I liked that guy.

Patrick MacNee

ha. gazunped while I was looking for Kinky the Boots video

RIP John Steed

I used to sneak back into the living room, after Momdigr had gone to bed, and had put me to bed, to watch old 'The Avengers' reruns with Popdigr.

Aw..., you just had a teenager's thing for Diana Riggs

Still do. :drool:

Rigg. Not 'Riggs'. And, that's Ms. Rigg to you.

:p:

ETA: And that was well before my teens. I was prolly 8, or, 9.

Olenna Tyrell, not so much.

OK, I should have said "... precocious teenager's thing ..." ;)

I used to watch them with my dad too. I think we both had a thing for Emma Peel.

A lot of it was The Gentleman Ass-Kicker, I have to admit.

QFT.

.

She's been living proof that a woman needs neither a big rack nor a lot of thigh gap to be considered incredibly sexy.

Chris Squire passed away today. Bassist fro Yes since the beginning. The only member of the band to be on every album. He was one of THE BEST bassists ever... IMO. The concerts next month will be quite different without him. Thanks for the 30+ years of memories. RIP sir.

I was on the phone with an insurance company today doing a precert (convincing the insurance that the rehab deserves to be paid for treating a one of their subscribers. I was listening to Yes and had it on pretty low ... but I guess that Roundabout is pretty distinctive ... anyway the care manager said, "am I hearing Yes? Why are you listening to Yes?" So I told her it was because of Chris Squire's death. She hadn't heard and got quite upset ... she was a huge fan and had even gone to England to see them, and is in one of their videos. I did apologize for being a bit brusque with the death notification.

And I got the treatment authorized. I don't know if this was related in any way to the fan-sharing.

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Chris Squire, Yes Bassist and Co-Founder, Dead at 67

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Val Doonican. I'd honestly forgotten him, but he was a light entertainment icon in my childhood years. Grandparents loved him.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33363938

omg I kind of assumed he'd died years ago...

Omar Sharif died earlier today in Cairo, of a heart attack.

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He was the original most interesting man in the world.

Best looking man in film history?

'Aggravatingly handsome', is the term I use.

RIP Roger Rees

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/201...west-wing-dies

One of the greats.

I hated his character (Robin Colcord, sp?) on 'Cheers'. Decent enough actor, just didn't like the character. I guess that's a compliment, now that I think about it, because the character was supposed to be unlikeable.



Also:

Called it. Years ago.

I'd love to have seen him on stage. By all accounts he was mesmerising.

He was great as Sherlock's actor friend in Elementary. He was only in two episodes - only a couple of scenes altogether, but I loved his character.

Lord Marbury was our favorite character on The West Wing. So bitingly dismissive.

Really long time ago ... I think he starred in a production of Nicholas Nickleby that I really liked.

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I met him once. We were both flying first class to Paris, and we were enveloped in his cloud of celebrity in those close quarters. After we got off the plane, he generously allowed us to take a picture with him. He was very gracious, and as I remember, quite short.

That's pretty cool.

My only brush with fame was when I met Dennis Weaver in the Nashville airport when I was ten. (ETA: He was about thirteen feet tall.)

A buddy of mine does own Roy Orbison's old refrigerator.

Oh, and Momdigr and I once ate supper across the aisle from Ronnie McDowell at an Applebee's.

E.L. Doctorow died Tuesday in New York.

Wayne Carson who wrote The Letter and Always on My Mind. He maybe wasn't so famous but some good tuneage.

I just learned something. I thought Willie Nelson wrote 'You Were Always On My Mind'.

Cilla Black

that was a bit of a surprise surprise

The guy that developed the Mr. Coffee.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...52b8417a01227d

A true pioneer, giant amongst us. May God bless his resting soul.

I know!

So far all I've heard is that it was "natural causes". She was only 72 FFS. My Dad is 75 and if he dropped down dead tomorrow I'd think he was gone too soon.

Jean Redpath

Well, this bums my stone. I didn't realize she died last year on August 21st. I grew up listening to her music.



"As I was walking o'er yon hill
It was a pleasant evening
'Twas there I spied a bonny lass
Skipping barefoot through the heather

And oh but she was neatly dressed
She needed neither cap nor feather
She was the queen among them all
Skipping barefoot through the heather

Her gown, it was a bonny blue
Her petticoat, a pheasant color
And in between the stripes was seen
Shining bales of blooming heather

Says I then, "Lassie, will you go wi' me?
Will you go wi' me and leave the heather?
It's silks and satins you shall have
If you'll wi' me and leave the heather"

Says she, "Kind sir, your offer's good
It's well I ken you will deceive me
So gin I gie my love all o'er
It's better no I've never seen ye"

And oh but she was neatly dressed
She needed neither cap nor feather
She was the queen among them all
Skipping barefoot through the heather"

Inasmuch as falling asleep on the balcony during a major heatwave and then falling/being hit by stroke could be considered natural.

Arfa Daley George Cole

I loved Minder

NASCAR legend Buddy Baker, dead from lung cancer.

Fuck cancer.

Stevie Ray Vaughan died 25 years ago today. (August 27)

Jackie Collins

Breast Cancer. she lived over six years after a stage 4 diagnosis and kept it a secret until last week, apparently

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34305950

I always prefer the younger sister especially if named Jackie. RIP culture star

I only found out yesterday that Moses Malone died earlier this month.

Yogi Berra died last night. Goodbye Sir.

~Yogi Berra

Yogi was definitely one of a kind.

His real name was Lawrence Peter Berra, and he was 90.

14 World Series appearances...Just sayin'.

:notworthy

Only a few blocks away from Yogi's house was the childhood home of Buzz Aldrin - 2nd man on the moon.

Well, I guess it's finally over.

RIP Yogi

Great story, thanks. :thumb:

Denis Eyebrows Healey 98

Gail Zappa http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...at-70-20151007

Kevin Corcoran of "Old Yeller". http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...an-dies-at-66/

Paul Prudhomme, it's been a bad day. http://www.kltv.com/story/30217322/c...mme-dies-at-75

never heard of any of them :/

Singer Billy Joe Royal dies at 73

Aw, shit man.

and one for the Conservatives Geoffrey Howe 88