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  1. Posted

    40 minutes ago, Windsor said:

    The only winner in all of this is George W. Bush...who suddenly doesn't seem so bad.

     

    Purely by coincidence I was listening to Neil Young's 'Living With War' album when all this kicked off. 'Let's Impeach The President' seemed prescient.

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    1 hour ago, Bibliogryphon said:

    Seeing her name trending on Twitter four days after she was included (against all expectations) on the 2021 Deathlist did give me a bit of a "Did the committee have inside information?" Moment but instead she is proving why she should not be on the list. I think Baroness Williams might have been a better pick but still think Douglas Hurd or Norman Tebbit better still.

     

    She used to smoke like a chimney (I helped film the opening of the library named after her when I was at Dewsbury College in the early 90s so was around her - she was brilliant btw - and witnessed it), but don't know if that's still the case.

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  4. Posted

    On 02/01/2021 at 17:45, friedbutty said:

    At 100, I'd rather die a week long death watching the seaview, doing something I've wanted to do for deacades probably. Rather than a long, safe and miserable death in a care home surrounded by a bunch of empty souls.

    Plus he saved the lives of at least thousands. When the Corona-Karens do nothing but whine!

     

    He's not saved anyone. The money he raised went to NHS Charities Together, not directly to the NHS.  A very worthy cause, and at least it's a legitimate charity,  the money may go towards making waiting areas nicer and that sort of thing, but it's not going to pay for a MRI scanner or extra ICU nurses.

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  8. Posted

    17 hours ago, Paul Bearer said:

    Watched 'What a Whopper' a couple of weeks ago.  I'm thinking all the cast of that film must be dead.  I'm sure I seen it first time round about 50 years ago.  

     

    Try any of The Huggetts films - every single person in those are dead bar Petula Clark!

     

    And more people would have had Barbara Shelley on their lists if they watched Talking Pictures, so think on... :old:

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  9. Posted

    That's a bit of a shocker.  I seem to recall she had a bit of a fling with John Taylor back in the day (lucky thing!), though it may have just been a rumour re press for 'A View To A Kill'. She wasn't one of 'my' Angels, though I was still watching Charlies Angels by the time she was in it. Very sad news indeed.

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  10. Posted

    3 hours ago, Paul Bearer said:

     

    I was watching an old film yesterday I think it was.  Freddie and the dreamers were in it, something about cuckoo's,  can't really remember the title, only caught the last 10 minutes thankfully. The acting from the 60's pop stars was pretty grim. 

     

    I watched that a week or so ago. Slightly desperate stuff, mainly because Freddie Garrity and Pete Birrell were unbelievably annoying in it. The film would have been much improved had the rather stout leader of the Girl Guides pack (Wilhemina Claudia (W.C.) who buys Jim Dale in Carry On Cleo) had dumped Freddie physically in a dung heap - it would have been a nice and justified bit of physical comedy. And what on earth were Kenneth Connor and John Le Mesurier thinking of appearing in such rubbish? It surely must have been a favour to someone.

     

    Anyway, we're going wildly off-topic here, though Talking Pictures TV is really handy for reminding us of actors/potential future DDP fodder.

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  11. Posted

    On 01/01/2021 at 19:26, Deathrace said:

    Yes, I'm sure he was a decent bloke etc but he was hardly Sean Connery. That's what I call a big miss 

     

    Although the vast majority of us will have known him as Alan Bradley, he was quite a big star back in the day. Not exactly Sean Connery/Michael Caine admittedly, but definitely quite a major player in 50s Brit flicks. Watch a few old films on Talking Pictures - I guarantee he'll be in a few of them, and not in the "oi! that's my ladder!" blink-and-you'll-miss-it Sam Kydd-type cameos either.

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  12. Posted

    12 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

    Christ!!!

    I never would have thought that she would be, well, 80! :(

     

    She isn't. I could have sworn she was born in 1940, but according to Wikipedia it was 1942.

     

    As for looking haggard, well, she was hardly known as a chubster, was she? Plus that Agatha Christie role doesn't exactly look the most glamorous of parts. 

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  13. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

    It is always good to be 'ITK' and you have previously demonstrated that you are, VT.

    Thanks.

     

    Regarding weight issues, unless you really are ridiculously heavy (as in proper Guinness Book of Records/need a winch to get you out of bed) then it tends to be co-morbidities that make the difference. I was thinking of Robbie Coltrane re the drinking - he's now really big (unless he's recently lost weight, dunno) but the drinking and smoking will exacerbate his already iffy health problems; Candy used to shove candy up his nose frequently and as he was already prone to a heart attack due to his weight, that probably just brought the inevitable closer.

     

    I suspect Frost's friends will have a word if his weight/health gets too problematic - both Simon Pegg and Peter Serafinowicz have got themselves in good shape in recent years (though there are rumours of how Serafinowicz lost so much weight). That or a wake-up call a la Peter Jackson and Kevin Smith.

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  14. Posted

    On 01/01/2021 at 13:17, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

    An outside bet would be Nick Frost.

    He is getting so large that you will soon be able to pop him like a balloon.

    Remember John Candy.....

     

    Probably only a problem if Frost is also drinking heavily and/or shovelling copious amounts of coke up his nose.

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  15. Posted

    On 01/01/2021 at 13:40, Handrejka said:

     

    Lots of mentions for Michael Caine, what about his co-star in Alfie Murray Melvin?

     

    Pops up from time to time (and a couple of people I know have seen him on tube in the last year). Seems in fine health, though obviously get on in age now.

     

    Having only finding out about the death of Mike Lennox via Toby Hadoke's Doctor Who obit video, Murray Melvin would be another blow to the rapidly dwindling cast of Smashing Time. Rita Tushingham now nearly 80 too, though in good health.

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    On 01/01/2021 at 00:50, Miranda lass said:

    One of my personal deathlist is June Spencer 102 in 2021. Shocked she was not included. If she survives 2021, she will surely be on the 2022 list.

    Why do u think she hasn't been included yet? :huh:

     

    Ysanne Churchman would be another good pick. Born 1925, was Grace Archer and also in Doctor Who.

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    Old, isn't it? Other than a few 'younger' (and I use that loosely) types with cancer - Nolan, Doherty - they're all ancient

     

    I still think David Crosby will outlive the rest of CSNY, the Byrds and everyone associated with Laurel Canyon just to be awkward and for the hell of it. And Shane MacGowan, he'll be like Lemmy - it'll be a non lifestyle-related disease that gets him. 

     

    James Whale is a serious omission.

  18. Posted

    Surprised my sister hasn't messaged me from Australia with "I told you so", as it was her suggestion that led us to putting him on our list a few years ago. 

     

    Anyway, RIP.  Gerry And The Pacemakers are hugely significant in British culture, even if they weren't actually much cop artistically.

  19. Posted

    19 hours ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

    Any chance you thought about having Trump and then deciding against.....

     

    Sadly no. LIke Murdoch, the bad don't die young. Look how long I've had Ken Bates on my personal DDP list.

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  20. Posted

    While I don't wish him ill, he's a goner because I was *this* close to putting him on my list and then didn't at the last minute. Mark Eden was the same and look what happened there. So, sorry for dooming you Larry.

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  24. Posted

    Aww, sad news about Shabba Doo. I remember being quite impressed that he was one of the main dancers on the Who's That Girl tour when I saw Madonna at Roundhay Park.

     

    Wasn't he in that Toni Basil TV special - I know Spaz Attack was, mainly because I found it hilarious her keep calling out "Spaz" at someone (which, being about 10 at the time I would have done...)  so was Shabba Doo the other dancer in that? I definitely knew of him before his Madonna gig.

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