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  1. 21 hours ago, The Daredevil said:

    I’d say Randolph Scott for 1987. Also, I think Ernest Borgnine was the biggest 2012 miss by far.

    I'd have said either Rita Haworth or Liberace. 

     

    I was going to say Dennis Potter for 1994 but it seems he didn't reveal his illness until February that year. He died in June that year, just 9 days after his wife.

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  2. 20 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

    Just a couple of months until TCM Remembers 2022 drops. Thought I'd do a run through thus far of who I think will definitely appear, and some possible inclusions.

    Ordered by date of death since the last tribute released on December 21, 2022...

    Dead certs

    Sally Ann Howes, actress [died 2021, before tribute released but news of death came after]
    Jean-Marc Vallée, director [died 2021, after tribute released]
    Betty White, actress [died 2021, after tribute released]
    Peter Bogdanovich, director
    Sidney Poitier, actor
    Marilyn Bergman, songwriter
    Dwayne Hickman, actor
    Yvette Mimieux, actress
    Hardy Krüger, actor
    Gaspard Ulliel, actor
    Meat Loaf, singer / actor
    Howard Hesseman, actor
    Carleton Carpenter, actor
    Monica Vitti, actress
    Douglas Trumbull, director / special effects
    Ivan Reitman, director
    Sally Kellerman, actress
    Conrad Janis, actor
    Tony Walton, set and costume designer
    Mitchell Ryan, actor
    Jimmy Lydon, actor
    William Hurt, actor
    Estelle Harris, actress
    Nehemiah Persoff, actor
    Gilbert Gottfried, comedian / actor
    Michel Bouquet, actor
    Robert Morse, actor
    Fred Ward, actor
    Vangelis, composer
    Ray Liotta, actor
    Bo Hopkins, actor
    Philip Baker Hall, actor
    Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor
    Joe Turkel, actor
    Lenny Von Dohlen, actor
    James Caan, actor
    Tony Sirico, actor
    Larry Storch, actor
    L. Q. Jones, actor
    Bob Rafelson, director
    David Warner, actor
    Paul Sorvino, actor
    Mary Alice, actress
    Bernard Cribbins, actor
    Pat Carroll, actress
    Nichelle Nichols, actress
    Clu Gulager, actor
    Olivia Newton-John, singer / actress
    Anne Heche, actress
    Wolfgang Petersen, director / producer
    Virginia Patton, actress
    Marsha Hunt, actress
    Jean-Luc Godard, director / screenwriter
    Irene Papas, actress
    Henry Silva, actor
    Louise Fletcher, actress
    Venetia Stevenson, actress
    Joan Hotchkis, actress
    Sacheen Littlefeather, actress
    Austin Stoker, actor
    Michael Callan, actor
    Angela Lansbury, actress

    Possible inclusions

    Joan Copeland, actress
    Bob Saget, comedian / actor
    Michel Subor, actor
    Louie Anderson, comedian / actor
    Robert Wall, actor
    Anna Karen, actress
    Alan Ladd Jr., industry executive
    Tim Cosidine, actor
    Akira Takarada, actor
    Jimmy Wang Yu, actor
    Rae Allen, actress
    Jacques Perrin, actor
    Kenneth Tsang, actor
    Joanna Barnes, actress
    Andra Martin, actress
    Faye Marlowe, actress
    Kenneth Welsh, actor
    Dennis Waterman, actor
    Linda Lawson, actress
    Maureen Arthur, actress
    Artie Kane, composer / conductor
    Peter Brook, director
    John Steiner, actor
    Leon Vitali, actor
    William Reynolds, actor
    Ralph Eggleston, animator
    Jack Ging, actor
    Coolio, rapper / actor
    Eileen Ryan, actress

    Will add to it over the next 6 weeks and hopefully I'll get most right. Anyone I've missed?

    Burt Metcalfe.

