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Thread: Tom Laughlin - Billy Jack

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    Tom Laughlin - Billy Jack

    What a craptastic day for film.

    http://www.billyjack.com/

    LA Times obit:

    http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...#axzz2na6GDF7B


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    Bummer.

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    Well this completely sucks. "Billy Jack" was one of my very favorite films. I had always hoped things would get back on track for him to make more movies.
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    Oh my. We had a small town theater and when Billy Jack played people were lined up to see it. This is a bummer, dang.

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    One Tin Soldier rides away.

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    RIP another part of my childhood gone

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    That sucks - I loved the first movie.
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    Great guy. R.I.P., Tom.

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    Wow- three in 24 hours... And darn, TCM already assembled their year-end tribute. Must fix ASAP!
    Remembering seeing THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK back in the day. The climax of the film was a bonafide shocker to me. I think I cried over that for days.

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    I remember those movies. They used to play them all the time on the UHF channels in the late 70's early 80s.

    That's too bad he passed away.
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    One Tin Soldier Road Away..................

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    I remember standing in line for a midnight showing of Billy Jack and having someone streak the movie line. What a classic 70s experience. I loved that movie and for years had a burning desire, when asked, to tell people that my first name was "Up" and my last name was "Yours."
    I mean, they say you die twice.
    One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

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    I have to say that I am more than a little disappointed that there have been virtually no "announcements" of his death. Perhaps his family wanted it that way, and if so, I respect that. But if not, it's really a shame that this news was seemingly ignored.
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    I had the biggest crush on him in that movie!
    And I am sure I was not alone!

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    "There won't be any trumpets blowing,
    Come the Judgement Day.
    On the bloody morning after,
    One tin soldier rides away"

    Guess that last line would be a good working title for a biography of Tom Laughlin!

    On the BillyJack.com site, they also ask for donations to an Alzheimers charity in honor of Deloris Taylor Laughlin. I guess she's got it.
    They were married for sixty years and did other constructive things after the heyday of those films. Running for office, though-- maybe ot such a hot idea?
    Just as well Tom Laughlin never finished the "Billy Jack" screenplay he worked on in his last years. It would have been too sad-- Heroic Billy J. could kick the crud out of a lot of problems, but not cancer, dementia, or arthritis, not to mention terrorism, internet crimes, governmental misbehavior, and unemployment.
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    He was the_shit back in the day. And environmentally conscious before it was "cool". Dig it.
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    82? Wow...I would have never guessed he was that old. Billy Jack was a good movie. "I’m going to take my right foot, and I’m going to whomp you on that side of your face, and you know something? There’s not a damn thing you’re going to be able to do about it."

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    82!!!!

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    Saw Billy Jack in the drive-in when it came out. That movie was so good I actually watched it!! Had the biggest crush on that gal he saved.

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    I remember as a kid growing up in San Diego, my dad used to take all of us kids to the drive in movies. Those Billy Jack movies were some of the best. RIP
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