Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash. Raisi was known by some as "the Butcher of Tehran" for his role in overseeing the mass execution of political prisoners in the late 1980s.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also died in the same helicopter crash.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash. Raisi was known by some as "the Butcher of Tehran" for his role in overseeing the mass execution of political prisoners in the late 1980s.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also died in the same helicopter crash.
Ivan Boesky, the infamous insider trader whose name became synonymous with financial greed and helped inspire the fictional character Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film “Wall Street,” has died. He was 87.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash. Raisi was known by some as "the Butcher of Tehran" for his role in overseeing the mass execution of political prisoners in the late 1980s.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also died in the same helicopter crash.
I foresee bad things coming from this.
Worse than that guy being president? Of course there's no guarantee of free and fair elections regardless...
Not sure if I ever saw his work in anything but bits and pieces(Colombo guest-star, Buffalo Bill etc) mixed with second-hand impressions(Nine To Five). As I recall, his standard character was a vaguely southern(or at least provincial) middle-class sleazoid. In retrospect, he maybe sorta seemed to be coasting on the mini-cult of G. Gordon Liddy in 70s/80s pop culture.
I actually wouldn't mind seeing more of his work. I remember people talking about Buffalo Bill as if it was a few cuts above the average sitcom at the time, for creativity and relevance.
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot came out of the same studio as The Adventures of Robin Hood with Richard Greene, and The Buccaneers, and Sword of Freedom (about Republicans vs. the Medici in Renaissance Italy - the main character was a painter). They were reliable, swashbuckling fun and Robin Hood, at least, had a surprising amount of real history in it. I've made quite a collection of them, though the only one I remember watching (in re-runs) as a kid was Robin Hood.
As a kids' series, of course, they couldn't be too explicit about Lancelot and Guinevere - I don't think they even kissed!
Has anyone posted yet that Jürgen Moltmann, the distinguished German theologian of the immediate post-war generation died earlier this week? He was 98.
Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders has died in a plane crash. As an astronaut on Apollo 8 he was one of the first three humans to visit the Moon (but not its surface). He was also the one who took the iconic Earthrise photo.
Dr Michael Mosley, popular British TV presenter on health and medical issues, has been missing in Greece for several days. It looks like he has been found deceased (awaiting formal identification of his body) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kk9gvw8l0o
I was a big fan of him, he had a likeable personality on screen and presented medical facts in an accessible way. His book on the blood sugar diet presented the new research findings on diabetes and diet to the public before they were commonly known in the medical establishment. The loss of a force for good in the world, imo.
American civil rights leader James Lawson has died. He has the distinction of being the one who convinced Martin Luther King, Jr. that non-violent protest was the way forward for the American civil rights movement.
It was sadly announced on the news this morning that Françoise Hardy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Françoise_Hardy has died. She may be less well-known to youngsters but with her husky voice, songs and epitome of all that to us was French, she was every spotty teenage age boy's fantasy of my generation.
Talking of teenage crushes, Nicholas Ball, best remembered as hunky private eye Hazell in the 1970s, has died.
That's another of my youthful heart-throbs gone.
One of those actors who sort of lost their real name and became known by their character name. He became Hazel, Telly Savalas became Kojak, Jack Warner became George Dixon, William Roache became Ken Barlow etc
We keep on getting Saga Cruise brochures. I was a bit sad when I read that Michael Moseley was going to be on the one to the Caribbean later this year. Not that I would have gone, but it seems such a waste that he's dead.
Talking of teenage crushes, Nicholas Ball, best remembered as hunky private eye Hazell in the 1970s, has died.
That's another of my youthful heart-throbs gone.
One of those actors who sort of lost their real name and became known by their character name. He became Hazel, Telly Savalas became Kojak, Jack Warner became George Dixon, William Roache became Ken Barlow etc
One of a rare breed. A politician who legislated electoral reform that was fairer but worked against his own party. Steele Hall
Another piece of my childhood world gone.
