The RIP Famous Person Thread

[eceg]

A coincidence that Healey and Howe died within a week of each other. They were friends in spite of being in opposing parties and Healey's famous jibe in a Parliamentary debate that "being attacked by Geoffrey Howe was rather like being savaged by a dead sheep".
Healey admitted his jibe was adopted from Churchill's to Attlee (pet lamb instead of dead sheep). Churchill also described Attlee as "a sheep in sheep's clothing".

[harrybarracuda]

Maureen O’Hara, Star of Many Film Classics, Dies at 95
Robert Jablon / AP 3:48 PM ET



(LOS ANGELES) — Maureen O’Hara, the flame-haired Irish movie star who appeared in classics ranging from the grim “How Green Was My Valley” to the uplifting “Miracle on 34th Street” and bantered unforgettably with John Wayne in several films, has died. She was 95.

O’Hara died in her sleep at her home in Boise, Idaho, said Johnny Nicoletti, her longtime manager.

“She passed peacefully surrounded by her loving family as they celebrated her life listening to music from her favorite movie, ‘The Quiet Man,'” said a statement from her family.

“As an actress, Maureen O’Hara brought unyielding strength and sudden sensitivity to every role she played. Her characters were feisty and fearless, just as she was in real life. She was also proudly Irish and spent her entire lifetime sharing her heritage and the wonderful culture of the Emerald Isle with the world,” said a family biography.

O’Hara came to Hollywood to star in the 1939 “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and went on to a long career.

During her movie heyday, she became known as the Queen of Technicolor because of the camera’s love affair with her vivid hair, pale complexion and fiery nature.

But she also had talent.

“I proved there was a bloody good actress in me,” she told the British newspaper The Telegraph last year. “It wasn’t just my face. I gave bloody good performances.”

She never was nominated for a competitive Oscar but received an honorary Academy Award last year.

After her start in Hollywood with “Hunchback” and some minor films at RKO, she was borrowed by 20th Century Fox to play the beautiful young daughter in the 1941 saga of a coal-mining family, “How Green Was My Valley.”

“How Green Was My Valley” went on to win five Oscars including best picture and best director for John Ford, beating out Orson Welles and “Citizen Kane” among others. It was the first of several films she made under the direction of Ford, whose grouchy nature seemed to melt in her presence — although he once punched her hard in the jaw at a party.

The popularity of “How Green Was My Valley” confirmed O’Hara’s status as a Hollywood star. RKO and Fox shared her contract, and her most successful films were made at Fox.

They included “Miracle on 34th Street,” the classic 1947 Christmas story in which O’Hara was little Natalie Wood’s skeptical mother and among those charmed by Edmund Gwenn as a man who believed he was Santa Claus.

Other films included the costume drama “The Foxes of Harrow” (Rex Harrison, 1947); the comedy “Sitting Pretty” (Clifton Webb, 1948); and the sports comedy “Father Was a Fullback” (Fred MacMurray, 1949).

Often she sailed the high seas in colorful pirate adventures such as “The Black Swan” with Tyrone Power, “The Spanish Main” with Paul Henreid, “Sinbad the Sailor” with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and “Against All Flags” with Errol Flynn.

With Ford’s “Rio Grande” in 1950, O’Hara became Wayne’s favorite leading lady. The most successful of their five films was 1952’s “The Quiet Man,” also directed by Ford, in which she matched Wayne blow for blow in a classic donnybrook.

In one scene, she recalled, Wayne drags her across a field that he and Ford had covered with sheep dung.

With her Irish spunk, she could stand up to the rugged Duke, both on and off screen. She was proud when he remarked in an interview that he preferred to work with men — “except for Maureen O’Hara; she’s a great guy.”

“We met through Ford, and we hit it right off,” she remarked in 1991. “I adored him, and he loved me. But we were never sweethearts. Never, ever.”

O’Hara’s other movies with Wayne were “The Wings of Eagles” (1957), “McClintock!” (1963) and “Big Jake” (1971).

After her studio contracts ended, she remained busy. She played the mother of twins, both played by Hayley Mills, who conspire to reunite their divorced parents in the 1961 Disney comedy “The Parent Trap.”

