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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Shocked to learn about the death of
    Dale Winton.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • The Red KindThe Red Kind EnglandPosts: 3,338MI6 Agent
    Agree TP.

    He always came across as a thoroughly decent, warm and generous human being, which has been backed up by the many tributes from those who knew him. RIP
    "Any of the opposition around..?"
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent

    Oh my god. Just yesterday I spent the afternoon with my partner and her younger brother watching the three Austin Powers movies — none of us had seem them for a while so we thought it would be a fun and relaxing Saturday afternoon. What timing :# RIP Verne
  • GrindelwaldGrindelwald Posts: 1,342MI6 Agent
    Sadly recently I had a feeling he would not have long time left......

    I was 2 feet from him at Monster Mania '14 , he took picture with a baby , I'll never forget how nice he was even though did not talk to him myself :(
  • welshguy34welshguy34 Posts: 219MI6 Agent
    Sad to hear of the early death of Verne Troyer at just 49.
  • GrindelwaldGrindelwald Posts: 1,342MI6 Agent
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lUURcWbvxWw

    When taekwondo strikes star Jhoon Rhee is dead , also a buddy of BL :(
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Congratulations to Sean Bean on getting his first BAFTA. -{
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,347MI6 Agent
    Sad to hear Margot Kidder has died aged 69, a lovely lady, RIP
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    RIP Margot Kidder. Only just read the news.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,912Chief of Staff
    Margot Kidder was THE Lois Lane--spunky, no-nonsense, and a lot of fun! RIP, ma'am.
    Vox clamantis in deserto
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,870MI6 Agent
    Sad to hear of her death. I liked her in The Amityville Horror (1979).
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 4,140MI6 Agent
    lets watch that rooftop interview scene one more time
    that's not quite how I pictured Lois Lane when I read the comics as a kid, but c'mon, what kind of questions would you expect a grown woman to ask Superman if she had him alone on her patio on a warm starry night?
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,486MI6 Agent
    The relationship between Clark Kent and Lois Lane in some way foreshadowed that of Harrison Ford and Karen Allen in Raiders. Of course, Allen went on to have her problems too.

    Reeve really was great in that role wasn't he? Odd he never went on to be a major Hollywood player, but those were the days when once you got branded as Bond or Superman, that was your lot. It's not like that now, these kind of films are a sort of sideline and the stars alternate between the Hollywood product and Oscar bait with ease.

    Yeah, Margot Kidder was a great Lois Lane and represented a new sassy heroine just as Carrie Fisher did in Star Wars. Got shafted in Superman III though didn't she? The producers cut her out and took over the reins - that went well, didn't it?
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,912Chief of Staff
    Yesterday Tom Wolfe died--he was certainly one of the best writers of fiction and non-fiction in America: he gave us The Right Stuff, a new kind of journalism, and added some phrases to the American lexicon like "radical chic," "flak catching," and "The Me Decade"--and he appropriated "Masters of the Universe" to apply to Wall Street investors. You also may have caught his caricature on a couple of episodes of The Simpsons. A great voice silenced.
    Vox clamantis in deserto
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,486MI6 Agent
    I bought his Casablanca poster for my Dad just a few weeks ago. But he must have been very young when he created it.

    Iconic movie poster creator Bill Gold dies
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,912Chief of Staff
    For the second time inside of a week, the U.S. has lost a great author--Philip Roth has died at 85. They say these things come in threes. . .if there's another legendary octogenarian novelist in the New York area I'd say my prayers. . .
    Vox clamantis in deserto
  • Matt SMatt S Oh Cult Voodoo ShopPosts: 6,616MI6 Agent
    Hardyboy wrote:
    For the second time inside of a week, the U.S. has lost a great author--Philip Roth has died at 85. They say these things come in threes. . .if there's another legendary octogenarian novelist in the New York area I'd say my prayers. . .

    Does Toni Morrison live in New York?

    Don DeLillo lives in the New York area. Another possibility.
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,433MI6 Agent
    Is Cormac McCarthy (84) safe in Rhode Island?
    He should have won the Nobel for novels like "The Road" or "Blood Meridian" years ago.
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 4,140MI6 Agent
    ooh, I don't think its in good taste to be laying bets as to which famous New York based author will be next.
    Anyway Stan Lee (95) moved to Hollywood decades ago, so at least the most important one is safe.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,099Chief of Staff
    This reminds me of...

    AA_OLD_MAN_3.jpg

    ...where which celeb is going to die next is the basis of the plot.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,433MI6 Agent
    ooh, I don't think its in good taste to be laying bets as to which famous New York based author will be next.
    Anyway Stan Lee (95) moved to Hollywood decades ago, so at least the most important one is safe.

    It's hardly betting. BTW: I've heard the Nobel Academy, the body that choses the winners for the Nobel prize in literature, disliked Americans for years and didn't want American authors to win. If that was true it's a shame. True or not, the old Academy is gone. They have destroyed themselves and the king will likely appoint new members. Haven't read the other authors mentioned above, but McCarthy would be a worthy winner. So would John Irving.
  • GrindelwaldGrindelwald Posts: 1,342MI6 Agent
    1 yr ago : Sir Rog died :(
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,372MI6 Agent
    I was sorry to read that Peter Byrne died a few days ago aged 90. UK viewers will remember him as DC Andy Crawford in the long running TV series Dixon Of Dock Green.
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • PPK 7.65mmPPK 7.65mm Saratoga Springs NY USAPosts: 1,256MI6 Agent
    RIP to movie poster artist Bill Gold, who designed the movie posters for Casablanca, Dirty Harry, For Your Eyes Only and more.

    Also congratulations to Sean Bean on getting a BAFTA, one of my friends from college is a big fan of his. I am sure she is really happy for him.
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,372MI6 Agent
    RIP Clint Walker aged 90. Clint starred with Roger Moore in Gold Of The Seven Saints and he was also one of The Dirty Dozen.
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • GrindelwaldGrindelwald Posts: 1,342MI6 Agent
    Dean Stefan (script writer 2003 He-Man toon)
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,486MI6 Agent
    Here's another one you're sure to be interested in TP:

    Minder Pub Landlord Dies

    Glynn Edwards, though I must admit I thought he'd died years ago. Perhaps I was thinking of the pub landlord in Only Fools and Horses. Edwards was also in a few 60s cult TV Avengers episodes.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    RIP Glynn Edwards.Yes he was a regular face on many 60s shows, still shown on itv4. One of my poor impressions is his greeting in Minder
    " E'llo Arf-er "
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
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