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I was genuinely gutted when Rolf Harris was outed. I loved Animal Hospital as a child and I liked him, he seemed an affable and happy go lucky sort of guy. I suppose that's how he got away with what he did, he wasn't some cartoon paedo or abuser, like so many he was plausible.
I'm just glad a degree of justice was done even if it was belatedly. Hopefully there is support in place for his victims now he is thrust back into the public eye for a few days.
Should've died a slow lingering death years ago the perverted old *******.
Tina Turner 83 RIP.
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Seen Tina Turner twice in concert. Absolutely fantastic shows, a real performer. Saw Tina The Musical in London earlier this year. She had a tough upbringing and a hard life but overcame all the odds. RIP
Tina Turner took on Swiss nationality in her later years.
Emily Morgan BBC news reader has died aged 45 😵
The Girl from Ipanema, Astrud Gilberto, at the age pf 83. According to her obit, it's widely held to be the second-most recorded pop song in history. She also sold a lot of other records in the Latin jazz and bossa nova genre, but I'll have that tune in my head for hours now!
Tony TS McPhee, lead guitarist for blues rock band The Groundhogs. A brilliant guitarist, Hogwash was one of the first albums I bought. .RIP
Mike Batayeh dies in his sleep of a heart attack, only 52, played Dennis Markowski in three episodes of Breaking Bad as manager of Gustavo's Laundromat, also appeared in CSI Miami and boy meetes world.
Silvio Berlusconi passed this morning
Treat Williams in a motor cycle accident at 71. Sidney Lumet's Prince of the city. Great film.
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Sorry to hear this . He was a very good actor who also appeared in " The eagle has landed" and "Deep rising " .Quote:
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Irish rock band ' Aslan ' front man Christy Dignam has died .
Cormac McCarthy, American author. RIP
Blood Meridian is for me one of the greatest novels ever written. Not an easy read but one that really left me stunned at what I had read when I finished it. Brilliant.
John Hollins.
Obviously best-known for Chelsea but he gave Arsenal a good few season’s service. Would have had an FA Cup Winners medal from his time at Highbury were it not for the limited stripped players allowed in those days.Quote:
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Glenda Jackson.
Gordon McQueen today, at just 70.
All men are fools. And what makes them so is having beauty like what I have got 🙂Quote:
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Possibly the greatest actress that we have had. Not many people have won the acting triple crown. She was always compelling and captivating. Her last major TV performance in Elizabeth is Missing, was nothing less than outstanding.Quote:
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Saw them support SLF at the Barrowland once, they were excellent. He had a great voice.Quote:
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Daniel Ellsberg passed,92.
He was possibly the biggest whistleblower in history, before the age of the internet. He leaked the 7,000 pages of a US government report showing that successive administrations had escalated the conflict in Vietnam over a 20-year period despite knowing the war was almost certainly unwinnable. The Americans lost 58,000 personnel in Vietnam, the Vietnamese lost 2 million civilians and around 1.3 million combatabts, from both sides in total.
Then-president Richard Nixon tried to discredit him and a team of 'fixers' sought to undercover dirt on him, including breaking into his psychiatrists. They wee later the people involved in the Watergate break-in.
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Coincidentally, watched The White House Plumbers this week on Netflix. A big part of that was the botched burglary of the psychiatrist's.
On the back of that, just bought All The President's Men, which I first read when I was a teenager. Was an eye-opener then, and I'm wondering how I'll see it as a cynical senior.:cb
I've been watching Plumbers, quite enjoying it. I did worry slightly that the dark comedy might diminish the egregious criminality that went on, for younger viewers, hopefully not.Quote:
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We watched The Post (movie) an few weeks ago, although it was released about five years ago. It centres on the Pentagon Papers. IF you've not seen it, it is worth a watch. Tom Hanks has one of the lead roles, so you get the production values of a Tom Hanks movie but you also get a Tom Hanks movie. :greengrin
I hope ATPM still holds up. I remember borrowing it from the local library round about S1 and borrowing it again and again, I loved it and was a bit blown awat by it. The film is magnificent as well, one of those that I will watch every so often. There's some great cinematography in it too - the shot where the camera pulls up and away from Redford and Hoffman in the Library of Congress is classic 70s camerawork, very Kubrick in nature.
