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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2020 15:52:48 GMT
TERRY JONES, a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe, has died at 77. He had been suffering from dementia. Jones’s agent says he died Tuesday evening. In a statement, his family said he died “after a long, extremely brave but always good humoured battle with a rare form of dementia, FTD.” With Eric Idle, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman and Terry Gilliam, Jones formed Monty Python’s Flying Circus, whose anarchic humor helped revolutionize British comedy. Jones appeared in the troupe’s TV series and films including “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” and “The Life of Brian.” In 2016 he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. Jones’s wife, Anna Soderstrom, and children Bill, Sally and Siri, said “we have all lost a kind, funny, warm, creative and truly loving man whose uncompromising individuality, relentless intellect and extraordinary humour has given pleasure to countless millions across six decades.” “His work with Monty Python, his books, films, television programs, poems and other work will live on forever, a fitting legacy to a true polymath,” they said. Receiving BAFTA award for Outstanding Achievement in Television
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Post by bunkerfan on Jan 22, 2020 20:34:28 GMT
For me Terry Jones changed the face of comedy and he brought a fresh new world of laughter to stage and screen especially in his writing of Monty Python.
Rest in peace
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 23, 2020 7:30:07 GMT
For me Terry Jones changed the face of comedy and he brought a fresh new world of laughter to stage and screen especially in his writing of Monty Python.
Rest in peace Jones became a director with Monty Python and the Holy Grail — the studios wouldn’t touch it, so it was financed by rock stars like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Jethro Tull. He and Gilliam co-directed, neither having any idea what they were doing; they traded off on alternate days. As he recalled, “I was very keen on making it funky and making sure everybody had dirty teeth.” He took over for Life of Brian. “We didn’t really have any quarrels with Christ himself,” he told Rolling Stone in 1979. “My feelings toward Christ are that he was a bloody good bloke, even though he wasn’t as funny as Margaret Thatcher.” link
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2020 8:47:58 GMT
The "Bunny Attack" scene
What's he do? Nibble your bum?
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 23, 2020 15:39:24 GMT
These are some VERY funny people who played a big role in taking the world from gray to color on our shifts.
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 6, 2020 15:10:52 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 7, 2020 3:14:53 GMT
Another LEGEND has passed
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 19:32:55 GMT
Dr. Li WenLiang was born on October 12,1986 and died at the Central Hospital of Wuhan on February 7,2020 from Covid-19. He tried to warn China about the Coronavirus and was arrested for spreading "false" information.
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Post by bunkerfan on May 9, 2020 18:45:28 GMT
Little Richard: Rock 'n' roll pioneer dies
Pioneering rock 'n' roll singer Little Richard has died at the age of 87.Off stage, he set the benchmark for wild and debauched behaviour. He was the devout believer in God who indulged freely in the lurid temptations of fame.
On stage, he was a one-man hurricane, the manic piano playing and raspy voice appealing across the racial divides of segregated America.
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Post by jackinthegreen on May 9, 2020 23:39:36 GMT
Little Richard: Rock 'n' roll pioneer dies
Pioneering rock 'n' roll singer Little Richard has died at the age of 87.Off stage, he set the benchmark for wild and debauched behaviour. He was the devout believer in God who indulged freely in the lurid temptations of fame.
On stage, he was a one-man hurricane, the manic piano playing and raspy voice appealing across the racial divides of segregated America. Good Golly Miss Molly His music was amazing, Thanks Little Richard
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2020 11:26:13 GMT
Dame Vera Lynn
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 6, 2020 15:34:12 GMT
Rest in peace
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Post by jackinthegreen on Jul 6, 2020 20:15:48 GMT
Lovely piece of music
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Post by jackinthegreen on Jul 25, 2020 21:55:05 GMT
Just read that Peter Green has died.
One of the best guitarists, he had such a lovely feel, I love his playing on "Love that Burns"
Thanks for all the music Peter.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jul 25, 2020 23:56:41 GMT
Just read that Peter Green has died.
One of the best guitarists, he had such a lovely feel, I love his playing on "Love that Burns"
Thanks for all the music Peter. ROCK IN PEACE Peter Green
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Post by steelmonkey on Jul 26, 2020 1:07:42 GMT
He had a hard life. This thread warns you it will be sad news...like the black bordered envelopes that used to be common for mailing death notices. I brace myself when I open this thread.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 26, 2020 6:19:48 GMT
The finest blues guitar player Britain has ever produced.Fleetwood Mac - Man Of The World - 2nd version (1969)51,669 views•May 25, 2020 Beat-Club 117K subscribers www.bbc.com/news/uk-53541579
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 26, 2020 18:06:15 GMT
An incredible musician.
