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    A much simpler time.



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    Quote Originally Posted by deeks View Post
    Rothchild's?
    No, I don't think he produced them. Perhaps you're a fucking moron.

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    End of Empire.


    Last heir to Ottoman throne passes away at 90

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    Dündar Abdülkerim Osmanoğlu, the last heir to the throne of the now-defunct Ottoman Empire, passed away late Monday at the age of 90, the family said in a statement.

    “Father of our family and the Ottoman dynasty, our uncle Prince Dündar Abdülkerim Osmanoğlu passed away in Syria’s Damascus,” Orhan Osmanoğlu, a member of the family said in a tweet. “May his soul rest in peace,” he added.

    Osmanoğlu, was living alone in Damascus where he was born after his parents were expelled from Turkey upon the abolition of the caliphate in 1924. His wife Yüsra Osmanoğlu had died in 2017. The descendants of the Ottoman dynasty living in Turkey long sought to bring the fragile dynasty member from Syria, which cut off ties with Turkey amid the ongoing war. Osmanoğlu is the grandson of Prince Mehmet Selim Efendi, son of Abdülhamid II, the legendary Ottoman sultan credited with prolonging the survival of the Ottoman Empire, which was well past its glory days in the last years of the 19th century. As the oldest member, he was the head of the family of sultans' grandchildren since the 2017 death of Osman Bayezid Osmanoğlu, the son of Ibrahim Tevfik, who was the grandson of Sultan Abdülmecid I.


    The Ottoman dynasty's descendants were forced to scatter around the world after the collapse of the empire and they were sent into exile starting from 1924.


    In 1952, female members of the dynasty were granted amnesty and the men were allowed to return to Turkey in 1974. Yet, few returned to Turkey as most of them had already built new lives after living abroad for decades.

    Osmanoğlu's father, Mehmed Abdülkerim Efendi, had settled in Beirut, Lebanon, during the exile of the dynasty's members, before he moved to Damascus where he died in 1935, survived by his two children and wife. Dündar Abdülkerim Osmanoğlu's brother Harun returned to Turkey in 1974 and resided in Istanbul. Eighty-eight-year-old Harun Osmanoğlu will now be the new head of the Ottoman family.
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    No, I don't think he produced them. Perhaps you're a fucking moron.
    Banking heir Benjamin de Rothschild dies at 57

    NEW YORK (AP) — Benjamin de Rothschild, who oversaw the banking empire started by his father in 1953, has died. He was 57.

    The Edmond de Rothschild Group, the company he was chairman of, said that de Rothschild died of a heart attack Friday afternoon at his home in Pregny, Switzerland.

    Since 1997, Benjamin de Rothschild headed the banking group, which was named after his father. Today, Edmond de Rothschild Group says it manages assets worth 160 billion euros, or $190 billion.

    Forbes magazine estimates de Rothschild’s net worth at $1.5 billion. He is a descendent of the Rothschild family, which has a nearly 300-year history running European banks.
    Banking heir Benjamin de Rothschild dies at 57

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    Hammerin’ Hank, one of my boyhood idols

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    Breaking news...


    Larry King dies aged 87 after Covid diagnosis


    US broadcaster Larry King has died at the age of 87, a statement on his Twitter account has announced.


    He had tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this month and was being treated in hospital in Los Angeles.


    King won multiple accolades, including two Peabody Awards and an Emmy, in his career, which spanned over 60 years.


    Coronavirus: Reaction as TV host Larry King dies with Covid - BBC News



    Larry King: Veteran US broadcaster dies aged 87




    Larry King, giant of American broadcasting, has died at the age of 87 in Los Angeles.

    He died on Saturday at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.

    During his six-decade career, which included 25 years hosting his own CNN programme, King interviewed many famous political leaders, celebrities and sports people.

    He was treated in hospital for Covid-19 this month, US media say.

    The talk show host had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.

    King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.

    He was then the host of Larry King Live on CNN, between 1985 and 2010, holding interviews with a host of guests.

    He also wrote a column for the USA Today newspaper for over 20 years.

    Most recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.


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    That bloke has looked and sounded on his last legs for about the last 20 years. Got a good innings out of it in the end.

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    RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.
    BBC News
    "state-controlled" - as BBC never disappoints to mention...
    As opposed to:
    The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a public service broadcaster
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC
    what isgenuine "state-uncontrolled broadcaster"...

