RIP 2022
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2022:
RIP Minder. Definitely a highlight of my time in the UK seeing him on the tube.
Brilliantly written and George Cole's acting was outstanding (as always). But what made it was the chemistry between Waterman and Cole who became lifelong close friends.
One of the great TV shows. I worked in East-ish London in the 80's and met loads of characters who could have been straight out of Minder
Good singer too !
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Aberdare (Rhigos) born, dual code Legend.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2022:
Dennis Waterman. Not one of the greatest actors but pretty much a staple on UK television for decades and by all account a pretty top bloke.
The Sweeney was awesome, the violence in it at the time seemed so real but looking at episodes now it looks like slapstick.
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The Sweeney was awesome, the violence in it at the time seemed so real but looking at episodes now it looks like slapstick.
The Sweeney was probably nearer to reality than most of today's choreographed stuff. Waterman came from a well-known boxing family and was pretty handy in the self-defence department by all accounts.
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Tremors has always been a guilty pleasure, and that fishing scene in Short Cuts with Buck Henry and Huey Lewis is a classic. Always liked this guy.
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Terrific show, watched it feverishly in NZ, but they never showed it in North America, not to my knowledge. Usually the best UK comedies and dramas get picked up by public television in USA and Canada, but Minder never was (unless it was buried in a schedule sometime for a small stretch and dropped, because I don’t know any Americans who have ever heard of it), which was a shame because it deserved a bigger audience.
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@Kid-Chocolate just coming to post that, even his bit part in Road Trip was awesome
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Remo
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@Kid-Chocolate said in RIP 2022:
Tremors has always been a guilty pleasure, and that fishing scene in Short Cuts with Buck Henry and Huey Lewis is a classic. Always liked this guy.
Also good in Escape from Alcatraz. RIP
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Vangelis. RIP.
From Dave Weigel’s book on prog rock:
JON ANDERSON WAS COPING with the separation from Yes. In short order he sought out Vangelis, whom he warmly remembered trying to court for the band when Wakeman originally quit. “I saw photographs of him playing four or five keyboards at the same time, and laser beams behind him,” Anderson would recall. “It was unbelievable. I had to meet this guy.” When he did, Vangelis greeted the singer in “a kaftan way down to the floor and a big bow and arrow around his shoulders and arrows coming out of a quiver,” displaying archery before he got down to the music.
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I do like Vangelis, but my sad abiding memory every time I hear his name, was backstage at a Nick Cave concert over 30 years ago, and a fan asking Blixa Bargeld about Vangelis. ‘Did u zay Vangelis? Zis conversation is over.”
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The first thing I remember him playing was Melanie Griffith’s psycho ex-boyfriend in Something Wild, and he was genuinely scary. Then of course Goodfellas, and others. That scene in his car tailed by helicopters with Nilsson’s Jump Into The Fire.
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Seems a great waste to me. He was the next big thing, had a decent range and as you say, could be genuinely scary. But after Godfellas, by christ he did some shite. Looked a physical wreck far too early and now gone quite young.
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@Catogrande said in RIP 2022:
, could be genuinely scary. But after Godfellas, by christ he did some shite.
Yep. He was awesome in Hannibal and came across as creepy and psychopathic as Lector himself. Identify was great as well. Most of his stuff post Goodfellas was a bit meh