I'm surprised she was that age - in my head she never got much above 50!
On Til Death Do Us Part, the actor playing the son-in-law(who was also Cherie Blair's father) was only five years younger than the actor who played the father.
Compare that to All In The Family, where Rob Reiner was obviously much younger than Carroll O'Connor. Pretty much the same age as the character he was playing.
I'm surprised she was that age - in my head she never got much above 50!
On Til Death Do Us Part, the actor playing the son-in-law(who was also Cherie Blair's father) was only five years younger than the actor who played the father.
Compare that to All In The Family, where Rob Reiner was obviously much younger than Carroll O'Connor. Pretty much the same age as the character he was playing.
Similarly Wilfred Bramble was only about 12 years older than his Steptoe and Son - erm son, Harry H Corbett. He outlived him by three years, too.
I'm surprised she was that age - in my head she never got much above 50!
On Til Death Do Us Part, the actor playing the son-in-law(who was also Cherie Blair's father) was only five years younger than the actor who played the father.
Compare that to All In The Family, where Rob Reiner was obviously much younger than Carroll O'Connor. Pretty much the same age as the character he was playing.
Similarly Wilfred Bramble was only about 12 years older than his Steptoe and Son - erm son, Harry H Corbett. He outlived him by three years, too.
And since I've already got us started on the cross-pond comparisons, I will report that on Sanford And Son, Redd Foxx was almost exactly 24 years older than Desmond Wilson.
Heard at church today of the death of Prof Andrew Walls, who was my prof in Aberdeen and one of the saints of God, wearing his immense erudition with humility and grace. Christianity Today once called him “the most important person you don’t know.” I am proud to say that I did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Walls
@Cathscats, I'm sad to hear Andrew Walls has died. For years I've read the Journal of Religion in Africa he founded in the 1960s and his perception of African Christianity as unique and vital in its own right influenced my reading in indigenous churches and African Methodism. When it came to global missiology, he was years ahead of most theologians and historians based in the West.
Sad to see children's writer Jill Murphy has died aged 72. I have fond memories of the "Worst Witch" books and she never complained about the rather obvious debt that Harry Potter owed to them!
One of NZ's finest politicans has fired his last shot. He always struck me as one of the warmest and most astute representatives of a brutal trade and he did a damned good and lasting job. NZ is a better place for his passing through.
One of NZ's finest politicans has fired his last shot. He always struck me as one of the warmest and most astute representatives of a brutal trade and he did a damned good and lasting job. NZ is a better place for his passing through.
I am interested to see that a Labour politician accepted a knighthood. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any here who did (and now someone can prove me wrong!)
Yeah ... until recently we've never had a particularly republican strand
And Labour politicians in the UK seem to accept them, and from memory life peerages as well! I can't think of any who accepted one here even when they were the home-grown variety.
Yeah ... until recently we've never had a particularly republican strand
And Labour politicians in the UK seem to accept them, and from memory life peerages as well! I can't think of any who accepted one here even when they were the home-grown variety.
Sir Roger Douglas was a Knight Bachelor, which is a motherland honour.
(And, just to be clear, Sir Roger WAS a Labour minister when he implemented all of his neo-liberal scorched-earth economic policies. Though I gather he has now found a more compatible political home on the populist right.)
Charlie Watts was amazing, brilliant jazz drummer too, YouTube link to his Big Band. Just wondering what will happen with the postponed Rolling Stones tour - as all that comes up on the Rolling Stones page is this portrait of Charlie Watts (link). The tour was due to start on 26th September in St Louis and finish in November in Austin.
Interesting that the death of Jill Murphy hasn't had more comment, as her books were amazing. I loved the Large family and bears from Peace at Last and Whatever Next, plus the Mildred Hubble. My daughter was of an age to be read all of these.
Sir Roger Douglas was a New Zealander of curse ( that was a typo, honestly, but I'll let it stay even though it doesn't come even close to expressing what I feel about the man) and the NZ Labour Party has never been as republican as the Australian Labor Party.
