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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
Terrible news.Quote:
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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.