R.I.P. 2020
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@Hooroo said in R.I.P. 2020:
@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
@sparky I’m not going to lie, I thought he was already gone. RIP though old boy.
So did I. I was genuinely surprised. I think Goscianny (SP) passed some years ago.
1977 apparently.
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Fred 'Curly' Neal
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Statistician Tony Lewis, half of the team, who came up with the Duckworth-Lewis system.
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http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20200218-andrew-weatherall-the-90s-master-of-the-remix
It is difficult to take someone else's art and make it your own without simply riding their coat tails. He seemed to achieve the task pretty well.
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Bill Withers has died at 81
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I have loved Bill Withers songs my entire life. Mum played them to me and my brother as babies.
A lovely Day it is not.
RIP Bill
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Good obit on Bill
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/remembering-bill-withers-the-soul-legend-who-lived-on-his-own-terms/
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The actress, Honor Blackman, has died. This scene is immortal:
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Coronavirus has taken John Prine from us. RIP.
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Meant to post this earlier, Surprised @Chris-B isn't all over it
The original bristling, bludgeoning wicketkeeper. Totally unafraid. Skill didn't match his expectations.
After consistently miscuing or missing hooks off Lillee the Aussie bowler glowered at him and asked him where he fucking learned to hook. Big Jock replied off mug bowlers like you.
So yeah confident but stupid.
I saw him play against the Aussies at Eden Park in 77. He played a typically aggressive knock in the first innings riding his luck for a 50. Papers were full of it - Jock was a folk hero, so a bunch of us went down for the Sunday - sat on the grass in front of the west stand drinking beer in the sun. Glorious. Lillee and Walked destroyed us. In no time at all we were 31/4 In comes Edwards - he totally looked the part as he walked out to bat all staunch defiance. This was the man who would stem the tide. 4 balls later we were 31/5 and he was lucky to last that long. Had just enough time to get a top edge off a hook caught Marsh bowled Lillee.
Still a great character. Gone to early.
Footnote to match - Burgess and Hadlee did put together a counterattacking stand but it only delayed the inevitable as we lost by heaps
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@dogmeat aawww shit!
Jock was our local hero and as a snot nosed kid i watched him heaps during that Hawke cup era.
I saw the famous shot over the Trafalgar park grandstand, a lofted sweep on one knee - the story goes it landed in a passing truck and ended up in Blenheim
. I think it was in the middle of a double ton.Never heard any shit stories and a quiet wee barrel of a man as far as I could tell.
Rest in peace Graeme, a name no one ever called him.
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And some belated recognition for a former Olympic medallist - Eric Verdonk
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@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Statistician Tony Lewis, half of the team, who came up with the Duckworth-Lewis system.
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Oh, man. Mort Drucker. One of my heroes. R.I.P.
Mort Drucker, Master of the Mad Caricature, Is Dead at 91
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Appearing on “The Tonight Show” in 1985, the actor Michael J. Fox told Johnny Carson that he knew he had made it in show business “when Mort Drucker drew my head.” The director Joe Dante wrote that “there are few thrills in life quite like seeing your own movie parodied in the pages of Mad.”
But not everyone was so pleased. According to Mr. Hendrix, Mad’s 1981 parody of “The Empire Strikes Back,” “The Empire Strikes Out,” prompted the Lucasfilm legal department to send a cease-and-desist letter demanding that the issue be recalled. “Mad replied by sending a copy of another letter they had received the previous month — from George Lucas, offering to buy the original artwork for the ‘Empire’ parody and comparing Mort Drucker to Leonardo da Vinci.”
Mr. Lucas knew Mr. Drucker’s work well. He had commissioned one of Mr. Drucker’s classic multicharacter pileups as the poster for his first hit, “American Graffiti” — a nostalgic movie set in the same summer “The JFK Coloring Book” was a best seller. And, of course, Mr. Drucker had illustrated Mad’s sendup, “American Confetti.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/arts/mort-drucker-dead.html
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@MiketheSnow said in R.I.P. 2020:
Fred 'Curly' Neal
I grew up with the tv cartoon series, used to b’cast it after school in NZ in the 1970s. Curly was the star of that cartoon. No ifs-and-buts. I suspect he was more recognizable in his day than Meadowlark Lemon and Wilt Chamberlain, which is kinda shocking, but that’s how global a superstar he was.
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@raznomore I was talking to a musician-writer Gil Scott-Heron in the mid 1980s, and I told him I loved his song “Grandma’s Hands” which he’d released on an album prob. early 80s. He thanked me and said, “yeah, it’s a really beautiful song, thanks. But it’s not mine — it’s Bill Withers’. You have to get that record.” So I did. I’ve added several B.W. lps to my collection since, treasures all.
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Sir Peter Viggers, the UK Member of Parliament who claimed £1,645 on expenses for a floating duck house, has passed away.
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Stirling Moss, couldn't outrun father time
https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/52261216
He had a damn good run for a guy in his line of work at that time
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@canefan said in R.I.P. 2020:
Stirling Moss, couldn't outrun father time
https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/52261216
He had a damn good run for a guy in his line of work at that time
Leg End
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James Drury, The Virginian
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/arts/television/james-drury-dies.html
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Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.
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@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.
How confident are doctors / coroners distinguishing 'from' from 'with'
Agent quoted as saying he died 'with'
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@MiketheSnow The 10,000+ who have died in the UK are both from and with. Some have been very poorly for some time, although many others have been taken a long time before they and their families had expected. A minority have had no known underlying health concerns.
