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IMPORTANT // Please look after your loved ones, yourself and be kind to others. If you are feeling that the world is too hard to handle there is always help - I implore you not to hesitate in contacting one of these wonderful organisations Lifeline and Beyond Blue ... and I'm sure reaching out to our PRE community we will find a way to help. T.
The RIP thread
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I remember that episode but had no idea that was James Caan.
I loved Get Smart. What a great show.
RIP James.
RIP Paul Dear. Just 55 years old. He's been suffering that pancreatic cancer for some time.
Not that any are good but that's definitely not a cancer you'd want to get. Very sad.
In a team of champions he was a really good footballer for Hawthorn.
RIP
Paul Dear won a norm smith medal so he was a pretty decent player
Caan turned down some serious roles in his time.
He was the original preference for McMurphy in One Flew over the Cuckoos nest, as well as a key role in MASH. And Coppola ( who he went to Uni with) wanted him in Apocalypse Now, but Caan didn’t want to spend that long in a jungle!
Loved the F Troop when I was a kid. RIP Corporal Agarn
Funny you mention Get Smart - Larry played a character on Get Smart once as a lead in an evil psychedelic group called The Groovy Gurus, where the Hoodoo Gurus got their name. There's a credit to Larry on the Gurus' first album
And the song that The Groovy Gurus sang ‘Kill Kill Kill’ was later covered by The Painters and Dockers.
A bad couple of days for actors playing mafia guys.
Tony Sirico , who played Paulie in the Sopranos, passed away
Tony Sirico , who played Paulie in the Sopranos, passed away
Have gone through patches of this in my life. And on the theme of volunteering. Sports coaching kids I have found an enormous pick-me-up.
Prior to having my own kids, I coached a lot of athletics to tweens, teens and young adults (some from their tween years right through until they were young adults). And have recently got into coaching 5-6YOs soccer. Never been paid, always a volunteer coach.
There is just something about seeing their happy faces, feeling their enthusiastic energy and seeing their confidence, abilities, tenacity and pure joy grow exponentially, that is infectious. Plus witnessing and feeling the bond and camaraderie they develop with their teammates (and coach) is a beautiful thing. And you get a buzz out of knowing you have facilitated this.
Training days and match/competition days become some of the highlights of my week and I look forward to catching up with them (and their parents).
