I still remember first seeing him decades a decades ago in the omen movies. That is a good long run, but it does seem a bit young for someone I can. But then Catherine O’Hara should have lived a lot longer, but a pulmonary embolism out of nowhere can kill anyone. No matter how old or young.
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Weird, I could have sworn he passed already.
Regardless, RIP to a wonderful actor and, by all accounts, a stellar human being.
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That line is one of the saddest ever delivered in a film, IMO. I really like Neill’s work. He never seemed to overdo it.
I am finding it curious that none of the obits refer to his role in the film Sirens. Hugh Grant and a frequently naked Elle McPherson were also in it. I suppose because it’s really a fringe film it doesn’t make the cut.
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Wow, didn’t realize he was quite so up there in age, still too early! Besides Jurassic Park, he was in a lot of good, under-the-radar films. But nothing can top this, one of the unintentionally funniest moments in film history:
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I think I referenced it earlier, but I could swear I remember seeing him and one of those very early Omen movies back in the '70s. But for me perhaps not the best known but the most horrifically memorable role was in event horizon
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A reporter with ties to Olympus High and Univ. of Utah. Was a reporter on at least one local channel (KUTV I believe) then went national with quite an impressive life.
A longer obit is in today’s Salt Lake Tribune
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What an accomplished man. Thanks for posting.
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What a wonderfully written obit and legacy
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There are a number of people in the world I hope never call me a beloved friend. Just sayin’.
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I do actually remember him. It’s been interesting to see the few people that moved on from being on the local newscast to other rules. I have recently seen Debbie Dujanovic posting about fairly progressive things on Instagram I believe.
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Jim Nantz once was with KSL a very long ago then made it big on the national sportscaster scene.
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Was Glen Beck ever local? Talk about someone you never want to refer to you as a beloved friend…
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Not sure if he was ever local, but I’m sure he was, and stil is loco.
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Sandy Gilmore was an impressive person. I did not know him well, met him only a few times, but knew his family growing up in SLC. His immediate family (parents and younger siblings) lived in the Federal Heights neighborhood in SLC in the late 60s early 70s, where my girlfriend (eventual wife) and many classmates from Bryant Junior High lived at the time. I was a friend of and my younger brother and (now) wife were close friends with his younger brother, Mark.
The family was a collection of great people and knowing Sandy from a distance, I watched his career with special interest. He was a fabulous national news reporter in several eras where there were critical news stories, like Viet Nam, Watergate, the removal from office and pardon of Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, … Remembering him from SLC, and seeing him in the middle of those important stories kept him in mind for decades. I’m not quite sure when that declined.
RIP, and Godspeed, Sandy!
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You used a phrase that is grossly inaccurate… Nixon was not removed from office, he left by his own choice. And considering the nightmare we’re dealing with now, it’s very important to use the right terminology.
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You are correct Kosh, Nixon was not forcibly removed. I think of it in those terms, as he had been under increasing pressure to leave office for some time, and had given no indication that he had any intention of doing so.
He ultimately resigned in early August of 1974, a day after a meeting with congressional leaders who informed him that failing his resignation, the House which was in the process of impeaching him, almost assuredly had the votes to do so, and that his support in the Senate had dropped to likely 15 votes, making it apparent to him that he would be convicted.
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We are so, so far away from that moral landscape.
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Can you imagine what grandma Viv would have to say today? LOL.
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