good, the last film connery was non-bad in was time bandits
(the last film jack nicholson was good in was king of marvin gardens)
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
connery also a pos - soup-taking, wife-beater - and i won't be too sad when he retires from breathing
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
soup-taking?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
petty ethno-religio-sporting identity issue
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
gets priority over the wife-beating in your disdain tho?
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
(no)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 01:52 (four years ago) link
I also had to look up soup-taking and now I know what it means I'd be grateful if you could explain why it applies to Connery, because I'm not seeing anything in his biography that relates to it
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 08:58 (four years ago) link
You mean apart from supporting Rangers when they were stealing 9 league titles?
― How to Book Michael Fish (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 09:49 (four years ago) link
She’s not famous herself exactly, but Serge Gainsbourg’s twin sister Liliane Ginsburg is still alive at 91 as far as I can tell.
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 1:58 AM (seven hours ago)
he's an irish catholic who supported the soccer team celtic (former by irish catholic immigrants) as a boy and then changed his allegiances to the team rangers (supported by loyalists and orangemen) in the 90s
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
i accept that's not as bad as wife-beating
he's also a scottish nationalist who took a knighthood from the queen and lives in spain
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
sorry, splits his time between the bahamas (his primary residence for tax purposes) and spain. ensuring to not spend sufficient time in scotland to have to pay tax
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
I mean nice work if you can get it
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
Not only as a boy, my dad remembers seeing 'Big Tam' at games at Celtic Park in the 60s.
― How to Book Michael Fish (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
I was reminded several years back but just checked in again to be sure and, wow, Beverly Cleary still chugging on at a sprightly 103-years-old.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
Oh I see now that was mentioned earlier this year. Still worthy of note!
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
wtf Sean Connery is still alive??
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
Hey okay how about
Bob Barker
― ed.b, Wednesday, December 7, 2016 12:44 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Apprentice Taintjazzler (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
he died
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
omg wtf he didn't!
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
Right?!
― Apprentice Taintjazzler (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
similarly in the not famous stakes: lucette destouches (mrs l-f céline) recently had her 107th birthday
― no lime tangier, Friday, 2 August 2019 11:13 (four years ago) link
Lloyd Price!
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 11 August 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
Norman Lear
― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Sunday, 11 August 2019 05:15 (four years ago) link
Not only Norman Lear, but also Bill Macy from Maude!
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 11 August 2019 10:26 (four years ago) link
joe's sister: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2B3qWeSPSL._SX323_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
(i mean i didn't really even know she existed till i saw a tweet earlier that you could win a nice supper with her in some joe-related thing)
― mark s, Sunday, 11 August 2019 10:50 (four years ago) link
she was played by Julie Walters in Prick up your Ears.
― calzino, Sunday, 11 August 2019 10:56 (four years ago) link
excellent memoir title
― seven against feebs (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 August 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
"Julie Walters as Elsie Orton"
or maybe I'm wrong, she played his other sister?
― calzino, Sunday, 11 August 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
it was Frances Barber that played Leonie.
― calzino, Sunday, 11 August 2019 11:03 (four years ago) link
elsie is his mum, his other sister was called marilyn (i just looked this up)
i dimly remember a fond sister being part of the story: i probably remember the john lahr book better than the film, which i haven't seen since it came out
john lahr maybe belongs on this thread also, in that i'd assumed he was long-dead (fact fans: he's the son of the cowardly lion in the wizard of oz)
― mark s, Sunday, 11 August 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
I've half read the book a long time ago and seen the movie umpteen times. Barber is only 7 years younger than Walters is my excuse for the mixup
― calzino, Sunday, 11 August 2019 11:42 (four years ago) link
Jeffrey Epstein
― Trump, two days ago (Mark G), Sunday, 11 August 2019 12:02 (four years ago) link
i have some bad news for you, you might want to sit down
― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 11 August 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link
whatta tube
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 11 August 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
Spookily, Joe Orton’s sister is on the Antiques Roadshow tonight.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 11 August 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
Not as an item being valued obviously.
:D
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 11 August 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
just popping in to say that accusations of soup-taking would see blades drawn round my way, not sure whether ranking it vis a vis domestic violence is what id call an appropriate spend of anyone's time or w/e
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Monday, 12 August 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
What kind of soup is it
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Monday, 12 August 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
not esp interested in defending Sean Connery, but did he beat women, or just say it wasn't so bad (like Sam Kinison)?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 August 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
Diane Cilento said he beat her.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 12 August 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
― Trump, two days ago (Mark G), Sunday, August 11, 2019 12:02 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, August 11, 2019 1:02 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Uh, the display name
― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 06:25 (four years ago) link
Just watching Mark Eden in "Séance on a Wet Afternoon", still alive at 91.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5gpHqdmK2ac/T_a02yahrgI/AAAAAAAAC-Y/yOcxhX46MNc/s1600/Mark+Eden+Seance+on+a+wet+afternoon.JPG
... also it seems he's married to Sue Nicholls (Audrey in Coronation Street), so could also go in the Old Time Actors You're Surprised to Find Out Are/Were Married to One Another thread.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
... his first wife ended up marrying John Le Mesurier.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
Was checking out the different Little Women films on IMDB, and saw that Margaret O'Brien is not only still alive, but also still working!
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
She's not famous - well, she probably is in France - but Catherine Deneuve's mother, Renée Simonot, is still alive at 108!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Simonot
Surely the oldest yet itt.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 September 2019 11:24 (four years ago) link
... just turned 108 on Tuesday, in fact.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 September 2019 11:27 (four years ago) link
... also she was the French dubbing voice for Olivia de Havilland, a mere slip of a girl at 103.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 September 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link