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Where did that damn sharereef go?
Veteran West Indies cricket commentator Tony Cozier dies, aged 75
Veteran West Indies cricket commentator Tony Cozier dies, aged 75
Veteran cricket commentator and journalist Tony Cozier has died aged 75 following a short illness.
Born in Bridgetown in 1940, he was the voice of West Indies cricket for more than 50 years and appeared on TV and radio around the world in addition to writing in several international newspapers and magazines and was regarded as one the most respected figures in the game.
He began his career on Australia's 1965 tour of the Caribbean and was awarded life membership of the MCC for services to the sport in 2011.
Cozier died at his home in Barbados having been admitted to hospital earlier this month for tests related to infections in his neck and legs.
"Tony was the master of going between TV and radio ball-by-ball commentary. He was the master of both," wrote BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew in a tribute on the British website.
"He's easily the best I've come across in 25 years at being able to do both disciplines."
"Throughout his career Cozier had to tread the tense tightrope of Caribbean politics, where even the slightest negative observation of a player's performance can provoke a furious nationalistic backlash.
"He withstood this stoically and determinedly, remaining a strong critic of the West Indies Cricket Board's lack of organisation and outlook.
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^RIP Sporting Heroes thread is probably better for that.
This thread is solely for annoying Cujo.
:)
Madeleine Lebeau dead: Last surviving Casablanca cast member dies aged 92
Lebeau is best known for her emotionally charged final scene where she shouts 'Viva la France!'
Maya Oppenheim @mayaoppenheim 38 minutes ago
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Madeleine Lebeau, the last surviving cast member of 1942 film Casablanca, has died at the age of 92.
Her stepson, filmmaker Carlo Alberto Pinelli, told The Hollywood Reporter she died on May 1 in Spain after breaking her thigh bone.
Lebeu is best known for her role as Yvonne, the jilted mistress of Humphrey Bogart’s Rick Blaine, in the 40s Oscar-winning Warner Bro’s classic Casablanca.
Born in 1923, she fled Nazi-occupied France for Hollywood with her then husband and esteemed actor Marcel Dalio, in 1940. Once in Hollywood, the pair both appeared in Casablanca, with Dalio playing the croupier Emil.
Lebeau is best known for the teary-eared scene where she passionately shouts “Viva la France!” in her final line of the film. Many of the film's cast were refugees from Nazi terror and drew on real emotion and life experience.
She played in two further US films before returning to France after the war. There she appeared in 20 more films, going on to play a temperamental French actress in filmmaker Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning 8 1/2 (1963), which her second husband co-wrote.
Her film career ended by the late 1960s and she remained in Rome after making 8 1/2. In 1988, she married Oscar-nominated Italian screenwriter Tullio Pinelli whom died in 2009.
Lebeau lived in Estepona in Spain at the time of her death.
Madeleine Lebeau dead: Last surviving Casablanca cast member dies aged 92 | People | News | The Independent
David Attenborough is 90 and still going strong, as indicated by his exclusive interview on BBC Earth with President Obama.
Don't jinx the old fellow...
I was sizing up the thread for inappropriate comments.
'60 Minutes' Morley Safer dead at 84, a week after retiring
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Morley Safer, the globe-trotting CBS correspondent who had filed more than 900 reports for the network's TV news magazine 60 Minutes, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan, CBS Corp. confirmed. He was 84.
The network didn't immediately release a cause of death, but said "Safer was in declining health."
The Toronto native was the longest-serving correspondent of the venerable news program, having joined in 1970 and becoming part a formidable team -- with Mike Wallace, Harry Reasoner, Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and Andy Rooney -- that uncovered corruption, confronted public and corporate officials, and set the standard for broadcast magazine journalism.
"He was one of the linchpins for so many years on 60 Minutes," says CBS Chairman-CEO Leslie Moonves. "He was sort of the gentle giant of the group. There was something insightful and humane about him. He was a great journalist; he had all the street cred in the world, but he liked the human interest story."
Safer filed his last 60 Minutes report, a profile of Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, in March. With his health deteriorating quickly, CBS announced his retirement May 11 and ran an hour-long program celebrating Safer's career — “Morley Safer: A Reporter’s Life” — after Sunday’s regular edition of 60 Minutes.
