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The Dearly departed....

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  • #102
    mike65
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    Just posted this on the TV forum

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056691208

    Pininfarina was the greatest car designer ever. Full Stop. Though like Bertone did produce
    some real clunkers, but that's fashion for you!


  • #103
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Love Sykes. His work is very underrated. Coincidently enough I've been working on a burlesque act inspired by The Plank.
    I won't feel right doing it now.

    I suggest you offer it in memory of Eric. Will have to drag The Plank out again and have a look - real chucklevision.
    OldGoat wrote: »
    Sergio Pininfarina.
    A picture paint a thousand words and this picture speaks elegantly of this mans work.
    1962-ferrari-250-gt-california-swb_1024.jpg

    Just...WOW!


  • #104
    OldRio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,142 ✭✭✭OldRio


    BBDBB wrote: »
    Sad news as Eric Sykes has passed away aged 89
    RIP a very funny man
    The plank

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2RoudtrVv8

    Vary sad news.
    Very funny man and a good comic writer.
    I think he wrote some of the Goon shows with Spike.


  • #105
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2012/07/09/farewell-ernest-borgnine/

    Another legend gone :( Rest in Peace


  • #106
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Aw Marty, go dance with the tomatoes! Brilliant! They don't write like that any more. :D


  • #107
    Jellybaby1
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    Richard Zanuck, film producer aged 77, and also actress Celeste Holm aged 95.


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


    Jon Lord, keyboard player with Deep Purple, died aged 71.


  • #109
    Cicero
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    Stephen Covey author of 7 habits book dies

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/stephen-r-covey-dies-author-of-the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-people-was-79/2012/07/16/gJQARWVkpW_story.html


  • #110
    Jellybaby1
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    I just read those seven habits. I expected to be blown away by them. I wasn't.


  • #111
    Chucken
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    Coronation Street and Keeping up Appearances actor Geoffrey Hughes has died aged 68, his agent said.

    The star, famed for his role as Coronation Street binman Eddie Yates, died last night "peacefully in his sleep" after a "long courageous battle" with prostate cancer, according to his family.

    Hughes also played Twiggy in TV comedy The Royle Family and Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances.

    http://www.standard.co.uk/news/celebritynews/geoffrey-hughes-corries-eddie-yates-loses-cancer-fight-7984835.html


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  • #112
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭cml387


    Chucken wrote: »
    Coronation Street and Keeping up Appearances actor Geoffrey Hughes has died aged 68, his agent said.

    The star, famed for his role as Coronation Street binman Eddie Yates, died last night "peacefully in his sleep" after a "long courageous battle" with prostate cancer, according to his family.

    Hughes also played Twiggy in TV comedy The Royle Family and Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances.

    http://www.standard.co.uk/news/celebritynews/geoffrey-hughes-corries-eddie-yates-loses-cancer-fight-7984835.html


    The classic brummie accent. RIP Geoffrey. Geoffrey? Surely he was really an Eddie deep down.


  • #113
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Brummie?


  • #114
    getz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Brummie?
    liverpool born with a lanky accent


  • #115
    Rubecula
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    Indeed the poor man was born on the Wirral and raised in Liverpool. (I think Norris Green area where I used to live myself) May he rest in peace for all the joy he brought to the screen.

    I remember Eddie Yates being the sidekick of Stan Ogden, and the dancing while stripping the wallpaper with the Royale Family. He always gave me a smile when I saw him on the box.


  • #116
    getz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Indeed the poor man was born on the Wirral and raised in Liverpool. (I think Norris Green area where I used to live myself) May he rest in peace for all the joy he brought to the screen.

    I remember Eddie Yates being the sidekick of Stan Ogden, and the dancing while stripping the wallpaper with the Royale Family. He always gave me a smile when I saw him on the box.
    i am sure my first memory of him was on a tv soap called ;the dustbin men;i could be wrong but it was in the 50/60s


  • #117
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I remember the Dustbinmen, but I don't think Geoffrey Hughes was in it.


  • #118
    Spread
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    Rubecula wrote: »
    Indeed the poor man was born on the Wirral and raised in Liverpool. (I think Norris Green area where I used to live myself) May he rest in peace for all the joy he brought to the screen.

    I remember Eddie Yates being the sidekick of Stan Ogden, and the dancing while stripping the wallpaper with the Royale Family. He always gave me a smile when I saw him on the box.

    Tut tut Rubecula. He was born in either New Brighton, Rock Ferry or Wallasey. I once saw him in Davy Jones's Locker when he was doing a bit of Rep. That was 1969 as far as I remember. He also appeared in Heartbeat as a lovable rogue.


  • #119
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


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

    Huighes' off-stage interests were sailing, golf, cricket, rock music, trees and beer. Born "over the water" on the Wirral*, he was brought up in Liverpool.

    *Wirral Peninsula, a peninsula in the northwest of England, between the rivers Dee and Mersey


  • #120
    Chucken
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    Maeve Binchy just died :(


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  • #121
    Ramette
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    Chucken wrote: »
    Maeve Binchy just died :(

    As well as being a gifted writer she was a truely wonderfully kind person. Who by the way had two cats named Fred & Audrey!


  • #122
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    One of the greats of modern literature. She is going to be very sadly missed.


  • #123
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Spread wrote: »
    Tut tut Rubecula. He was born in either New Brighton, Rock Ferry or Wallasey. I once saw him in Davy Jones's Locker when he was doing a bit of Rep. That was 1969 as far as I remember. He also appeared in Heartbeat as a lovable rogue.

