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Ray Stevenson (Titus Pullo) Dead
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ^
| 05/22/20223
| CBC
Posted on 05/22/2023 9:56:00 PM PDT by pierrem15
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Ray Stevenson, the Irish actor who played the villain in RRR, an Asgardian warrior in the Thor films, and a member of the 13th Legion in HBO's Rome, has died at age 58.
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To: pierrem15
Atia: Good fearsome specimens you are. I wonder it took you so long to subdue those odious Gauls.
Pullo: There was a great many of them, ma’am.
To: pierrem15
R.I.P. Ray. Titus Pullo was a most entertaining character. We’ll miss him him.
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posted on
05/23/2023 4:18:21 AM PDT
by
exPBRrat
To: ifinnegan
I don’t know this guy.Punisher, War Zone
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posted on
05/23/2023 4:47:04 AM PDT
by
Mark17
(Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
To: Adder
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posted on
05/23/2023 5:28:26 AM PDT
by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: Theophilus
One of the funniest scenes of all time ROME Caesar presents Caesarion!
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posted on
05/23/2023 5:31:13 AM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(Das dicke Ende kommt noc!)
To: Pelham
Vale, Titus Pullo. Memoria De valens vivat tamque vestri.
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posted on
05/23/2023 5:32:22 AM PDT
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DCBryan1
(Das dicke Ende kommt noc!)
To: Mark17
Horrible movie, but nasty Punisher. Nasty.
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posted on
05/23/2023 5:33:24 AM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
To: pierrem15
To: pierrem15
He played the Lovable Brute better than anyone.
R.I.P.
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posted on
05/23/2023 6:32:52 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: Theophilus
Yeah, heh, I don’t even have to click the link, that was funny. Season two was mostly a disaster IMHO, but the finale really tied up that particular subplot in an interesting and satisfying way.
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posted on
05/23/2023 6:34:41 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: DCBryan1; Pelham
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posted on
05/23/2023 7:17:45 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(New breakfast cereal, Queerios -- pour on the milk, and they eat each other!)
To: Repeal The 17th
The singer is Ray Stevens, not Ray Stevenson…
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posted on
05/23/2023 7:39:04 AM PDT
by
CA Conservative
(Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
To: pierrem15
HBO’s ‘Rome’ was the 2nd greatest “TV” drama series ever, right behind HBO’s ‘Deadwood.’
David Milch had devised ‘Deadwood’ as a buddy-cop drama set in ancient Rome. When he shopped it to HBO execs they told him, “Sorry, we’ve already got a Rome-based drama in the works” (which was the McKidd/Stevenson vehicle, Rome). So Milch moved the setting to Deadwood in the Dakota territory, begetting Timothy Olyphant’s and Ian McShane’s brilliant ‘Deadwood.’
Kevin McKidd badly wanted to be cast as Titus Pullo but the producers or ‘Rome’ said the role of stiff-necked Legionary Lucius Vorenus demanded his range of acting skills.
Ray Stevenson was brilliantly cast as the brutish, somewhat dim-witted, often murderous, and occasionally kind-to-a-fault Titus Pullo, the anti-hero who regularly falls face-first into a pile of steaming horse dung but always comes out smelling like petunias.
Bon voyage, mon ami. You’ve left us too son.
To: Paal Gulli
Thanks for the extra info on the casting. I thought
Rome was probably one of the best historical series I've ever seen, although I think a lot of details such as the mafia-like
collegium were cribbed from McCullough's
First Man in Rome novels.
Stevenson and McKidd were great in their roles, but Ciaran Hinds' portrayal of Caesar was probably the best I can recall, with the perfect combination of icy, barely repressed violent ambition and Don Corleone like oily charm.
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posted on
05/23/2023 11:21:27 AM PDT
by
pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
To: Paal Gulli; pierrem15
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posted on
05/23/2023 1:54:42 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
To: ifinnegan
He was a good, bad guy in the Denzel Washington movie, The Book of Eli
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posted on
05/23/2023 7:30:51 PM PDT
by
Mean Daddy
(Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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