I smoke a pipe and cigars. And I should be able to do it in public without getting hassled.
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Hollywoods Up in Smoke Again.
by Lady Lee 20 Replies latest social current
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Actors can’t be asked to do something fundamentally dangerous like smoke even if a script calls for it. Herb cigarettes often used as a substitute are no better.
I'm sorry, this logic seems highly questionable- You are honestly saying that
taking a few drags off of one or two non-tobacco cigarettes is DANGEROUS?Come on.
Granted, you are technically taking a few lungfulls of nasty stuff. However, I am
willing to guess that it's does no more damage to your lungs than a weekend camping,
sitting over a smoky open fire.I have no comment on the main point of the article, it may well be valid, but using
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BurnTheShips
More recent deaths from smoking include Don Knotts, Dan Rather , Suzanne Pleshette, Barbara Bel Geddes, Porter Wagoner, Lou Rawls, the Soprano’s Nancy Marchand, Bob Marley, Melina Mercouri….
Bob Marley died when a melanoma in his toe metastasized into the rest of his body. Did he smoke with his feet? LOL.
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Yall remember the movie E.T.? The voice of ET was done by a lady who had smoked all her life. ...I think that she died not long after the movie was released... not sure though.
It would seem this this is only partially true... Allthough Debra Winger (who used to smoke) did
indeed record temp tracks for the voice of ET, they were later replaced with the voice of Pat Walsh.
Fragments of her voice remain in the finished movie.She is also very not dead yet.
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mrsjones5
Dan Rather
Maybe they meant Peter Jennings? He was a smoker and died of cancer too.
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BurnTheShips
He suggests that anti-smoking public service messages run before every film that shows characters smoking.
State-based morality? It is common knowledge that smoking is not good for you. At this point, how are these messages going to make things much different other than making it more politically incorrect? Burn
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Jim_TX
"It would seem this this is only partially true... Allthough Debra Winger (who used to smoke) did
indeed record temp tracks for the voice of ET, they were later replaced with the voice of Pat Walsh.
Fragments of her voice remain in the finished movie.She is also very not dead yet."
It seems that this is only partly true...
Pat Welsh
Birth: Feb. 11, 1915
Death: Jan. 26, 1995
Voice Actress. She will forever be immortalized on screen, as the voice of the legendary alien in the 1982 Steven Spielberg classic blockbuter hit "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". Pat was born Patricia A. Carroll in San Francisco, California and in her early years she worked as a radio soap opera actress there. Movie Voice Designer Ben Burtt overheard her talking in a camera store and asked her to audition for the voice of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Which she later simultaneously did with actress Debra Winger. She died of pneumonia in 1995Regards,
Jim TX
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uhhh... I meant that Winger was not dead yet.
and on whose voice was actually in the film, this from the blurb about E.T. DVD extra features:
Technical talk is restricted to one anecdote per person: Ben Burtt explains the difference between Debra Wingers temp track (no examples seem to have been found) and Pat Welsh's eventual E.T. voice.
Can anyone who has seen this "making of" let us know the whole story?
(wow, what a weird way to hijack a thread)
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mkr32208
This is a backlash from trying to tell adults what to do! Smoking is legal. LEAVE SMOKERS ALONE TO SMOKE you just making people want to smoke MORE with this BS.
(for the record I hate the smell of cigs it's just SOOOOOOO gross, however I do understand that these people are adults!)
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Satanus
'glamourous stars like Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, Julia Roberts and dozens more participate in the old-fashioned pseudo glamour of sucking on a fag and emitting smoke clouds from their nostrils.'
S, thinking of starting smoking ;)