The RIP Famous Person Thread

[S Landreth]

Who says there can't be good news in this thread

A real Christian that one was.

"He called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2005."

[helge]

Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian prime minister, dies aged 86

I'm devastated.

A great example of what can happen when you leave the media in the control of one crooked freak.

Who says there can't be good news in this thread

Not nice....


But I agree

[TTraveler]

The Girl from Ipanema, dies aged 83

I have come to enjoy the occasional Bossa Nova due to this song. The one post on this page that actually saddens me some.

[dirk diggler]

I have come to enjoy the occasional Bossa Nova due to this song. The one post on this page that actually saddens me some.

I don't think we're on the same page here...

[harrybarracuda]

Actor Treat Williams killed in a motorcycle accident.

Hair and Everwood star Treat Williams dies in motorcycle accident aged 71 | Ents & Arts News | Sky News

[david44]

Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian prime minister, dies aged 86

Silvio Berlusconi, scandal-ridden former Italian prime minister, dies aged 86 | Silvio Berlusconi | The GuardianAttachment 103526

The Bunga Monger who proved being a sexist racist buffoon was no bar to leadership , the role model for another tv celebrity like Trump or serial misogynist and liar fellow New Yorker Boris Johnson.

[S Landreth]

Cormac McCarthy Dead: ‘No Country for Old Men’ Author Was 89

Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose searing novel No Country for Old Men served as the foundation for the Coen brothers’ 2007 film that earned Oscars for best picture, supporting actor, directing and adapted screenplay, has died. He was 89.

McCarthy died Tuesday of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his publisher, Knopf, announced.

Known for his crisp prose, foreboding view of humanity, uncompromising approach to death and violence — and rebellion against quote marks and semicolons — McCarthy was celebrated as one of the leading American authors of his time.

“He is the great pessimist of American literature, using his dervish sentences to illuminate a world in which almost everything (including punctuation) has already come to dust,” Tim Adams wrote in a 2009 profile for The Guardian. “He once argued that he could see no point at all in literature that did not dwell on death. His touchstones are Dostoevsky and Melville; he hasn’t much time for Henry James. His morbid visions, however, are so elemental in their telling that they have long won over those who have staked out more nuanced territory.”

McCarthy also was known for his sweeping “Border Trilogy” — comprised of 1992’s All the Pretty Horses, 1994’s The Crossing and 1998’s Cities of the Plain — and his post-apocalyptic tragedy The Road, published in 2006.

All the Pretty Horses was employed for a 2000 film that was directed by Billy Bob Thornton and starred Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, and The Road became a 2009 release starring Viggo Mortensen. And his third novel, 1973’s Child of God, was used for a 2013 feature helmed by James Franco and starring Tim Blake Nelson.

The Counselor (2013), directed by Ridley Scott and starring Cruz, Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem and Cameron Diaz, represented McCarthy’s first original screenplay for the big screen. He also adapted his play The Sunset Limited for a 2011 HBO telefilm starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson.

McCarthy received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007 for The Road, a haunting book about the journey of a father and his son through a desolate world.

Usually reluctant to promote his work, the author agreed to sit with Oprah Winfrey for the only on-camera interview of his career after she put the spotlight on The Road during one of her monthly book club segments.

“Well, I don’t think [promotion is] good for your head,” McCarthy told Winfrey. “If you spend a lot of time thinking about how to write a book, you shouldn’t be talking about it, you probably should be doing it. That’s my feeling.”

McCarthy went on to describe his distinctive writing style. “Simple, declarative sentences,” he said. “I believe in periods, capitals and the occasional comma. That’s it.”

On rare occasions, McCarthy would acquiesce to a colon. Semicolons were a waste, in his opinion, and he never felt the need to use quote marks when his characters spoke.

A McCarthy passage typically resembled this excerpt from 2005’s No Country for Old Men featuring one of his more infamous characters: the ruthless hitman Anton Chigurh, played by Bardem in the movie.

[david44]

Thanks a great talent RIP

[VocalNeal]

I have come to enjoy the occasional Bossa Nova due to this song. The one post on this page that actually saddens me some.

[Ukan Kizmiaz]

^^& ^^^
Yes indeed .
No country for Old Men was a great movie but the book was on another level and much 'deeper'. Loved The Border triology - All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain.
Blood Meridian was awsomely violent but not an easy read.

[harrybarracuda]

Oscar-winning actress and former Labour MP Glenda Jackson dies after 'brief illness'



Oscar-winning actress and former Labour MP Glenda Jackson has died aged 87 after a 'brief illness'.
In a statement, her agent Lionel Larner said: “‘Glenda Jackson, two-time Academy Award-winning actress and politician, died peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London this morning after a brief illness with her family at her side.
“She recently completed filming ‘The Great Escaper’ in which she co-starred with Michael Caine.”
Glenda was a Labour MP, first for Hampstead and Highgate then for Hampstead and Kilburn, from 1992 until 2015, when she stood down.
She has also had a successful career as an actress, winning two Emmy awards.


Glenda found fame in 1969 Oscar-winning drama Women in Love, alongside Oliver Reed.
She twice played Queen Elizabeth I but also loved lighthearted stuff, famously appearing alongside “utter pros” Morecambe and Wise.
Before her death, Glenda admitted she wasn't sentimental about her career but is happy to fight for women in male-dominated industries.
She said: “Every time I finished a job I was convinced I was never going to work again, but it’s an overcrowded profession and women are not prioritised.
“I remember wondering if I’d be able to afford to pay Friday’s milk bills.
“I came from working class and it was very simple – if you didn’t work you didn’t eat. I will keep on doing those roles as long as they get offered to me.”


