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Aberzombie (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber) Mar 14, 2010, 06:57 PM

'Mission: Impossible' star Peter Graves dies in LA

"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"

R.I.P. dude.

Torillan (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber) Mar 14, 2010, 08:39 PM

"Joey, you ever been to a Turkish prison?"

Genius...sheer, unadulterated genius...

He will be missed.

Mikaze Mar 14, 2010, 09:11 PM

I got upset reading this.

Damn it. He's part of the B-Movie pantheon that formed my childhood. This is like losing Vincent Price.

God bless ya, Pate. You were the greatest straightman ever.

Spacelard Mar 15, 2010, 12:30 AM

"Ah...I see Scraps is a boy dog..."

R.I.P.

Montalve Mar 15, 2010, 02:22 AM

a sad day indeed, learned this hours ago... certainly good part of the world with which I grew died a bit more with his passing...

rest well Jim

David Fryer Mar 16, 2010, 05:56 AM

What!? How did I miss this? RIP Peter.

Freehold DM Mar 16, 2010, 07:21 AM

Have you ever seen your mother getting out of the shower, the water beading on her skin?
R.I.P, friend.

DM Wellard Mar 16, 2010, 09:22 AM

"This tape will self destruct in five seconds"

Goodbye Mr Phelps

Ashe Ravenheart Mar 16, 2010, 11:18 AM

Why I dislike MTV anymore

I found this because I was looking for an interview that Graves did on the Mission: Impossible movies and how upset he was that they made Phelps a double agent.

The MTV article irks me because they turned Peter Graves' death into a hype about Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible IV. Not just epic fail, but epic fail with bad taste.

Davi The Eccentric Mar 16, 2010, 11:45 AM

He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature… and, because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection… they find only death… fire… loss… disillusionment… the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can't be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside — from man himself.

So long, Pete.

Shadowborn Mar 16, 2010, 11:47 AM

Ashe Ravenheart wrote:

Why I dislike MTV anymore

I found this because I was looking for an interview that Graves did on the Mission: Impossible movies and how upset he was that they made Phelps a double agent.

The MTV article irks me because they turned Peter Graves' death into a hype about Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible IV. Not just epic fail, but epic fail with bad taste.

Other venues are doing full articles on his death, whereas in the MTV article it is nothing more than a blurb, one you might miss if you were skimming. That's in very poor taste.

The Yahoo article, on the other hand, is very enlightening. I didn't know that he and James Arness were brothers.

Mikaze Mar 16, 2010, 08:01 PM

Davi The Eccentric wrote:

He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature… and, because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection… they find only death… fire… loss… disillusionment… the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can't be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside — from man himself.

So long, Pete.

I hate to say it, but this truly was the first thing I thought of when I heard the news.

Also, thirding the burning hatred for MTV's handling of the news.

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