America. RIP. Also quite possibly the rest of us.
Idioicracy is alive and well though.
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America. RIP. Also quite possibly the rest of us.
Idioicracy is alive and well though.
English actor Timothy West https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_West
Singer Johnny Duhan.
Jon Kenny ,Irish comedian and one half of the D'Unbelievables
Surely you can't be serious.
Jim Abrahams, co-creator of Airplane! and The Naked Gun, 80.
I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.
Those movies were just so damn good. When I watch them now I start laughing before the jokes happen because I know them so well but they're so good they're still funny.
It's hard to know where to start with both Airplane movies - the red and white parking bays argument between the male and female voice (who were in real life a married couple who did the voice recorded announcements at LA Airport!), the visual gags and (cracks me up every time) the Andy/Buddy/Howie scene in the second one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JswFF2dKiLM&t=43s
They really don't make 'em like they used to!
The first time I saw the door scene, especially the bit where he opens it having appeared to be on a screen.. just killed me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ilm8PEJlQ
The Star Trek doors for Shatner too. "No tower, sir, just a bridge" was probably a nod to Kirk too, as well as playing on naval vs aircraft jargon, and their relationship in a more civil engineering context. Those guys could really write.
Swsssh swsssh - genius.
I'm supposed to be finishing a 130 page doc for work for Monday but, ah, looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines!
Oh yeah there was just so much going on all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
Also the bit about just ignoring the problem is genius.
Terry Griffiths. 77.
Big part of the 80s snooker heyday.
Ah, what a player! One of the slowest on the circuit. I started watching him play a frame sometime in the early 90s and, to be honest, I thought it was still going on.
Joking aside, I remember at one of the big UK tournaments a fun competition on the Beeb: pot the colours on their spots as quicky as possible. All the top pros running round the table like crazy at their turn. Griffiths pots the yellow, the green, the brown ... stops ... takes out his chalk ... the pros just doubled over laughing...
Terry Griffiths / Cliff Thorburn / Eddie Charlton / Peter Ebdon ~ It would take awhile to get through matches if these 4 were playing against one another !Quote:
Originally Posted by Eminence Grise
He was, had a game to compete which worked & was top end competitive over an extended career even if it wasn't the most exciting to watch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eminence Grise
Became world champion in his first attempt in 1979, beating Higgins & Taylor among others to do so. I think that first attempt record still stands today.
He won the triple crown, world, UK & Masters which only a small list of greats have managed.
Went on to coach two world champions in Williams and Hendry and multiple ranking event winning players as well.
& was the voice on BBC of so many matches we all watched later on.
A real legacy. RIP.
Dickie Rock.
Jimmy Carter,
Jean-Marie Le Pen
"I don't think there were that many deaths. There weren't 6 million ... There weren't mass murders as it's been said." https://archive.is/6clIYQuote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
I'm not sure I'd stretch so far as farewell.
Two female first names ~ What was that all about ? !Quote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
Small loss to humanity. Truly, only the good die young.
There’s a salutary tale in the dangers of apathy when confronted by fringe fanatics like him. After the first round of the presidential election in 2002, when le Pen made into the run-off against Chirac, Le Monde ran a cartoon of an elderly couple talking in their home. The wife says something like ‘it’s a disgrace he got to the second round’ and the husband replies ‘it’s not our fault – we didn’t vote.’ Now the FN/RN is the largest opposition party in France.
The Le Pen family had their roots in Nîmes, so in aristocratic days they were Le Pen de Nîmes. Calling him after half a pair of trousers was a nod to their past social standing. Adding Marie was just une extraction de pi55e.Quote:
Originally Posted by seanfhear
Comedian and actor, Tony Slattery, 65, heart attack. Poignant as he'd only recently started comedy touring again after lifelong struggles with mental health and addiction.
And one I missed over the holiday period, Kildare-born Charles Handy, management theorist and social philosopher, 92.
David Lynch,marmite director but I liked his style.
He made some aggressively weird movies. I didn't like half of them, but I've never regretted watching one. People use his name as an adjective in film criticism, but he was one of the most distinctive voices in American cinema.Quote:
Originally Posted by the 12 th man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjDa-_Vq51I
Legendary Scotland and Man United player Denis Law.
Paddy Cole has played his last gig.https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/celebs/...unced-34549886
Marianne Faithfull also.
Roberta Flack, the song eventually killed her.
Henry Kelly, former Irish broadcaster https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world...bca5901de&ei=8
Two young ones:
Michelle Trachtenberg, of Buffy and Eurotrip fame, at 39. Seems to be related to a liver transplant. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movi...ry-1235280880/
Roberto Orci, who wrote a lot of familiar movies and TV from Star Trek and Transformers to Fringe and Xena Warrior Princess. He was 51, and is reported to have died of kidney disease. https://variety.com/2025/film/news/r...rs-1236320536/
Gene Hackman 95 and his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa 63, found dead in their home.
And their dog too apparently. That's a really weird one. Foul play not suspected - so carbon monoxide or something like that?
Surprised to see Henry Kelly was only 78. He felt old presenting Going for Gold away back in the day, and that was 30+ years ago.
Do the police have any lead ?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Maybe lead in the water !Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
Eggheads quizzer, Chris Hughes https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/uknew...95d9fcdf6&ei=9
Chess grandmaster Boris Spassky whose epic games with American Bobby Fischer at the height of the Cold War were front page news https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Spassky
Tennis player Fred Stolle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Stolle
Golfer Brian Waites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Waites
Edit Jordan, I wouldn't have put him at 76, RIP
https://www.rte.ie/sport/motorsport/...-dies-aged-76/
A legendQuote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979