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Wolfgang Schäuble, former German finance minister and key figure in the reunification process, has died at the age of 81.

He was paralysed from the waist down after being shot at an election rally in 1990.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/27/german-political-heavyweight-wolfgang-schauble-dies-aged-81

― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 10:50 (two years ago)

Bill Granger, 54

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-67825337

Brought Australian breakfast/cafe culture to Britain therefore responsible for Millennials and Gen Zers not being able to afford houses.

― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 11:48 (two years ago)

Ridiculous harassment. What a stupid waste.

Yeah, this story is infuriating.

― jmm, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 14:13 (two years ago)

Horrible story.

― The Italian Yob (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 15:17 (two years ago)

Tom Smothers

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/arts/television/tom-smothers-dead.html?fbclid=IwAR3-MgTeqtER15xWBemJ5ZIVpEUlcnqueGQewNHn_Lfnvhp2aPACz6sVIoM

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 17:13 (two years ago)

Being reported by numerous accounts that famed visual artist, filmmaker, and provocateur William Pope.L has passed away.

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 17:13 (two years ago)

his 2015 MoCA show was terrific and i still think about it from time to time, RIP

― donna rouge, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 17:22 (two years ago)

Jacques Delors

― The Italian Yob (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 17:23 (two years ago)

... who was 98!

― The Italian Yob (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 17:23 (two years ago)

Tom smothers!

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 17:29 (two years ago)

Pope.L definitely gone - curator of his MoMA show posted on IG to that effect. RIP.

― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 20:18 (two years ago)

Tommy Smothers righteously heckles Dennis Miller and Bill Cosby
https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/11/the_case_of_bil.html

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 22:11 (two years ago)

Thanks. That book Seriously Comic is looking pretty good to me/pvmic

― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 22:40 (two years ago)

“Dangerously Funny” is a great book specifically about the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, highly recommend

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 22:50 (two years ago)

If it’s even a patch on the pants on Kliph Nesteroff’s The Comedians then I need it. You’ve convinced me, rabbit, I’m sold!

― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 December 2023 01:46 (two years ago)

Also I loved that show when I was a kid and recall that the The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour started out life as a summer replacement for it, with a funny name which escapes me at the moment.

― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 December 2023 01:48 (two years ago)

Summer Brothers Smothers Show

― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 December 2023 01:50 (two years ago)

Vague memories of their CBS show. As a really little kid I was fascinated by Tommy's funny expressions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiSKu7SbGNQ

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 28 December 2023 02:33 (two years ago)

Gaston Glock, the man behind the gun, dies aged 94
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/obituary-gaston-glock-man-behind-gun-dies-aged-94-apa-2023-12-27/

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 28 December 2023 02:55 (two years ago)

All this time I never knew there was an actual Glock

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:35 (two years ago)

stop all the glocks...

― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:02 (two years ago)

his son had a fake talk show though some alleged (incorrectly) that he was played by Martin Short

― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:03 (two years ago)

American Family Association founder Don Wildmon, 85

― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Friday, 29 December 2023 00:07 (two years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk65Sk6_o-I

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 December 2023 00:21 (two years ago)

American Family Association founder Don Wildmon, 85

Sadly happening about 40 years after it should have.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 29 December 2023 14:47 (two years ago)

Damn, VH-1 VJ Bobby Rivers, 70! RIP, sophisticated king.

― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Saturday, 30 December 2023 06:22 (two years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puM133wcmdw

― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Saturday, 30 December 2023 06:26 (two years ago)

Not sure I've seen Macca as comfortable with any other host.

― henry s, Saturday, 30 December 2023 14:40 (two years ago)

Actor Tom Wilkinson

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/30/full-monty-actor-tom-wilkinson-dies-aged-75

― Madchen, Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:24 (two years ago)

he was a decent LBJ in Selma and lot's beside but I've already seen him as "fULL mONTY ACTOR.."

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:29 (two years ago)

"best known for his role in The Full Monty"? What the fuck is going on over there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RcnRSmNh3g

― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:31 (two years ago)

Excellent in ... In the Bedroom?

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:32 (two years ago)

The universe has been telling me to rewatch Michael Clayton a lot lately. May this be the final domino effect

― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:37 (two years ago)

A solid actor. I'll vouch for his priapic Benjamin Franklin in John Adams.

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:40 (two years ago)

oh yeah he was fantastic in John Adams. I'd forgotten that was him tbh.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:41 (two years ago)

Founding Father as Founding Fuckhound

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:44 (two years ago)

first saw him in essex boys and he stood out in that sub ritchie romp for me

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:46 (two years ago)

The voice that Tom Wilkinson used for Franklin continues to astonish me: Northamptonshire via Boston, Philadelphia, and London, schoolmasterly, sly, falsely modest. He had to have sounded just like that.
— Justin Sherin (@wychstreet) December 30, 2023

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:49 (two years ago)

"best known for his role in The Full Monty"? What the fuck is going on over there?

Thankfully (and miraculously) he wasn't in any Harry Potter movies because, in the UK, they take preference over absolutely anything anyone has ever done in the rest of their career.

― The Italian Yob (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:50 (two years ago)

https://t.co/C4mKpQkBLO
— Sotiris Tsern (@SotirisTsern) December 30, 2023

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:51 (two years ago)

Excellent in ... In the Bedroom?

The tribute all of us want after passing.

― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:52 (two years ago)

that's settled it - I'm doing John Adams again!

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:54 (two years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I7f4ALqojg

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:57 (two years ago)

This is lovely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7o5kWrbJJE

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:59 (two years ago)

my memory of his Franklin is that he was so completely suited to the horny decadence in Paris that he blended in seamlessly and grumpy, prudish, self-important J Adams arrival was a total buzzkill. I think that was the part of the series that stuck with me the most.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:16 (two years ago)

His IMDb resume is seriously impressive. Long list of quality projects. Besides Sense and Sensibility, my initial role association was Juntao in Rush Hour. He had Alan Rickman range, romantically charming and believably threatening.

― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:34 (two years ago)

Thank calzino for my new screen name

― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:43 (two years ago)

I just need to make a half decent one for myself now!

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 30 December 2023 19:05 (two years ago)

"completely suited to the horny decadence"

...is the new "addicted to the shindig"

...which was the new "knee-deep in the hoopla"

...which was the new "feelin' groovy."

Change my mind

― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 30 December 2023 19:56 (two years ago)

This is lovely:

At first I thought that was old Paul Giamatti sitting next to young Paul Giamatti

― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 December 2023 20:19 (two years ago)

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