Anthony Jay, co-creator of one of the most brilliantly satirical shows of all time, now reunited with the Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP and Sir Humphrey Appleby.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...ntony-jay-dies
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Anthony Jay, co-creator of one of the most brilliantly satirical shows of all time, now reunited with the Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP and Sir Humphrey Appleby.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...ntony-jay-dies
wow, was only reading up on Yes Minister last night. Couldn't remember if the party was ever named or not.
No, it was never stated, though the newspaper he edited before entering politics was seen as a liberal one, iirc.
correct, it was never stated, but this is on his wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ha...al_affiliationQuote:
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However, the concentration on "making budget cuts (of 5%)" in the Yes Minister episode "Doing the Honours" and cutting taxes in the Yes Prime Minister episode "The Smoke Screen" allude towards him being a conservative; and the writers have since established that they privately saw Hacker as a centrist "wet" Conservative.
Former Tánaiste, Peter Barry.
http://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2016/0826/812132-peter-barry/
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Just remembered a story from a Cork friend... At the height of the Troubles, when Barry was Minister for Foreign Affairs, he had Garda security outside his house. The Guards, apparently, made sure that in the window of their security hut was a large, prominent box of tea... Lyons tea!
Sky reporting that AP have announced Gene Wilder passed away yesterday.
Link as soon as I find one.
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Here is is...
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/ge...in-1201846745/
One of the greatest comic actors -I couldn't tell you how many times I've watched Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein and The Producers - but he'll always be that weird, oddly compelling, scary but fun Willy Wonka. Pure imagination...
http://www.independent.ie/entertainm...-35005121.html
Terrible news. One of the all time greats.
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The films he did with Richard Pryor were just a joy to watch as well as the ones mentioned above.
2016 is continuing to be cruel to the real greats of all genres.
Stir Crazy, Silver Streak - rewatched See No Evil, Hear No Evil only a month ago. Just a magnificent actor. So sad that he ended his days with Alzheimers. Might dig-out the film OST to Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory tonight for a quick listen...
When you think that Johnny Depp and Matthew Broderick (who really has stage musical talent) both tried to recreate his WW and Leo Bloom (The Producers) character and didn't come close, you get a measure of his genius.
A talented writer as well, by all accounts - fiction and screenwriting.
Hear no Evil... is an underrated gem. Was my first introduction to him and Pryor. What a movie.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/othe...-35036138.html
Irish rower Ailish Sheehan. 23 years old, had high hopes of representing Ireland at the next Olympics. Freak accident in Poland.
One presumes you mean Alexis Arquette. She was in rather more recent productions (and more prominent in them) than bit roles in 1994...
Nice tribute from the Arquette siblings here.
http://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2016...exis-arquette/
Greta Zimmer Friedman, identified later as the nurse in the iconic photo taken on V-J Day on Aug. 14, 1945. Taken by photographer Alfred Eisentaedt, the picture captured the jubilance people felt upon the war’s end it shows a sailor kissing Mr. Friedman in Times Square. She is leaning so far back she was obviously not reciprocating.
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"That gun was bigger than him"
Dentist and terrorist kidnap victim, John O'Grady.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news...-35076312.html
Golfer, Arnold Palmer http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/25/us...-palmer-death/
Sir Neville Marriner, conductor and founder of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...fields-amadeus