I do remember that first night. We attempted to fill the pool and discovered it had a leak. I think Michael Ritchie patched a leak. I remember him standing there with a garden hose, filling this tremendous pool. He was just determined.
I do remember that first night. We attempted to fill the pool and discovered it had a leak. I think Michael Ritchie patched a leak. I remember him standing there with a garden hose, filling this tremendous pool. He was just determined.
I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'
Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
I told Ritchie that down deep Box didn't want to leave and he ought to talk to him. That's all I did, I just got them together. This is the first time in the 13 years that I've been here that I felt there was a player that was really a good kid who could help the team. If he wanted go come back, we needed to pursue it, and Ritchie was for it.
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
It's an interesting and exciting time. We did that with the Raiders. We started John Ritchie, Mo Collins and Charles Woodson. Despite all the people that think I don't like young players. I've done it before and I'll do it again if they're our best players.
Same thing with 'Long Long Way to Go' . We like to think we can tell a good song from a so-so song whether it be rock, pop, blues, rap, whatever... Again, for no reason other than curiosity, it was sent to us and we really dug it, so we recorded it. Apparently so did Lionel Ritchie Let's not forget here that we DID write the other eleven songs on 'X'
Guy came to the set to visit, once with the children, Rocco and Lourdes, and once without. Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie seemed comfortable and adoring of each other. My sense is that they're quite a happy, content couple.
Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
The things he (Ritchie) does on the court often go unnoticed. But, you look at his line tonight - 16 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists - and you can understand why we got off to such a great start.
In late July, Ritchie held court at the official pre-production meet and greet ... I'm Gordon Davidson, and I used to work here.
We knew we were going to have our struggles there, and we did. Thankfully, we had Ritchie Long in the middle to help us tell everyone where to go.
Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.
This was the most internet bidders we've ever seen at a Ritchie Bros. auction in Ohio.
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