Ideas and possibilities for 2007

[Godot 148]

I popped in to the National Portrait Gallery today. Glyniss Johns (b. 1923) and Paul Scofield (b. 1922) stood out a bit among the not yet dead actors. Bacall (1924)and Yvonne de Carlo (1922) are also contemporaries.

 

I know he was acting, but I didn't think Scofield looked too clever when in Martin Chuzzlewit and that was a few years back when John Mills was still going, just.

[Canadian Paul 93]

A piece about silent films in today's Telegraph mentions Diana Serra Cary (Baby Peggy), who at 87, it says, is one of only three surviving actors from the silent era. I wonder who the other two are? Mickey Rooney and Shirley Temple? Don't know whether they did silent films. Whoever they are, all three must be upcoming candidates.

I can think of a few:

 

Anita Page (96 in 2006)

Kitty Carlisle (96 in 2006 and on my list for DDP 2006)

Barbara Kent (100 in 2006)

Gloria Stuart (96 in 2006, although she's acted in far more than just silent movies)

 

And that's just off the top of my head. Probably more too if I felt like looking.

[BrunoBrimley 83]

Alan Betterman born this day in 1920......

[Tempus Fugit 212]

 

How about Sid Caesar born in 1922, seen here with DL favourite Red Buttons.

[Godot 148]

A piece about silent films in today's Telegraph mentions Diana Serra Cary (Baby Peggy), who at 87, it says, is one of only three surviving actors from the silent era. I wonder who the other two are? Mickey Rooney and Shirley Temple? Don't know whether they did silent films. Whoever they are, all three must be upcoming candidates.

I can think of a few:

 

Anita Page (96 in 2006)

Kitty Carlisle (96 in 2006 and on my list for DDP 2006)

Barbara Kent (100 in 2006)

Gloria Stuart (96 in 2006, although she's acted in far more than just silent movies)

 

And that's just off the top of my head. Probably more too if I felt like looking.

Goodness some of these women just go on for ever. That's an impressive little list.

I remember Red Buttons hanging from the church steeple in The Longest Day. he doesn't look too bad.

[Cowboy Ronnie 77]

much as it pains me to suggest these two scumbags, their time of this earth looks limited at best:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4623024.stm

 

Maybe some enterprising soul could nominate them both for their 2007 DDP teams

[Josco 48]

much as it pains me to suggest these two scumbags, their time of this earth looks limited at best:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4623024.stm

 

Maybe some enterprising soul could nominate them both for their 2007 DDP teams

You are assuming that they are guilty as charged? Does it not seem a little too convenient that the perpatrators were found so quickly and confessed so soon? Might it not be a combination of political expediency and judicious use of a cattle prod to the nether regions?

[Godot 148]

I blame technology. If they hadn't been watching porno on their TV in the boat and if she hadn't been ringing home on the mobile to tell her mum she was OK, it would never have happened.

[Cowboy Ronnie 77]

I blame technology. If they hadn't been watching porno on their TV in the boat and if she hadn't been ringing home on the mobile to tell her mum she was OK, it would never have happened.

Good point, and something seems amiss with people's priorities in Thailand. The fishermen had a boat with a TV and VCR or DVD player on it, yet one of them was apparently so illiterate instead of signing his name to anything he had to use a thumb print. About 15 years ago I took a trip (in one of those long, thin boats with a whizzing propeller like out of Man with the Golden Gun) down the canals of Bangkok and was amazed to see that inside every single squalid house built on stilts they had a TV. And each one of those TV's was showing porn.

 

Well, not really....

[Godot 148]

I bet tie dye shirts would sell well there at the moment

[Tempus Fugit 212]

Two writers as possibles for '07 are,

 

Mickey Spillane, born 1918

 

and Sci-Fi writer Jack Vance, born 1916.

Anyone who can call a book "Servants of the Wankh" is OK by me.

[BrunoBrimley 83]

Roland Dupres is currently 88 years old and has had a few health scares recently.......a good candidate for next year.

[Banshees Scream 107]

A piece about silent films in today's Telegraph mentions Diana Serra Cary (Baby Peggy), who at 87, it says, is one of only three surviving actors from the silent era. I wonder who the other two are? Mickey Rooney and Shirley Temple? Don't know whether they did silent films. Whoever they are, all three must be upcoming candidates.

I can think of a few:

 

Anita Page (96 in 2006)

Kitty Carlisle (96 in 2006 and on my list for DDP 2006)

Barbara Kent (100 in 2006)

Gloria Stuart (96 in 2006, although she's acted in far more than just silent movies)

 

And that's just off the top of my head. Probably more too if I felt like looking.

Good list there CP - Some ancient actress's that were very famous but out of the

spotlight for a life time.

 

It's amazing to me that there still alive, Silent films are so golden but just to old to bear!

[Guest nsb]

Jeremy Thorpe,

Saddam Hussein

George Bush Snr

Margaret Thatcher

Tony Benn

Sir Alex Ferguson (anyone with a nose that red can't be long for this world)

Duke of Edinburgh

Gordon Brown

[Contemplatio 0]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_V_of_Norway

 

Harald V of Norway

 

A chain-smoker, has had bladder cancer and a heart bypass, 68.

[Godot 148]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_V_of_Norway

 

Harald V of Norway

 

A chain-smoker, has had bladder cancer and a heart bypass, 68.

Good points but he's royal so it won't have been any old patch up job. Heart by-pass, no problem and given up the ciggies. Then again he has to live in Norway. Could be an each-way bet.

[Octopus of Odstock 1,856]

Obviously The old Emir of Kuwait is dead & buried, but it looks like the new one may join him quite soon:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4632060.stm

 

He really doesn't sound a very well chap The only consideration is in case he abdicates, which will push him down the famousness list, but only by a little I would imagine.

[Guest nsb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_V_of_Norway

 

Harald V of Norway

 

A chain-smoker, has had bladder cancer and a heart bypass, 68.

Good points but he's royal so it won't have been any old patch up job. Heart by-pass, no problem and given up the ciggies. Then again he has to live in Norway. Could be an each-way bet.

But he's a Norwegian Royal - not classy enough to qualify for truly top-notch surgery!

[Magere Hein 1,397]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_V_of_Norway

 

Harald V of Norway

 

A chain-smoker, has had bladder cancer and a heart bypass, 68.

I saw him on the box last weekend. He attended the European Speed Skating Championship in Hamar, Norway. He looked OK.

 

Still someone to keep an eye on, but I don't expect him to join the choir invisible anytime soon.

 

regards,

Hein

[Cup of Tea 3]

Whos the fat one from Bowling for Soup?

[BrunoBrimley 83]

Whos the fat one from Bowling for Soup?

You mean this guy?

 

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his name is Chris Burney and he was born on May 25,1969 in Texas and for the record it is said that his younger brother a lad named Brian is already dead.

[themaninblack 2,112]

It's apt that Chris Burney is in a band with the word 'Bowling' since he looks like a massive bowling ball with a head on top...

[Dr Hackenslash 24]

The whale in the thames can't have long left...

[Paul Bearer 5,650]

The whale in the thames can't have long left...

It hasn't............ its dead

[Octopus of Odstock 1,856]

Hmm... the BBC seem to think the Whale's life/death is more important than that of Rugova's AND near war in Sri Lanka & protests in Nepal. News dumbing down in a big way..