In one of Glenda's last roles, she played a dementia sufferer in acclaimed TV film Elizabeth Is Missing.
Her character Maud struggles to make sense of her friend Elizabeth’s disappearance.
It highlighted the trauma of dementia and the effect on families – an issue which former Labour MP Glenda said political parties must unite to tackle.
During her 23 years as MP, Glenda visited people’s homes and saw families desolated by the illness which helped mould her honest depiction of Maud.
The role earned her an Emmy and a BAFTA.
However, the double Oscar-winner told the Sunday Mirror she wouldn’t be surprised if she, too, got dementia.


She added: “I don’t worry but I do find I can’t remember names sometimes. I went into the kitchen half an hour ago and I stood at the door and thought, ‘Why am I here?’”
Glenda kept her mind razor sharp and alleviated lockdown boredom with two of her favourite pastimes – crosswords and housekeeping.
She lived in a granny flat in Blackheath, South London, with journalist son Dan Hodges, his wife and their son son living upstairs and fetching her meals.
In 2021, Glenda revealed she was on a waiting list for treatment which had been delayed since the pandemic. She needed a new hip after breaking hers 12 years ago.

Oscar-winning actress and former Labour MP Glenda Jackson dies after 'brief illness' - Mirror Online

[david44]

Enda Glenda

very educational as a young shaver, Women in love, Men in Lust



i told my careers teacher I would like to be Oliver Reed who got well paid for this

[Switch]

Brilliant vid. Thanks for sharing.

[cyrille]

Glenda Jackson - what a hugely talented and driven person.

Daughter of a Birkenhead bricklayer and cleaner.

RIP

[VocalNeal]

I have come to enjoy the occasional Bossa Nova due to this song. The one post on this page that actually saddens me some.

Another one for Switch

[Shutree]

very educational as a young shaver

You are only the second person, after my father, I know to have used that expression. It seems to have dropped out of common use.

[dirk diggler]

That's a new one on me.

The dictionary's earliest citation for the phrase “young shaver” is from Love and a Bottle, a 1699 comedy by the Irish dramatist George Farquhar: “Who wou'd imagin now that this young shaver cou'd dream of a Woman so soon?”

[S Landreth]

Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower, dies aged 92

Daniel Ellsberg, a US government analyst who became one of the most famous whistleblowers in world politics when he leaked the Pentagon Papers, has died. He was 92. His death was confirmed by his family on Friday.

In March, Ellsberg announced that he had inoperable pancreatic cancer. Saying he had been given three to six months to live, he said he had chosen not to undergo chemotherapy and had been assured of hospice care.

“I am not in any physical pain,” Ellsberg wrote, adding: “My cardiologist has given me license to abandon my salt-free diet of the last six years. This has improved my life dramatically: the pleasure of eating my favourite foods!”

The Pentagon Papers covered US policy in Vietnam between 1945 and 1967 and showed that successive administrations were aware the US could not win.

By the end of the war in 1975, more than 58,000 Americans were dead and 304,000 were wounded. Nearly 250,000 south Vietnamese soldiers were killed, as were around 1 million north Vietnamese soldiers and Viet Cong guerillas and more than 2 million civilians in north and south Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

The Pentagon Papers caused a sensation in 1971, when they were published – first by the New York Times and then by the Washington Post and other papers – after the supreme court overruled the Nixon administration on whether publication threatened national security.

In 2017, the story was retold in The Post, an Oscar-nominated film directed by Steven Spielberg in which Ellsberg was played by the British actor Matthew Rhys.

Ellsberg served in the US Marine Corps in the 1950s but went to Vietnam in the mid-60s as a civilian analyst for the defense department, conducting a study of counter-insurgency tactics. When he leaked the Pentagon Papers, he was working for the Rand Corporation.

[david44]

It seems to have dropped out of common use.

You may be right but an interesting history, I am sure it was common in 1960s Ireland and London, I never heard it in USA in 70s or much since

What is the origin of the word shaver?




Etymology. From Middle English schaver; equivalent to shave +‎ -er. In its meaning of a boy, lad, recorded since 1592, the word shaver has also been postulated to derive from Romani chavo (“young man”), which also gives us the modern slang chav, ultimately derived from Sanskrit छा (chā, “young animal”).

[S Landreth]

Passage: Remembering Daniel Ellsberg

[pickel]

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Trump steals classified documents: lock him up

Ellsberg steals classified documents: American hero

Irony or hypocrisy?

[happynz]

Some might argue that Ellsberg was doing it to expose wrongdoing in the Pentagon. Trump sees everything as transactional and he has, could, would, sell off these documents if he could enrich himself further.

[S Landreth]

Trump steals classified documents: lock him up

Ellsberg steals classified documents: American hero

He was going to jail for a period of about 115 years (espionage and theft), but his trial in Boston ended in a mistrial and the trial in Los Angeles was dismissed.

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You're missing out. It is a good video. Use a US IP address

or try this (wait for it to load): Passage: Remembering Daniel Ellsberg - CBS News

[helge]

Ellsberg steals classified documents: American hero

Whistleblower

I have no idea why Trump had papers.

[S Landreth]

^He’s a hoarder