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Debbie Reynolds RIP

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  • #32
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    sugarman wrote: »
    Again, you're talking utter scutter. You cannot die from a broken heart, nor can you die from depression.

    Theres almost always an underlying illness. I.e heart condition brought on by stress resulting in sudden death.

    I was wondering why I hadn't seen a Quincy ME RIP thread.. He's still alive and kicking in this one!.


  • #33
    Beefy78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    What horrible news to wake up to, considering what happened the day before. TBH I think I only saw her in Singing in the Rain (which is brilliant by the way for anyone who hasn't seen it) but she was great in that as an actress and singer. After that I just knew her as 'Carrie Fisher's mum'.

    RIP


  • #34
    SILVAMAN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭SILVAMAN


    what a great gal! RIP



  • #35
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Other than Singing in the Rain (which is fab!) the only modern(ish) film I remember her in is as Kevin Kline's mother in In & Out. Sad news.


  • #36
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Mod:

    <some posts deleted>

    Play nice people


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  • #37
    team_actimel
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    Anyone else remember her in the Halloweentown movies? She was brilliant in them. I grew up with those films, especially the first one from 1998!
    Such sad news, RIP.


  • #38
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,885 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    Arne_Saknussem wrote: »
    Always some asshole derailing the RIP threads.

    RIP Debbie, a bone fide Hollywood Star.

    What the **** are you on about? Thanks whoring no doubt, nobody was derailing anything when you posted that.


  • #39
    Estrellita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Estrellita


    It's terribly sad. I only had remarked that parents shouldn't out-live their children. Next day her Mum had a stroke :(


  • #40
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,687 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    That's heartbreaking. They must have been very close.


  • #41
    A Little Pony
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    Sheen will die before Trump, all those drugs, Donald has never had a drink in his life.


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  • #42
    team_actimel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭team_actimel


    A Little Pony wrote: »
    Sheen will die before Trump, all those drugs, Donald has never had a drink in his life.

    Never trust a man that doesn't drink and I certainly don't trust Donald.


  • #43
    Zirconia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 386 ✭✭Zirconia
    Boycott Israeli Goods & Services


    Atari Jaguar wrote: »
    And what causes the stress? Come on now, you can do it!

    I know! Was she pushing a piano up the stairs?


  • #44
    Rekop dog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭Rekop dog


    I reckon if you showed her face(past or present) to 100 boardsies before her death I'd say 95%+ wouldn't have a clue who she was. There'll be RIP threads for my nan next.


  • #45
    Goya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Goya


    Rekop dog wrote: »
    I reckon if you showed her face(past or present) to 100 boardsies before her death I'd say 95%+ wouldn't have a clue who she was.
    Aye, but I think it's because of her dying immediately after losing her daughter, who was well loved by younger generations. That's pretty affecting.

    They weren't close for a while - check out Postcards From The Edge! But they mended their relationship greatly.


  • #46
    Rekop dog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭Rekop dog


    Flimpson wrote: »

    They weren't close for a while - check out Postcards From The Edge!

    No, I have a life!


  • #47
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Rekop dog wrote: »
    I reckon if you showed her face(past or present) to 100 boardsies before her death I'd say 95%+ wouldn't have a clue who she was. There'll be RIP threads for my nan next.

    Yeah but everyone knew your nan. Knew her real well


  • #48
    Goya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Goya


    Rekop dog wrote: »
    No, I have a life!
    Well I didn't direct that at you specifically but you could say "No, I have a life!" in response to any recommendation of any film/book/album ever. Irrespective of the subject matter it's just a great film!


  • #49
    twill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭twill


    Rekop dog wrote: »
    I reckon if you showed her face(past or present) to 100 boardsies before her death I'd say 95%+ wouldn't have a clue who she was. There'll be RIP threads for my nan next.
    She starred in one of the most loved films of all time and held her own against Gene Kelly, Jean Hagen and Donald O'Connor, who were all brilliant. She may not have had two trillion followers on Twitter, but she was a genuine celebrity.


  • #50
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    twill wrote: »
    She starred in one of the most loved films of all time and held her own against Gene Kelly, Jean Hagen and Donald O'Connor, who were all brilliant. She may not have had two trillion followers on Twitter, but she was a genuine celebrity.

    People tend to project their own ignorance onto everyone else.


  • #51
    Rekop dog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭Rekop dog


    twill wrote: »
    She starred in one of the most loved films of all time and held her own against Gene Kelly, Jean Hagen and Donald O'Connor, who were all brilliant. She may not have had two trillion followers on Twitter, but she was a genuine celebrity.

    Yes and my gran did some amazing things too but the point remains that nearly nobody would recognise her and the sentiments in this thread are largely disingenuous.


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  • #52
    twill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭twill


    Rekop dog wrote: »
    Yes and my gran did some amazing things too but the point remains that nearly nobody would recognise her and the sentiments in this thread are largely disingenuous.
    "Nearly nobody" is nonsense if the packed screening of 'Singin' in the Rain' I went to a couple of years ago is any evidence. Your opinion of other people's sentiments doesn't stand up to a reading of the thread.


  • #53
    jacksie66
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #54
    Clarebelly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 250 ✭✭Clarebelly


    Heart of glass was my favorite song by her.


  • #55
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    Clarebelly wrote: »
    Heart of glass was my favorite song by her.

    2/10


  • #56
    twill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭twill


    jacksie66 wrote: »
    Why do these threads always descend into a dick measuring contest?
    To see who's the biggest prick?
    Charming, thanks for raising the tone.


  • #57
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,053 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Asked a friend of mine, in her early twenties, about her-she knew her from Halloweentown and Singing in the rain. She did a ton of voice work too, so fair dues to her. She was also in Behind the Candelabra a few years back. And Rugrats, Kim Possible and Studio Ghibli's Kikis delivery service.

    She was, remarkably, one of the lucky one's from Singing in the Rain. By the time the 70s, 80s, and 90s' rolled in-Gene Kelly was washed up-he couldn't get a gig-one of his last roles was in the show North and South. And his last movie musical, Xanadu in 1980, was a box office disaster. Prior to that, he wasn't getting much work.
    Donald O'Connor had more success, retiring 6 years before his passing, with many other films underh is belt.
    Yet Kelly is the guy who gets remembered-despite being 'washed up' at such an early stage of his career.

    Yet Debbie kept working until the very end. She was lucky, so many others weren't. She had the talent to keep going too.


  • #58
    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,803 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    jacksie66 wrote: »
    Why do these threads always descend into a dick measuring contest?
    To see who's the biggest prick?

    Because it's AH


  • #59
    ongarboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    She was funny as Graces mom in Will and Grace too! RIP


  • #60
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    I will remember Debbie Reynolds more recently as she played Peter Griffin's female boss in Family Guy as well as her other notable roles in her acting career.

    Her death came as a surprise to me on the news earlier this evening. I didn't really expect for her to die one day her daughter's passing. May she RIP.

    I'd also say that Niall Boylan's FB post did have a morbid feel in trying to guess another celebrity death seeing there is only two days left of 2016.

    We don't want any more of that **** being imposed on us because again we don't want to endure more news of misery & pain on us all. Enough is Enough.


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