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3,201 5th Jan 2021 06:25
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3,202 5th Jan 2021 08:01
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Seems that Tanya Roberts only lives twice - although by the look of News reports she's still in a critical condition. Let's hope that she makes a full and speedy recovery.
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3,203 5th Jan 2021 14:59
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Sadly it seems that Tanya Roberts died for real last night, aged 65. The source is TMZ again so make of that what you will:
https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/05/tanya-ro … ouncement/
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3,204 6th Jan 2021 05:47
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Prolly her bf being premature about announcing her death
3,205 6th Jan 2021 07:19
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Sad news , RIP Tanya Roberts
Much too early, much too young!
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3,206 6th Jan 2021 15:11
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RIP Barbara Shelley - the first lady of British horror. Although a good age it appears she was taken too soon. One of my all time favourite leading ladies and certainly ticked all my boxes. Such a fine woman. She will be sorely missed.
This year sucks already 
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3,207 6th Jan 2021 19:02
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Alas, Barbara Shelley. Wonderful in Hammer movies, including two of my favourites (Dracula, Prince Of Darkness and Quatermass And the Pit). In the first of those, she all but steals the movie- except, well, Christopher Lee is unstealable from in a Dracula movie unless you're Peter Cushing.
3,208 6th Jan 2021 19:43
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Re-united with Dracula and Gordon (George Sanders) , her hubbie in Village of Damned 
3,209 8th Jan 2021 21:26
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Sad to hear of the death of Michael Apted. TWINE was the second James Bond film I saw in the cinema and to my mind it remains one of Pierce Brosnan's best, along with GE.
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3,210 8th Jan 2021 22:25
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Such a shame to hear about the death of Michael Apted 
He was a great documentary and film maker...his Up series was truly remarkable...he also directed some Coronation Street episodes...
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3,211 8th Jan 2021 23:17
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RIP Michael Apted, the Up series was phenomenal.
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3,212 9th Jan 2021 00:14
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Though I'm a Bond fan, there aren't many I'd really liked in the last 30 years.
Two I liked unreservedly.
One of those was The World Is Not Enough.
I had misgivings when I heard Apted had been selected. But I really liked this movie. Not saying the bar was set so high by the previous ones, but for me it hung together well, some genuinely witty jokes 'See you back at the lodge' and nothing too cringey. Brosnan looked his best in that one, imo. The audience in Odeon Leicester Square got behind it.
Cheers Mister Apted.
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3,213 9th Jan 2021 16:46
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A great filmmaker. RIP, Michael Apted.
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3,214 9th Jan 2021 16:52
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Controversial around here perhaps, but to me Apted's best work was the episodes of "Rome" (The reason God created DVD boxes) he directed.
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3,215 16th Jan 2021 04:52
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Peter Mark Richman (F13 , Longst with B Lee , voice of The Phantom in 80s toon DoE)
3,216 17th Jan 2021 19:19
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Legendary music producer turned reprehensible human being - well he was in jail for murder, after all.
Legend of the 60s.
Nutter almost from the get-go really and it's hard to wax lyrical about his great sounds but still - what great sounds.
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3,217 17th Jan 2021 20:50
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Yes I stopped short of adding his passing to the tributes thread for obvious reasons, but you can’t deny his contribution to music.
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