Jack Dee's statement says TBT's death came as a shock as they thought he was recovering.
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The Goodies was seminal show in my youth. RIP TBT. Anyone expelled from primary school at 5 1/2 was always destined to be a legend!
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@pakman said in R.I.P. 2020:
The Goodies was seminal show in my youth. RIP TBT. Anyone expelled from primary school at 5 1/2 was always destined to be a legend!
Grew up with so many great British shows as a kid, The Goodies were at the very top. ( Sooty & Sweep were a close 2nd) such a quirky funny show.
Does kinda feel selfish to morn 1 victim of covid just because he was famous when tens of thousands are dying all over the world, guess there’s just greater impact when it’s someone well known.
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@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.
Noooo
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@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.
Oh Tim. Any child of the 60s will feel that one. The Goodies was essential for us. RIP
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Goodie goodie yum yum
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@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.
Oh Tim. Any child of the 60s will feel that one. The Goodies was essential for us. RIP
I watched them on reruns as a kid of the early 70s. Brilliant fun
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@canefan said in R.I.P. 2020:
@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.
Oh Tim. Any child of the 60s will feel that one. The Goodies was essential for us. RIP
I watched them on reruns as a kid of the early 70s. Brilliant fun
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The original 4 Yorkshiremen Sketch:
As a child of the 80s, I also watched reruns of the Goodies. I also enjoyed Bananaman, which was done by the Goodies.
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@canefan said in R.I.P. 2020:
@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.
Oh Tim. Any child of the 60s will feel that one. The Goodies was essential for us. RIP
I watched them on reruns as a kid of the early 70s. Brilliant fun
They operated during the 70s and early 80s, I don't think their show was made in the 60s.
They used to be on Sunday night tv in the 80s, along with Our World and a science quiz show maybe? I only remembered because I was allowed to have a pixie caramel on Sunday nights
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Bit sad to hear news about Tim Brooke-Taylor.
I was lucky enough to sit behind him at a Lords test back in the 1990s where there was plenty of good banter going around
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@Nepia said in R.I.P. 2020:
@canefan said in R.I.P. 2020:
@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.
Oh Tim. Any child of the 60s will feel that one. The Goodies was essential for us. RIP
I watched them on reruns as a kid of the early 70s. Brilliant fun
They operated during the 70s and early 80s, I don't think their show was made in the 60s.
They used to be on Sunday night tv in the 80s, along with Our World and a science quiz show maybe? I only remembered because I was allowed to have a pixie caramel on Sunday nights
Yep 70s was their heyday. I’m a 60s child so was an early teen right when the show was first run in NZ. My parents didn’t get it which made it more awesome. But at least they’d let us put it on unlike Monty Python, which they loathed.
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@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
@Nepia said in R.I.P. 2020:
@canefan said in R.I.P. 2020:
@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.
Oh Tim. Any child of the 60s will feel that one. The Goodies was essential for us. RIP
I watched them on reruns as a kid of the early 70s. Brilliant fun
They operated during the 70s and early 80s, I don't think their show was made in the 60s.
They used to be on Sunday night tv in the 80s, along with Our World and a science quiz show maybe? I only remembered because I was allowed to have a pixie caramel on Sunday nights
Yep 70s was their heyday. I’m a 60s child so was an early teen right when the show was first run in NZ. My parents didn’t get it which made it more awesome. But at least they’d let us put it on unlike Monty Python, which they loathed.
My parents loved it, which is probably the reason I watched it during the 80s. Knowing NZ tv we probably got all the 70s episodes in the early 80s and the early 80s episodes in the mid to late 80s.
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I grew up with the Goodies, and remember eye-popping when I recognized TBT in the original Willy Wonka (same way when I saw Reggie Perrin show up in 2001: A Space Odyssey). In colour, too. All I ever remember was watching Goodies in b&w on TVNZ pre-colorTV-era, like most of the old Doctor Who’s. In my mind they were all b&w. Was the original Brit production filmed in colour or was it always black & white?
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@Salacious-Crumb Goodies was always colour to me but we still had black and white Dr Who being played in the 80s.
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@MiketheSnow said in R.I.P. 2020:
James Drury, The Virginian
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/arts/television/james-drury-dies.html
Understandable that Tim Brooke-Taylor would get most of the attention and I was as big a Goodies fan as anyone but...
The Virginian was the ultimate western series in my day and yes, I watched it on re-runs as it debuted in '62, 5 years before I was born and finished in '71. OMG I loved it and just wanted to be a cowboy. These guys, especially James Drury in his black hat, made cowboy cool and no wonder, check out the cast.
Lee Majors, Lee J. Cobb and Doug McClure to just to name a few of the other most recognisable actors but there are heaps of others who were regulars or appeared on the show.
And at 90 minutes per episode with 249 episodes over 9 seasons.
They just don't make 'em like this any more.
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@RoninWC said in R.I.P. 2020:
Lee Majors, Lee J. Cobb and Doug McClure to just to name a few of the other most
The Land That Time Forgot. Me and a mate were talking about Doug McLure this past weekend. Troy Donahue + Doug McClure = “Hi, you may remember me from such films as...”
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@MiketheSnow said in R.I.P. 2020:
James Drury, The Virginian
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/arts/television/james-drury-dies.html
Handsome man, rugged babyface made for black & white westerns. He has a small role in Peckinpah’s “Ride the High Country” shot in colour, one of the best westerns of the sixties, maybe ever, but always takes me “out of reality” a little bit when I see him, because he’s supposed to be in b&w.
