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#41 Post by TheGreenAnger » Sat Feb 11, 2023 11:03 am

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Sat Feb 11, 2023 7:39 am

I note he worked on Midnight Express and, yes, there's the Vangelis theme tune again.
Clearly I don't know my Georgio Moroder from my Vangelis.

Apparently Hudson was a personal friend of Vangelis.
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#42 Post by G-CPTN » Wed Feb 15, 2023 8:47 pm

Raquel Welch.
"What I do on the screen is not to be equated with what I do in my private life. Privately, I am understated and dislike any hoopla".
She also admitted, "I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding"

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#43 Post by FD2 » Wed Feb 15, 2023 8:55 pm

For those of us of a certain age, Dennis Lotis:

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#44 Post by FD2 » Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:03 pm

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Her son Damon Welch married Freddie Trueman's daughter Rebecca, but the marriage only lasted two years. Hollywood and Yorkshire - an odd mix.

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#45 Post by G-CPTN » Thu Feb 16, 2023 2:07 am

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#47 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:37 pm

Dickie Davies
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One of his more famous announcements (easily explained when you know the above)

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#48 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:59 pm

'Law & Order: SVU' actor Richard Belzer dead at age 78
Belzer, a standup comedian who eventually found his home on the silver screen, starred in several television series.

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Actor Richard Belzer, best known for his role on the beloved crime procedural "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," died Sunday at age 78, NBC confirmed Sunday.

Belzer started out as a standup comedian and eventually found his home on the silver screen, starring in several television series over the years.

Universal Television and NBC offered condolences in a joint statement Sunday.

"Anyone who ever had the pleasure of watching Richard Belzer portray Det. John Munch — whether on ‘Homicide’ or ‘Law & Order: SVU’ — over four decades will never forget how much he inhabited that beloved character to make it his own," the statement said.

"His professionalism, talents and dedication to the craft made him a pillar in the industry, but it was his humor, compassion and loving heart that made him family."

Representatives for Belzer did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Belzer, born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, became a warm-up comedian for “Saturday Night Live” in 1975 before he guest-starred in a few episodes, according to his IMDb biography.

He appeared in films and television shows from then on, eventually landing 10 episodes on the 1990 series "The Flash," his longest television gig at that point.

In 1993, Belzer landed a regular role on "Homicide: Life on the Street," a serial drama about the Baltimore police homicide unit. It was the first time he would appear as John Munch, a detective who would soon become synonymous with him.

He appeared as Munch in other shows, such as "The X-Files" and "The Wire," but it was his role on NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" that made him a household staple for generations.

Munch's obsession with conspiracy theories and dry humor made him a fan favorite.

Belzer, who was in more than 300 episodes, left in season 15, with his character retiring from the New York Police Department. His last appearance was in 2016, in a brief return to assist Lt. Olivia Benson with a case.

Mariska Hargitay, who portrays Benson, said Sunday on Instagram that she loved Belzer, "now and forever."

"Goodbye my dear, dear friend. I will miss you, your unique light, and your singular take on this strange world," she said. "I feel blessed to have known you and adored you and worked with you, side by side, for so many years. How lucky the angels are to have you. I can hear them laughing already."

Dick Wolf, the creator of the "Law & Order" franchise, said Detective John Munch was "one of television's iconic characters" in a statement on Wolf Entertainment's Instagram page.

Referring to the television writer and producer Tom Fontana, Wolf said: "I told Tom that I wanted to make him one of the original characters on 'SVU.' The rest is history. Richard brought humor and joy into all our lives, was the consummate professional, and we will all miss him very much."

In addition to his comedy and acting, Belzer was an author. He wrote two books on his own with Simon & Schuster, "I Am Not A Cop!" and "UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Believe." He also co-wrote "How to Be a Stand-Up Comic," according to his author page.

Laraine Newman, an original cast member of "Saturday Night Live," tweeted a tribute recounting found memories of their early friendship.

"I loved this guy so much. He was one of my first friends when I got to New York to do SNL," Newman said. "We used to go out to dinner every week at Sheepshead Bay for lobster. One of the funniest people ever."

