Shame
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Sean Lock has died at the age of 58 from cancer
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Shame
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Sean Lock has died at the age of 58 from cancer
I just saw that too.
I used to love it when he appeared on comedy shows. Brilliant humour.
^^
Yes , very witty man sad days he's gone .
a funny fcuk
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That's a challenging wank. :rofl::rofl:
RIP He will be missed.
Carrot in a box was one of his good ones as well.Quote:
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That's just terrible. Very sad.
Has anyone ever actually owned a Corby Trouser Press?
For some reason it sticks in the mind, but I've never seen one or know anyone who has bought one.
And I don't ever remember seeing one in a hotel either.
https://youtu.be/DZZFiGBX2CA
Electric trouser press inventor Peter Corby dies aged 97 | Daily Mail Online
My Granny's guest house in Inverurie had one in every room, probably still does.
^ Even in the kitchen?
When I stay long term in hotels for work I fold shirts and trousers and place them under the mattress... hey presto (pun intended :))... in the morning you get a neatly pressed garment!
I'm surprised Bogon hasn't mentioned rhat tip.
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The kitchen had a roller style device for ironing folded up sheets. It would work for trousers too.Quote:
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Depending on the under-the-mattress situation, surely?Quote:
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I would just hang a T-shirt in the bathroom and have a steaming hot shower.
I don’t have any posh trousers and shirts for traveling.
Guilty as charged. In my previous life I wore a suit everyday, it was excellent for pressing the suit pants each night.Quote:
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Oh fuck off, everyone's just got too fucking sensitive. Too thin skinned.Quote:
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WTF is wrong with you?Quote:
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Its what too much pressure on your epididimis causes, cycling is bad
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Not sure, a very strange thing to say from Cujo. Perhaps we should have said "Yay, he's dead" and he would be happy?
Cujo appears to be suffering from early-onset dementia. Yesterday he forgot Somtamslap's name, even though he admitted liking SS's village stories.
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Stalker Saint ?
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Fits him:
Outspoken intolerance
Religious opportunisme
Ethical chauvinisme, and
underarmbowlisme exellance :smileylaughing:
It's a distinct possibility.Quote:
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Don Everly, one half of singing duo the Everly Brothers, dies at 84
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Don Everly, who along with his brother Phil, formed the pioneering pop rock-country duo the Everly Brothers, has died. He was 84.
According to reports in Variety and Hollywood Reporter, Don Everly died at his Nashville, Tennessee, home. His family did not release a cause of death.
A statement from his family to the Los Angeles Times read, in part: “Don lived by what he felt in his heart, Don expressed his appreciation for the ability to live his dreams … with his soulmate and wife, Adela, and sharing the music that made him an Everly Brother.”
While Don Everly was born in Kentucky in 1937, the family moved to Chicago, where in 1939, Phil Everly was born. The family eventually relocated to Nashville in the 1950s.
Originally performing on radio in the 1940s along with their parents as The Everly Family, the Nashville, Tennessee-raised Everly Brothers duo burst on the music scene in the late 1950s. With their distinctive harmonies driven by their up-front acoustic guitar playing, they released such hits at “Bye Bye Love,” “Wake Up Little Susie,” “Crying in the Rain,” “All I Have to Do is Dream” and their biggest-selling hit “Cathy’s Clown,” released in 1960. Their music influenced a generation of harmony-driven pop/rock icons who followed, including the Beach Boys, the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel.
Though they continued to perform as a team, the brothers eventually also pursued solo careers and went through a highly publicized falling out in the 1980s over songwriting credits and royalties.
The Everly Brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, part of the inaugural group of artists to be so honored. Rolling Stone ranked them as the No. 1 duo of all time in 2014. In his 2010 memoir “Life,” Keith Richards called Don Everly “one of the finest rhythm players.”
Phil Everly died in 2014.
https://youtu.be/v1fImXAeS-s
Don Everly dies: one-half of singing duo The Everly Brothers was 84 - Chicago Sun-Times
Obituary: Charlie Watts
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Charlie Watts
Drummer Charlie Watts, who has died at 80, provided the foundation which underpinned the music of the Rolling Stones.
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The band became a by-word for rock and roll excess but for Watts, playing with the Stones did not become the ego trip that drove Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
A jazz aficionado, Watts vied with Bill Wyman for the title of least charismatic member of the band; he eschewed the limelight and rarely gave interviews
And he famously described life with the Stones as five years of playing, 20 years of hanging around.
Charles Robert Watts was born on 2 June 1941 at the University College Hospital in London and raised in Kingsbury, now part of the London Borough of Brent.
He came from a working-class background. His father was a lorry driver and Watts was brought up in a pre-fabricated house to which the family had moved after German bombs destroyed hundreds of houses in the area.
