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R. I. P. Babs
Jim Dale, he was considerably younger than most of the Carry On team.
https://www.jeanmarcmorandini.com/article-445379-le-dessinateur-malik-qui-avait-fait-de-l-angelot-cupidon-un-personnage-de-bd-est-decede-dans-l-incendie-de-sa-maison-en-belgique.html
And that's not the only dead we have to deplore this month : Richard Corben has also passed away, aged 80 :
https://comicbook.com/comics/news/richard-corben-legendary-comics-artist-dies-at-80/
During Lister's wrestling career as "Zeus the human wrecking machine" he cut several gloriously demented promos with Macho Man Randy Savage (who decided Zeus had "the eye of the madness") and the Sensational Sherri. What a team!
Corben had a very distinct style. He left his mark.
Great promo's I started watching Wrestling around the time the Mega Powers Explode story line started.
Zeus later appeared in WCW as Z- Gangsta a member of the Alliance to bring down Hulkamania (The Dungeon of Doom and The Four Horseman vs The Mega Powers). Crazy booking though so bad it's good.
Z-Gangsta was with The Ultimate Solution in the above photo, The Ultimate Solution was the second name choice as the first name chosen was offensive. The Ultimate Solution was played by 'Jeep'Swenson (Bane from the film Batman and Robin).
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/12/us/charley-pride-dies-obit/index.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-55297558
https://www.newyorker.com/.../09/29/the-madness-of-spies
A very different fictional espionage world from Fleming’s, but the world is big enough for both of them. I enjoy Bond but I enjoy George Smiley too. Sometimes I am in the mood for something quiet, and thoughtful, and slow, and complicated.
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FLEMING: We've had very interesting book published in England which I see is now on sale here, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. It's a very, very fine spy story.
DULLES: I've read it. I got an advance copy of it. [Playfully] But I thought somebody was invading your field a little bit. You're having some competition there, aren't you?
FLEMING: I don't object to that. Because first of all, I admire this book very much. It’s very well written. But of course, the only trouble about this is, it’s taking the “mickey” out of the spy business.
DULLES: [Laughing]: Explain that a little bit. I'd like to get you to explain that.
FLEMING: Well, none of us wants to do it. I mean, none of us professional writers about spies want this to happen. We want the romance—at least I do; I’m talking for myself—I want the romance and the fun and the fantasy to go on. If you reduced the whole thing to police daywork or ordinary secret-service daywork, it would bore the reader to tears.
DULLES: Well, I didn't think this did.
FLEMING: No, no. It didn't. It was well done. But what he does to the spy story is to take the fun out of it. This is a serious, a most depressing, book. I mean, it's a book that one reads with great respect, but it isn't a book I would take an airplane journey. Because it wouldn’t take my mind off the airplane. It might even increase my fears and nervousness—
DULLES: I didn't even know you had any!
FLEMING [Dryly]: Well done, Allen.
I concur with Fleming's opinion of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, which deserves its reputation as the best and most acclaimed "serious" spy novel. But I have trouble letting go of the fact that le Carré speciously attacked Fleming's books, and that his own novels have been used as a stick to beat Fleming's with for decades (as if there was only one way to write a spy story!). Unlike Fleming, le Carré managed to live far into old age and bask in critical acclaim, so his death is not a sad one, but simply the end of a very productive and successful life.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/obituaries/ann-reinking-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/books/ben-bova-dies.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage
I remember him mostly from his 1980s writings in (the late) “Omni” magazine as well as “Analog.” For those of us that like “Hard SCI-FI” this is an especially sad day.
I consider The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Russia House as some of my favourite spy stories.
Even though the more romanticised nature of Bond's universe has been my passion since being a wee lad, I have come to enjoy more down-to-earth spy fiction as well. I like to think that both ends of the spectrum compliment each other.
https://thecanadian.news/2020/12/16/actress-caroline-cellier-is-dead/
That’s creepy, considering where Boba Fett just showed up.
First Vader, now Fett. 40th anniversary of Empire, too. Damn, that's depressing.