She was also in “Spencer’s Mountain” with Henry Fonda (1963), a precursor to TV’s “The Waltons”; and a Western, “The Rare Breed,” with James Stewart (1966).

In 1968, she married her third husband, Brig. Gen. Charles Blair. After “Big Jake,” she quit movies to live with him in the Virgin Islands, where he operated Antilles Airboats. After his death in a 1978 plane crash, she ran the company for several years before selling it, making her the first woman president of a scheduled airline in the United States.

“Being married to Charlie Blair and traveling all over the world with him, believe me, was enough for any woman,” she said in a 1995 Associated Press interview. “It was the best time of my life.”

She returned to movies in 1991 for a role that writer-director Chris Columbus had written especially for her, as John Candy’s feisty mother in a sentimental drama, “Only the Lonely.” It was not a box-office success.

Over the following decade, she did three TV movies: “The Christmas Box,” based on a best-selling book, a perennial holiday attraction; “Cab to Canada,” a road picture; and “The Last Dance.”

While making “The Christmas Box” in 1995, she admitted that roles for someone her age (75) were scarce: “The older a man gets, the younger the parts that he plays. The older a woman gets, you’ve got to find parts that are believable. Since I’m not a frail character, it’s not that easy.”

She played a retired schoolteacher in the 2000 TV movie “The Last Dance.”

Maureen FitzSimons (pronounced Fitz-SYM-ons) was born in 1920 near Dublin, Ireland. Her mother was a well-known opera singer, and her father owned a string of soccer teams. Through her father, she learned to love sports; through her mother, she and her five siblings were exposed to the theater.

“My first ambition was to be the No. 1 actress in the world,” she recalled in 1999. “And when the whole world bowed at my feet, I would retire in glory and never do anything again.”

In her 2004 autobiography, “‘Tis Herself,'” O’Hara recalled that a Gypsy told her at the age of 5 that “You will leave Ireland one day and become a very famous woman known all around the world.'”

Maureen was admitted to the training program at Dublin’s famed Abbey Theater, where she was a prize student. When word of the beautiful Irish teen reached London, she was offered a screen test, and a friend convinced her reluctant parents to allow it.

Maureen considered the test a failure, but it led to a few small roles in English films. The great actor Charles Laughton, who was producing and starring in films made in England, saw the test and was intrigued by her dancing eyes. At 17 she co-starred opposite him in a pirate yarn, “Jamaica Inn,” directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Laughton gave her a more manageable name: O’Hara.

With the onslaught of World War II, filmmaking virtually halted in England. Laughton moved to RKO in Hollywood and starred as Quasimodo in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” with O’Hara as the beautiful gypsy girl, Esmeralda.

Her first husband was director George Hanley Brown, whom she met while making “Jamaica Inn.” When she moved to Hollywood, he remained in England and the marriage was annulled.

In 1941, she married a tall, handsome director, Will Price, and they had a daughter, Bronwyn, in 1944.

“The marriage was a terrible mistake, and we divorced in 1952,” she said. She remained unmarried until the wedding to Blair in 1968.

O’Hara’s career was threatened by a manufactured scandal in 1957, when Confidential magazine claimed she and a lover engaged in “the hottest show in town” in a back row in Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theater.

But at the time, she told AP, “I was making a movie in Spain, and I had the passport to prove it.” She testified against the magazine in a criminal libel trial and brought a lawsuit that was settled out of court. The magazine eventually went out of business.

On the screen, O’Hara always played strong, willful women. In a 1991 interview, she was asked if she was the same woman she appeared in movies.

“I do like to get my own way,” she said. “But don’t think I’m not acting when I’m up there. And don’t think I always get my own way. There have been crushing disappointments. But when that happens, I say, ‘Find another hill to climb.'”

She is survived by her daughter, Bronwyn FitzSimons of Glengarriff, Ireland; her grandson, Conor FitzSimons of Boise and two great-grandchildren.

This story includes biographical information compiled by the late AP Entertainment Writer Bob Thomas.

[Humbert]

^Cujo will be along shortly to tell us she WAS NOT FAMOUS!