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  3. 3 hours ago, theoldlady said:

    I wonder how many of us here have family and friends who actually know about this site and about how much many of us read and post things here? This is a secret hobby for me. 

    An old school friend of mine knows about this website and he knows I know about it, but not sure if he knows I post on it (we don't talk anymore). My mum occasionally comes out with things which makes me wonder if she knows but I have never dared ask her. 

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  4. On 02/03/2022 at 20:41, Handrejka said:

    A bit of both. I know some overlap is bound to happen on a small island without a huge amount of shops and that's fine. One example is that she never used to wear red, it's a colour I wear quite a lot and now when we meet up she is almost always in red. She even bought us matching sunglasses,  gave me a blue pair (a colour I do not wear and she does) and kept the red pair for herself. 

    Today she gave me a headband, added that she bought one for herself as well and we should wear them together when we next to out.

    I know it's not that big a deal, but something similar happened to me at university and that ended up escalating to other stuff so I am on my guard a bit.

    She has now bought us matching ponchos!

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  5. On 17/09/2022 at 17:48, Toast said:

     

    I read that and found it quite entertaining.  But I had no interest in reading a sequel.  These things usually suffer from diminishing returns.

    Same for me. I might read the sequal one day, but not too bothered if I don 't.

     

    I am  currently reading The Island of Extraordinary Captives by Simon Parkin about The Hutchinson Square Internment Camp.

    I live quite literally found the corner from there so it's about time I read up on the history of somewhere which is almost on my doorstep.

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  6. 2 minutes ago, JQW said:

    I accidentally won some tickets to see them a few years ago by simply liking a social media account of the local bus company. I didn't go. 

    Oh I would have loved those. One of my biggest readers is never seeing them live.


  7. 17 hours ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

     

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    American actor  Brad Davis died on this day in 1991 aged just  41.

    His first big break in acting was in an NBC television network soap opera  called  How to survive a marriage  (1974) but he Spon progressed to film within less than two years.

    Undoubtedly his biggest hit was Midnight Express (1978) . A prison drama directed by Alan Parker  in which he played the lead role of Billy Hayes.Bo Hopkins,  Randy Quaid  and John Hurt were part of the cast too.   

             Davis won a Golden Globe  award for new star of the year for his performance  and received two BAFTA nominations for most promising newcomer  and Beat actor in a leading role.

    Roles in Chariots of fire(1981),  A small circle of friends (1980), Cold Steel (1987) alongside a then largely unknown  Sharon Stone and  the lead role in Larry Kramers pretty much autobiographical  play  The Normal heart.

    He married casting director  Susan Bluestein in 1976 and they  had one child together.  

    Brad who was bisexual , was diagnosed with HIV in 1985 but largely due  to the hysteria especially in the showbiz industry in Hollywood  kept his diagnosis private until shortly before his death.  His wife Susan revealed six years after his death that he committed suicide by drugs overdose. 

     

     

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    brad was gorgeous in his prime.

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  8. 1 hour ago, DevonDeathTrip said:

    I was wondering if there is a list anywhere of living people who have had a death sentence commuted in the UK?  

     

    I was reading about Liam Holden, still only 68, who was sentenced to death in 1973 (Northern Ireland abolished the death penalty shortly afterwards).

     

    Jersey and the Isle of Man were still giving out death sentences  in the 1980s and there must be a few survivors of the 'pause' on executions in the 1960s from the UK mainland, but a definitive list isn't readily available so far as I can see, let alone who might still be alive.

     

    Tony Teare was the last person on Isle of Man to be given the death sentence and that was in 1992. He would only be in his 50s now so possibly still alive.

    Other people given death sentence on IOM since it was abolished in UK are

    James Lunney in 1973 aged 21

    Graham Frankland in 1980 aged 27/28

    Michael Pate in 1981 aged 21

    Stephen Moore in 1982 aged 18

     

    I think that's it. All of them could potentially still be living.

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