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Ron Silver in Memoriam - RIP
[Powerful VIDEO TRIBUTE, David Horowitz Freedom Center, PopModal.com]

Monday, March 16, 2009 5:43:26 AM · by RonDog · 37+ views
PopModal.com ^ | March 15, 2009 | Jeffers Dodge

This moving video, with highlights from the career of actor Ron Silver, who died yesterday, after a long battle with cancer. It was originally created by Jeffers Dodge on November 21, 2007. Ron Silver was recently honored at the Restoration Weekend, sponsored by the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
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Produced/Directed/Edited by Jeffers M. Dodge for the David Horowitz Freedom CenterRuntime: 3m 53s

Actor Ron Silver dies in NYC at age 62 of cancer

Sunday, March 15, 2009 8:01:18 PM · by Justaham · 58 replies · 1,625+ views
Yahoo News ^ | 3-15-09 | ID GERMAIN

Actor Ron Silver, who won a Tony Award as a take-no-prisoners Hollywood producer in David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" and did a political about-face from loyal Democrat to Republican activist after the Sept. 11 attacks, died Sunday at the age of 62.
"Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him early Sunday morning" in New York City, said Robin Bronk, executive director of the Creative Coalition, which Silver helped found.
"He had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years."

Ron Silver Dies, Succumbs to Cancer at 62

Sunday, March 15, 2009 5:27:24 PM · by lainie · 156 replies · 5,615+ views
nyp ^ | 3-15-2009

Actor and longtime political activist Ron Silver died this morning, succumbing to a long battle with cancer, friends of the liberal Democrat-turned-GOP stalwart told The Post.
"Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him this morning," said Robin Bronk, executive director of the Creative Coalition, which Silver helped create. "He had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years and his family is making arrangements for a private service."
Friends of Silver first told Post columnist Cindy Adams of the native New Yorker's death.
The steely-eyed, blunt-talking Silver, 62, enjoyed a long career on the stage, TV...

Rest in peace Sir.

I remember when he had his “come to Jesus” moment after 9/11. God bless him.

Prayers to his family. However with just a little profiling I’m guessing he was Jewish.

May God hold you in the palm of His hand, Ron. Good job!

See also, from pajamasmedia.com:

Roger L. Simon
March 15th, 2009 6:05 pm
In Memoriam - Ron Silver
Some people have more courage than others.
And still other people have dead on guts that make the rest of us seem like terrified guppies in a sea of cowards.
That was Ron Silver.
Ron had been fighting terminal stomach cancer for well over two years now as if it were some minor skirmish interrupting his otherwise important dedication to the future of this country. And what a dedication that was – twenty-four hours of every day, when they didn’t drag him into Sloan Kettering for treatment… the place Ron would call to his friends with characteristic gallows humor – Sloan Spa.
We all knew Ron had cancer and most of us, I suspect, had some idea how bad it was. The summer before last (I think it was then) I remember him telling me about his recent operation. He was out for about six hours, he told me, and when he woke up he looked at the doctor and asked her how it went. She told him she couldn’t take out the cancer. It had metastasized. The six hours were for nothing. She had to sew him back up. They gave him about three to four months to live at that point.
My heart went into my toes, but Ron told me that matter-of-factly and then he went on to apologize for not writing some article or other for Pajamas Media and then asked me how I was doing. That was Ron.
We had a close relationship that came from a strange confluence of events. Perhaps the best movie that either of us worked on was the same one. – Enemies, A Love Story. But that wasn’t the real reason – it was politics. We had stayed friends after Enemies, as movie folks sometimes do when they have worked on something together that was successful, critically or commercially. We discussed other projects, but our relationship was fairly superficial then and gradually we drifted apart during the nineties.
Then 9/11 came and Ron and I were thrown together once again. We were 9/11 Democrats.
We talked on the phone about our journey and the alienation we were feeling from some our friends, but we didn’t come face-to-face until the Republican Convention of 2004. I was a blogger there and feeling rather weird – an old leftie gone right – but there was Ron, far more out than I was, speaking to the entire convention. And he was brilliant. The man could speak in public as well as almost any politician and he had more intellectual background than almost all of them too. He swept the convention audience off their feet...

May God hold you in the palm of His hand, Ron.
Good job!
Thanks!

I justed POSTED that video, however - Jeffers CREATED it. :o)

It was remarkable how is politics changed after 9/11. According to his obit in the NY Times Silver’s brother said that Ron had voted for Obama. Oh well. No one is perfect. Rest in Peace.

Ron, I’m glad you came over from the dark side and saw the light. Say hi to my family up there and don’t forget to walk my dog Sonja.

God bless him and his family.

Barukh Dayyan Ha'Emet! I had no idea!

I think Mr. Silver was actually more of a liberal (he supported Clinton and was on "The West Wing," if I remember correctly), but I think he got "mugged by reality" at the end.

The West Wing cast harped on him constantly after Sept. 11. There are some vicious messages out there but outnumbered by positive, supportive comments. I had no idea Ron Silver was ill and he looked younger than he was.

Ping for later.

I'm amazed that he voted for Obama. As analytical as Silver was you would think that he would have seen the radical, dictatorial personality that Obama possesses

Oh Well! RIP

Thank you for posting this and the video link. I never heard of some of those films before. He was an amazing actor and speaker. I was so sad when I heard the news.

I hope his family sees all the comments in various places that express admiration for him and the passion he put into politics and speaking out about the war on terrorism. He made a valuable contribution.

Ron Silver — Thank you for having the courage to buck the anti-Americanism of Hollywood and place national security above politics. RIP and prayers for your family.

Heres a toast to you Ron Silver!.......You were a good man.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieYpBXG5pGk
Ron Silver is Honored at the Restoration Weekend 2007.
3 min 53 sec - Nov 21, 2007