Billy Crystal tweeted that Belzer was "simply hilarious."

"A genius at handling a crowd. So sad he’s passed away," Crystal wrote.

Comedian Marc Maron called Belzer an original.

"One of the greats, babe. I loved the guy," Maron tweeted.

Warren Leight, a former "SVU" writer and showrunner, said Belzer was the first actor to welcome him when he joined the show.

"Open, warm, acerbic, whip smart, surprisingly kind," Leight tweeted. "I loved writing for Munch, and I loved being with Belz."

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#49 Post by Woody » Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:56 am

I’m searching for his legendary piece to camera in the snow.

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#50 Post by G-CPTN » Mon Feb 27, 2023 1:07 pm

From Tiller Girl to Madam Speaker Boothroyd.

'A sharp, witty and formidable woman':

Obituary.

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#51 Post by k3k3 » Mon Feb 27, 2023 1:50 pm

While my daughter was in the sixth form about 25 years ago she had the privilege of having tea with Betty Boothroyd in her appartment in the Palace of Westminster.

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#52 Post by TheGreenAnger » Fri Mar 03, 2023 4:54 am

Wayne Shorter has left the venue.
Wayne Shorter, one of America’s greatest jazz saxophonists whose career spanned bop, fusion and more, has died in hospital in Los Angeles, aged 89. His publicist confirmed his death to the New York Times.
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Shorter was a central force in three of the 20th century’s great jazz groups: the Jazz Messengers, led by drummer Art Blakey, who established the mid-century “hard bop” style; the second iteration of Miles Davis’s quintet in the mid to late 1960s that led Davis to his electric period; and the hugely successful fusion group Weather Report, formed in 1970.

He also had a long and fruitful partnership with Joni Mitchell, appearing on 10 of her albums, and collaborated with rock musicians such as Carlos Santana and Steely Dan. He is an 11-time Grammy award winner, plus the recipient of their lifetime achievement award.

Shorter was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1933, and started playing the clarinet at 15, eventually focusing on tenor and soprano saxophone. He and his brother Alan, who became a jazz trumpeter, were captivated by bebop they heard on the radio: “We weren’t like consciously saying, ‘Oh, that sounds like some of that stuff in science fiction movies,’ but I think, subconsciously … it was sort of like that,” Shorter later said. “[Charlie] Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonious Monk … they took the place of Captain Marvel.”

After learning his craft in high school he studied music education at university, and following two years in the army, played with bandleader Maynard Ferguson before being hired to the Jazz Messengers in 1958, playing alongside Blakey, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard and more during his tenure. He composed numerous pieces for the group and eventually became musical director, but after a number of attempts, was hired away by Miles Davis in 1964.

Davis’s First Great Quintet, featuring John Coltrane, Bill Evans and more in with shifting personnel, had recorded classics including Kind of Blue, but by 1963 he was struggling to maintain a coherent lineup. Shorter was part of a clean slate with Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Tony Williams on drums, an ensemble whose flattened hierarchy and free-thinking produced increasingly adventurous albums: Filles de Kilimanjaro, Sorcerer, Miles Smiles and more. Shorter contributed numerous compositions including the title tracks of the albums Nefertiti and ESP, and stayed on after the quintet broke up in 1969 for another Davis masterpiece that year, In a Silent Way.

Beginning in 1959, Shorter also released solo albums including the acclaimed Speak No Evil, Night Dreamer and JuJu, all recorded in 1964. Like Davis, his playing then became freer, more atonal, and began fusing with rock, Latin music and other styles, leading to the formation of his next group, Weather Report.

Co-led with keyboardist Joe Zawinul, and supported by various other musicians during their 16-year tenure including bassists Jaco Pastorius and Miroslav Vitouš, they blended jazz with funk and R&B grooves, with Shorter moving back to more melodic playing. This accessible blend generated considerable commercial success: 1977’s Heavy Weather went platinum and reached the US Top 30.

Shorter’s affinity for fusion meant he also performed the saxophone solos on two soft rock hits, Steely Dan’s Aja and Don Henley’s The End of the Innocence, the latter reaching the US Top 10. He also played on the Rolling Stones’ 1997 album Bridges to Babylon.

