Administrators timm525 Posted January 4, 2021 Administrators Report Share Posted January 4, 2021 RIP Tanya https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/movies/bond-girl-and-charlies-angels-star-tanya-roberts-dies-aged-65/ar-BB1csni6 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Administrators timm525 Posted January 4, 2021 Author Administrators Report Share Posted January 4, 2021 Threads merged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Vigilante Posted January 4, 2021 Report Share Posted January 4, 2021 (edited) I just saw it's false report. Publicist said she's alive. Edited January 4, 2021 by Mr. Vigilante 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViceFanMan Posted January 4, 2021 Report Share Posted January 4, 2021 1 hour ago, timm525 said: Threads merged. I apologize for posting this story, after you’d already posted about it. I actually looked around in a couple threads I thought were appropriate for it, but I didn’t see yours...guess I didn’t look good enough. I deleted mine, so it doesn’t sound like I’m repeating. Just FYI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViceFanMan Posted January 4, 2021 Report Share Posted January 4, 2021 18 minutes ago, Mr. Vigilante said: I just saw it's false report. Publicist said she's alive. I just saw this too...but I don’t know how accurate it is. All the other main news sources are still saying she passed away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators timm525 Posted January 5, 2021 Author Administrators Report Share Posted January 5, 2021 42 minutes ago, ViceFanMan said: I apologize for posting this story, after you’d already posted about it. I actually looked around in a couple threads I thought were appropriate for it, but I didn’t see yours...guess I didn’t look good enough. I deleted mine, so it doesn’t sound like I’m repeating. Just FYI. No worries. Threads sometimes get missed and duplicated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Ferrariman Posted January 5, 2021 Administrators Report Share Posted January 5, 2021 Ok, an article on yahoo news has confirmed that this time she has really passed. A urinary tract infection caused internal problems eventually leading to a blood infection which was compounded by having hep C in her younger days. So sad, R.I.P. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators timm525 Posted January 5, 2021 Author Administrators Report Share Posted January 5, 2021 R.I.P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kladdagh Posted January 6, 2021 Report Share Posted January 6, 2021 R.I.P. to her ... In the movie with Sir Roger Moore, she wasn't that great but she was a very kind person as I know ... She will be missed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViceFanMan Posted January 6, 2021 Report Share Posted January 6, 2021 52 minutes ago, Kladdagh said: R.I.P. to her ... In the movie with Sir Roger Moore, she wasn't that great but she was a very kind person as I know ... She will be missed Yeah, Roger Moore’s last 007 (A View to a Kill) should have been superb...as it had a powerhouse cast, including Tanya as the Bond girl! But, the plot & dialogue were pretty silly (when they give a Bond girl the line: “You ‘betcha!”...it just makes you cringe) and it just didn’t come across good. But, I don’t blame Tanya (or Roger)...they did fine with what they were given. I enjoy Tanya in Charlie’s Angels, Beast Master movies, and some other things. In today’s world 65 is not that old anymore...so sad! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pahonu Posted January 6, 2021 Report Share Posted January 6, 2021 42 minutes ago, ViceFanMan said: Yeah, Roger Moore’s last 007 (A View to a Kill) should have been superb...as it had a powerhouse cast, including Tanya as the Bond girl! But, the plot & dialogue were pretty silly (when they give a Bond girl the line: “You ‘betcha!”...it just makes you cringe) and it just didn’t come across good. But, I don’t blame Tanya (or Roger)...they did fine with what they were given. Agreed, it did have a great cast, and theme! It was written by Richard Maibaum and Michael Wilson, both with longstanding connections to the series. I think they were running out of new ideas. Maibaum wrote the first 4 scripts which were pretty faithful to Fleming’s novels. After his script for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, they strayed increasingly more. By the 80’s, the novels had been filmed and they were simply using titles from the short stories and creating the script stories whole cloth. A View to a Kill is an example of this. A lot of the Moore films had some silly dialogue but A View to a Kill also had a pretty convoluted plot. It had some great set pieces, but it somehow failed to build the necessary tension regarding the villain’s