2022 arrives on the heels of Betty White leaving us all behind. Here is the place for your predictions, as well as the usual timely and untimely passings.
I really enjoyed a lot of his movies. Everything from In the Heat Of The Night, to Sneakers, to The Jackal, to Shoot to Kill... he had some serious range.
"Guess who came to dinner" and "To Sir with Love" come to mind. One of his first roles was as a soldier in Korea that has to command a otherwise caucasion squad. I forget the name.
I was legitimately shocked. I honestly thought he died in the 80s. When I saw the news I said to Jägerette "hey did you know that Sidney Poitier was still alive up until this morning"? Also, will this finally be the year that Kissinger finally dies?
Yeah, there are a TON of those fantastic old-school movies that I remember watching way back when but can't remember the name of, and I think you'd be hard pressed to find them on any streaming service anywhere.
Woodstock organizer and producer Michael Lang. Crazy to think a kid in his 20's put on that concert. Just watched the HBO doc on Woodstock 99'. Id also like to give a RIP to HBO docs. They used to be the grittiest realest docs on the block. It had third rate interviews with none of the heavy hitter artist that the doc featured, or accused of causing the mayhem, with just a bunch of cultural commentators spouting of today's wokest of storylines.
They should have just interviewed me. I can go into severe detail on why it’s the worst concert ever. Fuck that show, and two thirds of the people who went to it. So glad they never brought in back, it disgraced the original in ways that can’t be duplicated.
A lot of old huge festival concerts were. People fondly remembered the US festival, it’s hard rock day was awesome, but it was a complete ruin and lost millions of dollars. So they did it again the next year, sold more tickets, lost more money. SARSstock was by far the best large concert I’ve ever seen. Brilliant logistics for a one-day concert with around 600,000 people. No crowd crushes, no tidal wave of sexual assault, no eight-dollar warm waters. Everyone got their money’s worth and then some.
It was headlined by the Chili Peppers but they WERE a fucking problem, I can tell you that. Fred Durst can surf plywood straight up a whale’s ass. Here’s another problem: “Six dollars for a water, seven for a cold one!!!” while on a toxic waste ex-military airport on the hottest weekend in five years with no shade whatsoever except for small side tents. The people there who weren’t already pieces of shit (aka Bizkit and Korn fans) were primed to go insane because of the horrific conditions and prices, and so they did. It was fucking embarrassing, I was ashamed of just being there. The Rage of Aquarius. And speaking of Rage, they almost made going there worth it. RATM was the best band at that garbage dump of a festival, hands DOWN.
Im not sure if homeboy should be more embarrassed by 99' or the completely aborted Woodstock 50 in 2019? Anyway, he dead.
Damn, seems like a total surprise. One of the top tweets under the trend was one from a few days ago where BJ Novak was promoting his appearance on Saget's podcast.