I’m starting to do that when watching old movies too. I go to IMDB and do a search on the Internet for the cast members to see if they are still alive or not. I watched “Silver Streak” on Netflix Friday night, a slapstick movie from 1976 that I remember seeing as a teenager. Pretty much everybody that was in that movie is now dead, even Jill Clayburgh, who was extremely attractive in that movie - especially when you are a 14 year old going through puberty. Seeing it again 40 years later, the movie struck me as dopey, back back in the day, it was considered an “edgy” movie that my parents would have forbid me to watch if they knew what it was about. That Gene Wilder had some good movies in the 1970s and now he’s dead as well.
We’ll meet Again...
Gonna find that song today.
I watched “Silver Streak” on Netflix Friday night, a slapstick movie from 1976 that I remember seeing as a teenager. Pretty much everybody that was in that movie is now dead, even Jill Clayburgh, who was extremely attractive in that movie - especially when you are a 14 year old going through puberty. Seeing it again 40 years later, the movie struck me as dopey...
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Not to deflect the thread from Jerry, but I recently also tried to watch “Silver Streak” for the first time - and couldn’t make it more than a half hour into it.
As for Jerry - well, God bless him. I bet he made more people laugh than 99% of the people who ever lived, and he did worked for decades to get rid of a terrible disease. Pretty good legacy, if you ask me. I’m glad he lived as long as he did, and I’m sad he’s no longer with us.
Damn Hippies!