Yeah it's out on DVD, it came out 2-3 weeks ago.

oo netflicks, will have to add that to my list.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080211/ap_on_...o/obit_scheider

Didn't really know where to post this...

sad

I liked that movie. The scene by the bath tub was a bit much, gory. And the interviews I have seen of VDO about that movie made me want to watch it over again, just to see the scenes he talked about and to see the character through HIS eyes. I have liked all the movies I have seen him in...maybe I am just weird?

Dang.

Thanks, omerta3 - I saw the information this morning. Very sad, Roy Scheider was an excellent actor.

This is from the New York Times & was posted by Patcat at the CI-US site:

February 11, 2008
Roy Scheider, Actor in 'Jaws,' Dies at 75

By DAVE KEHR

Roy Scheider, a stage actor with a background in the classics who became one of the leading figures in the American film renaissance of the 1970s, died on Sunday afternoon in Little Rock, Ark. He was 75 and lived in Sag Harbor, N.Y.

Mr. Scheider had suffered from multiple myeloma for several years, and died of complications from a staph infection, his wife, Brenda Seimer, said.

Mr. Scheider's rangy figure, gaunt face and emotional openness made him particularly appealing in everyman roles, most famously as the agonized police chief of "Jaws," Steven Spielberg's 1975 breakthrough hit, about a New England resort town haunted by the knowledge that a killer shark is preying on the local beaches.

Mr. Scheider conveyed an accelerated metabolism in movies like "Klute" (1971), his first major film role, in which he played a threatening pimp to Jane Fonda's New York call girl; and in William Friedkin's "French Connection" (also 1971), as Buddy Russo, the slightly more restrained partner to Gene Hackman's marauding police detective, Popeye Doyle. That role earned Mr. Scheider the first of two Oscar nominations.

Born in 1932 in Orange, N.J., Mr. Scheider earned his distinctive broken nose in the New Jersey Diamond Gloves Competition. He studied at Rutgers and at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., where he graduated as a history major with the intention of going to law school. He served three years in the United States Air Force, rising to the rank of first lieutenant. When he was discharged, he returned to Franklin and Marshall to star in a production of "Richard III."

His professional debut was as Mercutio in a 1961 New York Shakespeare Festival production of "Romeo and Juliet." While continuing to work onstage, he made his movie debut in "The Curse of the Living Corpse" (1964), a low-budget horror film by the prolific schlockmeister Del Tenney. "He had to bend his knees to die into a moat full of quicksand up in Connecticut," recalled Ms. Seimer, a documentary filmmaker. "He loved to demonstrate that."

In 1977 Mr. Scheider worked with Mr. Friedkin again in "Sorcerer," a big-budget remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1953 French thriller, "The Wages of Fear," about transporting a dangerous load of nitroglycerine in South America.

Offered a leading role in "The Deer Hunter" (1979), Mr. Scheider had to turn it down in order to fulfill his contract with Universal for a sequel to "Jaws." (The part went to Robert De Niro.)

"Jaws 2" failed to recapture the appeal of the first film, but Mr. Scheider bounced back, accepting the principal role in Bob Fosse's autobiographical phantasmagoria of 1979, "All That Jazz." Equipped with Mr. Fosse's Mephistophelean beard and manic drive, Mr. Scheider's character, Joe Gideon, gobbled amphetamines in an attempt to stage a new Broadway show while completing the editing of a film (and pursuing a parade of alluring young women) — a monumental act of self-abuse that leads to open-heart surgery. This won Mr. Scheider an Academy Award nomination in the best actor category. (Dustin Hoffman won that year, for "Kramer vs. Kramer.")

In 1980, Mr. Scheider returned to his first love, the stage, where his performance in a production of Harold Pinter's "Betrayal" opposite Blythe Danner and Raul Julia earned him the Drama League of New York award for distinguished performance. Although he continued to be active in films, notably in Robert Benton's "Still of the Night" (1982) and John Badham's action spectacular "Blue Thunder" (1983), he moved from leading men to character roles, including an American spy in Fred Schepisi's "Russia House" (1990) and a calculating Mafia don in "Romeo Is Bleeding" (1993).
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Sadly, no mention of his work on CI last season.

