RIP to Anthony Bourdain, one of the best TV personalities ever who defined evening hours with my family for a long time. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html
He was found unresponsive in his hotel room in France, thought to have committed suicide.
Considering his final Instagram posts and tweets, I didn't think he'd be one to off himself.
Maybe Dr Kaufman paid him a visit as-well?
RIP to Anthony Bourdain, one of the best TV personalities ever who defined evening hours with my family for a long time. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html
He was found unresponsive in his hotel room in France, thought to have committed suicide.
Considering his final Instagram posts and tweets, I didn't think he'd be one to off himself.
Maybe Dr Kaufman paid him a visit as-well?
The poor guy. This one is a real shocker. Kitchen Confidential was a real eye opener to many and Bourdain's life and career were an inspiration.
RIP Anthony. Yet another lost too soon to suicide. I hope he’s at peace now.
DP those last few lines of yours aren’t really in the best of taste - we’re talking about a real human life that’s been lost here, not a character in a movie.
DP those last few lines of yours aren’t really in the best of taste - we’re talking about a real human life that’s been lost here, not a character in a movie.
I get that.
Could remove them if it makes you feel any better but I didn't know the man in real life to talk about him as someone close to him, I was merely an observer.
While I do agree that he was a flesh and bone human being, and one gets the choice to live or die, I expressed my personal opinion of his mental state in the days leading up to his death.
Everyone can show and conceal their emotions but actions speak louder than words, and if he did truly commit suicide, well, that speaks for itself.
I visited a place for lunch today called Donkey's Steaks that Bourdain visited a few years back as part of Parts Unknown. I had been meaning to go but just never got around to it and also its in a pretty seedy area. But with the sad news today I just had to stop by for their famous cheesesteak. I'm lucky I was able to see him when his show was in Philly in 2016. Such a great personality and storyteller who I'll definitely miss on my TV screen.
I'm surprised to be the first to post this. . . Eunice Gayson, who played Sylvia Trench in Dr. No and From Russia with Love--the very first Bond girl on screen and the first character to set Bond up to say his classic "Bond, James Bond" line--has passed away at the grand age of 90. Rest in peace, lovely lady!
There is a thread in the James Bond Chat area where some of us have paid our respects.
BTW: Autocorrect is getting political. When I wrote "RIP Eunice Gayson", Autocorrect changed it to "RIP EU Eunice Gayson" )
Rik Mayall died 4 years ago today. He was an amazing talent. I've posted about Eunice Gayson's passing on tbe Bond alumni tribute thread. May they both RIP.
Have you ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?"
" I don't listen to hip hop!"
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Sad to hear of the death of the original Bond girl, Eunice Gayson, at 90.
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
A decent obit to Eunice Gayson is in today's Guardian newspaper.
It mentions that her voice was dubbed in the films - as befitting most Bond girls and a good many actors too - but you can hear her original voice in the trailer.
Actually older than Connery, so not that young then. Mind you, Honor Blackman was also older than Connery. Doesn't happen often, as the Bond stars got older.
Steve Ditko 90. Ditko was a legendary comic book artist and co-creator of Spider-Man. Famed ski-fi author Harlan Ellison has also passed away recently.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Steve Ditko 90. Ditko was a legendary comic book artist and co-creator of Spider-Man. .
oh no, you're the bearer of bad news for me CoolHand. I'm a big Ditko fan. He plotted and drew the first 38 issues of Spider-Man. He was also the cocreator, artist and plotter of Dr Strange.
Those were really the two big ones he did for Marvel, he tended to focus deeper than Jack Kirby, who created most of the rest of the Marvel Silver Age characters, and spread himself more thin. Ditko also did some key early issues of The Incredible Hulk, and Iron Man, revising their initial looks and concepts.
He left Marvel early on, on a point of principal he never felt the need to discuss. whereas Kirby very publicly split with Stan Lee and gave interviews and sued. Ditko chose to work in relative obscurity the rest of his life, for much less money than he was capable of earning, and sticking to his principals (he was an Ayn Randian, and some of his later underground comics read like Atlas Shrugged with word balloons).
I'm trying to find some examples of Ditko's Dr Strange art, but most of what comes up in google is from blogs or pinterest, and I'm not confident it will still be there tomorrow. So instead here's the random results of a GoogleImage search, I urge all comics fans to check it out. That's a pretty psychedelic imagination for an Ayn Randian! The Dr Strange movie did not come close to capturing the feel of his art.
Steve Ditko 90. Ditko was a legendary comic book artist and co-creator of Spider-Man. .
oh no, you're the bearer of bad news for me CoolHand. I'm a big Ditko fan. He plotted and drew the first 38 issues of Spider-Man. He was also the cocreator, artist and plotter of Dr Strange.
Those were really the two big ones he did for Marvel, he tended to focus deeper than Jack Kirby, who created most of the rest of the Marvel Silver Age characters, and spread himself more thin. Ditko also did some key early issues of The Incredible Hulk, and Iron Man, revising their initial looks and concepts.
He left Marvel early on, on a point of principal he never felt the need to discuss. whereas Kirby very publicly split with Stan Lee and gave interviews and sued. Ditko chose to work in relative obscurity the rest of his life, for much less money than he was capable of earning, and sticking to his principals (he was an Ayn Randian, and some of his later underground comics read like Atlas Shrugged with word balloons).