Sir Roger Douglas was a New Zealander of curse ( that was a typo, honestly, but I'll let it stay even though it doesn't come even close to expressing what I feel about the man) and the NZ Labour Party has never been as republican as the Australian Labor Party.
Well, sure. But I was just correcting the earlier statement that no NZ Labour politician had ever accepted a knighthood.
By the way, when you say that "curse" doesn't remotely approximate your feelings about Douglas, do you mean your opinion of him is even worse?
The reason I know anything about Douglas is that he served as a consultant to the conservative government of my home province during their own austerity regime of the early 90s. He became a minor celebrity among right-wingers who follow politics more closely than average, his book being sold prominently in bookstores for a while.
None of this seemed to put a dent in David Lange's global reputation as The Most Progressive Man On Earth, based largely on his opposition to nuclear weapons and testing.
Stetson, sorry that poor excuse for a human being blighted part of Canada too. Here in NZ we are still suffering the after effects.
Just a side note, and Gee D will correct me is I'm wrong, it's my understanding that the Australian Labor Party adopted that spelling (rather than Labour) to signal solidarity with US republicanism, whereas the NZ Labour Party chose not to.
Rather than show that solidarity, I think the better explanation is that King O'Malley (King being his given name), an early leader in the establishment of the party, was from the US.
First bishop of the Waterlily Rockbound Church of the Cayuse Nation before he emigrated, and a teetotaller who made sure that Canberra remained a dry town for many years
First bishop of the Waterlily Rockbound Church of the Cayuse Nation before he emigrated, and a teetotaller who made sure that Canberra remained a dry town for many years
Rather than show that solidarity, I think the better explanation is that King O'Malley (King being his given name), an early leader in the establishment of the party, was from the US.
Thanks Gee D, I was relying on a memory of something Dad said years ago.
What an unfortunate first name for an anti monarchist.
RIP Ed Asner, indeed. Interesting guy. I quite liked Lou Grant (programme), and was always a bit surprised by its non-appearance in syndication on one cable channel or another. In some respects it was really pretty edgy and against the current for American television of the time, which was ahead of the political curve in its retrenching into more traditionalist, nativist values (Carter Country, Dukes of Hazzard, Apple's Way, Family, etc.) in a proto-Reaganite way. Part of its strength, in memory, was the writing with such well formed characters. I still vividly recall the episode in which the Trib is covering some Central American republic's political unrest, and affable Charlie Hume has flashbacks to being imprisoned in one such place. Or Animal, who gets acquainted with an elderly woman who had been in silent films. Oh, I could watch all that again.
As it happens, I watched an episode of The Middle while I ate lunch today. Ed Asher had a cameo as the gruff editor of the “little, local silly newspaper” of Orion, Indiana.
I liked Lou Grant, but I really liked the character better on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
I remember reading that university journalism courses used Lou Grant episodes in class discussions, that it was that good. Is the series available on any platform?
Writer Cathy McPhail has died. In addition to being a splendid writer, she was a warm-hearted person, supportive of and encouraging towards younger writers.
Abimael Guzman. Founder and leader of Peru's Shining Path. The last of the great Maoists. (Well, I guess there's still the guys in Nepal.)
One of the funnier things I heard about Shining Path was that when Deng Xiaoping took over China, they killed a bunch of dogs and hung the bodies up in a village somewhere, with signs attached saying something like "Deng Xiaoping is a running dog".
One of the funnier things I heard about Shining Path was that when Deng Xiaoping took over China, they killed a bunch of dogs and hung the bodies up in a village somewhere, with signs attached saying something like "Deng Xiaoping is a running dog".
Wow, I found an actual [link deleted - Piglet, AS host] of that momentous action. (Not for animal lovers.)
I mostly put it up because I'm a politics junkie, and I always think it's cool when I can find something like that. But I should have understood that not everyone's sensibilities are the same(there are certainly photos I would not wish to see).
