dead Ken Russell

[Death Watch Beatle 41]

This news is a couple of months old now, but worth reporting, I feel.

 

http://news.bbc.co.u...ilm/3665658.stm

 

MRSA seems to be a bit of a bugger when you catch it, so add that to being 77 years old and you have an interesting mix. One to watch perhaps?

 

DWB

[Grim_Rita 4]

He's coming to give us a lecture in Uni soon so let's hope he makes it till then

[Teddy 21]

He's coming to give us a lecture in Uni soon so let's hope he makes it till then

Make sure you ask him how he's doing healthwise

[Guest Bury The Bastard]

I see the government has a radical new plan to beat mrsa- They are going to clean the hospitals. I say it's tampering with God's will. But as me ma used to say 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger'. I feel Ken will be with us for several years yet.

[grobler 35]

Just walked into the Big Brother House.....mad...but healthy

[Guest I TEMPT FATE]

...bit unsteady on his feet. couldn't walk up or down the stairs without help. ...unless its a front ??

[grobler 35]

...bit unsteady on his feet. couldn't walk up or down the stairs without help. ...unless its a front ??

Was he ? I didn't actually see him(dont watch such drivel) , but I heard him . Sounded ok...but maybe he is a little frail . The rough and tumble of the House might see him off

[maryportfuncity 10,657]

Just saw summat on the Carlisle United message board about it. He's a right lush, loves his wine. The pace of that show won't do his ticker any favours. Then again, he's so out of touch with reality he'll doubtless struggle to generate sympathy and be outta there sharpish.

[Lard Bazaar 3,800]

Perhaps they've put him in there purposely to try and blag the first Big Brother Onscreen Death.

[Tempus Fugit 214]

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[Teddy 21]

From the little I did see, Ken's need for a helping hand seemed more to do with hitting the vino a little too hard whilst waiting in the green room to be driven on - especially given his dire impersonation of the previous winner, Pete Bennett, and his Tourette's Syndrome

[Windsor 2,233]

Who would have guessed that H from Steps was gay...

 

 

Telling the nation in a tabloid newspaper on the day he enters the house.

 

 

Edit:

Ken's Wiki page had already been updated:

As he entered the house, he sang 'Singing in the Rain' as a homage to Kubrick's A Clockwork, leading to some claims that he was inebriated.

[themaninblack 2,112]

Perhaps they've put him in there purposely to try and blag the first Big Brother Onscreen Death.

 

Thinking that meself....

[maryportfuncity 10,657]

Perhaps they've put him in there purposely to try and blag the first Big Brother Onscreen Death.

 

Thinking that meself....

 

Hmm, that's a toughie. I don't think a death would do them much good in the long run. I think he's in there because he's half a name desperate enough to do it and he's lost touch with reality to the point that he'll make for entertaining television. I doubt they'll shed tears if he dies in the months afterwards, it'd be a disaster if he died in the house this week, for them anyway.

 

Does anyone have him as a deadpool pick this year?

[Kain 0]

Perhaps they've put him in there purposely to try and blag the first Big Brother Onscreen Death.

 

Thinking that meself....

 

Hmm, that's a toughie. I don't think a death would do them much good in the long run. I think he's in there because he's half a name desperate enough to do it and he's lost touch with reality to the point that he'll make for entertaining television. I doubt they'll shed tears if he dies in the months afterwards, it'd be a disaster if he died in the house this week, for them anyway.

 

Does anyone have him as a deadpool pick this year?

I reckon he's trying to get on next year's DL - they all have their own agenda's for going for BB and his seems most likely to be searching for posthumus fame

[maryportfuncity 10,657]

Seriously; Ken Russell is daft enough to think he's still happening. The man is in denial, he turned up in a discussion about home produced movies last year arguing - without a hint of irony - that the future was directors making their work available for download and that the major studios were on borrowed time. It didn't seem to occur to him that he'd been reduced to making movies that way because the studios were sick of financing his over-blown garbage that was being peddled to smaller and smaller audiences.

[Cowboy Ronnie 78]

Isn't Ken Russell sort of a pervy film director? I seem to remember various actresses getting their kit off in the few minutes of Lair of the White Worm that I sat through. It was nice to see him introduce himself as "Britian's most famous film director" to the other BB housemates last night. Maybe being around Miss ex-GB and that Bollywood woman will get him in such a state he'll have a heart attack.

 

At the risk of turning this into a BB thread, my favourite moment thus far was when Miss ex-GB started to guess Jermaine Jackson was from Africa when she first met him. To her credit, he was dressed like Eddie Murphy in Coming to America.

[maryportfuncity 10,657]

Britain's most famous film director, hold on I'll ask young MPFC, he likes going to films........ah, no, wait a minute, he named three people posting films on You Tube who are better known and loved these days.

[Magere Hein 1,400]

Britain's most famous film director

That'd be Alfred Hitchcock, no?

 

regards,

Hein

[maryportfuncity 10,657]

If you limit it to the live ones it's arguably Anthony Mingella or Ridley Scott. Put it this way, famous people get paid loads of money to 'work.' Others drink wine like it's lemonade, stumble into the Big Brother house and get paid a few quid to rant and ramble! I won't be tunin' in....got a DVD of the first Alien movie to watch!

[Youth in Asia 1,087]

Isn't Ken Russell sort of a pervy film director? I seem to remember various actresses getting their kit off in the few minutes of Lair of the White Worm that I sat through. It was nice to see him introduce himself as "Britian's most famous film director" to the other BB housemates last night. Maybe being around Miss ex-GB and that Bollywood woman will get him in such a state he'll have a heart attack.

 

At the risk of turning this into a BB thread, my favourite moment thus far was when Miss ex-GB started to guess Jermaine Jackson was from Africa when she first met him. To her credit, he was dressed like Eddie Murphy in Coming to America.

 

most annoying has to be that tabloid journalist who is trying to make out she's there undercover getting a scoop or something, rather than being another sad old attention-seeker.

[Godot 149]

Isn't Ken Russell sort of a pervy film director?

Right in one. Nuns' bums in The Devils I recall. Then there was Glenda Jackson baring her scrawny frame in Sons and Lovers, not to mention the "duelling cocks" scene between Oliver Reed and Alan Bates.

[maryportfuncity 10,657]

Pervy but not porn, dozens of films not a spurt of jiz on view! Kinda tame by today's standards as well, much of it now - IMHO - looks much ado about nowt much.

[Vinegar Tits 606]

most annoying has to be that tabloid journalist who is trying to make out she's there undercover getting a scoop or something, rather than being another sad old attention-seeker.

Another person I've worked with. She half scared me to death at first (very forthright to put it mildly) but she was alright. Better than Jane 'Twunt' Moore anyway.

 

Anyway, here's hoping the first BB death will be when Jade goes in this weekend

[millwall32 114]

Isn't Ken Russell sort of a pervy film director?

Right in one. Nuns' bums in The Devils I recall. Then there was Glenda Jackson baring her scrawny frame in Sons and Lovers, not to mention the "duelling cocks" scene between Oliver Reed and Alan Bates.

 

I do sometimes despair of this forum. In what way is Ken Russel a "pervy" film driector. Unless there is something "pervy" in his private life that I am unaware of. There certainly isn't anything "pervy" in any of his films, unless you count nudity and sex perverted in themselves.