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Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Thu May 16, 2013 21:04 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Aw And die-de-die, surely? By the accounts I'd heard, he'd looked as rough as hell for a while now and had difficultly walking. Do you all really need me to post THAT clip? Or can I assume we've all seen him murdering You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling a hundred times now? |
Author: | zaphod79 [ Tue May 21, 2013 9:42 ] |
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Ray Manzarek http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22604798 |
Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Wed May 22, 2013 13:44 ] |
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No longer grappling, Mick McManus: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a483638/wrestler-mick-mcmanus-dies-aged-93.html Still wrestled professionally until he was 67! I always thought his jet black hair was a bit suspect. He must be about 56 in the clip below! |
Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Wed May 22, 2013 18:13 ] |
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Richard Thorp joins the great Woolpack in the sky: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22624674 Have some 1985 vintage Emmerdale Farm: |
Author: | Achilles [ Fri May 24, 2013 3:15 ] |
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Only just this day found out about James Herbert death. I was checking if there was a new C&C game - there is, but it'll be crap (like the last 2). Just on the offchance I was reading his latest novel reviews to find out he died 2 months ago - I watch the news every day and whatever happened that day, must have nuked it to website only and not show it on News at 10. I'm sad, but I did suspect it with how many years his last novel (which he probably didnt care about and mostly didnt write) took to come out. RIP James - that speccy game "The Rats" 1984 made me buy all your books. Hope your afterlife is not one of horror. Some how something is missing. http://www.james-herbert.co.uk/ |
Author: | Malc [ Fri May 24, 2013 8:22 ] |
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Spookily, my wife said to me this morning "James Herbert is dead isn't he? He died a couple of months back I'm sure!" This was after spotting one of his books on the book shelf. But yeah, I'm sure it was on the news, radio, TV, web, newspapers and here! Malc |
Author: | Grim... [ Fri May 24, 2013 10:29 ] |
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I saw it on the TV news that day, I remember. Not sure if it was News at 10 or what, though. |
Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Mon May 27, 2013 14:53 ] |
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Bill Pertwee has had his light put out. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22680499 |
Author: | Morte [ Mon May 27, 2013 15:41 ] |
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chinnyhill10 wrote: The curse of Dads Army strikes again! Why are they all taken so young? ...oh |
Author: | NervousPete [ Mon May 27, 2013 18:41 ] |
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Morte wrote: chinnyhill10 wrote: The curse of Dads Army strikes again! Why are they all taken so young? ...oh One thing that's slightly freaky is that while Trek stars live long and prosper to hale and hearty old age ('just one more cameo, damnitt!') the actors of Bablyon 5 keel over at a terrifying rate. Andreas Katsulas, Jeff Conaway, Michael O'Hare, Robin Sachs, Tim Choate, Richard Biggs were all regulars who popped their clogs way too early from various causes from cancer through to motor-cycle crash. Leading cast member Biggs was the worst. Despite all his healthy living he woke up one morning in his early forties and suddenly keeled over from a brain aneurysm. So while there are casts that linger, there are some out there who no doubt eye the skies nervously upon leaving the house. |
Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Mon May 27, 2013 20:53 ] |
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Morte wrote: chinnyhill10 wrote: The curse of Dads Army strikes again! Why are they all taken so young? ...oh It's a Bank Holiday weekend, so the work experience are doing BBC News: John Le Mesurier who died today 30 years ago. |
Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Fri May 31, 2013 21:33 ] |
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Su Pollard attends Paul Shane's funeral with her usual restrained dress sense: |
Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Fri May 31, 2013 22:55 ] |
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Awesome. |
Author: | Wullie [ Sat Jun 01, 2013 9:38 ] |
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Richard Ballantine, author of probably the only bicycle book I've ever enjoyed reading, has freewheeled off into the unknown. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... ntine.html |
Author: | zaphod79 [ Mon Jun 03, 2013 17:23 ] |
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Graham Walker : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22755543 |
Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Mon Jun 03, 2013 19:28 ] |
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zaphod79 wrote: Graham Walker : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22755543 IIRC used to be scheduled alongside Robin of Sherwood on a Saturday night. Even when I was a kid I thought they were weak and generally awful. Like a Tesco Value Baron Knights. |
Author: | zaphod79 [ Thu Jun 06, 2013 9:45 ] |
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Tom Sharpe http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22795507 |
Author: | Malc [ Sun Jun 09, 2013 16:02 ] |
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Iain M Banks is dead according to a couple of sources. Malc |
Author: | itsallwater [ Sun Jun 09, 2013 16:52 ] |
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Confirmed. Bad times. Also prince Philips looking dodge. |
Author: | Malc [ Sun Jun 09, 2013 17:34 ] |
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Mandela looking ropey too Malc |
Author: | zaphod79 [ Mon Jun 10, 2013 14:39 ] |
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Malc wrote: Iain M Banks is dead according to a couple of sources. Malc Blog post from Neil Gaimen : http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2013/06/i ... um=twitter Quote: Iain Banks. With or without the M.
