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  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Thoughts and prayers for you and your family during these tough times @mattjoes we are here for you.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    My condolences, @mattjoes. If you need a moment to pause, please don't hesitate to send a PM! We're here for you.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Paul King for Bond 26
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    Thank you fellas, though I must clarify that happened like four years ago. I was talking about it in relation to Gene Hackman's passing, whose death is also signficant to me for reasons stated.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    edited February 28 Posts: 9,201
    I'd normally join in the sympathy, but as I understand @mattjoes, the passing of his father happened more than five years ago (he had seen 24 Hackman films at the end of that year, and about one per year ever since, now being up to 29). Apologies if I'm hurting someone's feeling, but it does not seem to be a recent occurrence.

    EDIT: Oops, sorry, but while I was writing my post, @mattjoes clarified the matter himself.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Paul King for Bond 26
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    I'd normally join in the sympathy, but as I understand @mattjoes, the passing of his father happened more than five years ago (he had seen 24 Hackman films at the end of that year, and about one per year ever since, now being up to 29). Apologies if I'm hurting someone's feeling, but it does not seem to be a recent occurrence.

    EDIT: Oops, sorry, but while I was writing my post, @mattjoes clarified the matter himself.
    Thank you, no need to apologize!
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    It has been a long time since i have been on here, so i am still in the process of catching up on all the threads.

    I just want to send my thoughts and support to all who have lost someone special.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    Another bit of the 60s and 70s has passed; Joey Molland - the last surviving original of the band BADFINGER - has passed away.

    BADFINGER was signed to The Beatles' APPLE label in 1968/1969, and had a string of moderate hits until the mid 1970s. Often, marked by tragedy and financial mismanagement - the group never quite hit the heights predicted for them. But the songs live on. And, yes, "Without You" was written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans - NOT Harry Nilsson (as cited in another thread), and certainly not Mariah Carey, both of whom scored hits with it.

    https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/joey-molland-badfinger-guitarist-dead-obituary-1235285292/
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
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    @Dwayne My favorite track by them is 'Day After Day'.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    @Dwayne

    I got to know them playing "No Matter What" and bought a Greatest Hits album almost fifty years later. Still enjoy their music when it comes up in my collection set to "random".

    As for "Without You", there is also a version by a singer named Shirley Bassey, if you ever heard about her. I'm not really a big fan of Harry Nilsson's (although I actually have a few albums, acquired cheaply), and don't know the version by Mariah Carey, who never appealed to me anyway.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
    edited March 2 Posts: 2,933
    @j_w_pepper and @SIS_HQ,

    It warmed my heart, when a new generation was exposed to their music via the conclusion of the TV series BREAKING BAD. And, yeah, the words of BABY BLUE were a perfect choice.


    Beyond their own work, they should also be noted for their contributions to the solo work of John Lennon and George Harrison - and of course it went both ways. McCartney penned BADFINGER's first hit "COME AND GET IT", and George actually plays lead on the classic "DAY AFTER DAY" (IIRC, the NBA actually used the song in a promo several years ago).

    Edit: Yep, my memory is still good (on most days, well some of the time..... :)) ):


    PS: About 20 years ago, THE BEATLES / APPLE began to reissue some of the albums that were issued on that label back in the day. Really great stuff from the likes of Doris Troy, Billy Preston, James Taylor as well as BADFINGER.
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
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    @Dwayne I haven't watched 'Breaking Bad' yet, I've discovered Badfinger while browsing some songs in Spotify and 'Day After Day' played in.
  • GerardGerard
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    French singer Herbert Léonard has passed away, aged 80, from lung cancer :

    https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2025/03/02/le-chanteur-herbert-leonard-interprete-de-pour-le-plaisir-est-mort_6574129_3382.html

    Here's one of his most popular song :

  • TracyTracy
    edited March 6 Posts: 1,731
    prod-Anett Wolf (Elvis CBS '77 special)

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  • GerardGerard
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    Tragic. Simply tragic :

    https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-03-06/pamela-bach-dead-david-hasselhoff-ex-wife-suicide
  • FeyadorFeyador Montreal, Canada
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    Today, about the death of Gene Hackman. Not a little disturbing:

