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Post by westldner on Jun 23, 2022 3:09:26 GMT
I think it's worth pointing out that Dennis Waterman has had a successful career. How successful and what impact it has made, we don't know, considering that his last big TV role was in New Tricks, so yeah. Not just Minder. Maybe not obvious considering here is a board just dedicated to Minder. Then I wonder if there's a New Tricks fanbase out there, who seems to care! Makes me wonder! I feel kind of bad if it's just us, giving our coincidences and farewells to the featured actor.
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Post by westldner on May 8, 2022 17:23:37 GMT
Well, I see that day as come. I didn't expect it soon, to be honest. He really looked like he would live until he was 80. RIP Dennis Waterman. Clearly we wouldn't all be here on this website, if it wasn't for him, along with George Cole.
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Post by westldner on May 4, 2022 16:36:45 GMT
Well, it turns out, there's been another fire today, near the location of Arthur's season 10 lock up. Yes, another fire: www.mylondon.news/news/live-bakery-fire-minerva-road-23856837Makes me want to watch this episode again to ease the tension of the amount of fires that has happened in the area, over the past two years.
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Post by westldner on Apr 3, 2022 19:23:28 GMT
So young, we wouldn't have the 90s, without him. RIP Taylor
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Post by westldner on Mar 15, 2022 0:22:37 GMT
RIP William Hurt. He was great in the film Gorky Park, where he plays an investigator in Moscow
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Post by westldner on Mar 10, 2022 2:13:16 GMT
RIP Lynda Baron. Open All Hours was a classic, with her in the show.
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Post by westldner on Jan 14, 2022 13:25:19 GMT
And had the idea for 'Spitting Image'. I remember reading of his death at the time Yeah, I was looking for confirmation, if he created that. Wasn't he a co-creator? I know he had a big part in making that show, happen.
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Post by westldner on Jan 10, 2022 22:27:14 GMT
RIP Saget! This was the host of America's Funniest Home Videos, as I remember. While we had You've Been Framed!, they had their show, hosted by him.
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Post by westldner on Jan 8, 2022 17:11:24 GMT
RIP Sidney Poitier
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Post by westldner on Jan 8, 2022 16:49:57 GMT
www.BBC.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55465330Maybe a year, too late. Lambie Nairn Lambie is known for creating an agency who have created the 1980s Channel 4 logo and early 1990s work for BBC1 and 2 logos. RIP. Really made Channel 4 and the BBC in the 1990s, what they were.
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Post by westldner on Jan 2, 2022 3:24:19 GMT
RIP Desmond Tutu
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Post by westldner on Sept 17, 2021 10:51:42 GMT
RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
Has managed to get so many people working and being productive with the help of giving people a really cool looking computer in their homes. Not one of those Acorn cr*p and I don't know how anyone could own an BBC Micro, as it felt already dated at the time. At least he tried to make going to work, greener with that bicycle, too.
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Post by westldner on Aug 28, 2021 14:43:06 GMT
Ah, that explains the names. Can't blame her if she wanted to work in the industry with the lifestyle she may have had. RIP Candy
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Post by westldner on Aug 28, 2021 14:41:06 GMT
RIP Sean Lock. He was a great comedian. That office yet fun image, he would appear with. Really got by your day.
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Post by westldner on Aug 22, 2021 22:57:08 GMT
I voted yes, too much favourism and people need to put that aside and work in a team, to remind that it's about the work, not who someone likes or not. Unless the one organising the whole thing is the worst example of showing favouritism to their friends in the workplace of course. Ah yeah, that happens, of course!
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Post by westldner on Aug 19, 2021 22:29:24 GMT
I voted yes, too much favourism and people need to put that aside and work in a team, to remind that it's about the work, not who someone likes or not.
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Post by westldner on Jul 25, 2021 22:52:18 GMT
A caption would be nice. I'm reading the link text. "Mason dead comedian dies aged 93 after trouble breathing"? :S Really distracting.
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Post by westldner on Jul 25, 2021 22:49:27 GMT
RIP Stuart Damon. The shows he appeared in are all classics.
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Post by westldner on Jun 7, 2021 22:48:17 GMT
Donated today, actually. I wish I could give more but I donated.
