General Good-byes And RIPs

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  • TurquoiseTasticTurquoiseTastic Kerygmania Host
    Telford wrote: »
    Terribly sad news that Shane Warne, possibly the finest leg-spinner of all time, has died at the age of just 52.
    The greatest slow bowler in my opinion.
    A double-blow for Australian cricket coming just hours after the death of another legend, Rodney Marsh, who served cricket as player, coach and administrator.
    A great keeper, especially to the quicks and a very useful batter.

    Indeed, two legends of the game. Marsh was too young and Warne much too young to go... :(
  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    RIP Emilio Delgado, for 44 years Luis on Sesame Street.
  • Gill HGill H Shipmate
    Oh my word! I remember him so well.
  • RIP actor William Hurt (The Big Chill, Broadcast News), dead at 71.

  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    For some of us The Tribes of Yahweh has had a lasting influence. Pioneering Hebrew Bible scholar Norman Gottwald passed away on Friday, March 11, 2022. Norman is best known for applying socio-historical methods to unpack the class context of the emergence of ancient Israel. He has been deeply involved in anti-war and social justice organizing since the 1960s.
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    RIP actor William Hurt (The Big Chill, Broadcast News), dead at 71.

    Hate to say it, but he's one of those actors who I think ended up spreading himself a little thin: it's a challenge to think of a movie from the last 30 years that he WASN'T in. (And yes, that's hyperbole: please don't reply just to tell me that he wasn't in Fifty Shades Of Grey.)

    That said, he chose quite a few interesting roles, and his portrayal of the air-headed pretty-boy anchorman in Broadcast News is certainly memorable; the part where he
    fakes tears during an interview
    has always stayed with me.

    And I think that Altered States is probably my favorite "religious" horror movie, though that probably has more to do with Ken Russell's direction than with Hurt's performance. His blank-slate face certainly blended well with the psychedelia of the hallucination sequences.

    His devil-on-the-shoulder tempter to Kevin Costner's recovering serial-killer in Mr. Brooks was just cheezy, but then, so was the whole movie.

    He was also pretty good as the patriarch in The Village, but again, that probably owed as much to the director.
  • stetson wrote: »
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    RIP actor William Hurt (The Big Chill, Broadcast News), dead at 71.

    Hate to say it, but he's one of those actors who I think ended up spreading himself a little thin: it's a challenge to think of a movie from the last 30 years that he WASN'T in. (And yes, that's hyperbole: please don't reply just to tell me that he wasn't in Fifty Shades Of Grey.)
    Interesting perspective. The challenge for me is to think of a movie in the last 15 or 20 years that he was in.

  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited March 2022
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    stetson wrote: »
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    RIP actor William Hurt (The Big Chill, Broadcast News), dead at 71.

    Hate to say it, but he's one of those actors who I think ended up spreading himself a little thin: it's a challenge to think of a movie from the last 30 years that he WASN'T in. (And yes, that's hyperbole: please don't reply just to tell me that he wasn't in Fifty Shades Of Grey.)
    Interesting perspective. The challenge for me is to think of a movie in the last 15 or 20 years that he was in.

    Well, his wiki filmography lists 36 films since 2002, 37 if you count one that apparently doesn't warrant a link. Appearances from that era I could remember just off the top of my head...

    The Good Shepherd

    The Village

    The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby

    Mr. Brooks

    A History Of Violence

    Changing Lanes

    And it's funny, when I was thinking of some of his films earlier, I thought to myself "I bet he was in some Marvel Cinematic Universe schlock", and, sure enough, he was. (The Avengers? I didn't care enough to re-check.)

    On a positive note, I can still hear him delivering the line from Tuck Everlasting about how "What we Tucks do can't be called living", though I think that's because the novel and its philosophy made such an impression on me as a kid.

    The Tuck family became immortal after drinking from a magic stream, but living forever isn't as great as some of the other characters imagine it, because it puts you outside of nature.



  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    edited March 2022
    stetson wrote: »
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    stetson wrote: »
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    RIP actor William Hurt (The Big Chill, Broadcast News), dead at 71.

    Hate to say it, but he's one of those actors who I think ended up spreading himself a little thin: it's a challenge to think of a movie from the last 30 years that he WASN'T in. (And yes, that's hyperbole: please don't reply just to tell me that he wasn't in Fifty Shades Of Grey.)
    Interesting perspective. The challenge for me is to think of a movie in the last 15 or 20 years that he was in.

    Well, his wiki filmography lists 36 films since 2002, 37 if you count one that apparently doesn't warrant a link. Appearances from that era I could remember just off the top of my head...
    Yes, but unlike with you, most of those 36 movies I’m completely unfamiliar with, or heard of but didn’t see and didn’t know he was in. A few I think I saw, but have completely forgotten and couldn’t tell you anything about. :wink:

  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Actually, there were a number of his films that I had never heard of. Overall, though, I would say that if you're someone(like me) who watches a lot of mainstream Hollywood films, you woulda seen him quite a bit in the last few decades.
  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    I remember him best from Altered States.
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited March 2022
    NicoleMR wrote: »
    I remember him best from Altered States.

    Apart from Hurt's dream sequences, the part of that film I remember best is one of his skeptical colleagues screaming
    "A man cannot turn into an ape!!", while flailing about wildly and throwing papers all over the place.

    Which, of course, was the joke.

    And it's funny to remember what a thing sensory-deprivation tanks were in the 1970s. Are those things still around?
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Fairwell Peter Bowles, Lord of the Manor https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60777622
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    Someone reminded me that Peter Bowles was in the cast of Murder Must Advertise - I must dig that out and have a re-watch.
  • stetson wrote: »
    NicoleMR wrote: »
    I remember him best from Altered States.

