The RIP thread...

Marvelous, Sugar, Hitman and Rocky, that really was the golden age.

Yaphet Kotto

One of my most treasured totally out there records!

https://youtu.be/dXMrPVJAuZ0

Ah man, Yaphet was one of the good ones.
Alien needs a rewatch now.

Great to see Alonzo Mosley making it onto the last slide, one of my all time favourites.

Great actor, RIP.

Alien needs a rewatch now.

Midnight Run too.

Live and Let Die too

Magnificent in Homicide: Life on the street -the greatest TV show ever

Still have a box set of that. Time for a rewatch.

Love the book, gutted it isn't streaming anywhere, box set is mega bucks.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/mar/27/homicide-life-street-david-simon

Oh and talking of books @Markyboy if you've not read it i thought Four Kings was really good.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Four-Kings-Leonard-Hagler-Hearns/dp/1845963598

I have the whole lot on dvd if you want to borrow it

Yes, I’ve read that and really enjoyed it. Did a great job of describing a pretty unique set of rivalries

Magnificent in Homicide: Life on the street -the greatest TV show ever

Agreed. The David Simon book the series was based on is also magnificent.

We're living in a world where everyone has seen Tiger King and nobody has seen Homicide unless they were prepared to see it get shunted round the late-night schedules 25 years ago. Yaphet was too good for this world.

As is The Corner

The David Simon book the series was based on is also magnificent.

Purchased. Thanks for the recommendation.

Or was prepared up until Channel 4 bafflingly decided to drop it with one season to run...

Don't - it still hurts...

I bid on all 7 seasons on VHS on eBay just to watch the final season. I lost out to a guy in the States and emailed him asking if he'd be prepared to get them copied for me to earn back his winning bid. He agreed and then the copy shop told him it would be a copyright infringement.

I have the whole lot on dvd if you want to borrow it

Ah that would be great, i'll send you a pm when life settles down a bit.

I caught it when it originally aired on NBC in the US and they shunted that sucker around in the time schedule to make it a late Friday night slot, it never garnered the audience it deserved.

Prepare to re-live 1988. Such a great book.

Brilliant movie.

Magnificent in Homicide: Life on the street

He also made an appearance in The Wire of course

RIP Sabine Schmitz - 51, cancer.