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Anthony Minghella , Director of Cold Mountain, The Talented Mr Ripley & The English Patient, as well as several sucessful Television dramas (including his final Duty , directing the Richard Curtis' scripted The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency ), passed away Tuesday from complications arising from surgery .
Arthur C Clarke Former Airman, acknowledged designer of the common weather satellite, Legendary Science fiction Titan , and prolific author, passed away in his Sri Lankan home Wednesday 19th.
It might say a lot about the Irish that when Larry Gogan asked a Just a Minute Quiz contestant to name a dangerous race the answer she popped up with was not the Dakar Rally or the Grand National but "The Arabs".Quote:
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...so long Captain Birdseye. We Aaardly knew ye.
If only...
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We're way ahead of you ;)
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Originally Posted by Réiteoir
Im sorry. I have a stammer.
actor Richard Widmark
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001847/
"5th Beatle" Neil Aspinall.
http://www.independent.ie/entertainm...6-1326573.html
How many Beatles were there ? George Best, Yoko Ono and of course SoniaQuote:
Originally Posted by Wolfie
Yoko Ono was the Anti-Beatle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Newryrep
Apu from the Simsons, Pete Best, me and Oasis are a few other names I've heard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Newryrep
To be honest I've heard each of them refer to George Martin as the 5th Beatle in various interviews, so I'd give it to him
The Hollywood actor Charlton Heston has died at the age of 83
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-n...s-1339862.html
He's parted his last ocean, fought his last Ape, ridden his last Chariot. God rest a True Legend in an era of true holywood greatsQuote:
Originally Posted by Ringo
Did anyone remember to prize his gun from his "cold dead hand?" :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Block G Raptor
You bad bassa BP :DQuote:
Originally Posted by BohsPartisan
SPOILER ALERT ;): (although they do kind of give it away on the DVD cover...)
You MANIACS! You blew it up!
Aah DAMN YOU! God damn you all to HELL!!!!
Terrific stuff, one of the all-time great acting icons.
Paddy Hillery
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Only time he ever got animated was when he was shouting at Boland's supporters: "Ye can have Boland but ye can't have Fianna Fail!!".Quote:
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What was with the long hair at the back though? Interesting style. None at the front. Lots at the back.
BBC kids TV presenter Mark Speight.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7345486.stm
His fiancee overdosed a few weeks ago, he was ruled out of the investigation into her death. He hanged himself over the last week above Paddington train station. Very tragic. R.I.P.
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Was she not the Dung-Beatle?