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  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    TheWizardOfIce wrote: »
    Big Phil Scolari's career RIP.

    :)) I think so too!
  • Bond_BombshellBond_Bombshell
    edited July 2014 Posts: 109
    I'm sad to hear about the passing of Ray Lonnen. Fans of The Sandbaggers will remember him well as Willie Caine. I also thought he was great in Harry's Game. Always thought he might make a decent Bond. Interestingly, this obituary claims he stood in for Bond and Indiana Jones to test leading ladies.

    http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jul/13/ray-lonnen

    RIP to an actor who by all accounts was also one of nature's gentlemen.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Elaine Stritch has passed away at the age of 89:

    http://variety.com/2014/legit/news/elaine-stritch-dead-1201264068/
  • MrcogginsMrcoggins Following in the footsteps of Quentin Quigley.
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    Sad to hear of her passing away shuch a funny woman RIP Miss Stritch.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited July 2014 Posts: 18,264
    Mrcoggins wrote: »
    Sad to hear of her passing away shuch a funny woman RIP Miss Stritch.

    Sad news. I liked her in 'William and Mary' from Tales of the Unexpected where she was excellent and Roald Dahl himself even noted this saying she had been cast as "an actress who knows a lot about humour" so we the viewer need not worry about the dark content of the episode.

  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
    Posts: 15,129
    Sad to learn of the passing of Elaine Stritch. Very funny and talented actress. Loved her Colleen Donaghy in 30Rock.
    RIP
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Johnny Winter has passed away at the age of 70:

    http://time.com/3001352/johnny-winter-blues-texas-dead/
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    Posts: 12,480
    Oh no, I remember the Winter brothers well. He was one of the greats.
    I liked this article:
    http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-lion-in-johnny-winter-a-tribute-to-the-guitar-icon-20140717
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    Posts: 12,480
    Just read the James Garner has passed away, age 86. Oh, I enjoyed his work so very much. I loved Rockford, and he was fine in films, too.
  • WillyGaloreWillyGalore
    edited July 2014 Posts: 6,396
    Rockford Files was great, as was Maverick. I think the last film I saw him in was Eastwood's Space Cowboys.

    RIP.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
    Posts: 15,129
    Oh no. Loved James Garner. He was great as Jim Rockford in the Rockford files and also Brett Maverick in Maverick.
    But I'll always remember him as Hendley 'The Scrounger' in The Great Escape.


    RIP
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Gardner was very enjoyable in The Children's Hour too. I'm gonna miss him. R.I.P.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Damn! James Garner was one of my favourites, maybe because he looked like my Grandfather. But probably because he was so likable. RIP.
  • daltondalton
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    Sad news to wake up to this morning. RIP Mr. Garner.
  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
    Posts: 4,813
    Ugh. My Facebook is being lit up right now with 'oh no, the guy from The Notebook died!' Stupid young people..... /:)

    RIP James, you had a great run; everybody liked you
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
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    RIP James Gardner. Watching him in the old reruns of Maverick and the Rockford Files was an enjoyable experience.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,960
    RIP, Mr. Garner. The same thing is happening with me on Facebook: everyone is remembering him from 'The Notebook' and nothing else, but at least he is being remembered.

    Also, Skye McCole Bartusiak has passed away at the age of 21. She played Mel Gibson's daughter in 'the Patriot.' Such a young age for someone to pass away:

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/skye-mccole-bartusiak-dead-patriot-719814
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    edited July 2014 Posts: 40,960
    Actor ('El Mariachi' and 'Desperado') and videogame producer ('Deus Ex') Peter Marquardt has passed away:

    http://www.deadline.com/2014/07/el-mariachi-star-peter-marquardt-dies-50/

    James Shigeta (Mr. Takagi from 'Die Hard') has passed away at the age of 81.
  • MrcogginsMrcoggins Following in the footsteps of Quentin Quigley.
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    Mike Smith the DJ and TV presenter has pass on at the age of 59 after having heart problems
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    That's very sad to learn of the passing of Mike Smith. Anyone who grew up in the UK in the late 80's would know his radio show well. RIP.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    Mrcoggins wrote: »
    Mike Smith the DJ and TV presenter has pass on at the age of 59 after having heart problems

    Was told late yesterday but too late to comment on here. Yet again someone from my childhood past on. RIP Mike.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,264
    It is seven years today since the passing of John Gardner on 3 August 2007.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    To all of the fallen in WW1! Regardless of nationality? They were someone's son, daughter, father or mother! We will remember them 100 years to the day today. RIP.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,161
    Well said, @RogueAgent. Germany invaded my sweet little country on this very date, 100 years ago. The stories my great grandfather told me when I was a little boy, stuck. They were tales of horror, brutalities not to be spoken of. One thing I remember distinctly from his stories was how a priest was tied to a wheel of a large carriage and then spun around like that until he died. My great grandfather, born in 1900, was 14 when he saw that. He told me about it in '87 or '88, when I was 5 or 6. He died in '89. I have since kept thinking that to live with such a memory for three quarters of a century surely must have been painful.

    War is a terrible thing. Many died in the war of 14-18, many survived but scarred, both physically and emotionally. Even if one tries to rationalise a war like that, to logically consider the causes for the war, one fact always remains: it should never have happened.

  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Well said, @RogueAgent. Germany invaded my sweet little country on this very date, 100 years ago. The stories my great grandfather told me when I was a little boy, stuck. They were tales of horror, brutalities not to be spoken of. One thing I remember distinctly from his stories was how a priest was tied to a wheel of a large carriage and then spun around like that until he died. My great grandfather, born in 1900, was 14 when he saw that. He told me about it in '87 or '88, when I was 5 or 6. He died in '89. I have since kept thinking that to live with such a memory for three quarters of a century surely must have been painful.

    War is a terrible thing. Many died in the war of 14-18, many survived but scarred, both physically and emotionally. Even if one tries to rationalise a war like that, to logically consider the causes for the war, one fact always remains: it should never have happened.

    My goodness that is astonishing! I sadly never knew any of my Grandparents let alone Great Grandparents. Since I have been alive it always appears that WW1 seems to be hardly mentioned compared to WW2. I would hope that would be rightly addressed over the coming 4 years.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited August 2014 Posts: 11,189
    That is quite something @Darth that you knew your Great Grandfather for a short time.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    edited August 2014 Posts: 12,480
    WWI seems so far away and gets perhaps dwarfed by WWII.
    But we need to not forget it.
    I found this moody and evocative photo on Twitter today - all that red is poppies, in remembrance of the British who died in WWI. Somehow it is lovely as well as sad for me.
    Their caption is: The Tower of London pours 888,246 poppies from a window to honour WWI's British deaths. Stunning.

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  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
    edited August 2014 Posts: 2,629
    That is an amazing picture @4EverBonded. I subscribe to Smithsonian magazine and they had a fascinating article and pictures of artwork in the trenches that have lasted to this day. Included pictures of the fallen, flags, and even cats to trying to scare the rats away. Will look to see if it's online.

    Reading up on conditions in the trenches during WW1 and it was absolutely horrible. I'm not sure if WW1 could have been avoided, but spending the time in the trenches enduring a hellish lifestyle and gas attacks certainly had an effect on the survivors. RIP to all that served in WW1, regardless if Allied or Central Powers.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    edited August 2014 Posts: 12,480
    I love Smithsonian magazine! I subscribed years ago, @Kerim. I'll have to check it out online, too.

    It is interesting to look at the many old photos from the time of WWI. I am pleased there seem to have been many remembrances around the world.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    Posts: 11,189
    In case people haven't seen it here's Rog reading a section of Tommy Atkins. Very poignant:

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