    Apart from Hurt's dream sequences, the part of that film I remember best is one of his skeptical colleagues screaming
    "A man cannot turn into an ape!!", while flailing about wildly and throwing papers all over the place.

    Which, of course, was the joke.

    And it's funny to remember what a thing sensory-deprivation tanks were in the 1970s. Are those things still around?

    Certainly a friend of mine was doing sensory deprivation as late as the early 1990s. Because of some research that I've been doing, I've been wondering the same thing.
  • CrœsosCrœsos Shipmate
    Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, has died at the age of 84.
  • Bloody marvellous woman, hope she got a hero’s welcome at the Pearly Gates.
  • Yes, truly formidable.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate

    God will, I think, be relieved he's got June Brown and not Dot Cotton ;)
  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Francis Wilson, the South African economic historian, has died aged 82. He was the son of anthropologist Monica Wilson and did most of his work on the causes of racialised poverty in apartheid South Africa. His work on migrant labour and the gold mines informed trade union rights, changed employment policies and created awareness of working conditions for black miners.

    In a tribute posted today, a colleague pointed out that Francis Wilson went through every annual report from the Chamber of Mines from 1911-1966 to be able to say with certainty that black mineworkers' wages had in fact declined in real terms over 55 years. "Facts are powerful," he said. "Facts matter."
  • TelfordTelford Shipmate
    Sir Cyril James Anderton CBE KStJ QPM DL died a couple of days ago aged 89yrs. He was Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police for 15 years and a well know Christian.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    edited May 2022
    I thought his name sounded familiar.
  • I didn't know he was *Cyril* - he doesn't appear to have used that name much, in public life at least.
  • TelfordTelford Shipmate
    I thought his name sounded familiar.
    Not to be confused with Test cricketer James Anderson
  • CameronCameron Shipmate
    He has the distinction of being mentioned in the Lloyd Cole song ‘These Days’:

    If you're looking for an early grave
    Mr Anderton will lead you to it


    Which may give an indication of how his character was perceived back then.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    I learn from Mrs LB that Denis Waterman, of Minder and New Tricks fame, has shuffled off this mortal coil.
  • So he has - at the relatively early age of 74:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Waterman
  • TelfordTelford Shipmate
    KarlLB wrote: »
    I learn from Mrs LB that Denis Waterman, of Minder and New Tricks fame, has shuffled off this mortal coil.

    He's now minding Arthur again.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    That's another scrap of my youth gone.
  • From mine, too, although I also remember him as Carter in The Sweeney, which dates me as slightly (!) older...

    *Ere, Guv - them blaggers is all tooled up wi'shooters!*
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I can just remember The Sweeney, but my main memory of Mr. Waterman was in Minder.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    I mainly knew him from New Tricks
  • TelfordTelford Shipmate
    I mainly knew him from New Tricks

    It's alright, it's okay
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    :mrgreen:
  • I’m just old enough to remember The Sweeney but mostly remember him in Minder, though he was also in the 1980s BBC drama, The Lives and Loves of a She-devil.
  • TelfordTelford Shipmate
    I’m just old enough to remember The Sweeney but mostly remember him in Minder, though he was also in the 1980s BBC drama, The Lives and Loves of a She-devil.

    His first claim to fame was playing William Brown in Just William
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I’m just old enough to remember The Sweeney but mostly remember him in Minder, though he was also in the 1980s BBC drama, The Lives and Loves of a She-devil.

    Good heavens - I'd completely forgotten about that!
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Vangelis. Not much to say, since I think I only know one tune by him. Yes, THAT one. I daresay out of all the people who saw that movie, way more remember that tune than could name one single detail about the plot.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Oh I don't know - the plot was quite good too!

    My chief memory of the tune was when a bride at the Cathedral in Kirkwall came up the aisle to it. She was very late, and David treated us to practically every film theme he could think of, interspersed with "Why are we waiting?", getting less subtle each time. :mrgreen:
  • PendragonPendragon Shipmate
    It was played on this morning's Radio 3 breakfast show. Mr Dragon recognised it instantly.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    Oh I don't know - the plot was quite good too!

    My chief memory of the tune was when a bride at the Cathedral in Kirkwall came up the aisle to it. She was very late, and David treated us to practically every film theme he could think of, interspersed with "Why are we waiting?", getting less subtle each time. :mrgreen:
    :lol:

    I agree that the movie is quite good. I’ll admit that one thing I didn’t (and still don’t) like about it was the score, particularly the main theme.

  • SojournerSojourner Shipmate
    Vale Caroline Jones,investigative journalist and A(ustralian)B(roadcasting) C(ommission) presenter extraordinaire who died suddenly yesterday at 84. I recall her first in the late 60s and she finally retired from the ABC in 2016.

    A thoughful and intelligent presenter, and excellent interviewer.

    They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.
  • LatchKeyKidLatchKeyKid Shipmate
    edited May 2022
    Sojourner wrote: »
    Vale Caroline Jones,investigative journalist and A(ustralian)B(roadcasting) C(ommission) presenter extraordinaire who died suddenly yesterday at 84. I recall her first in the late 60s and she finally retired from the ABC in 2016.

    A thoughful and intelligent presenter, and excellent interviewer.

    They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.

    She started an interviewing style for radio that was not adversarial, as ABC management had thought all interviews should be.

    I think Rachel Kohn and Meredith Lake have benefited from having Caroline Jones pioneer that style.
  • SojournerSojourner Shipmate
    Yes indeed
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    That's a good description of her style.
  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    RIP feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether, 1936-2022.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    Thanks for posting MaryLouise, Its a while since I have read anything she has written but at one time in my life I found her work very helpful.
  • CathscatsCathscats Shipmate
    As did I, thanks for posting , @MaryLouise
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