Posted by Neil Gaiman at 1:22 PM I should be blogging about The Ocean at the End of the Lane, because it comes out in 9 days and the reviews and articles are starting, and right this minute I should be doing the writing I have to finish before I hit the road. But I just learned that Iain Banks is dead, and I'm alone in this house, and I cope with things by writing about them. I met Iain in late 1983 or early 1984. It was a Macmillan/Futura Books presentation to their sales force, and to a handful of journalists. I was one of the journalists. Editor Richard Evans told me that he was proud that they had found The Wasp Factory on the slush pile -- it was an unsolicited manuscript. Iain was almost 30, and he got up and told stories about writing books, and sending them in to publishers, and how they came back, and how this one didn't come back. "You ask me what's The Wasp Factory about?" he said. "It's about 180 pages." He was brilliant and funny and smart. He fitted right in. He was one of us, whatever that meant. He wrote really good books: The Wasp Factory, Walking on Glass and The Bridge all existed on the uneasy intersection of SF, Fantasy and mainstream literature (after those three he started drawing clearer distinctions between his SF and his mainstream work, not least by becoming Iain M. Banks in his SF). His work was mordant, surreal, and fiercely intelligent. In person, he was funny and cheerful and always easy to talk to. He became a convention bar friend, because we saw each other at conventions, and we would settle down in the bar and catch up. (A true story: In 1987 I was at a small party at the Brighton WorldCon in the wee hours, at which it was discovered that some jewellery belonging to the sleeping owner of the suite had been stolen. The police were called. A few minutes after the police arrived, so did Iain, on the balcony of the Metropole hotel: he'd been climbing the building from the outside. The police had to be persuaded that this was a respectable author who liked climbing things from the outside and not an inept cat burglar returning to the scene of his crime.) We were never good friends, mostly because we were never in the right places long enough. We were pleased to see each other. We ate together. We talked. We liked each other's work. We always figured we'd have more time. The last time I saw Iain was in Edinburgh, in August 2011. Amanda and I had taken a big house for the duration of the festival, and on the night that she did a gig in Glasgow, I invited over a bunch of writers and a bunch of actors and comedians who really liked writers. Because Iain was coming over and he had written Raw Spirit, a book about going around Scotland to find the perfect dram of whisky, I bought the most special and fancy bottle of whisky I could for the night, especially for him. He arrived with a large bottle of red wine. "I don't really drink whisky any more," he admitted. "Not since the book." The ridiculously fancy bottle of whisky was tasted by everyone except Iain. It was a fine and glorious night. There were fireworks, which didn't go off as expected, and the best conversation, and I was looking forward to repeating it this year. In April I heard Iain had terminal cancer. I didn't write to him. I froze. And then, a week later, with no warning, my friend Bob Morales died, and I was upset that I hadn't replied to Bob's last email, from a week or so before. So I replied to Bob's last email, although I knew he'd never read it. And then I wrote to Iain. I told him how much I'd loved knowing him, how much I'd enjoyed being his friend, even if we only saw each other in the flesh every few years. I finished, I think you're a brilliant and an honest writer, and much more importantly, because I've known lots of brilliant writers who were absolute arses, I think you're a really good bloke, and I've loved knowing you. And he wrote back and said good, comforting, sensible things. Goodbyes are few enough, and we take them where we can. I hoped that he'd get better. Or that he'd have time. He didn't. Hearing of his death hit me hard. If you've never read any of his books, read one of his books. Then read another. Even the bad ones were good, and the good ones were astonishing. |
Author: | Morte [ Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:48 ] |
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Tony Soprano finally succumbs to a hit...James Gandolfini deaded. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22980414 |
Author: | Malc [ Thu Jun 20, 2013 8:32 ] |
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Blimey! 51! Malc |
Author: | DBSnappa [ Thu Jun 20, 2013 8:52 ] |
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That's a real shame. Bye T |
Author: | DavPaz [ Thu Jun 20, 2013 8:53 ] |
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At least he got a proper ending. (sorry) |
Author: | MaliA [ Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:01 ] |
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DavPaz wrote: At least he got a proper ending. (sorry) nil nisi bonum |
Author: | Dimrill [ Sun Jun 23, 2013 21:00 ] |
