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Thread started 09/25/16 1:24am

JoeyC

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Bill Nunn, Who Played Radio Raheem in ‘Do the Right Thing,’ Dies at 63




You will be missed my brother...



Rest In Peace. rose


Full article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/20....html?_r=0

By LIAM STACKSEPT. 24, 2016



Bill Nunn, a versatile actor best known for playing the role of Radio Raheem, the boombox-toting neighborhood philosopher killed by police officers in Spike Lee’s 1989 film “Do the Right Thing,” died on Saturday in Pittsburgh. He was 63.


His death was announced on social media by Mr. Lee. His wife, Donna, told The Associated Press that Mr. Nunn had cancer.



The first major acting role for Mr. Nunn, the son of a well-known professional football scout, was in the 1988 film “School Daze,” also written and directed by Mr. Lee. The next year brought the critically acclaimed “Do the Right Thing,” in which he played the iconic Radio Raheem, who carries a boombox blaring Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” through the streets of the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn on the hottest day of summer.


Radio Raheem sits at the moral heart of the film, delivering a soliloquy directly to the camera on the ceaseless contest between love and hate, symbolized by the four-finger rings he wears on each hand. The character’s choking death at the hands of police officers in front of a crowd of his neighbors incites the film’s wrenching final scenes...

Rest in Peace Bettie Boo. See u soon.
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Reply #1 posted 09/25/16 8:02am

Graycap23

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R.I.P.

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FOOLS multiply when WISE Men & Women are silent.
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Reply #2 posted 09/25/16 9:44am

UncleJam

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Oh, wow...RIP Brotha

Make it so, Number One...
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Reply #3 posted 09/25/16 10:34am

JoeBala

Great loss. He was a legit actor. RIP Bill.

Image result for Bill Nunn

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Reply #4 posted 09/25/16 10:40am

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Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #5 posted 09/25/16 11:33am

EmmaMcG
I liked this guy in Do The Right Thing. 63 is too young to die.

What I find weird about this is most places online that reported his death say "Spider-Man actor dies".
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Reply #6 posted 09/25/16 12:16pm

babynoz

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Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise.
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Reply #7 posted 09/25/16 1:20pm

HuMpThAnG
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Reply #8 posted 09/25/16 1:45pm

Connected

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Classic!!!

~Shakalaka!~..... ~Mayday!~
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Reply #9 posted 09/25/16 2:22pm

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Wow, has it been that long since Do The Right Thing came out?! Damn, I'm getting old...and Bill Nunn wasn't old enough. Rest In Peace, Mr. Nunn.

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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #10 posted 09/25/16 2:40pm

PliablyPurple

Connected said:

Classic!!!

Have always felt that this scene was better than the original. RIP!

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Reply #11 posted 09/25/16 9:05pm

Goddess4Real

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Another great talent RIP pray wilted

Keep Calm & Listen To Prince
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Reply #12 posted 09/26/16 4:44am

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I first saw this on Instagram when Spike Lee mentioned it...SMH...2016 has been pretty harsh. Mr. Nunn was way too young. It hasn't been mentioned in any of the articles that I've read about him, but one movie I absolutely loved him in, aside from his roles in Spike Lee's films and in New Jack City, was a movie called "Regarding Henry" where he played a motivational nurse's aide to Harrison Ford's character. nod He'll surely be missed. pray

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I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince.
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Reply #13 posted 09/26/16 8:02am

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Very sad. i may be the only one who does not care for that movie.

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #14 posted 09/26/16 9:19am

Empress

Didn't know that was his name, but I certainly do remember him. RIP

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Reply #15 posted 09/26/16 10:35am

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Unlike some he got hired.

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #16 posted 09/28/16 8:12am

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