His Joni Mitchell collaborations began with her 1977 album Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter, with Shorter saying in 2013: “She had a sense of feeling that I was joining her as a painter. She likes to paint and I majored in fine arts before music. And she said, ‘You’re playing like you have a paint brush, you know’ … she would choose from different takes to edit in as if using a paint brush.”

He paired with his Davis bandmate Herbie Hancock for Mitchell’s Charles Mingus-inspired album Mingus in 1979, and Shorter and Hancock would collaborate frequently over the following years. In the late 1970s they joined their old Davis quintet members as VSOP, with Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, and recorded the 1994 Grammy-winning album A Tribute to Miles following Davis’s death, with Wallace Roney on trumpet.

Later they won another Grammy for 1997 track Aung San Suu Kyi, named after the Burmese politician, and formed the supergroup Mega Nova with Carlos Santana, with whom Shorter had collaborated in 1988. They also played a private concert for Barack Obama’s 50th birthday, and played an International Jazz Day concert at the White House in 2016 alongside Aretha Franklin and others.

Hancock once said of the Second Great Quintet: “The master writer to me, in that group, was Wayne Shorter. He still is a master. Wayne was one of the few people who brought music to Miles that didn’t get changed.”

Shorter continued to work with esteemed younger jazz musicians into old age, including Terri Lyne Carrington and Brad Mehldau, and formed a quartet under his own name in 2000. He eventually retired from live performance due to ill health, but in his late 80s he composed an opera, Iphigenia, with a libretto by American jazz-fusion bassist Esperanza Spalding.

Shorter was married three times, first to Teruko Nakagami in 1961, with whom he had a daughter, Miyako. He married his second wife, Ana Maria Patricio, in 1970, who introduced him to Buddhism, and they had a daughter, Iska, who died of a seizure aged 14 in 1985.

Shorter faced further tragedy when Patricio died along with the couple’s niece and 228 others in the TWA Flight 800 explosion in 1996 off Long Island, New York. He said the following year, regarding his music: “I’d be stumbling through something, and it was like I could sense the voice of my wife, saying, ‘Don’t repeat, do something different.’ Like a gate to eternity. It’s almost as though she was saying, ‘Do your work – that is the way we find each other, eternally.’” He remarried in 1999, to Carolina Dos Santos.

In 2017 he received the Polar Music prize, and in 2018, he was named as an honoree by the Kennedy Center, with Spalding saying it was “long overdue … it’s really beautiful to amplify his magic on this scale”.

In 2013 he was honoured with a lifetime achievement award from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (now the Hancock Institute of Jazz), telling the audience his vision for music-making: “Try to create how you wish the world to be for eternity; taking off the layers and becoming what we really are, eternally.”

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#53 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:01 pm

Gary Rossington is now freer than a bird....



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#54 Post by PHXPhlyer » Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:26 pm

Gary Rossington, last founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies at 71
Rossington’s evocative slide playing on his Gibson SG helped make “Free Bird” the group’s calling card.

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Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s last surviving original member who also helped to found the group, died Sunday at the age of 71. No cause of death was given.

“It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter and guitarist, Gary Rossington, today,” the band wrote on Facebook. “Gary is now with his Skynyrd brothers and family in heaven and playing it pretty, like he always does. Please keep Dale, Mary, Annie and the entire Rossington family in your prayers and respect the family’s privacy at this difficult time.”

Rossington cheated death more than once, Rolling Stone reported. He survived a car accident in 1976 in which he drove his Ford Torino into a tree, inspiring the band’s cautionary song “That Smell.” A year later, he emerged from the 1977 plane crash that killed singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and backing vocalist Cassie Gaines, with two broken arms, a broken leg, and a punctured stomach and liver.

“It was a devastating thing,” he told Rolling Stone in 2006. “You can’t just talk about it real casual and not have feelings about it.”

In later years, Rossington underwent quintuple bypass surgery in 2003, suffered a heart attack in 2015, and had numerous subsequent heart surgeries, most recently leaving Lynyrd Skynyrd in July 2021 to recover from another procedure. At recent shows, Rossington would perform portions of the concert and sometimes sat out full gigs.