OH! May Roy Schrieder rest in peace! Wonderful actor. my fav in the Endgame! God Bless his family! Thanks for the sad info DonnaJo.

Dear Roy Scheider. We'll always remember him as the villain who messed with Bobby's head ... more than any other ...





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Me too!!You so rigth!!Such a shame!!

I think he is my favorite guest star on this show. It’s too bad. I was really hoping they could get him to show up on SVU as someone. I was really impressed how he held his own in the scenes with Bobby. He will be missed.

Totally shifting gears here:

I was watching ITWSH with my sister and I started to tell her how much I liked Deakins. She said "where's the captain with the 'fro?" I had to stop and think but then I couldn't stop laughing! She was talking about Ross! I tried to explain that Ross is in Season 6 on and she thought (for some strange reason) that Goren and Eames had Deakins as their captain and Logan and his partners had Ross. I just thought I would share that.

I keep trying to get her to join the boards but she just won't. We agree that she's a total closet case though. I think she may lurk a little but she's not gonna join any time soon. Curses!

We have a small but vocal fan club for the 'fro here

Ditto!!

Now for something completely different.

FYI, I won't be on the forum from now until the 26th or 27th of Feb, because I'm leaving for a Reading Week mission trip to Edinburgh, Scotland on Friday and coming back on the 24th. Then I have an exam and my three hour class the next day...

Anyway, Happy Valentine's Day, and I hope everyone has a good week. Cloggs, I rarely drink in RL, but I'll try and remember to bring back some virtual Glenlivit for the NOROMO...

Now I must go to aformentioned three hour class...

Have a fun and safe trip!

Have a great trip and bring back some pics to post.

Have a good trip Amanda! Be safe!

Have fun! We'll miss you!

Have a great trip AmandaB!!!

I thought that for a long time, too b/c all of the logan eps I had seen were from season 6 and all of the g/es that I had seen were from season 5 and back.

I'll let my sis know. She'll be happy she wasn't alone.

oooh, I just had a scare. Has anyone ever logged on to get a white screen that saysL IPS Driver Error. There must be a problem with the database. You can refresh here. ???

When I clicked on refresh, nothing happened, so I clicked on the refresh button on the top of the screen and it worked.

That makes sense. I googled it and found that sometimes it happens when there is a lot of traffic on a forum.

How fun!! Have a wonderful time, Amanda. Hopefully when you return there will be news of VDO's new baby.

I have for the pasr hour! My husband came home from work, and fixed it, he said mine was a virus.

It's official: WGA strike is over
92.5% of guild vote in favor of strike's end

By CYNTHIA LITTLETON, DAVE MCNARY
Posted: Tue., Feb. 12, 2008, 6:55pm PT

(Dade Hayes in New York contributed to this report)

Read the full article at:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117980829.html

The writers strike has officially ended.

The Writers Guild of America announced just before 7 p.m. that members voted to lift the strike order with a 92.5% endorsement. WGA West president Patric Verrone - the most visible figure during the 14-week strike - made the announcement.

"The strike is over," he said. "Our membership has voted, and writers can go back to work. This was not a strike we wanted, but one we had to conduct in order to win jurisdiction and establish appropriate residuals for writing in new media and on the Internet. Those advances now give us a foothold in the digital age. Rather than being shut out of the future of content creation and delivery, writers will lead the way as TV migrates to the Internet and platforms for new media are developed."

The official tally showed 3,492 voting yes and 283 voting no.

The announcement capped over three months of walking, talking, picketing, chanting, strategizing, ballyhoo and bluster from both sides as the long and winding road of the strike came to an end at a ballot box in Beverly Hills.