I'm trying to find some examples of Ditko's Dr Strange art, but most of what comes up in google is from blogs or pinterest, and I'm not confident it will still be there tomorrow. So instead here's the random results of a GoogleImage search, I urge all comics fans to check it out. That's a pretty psychedelic imagination for an Ayn Randian! The Dr Strange movie did not come close to capturing the feel of his art.
I assume you'll have seen this terrific programme Jonathan Ross made about Ditko back in 2007. Worth rewatching, even so: https://youtu.be/3gwDnhMO8is
Should make it clear this is Nancy Sinatra Snr - Frank's first wife and subject of the classic song Nancy (With the Laughing Face).
Yep, 101 is a grand old age.
It's odd, I've been reading Niv by Graham Lord, about David Niven, and he was only 73 when he died in 1983 which is really no age. Yet he seemed quite old, I mean I guess that's what comes from drinking a bottle and a half of wine a day. He died of MS which back then took no prisoners. Still, had he lived to 100 he'd have died in, well, 2003. A lot of stars died pretty young back then but seemed old anyway. Niven did have a bad personal life behind the cheery facade, however.
The terrible thing about these atrocities, is how many we've had in the past few years.
So many angry, crazy, violent people about. All angry at the world for different reasons.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
Recently the press has reported harassment and death threaths made to Utøya survivors.
People send text messages or write things on social media, such as: "You should have been killed on that island. Breivik was right all a long." or: "You are a Quisling. If I see you again you will get shot."
Some people have no shame. This type of attitudes have become more common since 2011, not less common as we hoped.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html
He was found unresponsive in his hotel room in France, thought to have committed suicide.
Considering his final Instagram posts and tweets, I didn't think he'd be one to off himself.
Maybe Dr Kaufman paid him a visit as-well?
The poor guy. This one is a real shocker. Kitchen Confidential was a real eye opener to many and Bourdain's life and career were an inspiration.
DP those last few lines of yours aren’t really in the best of taste - we’re talking about a real human life that’s been lost here, not a character in a movie.
Could remove them if it makes you feel any better but I didn't know the man in real life to talk about him as someone close to him, I was merely an observer.
While I do agree that he was a flesh and bone human being, and one gets the choice to live or die, I expressed my personal opinion of his mental state in the days leading up to his death.
Everyone can show and conceal their emotions but actions speak louder than words, and if he did truly commit suicide, well, that speaks for itself.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44425293
BTW: Autocorrect is getting political. When I wrote "RIP Eunice Gayson", Autocorrect changed it to "RIP EU Eunice Gayson"
" I don't listen to hip hop!"
It mentions that her voice was dubbed in the films - as befitting most Bond girls and a good many actors too - but you can hear her original voice in the trailer.
Actually older than Connery, so not that young then. Mind you, Honor Blackman was also older than Connery. Doesn't happen often, as the Bond stars got older.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
" I don't listen to hip hop!"
Leon White aka Vader......saw it coming due to his health but still sad
Those were really the two big ones he did for Marvel, he tended to focus deeper than Jack Kirby, who created most of the rest of the Marvel Silver Age characters, and spread himself more thin. Ditko also did some key early issues of The Incredible Hulk, and Iron Man, revising their initial looks and concepts.
He left Marvel early on, on a point of principal he never felt the need to discuss. whereas Kirby very publicly split with Stan Lee and gave interviews and sued. Ditko chose to work in relative obscurity the rest of his life, for much less money than he was capable of earning, and sticking to his principals (he was an Ayn Randian, and some of his later underground comics read like Atlas Shrugged with word balloons).
I'm trying to find some examples of Ditko's Dr Strange art, but most of what comes up in google is from blogs or pinterest, and I'm not confident it will still be there tomorrow. So instead here's the random results of a GoogleImage search, I urge all comics fans to check it out. That's a pretty psychedelic imagination for an Ayn Randian! The Dr Strange movie did not come close to capturing the feel of his art.
I assume you'll have seen this terrific programme Jonathan Ross made about Ditko back in 2007. Worth rewatching, even so: https://youtu.be/3gwDnhMO8is
Nancy Sinatra has died.
Yep, 101 is a grand old age.
It's odd, I've been reading Niv by Graham Lord, about David Niven, and he was only 73 when he died in 1983 which is really no age. Yet he seemed quite old, I mean I guess that's what comes from drinking a bottle and a half of wine a day. He died of MS which back then took no prisoners. Still, had he lived to 100 he'd have died in, well, 2003. A lot of stars died pretty young back then but seemed old anyway. Niven did have a bad personal life behind the cheery facade, however.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Chow : "He was already dead so I didnt call an ambulance"
He dragged out time so that Lee was DOA at hospital , he knew Lee would leave Hong Kong for good X-(
So many angry, crazy, violent people about. All angry at the world for different reasons.
People send text messages or write things on social media, such as: "You should have been killed on that island. Breivik was right all a long." or: "You are a Quisling. If I see you again you will get shot."
Some people have no shame. This type of attitudes have become more common since 2011, not less common as we hoped.