A childhood friend once described how Watts had an early interest in jazz and recalled listening to 78s in Charlie's bedroom by artists such as Jelly Roll Morton and Charlie Parker.
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image captionHe first played with the Jo Jones Seven on the North London pub circuit
At school he developed an interest in and a talent for art and he went on to study at Harrow Art School before finding a job as a graphic designer with a local advertising agency.
But his love of music continued to be the dominating force in his life. His parents bought him a drum kit when he was 13 and he played along to his collection of jazz records.
He began drumming in local clubs and pubs and, in 1961 was heard by Alexis Korner who offered him a job in his band, Blues Incorporated, an outfit that became a vital part of the development of British rock music.
Also playing with Blues Incorporated was a guitarist named Brian Jones who introduced Watts to the fledgling Rolling Stones whose original drummer, Tony Chapman, had quit the band
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The result of that meeting according to Watts was "four decades of seeing Mick's bum running around in front of me."
Watt's skill and experience was invaluable. Together with Bill Wyman he provided a counterpoint to the guitars of Richards and Jones and the preening performance of Mick Jagger.
Early Stone's concerts often descended into mayhem as eager female fans climbed onto the stage to embrace their heroes. Watts often found himself trying to maintain a beat with a couple of girls hanging on to his arms
As well as his musical ability, his graphic design experience also proved useful. He came up with the sleeve for the 1967 album, Behind the Buttons, and helped create the stage sets which became an increasingly important feature of the band's tours.
Watts also came up with the idea of promoting their 1975 tour of the US by having the band play Brown Sugar on the back of a lorry as it drove down the street in Manhattan.
He had remembered New Orleans jazz bands using the same technique and it was later copied by other groups including AC/DC and U2.
His lifestyle while on the road was in direct contrast to that of other band members. He famously rejected the charms of the hordes of groupies that dogged the band on all their tours, remaining faithful to his wife Shirley, who he had married in 1964.
All-time low
However in the mid-1980s, during what he put down to a mid-life crisis, Watts went off the rails with drink and drugs, leading to heroin addiction.
"It got so bad," he later quipped, " that even Keith Richards, bless him, told me to get it together."
At the same time his wife was battling her own alcoholism. and his daughter, Seraphina, had became something of a "wild child" and was expelled from the prestigious Millfield public school for smoking cannabis.
Watts's relations with Mick Jagger, too, had reached an all-time low.
On one famous occasion, in an Amsterdam hotel in 1984, a drunken Mick Jagger reportedly woke Watts up by bellowing down the phone "Where's my drummer?"
Watts responded by going round to the singer's room, hitting him with a left hook, saying "Don't ever call me 'your drummer' again, you're my f***ing singer."
The crisis lasted two years and it was Shirley, above all, who helped him get through it.
High Flying Bird
Estimated to have been worth £80 million, as a result of the enduring popularity of the Stones, Charlie Watts lived with his wife on a farm in Devon where they bred Arabian horses.
He also became something of an expert on antique silver and collected everything from American Civil War memorabilia to old classic cars. The last was curious since he didn't drive.
Between his regular Stones tours, Charlie Watts indulged his love of jazz. Though he always enjoyed drumming with a rock band and loved his work with the Stones, jazz gave him, as he put it, "more freedom to move around".
Back in art college, he'd completed an illustrated biography of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, entitled Ode To A High Flying Bird.
In 1990, he used the book as the basis for a musical tribute to the man they called the Bird on an album by the Charlie Watts Quintet. It featured several of his jazz musician friends, including saxophonist Pete King.
Watts played and recorded with various incarnations of big bands. At one gig, at Ronnie Scott's, he had a 25-piece on stage including three drummers.
Always well turned out - he had featured in several lists of best dressed men - Watts kept his feet firmly on the ground throughout his career with one of the world's most enduring bands.
"It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll," he once said. "I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything."
Charlie Watts: Quiet man of the Rolling Stones - BBC News
Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones Drummer, Dies at 80
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Drummer Charlie Watts, whose adept, powerful skin work propelled the Rolling Stones for more than half a century, died in London on Tuesday morning, according to his spokesperson. No cause of death was cited; he was 80.
A statement from the band and Watts’ spokesperson reads: “It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of our beloved Charlie Watts. He passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier today surrounded by his family.
“Charlie was a cherished husband, father and grandfather and also a member of the Rolling Stones one of the greatest drummers of his generation.