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    Cloris Leachman, Oscar Winner and Sitcom Star, Dies at 94


    The film and TV mainstay—who played memorable roles in classics like The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Young Frankenstein—had a career that spanned seven decades.

    In 2016, Oscar and multi-Emmy Award-winning actress Cloris Leachman participated in Creative Until You Die, a series of Hollywood Reporter profiles of nonagenarians who were still creatively active. When asked if she ever thought of retiring, Leachman uttered a direct and defiant response: “Fuck you.”


    Cloris Leachman, whose career spanned seven decades, has passed away at the age of 94, her longtime manager told Variety Wednesday. Her most celebrated role was Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, for which she won two of her unprecedented eight Primetime Emmys. The imperious Phyllis was best summed up in one of Leachman’s Emmy-winning episodes, “The Lars Affair,” in which she considered the male bee: “Once the male bee . . . has serviced the queen, the male dies. All in all, not a bad system.”

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    Cicely Tyson, groundbreaking award-winning actor, dead at 96

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    NEW YORK -- Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper's wife in "Sounder," won a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers' hearts in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," died Thursday at age 96.

    Tyson's death was announced by her family, via her manager Larry Thompson, who did not immediately provide additional details.


    "With heavy heart, the family of Miss Cicely Tyson announces her peaceful transition this afternoon. At this time, please allow the family their privacy," according to a statement issued through Thompson.

    A onetime model, Tyson began her screen career with bit parts but gained fame in the early 1970s when Black women were finally starting to get starring roles. Tyson refused to take parts simply for the paycheck, remaining choosey.

    "I'm very selective as I've been my whole career about what I do. Unfortunately, I'm not the kind of person who works only for money. It has to have some real substance for me to do it," she told The Associated Press in 2013.

    Tributes from Broadway and Hollywood poured in, including from Broadway star Tracie Thomas, who thanked her for paving the way. "A queen and a trailblazer indeed," she wrote on Twitter. Former co-star Marlee Matlin wrote: "She was a consummate pro and all class." Director Kenny Leon added: "God bless the greatest and the tallest tree."

    Tyson's memoir, "Just As I Am," was published this week.

    Besides her Oscar nomination, she won two Emmys for playing the 110-year-old former slave in the 1974 television drama "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman." A new generation of moviegoers saw her in the 2011 hit "The Help."

    In 2018, she was given an honorary Oscar statuette at the annual Governors Awards. "I come from lowly status. I grew up in an area that was called the slums at the time," Tyson said at the time. "I still cannot imagine that I have met with presidents, kings, queens. How did I get here? I marvel at it."

    Writing in "Blacks in American Film and Television," Donald Bogle described Tyson as "a striking figure: slender and intense with near-perfect bone structure, magnificent smooth skin, dark penetrating eyes, and a regal air that made her seem a woman of convictions and commitment. (Audiences) sensed... her power and range."

    "Sounder," based on the William H. Hunter novel, was the film that confirmed her stardom in 1972. Tyson was cast as the Depression-era loving wife of a sharecropper (Paul Winfield) who is confined in jail for stealing a piece of meat for his family. She is forced to care for their children and attend to the crops.

    The New York Times reviewer wrote: "She passes all of her easy beauty by to give us, at long last, some sense of the profound beauty of millions of Black women."

    Her performance evoked rave reviews, and Tyson won an Academy Award nomination as best actress of 1972.

    In an interview on the Turner Classic Movies cable channel, she recalled that she had been asked to test for a smaller role in the film and said she wanted to play the mother, Rebecca. She was told, "You're too young, you're too pretty, you're too sexy, you're too this, you're too that, and I said, I am an actress.'"

    In 2013, at the age of 88, Tyson won the Tony for best leading actress in a play for the revival of Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful." It was the actor's first time back on Broadway in three decades and she refused to turn meekly away when the teleprompter told to finish her acceptance speech.


    "Please wrap it up, it says. Well, that's exactly what you did with me: You wrapped me up in your arms after 30 years," she told the crowd. She had prepared no speech ("I think it's presumptuous," she told the AP later. "I burned up half my time wondering what I was going to say.")

