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August 18, 2024 at 4:44 am
Alain Delon aka "French James Dean"
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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August 18, 2024 at 8:04 am
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(August 18, 2024 at 4:44 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Alain Delon aka "French James Dean"
He (cooking): Something is missing. Whats the name of that french stuff you fancy so much?
She: Alain Delon
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August 19, 2024 at 12:45 pm
^I didn't realize he was still around.
Thanks to him we ended up with Jerry Springer and the like as the genre slid down that hill.
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August 19, 2024 at 12:51 pm
I figured he kicked it years ago.
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August 20, 2024 at 3:42 am
(August 19, 2024 at 12:42 pm)polymath257 Wrote: Phil Donahue, 88. Daytime talk show host that tackled many controversial issues.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/19/entertain...index.html
Phil Donahue was 88. It was through his program that I first saw Madalyn Murray-O’Hair and was able to join American Atheists in the early 1980’s. I came out as an atheist in 1982.
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August 20, 2024 at 12:53 pm
(August 20, 2024 at 12:19 pm)Brian37 Wrote: (August 19, 2024 at 12:42 pm)polymath257 Wrote: Phil Donahue, 88. Daytime talk show host that tackled many controversial issues.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/19/entertain...index.html
I just found out 8/20 today. That sucks. He was the only talk show host of the 80s/90s that refused to go down the Jerry Springer path. His first guest of every new season was Madlyn O'Hair, and he also had transgender James Bond girl Caroline Cosey (Tula) on a few times as well. I loved how he treated all his guests with dignity and he loved diversity, and he was informative not combative. He was a class act.
Caroline Cossey was never a Bond girl. She was an uncredited extra.
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August 20, 2024 at 2:29 pm
(August 20, 2024 at 12:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (August 20, 2024 at 12:19 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I just found out 8/20 today. That sucks. He was the only talk show host of the 80s/90s that refused to go down the Jerry Springer path. His first guest of every new season was Madlyn O'Hair, and he also had transgender James Bond girl Caroline Cosey (Tula) on a few times as well. I loved how he treated all his guests with dignity and he loved diversity, and he was informative not combative. He was a class act.
Caroline Cossey was never a Bond girl. She was an uncredited extra.
Boru
A very common mistake. She is often confused with Cassandra Harris - another 6' tall actress in For Your Eyes Only who did play a Bond girl.
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