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RIP Memoriam thread?

#321 User is offline   Cyberyeti 

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Posted 2014-June-09, 12:35

View PostRMB1, on 2014-June-09, 10:51, said:

Rik Mayall (actor/comedian) - no longer a young one


Sad, comedy gold and not just on screen, this image is a little NSFW

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#322 User is offline   Phil 

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Posted 2014-June-23, 14:02

This morning I got a call that Chris Larsen died.
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Posted 2014-July-03, 10:09

Louis Zamperini, Olympic track star and WWII hero, dies at 97

A long life for an amazing person. His memoir is a good read.
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#324 User is offline   Cyberyeti 

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Posted 2014-July-13, 02:42

Tommy Ramone, the last of the original 4

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Posted 2014-July-13, 04:53

View PostPassedOut, on 2014-July-03, 10:09, said:

Louis Zamperini, Olympic track star and WWII hero, dies at 97

A long life for an amazing person. His memoir is a good read.


The article mentions that there is an upcoming movie of his life coming out this Christmas directed by Angelina Jolie. I saw the trailer for it for the first time tonight at Dawn of Planet of the Apes and it looked quite good.
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Posted 2014-August-11, 17:23

Robin Williams
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Posted 2014-August-11, 21:19

View Postmike777, on 2014-August-11, 17:23, said:

Robin Williams

Bummer! My condolences to his family.
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Posted 2014-August-12, 18:44

Lauren Bacall, Hollywood's Icon of Cool, Dies at 89
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Posted 2014-August-25, 02:09

Richard Attenborough died at 90 yesterday

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Posted 2014-September-04, 14:33

Comedienne Joan Rivers, at 81, due to complications that arose during elective surgery last week.

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Posted 2014-September-04, 15:17

View Postbarmar, on 2014-September-04, 14:33, said:

Comedienne Joan Rivers, at 81, due to complications that arose during elective surgery last week.



Sad day she was funny and brought laughter into this world.
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Posted 2014-October-10, 02:52

Tony Priday (1922-2014)

One of the legendary figures in English and British bridge, Tony Priday, passed away yesterday. I knew him best from the bridge magazines of the 1970s and 1980s when he played with Claude Rodrigue, a partnership that was almost as well known as Reese and Shapiro but without the controversy. I met him a few times in later years when he played less seriously, but just as competitively, and he was one of the friendliest and charming of elite bridge players, a gentleman of the old school.

He played for England from 1955 to 2002 and won the Gold Cup seven times. Reading his bio on Wikipedia reminded me of the Grand Slam TV series that ran on the BBC for a short time in the 1980s, featuring a bridge match between GB and the USA. Tony was described by Jeremy Flint, a regular team mates, thus: "He is tall, grey-haired, distinguished and impeccably dressed ... He is also amusing, polite and might appear ripe to be mugged at the bridge table ... Beneath the velvet lurks a mind of iron ...".

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Posted 2014-October-10, 03:43

View Postpaulg, on 2014-October-10, 02:52, said:

Tony Priday (1922-2014)

One of the legendary figures in English and British bridge, Tony Priday, passed away yesterday. I knew him best from the bridge magazines of the 1970s and 1980s when he played with Claude Rodrigue, a partnership that was almost as well known as Reese and Shapiro but without the controversy. I met him a few times in later years when he played less seriously, but just as competitively, and he was one of the friendliest and charming of elite bridge players, a gentleman of the old school.

He played for England from 1955 to 2002 and won the Gold Cup seven times. Reading his bio on Wikipedia reminded me of the Grand Slam TV series that ran on the BBC for a short time in the 1980s, featuring a bridge match between GB and the USA. Tony was described by Jeremy Flint, a regular team mates, thus: "He is tall, grey-haired, distinguished and impeccably dressed ... He is also amusing, polite and might appear ripe to be mugged at the bridge table ... Beneath the velvet lurks a mind of iron ...".

EBU Obituary

Sad news indeed. I last saw him at Bernard Teltscher's 90th birthday party, where he was one of two guests who were older than Bernard. He had a habit of looking at an assignment list and, knowing that he would be overheard by his next opponents, saying to his partner "Ah, I see we've drawn rather a strong team, we'll need to watch our step".
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Posted 2014-October-10, 04:58

RIP Jan Hooks...

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Posted 2014-October-12, 16:17

David Hooks, murdered by police in Georgia.
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Posted 2014-October-21, 12:34

Raphael Ravenscroft, a name I didn't know, but I knew his music. He worked with several well known artists, but this sax playing is probably his best known work in the UK:

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Posted 2014-October-21, 12:57

Oscar de la Renta.
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Posted 2014-October-21, 21:11

Ben Bradlee, without whom Richard Nixon's cover-up of the Watergate break-in would not have come to light.
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Posted 2014-October-24, 17:07

Alvin Stardust, glam rocker.

I see that he briefly (c1973) performed as "Elvin Starr". That's the name that Reese and Flint later gave to the central character of "Trick 13" - it seems too unusual a name to be a coincidence, but I can't imagine how they came to pick it.
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Posted 2014-October-25, 12:33

Jack Bruce, not so glam, but very much a rocker...

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