Hearing news that Craig Brown has passed. Fantastic career playing and managing. Not everyone's cup of tea but a legend.
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Alan Arkin.
Loved him in Little Miss Sunshine.Quote:
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He was a fantastic actor, and that's the one that really sticks in my mind.
I realise his role in it was pretty minor, but I'd really recommend watching ''So I married an Axe Murderer. The film itself is really good but the best, and funniest, scenes were the interaction between Alan Arkin and Anthony LaPaglia
Maybe not so much ‘celebrity’ as ‘notable’, but Milan Kundera has passed, at 94.
He is probably best-known on these shores for writing ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’, which was made into a successful and critically-acclaimed film with Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche.
Kundera hated the movie and I think refused to give permission for his work to ever be adapted for the cinema again. Personal view, I don’t think it is a terrible adaptation but it must be difficult having others play about with something as personal as your writing.
He wrote other works of course, and poetry and drama. His first novel, ‘The Joke’ was my favourite of his. He wrote in a particular and resonant style - using magical realism to confront or come to terms with the reality of Communism, much in the way that other European writers like Saramago and Gunter Grass had done in relation to fascism.
No doubt Unbearable Lightness will get an airing on Channel 4 or BBC2 or the like, over the coming days. I was thinking about how long ago it was that I read the book or saw the film and then recalled they were released in the mid-eighties or thereabout!
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Jane Birkin.
Tony Bennett.
Probably merits a thread of his own.
Vince Hill
Coventry-born Edelweiss singer Vince Hill dies at 89 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-66282835
Best of all the crooners (and Im a big fan of Frank Sinatra). .. "for the good life" ... sheer class.Quote:
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BBC presenter George Alagiah.
Trevor Francis
First ever strip I had with a name on the back, yellow Adidas Forest away top, 10 Francis. RIP.Quote:
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1st million pound player if I remember correctly. I've never really followed English football but that Forest team was something else. RIP Trevor.Quote:
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He was a brilliant reporter and journalist, particularly before he got behind the desk in his later career.Quote:
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Some of his writings on the Indian subcontinent and Africa are well worth a read.
Ex footballer Chris Bart Williams aged 49, bad day for Nottingham Forest. 😢
Shocking news.
Sinéad O’Connor
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The world is a poorer place without her. A huge advocate for abused children and those living with, and dying from, AIDS at a time when it was far harder to be so in Ireland and beyond.
Awful, just heard it on the news.Quote:
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Just got back into some of her stuff recently as well. What a talent.
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only 56 as well
Sadly, probably not a shock to many.Quote:
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Just been listening to a song she did with the Afro Celts 20-ish years ago. It includes these lines:-
Don't argue amongst yourselves
Because of the loss of me
I haven't gone anywhere
But out of my body
Reach out and you'll touch me
Make effort to speak to me
Call out and you'll hear me
Be happy for me
Such a voice
https://youtu.be/s8oqKyVW978
Sad news . She had such a amazing voice .
https://youtu.be/1Bay_ND-0M8
I saw INXS at the Playhouse and all we spoke about on the way home was Sinead's voice (support obviously).
Totally blew me away. Watched a great documentary about her a few months back. What a very strong woman she was.
She had a strange dilemma in that being a essentially a protest singer who became popular as a pop star and the more popular she got it brought more things to her life that she did not want. The word icon is often loosely thrown around, but it certainly applied to this girl.
The news about Sinead O'Connor is very sad.
She received very little support (actually, none) from the music industry when she was basically 'cancelled' because of her protest about the cover up of mass child abuse in the Catholic Church.
https://apnews.com/article/sinead-oc...1be177cdf3a437
Randy Meisner of The Eagles. Wrote and sang lead on Take It To The Limit. Always liked that song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtCV2vmhkWw&t=149s
One of the best scenes of TV I've ever seen. Chills.
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Great band and that was my favourite song.
Inga Swenson , 90
some will remember her as Gretchen the cook from the comedy Soap and spin off Benson
heck of a coincidence for me as i just started watching some episodes of Soap a few weeks back
Adrian Street
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66361848
I'm sure Street briefly worked as a costume designer for WWF/WWE in the 90s. He was one of those guys who was respected by fellow wrestlers for his work and always found work easy to come by across the territories before the emergence of WWF and WCW as the big two.Quote:
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When guys like Drew McIntyre, Triple H, William Regal and Brian Heffron are praising his influence on pro wrestling then it suggests he was important.
