YoungWillz

Oh come on, screw the nut......

Rather relieved deadsox went the same route as I did and missed Wilkins....

As it transpires, Wilkins is a miss for my 1982 TOTP theme team (third miss of the year so far) as he was on this little number UK #2:

Really dead: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/5971854/ray-wilkins-61-has-died-after-suffering-heart-attack/

Trade Union leader Len Murray's widow Heather has reportedly died aged 94. http://www.everythingeppingforest.co.uk/news.htm#ladymurray

Isn't it ironic? Don't you think? Anyhow..... Geoffrey Dodsworth, former Tory MP for South West Hertfordshire, dead at 89. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=geoffrey-hugh-dodsworth&pid=188636600

Lawdy. He'll get a nom for the Cup should I advance and should he survive....

Hospitalised, operation tomorrow...BBC News.

You know how, when OldWillz watches old programmes on the telly, there inevitably seems to follow a death? Well, in the past few days he's caught Connolly's Audience With.... and the Columbo. Woooo.....

Well Anita Shreve has obited. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/03/author-anita-shreve-dies-aged-71-the-pilots-wife

No love for Channing Tatum......

Come on, he's so Hasidic he turns pH paper red. (dry cleans coat and gets it).

He'll be on my Poker team come the second half of the year.

40 years ago today, Ray Noble left his orchestra with only the very thought of you, aged 74.

Glad to see the Winnie Good/Winnie Bad war has settled down. I've read some guff on both sides of an argument before, but that took some time to wade through!

Ah Fergie, I'm glad you are keeping it together. I haven't given up the booze per se, I just don't get out as much as I used to for my own health reasons, so no reason to drink when socialising. Even when I'm over at a pal's house, it's tea or coffee for me. I've had a couple of days out recently and a few mind, and boy does that hit you! But it's always been a going out thing - I'd never drink in the house, ever (Presbyterian upbringing maybe?). I don't know how celebs keep it going without resorting to something - public eye, parties, marketing meetings, etc etc. However, when it's an addiction, like any other, it's got to be medically treated (and I don't mean in the George Best way where you fix them up to continue their addiction).

How is Imelda Marcos bearing up these days? Hah! Meantime, that should be the final nail in the coffin for a Cynthia Heimel obit....

Well, she'll be dead then....

Here's something: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-04-02-breaking--winnie-madikizela-mandela-has-died/?platform=hootsuite

Twitter is busying itself killing off Winnie Mandela.....

Misdirected yourself there CL, really if you want it should be the Screenwriters Thread.

Nah, the US soaps in those days were fantasyland for someone like me living in Thatcher's Britain. They bore no resemblance to my life or even one I aspired to. Anyway, not for this thread and if someone wants to even attempt lists in the soap thread for those, they are welcome to them.

People who were main or recurring cast on Hill Street Blues: Daniel J Travanti (Frank Furillo) - b. 1940 Veronica Hamel (Joyce Davenport) - b. 1943 Michael Conrad (Sgt Phil Esterhaus) - b. 1925; d. 1983 Bruce Weitz (Sgt Mick Belker) - b. 1943 Joe Spano (Lt Henry Goldblume) - b. 1946 Michael Warren (Bobby Hill) - b. 1946 Charles Haid (Andy Renko) - b. 1943 James Sikking (Lt Howard Hunter) - b. 1934; d. 2024 Betty Thomas (Sgt Lucy Bates) - b. 1947 Kiel Martin (Det JD LaRue) - b. 1944; d. 1990 Taurean Blacque (Det Neal Washington) - b. 1940; d. 2022 Rene Enriquez (Lt Ray Calletano) - b. 1933; d. 1990 Ed Marinaro (Joe Coffey) - b. 1950 Barbara Bosson (Fay Furillo) - b. 1939; d. 2023 Robert Prosky (Sgt Stan Jablonski) - b. 1930; d. 2008 Ken Olin (Det Harry Garibaldi) - b. 1954 Mimi Kuzyk (Det Patsy Mayo) - b. 1952 Dennis Franz (Lt Norman Buntz) - b. 1944 Robert Clohessy (Patrick Flaherty) - b. 1957 Megan Gallagher (Tina Russo) - b. 1960 Jon Cypher (Chief Fletcher Daniels) - b. 1932 Robert Hirschfeld (Leo Schnitz) - b. 1942; d. 2009 Vincent Lucchesi (Capt Jerry Fuchs) - b. 1934 Barbara Babcock (Grace Gardner) - b. 1937 Trinidad Silva (Jesus Martinez) - b. 1950; d. 1988 Jeffrey Tambor (Alan Wachtel) - b. 1944 George Wyner (ADA Irwin Bernstein) - b. 1945 Lisa Sutton (Robin Tataglia) - b. ?? Panchito Gomez (Hector Ruiz) - b. 1963 Lee Weaver (Buck Naked) - b. 1930 Deborah Richter (Daryl Ann Renko) - b. 1961 Pat Corley (Chief Coronor Wally Nydorf) - b. 1930; d. 2006 Bobby Ellerbee (Blood) - b. ??

Hmmm, sounds like it might be time for a list or two, if anyone's interested?

Indeed. LA Law was a superb show with an excellent cast (if nothing like a UK legal training in the UK, as I found to my cost later in life).