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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    An amiable buffoon, but didn't really understand much outside his chosen field.
    Hazza once again proves himself a twat, comes easily it seems.

    The point of Belamy was his inspiration to kids in the botany field and he made the subject interesting and accessable. He got jumped on for his climate change comment in the eatly 2000s and the wankers in the Brussels Broadcasting Corp threw him out thus depriving a few generations of his presence.

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    Didn't realise Kirk Douglas is still around, buried all of his generation, 103 not out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jabir View Post
    Didn't realise Kirk Douglas is still around, buried all of his generation, 103 not out.
    If you read his autobiography he comes across as a really spiteful, self-centred bastard.

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    actor danny aiello died yesterday.

    had a long career playing a wide variety of roles....but he'll always be "sal" as far as i'm concerned....



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    Actor Danny Aiello, Star Of ‘Moonstruck’ And ‘Do The Right Thing,’ Dies At 86

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    Danny Aiello, best known for his role in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing, has passed away at the age of 86. Born on June 20, 1933, to Frances and Daniel Louis Aiello in Manhattan, Aiello enlisted in the army and worked as a night club bouncer before starting a career in show business. Aiello received a stepping stone into the entertainment industry when he was cast as a baseball player in the 1973 film Bang the Drum Slowly opposite Robert DeNiro.

    Before transitioning into a prolific acting career, Aiello wed Sandy Cohen in 1955 and worked at the Greyhound Bus Terminal in Manhattan to support their four children. Sadly, his son Danny passed away in 2010. Revered for utilizing his real-life experiences to perfect his craft in place of studying acting, Aiello frequently displayed his raw talent in skits and off-broadway plays. Aiello made cinema history when he was cast as Tony Rosato in The Godfather: Part II and improvised the famous line, “Michael Corleone says hello!” Aiello’s career was put on the map when Lee cast him as pizzeria owner Salvatore “Sal” Fragione in Do The Right Thing.

    Starring
    Paul Benjamin, Samuel L. Jackson, and Giancarlo Esposito, Do the Right Thing garnered critical praise for the film’s powerful writing and exploration of racial tensions. Hailed as the scene-stealer of the film, Aiello received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Sal.

    Toting an impressive list of more than 100 appearances in film and television, Aiello’s formidable career included memorable performances in Moonstruck,
    Jacob’s Ladder, The Last Don, and more. Aiello left a permanent mark on show business, not only with his performances, but with his reputation for being a hard-working, talented, and generous actor. Undoubtedly, Danny Aiello will be greatly missed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by raycarey View Post
    actor danny aiello died yesterday.

    had a long career playing a wide variety of roles....but he'll always be "sal" as far as i'm concerned....
    One of my favourites....

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    Great actor. RIP Danny.

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    Tony Brooker, pioneer of computer programming, dies at 94


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    Tony Brooker, the mathematician and computer scientist who designed the programming language for the world’s first commercial computer, died Nov. 20 at a nursing home in Hexham, England. He was 94.

    His death was confirmed by his son Stephen.

    Mr. Brooker had been immersed in early computer research at the University of Cambridge when one day, on his way home from a mountain-climbing trip in North Wales, he stopped at the University of Manchester to tour its computer lab, which was among the first of its kind. Dropping in unannounced, he introduced himself to Alan Turing, a founding father of the computer age, who at the time was the lab’s deputy director.


    When Mr. Brooker described his own research at the University of Cambridge, he later recalled, Mr. Turing said, “Well, we can always employ someone like you.” Soon they were colleagues.


    Mr. Brooker joined the Manchester lab in October, 1951, just after it installed a new machine called the Ferranti Mark 1. His job, he told the British Library in an interview in 2010, was to make the Mark 1 “usable.”


    Mr. Turing had written a user’s manual, but it was far from intuitive. To program the machine, engineers had to write in binary code – patterns made up of 0s and 1s – and they had to write them backward, from right to left, because this was the way the hardware read them.

    It was “extremely neat and very clever but pretty meaningless and very unfriendly,” Mr. Brooker said.

    In the months that followed, Mr. Brooker wrote a language he called Autocode, based on ordinary numbers and letters. It allowed anyone to program the machine – not just the limited group of trained engineers who understood the hardware.


    This marked the beginning of what were later called “high-level” programming languages – languages that provide increasingly simple and intuitive ways of giving commands to computers, from the IBM mainframes of the 1960s to the PCs of the 1980s to the iPhones of today.


    “Tony Brooker stared at a bunch of metal and some wires and gave people a way of getting this to actually do something for them,” Tim Bergin, a professor emeritus at American University who specializes in the history of programming languages, said in a phone interview. “He realized that we don’t have to write code in 0s and 1s. We can use symbols and create whole languages for using computers.”


