gcreptile 10,736 Posted June 6, 2015 Irish food critic Paolo Tullio dead at (most likely) 65: http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/food-and-wine-critic-paolo-tullio-passes-away-680395.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 20,501 Posted June 6, 2015 Richard Johnson, British actor, 87. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33036755 He was in amongst others, Khartoum, The Four Feathers, Anthony and Cleopatra and The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted June 6, 2015 Richard Johnson, British actor, 87. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33036755 He was in amongst others, Khartoum, The Four Feathers, Anthony and Cleopatra and The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. Shame. He was great in 'Anglo-Saxon Attitudes'... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,060 Posted June 8, 2015 Karen DeCrow, supporter of women’s rights and gender equality, died on Friday in her home in Jamesville, New York. She was 76 years old. According to Rowena Malamud, DeCrow’s longtime friend, the women’s rights activist died from melanoma. DeCrow’s friends described her as the “perfect model” for women’s rights movement. DeCrow was the President of the National Organization for Women (NOW) from 1974 to 1977. Was all I could do to not post this in Somewhere Over the Rainbow without further evidence. Had she never changed her name I would have, as that's the fly in the ointment. Feminist, NOW, no mention of marriage/kids, and Rowena the "longtime friend"; pah-leeez. So I stuck it in this catch-all thread. SC http://www.inquisitr.com/1287912/gender-equality-trailblazer-and-feminist-lawyer-karen-decrow-dies-at-76/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,336 Posted June 8, 2015 Richard Johnson, British actor, 87. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33036755 He was in amongst others, Khartoum, The Four Feathers, Anthony and Cleopatra and The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. I saw him play Anthony in Anthony & Cleopatra in 1991 at the RSC I am hoping that his original attempt 20 years earlier was a lot better. His Anthony was too old and a bit bluff and his death scene was unitentionally comic. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted June 8, 2015 Russian faith healer Eugenia Davitashvili who claimed to be able to make people live to 100 has died at the age of 65 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia_Davitashvili Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,736 Posted June 8, 2015 Russian faith healer Eugenia Davitashvili who claimed to be able to make people live to 100 has died at the age of 65 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia_Davitashvili She used all her powers on others and none on herself, what a good person. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,248 Posted June 8, 2015 Moments like that suggest that if there is a God, it has a wicked sense of schadenfreude. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted June 8, 2015 Richard Johnson, British actor, 87. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33036755 He was in amongst others, Khartoum, The Four Feathers, Anthony and Cleopatra and The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. I saw him play Anthony in Anthony & Cleopatra in 1991 at the RSC I am hoping that his original attempt 20 years earlier was a lot better. His Anthony was too old and a bit bluff and his death scene was unitentionally comic. Funny that, I saw him in that play too and it was in 1992, with Claire Higgins as Cleopatra...and I agree exactly in what you said about the death scene! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,336 Posted June 9, 2015 Richard Johnson, British actor, 87. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33036755 He was in amongst others, Khartoum, The Four Feathers, Anthony and Cleopatra and The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. I saw him play Anthony in Anthony & Cleopatra in 1991 at the RSC I am hoping that his original attempt 20 years earlier was a lot better. His Anthony was too old and a bit bluff and his death scene was unitentionally comic. Funny that, I saw him in that play too and it was in 1992, with Claire Higgins as Cleopatra...and I agree exactly in what you said about the death scene! Never swim in the same river twice. That must also have been the one with John Nettles as Octavius Caeser. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,443 Posted June 9, 2015 Can't think of a more likely thread than this but just heard that Reg Doyle, formerly Britain's top fireman (i.e. HM Chief Inspector of), has died. Likely to be national obit in a day or two. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted June 9, 2015 The froth has left his cup http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/referee-frank-cappuccino-passes-293848 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,060 Posted June 10, 2015 Gilbert Lewis "the King of a cartoons on Pee Wee's Playhouse. SC http://peewee.com/2015/06/09/rip-gilbert-lewis-aka-the-first-season-king-of-cartoons-on-pee-wees-playhouse/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,060 Posted June 10, 2015 The froth has left his cup http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/referee-frank-cappuccino-passes-293848 +1 for the pun -1 when I first came here I was told always put the deceased's name so that it can be searched. My lesson learned, I'm just passing it, and the (-1) along :-) Hey you broke even. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ankou 17 Posted June 10, 2015 James Last has left the world at 76 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,336 Posted June 10, 2015 James Last has left the world at 76 and then ten years later at 86. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ankou 17 Posted June 10, 2015 WoW. Th James Last has left the world at 76 and then ten years later at 86. Hmm, dying twice is quite a feat I suppose 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,443 Posted June 10, 2015 WoW. Th James Last has left the world at 76 and then ten years later at 86. Hmm, dying twice is quite a feat I suppose 86 is probably the number of chart albums he had as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 20,501 Posted June 10, 2015 The pool of Rons pickable for next year just got smaller. Ron Pollard, former Ladbrokes odds compiler and PR Director, who introduced political betting to the UK, dies at 89. http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/political-betting-pioneer-ron-pollard-dies-at-89/1894144/#newsArchiveTabs=last7DaysNews Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted June 10, 2015 The froth has left his cup http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/referee-frank-cappuccino-passes-293848 +1 for the pun -1 when I first came here I was told always put the deceased's name so that it can be searched. My lesson learned, I'm just passing it, and the (-1) along :-) Hey you broke even. SC The name was in the link when I wrote it but not when I posted it. I blame the Government. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted June 10, 2015 WoW. Th James Last has left the world at 76 and then ten years later at 86. Hmm, dying twice is quite a feat I suppose 86 is probably the number of chart albums he had as well. Number of albums 65. Changed his name from Hans to sound less German. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33075466. Thank providence for the BBC. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted June 11, 2015 if James Last had been on the deathlist you could have had the caption Last Rites ! But he wasn't. So you can't. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted June 11, 2015 the producer of the Rocky film franchise Robert Chartoff has died at 81 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-chartoff-dead-rocky-raging-719777 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 20,501 Posted June 11, 2015 Ron Moody, most famously Fagin in Oliver!, 91. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33094914 4 DDP teams don't have to think it out again. https://youtu.be/96rC4X_KWl4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,736 Posted June 11, 2015 WoW. Th James Last has left the world at 76 and then ten years later at 86. Hmm, dying twice is quite a feat I suppose 86 is probably the number of chart albums he had as well. Number of albums 65. Changed his name from Hans to sound less German. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33075466. Thank providence for the BBC. In Germany, he even had 115 albums in the charts. It's the record. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites