Work to be done, Bonnie, even on a Sunday. And procrastination was a terribly attractive choice right then - as it is right now.:struggle:
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Work to be done, Bonnie, even on a Sunday. And procrastination was a terribly attractive choice right then - as it is right now.:struggle:
Alan Vega, singer with legendary group Suicide RIP http://variety.com/2016/music/news/a...de-1201816050/
'Springsteen told Mojo magazine that he met the two in the late ’70s and said, “if Elvis came back from the dead, I think he would sound like Alan Vega.”
So it's goodbye to the carpet man. Des Kelly RIP.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/irel...elly-1.2731055
^^^^I'm Floored...
Actor, David Huddleston known for his roles in The Big Lebowski, Blazing Saddles and The Producers.
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/n...-at-85-w432934
Edward Daly, Bishop of Derry, and famous for the iconic photo holding the bloodstained white handkerchief during Bloody Sunday. Interesting (but not surprising) that in the Daily Telegraph's headline to his obituary he is described as "a critic of the IRA".
Rainy Boy Sleep, Stevie Martin, aged 29. Body found on Fanad Head after he went missing three weeks ago. The latest tragedy of this sort to hit Donegal. Was making a name for himself on the music scene, playing Glastonbury twice, and appearing on the Late Late Show back in March.
RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXVFl7SFpY4
Former Ireland manager, Liam Tuohy.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2016/...98-liam-tuohy/
And one from almost a fortnight ago that I missed on holiday - handball legend, Ducksie Walsh, just 50.
http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-s...ball-1.2755720
I wouldn't say Rasher was a boyhood hero (Frank O'Neill was the man!) but he was in the Rovers' team of the 1960s whom I had the pleasure of seeing win cup after cup. Really skillful and very hard. To coin a classic "he was a lot more deceptive than you might think he was". Didn't he have a fall out with Big Jack over something or other?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eminence Grise
Yeah, Jack came in to the dressing room and gave the half-time chat during Tuohy's first match as Jack's U-19 manager; he quit after that.
Dalian Atkinson, former Villa striker in the early premier league era...
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/e...ce-in-telford/
Scored the Premier League's first goal of the season
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E9FDiUTp30
just came in to poost that. Unreal news.Quote:
Originally Posted by cfdh_edmundo
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...rd-west-mercia
Ex-Owl, Villa and others. Good player.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
Former FIFA president, and the mould out of which they poured the primordial gloop that became Sepp Blatter, Joao Havelange, aged 100.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...-fifa-ioc-dies
Ireland's Boxing medal chances...:sad::disappointed:
Ouch!
An odd combination of assassination, hard luck and self-inflicted wounds.
When you read something like this you have to go wow, that's some life:Quote:
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He swam for Brazil at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
Here he is apparently -
http://brasileiros.com.br/wp-content...-atleta-OK.jpg
Sam Neill played him in that dire FIFA movie a few years ago. Even in that masturbatory exercise he was portrayed as essentially corrupt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eminence Grise
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:
Originally Posted by Eminence Grise
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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.
83? Wow!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by eminence grise
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's the presumption one would have to make.Quote:
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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