[david44]

Michael Meacher former UK minister

Politics
Michael Meacher obituary
Long-serving Labour MP and former environment minister committed to green issues and defeating poverty

In the course of his 45-year career in the House of Commons, Michael Meacher, who has died aged 75, established a name for himself as an earnest and committed leftwing MP who wore his much-polished social conscience very visibly on his sleeve. He sat on Labour’s frontbench in government and opposition for a total of 29 years, but his misfortune was that he was never greatly favoured or particularly trusted by the six party leaders under whom he served. His good fortune, however, and the reason for his lengthy political survival in office was that he did not allow this evident antipathy to matter to him and even accepted demotion and an occasional public humiliation as a necessary price to pay.


He was one of only three MPs elected in May (the others are Margaret Beckett and the Father of the House, Gerald Kaufman) to have served in the 1974-79 Labour governments under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. He had arrived in the Commons as the MP for Oldham West (now Oldham West and Royton) in 1970 with his political aims and ambitions, nurtured at New College, Oxford, and in a brief academic career, in an advanced state of preparation. He knew exactly what he wanted to do as an MP and he won grudging respect from his parliamentary colleagues for a dogged and unfailing application to his agenda.
His primary concern was to tackle poverty, particularly among elderly people. One of his Conservative parliamentary critics, irked by Meacher’s worthy but somewhat pious manner, once described him as “Robin Hood in spectacles”. Yet despite his radical ideas, he learned the art of political pragmatism by pursuing policies that were workable. Although social services were his main interest, his seven years dealing with the environment portfolio, six of them as a minister, won him considerable praise from the green lobby.

He was responsible for the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, which enshrined in law the public’s right to roam. He was an ardent opponent of genetically modified crops, in conflict with other ministers, notably the science minister, Lord Sainsbury, and was an enthusiast for waste management and developing wind and tidal power sources.

One of Meacher’s early problems with his political masters was caused by his affiliation with Tony Benn during the years when members of the left wing were leading Labour into an internal power struggle over constitutional reforms that would see it out of office for more than a generation. His first job, to which he was appointed in 1974, was as a junior minister in the Department of Industry under Benn.

Although Wilson moved both of them to other posts the following year, Meacher remained close to Benn for many years. When Benn was out of the Commons in 1983, Meacher stood as the left candidate against Roy Hattersley for the post of deputy leader and came a creditable second with 28% of the vote. The then leader, Neil Kinnock, told the writer Jilly Cooper in an interview at the time that Meacher was “kind, scholarly and weak as hell” – a remark for which he subsequently apologised to Meacher. In the same interview he also called him “Benn’s vicar on earth”, a phrase that stuck because of its ring of authenticity and a widely held view that the Oldham MP often exuded an air of being somewhat “holier than thou”.

This was perhaps something rooted in his childhood. Meacher was born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, a descendant of a brewing and farming family, the only child of Hubert Meacher and his wife, Doris (nee Foxwell). His father had trained as an accountant but after a breakdown worked on the rundown family farm, while his mother took in lodgers, worked for a local doctor and dreamed of her son becoming an Anglican priest. The family had little money, but Michael won a scholarship to Berkhamsted and he then secured a place as an exhibitioner at Oxford to study classics and divinity.

He took a first class degree, but his road then diverted from his mother’s hopes and he studied for a diploma in social administration at the London School of Economics, joined the Labour party and lectured at Essex, York and the LSE. He fought an traditionally unwinnable seat – Colchester in 1966 – and was selected to contest a byelection in Oldham West in 1968. Although this was a Labour seat, it was the height of the Wilson government’s unpopularity and he lost. He won it back for Labour in 1970 and this year was elected with a majority of 14,738.

Meacher was a private man, never the sociable sort to hang around the Commons watering holes – he was always too busy (he was a prolific journalist and author of books on social and socialist issues) – but nevertheless he won respect for his ability to master a brief.

It also won him the joint accolade of election to the leftwing party national executive for six years from 1983 and to the more rightwing shadow cabinet from 1983 until 1996. And he had a great many briefs to master in his career: as well as Industry, he was a junior minister at Health and Social Security and at Trade before 1979 and in opposition he was successively spokesman on health, employment, social security, overseas development, Citizen’s Charter, transport, education and employment and environmental protection. He was not given a place in the cabinet when Tony Blair was elected in 1997, but was minister of state at Environment until he was sacked in 2003.

