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blues90 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 01:57 PM
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I didn't know Dennis Weaver died , man .
He was always one of my favorites , even though it was 1971 when he played in The Dual , somehow it seems like yesterday or a million years ago .

I was talking about him the other day and my wife told me he died , realy blew me away .

I am not religous however if there is a place where all the souls go it does seem like the best people are all there now and the worst still live on forever .

Now we are faced with SOOOOOOO many problems I don;t know how much longer I want to hang aroud to see how this horror all pans out , I am at the point of not caring anylonger .
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 01:58 PM
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1. I remember him best from McLeod. n/t
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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:01 PM
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4. "There ya go..."
When I was in Taos one time, somebody told me he had a ranch around there. Talk about life imitating art...
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 04:11 PM
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22. I'm almost sure they memorialized him during 2007's Academy Awards.
That was in March of this year.

Unless I am remembering it from 2006 -- not so sure now.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 01:59 PM
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2. Honorable mention: the father in "Gentle Ben" with Ron Howard's
younger brother.
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:09 PM
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6. Yep.
Don't you mean "Ron Howard's creepier little brother?" ;)

That was Clint Howard.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:11 PM
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That's right. Him.
He looked like a real kid when he was like 6.
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:22 PM
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11. The Ice Cream Man.
Edited on Fri Apr-06-07 02:25 PM by shain from kane
Ice Cream Man: You got any suspects?
Det. Maldwyn: That's classified ice cream man. Classified.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:00 PM
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3. The Dual?
Do you mean "Duel"?
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:11 PM
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7. I'm sure that he meant the 1971 movie, "Duel,"
which starred Dennis Weaver. A very memorable film, to be sure. And it also resonated with me because the speedometer and dashboard of the car he drove in the movie, which was shown countless times, was identical with that of my first car, a 1971 Plymouth Duster, that I inherited from my mother and was the best car I'll ever have. :-)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067023/
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:25 PM
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13. That (Duel) was an all time favorite of mine.
That '55 Peterbilt was out to get him.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:31 PM
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15. That was one very entertaining made-for-TV movie.
It creeped me out for a long time after seeing that.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 04:14 PM
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24. My beloved uncle was a truck driver with Safeway
and my cousins had him watch it once while I was there.

After that, he knew why some people would just pull over and let him go. This was in the early '80s; he'd never seen the film before.

GREAT movie.
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:50 PM
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16. I know! I saw it on TV, but I was on the edge of my seat and it sticks in my mind.
That was one scary movie!:scared:
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 03:30 PM
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18. Read the book in junior high.
Better to read it first, then see the movie.
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rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 03:45 PM
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19. Known jocularly as "Jaws on Land"
I think you can see why.
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Paladin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:29 PM
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14. Directed By The Young Steven Spielberg
n/t
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:52 PM
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17. Thanks! I never knew that!
I saw it ages ago on TV and thought that it was very well done, and it sure scared me!:D
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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:03 PM
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5. check out here
http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/wnames-nf/Weaver+Dennis
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1620rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:16 PM
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9. Best of all, Chester in the early black & white TV "Gunsmoke".
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:21 PM
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10. James Arness and his brother, Peter Graves, are still living.
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:15 PM
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8. I think he had a house made from recycled used tires. He was thinking about
the ecology many years ago.
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 04:02 PM
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23. I saw that house, north of Telluride
when it was nearly finished. Still piles of old tires around and also cans (both of which were used in the construction--wasn't piles of "trash")

I was really interested in how it was constructed, as I'm from the land of adobe houses, and this seemed like a really good alternative. I never heard much more about it.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 02:23 PM
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12. Didn't he have a spread out in Ridgway, Colorado?
I think my sister pointed it out to me on a trip a few years back.
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greendog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 04:04 PM
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20. It's for sale.

http://www.dennisweaver.com/earthshipforsale.htm
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-06-07 04:10 PM
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21. If I had $3, 300,000 dollars, I don't think I'd want it... thanks for the link.
Beautiful surroundings, gorgeous home... but I would need three-in-help or more to keep it up.

Naw, finding ourselves definitely in a divestiture mode for me and hubby.

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