[RoosterRedux]

Gene had children. Where the hell were they?

[FamiliarFace]

This is what I’m asking. I can’t even imagine this happening in my life, and I hope it never does.

[MikelTackNailer]

This makes us all ponder on our inevitable passing. I hope it demonstrates how having a fortune doesn't matter if one doesn't have some foresight and a dependable support system.

Mr. Hackman's death haunts me because of one of his last scenes: in "Unforgiven" his evil sheriff character is injured on a bar-room floor looking up at the anti-hero played by Clint Eastwood.

Little Bill Daggett: I don't deserve this... to die like this. I was building a house.

Will Munny: Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.
[aims shotgun]

Little Bill Daggett: I'll see you in hell, William Munny.

Will Munny: Yeah.
[fires]

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So I'll remember him from his role that inspired me as a kid: the never-give-up firebrand Reverend Scott in "The Poseidon Adventure" from 1972, who spent his last energy saving people he barely knew.

"You want another life? Take mine!"