    She reprised her winning role in the play for a Lifetime Television movie, which was screened at the White House. She returned to Broadway in 2015 opposite James Earl Jones for a revival of "The Gin Game."

    Her fame transcended all media. Wendell Pierce took to Twitter to praise Tyson as an actor "who captured the power and grace of Black women in America" and Gabrielle Union said "we have lost a visionary, a leader, a lover an author, an icon and one of the most talented actresses the world has ever seen." Neil deGrasse Tyson called her "a force of nature unto herself" and Shonda Rhimes said "her power and grace will be with us forever."

    In the 1974 television drama "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," based on a novel by Ernest J. Gaines, Tyson is seen aging from a young woman in slavery to a 110-year-old who campaigned for the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

    In the touching climax, she laboriously walks up to a "whites only" water fountain and takes a drink as white officers look on.

    "It's important that they see and hear history from Miss Jane's point of view," Tyson told The New York Times. "And I think they will be more ready to accept it from her than from someone younger"

    New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael offered her praise: "She's an actress, all right, and as tough-minded and honorable in her methods as any we've got."

    At the Emmy Awards, "Pittman" won multiple awards, including two honors for Tyson, best lead actress in a drama and best actress in a special.

    "People ask me what I prefer doing - film, stage, television? I say, 'I would have done "Jane Pittman" in the basement or in a storefront.' It's the role that determines where I go," she told the AP.

    Tyson made her movie debut in the late 1950s with small roles in such films as "Odds Against Tomorrow," "The Last Angry Man," and "The Comedians." She played the romantic interest to Sammy Davis Jr.'s jazz musician in "A Man Called Adam."

    She gained wider notice with a recurring role in the 1963 drama series "East Side, West Side," which starred George C. Scott as a social worker. Tyson played his secretary, making her the first Black woman to have a continuing role in a dramatic television series.

    She played a role in the 1968 drama "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" that was hailed by a reviewer as "an absolute embodiment of the slogan 'Black is beautiful.'" In "Roots," the 1977 miniseries that became one of the biggest events in TV history, she played Binta, mother of the protagonist, Kunta Kinte, played by LeVar Burton.

    She also appeared on Broadway in the 1960s in "The Cool World," "Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright" and other plays. Off-Broadway, she appeared with such future stars as Maya Angelou, Godfrey Cambridge and James Earl Jones in a 1961 production of French playwright Jean Genet's "The Blacks."

    She won a Drama Desk award in 1962 for a role in the off-Broadway "Moon on a Rainbow Shawl."

    After her "Sounder" and "Miss Jane Pittman" successes, Tyson continued to seek TV roles that had messages, and she succeeded with "Roots" and "King" (about Martin Luther King) and "The Rosa Parks Story."

    She complained to an interviewer: "We Black actresses have played so many prostitutes and drug addicts and house maids, always negative. I won't play that kind of characterless role any more, even if I have to go back to starving."

    She continued with such films as "The Blue Bird," "Concorde - Airport '79," "Fried Green Tomatoes," "The Grass Harp" and Tyler Perry's "Diary of a Mad Black Woman."

    She won a supporting actress Emmy in 1994 for "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All." She was nominated for Emmys several other times, including for "Roots," "King," "The Marva Collins Story" "Sweet Justice" and "A Lesson Before Dying."

    In recent years, she was part of a panel discussion for "Cherish the Day," an eight-episode OWN anthology series created and produced by Ava DuVernay. She played the mother of Viola Davis' character on "How to Get Away with Murder."

    Tyson's parents moved from the island of Nevis in the Caribbean to New York, where Cicely (her name was spelled early on as Cecily and Sicely) was born in 1924, the youngest of three children. When her parents separated, her mother went on welfare. At 9 Cicely sold shopping bags on the streets of East Harlem.

    When she graduated from high school, she found work as a secretary at the Red Cross. Her striking looks prompted friends to advise her to take up modeling and that led to acting schools, theater, movies and television.

    "My mother told me I could no longer live in her house because I was determined to be an actress," she told an interviewer in 1990. "I said OK,' and I moved out."

    Tyson was married once, to jazz great Miles Davis. The wedding was held in 1981 at Bill Cosby's home in Massachusetts, attended by show business notables. They divorced in 1988.