plot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViceFanMan Posted January 6, 2021 Report Share Posted January 6, 2021 (edited) 9 minutes ago, pahonu said: Agreed, it did have a great cast, and theme! It was written by Richard Maibaum and Michael Wilson, both with longstanding connections to the series. I think they were running out of new ideas. Maibaum wrote the first 4 scripts which were pretty faithful to Fleming’s novels. After his script for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, they strayed increasingly more. By the 80’s, the novels had been filmed and they were simply using titles from the short stories and creating the script stories whole cloth. A View to a Kill is an example of this. A lot of the Moore films had some silly dialogue but A View to a Kill also had a pretty convoluted plot. It had some great set pieces, but it somehow failed to build the necessary tension regarding the villain’s plot. Agreed! I actually really like most of Roger Moore’s 007 movies...except the last one (View). I WANT to like it...as it has one of my favorite Bond songs (by Duran Duran), Tanya Roberts as the Bond girl, and Christopher Walken! But, the dialogue was especially ridiculous, and it just seemed like writers/producers had run out of steam. Moore deserved WAY better to go out on, and Tanya deserved better characterization & dialogue. Edited January 6, 2021 by ViceFanMan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pahonu Posted January 6, 2021 Report Share Posted January 6, 2021 15 hours ago, ViceFanMan said: Agreed! I actually really like most of Roger Moore’s 007 movies...except the last one (View). I WANT to like it...as it has one of my favorite Bond songs (by Duran Duran), Tanya Roberts as the Bond girl, and Christopher Walken! But, the dialogue was especially ridiculous, and it just seemed like writers/producers had run out of steam. Moore deserved WAY better to go out on, and Tanya deserved better characterization & dialogue. Some of Moore’s films got a little too far out for me, but I still enjoy watching them all. My favorite two are For Your Eyes Only because it returned to a more gritty type of spy film, and The Spy Who Loved Me because it went to the edge but didn’t go over the line with the megalomaniac taking over the world trope. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViceFanMan Posted January 6, 2021 Report Share Posted January 6, 2021 1 hour ago, pahonu said: Some of Moore’s films got a little too far out for me, but I still enjoy watching them all. My favorite two are For Your Eyes Only because it returned to a more gritty type of spy film, and The Spy Who Loved Me because it went to the edge but didn’t go over the line with the megalomaniac taking over the world trope. I enjoyed all of Moore’s except View to a Kill...but my favorite of his is definitely Spy Who Loved Me, as well! I really like Live & Let Die & Man With a Golden Gun, too! For Your Eyes Only is awesome, too, as I love the crossbow & action sequences! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pahonu Posted January 6, 2021 Report Share Posted January 6, 2021 16 minutes ago, ViceFanMan said: I enjoyed all of Moore’s except View to a Kill...but my favorite of his is definitely Spy Who Loved Me, as well! I really like Live & Let Die & Man With a Golden Gun, too! For Your Eyes Only is awesome, too, as I love the crossbow & action sequences! They all have some really good scenes. Even A View to a Kill has the opening snow chase and the fight on the Golden Gate Bridge at the end. The Spy Who Loves Me has the best opening of the series, I think. For Your Eyes Only has that weird, disconnected opening scene, referencing the earlier Bond films, but otherwise is a great film. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eillio Martin Imbasciati Posted January 6, 2021 Report Share Posted January 6, 2021 Wow, I find this to be shocking & sad news; I wasn't aware of Tanya Roberts's age, but as ViceFanMan said, 65 isn't old anymore. I rather liked her: glad she had something of a renaissance with her role in "That 70's Show" and I remember watching "Sheena" as a kid (the film gets a lot of flak, but I don't mind it), plus I thought she was pretty good in 1987's "Body Slam". "A View to a Kill" isn't considered a Bond film classic and I don't feel that Roberts had much to work with, but I think the film is okay. Another tough spot for Roberts was her time with "Charlie's Angels": I thought she was fine there, but the show at that point was circling the drain and there wasn't much she could do. I enjoyed her screen presence, which I considered warm & playful. That stuff with her false death, then later confirmed, is a bit odd though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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