Edward Woodward - 1930-2009

[robkelk]

As the sometimes-less-than-serious CBC Radio show As It Happens said today, he was the First Among Equalizers...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8362367.stm]BBC Obituary
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Rev Dark]

I am sad to say that Sir Christopher Lee, Britt Eckland, Ingrid Pitt and a large wicker man were not seen fleeing the scene.

One of the greats.

[DHBirr]

Chaos curse you, don't scare me like that, Reverend. Your first words made me think you were saying those people had also died.
(Until I got to the wicker man. I'm not that stupid.)
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

[Jinx999]

Sad. I remeber really liking "The Equalizer" when it was on TV.

I also found I tended to confuse him with Michael Caine.

[Bob Schroeck]

Understandable; they sounded almost identical.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[David Lewis]

Damn. Is it just me or has this been a freaking bad year? And the fact that that phrase has practically become a meme by this point only make it worse...