He did not hesitate to court controversy by frequently attacking the government of which he had been a member and planned to stand against Gordon Brown for the leadership in 2007. Failing to secure sufficient nominations, however, he stood aside for John McDonnell, now the shadow chancellor, as the leftwing candidate, but he also failed to make the ballot paper. Meacher was an enthusiastic supporter of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.

Two other causes of controversy were a decision to sue the journalist Alan Watkins for libel in 1990 and the revelation that he had accumulated a property empire. The libel case, which he lost and which left him liable for costs of £130,000, brought much gaiety to the nation but exposed him to ridicule. He sued Watkins for having described him as “middle class” in the Observer, Meacher maintaining that his father was a tenant farmer. In more recent years he was subjected to charges of political hypocrisy when it was disclosed that he and his second wife, Lucianne, had invested in buy-to-let property and owned at least nine properties between them.

He is survived by Lucianne (nee Sawyer), whom he married in 1988; and by two sons and two daughters from his first marriage, to Molly (nee Reid, now Lady Meacher), which ended in divorce.



• Michael Hugh Meacher, politician, born 4 November 1939; died 21 October 2015

• This article was amended on 22 October 2015. Michael Meacher was one of three MPs elected in May to have served in the 1974-79 Labour governments under Wilson and Callaghan, rather than two, as originally stated.

[harrybarracuda]

^Cujo will be along shortly to tell us she WAS NOT FAMOUS!

In fairness, he probably hasn't heard of her.

[Humbert]

In fairness, he probably hasn't heard of her.

He hasn't heard of her, therefore she is not famous. QED.

[Davis Knowlton]

^Cujo will be along shortly to tell us she WAS NOT FAMOUS!

In fairness, he probably hasn't heard of her.

How could one NOT have heard of her?

[HermantheGerman]

^Cujo will be along shortly to tell us she WAS NOT FAMOUS!

In fairness, he probably hasn't heard of her.

How could one NOT have heard of her?

People aged less then 70 ?

[harrybarracuda]

^Cujo will be along shortly to tell us she WAS NOT FAMOUS!

In fairness, he probably hasn't heard of her.

How could one NOT have heard of her?

People aged less then 70 ?

People with an IQ less than 70 more like.

[Davis Knowlton]

^Cujo will be along shortly to tell us she WAS NOT FAMOUS!

In fairness, he probably hasn't heard of her.

How could one NOT have heard of her?

People aged less then 70 ?

Krauts who've never seen a John Wayne movie?

[thaimeme]

Maureen O’Hara, Star of Many Film Classics, Dies at 95
Robert Jablon / AP 3:48 PM ET



(LOS ANGELES) — Maureen O’Hara, the flame-haired Irish movie star who appeared in classics ranging from the grim “How Green Was My Valley” to the uplifting “Miracle on 34th Street” and bantered unforgettably with John Wayne in several films, has died. She was 95.

O’Hara died in her sleep at her home in Boise, Idaho, said Johnny Nicoletti, her longtime manager.

“She passed peacefully surrounded by her loving family as they celebrated her life listening to music from her favorite movie, ‘The Quiet Man,'” said a statement from her family.

“As an actress, Maureen O’Hara brought unyielding strength and sudden sensitivity to every role she played. Her characters were feisty and fearless, just as she was in real life. She was also proudly Irish and spent her entire lifetime sharing her heritage and the wonderful culture of the Emerald Isle with the world,” said a family biography.

O’Hara came to Hollywood to star in the 1939 “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and went on to a long career.

During her movie heyday, she became known as the Queen of Technicolor because of the camera’s love affair with her vivid hair, pale complexion and fiery nature.

But she also had talent.

“I proved there was a bloody good actress in me,” she told the British newspaper The Telegraph last year. “It wasn’t just my face. I gave bloody good performances.”

She never was nominated for a competitive Oscar but received an honorary Academy Award last year.

After her start in Hollywood with “Hunchback” and some minor films at RKO, she was borrowed by 20th Century Fox to play the beautiful young daughter in the 1941 saga of a coal-mining family, “How Green Was My Valley.”

“How Green Was My Valley” went on to win five Oscars including best picture and best director for John Ford, beating out Orson Welles and “Citizen Kane” among others. It was the first of several films she made under the direction of Ford, whose grouchy nature seemed to melt in her presence — although he once punched her hard in the jaw at a party.