Paul Reubens aka Pee Wee Herman, I used to love his films and shows as a kid, even adored his Netflix film a few years back too
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Robbie Shepherd
Composer and conductor Carl Davis.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b2386958.html
Mark Margolis, 83
had parts in Breaking bad and Better call Saul
Breaking Bad actor Mark Margolis dies aged 83 | Breaking Bad | The Guardian
Jamie Reid
Artist known for all the work for the Pistols.
Also designed the logo for, and was an early member of, the Afro Celt Sound System.Quote:
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Robbie Robertson. The Band.
https://youtu.be/4KP9PNSUME4
He’s just recently provided some street art up in Aberdeen. Sad day.Quote:
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Aw no, loved The Band, The Last Waltz is surely one of the best live concert films ever made.Quote:
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There are so many brilliant versions of The Weight out there. It's just one of those songs. The one in the film (with the Staple Singers) was the first one I'd heard.... and it's still my favourite.
So sad to hear of the passing of the Died Pretty front-man. RIP Ron Pino. Many a fun night shared.
https://youtu.be/07oZHDgPiqo
Genuinely, when I heard that first time I "saw God".Quote:
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Don't think Sixto Rodriguez has been put up. Searching for Sugarman is one of the best music documentaries I've seen. Good man and musician
Michael Parkinson. Damn shame, grew up watching him on tv.
I had the pleasure of meeting him at the Eldorado in Leith when I was a kid. He was an absolute gentleman outside the ring and helped me get the other wrestlers' autographs.Quote:
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It is a shame. One of the positives if one can take any is that it should see a lot of his material reshown.Quote:
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I think his strength was in enabling others to shine in the interview format. He is of course well known for Ali and Billy Connnolly, and maybe Peter Kay in later years but some of his seventies stuff with the likes of Peter Ustinov or stuff with Brian Blessed is timeless.
The Robert Mitchum interview was priceless.Quote:
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https://youtu.be/kW6ZkHgsTFM
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Just saw this re-Parkinson too.
https://twitter.com/Mr_Dave_Haslam/s...zX2c-i-Bg&s=19
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It's the 70s stuff that sticks with me most, me watching Sportscene as a kid and my parents watching Parkinson. It was a time when movie stars somehow seemed much bigger - and plenty of the guests used to smoke during interviews!Quote:
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The Billy Connolly ones were box office, the Orient express song and then a few years later, parking his bike, were some of TV’s best moment everQuote:
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Terry Funk.
Wrestling fans of a certain vintage will know he was one of the best ever to do it.
With the stuff he got up to it's amazing he lived til 79Quote:
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Bernie Marsden has died, he was a founding member of Whitesnake and a pretty awesome guitarist and by all accounts a really decent human.
Bray Wyatt at 36 years old too.Quote:
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former Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed, 94
Singer Songwriter Jimmy Buffett, 76
One day before the anniversary of his son's death.Quote:
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The Dream Weaver himself, Gary Wright, at the age of 80.
Runrig singer Bruce Guthro, only 62 Runrig singer Bruce Guthro dies aged 62, former bandmate announces | The National
Wow, loved Guthro and Runrig, such a great voice and frontman ☹️Quote:
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John Cairney.
Mike Yarwood, aged 82
One of those people who for some reason I thought had already passed away (like Mohamed Al Fayed).Quote:
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Yarwood was, like Parknson (and Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game) a Saturday night staple in our house when I was a kid.
Sir Ian Wilmut
He paved the way for Rory Bremner and Spitting Image by taking aim at politicians.Quote:
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Joe Fagin, best known as the singer of Auf Wiedersehen Pet theme tune.
A familiar face on tv in the sixties. Of all the Scots actors who tried to capture the Burns role he came closest, being dark and with an eye for the ladies.Quote:
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Jean Boht of Bread fame.
Roger Whittaker has finally left old Durham Town.
David McCallum, famous for many acting roles including Kuryakin in "Man from U.N.C.L.E".
Enjoyed watching him in Sapphire & Steel and of course NCIS.