Rossington was born Dec. 4, 1951, in Jacksonville, Florida, and raised by his mother after his father died. Upon meeting drummer Bob Burns and bassist Larry Junstrom, Rossington and his new friends formed a band, which they tried to juggle amid their love of baseball.

According to Rolling Stone, it was during a fateful Little League game, Ronnie Van Zant hit a line drive into the shoulder blades of opposing player Bob Burns and met his future bandmates. Rossington, Burns, Van Zant, and guitarist Allen Collins gathered that afternoon at Burns’ Jacksonville home to jam the Rolling Stone’s “Time Is on My Side.”

Adopting Lynyrd Skynyrd as the group’s name — both a reference to a similarly named sports coach at Rossington’s high school and to a character in the 1963 novelty hit “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” — the band released their debut album (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ’Skin-’nérd) in 1973. A collection of country-tinged blues-rock and Southern soul, the album included now-classics like “Tuesday’s Gone,” “Simple Man” and “Gimme Three Steps,” but it was the closing track, the nearly 10-minute “Free Bird,” that became the group’s calling card, due in no small part to Rossington’s evocative slide playing on his Gibson SG.

Rossington told Rolling Stone that he never considered Skynyrd to be a tragic band, despite all the band’s drama and death. “I don’t think of it as tragedy — I think of it as life,” he said upon the group’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2006. “I think the good outweighs the bad.”

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#55 Post by Wodrick » Thu Mar 09, 2023 10:32 am

Mystic Meg: Astrologer dies aged 80

Wonder if she saw that coming ?

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#57 Post by FD2 » Sun Mar 12, 2023 7:32 pm

'The Fosdyke Saga' the lives of a family of North Country tripe magnates, as a gentle poke at The Archers - brilliant!
'The Cloggies' - the brutally maiming contests and lives of a Lancashire clog dancing troupe.
A polar bear turning up at the White Star Line offices asking for any news of the iceberg.
What a great imagination and a great cartoonist.

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#58 Post by PHXPhlyer » Tue Mar 14, 2023 2:08 am

Dick Fosbury, who revolutionized high jump and was 1968 Summer Olympics champion, dies at 76

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Dick Fosbury, legendary Olympic gold high jumper who revolutionized the track and field event, died Sunday of lymphoma, according to his publicist Ray Schulte. Fosbury was 76.

“It is with a very heavy heart I have to release the news that longtime friend and client Dick Fosbury passed away peacefully in his sleep early Sunday morning after a short bout with a recurrence of lymphoma,” Schulte wrote on Instagram on Monday.

Fosbury showcased his signature technique – the popular “Fosbury Flop” – where he threw himself back first over the bar in the high jump at the 1968 Mexico City Games. Fosbury broke the Olympic and US records with a jump of 2.24 meters to earn the gold medal.

At Oregon State University, Fosbury won the NCAA indoor and outdoor championships in 1968 using the “flop.”

The USA Track and Field and Team USA offered their condolences to the sport legend.

“I am deeply saddened by the passing of Dick Fosbury, a true legend and pioneer in the world of track and field. Dick’s innovative technique of the ‘Fosbury Flop’ revolutionized the high jump event and forever changed the sport,” Max Siegel, CEO of USA Track & Field said in a statement. “His gold medal victory at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics not only cemented his place in U.S. Olympic history, but also left an indelible mark on the global athletic community. We will always be grateful for his contributions to the sport and his impact on generations of athletes who followed in his footsteps.”

Team USA added: “He was truly an Olympic pioneer and legend. Team USA pays tribute to Fosbury’s remarkable life and enduring legacy.”

Fosbury was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1981 and the US Olympic Hall of Fame in 1992.

He is survived by his wife, Robin Tomasi; son, Erich Fosbury; stepdaughters Stephanie Thomas-Phipps and Kristin Thompson.


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#59 Post by llondel » Tue Mar 14, 2023 5:28 pm

I only managed 1.55m using his flop.

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#60 Post by PHXPhlyer » Tue Mar 14, 2023 6:01 pm

Had he been able to do a somersault first would it have been a Flip Flop? :-? =))

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