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Franco Zeffirelli has died at 95: https://www.iltempo.it/news-adn-kronos/2019/06/15/news/e-morto-franco-zeffirelli-1173883/

Is Franco Zeffirelli dead? The forums not really mentioned it yet...

By incredibly popular demand: Dill Pickle Soup (zupa as the Poles say, and to my knowledge they invented this): Plenty of photos so that the Admins can hate me. Any you can too! But remember who walked you through this so that you could enjoy the best soup ever. Note 1. The recipe, Zosia’s, can be found online. My changes are noted, and the idea was to make it as close to the restaurants of Hamtramck, MI as possible. Note 2. Buy a 14-cup (3.3L) Cuisinart food processor w **proper blade attachment** (pictured below). This ain’t no time to play...this is serious shit. But if you are serious about anything in your kitchen you have this appliance already. If you don't have one, you can search for one or marry a person who has one. Just sayin. Note 3: ALWAYS get the celery veins the F outta there no matter what, I don’t care if you’re serving a salad, or celery and cream cheese. NO ONE wants to floss with celery. Note 4: Carrots already done did. Adding the celery. Note 5: Get four rather large spuds; utensils for scale. Don’t get wee spuds. Note 6: About the right thickness. Cube dat! Note 7: Calls for 5 pickles, I wrote 4. So the jar had 6, so I chopped yellow areas away and figured we were at about 4-1/2, close enough. Note 8: BTW we are doing all the pickle prep and other creamy mixes during the 25 or so minutes the first part is cooking. Lagniappe: Note the ARMSTRONG tartan teacup. Aye, my clan weren't just North of the Wall, they WERE the fucking wall! Note 9: Milk + flour. Pour the flour into the milk, numbskull, not the other way around. Oh, and borrow your child’s whisk (if you can't find yours).... Note 10: Temper it (add couple ladles hot soup) 3-4 times and pour it in Note 11: Ok add some of dat pickle jar juice (could have been done way earlier but whatever—at any time during the process is fine). BE CAREFUL. I’d say 3/4 cup. Probably more but taste it, don’t want to cross the imaginary line of salty destruction. I've thrown out an entire batch of dill pickle zupa before at this stage. No fun. Note 12: Temper dat sour cream egg slop, 3-4 times, throw it in dare. Note 13: In it goes and you're done basically. Pepper, fresh dill or parsley if you like (I rarely do it), I used dill weed small sprinkle. Absolutely Fabulous! Serve in some depression glass from 1941 you have laying around, proving you're an 80-yr old woman trapped in a man's body.

Zeffirelli means the Committee choke on a miss and I draw level! YW - 4; DL - 4.

It is is fascinating how something that is controversial in the USA remains mostly unknown in the UK.

A big miss - extremely old - ill - and a big name.

Ah... RIP.... yes, a massive DL miss, in my opinion. My theme team takes the hit nonetheless.

Four ailing utterly despicable businessmen who seem simply unsinkable: 1)Stanley Ho (1921): Macao billionaire and Hong Kong Mafia associate. Suffered a serious stroke in 2009 and in February 2019 he was admitted to ICU with organ failure, which his family minimized. 2)Shin Kyuk-ho (1922): South Korean founder of Lotte Corporation, he appears to be uber-frail and wheelchair bound. in 2017 he was sentenced to prison for embezzling 119 million dollars, but remained free due to "failing health". 3)Sumner Redstone (1923): The CEO of Viacom and a Jewish gangster. Has suffered from dementia for years. 4)John Rigas (1924) founder of Adelphia and convicted fraudster. Terminally ill with bladder cancer in 2015. Then healed when released from prison. Well, these people could ask themselves what could they do for this world, and find an easy answer.

This is the first time I create a new topic. But I think, such an important opera, cinema and film producer like Franco Zeffirelli really deserves his own thread. A few days ago he turned 95 years old. He is best known for his work in Romeo and Juliet (1968: won 2 Oscars), Hamlet (1990 nominated for 2 Oscars with Mel Gibson and Glenn Close) The Taming of the Shrew (1967 nominated for 2 Oscars with Liz Taylor and Richard Burton), Jesus of Nazareth (1977 with Robert Powell, Christopher Plummer and Anne Bancroft) La Traviata (1982 nominated for 2 Oscars) Othello (1986 nominated for 1 Oscar) In 1972, for moral reasons, he refused to work as director for The Godfather. Francis Ford Coppola then got this job. Only four weeks ago in January 2018 his son declared that his father is too ill. He's on my personal list for the first time this year. But he would certainly be a possible candidate for the official Deathlist 2019.

Wow, Book, you actually keep track of the deaths? Thanks!

Congrats Book 1920 Fanny Waterman /Arnold Yarrow 1921 Elizabeth Kelly/ Ray Lawler 1922 Betty White/Rex Richards 1923 Gloria Whelan/ Freeman Dyson 1924 Zizi Jeanmaire/Christopher Tolkien 1925 Ysanne Churchman/Pete Murray 1926 Gudrun Ure/Leonard Fenton 1927 Mary Higgins-Clark/Frank Windsor 1928 Estelle Harris/Tommy Docherty 1929 Patricia Routledge/Eric Carle

Same here, what else can I say

Zeffirelli's death brings me up to two!

I wish I could say that about other pools too, e.g. the DDP!

My 9th hit, quite happy with my list this year (even though I probably won’t have another hit for the rest of the year now that I said it)

Book you are flying! Next Round: 1920 - Michael Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead/Clarissa Eden 1921 - George "Jonny" Johnson/Nexhmije Hoxha 1922 - Norman Lear/Lucia Hiriart Pinochet 1923 - Bob Barker/Baroness Jill Knight 1924 - Robert Solow/Cicely Tyson 1925 - Sydney Samuelson/Angela Lansbury 1926 - Johnny Beattie/Doreen Mantle 1927 - Pope Benedict XVI/Margaret Stuart Barry 1928 - Richard M Sherman/Sally Oppenheim-Barnes 1929 - Bob Newhart/Thelma Barlow Hits: Harry Leslie Smith Stanley Donen

I knew it would happen this June. Rest in peace.

He is dead at 96 years, another one big miss in official DL. RIP to a cultural genius, my 7th hit. https://www.lanazione.it/firenze/cronaca/morto-franco-zeffirelli-1.4647533

He is the first British MP in history to reach his 103rd birthday !

Franco Zeffirelli is dead. https://www.google.it/amp/s/www.lanazione.it/firenze/cronaca/morto-franco-zeffirelli-1.4647533/amp

Looks like she's just seen the news that the Tories are polling fourth currently.

Airdrie?? I'd rather be stuck in Deidrie

Forget it. Fucking video won't load

The awards one would have been tonnes of years out of date. This thread is about a new admin, not new moderators as the other thread was. The main argument for another admin is that the current sole admin who does anything can't be arsed to make simple, twenty second changes like turning a swear filter off. This level of apathy is cause for concern. I may well leave the forum if this shower of shit continues, and this time I mean it...

Franco Zeffirelli is a hit for me! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48648278 1920: Javier Perez de Cuellar + Eileen Bennett 1921: Hugh Downs + Jackie Stallone 1922: Pierre Cardin + Janis Paige 1923: Larry Storch + Pearl Carr 1924: Robert Mugabe+ Eva Marie Saint 1925: Michel Piccoli + Arlene Dahl 1926: Mel Brooks + Alison Lurie 1927: Jerry Stiller + Cleo Laine 1928: Bernard Cribbins + Ethel Kennedy 1929: Ed Asner + Imelda Marcos