Like many broadcasters of his generation, Safer began his career as a print journalist, working for newspapers and wire services in Canada and England before joining Canadian Broadcasting Corp. At Canada's largest broadcasting entity, he toured Europe, North Africa and the Middle East on assignments, including the war for Algerian independence. He was the only Western correspondent in East Berlin the night the Communists began building the Berlin Wall in August 1961, according to his bio on CBS' website.
After joining CBS News in 1964, his experience in reporting from war zones served him and the network well. He opened a Saigon bureau in 1965 for CBS as the Vietnam War raged on. In 1967, he returned to London as CBS News’ bureau chief there, but continued to visit Vietnam to cover the war. He often went beyond press briefings to join the soldiers in war zones to file on-the-scene reports.
His piece showing U.S. Marines burning villagers' huts in Cam Ne in 1965 earned Safer a George Polk award, and the work was cited by New York University as one of the 20th century’s best pieces of American journalism. It "angered President Lyndon Johnson so much, he reportedly called CBS President Frank Stanton and said, 'Your boys shat on the American flag yesterday,'” CBS said. Safer wrote about his experience in Vietnam in a book released in 1990, Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam.
He received numerous other awards for his work, including 12 Emmys, three Overseas Press Club Awards, three Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, another George Polk Memorial Award and the Paul White Award from the Radio/Television News Directors Association.
"If you look at his body of work, there isn’t anything like it in the history of journalism. He covered everything imaginable," Fager said.
more '60 Minutes' Morley Safer dead at 84, a week after retiring
^ Morley was cool...Goodbye and RIP...
Indeed. RIP. Bummer to go within days of retiring.
RIP, Morley.
Beastie boy John Barry dead at 52.
1960s ‘Mister Ed’ sitcom star Alan Young dies at 96
AP
MAY 21, 2016
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LOS ANGELES – Actor and comedian Alan Young, who played the amiable straight man to a talking horse in the 1960s sitcom “Mister Ed,” has died at age 96, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture and Television Home said Friday.
The English-born, Canadian-educated Young died Thursday, according to Jaime Larkin, spokeswoman for the retirement community where Young had lived for four years. His children were with him when he died peacefully of natural causes, she said.
Young was already a well-known radio and TV comedian, having starred in his own Emmy-winning variety show, when “Mister Ed” was being readied at comedian George Burns’ production company. Burns is said to have told his staff: “Get Alan Young. He looks like the kind of guy a horse would talk to.”
Mr. Ed was a golden Palomino who spoke only to his owner, Wilbur Post, who was played by Young. Fans enjoyed the horse’s deep, droll voice (“WIL-bur-r-r-r-r”) and the goofy theme song lyrics (“A horse is a horse, of course, of course”). Cowboy star Allan “Rocky” Lane supplied Mr. Ed’s voice.
An eclectic group of celebrities, including Clint Eastwood, Mae West and baseball great Sandy Koufax, made guest appearances on the show.
“Mister Ed” was one of a number of situation comedies during the early to mid-1960s that added elements of fantasy. Others were “My Mother the Car,” in which a man’s dead mother spoke to him through an old car; “My Favorite Martian,” in which a Martian took up residence on Earth disguised as the uncle of an earthling; and “Bewitched,” in which a witch married a mortal.
A loose variation on the “Francis the Talking Mule” movies of the 1950s, “Mister Ed” was one of the few network series to begin in syndication. After six months, it moved to ABC in October 1961 and lasted four seasons.
When the cameras weren’t rolling, the human and four-legged co-stars were friends, according to Young. If Ed was reprimanded by his trainer, Young said, “He would come over to me, like, ‘Look what he said to me.'”
Like many series of its vintage, “Mister Ed” won new fans in later decades through near-constant cable TV syndication and video releases.
Young also appeared in a number of films, including “Gentlemen Marry Brunettes,” “Tom Thumb,” “The Cat from Outer Space” and “The Time Machine” — a 1960 classic in which, speaking in a Scottish brogue, he played time traveler Rod Taylor’s friend. Young had a small role in the 2002 “Time Machine” remake.
In later years, Young found a new career writing for and voicing cartoons. He portrayed Scrooge McDuck in 65 episodes for Disney’s TV series “Duck Tales” and did voice-overs for “The Great Mouse Detective.”