    As the decades passed, this idea helped expand what computers were capable of. Without high-level languages there would be no App Store and no World Wide Web.

    Ralph Anthony Brooker was born Sept, 22, 1925, in southwest London, the youngest son of Edwin Brooker, a civil servant, and Dorothy (Owen) Brooker, a homemaker. His grandfather Harry Brooker was a painter whose work was once exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.


    At the beginning of the Second World War, Tony was evacuated to Petersfield, a town halfway between London and the southern coast, but he returned to London just as the air raids began. (His grandfather died in a raid in 1940.)


    In 1943, he won a scholarship to study mathematics at Imperial College London. His studies were accelerated because of the war, and he finished his degree in two years. He also served as a “firewatcher,” spending his nights on the roof of the university’s administration building spotting fires sparked by air raids.


    After the war, he began working at the college and switched his focus to chemistry research. But he soon returned to the mathematics department, where he and two colleagues started experimenting with early computer technology and built a machine they called the Imperial College Computing Engine – “Icky” for short. In 1949, he moved to the University of Cambridge, where he first explored ways of making computers less difficult to use.


    “It was a universal problem,” he said. “The early computers were hamstrung.”


    In 1954, three years after moving to Manchester, the lab publicly released his Autocode language. It is believed to be the first commercially available high-level language.

    Six years later, while working on a new machine called Atlas, Mr. Brooker realized another concept that would become seminal in the long history of computer programming. He built a “compiler-compiler” – a programming language for building other programming languages. Before this, engineers and mathematicians could not build a new language without feeding 1s and 0s into the machine.

    In the mid-1960s, Mr. Brooker helped design Britain’s first computer science degree program, at the University of Manchester. In 1967, he built a similar degree program as the founding chairman of computer science at the University of Essex, where he worked until he retired in 1988.


    In addition to his son Stephen, Mr. Brooker leaves two other sons, Timothy and Richard, and seven grandchildren.


    After Mr. Brooker designed Autocode, Ferranti, the company behind the Mark 1, started a team that wrote test programs using the new language. One programmer was Vera Hewison, whom he married in 1957. (She died in 2018.) Another was Mary Lee Woods, whose son, Tim Berners-Lee, would go on to invent the World Wide Web.

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    Kenny Lynch, British singer and entertainer, dies at 81



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    Tributes have been paid to Kenny Lynch, the British singer and entertainer, who has died at the age of 81.

    Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker remembered him as "a delightful, funny, talented man", while Boy George said he had been a "huge part of my 70s life".

    Lynch had two Top 10 hits in the 1960s, toured with the Beatles, wrote songs for the Small Faces and appeared on Celebrity Squares and other TV shows.


    According to his family, Lynch died in the early hours of Wednesday morning.


    His songs Up on the Roof and You Can Never Stop Me Loving You reached number 10 in 1962 and 1963 respectively.


    Born in east London in 1938, Lynch was one of the few black British pop singers to find fame in the early 1960s.

    Lynch was the first artist to cover a Beatles song when he released a version of Lennon and McCartney composition Misery in 1963.


    A decade later, he was one of the celebrities to appear with Paul and Linda McCartney on the sleeve of the Wings album Band on the Run.

    Lynch, whose film work included appearances in The Plank and Carry On Loving, was awarded an OBE in 1970 for services to entertainment.

    Broadcaster Danny Baker
    described him on Twitter as "one of the key witnesses to the 20th [Century] UK music [and] entertainment scene".


    "Everything is funny to me, everything's musical to me, everything is readable to me," said Lynch, who had previously been diagnosed with prostate cancer.


    "That's how I go through life and how I shall go for the next few weeks I've got left," he said in a recent interview
    for the 1000 Londoners project.


    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50836579

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    If you read his autobiography he comes across as a really spiteful, self-centred bastard.
    Yeah. I quite enjoyed that one.

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    Col Prapat Chan-o-cha, the father of Prime Minister Prayut, has died at Siriraj Hospital. He was 96.

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    The Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said al Said, has died, state media says

    The 79-year-old was the longest serving leader in the Middle East, having ruled the country since 1970.


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    The Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said al Said, has died aged 79, according to the country's state media.

    The sultan died on Friday evening after "a wise and triumphant march rich with generosity that embraced Oman and extended to the Arab, Muslim and entire world and achieved a balanced policy that the whole world respected", the state-run Oman News Agency said.


    His cause of death was not disclosed.

    There had been concerns over his health in recent weeks and he had reportedly been in Belgium for treatment, but travelled back to Oman shortly before the new year.


    Oman, on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula and a key Western ally, has announced a three-day period of national mourning.


    Sultan Qaboos was the longest serving leader in the Middle East, having ruled the country since 1970 after taking over the leadership from his father in a peaceful coup.

