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Val Kilmer R.I.P
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Gene Hackman and his wife found dead
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjm9ndw9xeeo https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/27/gene-hackman-actor-wife-found-dead-santa-fe-home/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/gene-hackman-tribute-death/ Greats still going, right, and center. Rest In Peace :(- Grey Havoc
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RIP James Earl Jones (1931–2024)
The American actor James Earl Jones has passed away at the age of 93.:( Sources: View: https://x.com/MarkHamill/status/1833246565168803985?t=LueMXnGSz9YOgdYQm5MREw&s=19 View: https://x.com/NavalInstitute/status/1833252640303812795?t=JDH7l0xIMSO8egcIt5_x_g&s=19- fightingirish
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- 20th century actor cold war early 21st century egot fantasy golden age korean war movie star oscar popular culture post-cold war sci-fi science fiction star wars technothriller tv series united states united states army
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The world of James Bond
As the movie industry wheels out yet another Bond film I prefer to return to the world of the original, in the pages of Ian Fleming's novels. For those who do not know what Britain was like for most ordinary families in the 50s and 60s, the glamour of the world described by Fleming in his books... -
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A novel...from 1969
Thought I would post about this book I had just read. Its title is "Autopsy for a Cosmonaut" by Jacob Hay and John M. Keshishian, MD. Published by Little, Brown and Company, NYC. Published in Feb. 1969. It's basically a story about a Soviet manned space shot that ended badly for its...- greenmartian2017
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Clive Cussler
Meant to post this back in February. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51644229 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/books/clive-cussler-dead.html Rest In Peace :(- Grey Havoc
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Nuclear Battlecruiser Robert F Kennedy
I have mentioned this before and still have not tracked down my copy for the description but in a 60s novel called "North Cape" by Joe Poyer about a US spyplane mission over the Soviet Union (ripped off a bit by the later Fireflash novels) the US recovery ship is a Nuclear Battlecruiser (BCGN)...- uk 75
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- alternate history atomic ships battlecruiser bcgn cold war fiction nuclear powered vessels technothriller united states united states navy
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- Forum: Theoretical, Fake and Generic Projects