There's a bit about her here. Only the other day I was watching The Three Musketeers with Raquel Welch cast as the wife of Spike Milligan's M. Bonacieux - she won a Golden Globe for her performance.
There's a bit about her here. Only the other day I was watching The Three Musketeers with Raquel Welch cast as the wife of Spike Milligan's M. Bonacieux - she won a Golden Globe for her performance.
My favourite fact is that she and Fred Trueman were parents in law.
You probably don't know his name, but you'd recognize his picture. (Center front in the dark polo shirt.) Teddy Von Nukem (his actual legal name) has died of an apparent suicide the day his trial for drug smuggling was set to start.
He is not gone quite yet, but former president Jimmy Carter has decided to go into hospice. He is best known for what he did after he left the office including peace making all over the world, and working for Habitat for Humanity. He once said his favorite job was teaching Adult Sunday School at his home church in Georgia. I will miss him. He is 98.
Hollywood Reporter seems willing to include Belzer's last words, which CNN decided not to report.
Belzer died early Sunday at his home in Bozouls in southwest France, writer Bill Scheft, a longtime friend of the actor, told The Hollywood Reporter. “He had lots of health issues, and his last words were, ‘Fuck you, motherfucker,'” Scheft said.
One of those Canadian actors best known within his own country, and, as far as I can tell, most closely identified with his home province of Newfoundland.
Pinsent was kind of a fixture of Canadian TV, well into the 1970s, though I doubt more than 5% of Canadians could name a show he was in(*). Probably his most globally high-profile role was in the movie The Shipping News, set and filmed in Newfoundland. I'm taken to understand(I think from commentary on the Ship) that Newfoundlanders generally find that film's portrayal of their culture and society rather dubious.
I remember him most distinctly from a CBC TV drama from the 1970s, set around the time of the War of 1812 if memory serves. I would have been maybe 8 years old at the time so, consistently with your prediction, I can’t remember the name of the show…
Now that I read the obit, it was actually A Gift to Last from the late 70s set around the time of the Boer War. At least there was a war involved..
That was one of the shows I was thinking of, along with an earlier CTV thing called The Young Rangers or The Forest Rangers or some such.
I remember an interview he did in TV Guide about AGTL, and he said something like "I hope this show doesn't get taken over by the writers of King Of Kensington." Struck me as a little odd for the star of one CBC show to be trashing another CBC show.
KoK was CBC's dismal attempt at a Norman Lear-style socially relevant sitcom, except instead of being a ranting bigot like Archie Bunker or George Jefferson, Larry King was a nice Jewish shopkeeper who helped out all the other minority groups in his neighbourhood.
As a classic movie fan, this one saddens me: Ricou Browning has died, age 93. Not, perhaps, a household name, but he was The Creature from the Black Lagoon (and its two sequels). Imagine not only filming scenes underwater, but having to do it while wearing a floppy rubber monster suit!
Topol has died. I had the privilege of seeing him play Tevye on stage in
London opposite Sara Kestelman. He completely embodied that role.
I was once invited to try out for the place of Tevye in a local production. I turned it down. There was no way I could even come close to Topol, though my favorite song remains "If I Were a Rich Man."
Topol has died. I had the privilege of seeing him play Tevye on stage in
London opposite Sara Kestelman. He completely embodied that role.
I once showed the movie-clip of IIWARM to some Korean middle-school students, and they laughed pretty hard at some of the dance moves. Not sure if they were laughing at the scene or with it. Is a paunchy, middle-aged guy shaking his hips supposed to be, in and of itself, funny?
I remember alot from Little Rascals re-runs, but nothing specifically of Mickey. And I never watched Baretta.
If you're a fan of surrealism, check out Blake's Lost Highway appearance on YouTube. Eerie scene to the max, and while that likely owes alot to David Lynch, Blake delivers his performance with perfect style and timing.
(And don't worry about figuring out what's going on. It's never explained, and doesn't really matter anyway. Still works quite well as a stand-alone piece.)
