Departed during 2021

[ian16th]

Charlotte Cornwell

[TheGreenGoblin]

Frau Blucher is dead!

RIP Cloris Leachman.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloris_Leachman

[Karearea]

Cloris Leachman, the gloriously funny Phyllis Lindstrom in The Mary Tyler Moore Show .

The episode "Not Just Another Pretty Face" (Season 5, episode 2) was one of her best in my opinion. Unforgettable. Runs 25:05.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA-uTn9mFRM

[G-CPTN]

Hilton Valentine Animals guitarist.

[TheGreenGoblin]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/f ... e-obituary

Rémy Julienne, who has died aged 90 after contracting Covid-19, was one of the world’s greatest film stunt drivers and coordinators. He was behind the unforgettable sequence in The Italian Job featuring red, white and blue Mini Coopers speeding away from a daring heist in Turin and went on to mastermind vehicle theatrics in half a dozen James Bond movies.

The 1969 British-flag-flying crime caper’s most memorable scenes began with the getaway cars driving through shopping arcades, then down the steps of the Gran Madre di Dio church while avoiding a wedding party. Later, as the Mini drivers – with stunt doubles – continued to outwit police in cars and on motorcycles, Julienne went beyond his brief and Troy Kennedy Martin’s script during the location shooting.

A large jump between two rooftops was his suggestion, initially rejected by the director, Peter Collinson, and the producer, Michael Deeley, because it sounded so dangerous; but he persisted and used test runs on flat ground to show that the cars could make the distance required. This was typical of his precision in planning stunts – and there was more to come.

“It was decided I had to do three separate jumps in each Mini,” recalled Julienne. “I explained that, as the roof was very wide, we could make the three Minis jump all together. It looked much better as a shot. It was more complicated, but really amazing.”

The 20-minute sequence was completed with the cars crossing a weir on the Po river, navigating a sewer (the interior shot near Coventry), and, in a manoeuvre that Julienne considered his biggest feat, dispatching the Minis, in red, white and blue order – as throughout all the scenes – up a ramp and into the back of a stripped-out coach at speed.

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With a hat tip to his mentor..Gil Delamare!

https://www.britishpathe.com/video/car-belt-saves-life

[G-CPTN]

I'd not seen the FYEO sequence before.

A truly creative man.

[ian16th]

The Citroen 2CV, the only car where ‘cornering on its door handles’ isn’t a euphemism!

[TheGreenGoblin]

The Citroen 2CV, the only car where ‘cornering on its door handles’ isn’t a euphemism!

Came close to losing my wig as passenger in my friend Huw's Deux Chevaux after the brakes failed coming off the Garth mountain after a quick pint at the Gwaelod Y Garth Inn some years back. We literally were cornering on the door handles, while I rediscovered the power of prayer, as he pulled the handbrake to little avail. Incredibly we didn't hit anything, weren't hit by anything and managed to stop without a scratch! Chalk one up to the Rev. Jim's gaffer for sure.

[G-CPTN]

Came close to losing my wig as passenger in my friend Huw's Deux Chevaux after the brakes failed coming off the Garth mountain after a quick pint at the Gwaelod Y Garth Inn some years back. We literally were cornering on the door handles, we didn't hit anything, weren't hit by anything and managed to stop without a scratch!

Were you excited by the adrenalin rush?

"That were great! Shall we do it again?"

[ian16th]

Back when I was at Istres/Orange, the Armée de l'Air used 2CV vans around the airfield as we used a Land Rover, with similar results.

The Rover was better at towing, but the 2CV's had amazing performance off the tarmac.

[ribrash]

Uncle Tom has gone.

[tango15]

Uncle Tom has gone.

Shame, but a good innings and a life well lived. I thought the end must be near when they said his family were at his bedside - always a bad sign. RIP Tom - your like will not be seen again.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Good man. Vale... with all respect Captain Sir Tom.

[G-CPTN]

Captain Tom already had pneumonia but acquired Covid (in hospital?).

[TheGreenGoblin]

Captain Tom already had pneumonia but acquired Covid (in hospital?).

Hospitals, the last place you really want to be when you are ill.

[Karearea]

Part of the Greatest Generation.

"Well done, good and faithful servant."

Rest in peace, sir.

[Wodrick]

The great sadness to me is that the restrictions mean he won't get the funeral he deserves, RIP Sir.

[PHXPhlyer]

RIP Captain Sir Thomas Moore

PP

[Ex-Ascot]

RIP Sir Tom.

Yes indeed Wodders. Hopefully they will have a memorial service, maybe on the anniversary of his death.

Pretty sure the way I read it; he had pneumonia for two weeks then tested positive for covid then went into hospital. They must have made an exception for his family to be with him. Problem is where do they draw the line. Only Knighthoods and above?

[Wodrick]

One of the tame Guvmint idiots, Handcock I think was on the haunted fishtank this morning saying that a memorial was being considered, the nature of which was yet to be determined.