Damn, Damn, Damn!
What a wonderful man!
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 1, 2024 6:02 PM |
Aw, just after Akim's Dad died.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 1, 2024 6:02 PM |
Beat me to it, OP.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 1, 2024 6:03 PM |
Shutter. Why are so many stars dying?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 1, 2024 6:03 PM |
his son says "my father has transitioned".
I don't think he knows what that word means.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 1, 2024 6:04 PM |
And Christ, we're really starting to get deep into mid-century television casts. Unreal.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 1, 2024 6:04 PM |
R5 It meant exactly what the fuck he said before a certain group hijacked it. They also hijacked the plural form of a singular person.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 1, 2024 6:06 PM |
He was great as the gay boyfriend of Stacy Keach in a story arc on Two and a Half Men.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 1, 2024 6:06 PM |
[quote]Shutter. Why are so many stars dying?
Getting hit by shutters?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 1, 2024 6:07 PM |
They’re dropping like flies.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 1, 2024 6:09 PM |
If we have this many dying in October, imagine how many are going to drop in December (typically a prime month for deaths).
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 1, 2024 6:14 PM |
[quote]If we have this many dying in October, imagine how many are going to drop in December (typically a prime month for deaths).
He apparently died in August. It just didn't make the news until today.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 1, 2024 6:15 PM |
God, if we could have something of the magnitude of the Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher, and George Michael December 2016, I'll need to pre-order booze.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 1, 2024 6:16 PM |
R4, I'm starting to think they're being Raptured up.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 1, 2024 6:16 PM |
Loved him as General Fitzwallace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, in The West Wing
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 1, 2024 6:17 PM |
Legend. Rest in power, Mr. Amos.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 1, 2024 6:17 PM |
I liked him, RIP
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 1, 2024 6:17 PM |
There was something so sexy about him in his younger roles.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 1, 2024 6:18 PM |
R18 His insane bulge.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 1, 2024 6:28 PM |
R19 Not just that. He had a perfectly masculine face with great bone structure. Why did they cast someone so old to be his wife on Good Times?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 1, 2024 6:31 PM |
We just spoke to him after his brother Famous passed recently. What a tragedy to have them both gone in such a short amount of time.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 1, 2024 6:32 PM |
I shutter at the thought of losing my shudders!
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 1, 2024 6:44 PM |
I remember him as Gordy on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 1, 2024 6:44 PM |
Ugh. I just started a duplicate thread. Sorry, OP. My bad!
by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 1, 2024 6:46 PM |
[quote]Ugh. I just started a duplicate thread. Sorry, OP. My bad!
No worries - let's blame Muriel for the inadequate search feature and lack of edit/delete button...
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 1, 2024 6:52 PM |
He and Griffith should've done a show called "Amos & Andy."
by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 1, 2024 7:32 PM |
I never realized how much of a stud he was until "Beastmaster."
by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 1, 2024 7:39 PM |
I remember reading on Datalounge that John Amos was secretly gay and in the closet.
Is that true?
by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 1, 2024 7:40 PM |
According to Wikipedia he died back in August. Also some people were being looked into for elder abuse.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 1, 2024 7:43 PM |
Oh I see the deadline article does state that.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 1, 2024 7:44 PM |
The last living member of the cast of The Mary Tyler Moore show. And if you say one word, Joyce, so help me!
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 1, 2024 7:45 PM |
[quote]The last living member of the cast of The Mary Tyler Moore show
Fuck you, r31.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 1, 2024 9:07 PM |
I’ll never forget when those white devils cut off his roots as the older Kunta in Roots. They used to make us watch Roots every spring at my elementary school. It forever left a lasting impression on me on the horrors of slavery.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 1, 2024 9:11 PM |
Crazy to think the entire cast of MTM has died:
Ted Knight was the first to go, in December 1986.
Next was Mary, who left us in January 2017.
Sweet Georgia Engel and feisty Valerie passed in 2019.
In 2021, they fell like dominos- Cloris, Gavin, Ed, and eventually Betty.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 1, 2024 9:14 PM |
[quote]It forever left a lasting impression on me on the horrors of slavery.
It was a jobs program! Why do you hate America?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 1, 2024 9:24 PM |
[quote]Also some people were being looked into for elder abuse.
Oh no, I hate to think of that happening to him.
(Or anyone of course but it somehow makes it worse when it's a man you had a thing for all your life.)