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Post by westldner on Jun 6, 2021 20:42:13 GMT
I'll donate later, I hate to say. Someone else has quickly pinched what I have but I'll keep note of that charity and donate when I have the funds to do so. I'll be better prepared next year, to give.
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Post by westldner on May 28, 2021 23:33:49 GMT
RIP André Maranne
The Pink Panther films are the most iconic films of the last century. Never waste time to watch them.
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Post by westldner on May 28, 2021 22:12:03 GMT
Heard about his passing on the radio today. I'm sure the presenter said that the Caterpillar book was printed in forty different languages and distributed in sixty countries! I bet he never imagined that amount of success on writing it. RIP. Yeah, it may have been the book which added to the interest but still, with how short the story is and how publishers were trying to sell it, yeah, it was phenomenal despite the risk he took taking it to the market.
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Post by westldner on May 27, 2021 0:12:04 GMT
www.BBC.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57263822Very Hungry Caterpillar author RIP. The most formidable books out there for children, I'm sure everyone here has seen or read this book. You know, that book that has holes in some of the pages, which made the book a bit more interesting.
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Post by westldner on Apr 10, 2021 0:14:17 GMT
RIP Prince Phillip I walked out from work and here's what on the e-boards: They really wanted to get the message out. I should have seen that coming. Boris Johnson said he "inspired the lives of countless young people". LOL, not a clear way of describing the Duke of Edinburgh award at the cadet forces, we have across the country. He could have said better then that.
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Post by westldner on Apr 5, 2021 15:41:05 GMT
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Post by westldner on Apr 5, 2021 15:39:42 GMT
RIP Sabine, the only woman to win the Nurburgring 24 Hours, too. Horrible to know if she went in her early 50s.
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Post by westldner on Feb 1, 2021 23:06:38 GMT
RIP of a formidable actor for a formidable show.
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Post by westldner on Jan 24, 2021 18:14:16 GMT
Oh, he's an author. I suppose his works are worth while with drawings like that. I haven't come across him but maybe worth checking out. I like that bold wild horror feel those books had during the 80s. He’s not for everyone Westy and it probably helps if you’d read him back in the day. A sort of nostalgia brought about by way of a rite of passage. Though even as I say that I wholly recommend him. For you personally I would recommend Sabat #2: Blood Merchants. I think you’d dig Sabat Vs all the urban, NF, Thatcherite-era, pseudo vampire cult. Plus there’s loads of surreal astral plain stuff. Failing that you could try Deathbell and it’s sequel. It’s a story I didn’t get along with as much as some others but it’s certainly not without merit. IIRC it’s about this evil Tibetan bell that requires blood sacrifices, with the power to corrupt and beguile. The pealing of which turns people into insane acolytes. I think you’d enjoy that. It’s like Children of the Stones meets the wrath of some woman who suffers from heavy periods and really bad PMT. I'll check those out. During the 1970s and 1980s, when they had lingo of the times flying around and books were trying to capture the audience, which fictional terminology formed and placed into context in those books, which is why I think it's still worth checking out, today, to see how the books were written, back then. I think Guy N Smith did a good job of putting that energy in his works.
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Post by westldner on Jan 23, 2021 22:56:09 GMT
He'd suffered a number of serious health problems over the years so once he got covid he was pretty much done for . I only watched his show a few times as it wasn't broadcast much on UK TV but he clearly wasn't above poking a bit of fun at himself when his voice appeared in The Simpsons in the audiobook of the bible after Homer ate the fugu fish and thought he was going to die. One of the very best early episodes actually Yeah he had cameo appearances in movies, too. Like Bulworth and American Sweetheart because he had that serious image but played it off to fit the point of those movies. I thought it was great.
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Post by westldner on Jan 23, 2021 22:53:01 GMT
RIP Guy N Smith. That's an artist, right there and I don't think not many people would match his level of skill in illustration. Westy what illustration? Are you talking about The Sucking Pit illustrations? They were by Rick Melton. Oh, he's an author. I suppose his works are worth while with drawings like that. I haven't come across him but maybe worth checking out. I like that bold wild horror feel those books had during the 80s.
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