So sad RIP
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2020 15:31:48 GMT
DAME DIANA RIGG enjoyed a long and distinguished acting career on stage, in film and on television. The range of her roles was enormous, from serious drama to high camp. She was the only Bond girl to get 007 to the altar. But for those of a certain generation, she will always be the desirable Emma Peel in The Avengers TV series. Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg was born near Doncaster on 20 July 1938. While still a toddler, she travelled to India, where her father worked as a railway engineer for the Maharaja of Bikaner. With Derek Smith (left) and Ian Richardson, Rigg starred in a 1963 production of A Comedy of Errors By the time she returned to England after the war, she spoke Hindi as a second language. She was sent to a Yorkshire boarding school run by the Moravian church. "I felt like a fish out of water," she said - although she later credited the experience with helping form her character. On leaving school in 1955, she trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She made her professional debut in a production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle as part of the 1957 York Festival. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she played a number of roles, receiving much praise for her portrayal of Cordelia in a touring production of King Lear. In 1965, she screen-tested for the part of John Steed's female companion in the TV series The Avengers after the departure of Honor Blackman to play Pussy Galore in Goldfinger. Rigg won admirers with her high-kicking, action-loving character Emma Peel in The Avengers In fact, the role had already been given to another actress, Elizabeth Shepherd. But Brian Clemens, the programme's producer, was not happy with her performance. "She's not a bad actress," he later recalled. "But she just didn't have a sense of humour at all - that was essential in The Avengers. So we scrapped what we'd shot and got rid of her and then tested, and out of the tests came Diana Rigg, who was head and shoulders above everybody else." Her performance as the cat-suited Emma Peel brought her international fame. The surreal psychedelia of The Avengers made it as much a symbol of the Swinging 60s as the Mini and the Beatles. Sexy, resourceful and self-assured - with a deadly knowledge of self-defence - Rigg's character became an icon for the growing feminist movement. Her action-girl allure, coupled with her husky voice - the result of a 20-a-day cigarette habit - also brought her plenty of male admirers. She flourished in roles such as the manipulative Lady Macbeth, alongside Anthony Hopkins "We had no idea it would be defining," she later said. "It was nose to the grindstone - working all hours that God gave." She also showed she was capable of taking on the establishment. During the first series, she discovered she was earning less than the cameramen and insisted on more money before making another episode. But Rigg found the sudden fame as a TV star difficult to cope with. She recalled having to hide in a lavatory to avoid the attention of the crowds. It was partly her resentment at the invasion of her privacy that persuaded her that she would spend only two years with The Avengers. She was also keen to keep her stage career alive. "Some weeks I'd spend four days on the set of The Avengers and then head up to Stratford to be Regan to Olivier's Lear," she said. Like Blackman, Rigg moved from the Avengers to 007, starring in Her Majesty's Secret Service opposite George Lazenby. Rigg became the only Bond girl to get the secret agent to the altar, although the marriage was abruptly cut short when her character was shot dead soon after the wedding. Rigg's "serious" roles included the beautiful but bored Hedda Gabler, with Philip Bond Her relationship with Lazenby was difficult, although she denied deliberately eating garlic before their love scenes. She starred as Vincent Price's daughter in the camp horror film, Theatre of Blood, but soon returned to the stage - nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in Abelard and Heloise. In New York, her portrayal of Heloise was criticised by acerbic US critic John Simon, who described her in a nude scene as "built like a brick basilica with insufficient flying buttresses". She later admitted she never felt comfortable removing her clothes on stage. Rigg played Queen Henrietta Maria opposite Rufus Sewell in the BBC's Charles II: The Power and the Passion "I come from Yorkshire, and no-one from Yorkshire takes their clothes off except on a Friday night," she said. The episode led her to later publish a collection of scathing theatrical reviews titled No Turn Unstoned. She took a number of leading roles with the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic and gained a second Tony nomination for her performance as Celimene in The Misanthrope. In 1990, she won a Bafta for the role of an obsessive mother in the BBC drama Mother Love. Four years later she won a Tony for best actress in one of her most acclaimed roles, that of Medea. In the same year, Rigg was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She excelled as the evil Mrs Gillyflower in a Doctor Who episode specially written for her, The Crimson Horror She appeared in a number of TV costume dramas, winning an Emmy for her role as Mrs Danvers in a Carlton TV production of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. Her work in the theatre continued, including well-received performances in The Cherry Orchard, Pygmalion and Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer. In 2013, she appeared in a Doctor Who episode, The Crimson Horror, which was specially written for her by Mark Gatiss. Her role as the evil Mrs Gillyflower was played alongside her daughter, Rachael Stirling. She was also required to use her native Yorkshire accent. In her 70s, Dame Diana joined a long list of distinguished British actors who appeared in the HBO fantasy epic Game of Thrones, gaining an Emmy nomination. And she continued working until shortly before her death, appearing in the new remake of All Creatures Great And Small. Dame Diana was nominated for an Emmy for her role in Game of Thrones as Lady Olena, a character who made bluntness an artform She was married twice, first to Israeli artist Menachem Gueffen, from 1973 to 1976, and then to Archie Stirling. The couple divorced in 1990 after Stirling's affair with actress Joely Richardson. In 2017, the 20-a-day smoker found herself seriously ill and undergoing a heart operation. During surgery, Rigg's heart stopped and her life hung by a thread. "The good Lord must have said, 'Send the old bag down again'," the devout Christian later told a journalist. "I'm not having her yet." Although it was the role of Peel that brought her to public attention, Dame Diana was successful in casting off the character and carving out a distinguished career as a classical actress. She never felt the need to return to the cat suit, steadfastly refusing to sign Avengers photographs that continued to be sent to her. Rigg excelled at playing sharp-witted female characters who carried steel fists in velvet gloves.