The vote on lifting the strike concluded a mere three days after the WGA cinched its contract agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. The strike vote was held over a 48-hour frame, with members able to vote in person at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills and Gotham's Crowne Plaza Hotel, or via fax.

The seven CEOs who head the AMPTP issued a statement minutes after the WGA announced, opening with, "This is a day of relief and optimism for everyone in the entertainment industry."

"We can now all get back to work, with the assurance that we have concluded two groundbreaking labor agreements - with our directors and our writers -- that establish a partnership through which our business can grow and prosper in the new digital age," the moguls said. "The strike has been extraordinarily difficult for all of us, but the hardest hit of all have been the many thousands of businesses, workers and families that are economically dependent on our industry. We hope now to focus our collective efforts on what this industry does best - writers, directors, actors, production crews, and entertainment companies working together to deliver great content to our worldwide audiences."

WGA reps said turnout was very strong at the West Coast polling spot, with a long line forming outside the theater even before the voting formally began at 2 pm. Voting by fax has also been heavy ever since the 48-hour voting period began.

Among the notables spotted casting ballots at the Doheny Drive theater today was multihyphenate Tracey Ullman.

Tuesday's vote was a pro forma step, given the enthusiastic response of members to the contract agreement that guild leaders detailed at membership meetings in Gotham and L.A. on Saturday.

Showrunners eagerly returned to their offices on Monday in their producer capacities in preparation for the formal return to work by the scribe tribe today.

With the emotionally-charged work stoppage all but over, one of the key players in its denouement offered his first public statements Tuesday on the hard-fought deal.

Leslie Moonves, CBS Corp. prexy and CEO, worked closely with News Corp. prexy Peter Chernin and Walt Disney Co. topper Robert Iger in initiating the backchannel outreach that broke the impasse between the sides last month.

Moonves said that both the scribes and the studio brass had learned a lot during the wrenching process of watching TV and film production grind to a halt.

"I think there was some miscommunication early on. It was important that we started speaking eye to eye. Ultimately, getting the percentage of streaming revenue was important to (WGA), and I understand it," Moonves told Daily Variety.

"We will never know if they would have achieved these things without a strike. I think it's really important now that everybody come back together, and work together. I think that's going to happen. Let's not look backward; let's look forward. Let's not talk just once every three years but maybe every month.
Especially on new media. The rules of our business are changing so rapidly, the ways people are using media and content are changing so rapidly. For our creative partners, relationships and communication are really important. The (WGA) realizes it, and we realize it."

Although relations between guild leaders and AMPTP conglom toppers seemed to be nonexistent during the worst stalemate periods of the strike in December and early January, Moonves said the ill will quickly dissipated once both sides agreed to meet together in small groups and under the cover of a media blackout.

"Once (WGA leaders) got to know some of us (toppers) they realized where we were coming from. Nobody handed us these jobs," Moonves said. And he was quick to praise his colleagues Chernin and Iger for "doing an excellent job in going in with (WGA toppers) and working out the details."

Looking ahead to the AMPTP's pending negotiations with the Screen Actors Guild, Moonves said he was hopeful that "the tone that was set at the end of (the WGA talks) will continue on."

The SAG-AFTRA contract on feature films and primetime TV expires on June 30. No talks have yet been set.

Hopes that the WGA strike would end began to rise when the DGA reached a tentative agreement on Jan. 17 on a three-year deal with the helmers touting its gains in new media. The WGA was able to use that pact as a template in reaching the outlines of its deal two weeks later.

The DGA issued a brief statement on Tuesday after the WGA had called off the strike.

"The DGA applauds the successful conclusion of the AMPTP/WGA negotiations and the end to the strike," it said. "The last three months have been painful ones for tens of thousands of working people in and around the entertainment industry, and like everyone else, our members are now eager to get back to work."

For any WGA members who might not have been decided on whether to call it a wrap on the strike, the wintry weather that blanketed Manhattan with snow on Tuesday provided a stark reminder of the freezing days spent on picket lines since the work stoppage began Nov. 5.

