In Memoriam

[Ti-Amie]

RIP Mr King

[Jessie181]

RIP King

[JTContinental]

Nora Ephron has died; apparently, she had been suffering from lukemia.

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-...234847776.html

[shtexas]

Nora Ephron has died; apparently, she had been suffering from lukemia.

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-...234847776.html

Oh, no!

[Moose]

That is sad news. She wrote the script for my all time favorite Meryl Streep movie.

[ponchi101]

The final monologue in When Harry Met Sally has got to be one of the most romantic pieces I have ever heard/read. It is downright sweet and beautiful.
The woman was marvelous as a writer. Sad to read this news.

[Ti-Amie]

Stunned at this news. May she RIP.

[munchin]

That's the worst news

[nelslus]

Even though I've been too tennis-brain-fried to talk about much of anything else- as I just did on Facebook, I MUST still post about how gutted we were to hear about the passing of Nora Ephron, and pray that she had not suffered for too long. We heard about her passing on our cab ride into our accommodations here in Wimbledon. LOVE her books- and I am so happy that John and I briefly got a chance to talk with her when she gave a talk in Chicago not all that long ago. I feel honored that I got to tell her how important she is (and now was) to me. A great person, and I am so sorry not to have the joy of more of her incredible wit.

[craighickman]

That's terrible news. RIP.

[Moose]

Andy Griffith has passed.


Andy Griffith, America's favorite sheriff, dies at 86
by Tanner Stransky

Television icon Andy Griffith, best known as the sage town sheriff in the ’60s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show and as a cantankerous defense attorney on 1980s-’90s drama Matlock, died today in Roanoke Island, N.C. He was 86 years old. Friend and former University of North Carolina president Bill Friday confirmed the news to WITN News, an NBC affiliate in Washington, N.C.

Born an only child in Mount Airy, N.C., Griffith spent his boyhood listening to music. He aspired to be an opera singer before turning his attention to acting after college at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He began his career as a comedic monologist with the 1953 release of What It Was, Was Football, a massive hit both on radio and in stores. On Broadway, he earned Tony nominations playing a country bumpkin in the Army-based comedy No Time for Sergeants and a sheriff in the musical Destry Rides Again. Then Hollywood beckoned. In his first film, Elia Kazan’s critically acclaimed A Face in the Crowd, Griffith portrayed another country boy, this time with a manipulative and power-hungry streak. He followed it with a film version of No Time for Sergeants, featuring future Andy Griffith Show costar and lifelong pal Don Knotts.

In 1960, Griffith found runaway success with The Andy Griffith Show. The show, starring Griffith as the wise sheriff in the quirky and fictional North Carolina town of Mayberry, was an instant hit and a ratings powerhouse for the eight seasons in which Griffith starred. Famed director Ron Howard played Griffith’s sweet son, Opie, and Knotts played the inept deputy Barney Fife, a scene-stealer who snagged five Emmy Awards for the role. Griffith, meanwhile, never managed a single nomination for the show that bore his name. (He finally earned an Emmy nod for the 1981 TV movie Murder in Texas.)

Griffith endured several short-lived series in the ’70s and then suffered temporary leg paralysis from Guillain-Barre syndrome in the ’80s before enjoying an unlikely career renaissance in the title role of the legal drama Matlock, which debuted in 1986. “I don’t know how to do but two things,” he told USA Today in 1993. “I know how to write and I know how to act. I’m just not good at anything else.”

Griffith continued to work steadily into his later years, reprising his Matlock role on Diagnosis: Murder alongside Dick Van Dyke in 1997; guest-starring on an episode of Dawson’s Creek in 2001; and playing the owner of the pie diner in Adrienne Shelley’s 2007 Sundance fave Waitress. He even returned to his musical roots, winning a Grammy and solid sales for his 1997 album, I Love to Tell the Story: 25 Timeless Hymns before settling into a quiet life in North Carolina — not unlike the life he portrayed on screen in his most memorable role.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/07/03/andy-griffith-dies/

[Moose]

Most everyone remembers him as kind hearted Sheriff Taylor (funny how a TV role etches a memory into place), but he is flat out fantastic in "A Face In The Crowd", and it makes you realize how different his career became from what you think it could have been early on. His character in "A Face" is fascinating and charismatic, but not at all likable.

[patrick]

RIP

[ptmcmahon]

Watched a lot of Matlock as a kid...sad news.

[shtexas]

RIP