Ricardo Montalban died. Age 88

[BaalChatzaf]

My goodness. The old guard is fading fast. One of my favorite actors Ricardo Montalban has died. He was 88. That is a pretty good run.

Ba'al Chatzaf

[Brant Gaede]

My goodness. The old guard is fading fast. One of my favorite actors Ricardo Montalban has died. He was 88. That is a pretty good run.

Ba'al Chatzaf

I liked him; he was THE star of the best Star Trek movie. I also liked him as the pitch man for the Chrysler Cordoba, until they ruined the styling by trying to make it look like a Monte Carlo.

--Brant

[Selene]

"real Corinthian leather!" with a heavy Spanish drawn our voice

[Chris Grieb]

"real Corinthian leather!" with a heavy Spanish drawn our voice

It was actually "soft Corinthian leather". He was also a wonderful villain opposite Leslie Nielson in the "Naked Gun" series.

[BaalChatzaf]

My goodness. The old guard is fading fast. One of my favorite actors Ricardo Montalban has died. He was 88. That is a pretty good run.

Ba'al Chatzaf

I liked him; he was THE star of the best Star Trek movie. I also liked him as the pitch man for the Chrysler Cordoba, until they ruined the styling by trying to make it look like a Monte Carlo.

--Brant

I agree. -The Wrath of Kahn- was the best of the Star Trek movies.

One story I heard: Mr. Rourke has a fantasy. He says to Datu: "I have this fantasy. I tie your ugly little body up and put it in a Cordoba and push the car off a cliff and listen to you shouting - Da Cliff, Da Cliff!". Datu says: "No Boss. I don't like that fantasy"

Ba'al Chatzaf

[kiaer.ts]

I agree. -The Wrath of Kahn- was the best of the Star Trek movies.

Who's "Kahn"? let me guess, your mother-in-law?

[kiaer.ts]

Steyn on Montalban

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M...jU3MWNjNmJkMDY=

Let us also not forget Ricardo Montalban's magnificent contribution to the clash of civilizations. You'll recall Sayyib Qutb, the middle-class Egyptian who many decades ago paid a visit to the United States and was so disgusted by what he saw that he returned to the Middle East, became the intellectual heavyweight of the Muslim Brotherhood, and set off a chain that led from Zawahiri to bin Laden to Afghanistan and around the world. As I wrote here:

[Qutb] had the misfortune to be invited to a dance one weekend and was horrified at what he witnessed:

'The room convulsed with the feverish music from the gramophone. Dancing naked legs filled the hall, arms draped around the waists, chests met chests, lips met lips . . .'

Where was this den of debauchery? Studio 54 in the 1970s? Haight-Ashbury in the summer of love? No, the throbbing pulsating sewer of sin was Greeley, Colorado, in 1949. As it happens, Greeley, Colorado, in 1949 was a dry town. The dance was a church social. And the feverish music was "Baby, It's Cold Outside," written by Frank Loesser and sung by Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban in the film "Neptune's Daughter."

Why do they hate us? Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban. A great man (and still terrifically stylish as the grampa in the Spy Kids movies just a couple of years back). You can see Ricardo putting the moves on Esther here (with a switcheroo in the latter half of the number).