    New Brighton, Rock Ferry and Wallasey are all on the Wirral by the way. I used to get the ferry over as a kid and it was a great place for a day out. I still go there occasionally. I think dear old Geoffrey was one of the more famous of the Wirral's sons. Bless him. He played the loveable rogue to perfection.


  • #124
    poppyvally
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    Goodbye Maeve Binchy, you were such a really nice oul wan


  • #125
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Managed to hear some of Maeve Binchy's interviews on the radio this morning, and remembered hearing them the first time round. Although I didn't take to her books I absolutely loved her interviews. She had a cracking sense of humour and the strangest things always seemed to happen to her! :) She always made me feel that I would have liked to have been Maeve Binchy myself - that is not a well structured sentence but y'get m'drift.


  • #126
    getz
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    sorry to hear of the death of david barbie this week,a real gentleman,he was always on the likes of ,the antique roadshow,bargain hunt,and antiques road trip.


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  • #127
    OldGoat
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    Another sad day for litrature, Gore Vidal has passed away.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #128
    Spread
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    Con Houlihan RIP - the Bard Of Castle Island. Ireland's greatest sports writer and possibly the only contemporary Irishman to have three busts erected in his honour.


  • #129
    EchoO
    Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭EchoO


    I've just discovered that Angharad Rees passed away a couple of weeks back. Demelza Poldark was my first big crush. Very sad news - RIP.

    _61733517_7.jpg


  • #130
    BBDBB
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    Winnie Johnson, the mother of Moors murder victim Keith Bennett has lost her battle with cancer and died still never knowing where Ian Brady buried her son

    a mix of sadness and anger at this news,

    I hope she is finally at peace and if not, then I hope she haunts the f*ck out of Brady


  • #131
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I totally agree with that one BBDBB. Bless her, she had so much pain in her life, may he rot in hell.


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  • #132
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Another old favourite of mine has gone, Phyllis Diller, aged 95yrs. Never did get to see 'Fang'!


  • #133
    0lddog
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    Scott McKenzie

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bch1_Ep5M1s

    ( wish I still had hair into which flowers could be put )


  • #134
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Always loved that song. Sad to hear of his passing.


  • #135
    Ramette
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    the guy who did the voice of the Count Von Count on the Muppets died...

    I used to love that guy (though my grasp of maths has always been one of my weaker subjects!)

    ah the memories...


  • #136
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,767 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I never knew that was what the Count was called! Its still something we say - 'one, ha ha ha' even though our youngest, now 25 was not a child of the muppet era and never saw Sesame Street.


  • #137
    Ramette
    Registered Users Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭Ramette


    Neil Armstrong....


  • #138
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Maureen Toal


    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0825/1224322964711.html


  • #139
    poppyvally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭poppyvally


    Max Bygraves. Remember "Gilly gilly oxen vepper catcha nalla bogin by the sea?"(or words to that effect)


  • #140
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Aw sorry to hear about Max Bygraves. I used to sing that song, I loved it, happy funny songs. But I usually misheard the words of songs and sang them wrong. This is my version:


    "gilly gilly ossen ffpepper castinella over by the sea"

    But it really was this:

    "Gilly-gilly-hassenpfeffer-catch-an-Allan-Bogen-by-the-sea"


  • #141
    BBDBB
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    sad news ladies and gents

    Andy Williams has died aged 84 of cancer


    a great voice

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWcvHYDmkY


    RIP


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  • #142
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Used to like his TV show too. RIP Andy.


  • #143
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Not too long ago I watched a documentary on Andy Williams and he was interviewed about some of the guests and how they were choreographed for the numbers. It seems they thought it was a great idea to have them being all athletic during the song, because Johnny Mathis had been a champion high-jumper in his younger days. And guess what, I found it on Youtube. Andy said it was a tough routine. Both great singers.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFEI8Px4f7Q


  • #144
    Stained Class
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    Herbert Lom. Better known to most as Inspecter Clouseau's boss, Dreyfus, in the Pink Panther movies.
    He was 95.

    R.I.P.


  • #145
    OldGoat
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    I need to re-watch "The Lady-Killers" now.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #146
    Jellybaby1
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    Larry Cunningham died a couple of days ago. But I wasn't a fan.


  • #147
    poppyvally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭poppyvally


    Morgan Freeman. "WHY do they call you Red? Answer "I guess it's because I'm Irish" (shawshank redemption). What a loss!


  • #148
    Chucken
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    :eek: Where did you see that Poppy?

    There were rumours last month too. All false of course.

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/7691866/Please-stop-killing-Morgan-Freeman


  • #149
    poppyvally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭poppyvally


    Chucken wrote: »
    :eek: Where did you see that Poppy?

    There were rumours last month too. All false of course.

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/7691866/Please-stop-killing-Morgan-Freeman

    Your right Chuck....A hoax!, and I fell for it, Sorrrrrrrreee!


  • #150
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    NFL great Alex Karras -- who also played Mongo in "Blazing Saddles" -- died this morning after suffering kidney failure ... this according to a family spokesperson.

    Read more: http://www.tmz.com/category/r-i-p/#ixzz28zzLDBwd


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  • #151
    Jellybaby1
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    'Candygram for Mongo!' Another of my favourite films!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ciVBQixpU


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