The popularity of “How Green Was My Valley” confirmed O’Hara’s status as a Hollywood star. RKO and Fox shared her contract, and her most successful films were made at Fox.

They included “Miracle on 34th Street,” the classic 1947 Christmas story in which O’Hara was little Natalie Wood’s skeptical mother and among those charmed by Edmund Gwenn as a man who believed he was Santa Claus.

Other films included the costume drama “The Foxes of Harrow” (Rex Harrison, 1947); the comedy “Sitting Pretty” (Clifton Webb, 1948); and the sports comedy “Father Was a Fullback” (Fred MacMurray, 1949).

Often she sailed the high seas in colorful pirate adventures such as “The Black Swan” with Tyrone Power, “The Spanish Main” with Paul Henreid, “Sinbad the Sailor” with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and “Against All Flags” with Errol Flynn.

With Ford’s “Rio Grande” in 1950, O’Hara became Wayne’s favorite leading lady. The most successful of their five films was 1952’s “The Quiet Man,” also directed by Ford, in which she matched Wayne blow for blow in a classic donnybrook.

In one scene, she recalled, Wayne drags her across a field that he and Ford had covered with sheep dung.

With her Irish spunk, she could stand up to the rugged Duke, both on and off screen. She was proud when he remarked in an interview that he preferred to work with men — “except for Maureen O’Hara; she’s a great guy.”

“We met through Ford, and we hit it right off,” she remarked in 1991. “I adored him, and he loved me. But we were never sweethearts. Never, ever.”

O’Hara’s other movies with Wayne were “The Wings of Eagles” (1957), “McClintock!” (1963) and “Big Jake” (1971).

After her studio contracts ended, she remained busy. She played the mother of twins, both played by Hayley Mills, who conspire to reunite their divorced parents in the 1961 Disney comedy “The Parent Trap.”

She was also in “Spencer’s Mountain” with Henry Fonda (1963), a precursor to TV’s “The Waltons”; and a Western, “The Rare Breed,” with James Stewart (1966).

In 1968, she married her third husband, Brig. Gen. Charles Blair. After “Big Jake,” she quit movies to live with him in the Virgin Islands, where he operated Antilles Airboats. After his death in a 1978 plane crash, she ran the company for several years before selling it, making her the first woman president of a scheduled airline in the United States.

“Being married to Charlie Blair and traveling all over the world with him, believe me, was enough for any woman,” she said in a 1995 Associated Press interview. “It was the best time of my life.”

She returned to movies in 1991 for a role that writer-director Chris Columbus had written especially for her, as John Candy’s feisty mother in a sentimental drama, “Only the Lonely.” It was not a box-office success.

Over the following decade, she did three TV movies: “The Christmas Box,” based on a best-selling book, a perennial holiday attraction; “Cab to Canada,” a road picture; and “The Last Dance.”

While making “The Christmas Box” in 1995, she admitted that roles for someone her age (75) were scarce: “The older a man gets, the younger the parts that he plays. The older a woman gets, you’ve got to find parts that are believable. Since I’m not a frail character, it’s not that easy.”

She played a retired schoolteacher in the 2000 TV movie “The Last Dance.”

Maureen FitzSimons (pronounced Fitz-SYM-ons) was born in 1920 near Dublin, Ireland. Her mother was a well-known opera singer, and her father owned a string of soccer teams. Through her father, she learned to love sports; through her mother, she and her five siblings were exposed to the theater.

“My first ambition was to be the No. 1 actress in the world,” she recalled in 1999. “And when the whole world bowed at my feet, I would retire in glory and never do anything again.”

In her 2004 autobiography, “‘Tis Herself,'” O’Hara recalled that a Gypsy told her at the age of 5 that “You will leave Ireland one day and become a very famous woman known all around the world.'”

Maureen was admitted to the training program at Dublin’s famed Abbey Theater, where she was a prize student. When word of the beautiful Irish teen reached London, she was offered a screen test, and a friend convinced her reluctant parents to allow it.

Maureen considered the test a failure, but it led to a few small roles in English films. The great actor Charles Laughton, who was producing and starring in films made in England, saw the test and was intrigued by her dancing eyes. At 17 she co-starred opposite him in a pirate yarn, “Jamaica Inn,” directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Laughton gave her a more manageable name: O’Hara.