    Tyson was never hard to spot. She tried to say no to wearing a terrifically large hat to Aretha Franklin's 2018 funeral, only to be overruled by her designer. The hat would become a viral highlight.

    "I never thought in my career that I would be upstaged by a hat! And I did not want to wear it," Tyson said later. "I said, 'I can't wear that hat, I will be blocking the view of the people behind me, they won't be able to see and they'll call me all kinds of names.' He just looked at me and said, 'Put the hat on.'"

    She came around, telling the AP she thought of the hat as homage to Franklin's appearance at Obama's inauguration.

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    Founding Animals guitarist Hilton Valentine dies aged 77

    The Animals guitarist Hilton Valentine has passed away at the age of 77. He was a founding member of the Newcastle band in 1963 alongside singer Eric Burdon, bassist Chas Chandler, organist Alan Price and drummer John Steel.

    The musician died on Friday 29 January, according to The Animals record label ABKCO. In tribute, the label described Valentine as a "pioneering guitar player influencing the sound of rock and roll for decades to come".

    Eric Burdon wrote on Instagram: "The opening opus of Rising Sun will never sound the same!... You didn't just play it, you lived it! Heartbroken by the sudden news of Hilton's passing.


    "We had great times together, Geordie lad. From the North Shields to the entire world...Rock In Peace."




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    RIP. The Animals were one of the very best of that "British Invasion".

    Along with CCR I consider them one of the most underrated groups ever.

    They all got out of Dodge I think .Burdon lives in the California desert, Price in London.

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    All The President’s Men and Into The Wild star Hal Holbrook dies aged 95

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    All The President’s Men and Into The Wild star Hal Holbrook has died at the age of 95. The actor, whose career spanned six decades, is thought to have died at his home in Beverly Hills on January 23. His assistant confirmed the news to the New York Times. Holbrook’s incredible career saw him nominated for an Oscar, and a Tony Award, and land five Emmys.

    His first credited role was in 1955, when he played Don Gallagher in the TV series Mr Citizen. Over the years, he took on incredible roles like Ron Franz in Into The Wild in 2007, Lieutenant Briggs in Magnum Force in 1973, Old Jacob in Water For Elephants in 2011, and he voiced Amphitryon in Disney’s Hercules.

    He also had an varied career on the small screen, in roles like Nate Madock in Sons of Anarchy, Evan Evans in Evening Shade, and of course Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln in the 70s, which earned him one of his Emmys. Holbrook has also made appearances in the likes of Bones, Grey’s Anatomy, with his final credited appearance being a role in Hawaii Five-0 in 2017.

    The actor was also accomplished in the stage world, most notably playing the role of Mark Twain in his one-man show, which he continued for six decades before retiring it in 2017. Tributes have poured in for the actor, with director Edgar Wright saying on Twitter: ‘Rest well Father Malone.

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    You die a legend sir. RIP.

    Covid-19: Captain Sir Tom Moore dies with coronavirus
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    Last few years they seem to be dropping like flies, its all a little unsettling. RIP Christopher.

    Christopher Plummer death: The Sound of Music star dies aged 91

    Christopher Plummer, who starred as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 91.

    The actor died on Friday morning at his home in Connecticut with his wife Elaine Taylor by his side, Lou Pitt, his longtime friend and manager, told The Associated Press.

    “Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession with great old fashion manners, self- deprecating humour and the music of words,” Lou Pitt, Plummer's longtime friend and manager, told Variety.

    “He was a national treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots. Through his art and humanity, he touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come. He will forever be with us.”

    Born in Toronto, Canada, in 1929, Plummer became known around the world for his role alongside Julie Andrews in the 1965 The Sound of Music. He was also an Oscar, Tony and Emmy winner who in 2012 became the oldest actor to win a competitive acting Academy Award when he took Best Supporting Actor for his role in Beginners.

    Over more than 50 years in the industry, Plummer enjoyed varied roles ranging from the film The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, to the voice of the villain in 2009's Up and as a canny lawyer in Broadway's Inherit the Wind. Recently, he portrayed Harlan Thrombey in Knives Out and J Paul Getty in All the Money in the World.

    It was his role as von Trapp that made him a star. Plummer played an Austrian captain who must flee the country with his folk-singing family to escape service in the Nazi navy, a role he lamented was "humourless and one-dimensional." Plummer spent the rest of his life referring to the film as "The Sound of Mucus" or "S&M".