Also belatedly, the kind and gentle man who was president of the Australian Catholic bishops’ conference in the early years of this century, rather than a certain more polarising bloke. Archbishop Frank Carroll
One of the more cerebral moments in Animal House was Sutherland's portrayal of the aging, disillusioned Emglish prof trying to interest his students in Paradise Lost. Though I think the portrayal of his character as a pothead, toking up with his students, was a little premature for the 1962 setting.
I never watched MASH until I was in my 40s(in Korea, believe it or not), and wasn't much more impressed than I was with the TV show. His Hawkeye seemed a little less obnoxious than Alda's, for what that's worth.
I never watched MASH until I was in my 40s(in Korea, believe it or not), and wasn't much more impressed than I was with the TV show. His Hawkeye seemed a little less obnoxious than Alda's, for what that's worth.
M*A*S*H bears the distinction of being the first mainstream American film to drop an F-bomb.
I never watched MASH until I was in my 40s(in Korea, believe it or not), and wasn't much more impressed than I was with the TV show. His Hawkeye seemed a little less obnoxious than Alda's, for what that's worth.
M*A*S*H bears the distinction of being the first mainstream American film to drop an F-bomb.
Thanks for inadvertantly correcting a long-standing mis-impression of mine: I had previously thought that only the TV show included the asterisks in the title, but wiki reveals the movie did as well. (It's the novel that was just MASH.)
One of the more interesting bits of stunt-casting was in A Time To Kill, in which Donald Sutherland played an idealistic old civil-rights lawyer, and Keifer Sutherland played a red-necked, racist killer.
I suspect that Philip Kaufman hoped that the final shot of the 1978 Body Snatchers would go on to be an iconic image of modern horror, in the fashion of Father Merrick standing at the doorway. Didn't quite pan out that way, but I thought it would be remiss not to mention the shot on this thread. (It's pretty good, IMO, used to decorate the bulletin board in my classroom.)
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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also died in the same helicopter crash.
Saturday mornings as a child meant going into town shopping, then my father putting music on. Frank Ifield figured prominently.
I now have got myself an ear worm of I Remember You to remember him by!
He taught me to yodel.
I foresee bad things coming from this.
Presumably he's now able to recall to the angels the thrill of them all.
Before my time but very invocative of my early childhood back in the 70s.
Worse than that guy being president?
Not sure if I ever saw his work in anything but bits and pieces(Colombo guest-star, Buffalo Bill etc) mixed with second-hand impressions(Nine To Five). As I recall, his standard character was a vaguely southern(or at least provincial) middle-class sleazoid. In retrospect, he maybe sorta seemed to be coasting on the mini-cult of G. Gordon Liddy in 70s/80s pop culture.
I actually wouldn't mind seeing more of his work. I remember people talking about Buffalo Bill as if it was a few cuts above the average sitcom at the time, for creativity and relevance.
David won a gold medal at a time when it was very rare for a UK competitor to win gold.
As a kids' series, of course, they couldn't be too explicit about Lancelot and Guinevere - I don't think they even kissed!
Wow - that sounds like Quite Something!
RIPARIG - and may his good work live on after him.
I hope you remember to take your phone with you.
That might have made all the difference to him. Such a sad loss.
That's another of my youthful heart-throbs gone.
OMG is there a book he wrote on this? RIP of course and God bless him for helping you and others!!
@ChastMastr google "Michael Mosley Books" . He's written heaps.
Indeed.
Another piece of my childhood world gone.
Also belatedly, the kind and gentle man who was president of the Australian Catholic bishops’ conference in the early years of this century, rather than a certain more polarising bloke.
Archbishop Frank Carroll
I never watched MASH until I was in my 40s(in Korea, believe it or not), and wasn't much more impressed than I was with the TV show. His Hawkeye seemed a little less obnoxious than Alda's, for what that's worth.
M*A*S*H bears the distinction of being the first mainstream American film to drop an F-bomb.
Thanks for inadvertantly correcting a long-standing mis-impression of mine: I had previously thought that only the TV show included the asterisks in the title, but wiki reveals the movie did as well. (It's the novel that was just MASH.)
One of the more interesting bits of stunt-casting was in A Time To Kill, in which Donald Sutherland played an idealistic old civil-rights lawyer, and Keifer Sutherland played a red-necked, racist killer.