    Born in Oman in 1940, he travelled to the UK in 1958 to attend Sandhurst and joined the British Army where he was posted to the 1st Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and served in Germany for a year.

    He returned to Oman in 1966 and was placed under virtual house arrest by his ruling father, to separate him from government affairs.

    Growing tired of his father's leadership and with a desire for change, he launched a coup against him in 1970, backed by the UK and was thought to be planned by British security forces and prime minister Harold Wilson.

    The sultan's leadership is credited with drastically improving living standards in Oman by reforming a nation that was home to only three schools and harsh laws banning electricity, radios, eyeglasses and even umbrellas when he took power.

    He used oil revenues during his reign to build schools, roads and hospitals, as well as encouraging the development of private enterprises.


    He also outlawed slavery in the same year he came to power - once an important part of the Omani economy.
    But unemployment, which sparked demonstrations in 2011, remains high and the state has increasingly relied on external borrowing as oil prices have fallen.

    Sultan Qaboos had no children, and had not publicly appointed a successor. However, he will have secretly recorded his choice in a sealed letter should the royal family disagree on the succession line.


    The royal family will now have three days to appoint a successor, according to a statute from 1996.


    If they family fail to do so, a council of military and security officials, supreme court chiefs and heads of two assemblies will put in power the person appointed by the sultan in his letter.


    Analysts worry about royal family discord and a resurgence of tribal rivalries and political instability, now a new ruler has to be chosen.

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    Neil Peart death: Rush drummer and lyricist dies aged 67

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    Neil Peart
    , drummer and lyricist for prog-rock band Rush, has died aged 67.

    According to reports, Peart died on 7 January in Santa Monica, California, three years after being diagnosed with brain cancer. Elliot Mintz, a spokesperson for the Peart family, confirmed the news to Rolling Stone.

    Peart, who retired from Rush and professional drumming in 2015, was considered as one of the greatest rock drummers of all time, known for his virtuosic playing and lyrics that drew on science fiction books and the works of Ayn Rand.


    According to the Detroit Free Press, he dominated the annual “best-of” polls in Modern Drummer so often during the Eighties that he was eventually removed and placed on a special honour roll, instead.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/neil-peart-death-rush-drummer-age-cause-brain-cancer-lyrics-a9279166.html


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    Sad, still quite young - what a drummer, one of the very best.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot View Post
    Sad, still quite young - what a drummer, one of the very best.

    If not consider the best and most innovative.
    ....and long time principle lyricist.

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    Boom Boom!

    'Yes Minister' and 'Heartbeat' star Derek Fowlds dies at 82





    The actor died at Royal United Hospitals Bath in the early hours of Friday morning, surrounded by his family.
    He had been suffering from pneumonia that led to heart failure caused by sepsis.

    Fowlds’s first professional acting job was appearing in weekly rep at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Colwyn Bay in 1958, while on summer holiday from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

    He later became well-known to children as Mr Derek on The Basil Brush Show.

    Fowlds’s first professional acting job was appearing in weekly rep at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Colwyn Bay in 1958, while on summer holiday from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

    He later became well-known to children as Mr Derek on The Basil Brush Show.

    Other TV credits included Firm Friends and Affairs Of The Heart, but he was best known for playing Private Secretary Bernard Woolley in Yes Minister, which he starred in opposite Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Paul Eddington from 1980 to 1984.

    In 1986, Fowlds reprised the role in the sequel Yes, Prime Minister, which ran until 1988.


    The actor also starred as Oscar Blaketon in the long-running police drama Heartbeat, appearing in all 18 series.

    Fowlds was married twice – to Wendy Tory and Blue Peter presenter Lesley Judd - and has two sons, Jamie and Jeremy.

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    Terry Jones: Monty Python star dies aged 77


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    Monty Python star Terry Jones has died at the age of 77, after having lived with dementia, his agent has said.
    A statement from his family said: "We have all lost a kind, funny, warm, creative and truly loving man."
    Fellow Python Sir Michael Palin described Jones as "one of the funniest writer-performers of his generation".
    John Cleese said: "It feels strange that a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm, should have faded so gently away..."
    He added: "Of his many achievements, for me the greatest gift he gave us all was his direction of Life of Brian. Perfection."

    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51209197


    Obituary here:

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    Nicholas Parsons: 'Broadcasting legend' dies aged 96 after short illness

    Broadcaster Nicholas Parsons has died at the age of 96 after a short illness, his agent has confirmed.

    Parsons had hosted Radio 4's Just A Minute since its inception in 1967.

    "Nicholas passed away in the early hours of the 28th of January," said a statement issued by his agent Jean Diamond.

    "He was with his beloved family who will miss him enormously and who wish to thank the wonderful staff at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital."

