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The Dearly departed....

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    #452
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Can't picture her as an 82 year old. This has been a nasty old year for the arts.


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    #453
    red sean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/actor-andrew-sachs-fawlty-towers-waiter-manuel-dies-35261567.html
    Rest in Peace Manuel, you gave us many great laughs.


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    #454
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Sorry to hear about Andrew Sach's death. We won't forget him for giving us Manuel.


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    #455
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    cml387 wrote: »
    Funnily enough I thought he'd toddled off a while ago.

    "What's the recipe today, Jim?"
    RAYMUNDO it was who used to "leap through the window" and utter those immortal words. As happens, it just came to me out of the blue - my sub-sub-subconscious was clearly working on it since cml87's post.


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    #456
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    funniest episode ??

    https://vimeo.com/180918320


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    #457
    0lddog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    A Desert Island Discs program from a couple of years ago (1980)

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mw07


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    #458
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    He had quite a highbrow taste in music. Can't say I read any of William Trevor's work though I do believe a had a book of short stories of his around here somewhere at some stage.


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    #459
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    John Glenn has passed away at the ripe old age of 95. What a guy!


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    #460
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,544 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Coral Atkins 80 Actress.


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    #461
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,107 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Zsa Zsa Gabor. Almost made the hundred, bless her. An old style star. Somehow the Kardashians are not in the same league, darling.

    "I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names."


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    #462
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Aah! Poor Darlink! She was gorgeous.!


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    #463
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Aah Zsa Zsa. "I am a vunderful housekeeper. I haf been divorced eight times but I haf always kept ze house".


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    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,544 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    George Michael, only 53, RIP....


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    #465
    red sean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    It appears Status Quo have finally died this Christmas with the sad passing of Rick Parfitt. RIP


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    #466
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,544 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Ah here lads, what's up at all, 2016 isn't done yet:

    George S. Irving, 94 Actor.

    Liz Smith, 95 Actress,

    Will someone f**kin hide Neil Diomand for a few days please....

    And throw a blanket over Brian Wilson, Aretha Franklin, Al Jardine, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkle, Charlie Watts, David Crosby, Mike Love, Eric Burdon, Don Everly, Phil Lesh and Garth Hudson please,....

    If really needs be we could tie Jerry Lee Lewis, or Jagger, Dillon and McCarthny out front, we all know they are immortal anyway....


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    #467
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Watership Down author Richard Adams dies aged 96

    Carrie Fisher aged 60



    Whoever is up there deciding this sort of thing needs a serious talking to this year.


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    #468
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    2016 reads like a new novel by George RR Martin.

    Glad I'm not famous and still here...


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    #469
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    It has been a nasty year for certain


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    #470
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Ok, I'll do it then......Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. Only two more days to go!


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, has died at the age of 82.


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    #472
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭cml387


    Mary Tyler Moore.

    Youtube allows you to see what a legacy she leaves, to television in general and particularly for the advancement of women in the media.


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    #473
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    And no one noticed the passing of Gorden Kaye? Au Revoir Rene Artois!


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    #474
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,544 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    And no one noticed the passing of Gorden Kaye? Au Revoir Rene Artois!

    He was well able to hide the sausage......:D


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    #475
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Steady now. Down with that sort of thing! :D


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    #476
    red sean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    The brilliant John Hurt passed away. RiP.
    Unforgettable performances in The Elephant Man and as 'Bird' in The Field.

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/showbiz/john-hurt-dies-after-battle-with-pancreatic-cancer-774395.html


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    #477
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I first saw John Hurt in The Naked Civil Servant. He was a brilliant actor, he was blessed to play interesting, intriguing, amazing characters, he made me cry, he made me laugh, and he could frighten me to death!


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    #478
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭cml387


    Peter Skellern died yesterday.

    He was an officiando of 1920's and 30's type music and had a number of hits during the seventies.

    I really liked his mix of choir and brass band that characterised his music, check out "Love is the sweetest thing" recorded with the Grimethorpe Colliery band.


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    #479
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    There is no let up at all is there?


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    #480
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    There is no let up at all is there?

    The way I look at it Rube, is, it's a queue. We all have our place in the queue. Unlike most queues, this queue is one I don't want to be first in! The interesting thing about this thread is that we can care so much about complete strangers, some of whom we may not even like if we met them.


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    #481
    B00!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,559 ✭✭✭B00!


    My mums favourite actor Mike Connors from Mannix passed last month, I see.


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