In Gotham, WGA ballots were cast at the Crowne Plaza Hotel from 4 to 7 p.m. The opening of the polls was preceded by an hourlong membership meeting, at which WGA East prexy Michael Winship, WGA East exec director Mona Mangan and others spoke about the contract terms and took questions from members.

In brief remarks to reporters before the meeting, Winship reiterated that the hard-fought contract includes landmark gains for writers in new media, and that the guild achieved its primary goal of establishing a new-media compensation formula that will pay scribes a percentage of revenue generated by exploitation of their work in the digital realm.

"We're receiving a percentage of the distributor's gross," he said, "which is very real money, as opposed to what people refer to as creative or Hollywood accounting."

The ratification process of the contract itself will begin later with week via a mail-in-ballot. The vote will be tallied at membership meetings on Feb. 25, with the expected ratification being finalized on Feb. 26.


(I'm posting this on the Strike and Marathon Threads as well; as I know most of us are anxious for this news.)

YES YES YES. GREAT NEWS!!!! WHOOOOHOOO...
I guess you can tell I am happy???

Hi there!

I just want to share this with you: Thursday February 14, 8/10 pm starts the 7th season of LOCI to Latin America! I'm so thrilled :rolleyes: that I had to tell to someone!

(Watch new episodes and learn that the strike is over make a perfect Valentine's Day present.)

BTW Have a Happy Valentine's Day.

Whoa, i got an A on my first Statistics Test. O.o

Wasn't expecting that.

Great job, Valley!!

Great news...enjoy!! Be sure to post your thoughts on the episodes.




Congrats!! Statistics is a tough course, be proud.

Good Job, Valley! And great news about the strike! Other good news, I'm off school today because of ice! happy times!

I am going to change the conversation up a bit...

This kid from Michigan (Maffett I think) is sueing the NCAA for the right to not sit out a year. His coach who recruited him retired and another coach came in with a system that he can't play in. He wants to transfer and not sit out the required year. He says "If coaches can just leave for another job without sitting out a year, why can't players?"

I am not sure how I feel about the situation because you will have these kids jumping ship all the time...but if a coach comes to recruit you and you promise that coach you will come and he leaves ...I don't know...I just think it will open up a can of worms that College programs will not want.... then it brings up the arguement of kids leaving early...I don't know, it just seems like a huge Catch-22.....any opinions...


Thanks for the news about the strike...

That happened to me, too. I couldn't get on this board for a long time. I thought it was my computer, but I was able to get on the NBC board. So maybe it was too much traffic? Doesn't seem to be problem on the NBC board these days.



Good work, Valley!


I think that one of my neighbors has been using my washer and dryer when I'm not home! My little laundry room is on the back patio. It has a lock, but I never lock it because its inconvenient. But a couple of weeks ago I found my pet carrier (which was on the back patio) sitting next to the fence. My dryer is old and on the regular cycle it is supposed to buzz once and then shut off, but it doesn't shut off. It just keeps tumbling and buzzing forever until you open the door. I always use the permanent press cycle, which has a cool-down cycle where it tumbles with cool air and buzzes every few minutes for about 30 minutes and finally shuts off. Several times over the last few weeks, I've come home from work and the dryer is on the regular cycle and buzzing, buzzing, buzzing. I've been accusing my daughter of leaving it on when she goes to school (she sometimes throws her clothes in the dryer to get the wrinkles out--we call it "dry cleaning" ). It happened again yesterday, but my daughter told me she never uses the regular cycle, she only uses the permanent press cycle. So, is someone hopping the fence and washing their clothes while I'm at work and she's at school? The apartment is empty all day. Actually, now that I think about it, my electric bill went up about $20 the last 2 months. Hmm.....Well, I locked the laundry room door this morning. If that is what was happening, that should take care of it. Living in apartments is SO interesting!

