Aah, that's sad. Still working up to this year (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000308/ ) . One of the all time greats...
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Aah, that's sad. Still working up to this year (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000308/ ) . One of the all time greats...
One of his finest moments...Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Ernest_Borgnine
Also just discovered that Jim Varney is dead. Feck.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Jim_Varney.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Varney
12 years ago ! Someone told me Hitler popped his clogs but I am not too sure about that ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
Ouch ^^^ :D
Boom! Rimshot.
Listening to some old stuff earlier and just discovered that Skin Yard and Gruntruck vocalist Ben McMillan checked out last year.
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/new...llan-passes-on
Remember when you couldn't move for the amount of grunge music everywhere ? Well this guys early days bands were a large part of the reason for that. RIP.
Well duh. Just seems to gave slipped my notice in twelve years. Smart ass.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
Dennis Flemion drummer of the controversial 80's American band the Frogs died aged 57. Drowned apparently.
Anyone who hasn't heard this band, and likes really really strange music. Check them out.
Would it be too hard to say he croaked?Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
The poor man is dead 12th man, it's not appropriate to ribbit in with your weak puns.
Thats toadally out of line. No need to go hopping in with bad puns like that.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...#slide=1121447
Sage Stallone. Son of Sly stallone. Dies aged 36. Probably best known for actually playing Stallones son in Rocky V.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18864409
John Lord, founder member and keyboard player for Deep Purple died today aged 71. Really saddened to hear of this. RIP
+1. I was (and remain) a huge fan of 'the Purps' for a time in my otherwise punk based teens. A great, great talent. Well done John.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Richard Zanuck, the Oscar-winning film producer who was behind movies from The Sound of Music to Jaws and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, has died aged 77.
Jaws, probably my favourite movie of all time although now that I have watched it so often I am bored with it. Sat with my father in law once to watch it and he hadn't seen it before. Funny watching him jump out of his seat on a few occasions.
I am going to try an even scarier one next time and see does that work ;)
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Alastair Burnett, journalist and ITV News at Ten newsreader, died at 84 today. Well remembered by many of us of a certain vintage I'm sure, though many on here were probably not even born when he hung up his mic for the last time.
Actor Simon Ward who appeared in such films as Young Winston, Aces High, Zulu Dawn...
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Geoffrey Hughes aka Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances died aged 68 from prostate cancer.
http://media.skynews.com/media/image...-1-522x293.jpg
http://news.sky.com/story/966261/ex-...s-dies-aged-68
Maeve Binchy, following a short illness
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0730/wri...s-aged-72.html
40,000,000 books sold...
Posted by Pats people, Con Houlihan passed away at age 86. Quite a funny man, and decent, despite being from Kerry.
Met Con a few times -didn't know him but had a few chats - my favorite was Barca v ManU in 1994 when Barca with Romario and Stoichkov and Bakero gave Roy Keane and Pallister and Bruce a chasing
Con was on the trip and upon landing headed straight for the bar, where he was fed and watered for the day. He wrote his column in long hand sitting at the bar and faxed it off to the Press.
His column the next day was remarkable - he talked about touring the hills, the locals, the natives, the small villages, the local seanchai and the history seeping from the hills outside Barcelone and how captivated by the atmosphere
A legend
I used to love reading Con on the back of the Evening Press I think it was. However, following Jack's first game in charge when we lost at home to Wales he wrote a scathing piece about him and how it was a wrong appointment, which piece I kept because I suspected Jack would be a success having regard to how he turned the fortunes of Sheff Wed around. Following on Italia 90 I wrote to Con reminding him of his article but I never got a reply :)
A truly great sports writer.
American composer Marvin Hamlisch died the other day aged 68. Won 3 Oscars and composed some really well known film pieces.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/201...arvin-hamlisch
Carlo Rambaldi, special effects guru, designer of ET.
Sid waddell passed away at a relatively young age of 72. I always thought he was much older.
Brought a tear to my eye when I heard it there. An absolute hero. RIP
Sad day.RIP Sid.
I thought he might have been ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHHHTTTYYYYYQuote:
Originally Posted by Spudulika
Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
In fairness he was a Double Top bloke..
Could not bear him, love darts, love to watch darts but that man made me reach for the remote. Anyway RIP Sid, sad to hear of your check out all the same.
Dart attack?Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
http://www.rte.ie/sport/boxing/2012/...s-passes-away/
Last time I remember seeing him was getting flattened by Riddick Bowe, before that he was awful against a tub of lard called Percell Davis.
Singer Scott McKenzie,should be plenty of flowers at this funeral.
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/08/20...zie-dead-at-73
Phylis Diller passed away overnight - met the lady in Canada years ago and she was hilarious. She was shooting a movie or tv series (I think it may have been Cole Harbour or maybe a Montgomery adaptation) but she was in a downtown restaurant in Charlottetown and held court. I thought I heard them say she was in her 90's so she'd have at least been in her late-70's then. Really funny voice. I don't know if she worked much recently but I'm sure someone more clever than I can say if she did.
Tony Scott, film director and brother of Cameron, died the day before yesterday in a suicide. Heard an obit on the BBC world news last night, very impressive c.v.
Apparently he had terminal brain cancer (Tony Scott).
Denied since by his wife.Quote:
Originally Posted by centre mid
Brother of Ridley!Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudulika
Sergei Ovchinnikov, the coach of the Russian women's volleyball team, committed suicide today. Now he's not a household name even in Russia, but the circumstances surrounding his death seem to be the oddest. One respected media outlet claims he was severely depressed after a poor showing in the Olympics, another that he was about to be outed for dong something wrong, another that he had been given a terminal diagnoses while RT reported that he was under pressure from "criminal elements" over gambling debts. While it might not mean much in the long run, this was a guy who was gregarious, funny and a great interviewee. Only 43 and one of the better sports coaches in the country.