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PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 13:48 
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 Post subject: Re: Celebrity Deathlist 2013
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If you've never seen it, I recommend What Dreams May Come.


That's one of my favourite films of all time, but most people I have recommended it to have disliked it.

It's dark and brooding, and yet so beautiful and uplifting on reflection.

I thin it is a fantastic piece of work. A piece of art, really, but I can see how it's not for everyone.

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 Post subject: Re: Celebrity Deathlist 2013
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I've never seen What Dreams May Come, and it's on Netflix, so I'll watch it tonight. I've read the Wiki page and a load of reviews, so I know exactly what's coming, but I'm still looking forward to the film. (I suspect it won't be a dry-eyed experience though.....)

Also 'acquired' World's Greatest Dad from elsewhere (not on Netflix), as it sounds like one of Williams great later performances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Greatest_Dad

I've properly been sad on-and-off today, the piece that zaphod linked to sums it up, Robin Williams can't be dead - and yet he is.

It's like a rift in the space time continuum.


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Pretty decent piece from David Wong over at Cracked.

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ugh I kept thinking about this yesterday
I loved What dreams may come, saw it at the cinema at the time and it's visually stunning and so sad and happy.
I keep thinking of more and more things I've seen with him that I loved
films, but also him talking sign language with the gorilla
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Lauren Bacall also died btw, aged 89
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 Post subject: Re: Celebrity Deathlist 2013
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And a fine piece on Williams by Russell Brand in The Guardian today.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... oken-world

I watched What Dreams May Come last night and found an impressive and effective film but for some reason or another it didn't totally click with me towards the end, however it appears they bottled it for the finale and stuck a stupid saccharine ending on it, despite having filmed the proper one.

Reading through the Reddit that Trooper posted the link to, Williams specifically references being disappointed with the ending when he watched the film as it wasn't the one he remembered filming.

I'll watch World's Greatest Dad tonight, despite doing fuck all at the box office it was critically very well received.


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He had such energy about him - why does it always have to hide a darker side? I suppose that's the price you pay.


I was initially skeptical about this, but a woman on the radio said that at lerast one study had been done, albeit in Iowa with only about 60 people, and that the creative group did have a higher incidence of mental illness about them. But she also cautioned that care must be taken not to romanticise the torment of the artist. I might hit up my pscology lecturer and ask her about it. I'm vaguely interested.

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All of this discussion of depression reminds me of the Richard Herring interview with Stephen Fry where a simple question from an eleven year old “What’s it like being Stephen Fry” prompted his confession that he had attempted suicide the month before. It is quite an emotional listen.

http://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richar ... ephen_fry/

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 Post subject: Re: Celebrity Deathlist 2013
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Morte wrote:
While it is brilliant...be prepared...it is pitch black humour.


Jet black, but very funny and yes, really quite brilliant. (Watched it just now on Netflix USA courtesy of the 'Hola' Chrome extension, negating the need to watch my 'acquired' copy.)

And how fucking good is Robin Williams, I guess the pathos and sadness he brought to the role makes more sense now, but then again he carries the elation of the ending 100% convincingly as well.

The film is only five years old as well, so he clearly had the good stuff in him right until the end.

R.I.P. Mr Williams - gone too soon.


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Richard Attenborough has died according to the BBC.


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One of my friends got his Attenboroughs mixed up.....

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The thing that got me about the way this was reported by the Beeb:

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Lord Attenborough had been in a nursing home with his wife for a number of years, BBC arts editor Will Gompertz said.


Since when did the BBC start referencing its own staff as sources in articles? If someone internal knew the information, why would they credit them? Seems a bit odd.

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 Post subject: Re: Celebrity Deathlist 2013
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Its a fairly standard position that they take to pad out articles when the deceased wasn't on twitter, leaving them low on material.


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 Post subject: Re: Celebrity Deathlist 2013
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I've just read Richard Attenborough's obituary and I didn't realise what a thoroughly decent bloke he was.

I know people big up the dead but he sounds like he really was well loved and did a lot for his fellow man without shouting from the rooftops about it.

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He was totally in my list!

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 Post subject: Re: Celebrity Deathlist 2013
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Glenn Cornick, original bassist with Jethro Tull. Great player, and if I remember correctly, had his bass on some kind of attachment on his belt rather than a traditional guitar strap.


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 Post subject: Re: Celebrity Deathlist 2013
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Glenn Cornick, original bassist with Jethro Tull. Great player, and if I remember correctly, had his bass on some kind of attachment on his belt rather than a traditional guitar strap.


Benefit is one of my favourite Tull albums. (Cornick was with them for their first four albums, including Benefit.)

67 isn't that old either :(

Nice to see a generous tribute from Ian Anderson though.



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Should I love or should I fight
is it all the same to you?
No I say I have the answer
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But if I were to share it with you,
you would stand to gain
and I to lose.
Oh I couldn't bear it
so I've got nothing to say.
Nothing to say.
Nothing to say


Every morning pressure forming
all around my eyes.
Ceilings crash, the walls collapse,
broken by the lies
that your misfortune brought upon us
and I won't disguise them.
So don't ask me will I explain
I won't even begin to tell you why.
No, just because I have a name
well I've got nothing to say.
Nothing to say.
Nothing to say.

Climb a tower of freedom,
paint your own deceiving sign.
It's not my power
to criticize or to ask you to be blind
To your own pressing problem
and the hate you must unwind.
and ask of me no answer
there is none that I could give
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I went your way ten years ago
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Glenn Cornick, original bassist with Jethro Tull. Great player, and if I remember correctly, had his bass on some kind of attachment on his belt rather than a traditional guitar strap.


Benefit is one of my favourite Tull albums.

:this: :this: :this:

Actually, it's my absolute favourite by JT. I still play it regularly and it's never lost its magic.


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Joan Rivers has sailed away.

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Joan Rivers has sailed away.



Boo!

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Joan Rivers has sailed away.


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Richard Kiel - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29152398

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IAN PAISLEY HAS DIED


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WHO'S DONALD SINDEN?


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Only nearly 18 months late, but Storm Thorgerson has gone to the dark side ..... of the moon. This may not mean much to you young 'uns, but I have many examples of this man's artistry in my vinyl record collection.

If nothing else, he had a great name.


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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29505646

Actor who played the Baron in Live and Let Die has died

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Lynda Bellingham :(

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One of those people where I knew his name, but it turns out... nothing at all about him.

Still a shame.

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Zaphod, do you have some kind of Google alert set up for "celebrity death" and then a bot using your account to auto-post that here? I'm just wondering...


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Zaphod, do you have some kind of Google alert set up for "celebrity death" and then a bot using your account to auto-post that here? I'm just wondering...


No I just read the BBC website regularly - so you see things like this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30591740

Jeremy Lloyd (writer of 'Allo 'Allo and Are You Being Served?)

I'd also expect a tweet from Chinny when he sees that.


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Anne Kirkbride, who played Deidrie Barlow in Coronation Street, she was only 60

This surprised me. She looked 60 when I lived with my parents and we only had one TV in the house so I ended up watching it by default. That would be 25 years ago.


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Zaphod, do you have some kind of Google alert set up for "celebrity death" and then a bot using your account to auto-post that here? I'm just wondering...

I missed this. He must have the same setup for Call of Duty news. ;)

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Bamba wrote:
Zaphod, do you have some kind of Google alert set up for "celebrity death" and then a bot using your account to auto-post that here? I'm just wondering...

I missed this. He must have the same setup for Call of Duty news. ;)

I missed this too. I just assumed that he'd taken control of the Saville mortuary hotline.


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Just spotted this on the Beeb's site.

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