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Sadly it seems to be the final countdown for Nelson Mandella. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23024836 |
Author: | Morte [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 2:04 ] |
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Richard Matheson, he is gone (to be honest I thought he had already gone) http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/richard ... es-aged-87 |
Author: | Dimrill [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 3:51 ] |
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Time Team's Mick Aston. |
Author: | DBSnappa [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 14:18 ] |
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Morte wrote: Richard Matheson, he is gone (to be honest I thought he had already gone) http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/richard ... es-aged-87 I'm astonished to find he's only just gone. Wrote some copper bottomed sci-fi classics, did Mr Matheson |
Author: | Cras [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 14:38 ] |
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I Am Legend was his, wasn't it? |
Author: | Grim... [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 15:14 ] |
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Cras wrote: I Am Legend was his, wasn't it? *clicks*The fucking subtitle wrote: The man who wrote the likes of Duel, I Am Legend, Hell House and so much more has left us, at the age of 87. I don't know, was it?
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Author: | Cras [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 15:14 ] |
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Not clicking one link. |
Author: | Grim... [ Tue Jun 25, 2013 15:16 ] |
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I'll be punching one face. |
Author: | Dimrill [ Thu Jul 04, 2013 16:58 ] |
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Bernadette Nolan. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23180456 |
Author: | Grim... [ Thu Jul 04, 2013 17:00 ] |
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Douglas Engelbart (him who invented the computer mouse) died yesterday. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20 ... mouse-dies |
Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Thu Jul 04, 2013 18:22 ] |
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Bernie Nolan. Or as BBC News will probably caption it later: |
Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Thu Jul 11, 2013 14:37 ] |
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Lou Beale Anna Wing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23268512 |
Author: | TheVision [ Thu Jul 11, 2013 15:15 ] |
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chinnyhill10 wrote: Wow. 98. I thought she'd died years ago. |
Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Thu Jul 11, 2013 15:23 ] |
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TheVision wrote: chinnyhill10 wrote: Wow. 98. I thought she'd died years ago. She was still working up until a couple of years ago. Mother of Mark Wing-Davey who was Zaphod Beeblebrox on the radio and TV versions of Hitchhikers. |
Author: | Dimrill [ Fri Jul 12, 2013 6:41 ] |
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Two in a week. Wham! Gertcher! |
Author: | Mimi [ Fri Jul 12, 2013 6:43 ] |
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Dimrill wrote: Two in a week. Wham! Gertcher! George AND Andrew? |
Author: | Malc [ Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:44 ] |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-le ... e-23274585 Louis the PG tips Chimp is dead! Only a year younger than me! Malc |
Author: | Dimrill [ Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:46 ] |
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Aw, poor old man. He was a lovely chimp. Always seemed to come over to see me when we visited. |
Author: | Mimi [ Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:52 ] |
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Attachment: ImageUploadedByTapatalk1373622740.256301.jpg Giantmonk is sad at the news |
Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:13 ] |
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Dimrill wrote: Aw, poor old man. He was a lovely chimp. Always seemed to come over to see me when we visited. You were calling "Cooeeee Mr Shifter" at it. |
Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:42 ] |
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Alan Whicker :-( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23287351 |
Author: | MaliA [ Sun Jul 14, 2013 6:43 ] |
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Finn from Glee. |
Author: | Curiosity [ Sun Jul 14, 2013 8:12 ] |
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MaliA wrote: Finn from Glee. Bloody hell. 31. |
Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Sat Jul 20, 2013 15:09 ] |
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Mel Smith, heart attack: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23390982 Every time I've seen him on the TV in the last few years he's looked very unhealthy and unwell. |
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