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RIP Ricardo Montalban

#1 Post by dodgersteve182 » Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:39 pm

Age 88

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#2 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:41 pm

How sad.

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#3 Post by WheresFanny » Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:47 pm

peacock2121 wrote:How sad.

Zee Plane!

Zee Plane!

Is Tattoo still alive?
He committed suicide several years ago.
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#4 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:50 pm

WheresFanny wrote:
peacock2121 wrote:How sad.

Zee Plane!

Zee Plane!

Is Tattoo still alive?
He committed suicide several years ago.
I am sorry to hear that.

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#5 Post by silverscreenselect » Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:56 pm

The cutoff for getting into this year's Oscar memorial tribute is January 31.

Some of these guys are really working hard to make it under the wire.

It's a bad day for old Columbo villains. If I were Robert Culp or Robert Vaughn, I'd be real careful right now.
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#6 Post by BackInTex » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:08 pm

May his casket be lined with rich corinthian leather.


Come on...you KNOW it will.
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#7 Post by danielh41 » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:12 pm

I always think of him as Armando the circus owner from the Planet of the Apes movies...

And of course, Khan from Star Trek.

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#8 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:14 pm

BackInTex wrote:May his casket be lined with rich corinthian leather.


Come on...you KOW it will.
It's soft corinthian leater.

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#9 Post by BackInTex » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:18 pm

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
BackInTex wrote:May his casket be lined with rich corinthian leather.


Come on...you KOW it will.
It's soft corinthian leater.

I'll give you the 'soft' but I must stand firm on it being leather. I think some of the knock offs from China have the soft Corinthian leater. :lol:
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#10 Post by owenziligation » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:19 pm

I knew the name sounded familiar. Anyway, it's sad that he died but 88 years is a pretty darn good length to live.

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#11 Post by Grandpa Beast » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:20 pm

owenziligation wrote:I knew the name sounded familiar. Anyway, it's sad that he died but 88 years is a pretty darn good length to live.
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#12 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:03 pm

BackInTex wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
BackInTex wrote:May his casket be lined with rich corinthian leather.


Come on...you KOW it will.
It's soft corinthian leater.

I'll give you the 'soft' but I must stand firm on it being leather. I think some of the knock offs from China have the soft Corinthian leater. :lol:
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#13 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:16 pm

I always thought he was fabu in whatever role he had. I loved those brunet good looks, the impeccable accent . . . just wonderful.

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#14 Post by tlynn78 » Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:28 pm

He personified suave. Or debonair, maybe. Perhaps both.

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#15 Post by etaoin22 » Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:33 pm

A fine actor.

May he have a cortege of Chrysler Cordobas. If there are enough still running anywhere. Google spoils everything and tells me that Corinthian Leather was made in Newark, New Jersey.

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#16 Post by VAdame » Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:09 pm

tlynn78 wrote:He personified suave. Or debonair, maybe. Perhaps both.

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Not when it came to how he treated his fans, he didn't :(

Eh, RIP anyhow.

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#17 Post by silverscreenselect » Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:12 am

Although he was confined to a wheelchair in his last years (he appeared in the Spy Kids movies in his wheelchair), Montalban was quite limber as a young man, combining good moves with a lot of sex appeal. Here's a couple of his dance numbers from some of his early musicals. The first one features him with Cyd Charisse and Ann Miller. The movie is The Kissing Bandit, a mediocre Frank Sinatra vehicle, but Montalban and the ladies livened it up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThKlqAUyZ34

The second one is him with Charisse. It's from his first U.S. movie, Fiesta, and is more of a showcase for his talents than Charisse's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imxqup1_G9Q
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