you'll be missed : (















67 posted on 08/31/2003 8:24:56 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (This cow is independently owned and operated)
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To: Captainpaintball
>> Unfortunately, they don't make them anywhere near like Bronson in Hollywood anymore.

I guess we're showing our age..

Once upon a time in the west is going to be released on DVD in November finally.
68 posted on 08/31/2003 8:28:01 PM PDT by a_Turk (Lookout, lookout, the candy man..)
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To: hemogoblin
Buchinski I've known well, but who's this Bronson character?
69 posted on 08/31/2003 8:31:53 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Go ahead, make my day and re-state the obvious! Again!)
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To: hemogoblin
Charles Bronson was one of the last Hollywood tough guys.

Many entertaining and memorable films over a 50 year career in movies.

RIP Mr.Bronson.

70 posted on 08/31/2003 8:33:54 PM PDT by Reagan Man
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To: hemogoblin
...he served during World War II as a tailgunner, then used his G.I. Bill to study art in Philadelphia and, intrigued by acting, enrolled at California's Pasadena Playhouse..."I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited."
Bronson has two children with his first wife, Harriet Tendler. He married actress and producer Jill Ireland in 1958, who had two sons with her first husband, David McCallum. One adopted son (Jason) died in 1989. He and Ireland had a daughter named Zuleika. Ireland died in 1990. Bronson married his third wife, Kim Weeks, in December, 1998.

Has anyone noticed that the "real men" are now scarce and far between in Hollywood? Who would you rather have watching your back: Ben Affleck or Lee Marvin?
71 posted on 08/31/2003 8:34:23 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus (Conan, what is cool? Charles Bronson in "The Great Escape" and busting Bustamante.)
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To: Mfkmmof4
Does he die every week?
72 posted on 08/31/2003 8:37:37 PM PDT by Partisan Hack
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To: hemogoblin
RENT "THE MECHANIC". ONE OF THE MOST OVERLOOKED AND UNDERRATED FILMS OF ALL TIME, AND ONE OF BRONSON'S BEST.
73 posted on 08/31/2003 8:38:39 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Cultural Jihad
Though the only one of 15 children to finish high school, Bronson worked in the coal mines alongside his brothers to support the family. Born to Lithuanian immigrant parents, he served during World War II as a tailgunner, then used his G.I. Bill to study art in Philadelphia

A bio of a Great American.

74 posted on 08/31/2003 8:40:04 PM PDT by montag813
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To: RightWingNilla
"I must have watched Death Wish III about a million times."

I have told you 20 gazillion times not to exaggerate so much!
75 posted on 08/31/2003 8:40:49 PM PDT by El Gran Salseron
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To: hemogoblin
Did enjoy him in "The Great Escape" and only the first "Death Wish" plus the one where he played the secret service agent Killey assigned to guard the prez' wife (who was Bronson's late real-life wife). Got some good laughs in that one which is rare for a Bronson movie. Can't remember the title.
76 posted on 08/31/2003 8:42:26 PM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: montag813
I agree...

not only but I was at that same square on the Amalfi Coastline in Italy and I saw the Church with thte long, long, long steps going up.

As it turns out I sat at the same fountain when I was there in the Navy....

it took me years and repeated viewings of "The Mechanic" but I loved the work!!

77 posted on 08/31/2003 8:45:40 PM PDT by Nitro
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To: hemogoblin
R.I.P., Mr. Bronson.
78 posted on 08/31/2003 8:47:53 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~RINOs can eat my shorts - and you don't want to know when I washed 'em last~)
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To: montag813
"The Mechanic" is just one of those movies one can watch
over and over. I think it was by far, Bronson's best.
79 posted on 08/31/2003 8:50:06 PM PDT by AdvisorB ("Beware of the 'Irresistable Operation Of Feeble Councils' " Edmund Burke)
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To: hemogoblin
In the '80s, I used to call the station TBS "The Bronson Station". They showed his movies all the time.
80 posted on 08/31/2003 8:51:08 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Stop the violins!! Visualize whirled peas...)
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