    BBC Radio 4's Just A Minute is a long-running and popular panel game where guests are asked to speak for a full minute on a single subject without hesitation, deviation or repetition.

    Parsons also appeared on the Benny Hill Show for several years after joining in 1969 and also fronted ITV game show Sale of the Century.

    His other TV appearances include The Comic Strip Presents and Have I Got News For You.

    Nicholas Parsons: 'Broadcasting legend' dies aged 96 after short illness - BBC News



    It's very rare the passing of a 'celebrity' has any effect on me. In recent memory it has only been the passing of Lou Reed, David Bowie and now Nicholas Parsons that made me stop and think. I listen to 'Just a Minute' most weeks on BBC Sounds while driving in Korat's awful rush hour traffic, bringing back memories of my mum listening to it in the kitchen at weekends while preparing meals when I was a kid... and now I'm 52!

    And who doesn't remember 'The Sale of The Century' in the 70s?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    And who doesn't remember 'The Sale of The Century' in the 70s?
    I remember it because it had the same theme music as many episodes of "Swedish Erotica".



    Also one of those "Pointless" answers: He appeared in "Carry On Regardless" and "Doctor in Love".

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    Actor Kirk Douglas dies at age 103
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    Actor Kirk Douglas, a fixture of cinema for six decades, has died aged 103.
    The stage and screen actor was well-known for a range of roles, including the 1960 classic Spartacus, in which he played the titular character.
    Born in New York in 1916, he rose to prominence during Hollywood's "golden age", earning his first Oscar nomination for the 1949 boxing story Champion.
    He was also the father of Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas.
    Kirk Douglas was prolific as a film actor, with more than 90 credits to his name - ranging over six decades from the 1940s to the 2000s.
    He is perhaps best-known as Spartacus, a Stanley Kubrick film which won four Oscars and was so popular that its iconic "I am Spartacus" scene entered the pop culture lexicon.
    Douglas was himself nominated for an Oscar three times - for Champion (1949), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and Lust for Life (1956). He eventually won the honorary award in 1996 in recognition of his 50 years in the industry.

    Kirk Douglas was born Issur Danielovich Demsky to penniless Jewish immigrants in the city of Amsterdam, New York state, in 1916. His father had fled Russia to escape conscription into the Tsar's army.
    One of seven children, he sold snacks to local mill workers to earn enough money to buy food and in his autobiography claims to have had more than 40 jobs.
    It was when he began acting in school plays that he decided a theatrical career was for him. "The one thing in my life that I always knew, that was always constant, was that I wanted to be an actor."
    Already an inter-collegiate wrestling champion, he paid his way through drama college by fighting professionally, ushering and working as a car park attendant and bellhop.
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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    I remember it because it had the same theme music as many episodes of "Swedish Erotica".

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    Robert Conrad, Star of TV’s ‘Wild Wild West,’ Dies at 84

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    Robert Conrad, who was the star of the 1960s TV series “Wild Wild West,” has died at the age of 84.

    “He lived a wonderfully long life and while the family is saddened by his passing, he will live forever in their hearts,” family spokesman Jeff Ballard
    told People. He died from heart failure in Malibu, California.

    Conrad was born in Chicago, Illinois, and worked as a milkman while pursuing a career as a lounge singer. He moved to Los Angeles in 1958 and began acting, signing to Warner Brothers Pictures and starring in the hit TV series “Hawaii Eye” in 1959.

    He would go on to star in numerous TV shows and made-for-TV movies throughout the ’60s, ’70s and well into the late 1990s, including the “Mission: Impossible” TV series.

    Conrad later starred in the World War II NBC action series “Black Sheep Squadron” as real-life Major Greg “Pappy” Boyington, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won the People’s Choice Award. He also appeared on the big screen in films such as “The Lady in Red” and “Jingle All the Way.”

    “Wild Wild West” was reimagined for the 1999 movie starring Will Smith, who passed up the chance to star in “The Matrix” in order to portray Conrad’s Jim West.

    A recipient of the Distinguished Service Award in Broadcasting and an inductee of the Stuntman’s Hall of Fame, Conrad was a longtime supporter of amateur boxing, the Wounded Warriors Project, Paralyzed Veterans of America, the United States Marine Corps, and the Jimmie Heuga Endowment, which provides support to those affected with multiple sclerosis.

    Conrad is survived by his eight children and 18 grandchildren. A small private service is pending for March 1, which would have been Conrad’s 85th birthday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Nicholas Parsons: 'Broadcasting legend' dies aged 96 after short illness
    Not Nicholas Parsons!
    I went to raves years ago.
    There was a record known as Nicholas Parsons.
    Some may remember NP as the host of Just A Minute or for Sale Of The Century.
    But for some, his name will be remembered for being shouted out by large groups of partying people during this song.

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