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oh I'd forgotten he was Arthur's dad in Excalibur, and that Dr Who anecdote - lol!
― calzino, Friday, 1 February 2019 23:01 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
^ Celebrity Masterchef.
― ailsa, Saturday, 2 February 2019 09:46 (seven years ago)
Gorilla Biscuits guitarist Alex Brown, 52, of an aneurysm.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:16 (seven years ago)
Yikes
― flappy bird, Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:44 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
... 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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
'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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
RIP big man. One of my first sports heroes iirc.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:33 (seven years ago)
Gazza comparison seems apt.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:34 (seven years ago)
Was there ever a Finnish Moaty though?
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:42 (seven years ago)
if only ilx had a resident finn who could weigh in
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:55 (seven years ago)
"What are skis?"
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 February 2019 21:57 (seven years ago)
lol
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 22:01 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
thx for weighing in, resident finn
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 22:06 (seven years ago)
how does he measure up against Walter Steiner
― Οὖτις, Monday, 4 February 2019 22:08 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
ban biopics tbh
― Οὖτις, Monday, 4 February 2019 23:14 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
Ban all biopics apart from ones about Nazis imo.
― calzino, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 00:36 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
Too bad he wasted all those years painting before figuring out what he was good at.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 02:38 (seven years ago)
Science Fiction writer Carol Emshwiller:
https://locusmag.com/2019/02/carol-emshwiller-1921-2019/
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:11 (seven years ago)
oh no! RIP
― legislative fanboy halfwit (Οὖτις), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:15 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
Aw shit, I loved him.
― suzy, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:06 (seven years ago)
one of the greats for sure, rip big man
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:07 (seven years ago)
He did so much great stuff, from Annie to Wolfen.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:09 (seven years ago)
Aww man. He was fantastic as Churchill in 'The Gathering Storm'. RIP
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:11 (seven years ago)
aye, he was a fine fine actor, and in a lot of class movies. RIP.
― calzino, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:12 (seven years ago)
Jim Dunlop, of guitar picks and pedals
https://www.jimdunlop.com/category/remembering-jim.do
― peace, man, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:13 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
he really was
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:49 (seven years ago)
Great clip from a 1960 interview...https://youtu.be/NRMCTgJnmTo
― Michael Jones, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:50 (seven years ago)
Oh fuck, that's why his thread was revived, awesome actor RIP Albert ;_;
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Friday, 8 February 2019 15:28 (seven years ago)
xp yeah, Albert Finney in Erin Brockovich >>>>> Benicio Del Toro in Traffic
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 8 February 2019 15:32 (seven years ago)
They’re both the best things about so-so movies, I’d argue.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Friday, 8 February 2019 16:39 (seven years ago)