“We kindly request that the privacy of his family, band members and close friends is respected at this difficult time.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kl6q_9qZOs
Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones Drummer, Dies at 80 - Variety
Sad but a good innings. Always made me smile in teh Top Gear interview with Ronnie Wood talking about cars. Ronnie said Charlie had loads of cars but never drove, he used to love dressing up appropriately for the car and just sitting in them and smelling the leather :) - money adds another dimension to eccentricity - RIP Charlie
For fuck sake.
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Not in his 80s but we had dusty hill less than a month ago.
Would make up your rule of 3 under different circumstances.
"charlie's good tonight..."
thx charlie
Pardon for the mildly off topic but this one I've never seen before.
The Rolling Stones Live, 21/09/1964, ABC Cinema, Hull (synced) - YouTube
Ed Asner, seven-time Emmy winner, TV's beloved Lou Grant and star of 'Up,' dies at 91
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Edward Asner, known to millions as gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, died Sunday at age 91.
His publicist, Charles Sherman, confirmed to USA TODAY that Asner died early Sunday morning at home, surrounded by his family.
"We are sorry to say that our beloved patriarch passed away this morning peacefully," read a tweet shared to Asner's official Twitter account. "Words cannot express the sadness we feel. With a kiss on your head - Goodnight dad. We love you."
Hard-drinking, tough-talking Grant, who originated on CBS' "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and grew to headline on drama spinoff "Lou Grant," made Asner a household name. But he was much more than one indelible character.
Asner, a U.S. Army veteran, took on a broad range of roles over an acting career that spanned seven decades, playing burly cops and 5 o'clock-shadowed heavies in pre-"Mary" '60s dramas while endearing himself to younger generations who wouldn't know Lou Grant from Ted Baxter in 2003's "Elf" and 2009's "Up."
His seven Emmys, five for playing Grant on "Mary" and "Lou Grant," are a record for a male actor, and Asner was the first actor to win Emmys for playing the same character on both a comedy and drama series. He won his other two Emmys for playing harsh, unlikable characters on two historic miniseries, "Roots" and "Rich Man, Poor Man."
But if Asner, who compiled more than 400 screen credits, were only remembered as Lou Grant, that would be plenty.
The WJM news director was an immediate breakout in the "Moore" pilot episode. After conducting a job interview that would have today's HR professionals assessing lawsuit damages, Lou smiles at polite but plucky applicant Mary Richards (Moore) and says, "You know what? You've got spunk!"
As Mary smiles back and starts an aw-shucks response, Lou, turning dark, cuts her off: "I hate spunk!"
It was jarring misdirection and a rebuke to predictable TV tropes of that era, as was so much of Moore's groundbreaking sitcom. Most of all, it was hilarious.
Speaking fondly of Moore following her death in 2017, Asner parted ways with his TV alter ego. "She had spunk," he told USA TODAY. Did he hate that? "No. Not when she has it."
When "Mary" premiered in 1970, Asner had no idea how it would be revered 50 years later. However, he quickly realized it was something special. "As we began to work on it and shape it and round it, it became quite revealing to us that we were doing the Lord’s work," he said.
Over the course of the series' seven-season run, Asner's Lou revealed different shadings: impatience, anger and even physical violence with Ted, and sweetness and friendship with Mary, although he had a sexist streak notable even for its time.
A married dad at the start of the series, Lou went through estrangement and eventual divorce, with Asner masterfully depicting the pathos and humor of a man sucker-punched in mid-life. His fear and loathing of sometimes paramour Sue Ann Nivens (Betty White, now the show's last surviving cast member) was a comic delight and a solid-gold talent pairing, while his friendship with Mary, despite one awkward and quickly dismissed date, showed real character development. Lou had many faults, but there was always the chance for learning and redemption.
As Asner mourned Moore's death in 2017, he thanked her, professionally and personally. She "never missed an (opportunity) to advance us. She took good care of us," he says. "I loved her. The world loved her – and it should have. She was an inspiration to women and she was a good example as a human being."
Moore indeed took care of Asner as MTM Enterprises, the production company she founded with then-husband Grant Tinker, transplanted Lou from Minneapolis TV news director in a half-hour CBS sitcom to Los Angeles newspaper editor in a one-hour drama.
Asner pulled off the impressive feat of avoiding typecasting with his signature role, toning down Lou's drinking and temper – no more physically throwing Ted out of the studio! – while turning up his sobriety, literally and figuratively, and dedication to shoe-leather journalism in the post-Watergate era. The new version of Lou earned him two Emmys.
Earlier, before "Mary" ended its seven-season run, Asner showed his dramatic chops as angry immigrant father Axel Jordache in 1976's "Rich Man, Poor Man," the first blockbuster miniseries, and then as slave ship captain Thomas Davies in 1977's "Roots," a hugely popular ABC miniseries and cultural landmark that broke new ground in TV’s (and the country’s) conversation about race.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/08/29/emmy-winner-ed-asner-dies-lou-grant-elf-up/4138015001/
Lee "Scratch" Perry, 85. Decent innings.
