#Moses Gunn

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Remembering Moses Gunn on his birthday #botd

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The Ninth Configuration William Peter Blatty. 1980

Castle Burg Eltz, 56294 Wierschem, Germany See in map

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I recently started rewatching "Homicide: Life on the Street" on Peacock. It was really the first TV drama that I ever watched. I think I started watching it in its fourth season, when I was in eighth grade.

I haven't really seen it two decades or so (it didn't stream for a long time because of music rights issues) and I was wondering how it would hold up. Three decades have passed since it premiered. Half of the first season cast is now dead.

And it's still one of the best damn things I've ever seen. The fifth episode, "Three Men and Adena", is honestly still the best dramatic acting I've seen on TV courtesy of Andre Braugher, Kyle Secor, and Moses Gunn.

So there's a good chance this might be a thing I start mentioning in my blog occasionally. If you've never seen it (and there's a good chance you haven't, since most of my mutuals were born in 2002...) and you want to get into a kickass 122 episode-long cop drama from the 1990s, well here you go...

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Shaft (1971) // Dir. Gordon Parks

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James Caan in Rollerball (1975)

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'Homicide: Life on the Street' – TV's greatest network cop drama on Peacock

There is no shortage of cop dramas and police procedurals in the annals of American TV but when it comes down to it, there is no network show as rich, as complex, as engaging as Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999). Created by Paul Attanasio, based on the nonfiction book “Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets” by Baltimore Sun crime reporter David Simon (who was brought on as a consultant…

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Bad movie I have Heartbreak Ridge

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The Killing Floor (1984)

A stunning dramatization of the little-known, complex story of integrating the labor movement of Chicago's meatpacking industry, and the Chicago Race Riots of 1919.

Director: Bill Duke

Cinematographer: William Birch

Starring: Damien Leake, Alfre Woodard, Dennis Farina, Ernest Rayford, Moses Gunn, Clarence Felder, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and John Mahoney.

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Moses Gunn (October 2, 1929 – December 16, 1993)

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Heartbreak Ridge (1986). Hard-nosed, hard-living Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.

One of the reviews here described it as only for the Eastwood faithful, and I feel like that's an accurate description. It's soaked in that Reagan-era jingoistic machismo that makes it eye-wateringly hard to watch at points, and any attempt at - - y'know, any sort of meaningful emotional connection between any of its characters falls pretty flat. Still, some of the insults are genuinely pretty hilarious, so it's got that going for it at least. 3/10.

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Good Times was on at 2 am, I woke up and put on the oldies channel GetTV just for ambient TV noise.

But this episode' scene, "Love Has a Spot On Its Lung Part 2" really hit me hard in the heart.

With my mom's aggressive uterus cancer, her upcoming chemo & radiation.

When Bookmaker said, "Stop planning to die and start planning to live."

You gotta keep saying to yourself every day, "I'm gonna make it. It can't happen to me. I ain't gonna die. I'm gonna live, I'm gonna live."

Small reminders of our goal toward living beyond this cancer comes from unexpected places.

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Moses Gunn was an American rancher, politician and pioneer who played a significant role in the development of Oklahoma Territory. He was known for his contributions to the establishment of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation and his efforts to promote peace between Native Americans and European settlers.

Link: Moses Gunn

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Remembering Shaft star Moses Gunn on the anniversary of his death.

R.I.P. (1929 - 1993)