That is messed up! Don't they have their own machines?

Perhaps you could put a little sign on the locked door that gives the varying prices for laundry services and put a coffee can out front. Maybe they’d get the idea that they’re basically stealing from you and they’ve been caught! I have a low opinion of people so I really don’t think this would effect their conscience (especially since they’re sneaking into your laundry room in the first place), but I’m pretty ornery and I would leave the note and the coffee can!

The neighbor on one side has a washer, but I don't think she has a dryer--I see laundry hanging out on her little patio. Could be her drying some laundry, I guess. But the woman on the other side is new and I don't think she has either. In fact, she didn't have electricity for the first 2 weeks she lived there--it just got turned on last Friday. I suspected she might have been plugging an extension cord in to the outlet on my patio when I was out, but I never caught her. And that is the side where I found the pet carrier. I don't like to be selfish with my belongings, but I don't know this lady (well, I know she is LOUD when she is drunk!) and I have enough trouble paying my own gas and electric bills without paying for hers too. OR....maybe I'm just paranoid and no one is doing any of this stuff. Can't explain the dryer being on when I got home, though.

That's creepy and ewwww ciaddict.

Great job Valley!!!!

Good Idea! Get the money back to pay your electric bill!

Ok--last week we (as in the middle TN area) were hit with tornados, today--we get ice and snow! Isn't living in the south just great! (mutters about kids getting snows days but not the parents. . .)

Not sure if anyone watched the Westminster dog show, but I was so glad the Beagle one, first Beagle to win, he was soooo cute, anyone catch abe vigoda living under Conan's audience last night? So funny, guess that was his last show without writers.

Valley -- great job on your test! woo-hoo! Valley rocks!!!!

We watched BOTH nights of Westminster and were so THRILLED when Uno the Beagle won! Snoopy is my fave cartoon dog, and our Buster (may he RIP) was a Beagle/Bassett mix.

Ciaddict -- I think the good doctor is sneaking off the NoRoMo and doing his laundry at your home. When I came on duty today, I couldn't find him anywhere.. ...::wanders off to go search the shipping and tie clip threads for doc.bobby::

Thanks Judy
Math is my worst subject, so i was definitely shocked.


Thank You, i think all math is hard, at least for me. I like to work with words.



Thank you mucho!



Thank You, i'm a sucker for encouragement.


Yeah i watched it with Lazarus, i was hoping the Akita or Australian Shepard to win.




I feel so proud now.

I thought about putting up a sign that said "Closed for Repairs", but I like your idea better!



Now if HE were using my washer and dryer, I would turn them into shrines! Is Rodgers too busy with Ross to keep up with her laundry duties? We may need to talk to her about that.

Hey Valley, my 15 y/o just texted me that she got a B on her first pre-calc test. She was pretty excited, the homework has been keeping her up late because there is SO much of it.

15 in precal? wowza O.O thats awesome

I thought that was cool about Uno the Beagle. He is a cute dog!

Yeah, she's my math wiz. I hate to admit it, but she definately got her math and music abilities from her father.

Hey, I wanted to share about one of my clients that I saw this morning. I went to her home to do her yearly review. She is in her 20s and is developmentally delayed and very childlike. She is deaf and my sign language abilities is limited to "thank you" and "beautiful" (both of which I used today!). I really needed Bobby to interpret for me. When I walked in the living room, she was sitting on the couch and patted the seat next to her, very excited, for me to sit. She hugged me when I sat down, and started pointing to my name tag and my clothes. She kept trying to take my pen and clipboard and her mother told her "NO!" So she went to her room and brought back coloring books and crayons. She plopped a coloring book in my lap, handed me a crayon, and pointed to the picture she wanted me to color. So I colored with her while her mother finished signing the paperwork. Then I got my laptop out to update her assessment and she REALLY wanted to help with that! She was just so sweet, and hugged me when I left. Its not very often that I get to color Donald Duck and Minnie Mouse at work--so color me happy!