I was too young to appreciate the Fosdyke Saga, so Kegbuster was probably my intro to Northern humour on the page - the fourth frame could be relied upon to finish up somewhere utterly logical, but utterly unpredictable, from the previous three frames. A lot of people found it unfunny, but I loved the off-the-wall way it finished each month.
He also provided a regular cartoon for British Archaeology, and published a book of Things Not Taught In Schools called "Disgraceful Archaeology."
I read that when he had his tea time chat show he insisted that any jobs on it were advertised in the local job centre, to open up opportunities to those who wouldn't normally get them. There's a very good article in The Guardian about how groundbreaking he was as Lily in public life. RIP to the Blonde Bombsite x
Thanks for that @Doublethink - if anyone cares to enter her name on their YouTube page, there are quite a few links to pieces of music being played by her.
I hope she gets to meet Paul O'Grady in Heaven...I bet they'd have some interesting conversations...
Another loss to the music world this week was James Bowman, celebrated countertenor.
May they all rest in peace.
Saw James Bowman as Oberon in the Australian Opera production of Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream, where he sang while swinging on a trapeze. Strangely enough, the setting worked in a very early Baz Luhrmann production, thirty years old this year.
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Were you perhaps thinking of Joan Sims, who died back in 2001?
My favourite fact is that she and Fred Trueman were parents in law.
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Another part of the youth of many Brits, Dickie Davies, sports broadcaster, has died aged 94.
Hollywood Reporter seems willing to include Belzer's last words, which CNN decided not to report.
One of those Canadian actors best known within his own country, and, as far as I can tell, most closely identified with his home province of Newfoundland.
Pinsent was kind of a fixture of Canadian TV, well into the 1970s, though I doubt more than 5% of Canadians could name a show he was in(*). Probably his most globally high-profile role was in the movie The Shipping News, set and filmed in Newfoundland. I'm taken to understand(I think from commentary on the Ship) that Newfoundlanders generally find that film's portrayal of their culture and society rather dubious.
That was one of the shows I was thinking of, along with an earlier CTV thing called The Young Rangers or The Forest Rangers or some such.
I remember an interview he did in TV Guide about AGTL, and he said something like "I hope this show doesn't get taken over by the writers of King Of Kensington." Struck me as a little odd for the star of one CBC show to be trashing another CBC show.
A wonderful lady, an excellent Speaker and she supported my team.
RIP.
London opposite Sara Kestelman. He completely embodied that role.
I was once invited to try out for the place of Tevye in a local production. I turned it down. There was no way I could even come close to Topol, though my favorite song remains "If I Were a Rich Man."
I once showed the movie-clip of IIWARM to some Korean middle-school students, and they laughed pretty hard at some of the dance moves. Not sure if they were laughing at the scene or with it. Is a paunchy, middle-aged guy shaking his hips supposed to be, in and of itself, funny?
American actor with the epiphanic legal history,
I remember alot from Little Rascals re-runs, but nothing specifically of Mickey. And I never watched Baretta.
If you're a fan of surrealism, check out Blake's Lost Highway appearance on YouTube. Eerie scene to the max, and while that likely owes alot to David Lynch, Blake delivers his performance with perfect style and timing.
(And don't worry about figuring out what's going on. It's never explained, and doesn't really matter anyway. Still works quite well as a stand-alone piece.)
Is it too soon to ask whether she saw that in the stars?
He also provided a regular cartoon for British Archaeology, and published a book of Things Not Taught In Schools called "Disgraceful Archaeology."
A very sad loss indeed.
A remarkable life:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/27/emahoy-tsegue-maryam-guebrou-ethiopian-nun-and-pianist-dies-at-99
I hope she gets to meet Paul O'Grady in Heaven...I bet they'd have some interesting conversations...
May they all rest in peace.
I think it says a lot about someone that they have such a wide range of people remembering them fondly and paying tribute to them.
Saw James Bowman as Oberon in the Australian Opera production of Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream, where he sang while swinging on a trapeze. Strangely enough, the setting worked in a very early Baz Luhrmann production, thirty years old this year.