With the onslaught of World War II, filmmaking virtually halted in England. Laughton moved to RKO in Hollywood and starred as Quasimodo in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” with O’Hara as the beautiful gypsy girl, Esmeralda.

Her first husband was director George Hanley Brown, whom she met while making “Jamaica Inn.” When she moved to Hollywood, he remained in England and the marriage was annulled.

In 1941, she married a tall, handsome director, Will Price, and they had a daughter, Bronwyn, in 1944.

“The marriage was a terrible mistake, and we divorced in 1952,” she said. She remained unmarried until the wedding to Blair in 1968.

O’Hara’s career was threatened by a manufactured scandal in 1957, when Confidential magazine claimed she and a lover engaged in “the hottest show in town” in a back row in Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theater.

But at the time, she told AP, “I was making a movie in Spain, and I had the passport to prove it.” She testified against the magazine in a criminal libel trial and brought a lawsuit that was settled out of court. The magazine eventually went out of business.

On the screen, O’Hara always played strong, willful women. In a 1991 interview, she was asked if she was the same woman she appeared in movies.

“I do like to get my own way,” she said. “But don’t think I’m not acting when I’m up there. And don’t think I always get my own way. There have been crushing disappointments. But when that happens, I say, ‘Find another hill to climb.'”

She is survived by her daughter, Bronwyn FitzSimons of Glengarriff, Ireland; her grandson, Conor FitzSimons of Boise and two great-grandchildren.

This story includes biographical information compiled by the late AP Entertainment Writer Bob Thomas.

One of my favs from that period...
Worked nearly her whole career under the studio contract gestapo era.

Personally, I found her best work and presence were later in life - late 50s to mid 60s.

RIP Maureen.

[panama hat]

a John Wayne movie?

I knew he makes music but movies?



Another great artistic export from the USofA

Lil Wayne is the real deal, homie

[harrybarracuda]

Zulu actor Richard Davies - who also appeared in Coronation Street, Doctor Who and Fawlty Towers - dies aged 89
08:36, 27 OCT 2015 UPDATED 08:45, 27 OCT 2015

Richard Davies has died aged 89.

The actor - who was best known for his roles in Please Sir! and films including Zulu and Blue Blood - passed away after a a battle with Alzheimer’s disease, reports Wales Online .

Born Dennis Wilfred Davies on January 25, 1926 in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, his youth involved a short stint in the mines at age 14 before leaving to pursue his career as an actor.

His career saw him star with a theatre company in Colwyn Bay before leaving for London to make it as an actor.

Training as a military policeman during World War Two, he was transferred to an entertainment unit before leaving to resume his acting career.

His screen debut came in 1949 on the BBC in a Welsh play called Choir Practice, and he joined the Old Vic in the 1950s, touring Europe and performing in locations from Scotland to South Africa.

Davies enjoyed playing up the Welshness of all of the characters he depicted, and played a number of characters called Taffy, always putting on a strong Welsh accent.

He married Jill Britton in 1955, before appearing as Mr Pritchard in Under Milk Wood alongside her in 1972.

His illustrious career in film also led to parts in the film Zulu, Blue Blood, The Mutations and Queen Sacrifice.

But perhaps his best-known role spanned between 1968 and 1972, when he depicted the character of science teacher Mr Price in sitcom Please Sir!, which regularly drew audiences of 20 million on ITV and was later made into a feature film.

After that, Mr Davies became somewhat of a regular on British sitcoms. His television career led him to roles in Coronation Street, Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers and Oh No, It’s Selwyn Froggitt!, where he played the role of Clive between 1974 and 1977.

He also memorably impersonated Welsh union leader Clive Jenkins in a spoof edition of Question Time on comedy sketch show Not the Nine O’Clock News.

Mr Davies’s final television appearance was in a 1998 episode of comedy 2point4 Children.

He died on October 8 after a battle with Alzheimer’s.

Mr Davies is survived by second wife Jill and children Colin, Glen and Nerissa.

A classic line... "At a time like this, I wonder what Nye Bevan would have done...."

[Neverna]

I can remember him as Mr Price in Please Sir.

