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  1. Sam Peckinpah – „Convoy“ (1978)

    Eine endlose Kolonne aus Stahl, Diesel, Schweiß und Wut. Was aussieht wie ein protziges Macho-Spektakel mit Country-Soundtrack und CB-Funk, ist in Wahrheit eine melancholische Geisterfahrt durch das Herz der untergehenden USA. Sam Peckinpah, der poetischste aller Actionregisseure, verfilmte einen Country-Song – und kreierte eine elegische Studie über Freiheit, Männlichkeit und das Ende der letzten Cowboy-Mythen. (ARD)

  2. I hope, at the end, #BurtYoung found peace with this horrible murder in his family. Given how I experienced the news as a 9 year old boy and had it recur in my thoughts for the next half-century, it's next to impossible for me to scale it to being the father to the victim, the husband to the murderer.

    I grieve for Richie, I grieve for Burt. My heart goes out to Anne, his sister who I never knew or met (she was too young to go to OLS at the time). My condolences to the family and friends.

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  3. It should be acknowledged that #BurtYoung wrote a movie for TV, co-starring #TaliaShire, which was a fictionalized version of Richie's life and death, filmed in Corona NY, but not at Our Lady of Sorrows. It was partly filmed at the more photogenic interior of St Leo's church.

    In the movie, Richie dies during a car accident. Not by the hand of his mentally ill mother.

    imdb.com/title/tt0077390/

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  4. Until I graduated Our Lady of Sorrows School in Corona NY in 1977, a classmate and I would set an empty desk next to us "for Richie" in every class, like Elijah's cup at the table during a seder, filled with the wine of our memory.

    I can understand the family keeping a tragic event out of the public eye during #BurtYoung's career.

    But Richie existed. He was Burt and Gloria's son. He was my friend. He should not be erased in an account of Burt's life.

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  5. #BurtYoung has died. The obituaries don't mention that he had a son, Richie, my friend.

    Richie Morea was a bright blonde bundle of energy who was into the same geeky things I was.

    Richie died in 1972 at the hands of his mother, Gloria, who died in an asylum in New York in 1974.

    I have thought about or dreamed of Richie at least once a week for over 50 years.

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  6. Rest in peace, Burt Young 😔

    Burt Young, Oscar-Nominated ‘Rocky’ Star, Dead at 83
    Young played Rocky Balboa's brother-in-law in the first six 'Rocky' movies opposite Sylvester Stallone

    Burt Young, ‘Rocky’ Star, Dead at 83 people.com/burt-young-rocky-st
    #news #entertainment #film #movies #television #BurtYoung

  7. Actor Burt Young died on October 8 at age 83, news that was confirmed today. Young had a long and varied career in film and television, but may be best known for his role as Paulie in "Rocky", for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Full credits on IMDb.
    #BurtYoung #RIP #Television #Movies
    tinyurl.com/burt-young-imdb