I would accuse you Brits of making up celebrities again, but i see Clive Swift was in Frenzy and Death Line.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 February 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
...and Excalibur!
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 February 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
i like to think he's at last free to disregard the cow in the field if he so chooses
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 February 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
xp
oh I'd forgotten he was Arthur's dad in Excalibur, and that Dr Who anecdote - lol!
― calzino, Friday, 1 February 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
which makes me think if I'd have been in a more ruthless mood I'd have deffo put John Boorman on my dead pool list this year.
― calzino, Friday, 1 February 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
Can't remember the show but Charlie Boorman and Jason Connery were on the same one last year (2017? Surely not 2016?) and the former said to the latter "haha my dad made your dad wear a happy".
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 2 February 2019 01:03 (five years ago) link
^ Celebrity Masterchef.
― ailsa, Saturday, 2 February 2019 09:46 (five years ago) link
Gorilla Biscuits guitarist Alex Brown, 52, of an aneurysm.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
Yikes
― flappy bird, Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
Ron Hutchinson of the Vitaphone Project and other work in film preservation.
https://www.facebook.com/ron.hutchinson.908
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 3 February 2019 23:58 (five years ago) link
... was married to Margaret Drabble, wtf!
Their son presents Gardeners' World (?? Gardening Today?? Garden Time, whatever) and looks exactly like his dad.
― fetter, Monday, 4 February 2019 09:30 (five years ago) link
Oh my goodness, he does, doesn't he? I never realised he was their son but I know *exactly* who you are talking about. He's one of the ones who presents some of the packages and also does a lot of broadcasting from Chelsea each year.
― Madchen, Monday, 4 February 2019 09:36 (five years ago) link
Wow, the Swift/Drabble clan get around as much as the Corens and the Freuds, don't they?
― Madchen, Monday, 4 February 2019 09:39 (five years ago) link
'Creature From the Black Lagoon' Star Julie Adams Dies at 92
https://comicbook.com/horror/2019/02/04/julie-adams-dies-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-star/?fbclid=IwAR0ec62ZkwkBDGma3IrD0RBWs0VDVvl9e7H6HiGWplY6hjNKnjJj8WiwqaA
― nickn, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
https://metro-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/metro.co.uk/2019/02/04/young-restless-star-kristoff-st-john-dies-aged-52-8440198/
Kristoff St John, 52
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:55 (five years ago) link
Finnish ski jumper (and so much more) Matti Nykänen at 55.https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/troubled_finnish_ski_jumping_legend_matti_nykanen_dead_at_55/10629072A biopic seems inevitable.
― breastcrawl, Monday, 4 February 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
sounds like a finnish gazza, albeit a gazza that actually won a shitload of stuff
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link
RIP big man. One of my first sports heroes iirc.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
Gazza comparison seems apt.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
Was there ever a Finnish Moaty though?
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
if only ilx had a resident finn who could weigh in
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
"What are skis?"
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 February 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
lol
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
There was already a biopic about him a few years ago. Dude was also a wifebeater and a violent drunk who went to jail for stabbing a friend of his (he survived), so the glorification he's receiving right now makes me feel kinda uncomfortable.
― Tuomas, Monday, 4 February 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link
thx for weighing in, resident finn
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
how does he measure up against Walter Steiner
― Οὖτις, Monday, 4 February 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
How many ski jumping biopics do we actually need?https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JpIbVyQbUuw/WQR4wi9Qe5I/AAAAAAAAMl0/hbIGrWebi_4_bu4eB8SWHwQCgTmPmeccgCEw/s1600/image0008.jpg
― Madchen, Monday, 4 February 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
Didn’t mean to glorify him (don’t think people here are glorifying Gazza either tbh). I read that stuff in the article too - thought the “troubled” in the url would be enough of a warning. Still, so much talent and fame gone wrong, it’s the stuff biopics are made of/for.
― breastcrawl, Monday, 4 February 2019 23:14 (five years ago) link
ban biopics tbh
― Οὖτις, Monday, 4 February 2019 23:14 (five years ago) link
Ban biopics of winter sports stars for sure.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 00:14 (five years ago) link
Ban all biopics apart from ones about Nazis imo.
― calzino, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
Ban everybody but Julian Schnabel, he did this right two or three times
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link
C Y Lee, author of Flower Drum Song, at 102.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/cy-lee-author-of-the-best-selling-novel-the-flower-drum-song-dies-at-102/2019/02/03/29c2d7e4-2803-11e9-984d-9b8fba003e81_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2Xui1Qw8FWfPYtKroRMvgl2kJk_V61sAyRJdYh2somOpJqGog52lP-khI&utm_term=.5d7aca791dc0
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 02:24 (five years ago) link
Too bad he wasted all those years painting before figuring out what he was good at.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 02:38 (five years ago) link
Science Fiction writer Carol Emshwiller:
https://locusmag.com/2019/02/carol-emshwiller-1921-2019/
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:11 (five years ago) link
oh no! RIP
― legislative fanboy halfwit (Οὖτις), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
Albert Finney
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/08/albert-finney-dies-film-tom-jones-orient-express-millers-crossing
― Alba, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
Aw shit, I loved him.
― suzy, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
one of the greats for sure, rip big man
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
He did so much great stuff, from Annie to Wolfen.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
Aww man. He was fantastic as Churchill in 'The Gathering Storm'. RIP
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link
aye, he was a fine fine actor, and in a lot of class movies. RIP.
― calzino, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
Jim Dunlop, of guitar picks and pedals
https://www.jimdunlop.com/category/remembering-jim.do
― peace, man, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
If you've never seen Finney opposite Diane Keaton in Shoot the Moon, you're missing one of the great portrayals of male white privilege.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link
I've probably only seen five or six Albert Finney films...He's fantastic in <i>Miller's Crossing</i>.
― clemenza, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link
I know it's a divisive film, but Big Fish and his performance in it really moved me, and opened up space for a little bonding moment for me and my dad. RIP.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
It's okay to admit it: he was awesome in Erin Brockovich.
I will be re-watching Miller's Crossing tonight.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
I’m out for a good time. All the rest is propaganda.
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
he really was
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link
Great clip from a 1960 interview...https://youtu.be/NRMCTgJnmTo
― Michael Jones, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link