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  • GrindelwaldGrindelwald Posts: 1,294MI6 Agent
    edited December 2019
    I always thought Claudine was born in '42 , maybe Bianchi was born in '42 , one of the other Bond girls anyway ?:)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWmA8XhUFiM
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Congratulations to Sam Mendes on becoming a knight. -{
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    Sue Lyon, the titular Lolita in Kubrick’s film has died aged 73, RIP.
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent

    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".
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,416Chief of Staff
    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 -{
    YNWA 97
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    RIP Neil Innes, I fondly remember him in a kids show called Puddle Lane.
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,906MI6 Agent
    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.
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    He was also great in The Man Who Fell to Earth as Bowie’s ill fated patent lawyer, RIP.
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • GrindelwaldGrindelwald Posts: 1,294MI6 Agent
    35 yrs ago : Yul Brunner , Matt Munro , Pat Barr died

    Also last yr 30 yrs passing of Lee Van Cleef
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Eleven years ago yesterday, Patrick McGoohan died - the man who could have been Bond. -{
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    Derek Fowlds of Yes Minister and Basil Brush fame has died, aged 82. Basil is devastated I understand, RIP.
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    RIP Derek Fowlds, Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister are classic comedies or
    Behind the scenes documentaries, hard to tell at times.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    The comedian Terry Jones, best known from Monthy Phyton, just died. Thank you for all those wonderful and funny momnets. RIP
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    edited January 2020
    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.
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,882Chief of Staff
    "He's not the messiah--he's a very naughty boy!" RIP, Terry.
    Vox clamantis in deserto
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    RIP Terry Jones
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,416Chief of Staff
    RIP Terry Jones -{

    Maybe he will sell his shed now :))
    YNWA 97
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    RIP Terry Jones
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,906MI6 Agent
    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.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    Sir Miles wrote:
    RIP Terry Jones -{

    Maybe he will sell his shed now :))

    Two sheds or one?
  • MikeG77MikeG77 Posts: 1,770MI6 Agent
    Kobe Bryant died today in a helicopter crash in Calibasas,CA. He was 41 years old.
    I know where you keep your gun!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    Today it's 75 years since Soviet forces freed Auschwitz from the nazis. We can never allow ourselves ot forget Holocaust.
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    Nicholas Parsons has died at the grand age of 96! RIP
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    RIP Nicholas Parsons, such a great performer.
    I've listened to him for years on bbc radio 4 as
    Host of the comedy show " Just a minute "
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    Didn't Parsons have a James Bond connection? Like playing him on the radio? Can't find it anywhere though...
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    Yes, now you mention it I seem to recall he did too...but on checking I could only find the story about Bob Holness from Blockbusters playing him.
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    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.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Didn't Parsons have a James Bond connection? Like playing him on the radio? Can't find it anywhere though...

    Well, I found a still from his audition...

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    More seriously, he did act in the 1976 "Spy Story", a Len Deighton adaptation. Deighton of course has a few Bond connections.
  • James SuzukiJames Suzuki New ZealandPosts: 2,406MI6 Agent
    Rest in Peace Kirk Douglas.
    You were 103 Years old and one of the last surviving stars of the Golden Age. -{
    "I'm Spartacus"
    “The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. "
    -Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,882Chief of Staff
    Too many obituaries are headlined "Kirk Douglas, actor and father of Michael Douglas." No disrespect to MD, Kirk's career was legendary. RIP.
    Vox clamantis in deserto
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