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 1, 2024 9:24 PM |
He had a hot ass, but he couldn't live forever.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 1, 2024 9:30 PM |
Wow, two Good Times deaths in one week -- John Amos and Janet Jackson's career.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 1, 2024 9:32 PM |
I would comment but I’m under the weather
by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 1, 2024 9:33 PM |
I feel like he had a big dick
by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 1, 2024 9:34 PM |
[quote] I feel like he had a big dick
James had a penis like the Florida peninsula.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 1, 2024 9:42 PM |
[quote]I remember reading on Datalounge that John Amos was secretly gay and in the closet.
I remember reading on Datalounge that EVERY MALE WHO EVER LIVED was secretly gay and in the closet.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 1, 2024 9:45 PM |
Only the hot ones.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 1, 2024 9:46 PM |
James Evans seemed the type to get a blowjob from other guys on the downlow.
Lord knows that Florida Evans never gave him any.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 1, 2024 9:53 PM |
Do these young snappers of whip not understand that the “dead to me” must be all-caps — DEAD TO ME — or else the deceased’s ghost cannot leave the earth to join the spirit world, and must haunt our mortal realm forever???
by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 1, 2024 10:09 PM |
R6- Good Times was on television not mid century but late 20th century.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 1, 2024 10:16 PM |
One of the ugliest mother fuckers of all time.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 1, 2024 10:17 PM |
r45 Absolutely no one cares
by Anonymous | reply 48 | October 1, 2024 10:18 PM |
This Friday, October 4, at 12:00 a.m. GMT, his fans across the world will simultaneously throw a punch bowl on the floor in his honor.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | October 1, 2024 10:21 PM |
R48
by Anonymous | reply 50 | October 1, 2024 11:39 PM |
.BBC Bathhouse Queen
by Anonymous | reply 51 | October 2, 2024 1:16 AM |
Susan?
by Anonymous | reply 53 | October 2, 2024 1:17 AM |
Amos was cast as the Evans family's father in Good Times (1974) despite being only eight years older than Jimmie 'JJ' Walker, who portrayed oldest son J.J., and nearly nineteen years younger than Esther Rolle, who played his wife, Florida.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | October 2, 2024 1:58 AM |
R38 😂.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | October 2, 2024 1:59 AM |
R56 I was just thinking that.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | October 2, 2024 2:07 AM |
John Amos...Gordy the weatherman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show!
RIP
by Anonymous | reply 58 | October 2, 2024 3:50 AM |
Susan Dey is working overtime not sending out condolences this week.
They're dropping like flies!
by Anonymous | reply 59 | October 2, 2024 3:51 AM |
Sigh. It's only the kids left now with Esther Rolle and Ja'net DuBois gone. Why couldn't they have taken that asshole Jimmy Walker first?
by Anonymous | reply 60 | October 2, 2024 3:52 AM |
He messaged me on Instagram. I just commented something silly. “Tough year for the MTM crew.” This was after Cloris Leachman and Ed Asner died. He messaged me because he he was confused by the MTM abbreviation. He was extremely kind.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | October 2, 2024 3:55 AM |
He was on the Gilbert Gottfried podcast and was extremely fun.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | October 2, 2024 3:58 AM |
I remember being a gayling watching Good Times reruns and I just staring at him. I couldn't take me eyes off him and would get annoyed when he wasn't in a scene.
I was totally in love with him even before I quite understood that I liked daddy types.
I must have jacked off to him 500 times.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | October 2, 2024 4:05 AM |
Florida must have said "Damn,damn,damn!" every time James dropped his pants.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | October 2, 2024 4:09 AM |
R56- He’s an aging homosexual.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | October 2, 2024 4:32 AM |
R33- It forever left a lasting impression on me too- to the horrors of network television.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | October 2, 2024 4:36 AM |
[quote] We just spoke to him after his brother Famous passed recently.
The thread on the death of Wally "Famous" Amos.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | October 2, 2024 4:40 AM |
Who recalls the DL threads on Amos being on the down low and being a habitué of Manhattan bathhouses?
by Anonymous | reply 68 | October 2, 2024 4:42 AM |
I do, r68.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | October 2, 2024 4:43 AM |
Sherman Hemsley, on the other hand, was gay.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | October 2, 2024 4:48 AM |
Sadly Mexican-American Hollywood pioneer has passed. We have JLo on the line discussing their time together filming Selena.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | October 2, 2024 4:49 AM |
The more important question about Ralph Carter is does he still have that big booty?
by Anonymous | reply 73 | October 2, 2024 5:51 PM |