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, visionary master of reggae, dies aged 85 | Lee 'Scratch' Perry | The Guardian
Looked back and could not see a post on this, but Muriel passed away early August.....
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Actress Thea White, best known as the voice of Muriel in the cartoon series "Courage the Cowardly Dog," died on Friday at the age of 81.
Thea White, voice of Muriel in 'Courage the Cowardly Dog,' dead at 81 - CNN
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Celebrated Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis has died aged 96.
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His death at his home in Athens was announced by state TV in Greece, and came after a number of hospital admissions for a heart problem.
Theodorakis had a wide and varied career, but is perhaps best known as composer of the film Zorba The Greek, with the main track famous for its frantic increase in speed.
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Mikis Theodorakis: Zorba The Greek composer and political activist dies at 96 | Ents & Arts News | Sky News
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So, done by "a friend"...
Yep ! Known him since the 60's back in 'Blighty'. Excellent artist.
No! Not Omar! He was my favorite Wire character.
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“The Wire’’ actor Michael K. Williams was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment Monday afternoon, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
Drug paraphernalia was found in the apartment, suggesting a possible overdose, sources said.
Williams, 54, was found dead in the living room of his Kent Avenue penthouse by his nephew, sources said.
The Flatbush native was famous for his role as Omar Little in the gritty TV series “The Wire’’ and as Chalky White in “Boardwalk Empire.’’
Actor Michael K. Williams found dead in NYC apartment
French film great Jean-Paul Belmondo dies at 88
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Jean-Paul Belmondo's battered face, laconic style and roguish smile captured the imagination of French 1960s youth.
Belmondo, who has died at his Paris home aged 88, was the cool rebel of the new wave of French cinema typified in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film classic, A Bout de Souffle.
His moody performance as a doomed thief and Humphrey Bogart fan struck a chord and saw him dubbed the Gallic James Dean.
Later, he forsook arts cinema to become a highly bankable commercial actor, as at home in comedy as in drama.
Jean-Paul Belmondo was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris on 9 Apr 1933, the son of Paul Belmondo, a sculptor whose statues grace many a Parisian park.
The intensely Bohemian atmosphere of his upbringing had a formative effect on him.
He failed at school and became an amateur boxer. In his short-lived career, he won 15 of his 23 bouts before giving up to concentrate on acting.
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A Bout de Souffle was his first starring role
His trademark bumpy nose, however, was a result of a fight in the school playground rather than the ring.
After performing on stage in provincial theatres, his movie break came with the role of Laszlo in Marcel Carné's 1958 film Les Tricheurs.
On the strength of his forceful portrayal, he was given his first starring role in A Bout de Souffle.
One critic described him as "a bewitchingly ugly man."
His cult image carried him through several action films such as Les Distractions and La Novice.
Flying grandpa
Determined not to be stereotyped, Belmondo also accepted more demanding roles such as the idealistic intellectual of Vittorio de Sica's La Cioclara in 1961, and as the young country priest in Philippe de Broca's swashbuckling Cartouche the following year.
He also enjoyed comic roles, in Godard's Une Femme est une Femme, and, particularly, in De Broca's L'Homme de Rio, in which he played a suave, unflappable secret agent.
By the mid-60s, he had switched completely to the commercial mainstream and formed his own production company, Cerito.
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He relished his role as an elder statesman of French cinema
He even performed his own stunts in such films as Les Tribulations d'Un Chinois en Chine in 1965, though he gave this practice up after an accident in the 1985 film Hold-up.
He brightened many an all-star cast in international productions such as Is Paris Burning? (1966), the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967) and with Alain Delon in the gangster movie Borsalino (1970),
He moved away from action movies claiming that "I don't want to be a flying grandpa of the French cinema."
In 1987 Belmondo returned to the stage for the first time for nearly 30 years and divided his work between theatre and film for the rest of his career.
Two years later he won a Cesar, the French equivalent of an Oscar, for his performance in Itineraire d'un Enfant Gate.
He branched out creatively as part of the ensemble in Varda's homage to international cinema Les Cent et une Nuits de Samon Cinema in 1995 and as the Jean Valjean figure in Claude Lelouche's re-working of Les Miserables in the same year.
Jean-Paul Belmondo was divorced from his first wife Elodie in 1965. His second marriage to Constantin also failed. He later had long relationships with actresses Ursula Andress and Laura Antonelli.
Cinema audiences at home and abroad were drawn to his charm and seeming disregard for whatever absurdities were taking place on screen. He was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history.
French film great Jean-Paul Belmondo dies at 88 - BBC News