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Aug 30, 2016 02:22AM
:( Loved The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein etc.
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Yes loved all those and Willy Wonka.
Some people leave the world a better place and he seems to have been one of them.
Just think of all the hours of laughter he gave us.
Sheri S Tepper author of Grass has died aged 87. Her first book was published when she was 54 in 1983. A great author.
Pam wrote: "Sheri S Tepper author of Grass has died aged 87. Her first book was published when she was 54 in 1983. A great author."I've read a lot of her books - didn't realise she first published in her 50s, always assumed she was younger, so surprised to hear she was 87.
I've read a few of hers. I adored some and found others tedious. Strange how it goes. No, I didn't realise she was that age.
America :(
Unfortunately RIP isn't likely to apply.
........it might apply once the button is pressed!!
Jimmy Young, aged 95. Used to listen to him on the radio all the time when I was a kid. :(
Me too Tim, seems strange now so many of them are no longer with us.
Oh my! That is a sad loss. He was one of a kind.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Leonard Cohen has died.http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/..."
I'm listening to him singing Hallelujah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4...
One of those songs that is in your deepest brain cells.
Thank you, Leonard, you made a significant contribution to my life. My favourite - Song of Bernadette.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfTFV...
Sad.Liked him a lot. His use of language was a big influence on me.
'It's hard to hold the hand of anyone
who is reaching for the sky just to surrender'
I was only thinking of rereading The Favourite Game recently too. A book I liked a lot back in the day.
Robert Vaughn - Man from UNCLE. Was 83!
That's a shame. I liked him in Hustle too - was only watching it the other week. :(
We had multiple celebrity deaths at the beginning of the year......... it is now starting to look as if the year is going to go out the same way.
perhaps because we have more celebrities, and their death is now news?
I think it's just that the whole idea of 'celebrity' seems to have really taken off in recent years and a lot of the 1960s celebrities have reinvented themselves and popped up again in recent years, Robert Vaughn being a case in point. When it comes to pop, a lot of stars died young and we are now reaching the stage where a big bunch of our pop idols are in their 70s and 80s and will, inevitably, peg it. The attrition does seem to be terrible this year though. I'm worrying that Harrison Ford and Clint Eastwood will be next.
Fidel Castro has died.Now there's the end of an era.
An extraordinary man. Very few individuals have had so much effect over such a long period of time.
I wonder if anything will change now in Cuba.
..........well the heels might be higher and the cigars longer!!! ;-)
Dunno if Cuba needs to change much, to be honest. The only thing it lacks is free trade with the States. It's proof that that's not necessary. They trade rather well with the rest of the world.Castro did great things in many countries in Africa.
He truly was a remarkable man. Well worth studying.
Ron Glass has died too (Shepherd in Firefly/Serenity). He was 71. :(
Tim wrote: "Ron Glass has died too (Shepherd in Firefly/Serenity). He was 71. :("71 is way too young. I don't have the early Barney Millers, but I will treasure his performance on my Firefly set.
Oh good grief, now its Andrew Sachs! This year has been a terrible one.Que?
I wonder if we're running into probability. He was 86, which is still a good innings. Perhaps TV and film repeats have kept actors in the public eye longer. Everybody remembers him from Fawlty Towers, but would we remember somebody from a 1979 stage play?
Obviously he worked longer but I had to go to Wiki to find out what else he did
He didn't seem that old, I'm surprised. RIP
TV and pop are both relative new but now reaching the stage when their elder statesmen are, genuinely, old. And some are shuffling off this mortal coil.
He was in a lot of mercan tv shows, I think. Loved him in firefly.
Tim wrote: "Ron Glass has died too (Shepherd in Firefly/Serenity). He was 71. :("I mean him. Never heard of Andrew Sachs.
Andrew Sachs was hilarious as Manuel, the Spanish waiter John Cleese insisted on speaking English to. His usual response was What? (in Spanish, of course).I'll always be able to picture him in my mind. Amazing that show had such a short run. Of course, it was so frantic Fawlty Towers was probably razed to the ground by the end.
RiP Manuel aka Andrew Sachs.
Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
RiP Peter Vaughan - better known as Grouty - the Mr. Big of Slade Prison. I believe he was also in GoT - but I haven't watched that.
2016's claimed another one. John Glenn (first American to orbit the Earth) has died aged 95.
He was the last of the Mercury Seven still alive, the first American space pioneers.
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