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Post by bunkerfan on Sept 10, 2020 19:00:38 GMT
As a young man I used to love seeing her in The Avengers Rest in peace Diana
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2020 19:27:41 GMT
As a young man I used to love seeing her in The Avengers Rest in peace Diana
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Post by bunkerfan on Sept 20, 2020 11:55:52 GMT
Lee Kerslake: Former Ozzy Osbourne and Uriah Heep drummer dies aged 73The musician had been undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. He is best known for his performances on the Black Sabbath frontman's critically-acclaimed debut album, Blizzard of Ozz, and was also the drummer in heavy metal band Uriah Heep. RIP
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Post by Jack -A- Lynn on Sept 20, 2020 13:27:10 GMT
Lee Kerslake: Former Ozzy Osbourne and Uriah Heep drummer dies aged 73The musician had been undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. He is best known for his performances on the Black Sabbath frontman's critically-acclaimed debut album, Blizzard of Ozz, and was also the drummer in heavy metal band Uriah Heep. RIP This song describes the astral voyage and the freedome of the soul when separates from the body. This drum intro! youtu.be/UObs94oZRUU May his spirit rest in peace
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Post by bunkerfan on Oct 20, 2020 16:15:23 GMT
Spencer Davis, one of rock's elder statesmen, dies aged 81Spencer Davis, one of the key figures of 1960s beat scene, has died at the age of 81. The Welsh guitarist was the driving force behind the Spencer Davis Group, who scored transatlantic hits with Keep On Running and Somebody Help Me. The band, which also featured a teenage Stevie Winwood, toured with The Who and The Rolling Stones in the 60s. Davis died in hospital on Monday, while being treated for pneumonia, his agent told the BBC. RIP Spencer
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Post by jackinthegreen on Oct 21, 2020 0:31:49 GMT
Spencer Davis, one of rock's elder statesmen, dies aged 81Spencer Davis, one of the key figures of 1960s beat scene, has died at the age of 81. The Welsh guitarist was the driving force behind the Spencer Davis Group, who scored transatlantic hits with Keep On Running and Somebody Help Me. The band, which also featured a teenage Stevie Winwood, toured with The Who and The Rolling Stones in the 60s. Davis died in hospital on Monday, while being treated for pneumonia, his agent told the BBC. RIP Spencer Great video of times gone by, thank you Spencer, and long live Steve Winwood, a fantastic part of this band.
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 31, 2020 12:49:48 GMT
What a life. What a legend Rest in Peace "..For many, Sean Connery was the definitive James Bond. Suave and cold-hearted.....
He strode across screen, licensed to kill. He moved like a panther, hungry and in search of prey. There was no contest....."www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13087132
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Post by bunkerfan on Oct 31, 2020 12:55:48 GMT
Sean Connery: James Bond actor dies aged 90He was largely regarded as being the best actor to have played 007 in the long-running franchise, often being named as such in polls. His Oscar came in 1988, when he was named best supporting actor for his role as an Irish cop in The Untouchables. He was knighted by the Queen at Holyrood Palace in 2000. In August, he celebrated his 90th birthday.
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Post by Jack -A- Lynn on Oct 31, 2020 14:15:59 GMT
May God rest his soul in peace.
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Post by orion12 on Oct 31, 2020 14:19:51 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 31, 2020 17:28:23 GMT
May God rest his soul in peace. I'd forgotten about that film. Are you a Highlander fan as well - and all things Scottish?
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