[Cujo]

^Cujo will be along shortly to tell us she WAS NOT FAMOUS!

I would think an internationally acclaimed movie star for decades would be famous, wouldn't you>
Some obscure physicist or ex govt. minister, NOT.

[harrybarracuda]

^Cujo will be along shortly to tell us she WAS NOT FAMOUS!

I would think an internationally acclaimed movie star for decades would be famous, wouldn't you>
Some obscure physicist or ex govt. minister, NOT.

Here's a little puzzle for you Cujo.

1. Rearrange the following words into a well-known phrase or saying:

OFF FUCK

[BaitongBoy]

^Dawg can figure that one out, no promplem...

[BaitongBoy]

a John Wayne movie?

I knew he makes music but movies?



Another great artistic export from the USofA

Lil Wayne is the real deal, homie

Git yo pants up off the ground, boy!...

[harrybarracuda]

Happy Days Star Al Molinaro Has Died At the Age of 96
BY NAJA RAYNE @najarayne 10/31/2015 AT 12:20 AM EDT



Actor Al Molinaro, who starred in the '70s sitcom Happy Days has died at the age of 96, according to multiple reports.

Molinaro, best known for his role as Al Delvecchio – the owner of Arnold's Diner on the ABC series – died after suffering several gall stones which he chose not to remove due to his age, Deadline reports. The actor died in a Wisconsin hospital on Thursday.

His son first confirmed the news to TMZ.

According to The Wrap, Molinaro acted in the sitcom for 10 years and also appeared in its 1980's spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi.

Molinaro also had smaller roles in The Odd Couple and The Ugly Family.

He reportedly quit acting in 1992, but made continuous commercial appearances into the early 2000's.

[HermantheGerman]

^Cujo will be along shortly to tell us she WAS NOT FAMOUS!

In fairness, he probably hasn't heard of her.

How could one NOT have heard of her?

People aged less then 70 ?

Krauts who've never seen a John Wayne movie?

O.K. Davis and Harrybarracuda

with the permission of your nurses, let's hold hands and sing together "somewhere over the rainbow......"
Watch the blood pressure

[harrybarracuda]

In fairness, he probably hasn't heard of her.

How could one NOT have heard of her?

People aged less then 70 ?

Krauts who've never seen a John Wayne movie?

O.K. Davis and Harrybarracuda

with the permission of your nurses, let's hold hands and sing together "somewhere over the rainbow......"
Watch the blood pressure

I'm a lot less than 70 and I've still seen plenty of these classic movies, sat as a child on my mothers knee on a Sunday afternoon after Farming Today finished on the BBC.

You were probably busy watching goose stepping Nazi Propaganda movies before going out for Hitler Youth meetings.

Am I right?

[BaitongBoy]

"somewhere over the rainbow......"

Judy Garland?...

[harrybarracuda]

"somewhere over the rainbow......"

Judy Garland?...

You've won a prize.

It's a week in a locked room with HermantheGerman.

Second prize was two weeks...

[stroller]

How could one NOT have heard of her?

People aged less then 70 ?

Krauts who've never seen a John Wayne movie?

O.K. Davis and Harrybarracuda

with the permission of your nurses, let's hold hands and sing together "somewhere over the rainbow......"
Watch the blood pressure

I'm a lot less than 70 and I've still seen plenty of these classic movies, sat as a child on my mothers knee on a Sunday afternoon after Farming Today finished on the BBC.

You were probably busy watching goose stepping Nazi Propaganda movies before going out for Hitler Youth meetings.

Am I right?

He's more likely to watch Israeli propaganda movies about the Arab Untermenschen. Same-same but different.

[Humbert]

Folksy Ex-Senator and 'Law & Order' Actor Fred Thompson Dies at 73

Former Sen. Fred Thompson, the Watergate investigator (minority counsel)-turned-actor-turned national political figure, died Sunday at 73 from lymphoma, with which he had struggled for more than a decade, his family said.

Thompson, a large, towering man with a deep, Southern-inflected voice, parlayed his fame as a key investigator of the Watergate scandal into a TV and movie career before he was elected to finish the Senate term of Al Gore of Tennessee, who vacated the seat when he became vice president.


Folksy Ex-Senator and 'Law & Order' Actor Fred Thompson Dies at 73 - NBC News