Young’s sly, low-key style first attracted a wide U.S. audience in 1944 with “The Alan Young Show” on ABC radio. He also drew attention from Hollywood, but early films such as “Margie” and “Mr. Belvedere Goes to College” did poorly. In 1950 he turned to the growing new medium of TV and moved “The Alan Young Show” to the small screen, where it offered a contrast to the slapstick and old vaudeville of other variety shows.
His gentle comedy caused TV Guide to hail him as “the Charlie Chaplin of television,” and the fledgling Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded Emmys to Young as best actor and to the show as best variety series.
Howard Hughes, who had seen Young on TV, hired him for the lead in a film version of “Androcles and the Lion,” a comedy based on the George Bernard Shaw play. When it opened in theaters, however, nobody laughed, so Hughes withdrew the movie and shot two weeks of new sequences.
“He put in girls with gauze and a real lion, and it became a blood-and-guts film,” Young recalled in 1987.
Angus Young was born on Nov. 19, 1919, of Scottish parents in the north England town of North Shields.
The family moved to Canada when he was a child, and he began entertaining in Vancouver when he was 13. He had his own radio program, “Stag Party,” on the CBC network by the time he graduated from high school. After two years in the Canadian Navy, he moved to New York City.
Young was a Christian Scientist from his teen years. In the early 1970s, he left his career to work for the church in Boston. He spent three years establishing a film and broadcasting center, then toured the country for two years as a Christian Science lecturer. Disillusioned by the church bureaucracy, he returned to Hollywood in 1976.
In 1940, Young married Mary Anne Grime. They had a daughter, Alana, and a son, Alan Jr. The marriage ended in 1947.
In 1948 he married singer Virginia McCurdy. They had a son, Cameron Angus, and a daughter, Wendy.
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96 is a pretty good innings. RIP, Wilburrrr
Do mer Megadeath drummer, Menza dies onstage with his band, Ohm at the Baked Potato in studio city
Er ^ if your going to report peoples deaths its best to get the facts right
Megadeath was his former group he played with , on this occasion he was performing with his current band OHM and he collapsed on stage but died on route to hospital in the ambulance 25 mins later
Burt Kwouk Dies: Actor Played Cato In Seven ‘Pink Panther’ Movies
by Ali Jaafar
May 24, 2016 8:42am
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Burt Kwouk, the veteran actor most closely associated with the role of the long-suffering Cato in The Pink Panther series opposite Peter Sellers, has died at age 85. A statement released by the actor’s family confirmed Kwouk passed away peacefully May 24. Kwouk was born in Warrington in the UK but lived in Shanghai until he was 17. His long career took in seven Pink Panther films, three James Bonds as well as appearances in Doctor Who and The Avengers.
Kwouk’s big break came in 1964 when he was cast as Inspector Clouseau’s manservant Cato in A Shot In The Dark, the second in the Pink Panther series that followed the mishaps of Sellers’ bumbling French police officer. The relationship between Clouseau and Cato — something of a hate-hate dynamic with a healthy sprinkling of kung fu designed to keep the police officer vigilant — soon became a staple of the franchise and popular with audiences. Kwouk continued in the role following Sellers’ death in 1980.
Kwouk played a number of different characters in a trio of Bond films: Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice and the 1968 spoof Casino Royale, appearing — somewhat uniquely — opposite Sean Connery, Roger Moore and David Niven as the iconic Brit superspy.
In later life, Kwouk became a regular on British TV, appearing on The Saint, The Kenny Everett Television Show and Last Of The Summer Wine. He also became the face of UK broadcaster Channel 4’s hyperactive gaming show Banzai!
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Burt Kwouk Dies: Actor Played Cato In Seven ?Pink Panther? Movies | Deadline
^ Funny as fook...Goodbye Cato...
Fuk....my life is flashing before my eyes.
Goodbye Cato, and thanks heaps for all the laughs.
Here's almost 10 minutes of mayhem. Unfortunately it's in Italian, but really....the action is what it's all about.
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That means I lost two friends today.
Thanks for the laughs Cato.
Not now Kato??
RIP. Thanks for the laughs, Burt.
Never liked Peter Sellers,never saw a Pink Panther movie.
^The original Pink Panther was good. Sequels not so much.
And don't even think of watching the remake with Steve Martin.