The Gooner Forum

Vinny1967 wrote:RIP Sylvia Kristel.

Thanks for helping me thru my adolescence.

The first 'smutty' movie I saw at the local flix as a teenager. Actually, imo, it is still far more appealing than most of the shite that is out there - in the pornography world - nowadays.

RIP Sylvia Kristel

QuartzGooner wrote:Perhaps Cusamano is actually Kofi Anan using a nome-de-net?

You blowmy cover, damn!!!!!!!

QuartzGooner wrote:Cusamano has an amazing Rolodex of contacts throughout many different facets of society in many different countries, ranging from French ex-Foreign Ministers to porn stars to the Bishop of Gaylord.

Youare damn right, Quartz!
And if you want to I keep you guys updated.
If you don´t - so be it.

Keep on Cusamano, because what is meaningful to one person can be derided by the next.
Ms Melody meant something to me, but was seen as a joke by others.

The original idea of the thread failed, so keep on telling us about all your contacts who pass away.

Just how by the way, did you know Sylvia Kristel?

QuartzGooner wrote:did you know Sylvia Kristel?

not personally, but yes, I did know her

R.I.P.

RIP John A. Durkin

John Anthony Durkin (March 29, 1936 - October 16, 2012) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1975 until 1980.

Durkin graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1959 and Georgetown University Law Center in 1965. He was assistant attorney general of New Hampshire from 1966 to 1968 and the state insurance commissioner from 1968 to 1973.

RIP Kōji Wakamatsu

Kōji Wakamatsu (1 April 1936 – 17 October 2012) was a Japanese film director who directed such pinku eiga films as Ecstasy of the Angels (1972) and Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969). He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film In the Realm of the Senses (1976). He has been called "the most important director to emerge in the pink film genre," and one of "Japan's leading directors of the 1960s."
His 2010 film, Caterpillar, was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

RIP Karin Stoltenberg

Karin Stoltenberg was a Norwegian geneticist, politician and public official noted for her efforts to develop a coherent family policy in Norway, feminist activities, and for being the mother of prime minister Jens Stoltenberg, and wife of foreign minister Thorvald Stoltenberg.

RIP Stanford R. Ovshinsky

Stanford Robert Ovshinsky (November 24, 1922 – October 17, 2012) was an American inventor and scientist who had been granted well over 400 patents over fifty years, mostly in the areas of energy and information. Many of his inventions have had wide ranging applications. Among the most prominent are: an environmentally friendly nickel-metal hydride battery, which has been widely used in laptop computers, digital cameras, cell phones, and electric and hybrid cars; continuous web multi-junction flexible thin-film solar energy laminates and panels; flat screen liquid crystal displays; rewritable CD and DVD discs; hydrogen fuel cells; and nonvolatile phase-change memory.

RIP Émile Allais

Émile Allais (25 February 1912 – 17 October 2012) was a champion alpine ski racer from France; he won all three events at the 1937 world championships in Chamonix and the gold in the combined in 1938. Born in Megève, he was a dominant racer in the late 1930s and is considered the first great French alpine skier.

RIP David S. Ware

David Spencer Ware (November 7, 1949 – October 18, 2012) was an American free jazz saxophonist. He frequently collaborated with Marc Edwards.

RIP Slater Martin

Slater Nelson "Dugie" Martin Jr. (October 22, 1925 – October 18, 2012) was an American professional basketball player and coach who played the guard position for 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was born in Elmina, Walker County, Texas and played in seven NBA All-Star Games.

Martin was one of the NBA's best defensive players in the 1950s while playing for the George Mikan-led Minneapolis Lakers that won four NBA championships between 1950 and 1954. In 1956 he joined Bob Pettit's St. Louis Hawks and won another NBA title in 1958.

RIP Borah Bergman

Borah Bergman (December 13, 1933, Brooklyn – October 18, 2012, New York) was an American free jazz pianist.

RIP Manuel António Pina

Manuel António Pina (18 November 1943 in Sabugal- 19 October 2012) is a Portuguese journalist and writer. In 2011 he was awarded the Prémio Camões, the most important literary award in the Portuguese language.

RIP Fiorenzo Magni

Fiorenzo Magni (December 7, 1920 – October 19, 2012) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist.