pffft not even the original keyboard cat
― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kak-channthy-cambodian-space-project-frontwoman-killed-crash-38-updated
Hit by a car. AKA Srey Thy
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
don't understand how Deliveroo can exploit their employees so much and still be more expensive than getting a taxi to the takeaway and back
― as the crows around me grows (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
lol wrong thread soz
― as the crows around me grows (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
A proper candidate for the "people who you thought were dead but weren't" thread until now, where she belongs in this thread. RIP Katie Boyle.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12525627
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
Weird, she was the answer to a picture question on a Bullseye repeat last week and we had no idea who she was. Who else will fall to the Bullseye curse?
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
Deficits are ok now
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/obituaries/peter-g-peterson-dies-power-from-wall-st-to-washington.html
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
i miss shakey too and i appreciate the effort but it's just not the same when someone else does it ;_;
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
This is getting a bit spooky now. Katie Boyle was just mentioned in this One Foot In The Grave repeat we're watching now. I'd never heard of her until last week now she's everywhere.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
Somewhat bizarrely, my dad used to fancy her, but she was like the daughter of an Italian count so she was a bit out of his league. He was very taken with Annie Lennox too.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link
Benny Hill used to drag up to spoof K Boyle's ads in the '70s, I seem to recall. Clingfilm? Also flexed her linguistic skills presenting Eurovision.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 10:57 (six years ago) link
I read her TV Times agony aunt column avidly as a boy. Scarcity of media and all that.
― Alba, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 11:16 (six years ago) link
She used to win the TV Times awards' "Female Personality of the year" with an ubiquity like "Ant and Dec" had. It seemed very strange that the BBC news 'tribute' consisted of a couple of snips from Blankety Blank w/ Wogan, a few pics from Eurovision, and a matter of fact 'un yeah, she died OK?" (not an actual quote)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 11:31 (six years ago) link
Les Payne, pioneering journalist of Long Island (NY) Newsday
https://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/newsday-les-payne-dies-1.17534552
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
aw man
― maura, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
If Ozymandias had lived: Toys "R" Us founder Charles Lazarus dies at 94
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/22/toys-r-us-founder-charles-lazarus-dies-at-94-as-toy-empire-liquidates.html
― Alba, Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
Oh he'll be back
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
another interesting fun fact I didn't know is that Frida from Abba was an OG Norwegian "Lebensborn-child" - Norwegian mother + Nazi officer father. I can't remember one that mentioned in the 1982 Look-In annual ABBA interview!
― calzino, Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
rong thread!
Oh he'll be backa really cold part of me is dreading arnold schwarzenegger dying because every subeditor and ~twitterati~ on the planet will spew “he’ll be back” like it was their own special genius idea
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
Unless he's killed like Bennett in Commando, then they'll all be saying "let off some steam, Arnie"
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
Louise Latham
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/louise-latham-dead-tippi-hedrens-mother-hitchcocks-marnie-was-95-1096599?__twitter_impression=true
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 March 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
"unpredictable" Zell Miller, frequently a jerk
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/zell-miller-georgia-governor-and-senator-with-unpredictable-streak-dies-at-86/2018/03/23/9bc8a858-2eaf-11e8-b0b0-f706877db618_story.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 March 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
frequently a jerk
There were times when he wasn't, in your mind?
Never mind; I don't want to know. I'll just assume he said something shitty about Hillary.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 23 March 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
wow, Zell Miller is a blast from the past
― flappy bird, Friday, 23 March 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
Bassist Buell Niedlinger has died. Played with Cecil Taylor, with Anthony Braxton, did sessions with Dolly Parton, the Eagles, the Village People. https://jazztimes.com/news/buell-neidlinger-dies-at-82/
― eddhurt, Friday, 23 March 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
Philip Kerr, author of the Bernie Gunther detective series dead from cancer
― jbn, Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
Oh man that's terrible
― omar little, Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
the Bernie Gunther detective series is great. The next and perhaps final one is out April 3 in the U.S.
― omar little, Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link
Nice celebration of the books from last year:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/the-third-reichs-good-cop
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2018 05:31 (six years ago) link
And I gotta say, an anthology called The Penguin Book of Fights, Feuds and Heartfelt Hatreds is right up my street.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2018 05:33 (six years ago) link
French actress Stéphane Audran
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
;_;
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 12:58 (six years ago) link
also
Barbara Stone, producer, distributor and founder of London’s Gate Cinema
Andy Lewis, who, along with his brother Dave, wrote the screenplay for Alan J. Pakula’s Klute
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5502-the-daily-remembering-stephane-audran-barbara-stone-and-more
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
the actor Bill Maynard
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20716037
― soref, Friday, 30 March 2018 12:20 (six years ago) link
the gaffer!
― calzino, Friday, 30 March 2018 12:39 (six years ago) link
I always remember the bit from the titles where he pulls a parking ticket off the windscreen of his car, gets in, and then chucks it on the back seat on top of hundreds of other tickets.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Friday, 30 March 2018 12:43 (six years ago) link
Oh No, not Selwyn Froggitt!
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link
^ that has to be a headline somewhere
http://img.sharetv.com/shows/standard/oh_no_its_selwyn_froggitt_uk.jpg
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
Bill Maynard was often very good and of course Alan Plater is an all time great but ONISF! really has not aged well at all
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:56 (six years ago) link
ONISF! is still good imo, it's a pity it doesn't get repeated more.
the pilot episode (by Roy Clarke) is interesting, it's a bit less broad than the series, emphasises the bleakness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q2HK10cvMQ
― soref, Friday, 30 March 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
you Brits are really losing a lot of domestic celebs, so for our part, Rusty Staub
https://www.amazinavenue.com/2018/3/29/17175710/mets-rusty-staub-death-new-york
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 March 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link
Bill Maynard a definite candidate for "people you thought died years ago".
― ailsa, Friday, 30 March 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
Alias, the anticon guy
There’s no proper way to say this or deal with this, but so I want to put this out there and then step away for a while. Our great friend and longtime collaborator Brendon Whitney (@AliasAnticon) passed away of a heart attack yesterday. No one was nicer. No one. We love you, Bren pic.twitter.com/4TxOCPJo2z— Sage Francis (@SageFrancis) March 31, 2018
― scotti pruitti (wins), Sunday, 1 April 2018 08:39 (six years ago) link
damn, he can't have been very old at all. Loads of ppl in their 40's dying of heart attacks recently, well not all of them famous, but it seems to be a thing I've noticed a lot recently - including an old school pal.
― calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 08:42 (six years ago) link
Aw, Selwyn. The ubiquitous and emphatically not-Northern David Lodge playing his brother in that pilot. A little verklempt at the boom-in-shot around 3min. And applause from the studio audience over the titles! Another time.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 1 April 2018 10:02 (six years ago) link
Revived his own separate thread, but Steven Bochco:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-bochco-dead-hill-street-blues-la-law-nypd-blue-creator-741199
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 April 2018 01:14 (six years ago) link
rip my tv watching in high school & college :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
never locked into any of his shows cept Hill Street, but that was certainly a landmark
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 April 2018 01:51 (six years ago) link
Winnie Mandela
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Monday, 2 April 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link