  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    @Feyador: Tragic at any rate. But it sort of makes sense that she must have died first and he was just unable to survive alone, given his Alzheimer's etc. And forgive me for wondering also who locked the poor dog up in a bathroom closet, and whether it starved to death for that reason.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    It's a horrible thought (as if the whole situation wasn't already horrible enough), but it's possible he put the dog in there himself. The more I hear, the worse I feel.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    It is a tragic and strange one. Kind of like the sort of scene you'd normally find in an Agatha Christie detective novel. It has all of those strange and bizarre disparate elements to it. We may never know the full story of what exactly happened. It will most likely just be educated guesses or supposition.
  • FeyadorFeyador Montreal, Canada
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    @Feyador: Tragic at any rate. But it sort of makes sense that she must have died first and he was just unable to survive alone, given his Alzheimer's etc. And forgive me for wondering also who locked the poor dog up in a bathroom closet, and whether it starved to death for that reason.

    "During Friday’s news conference, Sheriff Adan Mendoza of Santa Fe County said that investigators had determined that on Feb. 9, a Sunday, Ms. Arakawa had picked up Zinna from a veterinarian after the dog underwent a procedure, which could explain why Zinna was being kept in a crate." [New York Times]

    Having closely observed a family member and others with Alzheimers' it all especially terrifying to me. One thing that's unusual is that they appear not to have any in-home help at all. Indeed, they appear to have retreated from the world entirely. His wife did everything, seems to have been extraordinarily devoted to him, and was particularly active the day she died. But it's so important for people to have a support network as they age, even for those without Alzheimers. We're so used to watching heroic deaths in the movies ... but of course it's not that way at all.
  • FeyadorFeyador Montreal, Canada
    edited March 8 Posts: 758
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    It is a tragic and strange one. Kind of like the sort of scene you'd normally find in an Agatha Christie detective novel. It has all of those strange and bizarre disparate elements to it. We may never know the full story of what exactly happened. It will most likely just be educated guesses or supposition.
    Or Edgar Allan Poe ... if only for the morbid fascination of it all.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I learned about this man just now, thanks to soprano Golda Schultz, but anyway, RIP Athol Fugard:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athol_Fugard
  • GerardGerard
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    Doctor Who and Harry Potter fns are in mourning today. British actor Simon Fisher-Becker has passed away, aged 63 :

    https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/09/harry-potter-doctor-actor-simon-fisher-becker-dies-aged-63-22697484/
  • GerardGerard
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    I just learned that british actor Steve Hodson, who had played alongside Desmond Llewelyn in the TV series Follyfoot, passed away on february 16th, aged 77 :

    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/feb/25/steve-hodson-obituary

    I loved that series when it aired in France. As a tribute :

  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I had a friend at uni, round 2000, an Italian woman. Not a very close friend, but she became the girlfriend and life partner of a very good friend of mine, also Italian. About four years ago, she died of cancer. She was only 45. I saw a picture of her recently, from back in the old days. So RIP Marianna.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    I had a friend at uni, round 2000, an Italian woman. Not a very close friend, but she became the girlfriend and life partner of a very good friend of mine, also Italian. About four years ago, she died of cancer. She was only 45. I saw a picture of her recently, from back in the old days. So RIP Marianna.

    45 is far too young. I'm sorry to read about your friend's passing, @Ludovico.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    Sorry to hear that @Ludovico, 45 years is indeed far too young :(
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited March 16 Posts: 18,580
    Sad to hear of the death of the showbiz journalist Garth Pearce, aged 77. He wrote the book The Making of GoldenEye (Boxtree, 1995):

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/33280873/legendary-showbiz-journalist-garth-pearce-james-bonds-dies/amp/
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Also The Making of Tomorrow Never Dies (Trans-Atlantic Pubns, 1998).

    The Sun piece (LEGEND LOST Legendary showbiz journalist Garth Pearce who knew all six James Bonds dies aged 77 after glittering 50-year career) shares two pictures related to Bond films, plus a Connery photo.

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  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited March 16 Posts: 18,580
    Sorry, I'd forgotten about his TND book. That was actually the first book I bought of his new as a young fan back in about 1997/98.
  • GerardGerard
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    Former Formula one boss and Top Gear presenter Eddie Jordan has passed away, aged 76.

    https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sport/formula-1/eddie-jordan-f1-boss-dead-newsupdate/

    Also among the departed, belgian actress Émilie Dequenne, who died from cancer aged 43 :

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/17/emilie-dequenne-belgium-actor-emilie-dequenne-dies-aged-43

    And finally, french musician Jacques Delaporte, founder of french big band Le Grand Orchestre du Splendid, has alos passed away, aged 78.

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