Richard Attenborough dies

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Saw him in The Great Escape just today. Yet another sad loss.
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Oh man. RIP.
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RIP. :(
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R.I.P. Another sad loss.
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Of course I'll always remember him for The Great Escape, but the memory I'll always have was of an event that occurred during the filming of the 1994 remake of A Miracle on 34th Street. My wife (then GF) and I were performing as extras for the parade scene. While resetting between takes, a golf cart comes down Central Park West carrying none other than Sir Richard Attenborough in costume. Although his driver/attendant showed no interest in slowing down among us peons, my wife - who had never seen The Great Escape - dashed past all of us paralyzed drooling fanbois and ran towards the cart yelling, "Santa!" Well, that man - already a knight of the realm and beholden to a bunch of extras not in the least - stopped, let my wife sit next to him, take some pics, and mug with him for an NBC magazine show. A man may become succesful, famous, even powerful within his own spheres; but character, generosity, and gregariousness are not qualities that are acquired with fame.
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Mikey wrote:Of course I'll always remember him for The Great Escape, but the memory I'll always have was of an event that occurred during the filming of the 1994 remake of A Miracle on 34th Street. My wife (then GF) and I were performing as extras for the parade scene. While resetting between takes, a golf cart comes down Central Park West carrying none other than Sir Richard Attenborough in costume. Although his driver/attendant showed no interest in slowing down among us peons, my wife - who had never seen The Great Escape - dashed past all of us paralyzed drooling fanbois and ran towards the cart yelling, "Santa!" Well, that man - already a knight of the realm and beholden to a bunch of extras not in the least - stopped, let my wife sit next to him, take some pics, and mug with him for an NBC magazine show. A man may become succesful, famous, even powerful within his own spheres; but character, generosity, and gregariousness are not qualities that are acquired with fame.
That's a legit touching story. Thank you for posting it. :)
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