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    A really super actor. And what a sense of humour.

    Plummer spent the rest of his life referring to the film as "The Sound of Mucus" or "S&M".

    I still remember his evocative utterance of those famous words "Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!".

    Star Trek VI I think it was.

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    George Shultz, former US secretary of state and key Cold War figure, dies at 100


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    Former US Secretary of State George Shultz, known for his contribution in helping to end the Cold War and his efforts for peace in the Middle East, passed away on Saturday at age 100.

    A former Marine, Shultz was the oldest surviving former Cabinet member of any administration. He also held the distinction of being the second-longest serving secretary of state since World War II.

    Shultz passed away at his home on the campus of Stanford University, where he was serving as a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution, a think tank. He was also a professor emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.


    Throughout his political career, Shultz held four major Cabinet positions – labor secretary, treasury secretary, director of the office of management and budget, and secretary of state – across the administrations of former presidents Richard Nixon and
    Ronald Reagan.


    "He was a gentleman of honor and ideas, dedicated to public service and respectful debate … that's why multiple presidents, of both political parties, sought his counsel. I regret that, as president, I will not be able to benefit from his wisdom, as have so many of my predecessors," said Joe Biden, the current US president.


    Biden added that "few people did as much to shape the trajectory of American diplomacy and American influence in the 20th century" like Shultz.

    Shultz's tenure as secretary of state was marked by an issue that would become central to US foreign policy for decades – terrorism.

    After several bombings and hijackings which killed US citizens, Shultz vowed that the US would go "beyond passive defense to consider means of active prevention, preemption and retaliation."

    Shultz is credited with helping to end the Cold War after identifying a diplomatic opening with Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev.


    In 1986, Schultz recommended air strikes on Libya after a US soldier died in an attack on a Berlin nightclub.


    He worked tirelessly in the 1980s to end the civil war in Lebanon, working to secure the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the country.


    He was unsuccessful in bringing Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to the negotiating table, but he managed to legitimize Palestinians as people with a valid stake in determining their future.


    Shultz's doctrine on terrorism was used by subsequent administrations, especially that of George W. Bush, during the invasion of Iraq. Shultz backed the invasion of Iraq, declaring the country to be a "rogue state." He said that Saddam Hussein's overthrow was crucial "for the integrity of the international system and for the effort to deal effectively with terrorism."


    Shultz played a key role in boosting president Reagan's trust towards Mikhail Gorbachev, the former leader of the Soviet Union. In 1987, Reagan and Gorbachev signed
    the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.


    While he largely stayed out of politics after leaving the Reagan administration, he continued taking a keen interest in certain issues such as climate change.


    On his 100th birthday in 2020, Shultz wrote an essay in which he called out the need for trust in the US, pointing out his dissatisfaction with ex-president Donald Trump. "Trust is the coin of the realm," he wrote.


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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    "He was a gentleman of honor and ideas, dedicated to public service and respectful debate … that's why multiple presidents, of both political parties, sought his counsel
    He was indeed. We could use more people like him right about now. He enjoyed a good relationship with Eduard Shevardnadze, Gorbechev's foreign secretary for a short stretch. This enabled Shultz to accomplish more than he might have otherwise done. In any case 100 is damn good innings.

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    Mary Wilson founder of the Supremes dies at 76

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    Mary Wilson who co-founded one of the most perfect of perfect pop groups, The Supremes, as a 15-year-old in a Detroit housing project and stayed with the fabled, hitmaking Motown Records trio until its dissolution in 1977, has died on Monday night at her home in Las Vegas. She was 76. She was a key part of one of the most quintessential hit-making machines in pop history and the cornerstone Tamla Motown band that shaped pop music and culture.



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    Damn, we're going to see lots of the musical giants of the sixties dying off. The sixties, the best damn decade for music imo. Downhill all the way to the 2020's.


    Thanks for the many memories Mary. Free at last. Free at last.

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    Quote Originally Posted by russellsimpson View Post
    Damn, we're going to see lots of the musical giants of the sixties dying off. The sixties, the best damn decade for music imo. Downhill all the way to the 2020's.


    Thanks for the many memories Mary. Free at last. Free at last.
    I would have thought after Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, etc. you would be used to it by now.

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