Anyway, Guzman and his crew were a rather weird bunch.
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On Til Death Do Us Part, the actor playing the son-in-law(who was also Cherie Blair's father) was only five years younger than the actor who played the father.
Compare that to All In The Family, where Rob Reiner was obviously much younger than Carroll O'Connor. Pretty much the same age as the character he was playing.
Similarly Wilfred Bramble was only about 12 years older than his Steptoe and Son - erm son, Harry H Corbett. He outlived him by three years, too.
And since I've already got us started on the cross-pond comparisons, I will report that on Sanford And Son, Redd Foxx was almost exactly 24 years older than Desmond Wilson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Walls
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/sean-lock-death-age-cause-b1904501.html
I am interested to see that a Labour politician accepted a knighthood. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any here who did (and now someone can prove me wrong!)
And Labour politicians in the UK seem to accept them, and from memory life peerages as well! I can't think of any who accepted one here even when they were the home-grown variety.
Sir Roger Douglas was a Knight Bachelor, which is a motherland honour.
(And, just to be clear, Sir Roger WAS a Labour minister when he implemented all of his neo-liberal scorched-earth economic policies. Though I gather he has now found a more compatible political home on the populist right.)
Interesting that the death of Jill Murphy hasn't had more comment, as her books were amazing. I loved the Large family and bears from Peace at Last and Whatever Next, plus the Mildred Hubble. My daughter was of an age to be read all of these.
For a moment I thought the UK had unluckily lost another great comedian (a Welshman named Rhod Gilbert).
Well, sure. But I was just correcting the earlier statement that no NZ Labour politician had ever accepted a knighthood.
By the way, when you say that "curse" doesn't remotely approximate your feelings about Douglas, do you mean your opinion of him is even worse?
The reason I know anything about Douglas is that he served as a consultant to the conservative government of my home province during their own austerity regime of the early 90s. He became a minor celebrity among right-wingers who follow politics more closely than average, his book being sold prominently in bookstores for a while.
None of this seemed to put a dent in David Lange's global reputation as The Most Progressive Man On Earth, based largely on his opposition to nuclear weapons and testing.
If you're referring to my post, I stand by it. I am in Aust, not NZ.
Ah, my mistake. Apologies.
Just a side note, and Gee D will correct me is I'm wrong, it's my understanding that the Australian Labor Party adopted that spelling (rather than Labour) to signal solidarity with US republicanism, whereas the NZ Labour Party chose not to.
They've made up for it since.
Thanks Gee D, I was relying on a memory of something Dad said years ago.
What an unfortunate first name for an anti monarchist.
Lou Grant was one of the very few TV characters who featured in both a sitcom and a dramatic series. (Trapper John being another, I guess.)
I liked Lou Grant, but I really liked the character better on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
http://www.koprivataylorcommunityfuneralhome.com/obituary/john-breen?lud=3BE090ECD11E3F7B3A7445D8794576FF&fbclid=IwAR367C-zKatP6PFtEXi9QFWmhx3rCpq8CtZY1ABhp-GHjeiQTTI1MRfhBUk
One of the funnier things I heard about Shining Path was that when Deng Xiaoping took over China, they killed a bunch of dogs and hung the bodies up in a village somewhere, with signs attached saying something like "Deng Xiaoping is a running dog".
Wow, I found an actual [link deleted - Piglet, AS host] of that momentous action. (Not for animal lovers.)
@stetson, I've deleted the link you posted in your last post above, and would ask you to refrain from posting anything similar.
Thank you.
Piglet, AS host
My apologies. I should have erred on the side of caution.
@Sojourner
I mostly put it up because I'm a politics junkie, and I always think it's cool when I can find something like that. But I should have understood that not everyone's sensibilities are the same(there are certainly photos I would not wish to see).
Anyway, Guzman and his crew were a rather weird bunch.