So farewell then...

[tetsujin1979]

The Samaritans have a list of guidelines for reporting on suicide - http://www.samaritans.org/media-centre/media-guidelines-reporting-suicide/suicide-reporting-10-things-remember
you would do well to bear them in mind when you read and watch coverage of Robin Williams' death over the next few days

I read back through his body of work earlier and was struck by how many scenes and quotes from his films I remembered clearly, from Mork and Mindy right up to Night at the Museum, August Rush and License to Wed.

One of his lesser known films is one of my favourites, Death To Smoochy, where he plays a disgraced children's entertainer who's out to destroy his replacement.

RIP

[Eminence Grise]

The Guardian is reporting tonight that Lauren Bacall has passed away, aged 89. She absolutely sizzled opposite Bogie in The Big Sleep.

On Robin Williams, it seems that when a celebrity takes their own life the media get in a frenzy because they want so desperately to be utterly salacious and scandalised, but there is hardly a reader, viewer or listener who hasn't known somebody who has taken that choice and, perhaps, it's wariness of the masses that keeps much of the reporting in check.

I'd go left of field for a good RW film and put an early one of his out there - Moscow on the Hudson.

[thischarmingman]

David Foster Wallace (who took his own life) wrote in Infinite Jest:


“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

[Eminence Grise]

The Samaritans have a list of guidelines for reporting on suicide - http://www.samaritans.org/media-centre/media-guidelines-reporting-suicide/suicide-reporting-10-things-remember
you would do well to bear them in mind when you read and watch coverage of Robin Williams' death over the next few days

Very true - the BBC takes a look at some of the reporting. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28772923

[BonnieShels]

David Foster Wallace (who took his own life) wrote in Infinite Jest:



If there is ever an excerpt to demonstrate to those of us who don't suffer from depression what it could feel like then that is it. Thank you.

[Eminence Grise]

James Alexander Gordon, the voice of Saturday tea-time.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28844131

[nigel-harps1954]

Ah, that's very sad. The voice of many a Saturday afternoon as a youngster.

[Roberto]

Ah, that's very sad. The voice of many a Saturday afternoon as a youngster.

You always knew the result before he completed reading the score of a game by the way he would alter his tone of voice to indicate whether a result was a home win, an away win, or a draw. Those familiar with him will know what I mean (I think!!!)

[nigel-harps1954]

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/als-ice-bucket-challenge-cofounder-corey-griffin-drowns-aged-27-30525335.html

Cue ironic twist.

[pineapple stu]

Albert Reynolds (http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/former-taoiseach-albert-reynolds-dies-aged-81-1.1903597)

http://c2.thejournal.ie/media/2012/05/bertzig-145x145.jpg

[BonnieShels]

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/als-ice-bucket-challenge-cofounder-corey-griffin-drowns-aged-27-30525335.html

Cue ironic twist.

How is this only getting reported now? Were they waiting on the craze to take off in Ireland first?

I read about your man's death over the weekend on US sites. Weird.



Albert Reynolds (http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/former-taoiseach-albert-reynolds-dies-aged-81-1.1903597)


http://c2.thejournal.ie/media/2012/05/bertzig-145x145.jpg


Only Liamo C left of the old-school now!

He has a serious deal with the devil going on it must be said.

[nigel-harps1954]

Richard Attenborough. RIP.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28923074

[bennocelt]

wow thats a shock

[pineapple stu]

Not really? He was 90 and living in a home.

Checked himself in when the wife needed assisted living, I think.

[bennocelt]

Not really? He was 90 and living in a home.

Checked himself in when the wife needed assisted living, I think.


ha ha true,:o but I get most of who is dead in the celeb world from this site!

[OwlsFan]

Apologies if this was covered elsewhere but only noticed it in the Oman match programme:

former Shamrock Rovers (and Shels) player Eric Barber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Barber I saw him play for the Hoops on many an occasion. Don't remember the cap against Spain.

[the 12 th man]

Apologies if this was covered elsewhere but only noticed it in the Oman match programme:

former Shamrock Rovers (and Shels) player Eric Barber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Barber I saw him play for the Hoops on many an occasion. Don't remember the cap against Spain.

Himself and Ben Hannigan were a lethel force back then at Shels.

[nigel-harps1954]

Joan Rivers has tipped on this evening too.

[OwlsFan]

Himself and Ben Hannigan were a lethel force back then at Shels.

Ben was of course a Rovers man as well.

[the 12 th man]

Ben was of course a Rovers man as well.


He was indeed but had 3 separate spells at Shels :D

[OwlsFan]

David Lomax former reporter on the BBC Panorama programme (for those of a certain age): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11080206/David-Lomax-obituary.html

[OwlsFan]

Actor, Richard Kiel, who played Jaws (not the shark) in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29152398

[brendy_éire]

Big Ian Paisley away. Kind of expected really.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/former-dup-leader-ian-paisley-dies-641811.html

[Paddy Garcia]

Cosimo Matassa

[OwlsFan]

He was indeed but had 3 separate spells at Shels :D

My friend reminded me that when Eric Barber played for Rovers his nickname was "the demon king". His greatest night was probably in the fog against Schalke 04 where we could only see abut a third of the pitch from behind the goal and though the gloom to score two came Eric. The most bizarre game I was ever at. Beat Schalke 2-1 but lost the second leg 2 or 3 nil.

