RIP 2023
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Denny Laine - brown bread. Surprisingly “only” 71.
A decent solo career, plus a founder member of the Moody Blues and of course his years with Wings: the band The Beatles could have been.
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@Catogrande Obits all have him at 79
I assume you made a typo 71 would have him playing with the Moody Blues aged 12
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@mariner4life You can condemn Kissinger for the extension of the Vietnam War and the carpet bombing of Cambodia and still want Pol Pot and his cronies to burn in hell for eternity.
Great country Cambodia. Lovely friendly people. Shame you still to this day can't explore it properly without risking losing your legs.
Kind of agree, lovely place but never want to go there again. Phnom Penn I went to killing fields etc when I first went there, and to be honest put a damper on me , I just kind of just had it ruined by the thought of what man can do to man, and couldn't really shake it.
Siem Reap was great in surrounds Angor Wat etc, but wish I had never walked down the street full of pubs/ establishments with names like English pubs, funny put me right off it. Loved outside the city and went to floating village etc, and found the people as I did the people in Vietnam lovely.Still have never been to a country where I didn't in general like the people.
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@mariner4life You can condemn Kissinger for the extension of the Vietnam War and the carpet bombing of Cambodia and still want Pol Pot and his cronies to burn in hell for eternity.
Great country Cambodia. Lovely friendly people. Shame you still to this day can't explore it properly without risking losing your legs.
Kind of agree, lovely place but never want to go there again. Phnom Penn I went to killing fields etc when I first went there, and to be honest put a damper on me , I just kind of just had it ruined by the thought of what man can do to man, and couldn't really shake it.
Siem Reap was great in surrounds Angor Wat etc, but wish I had never walked down the street full of pubs/ establishments with names like English pubs, funny put me right off it. Loved outside the city and went to floating village etc, and found the people as I did the people in Vietnam lovely.Still have never been to a country where I didn't in general like the people.
I find the Killing Fields strangely commercialised, but I found the school (now Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum) to be really tough to get through, lots of dust around.
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@mariner4life You can condemn Kissinger for the extension of the Vietnam War and the carpet bombing of Cambodia and still want Pol Pot and his cronies to burn in hell for eternity.
Great country Cambodia. Lovely friendly people. Shame you still to this day can't explore it properly without risking losing your legs.
Still have never been to a country where I didn't in general like the people.
Never been here in Australia huh?
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@mariner4life You can condemn Kissinger for the extension of the Vietnam War and the carpet bombing of Cambodia and still want Pol Pot and his cronies to burn in hell for eternity.
Great country Cambodia. Lovely friendly people. Shame you still to this day can't explore it properly without risking losing your legs.
Kind of agree, lovely place but never want to go there again. Phnom Penn I went to killing fields etc when I first went there, and to be honest put a damper on me , I just kind of just had it ruined by the thought of what man can do to man, and couldn't really shake it.
Siem Reap was great in surrounds Angor Wat etc, but wish I had never walked down the street full of pubs/ establishments with names like English pubs, funny put me right off it. Loved outside the city and went to floating village etc, and found the people as I did the people in Vietnam lovely.Still have never been to a country where I didn't in general like the people.
I find the Killing Fields strangely commercialised, but I found the school (now Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum) to be really tough to get through, lots of dust around.
Yep my Mrs couldn't even go into the school, she was in tears as we walked around killing fields, just said she couldn't handle anymore when we got to the school, which I found really tough.
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Actor Ryan O'Neal, star of 'Love Story' and 'Paper Moon,' dead at age 82
Actor Ryan O'Neal, the 1970s Hollywood heartthrob who starred in such films as the smash-hit tearjerker "Love Story," screwball comedy "What's Up, Doc?" and "Paper Moon," the movie that also launched his daughter's movie career, died on Friday at age 82.
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By many accounts, not a nice person.
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@Catogrande said in RIP 2023:
By many accounts, not a nice person.
I can honestly say I’ve never seen a single movie he’s been in.
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@Catogrande said in RIP 2023:
By many accounts, not a nice person.
I can honestly say I’ve never seen a single movie he’s been in.
He was quite cool in Driver. Also pretty good in Paper Moon but then got shitty when his daughter won an Oscar. Some serious domestic abuse history as well.
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@Catogrande said in RIP 2023:
@Catogrande said in RIP 2023:
By many accounts, not a nice person.
I can honestly say I’ve never seen a single movie he’s been in.
He was quite cool in Driver. Also pretty good in Paper Moon but then got shitty when his daughter won an Oscar. Some serious domestic abuse history as well.
None of this rings a bell in the slightest.
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@Catogrande said in RIP 2023:
@Catogrande said in RIP 2023:
By many accounts, not a nice person.
I can honestly say I’ve never seen a single movie he’s been in.
He was quite cool in Driver. Also pretty good in Paper Moon but then got shitty when his daughter won an Oscar. Some serious domestic abuse history as well.
None of this rings a bell in the slightest.
Driver was a bit like an art house version of Baby Driver with Rhino as the getaway driver for hire and Bruce Dern as the nut job cop that wants to put him away.
Paper Moon was about a pair of grifters in depression era USA. Tatum O’Neal was very good in it.
Another good film he did was Barry Lyndon, a story about a 17th century Irish chancer. Kubrick directed.
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The only important obituary for the Fern, the only personal one, was Frank, aka "Frank the Wank", local Milford legend, and maybe questionable person, is dead now
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Famous for his instruction when helping coach the Lions in 1980.
“Alright. You forwards. Spread out in a bunch”.
Edit: might actually have been Noel Murphy.
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A bit niche, but 2000AD comic artist Ian Gibson has passed away
Ian Gibson 1946 – 2023 | 2000 AD
Everyone at Rebellion is deeply saddened to hear of the death of artist Ian Gibson. A renowned writer and artist, with a career spanning half a century, he was responsible for the art on some of 2000 AD’s most distinctive and iconic stories, including ‘The Ballad of Halo Jones’ with Alan Moore and...
Well apart from 26 years, and maybe I have a lot of amnesia apart from mates?
