Ari Behn , ex hubbie of Norways princess Martha , suicide
The country and the royal family has lost a very colourful man. To use the title of his best known book, I feel "Sad a s hell".
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RIP Neil Innes - often referred to as ‘the seventh python’ (as in Monty Python)…a great musician and songwriter...thought he was brilliant in The Rutles -{
Buck Henry 1930-2020
cocreator and story editor of Get Smart
writer of the Graduate and the film adaptation of Catch-22
and the most frequent host of the original version of Saturday Night Live
It was because of his SNL work I knew of Henry, he made cameos just as often even when he wasn't the host, I think Lorne Michaels regarded him as a mentor.
But its his role in Get Smart all us spy fans should care about.
Very sad to lose Terry Jones. I've been a big fan of Python and have always found Terry to be one of my favourite members of the group. One of his major contributions is obviously his direction of most of the Python movies, and then of course there are the sketches that he wrote, and some of his unforgettable characters: the spam waitress, Mr Creosote, Brian's mother and of course...the nude organist.
He wasn't looking so good in their O2 Reunion Concert dvd, he was clearly reading his lines off the back of the Whizzo chocolate box. Having an aging parent myself at that time, his obvious struggle to get sentences out looked familiar, so it was no surprise when there was an official announcement a couple years later that he had aphasia.
Jones was also a historian and wrote a few books and tv documentaries on the subject after Python. He argued that our concept of the past is grossly oversimplified, such as our assumption that everybody believed the world was flat prior to Columbus.
Me, I got all my knowledge of the Middle Ages and Ancient Rome from those two Monty Python films, and that's good enough for me.
Thomas Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare died yesterday at an age of 100. Mad Mike was an army officer in WWII, but reached fame/notoriety as a mercenary leader. His career ended with a badly botched a coup d'état in the Seychelles in 1981. The film "The Wild Geese" was inspired by his exploits. Mad Mike was a technical adviser, Richard Burton played a version of him and of cource Roger Moore co-stared.
Was he the last of the great movie stars of the mid 20th century? I'm struggling to think of others that are still alive from that 1950s golden age.
I'm also realising that I haven't seen nearly enough of his films. I think of his 80 or so films, all I've seen are Spartacus, Paths of Glory, Gunfight at the OK Corral and The Heroes of Telemark.
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The country and the royal family has lost a very colourful man. To use the title of his best known book, I feel "Sad a s hell".
cocreator and story editor of Get Smart
writer of the Graduate and the film adaptation of Catch-22
and the most frequent host of the original version of Saturday Night Live
It was because of his SNL work I knew of Henry, he made cameos just as often even when he wasn't the host, I think Lorne Michaels regarded him as a mentor.
But its his role in Get Smart all us spy fans should care about.
Also last yr 30 yrs passing of Lee Van Cleef
Behind the scenes documentaries, hard to tell at times.
Maybe he will sell his shed now
Jones was also a historian and wrote a few books and tv documentaries on the subject after Python. He argued that our concept of the past is grossly oversimplified, such as our assumption that everybody believed the world was flat prior to Columbus.
Me, I got all my knowledge of the Middle Ages and Ancient Rome from those two Monty Python films, and that's good enough for me.
Two sheds or one?
I've listened to him for years on bbc radio 4 as
Host of the comedy show " Just a minute "
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Well, I found a still from his audition...
More seriously, he did act in the 1976 "Spy Story", a Len Deighton adaptation. Deighton of course has a few Bond connections.
You were 103 Years old and one of the last surviving stars of the Golden Age. -{
"I'm Spartacus"
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
Was he the last of the great movie stars of the mid 20th century? I'm struggling to think of others that are still alive from that 1950s golden age.
I'm also realising that I haven't seen nearly enough of his films. I think of his 80 or so films, all I've seen are Spartacus, Paths of Glory, Gunfight at the OK Corral and The Heroes of Telemark.