[OwlsFan]

Former Eastenders Actor, John Bardon:

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[The Fly]

Scotland's spine.

[OwlsFan]

Singer and Song writer Lynsey De Paul

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[OwlsFan]

Gerry Anderson died last August I see from an Obituary in a paper today. Bit of a shock as I hadn't seen anything about it.

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[BonnieShels]

Gerry Anderson died last August I see from an Obituary in a paper today. Bit of a shock as I hadn't seen anything about it.

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It was all over the place. But I think that something else massive or someone more famous died the same day...

EDIT: Albert Reynolds died the same day.

[OwlsFan]

It was all over the place. But I think that something else massive or someone more famous died the same day...

EDIT: Albert Reynolds died the same day.

I must have been so grief-stricken I didn't notice.

[OwlsFan]

Alvin Stardust http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/23/alvin-stardust-dies-age-72

[Seagull]

Cream bassist Jack Bruce R.I.P. http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/entertainment/cream-guitarist-jack-bruce-dies-647652.html
This...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbqQL0J_Vr0

[nigel-harps1954]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/raphael-ravenscroft-dead-baker-street-musician-who-played-the-most-famous-saxophone-solo-for-just-27-dies-aged-60-9808121.html

The sax player behind the greatest accidental piece of music in history.

[OwlsFan]

Jazz singer and clarinettist, Acker Bilk who would be known to a certain generation http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/1102/656432-acker-bilk/

Stranger of a shore would have been his best known rendition.

[The Donie Forde]

Jazz singer and clarinettist, Acker Bilk who would be known to a certain generation http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/1102/656432-acker-bilk/

Stranger of a shore would have been his best known rendition.

My buddy and his then future wife actually fell for each other while Bilk was playing Stranger on the Shore at the Cork Jazz Festival quite a few moons ago.
Wouldn't believe that myself if I hadn't actually witnessed it.

[stann]

Haven't been on in a while but reggae legend John Holt (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29686797) passed away a couple of weeks back (Oct 19).
First got to know his work through his brilliant song Ali Baba which was covered on a Dreadzone album in the late nineties, and subsequently found out he also penned, among many others, The Tide Is High, while with the Paragons in the '60s, later to be made more famous by Blondie of course.

[OwlsFan]

RTE broadcaster, Brian Farrell http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/1110/658082-brian-farrell/

[BonnieShels]

Can't believe he was so old. Forever associated with election night for me. RIP Brian.

[OwlsFan]

Warren Clarke better known perhaps as Dalziel in Dalziel & Pascoe

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[nigel-harps1954]

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/11/showbiz/big-bank-hank-sugarhill-gang-obit/index.html

Big Bank Hank of Sugarhill Gang.

[Real ale Madrid]

Phillip Hughes the Austrailian Cricketer - just 26.

A freak accident. Terrible. :(

[back of the net]

Phillip Hughes the Austrailian Cricketer - just 26.

A freak accident. Terrible. :(

Beyond Terrible .....WTF does one say when this sort of thing happens...puts all our small problems in context really.....26 this coming sunday i believe......Poor Bloke...May he R.I.P

So so Sad

[pineapple stu]

PD James (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30232569) as well, aged 94.

[nigel-harps1954]

Phillip Hughes the Austrailian Cricketer - just 26.

A freak accident. Terrible. :(

Shocking accident. Apparently the second time it's ever happened in a cricket match.

I had seen the video a day or two ago of it happening and it's a horrible watch. Very sad to hear he's passed away. Very talented cricketer.

[OwlsFan]

I am amazed it didn't happen a lot more when the players didn't wear helmets. I still play a bit at a very low level and many players go out to bat without a helmet on fairly ropey pitches. At least possibility of losing teeth or broken nose or worse...

[nigel-harps1954]

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/irish-cricket-team-pay-respects-to-batsman-phillip-hughes-as-putoutyourbats-goes-global-30781536.html?43453434333

Irish Cricket Team pay their respects.

[Eminence Grise]

Rugby great, Jack Kyle.

http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/irish-international/2014/1128/663228-ireland-legend-kyle-dies-at-88/

[dahamsta]

I'd like to say a fond farewell to 2cm of vas deferens. They worked hard in their lifetime but their time had come. May they rest in peace.

[Eminence Grise]

Less vas deferens makes a vast difference. I'll ring in a radio request for you, Adam - First Cut is the Deepest or Nutbush City Limits. The ball's in your <ahem> you decide.

In all seriousness, hope all went well and the recovery is quick.