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You all did very well with respect last year, keep it the same this year please. 2019 now locked.
Cheers, David
a sad one to kick us off in 2020, Rush's drummer, Neil Peart
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertain...IM171AaIpPhoKA
Last edited by g8ina; 04-02-2020 at 06:40 PM.
Cheers, David
Rush ....2112 wow lost a few brain cells to that in the dayOriginally Posted by g8ina
Last edited by g8ina; 04-02-2020 at 06:40 PM.
What does it matter now if men believe or no?
What is to come will come. And soon you too will stand aside,
To murmur in pity that my words were true
(Cassandra, in Agamemnon by Aeschylus)
To see the wizard one must look behind the curtain ....
Bob Givens, the guy who designed Bugs Bunny
https://www.awn.com/news/bob-givens-...ZrXJx0CTiG0s1o
edit, oops, just noticed the date, 2017, sorry...
Cheers, David
Stan Kirsch: Highlander and Friends actor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51118165
g8ina (16-01-2020)
This was from last year, October 11th, but I only found out today on a youtube channel I was browsing. Robert Forster - I know him from Jackie Brown mainly: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50025723
...but also just found out in IMDB that he played the bad guy, Abdul, in a film I used to watch as a kid a lot, The Delta Force (1986). Wow, I did not know that was him! I'd have never guessed that.
"Arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you!" - Ambassador Londo Mollari
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - A General
g8ina (16-01-2020)
Christopher Tolkien, the son of J.R.R. Tolkien who continued his father’s publishing legacy, has died, according to The Tolkien Society. He was 95.
https://www.tor.com/2020/01/16/chris...arth-obituary/
Cheers, David
Derek Fowlds, of Mr Derek, Heartbeat and the inimitable Yes, Minister... 82.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51147182
Last edited by g8ina; 17-01-2020 at 09:07 PM.
Cheers, David
Terry Jones from Monty Python
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51209197
g8ina (22-01-2020)
His children's book - The Saga of Erik the Viking - was one of my favourite childhood books. Our teacher read it to the whole class and I loved it and got my mum to buy a copy for me. It was only a year or two ago I bought a replacement copy for my son.
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Michaela Logan - Younger Sister of Tom Logan - TTL on Youtube
https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/1...ton-car-crash/
g8ina (23-01-2020)
UPDATED number and identities of those who died along with Kobe and his daughter:
Kobe Bryant. One of the NBA's all-time greatest.
Dead at 41 in a helicopter accident along with his 13 year old daughter Gianna and seven others, including the pilot and a local baseball coach with his wife and daughter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/s...yant-dead.html
Last edited by Galant; 27-01-2020 at 11:08 AM.
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g8ina (27-01-2020)
Nicholas Parsons: 'Broadcasting legend'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51278023
g8ina (28-01-2020)
That one is kind of a shock. While, aged 96, it shouldn't be, my view of the world just kinda wobbled. I mean, I'm no youngster, but Nicholas was on stage, screen and radio before I was born. Many years before.
It's not like I was a huge fan. I didn't much like Sale of the Century, but I did listen to Just A Minute frequently, though not regularly.
He was a bit like gravity, or air; not something you're consciously aware of all the time, but you just take for granted that they're there.
Giles Brandreth put it well .... as you would expect. He said, and I'm paraphrasing a tad, not quoting verbatim
"I jyst assumed he was immortal, as he was always there. It's a shock to find he wasn't."
It's as if I were standing on a rock, something you understand implicitly (or think you do), when it open's it's eyes and looks at you. The world as you thought you knew it just wobbled. Became less certain.
RIP Nicholas, and sympathies to friends and family. And thanks for all the decades of professionalism and dedication.
A lesson learned from PeterB about dignity in adversity, so Peter, In Memorium, "Onwards and Upwards".
So use to them just being "there" you don't notice the passage of time
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