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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects
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Needs more cowbell.
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jlee562
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Cinematographer Gilbert Taylor, most well known for Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and the original Star Wars: A New Hope, has died, age 99.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23808854
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23808854
BigFitz
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RIP Mr. Gilbert Taylor.
Doctor Strange
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Distinguished actress Julie Harris:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/a...ctress-of-range-and-intensity-dies-at-87.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/a...ctress-of-range-and-intensity-dies-at-87.html
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A great actress. What a life she led..!!
HadleyH
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I loved her work on "East of Eden". RIP Julie Harris.
with James Dean
with James Dean
Doctor Strange
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Agreed, she's wonderful as Abra.
I also love her performance in The Haunting.
I also love her performance in The Haunting.
1961MJS
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That "wonderful woman" was a raging anti-Semite and a nasty piece of work.
And that's all I have to say about that.
She was always a reporter telling what we should think about the news. Won't miss her in the least.
Later
Miss Golightly
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Seamus Heaney - Poet & Nobel Laureate has died aged 74:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0830/471228-seamus-heaney/
I don't care for poetry as a rule (there are a few exceptions) but I remember this poem from when I was in Primary School as it really stood out & stayed with me all these years:
Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney
I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close.
At two o'clock our neighbors drove me home.
In the porch I met my father crying--
He had always taken funerals in his stride--
And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.
The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram
When I came in, and I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand
And tell me they were "sorry for my trouble,"
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand
In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.
At ten o'clock the ambulance arrived
With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.
Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops
And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him
For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,
Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,
He lay in the four foot box as in his cot.
No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.
A four foot box, a foot for every year.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0830/471228-seamus-heaney/
I don't care for poetry as a rule (there are a few exceptions) but I remember this poem from when I was in Primary School as it really stood out & stayed with me all these years:
Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney
I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close.
At two o'clock our neighbors drove me home.
In the porch I met my father crying--
He had always taken funerals in his stride--
And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.
The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram
When I came in, and I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand
And tell me they were "sorry for my trouble,"
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand
In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.
At ten o'clock the ambulance arrived
With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.
Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops
And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him
For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,
Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,
He lay in the four foot box as in his cot.
No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.
A four foot box, a foot for every year.
W-D Forties
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I'm ashamed to say that I knew next to nothing about Seamus Heaney, as he wasn't on the English curriculum when I was at school, but my, that's a beautiful and sad piece of poetry. Made me cry.
Miss Golightly
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Isn't it a magnificent poem? What I love about it is that you can see the events unfolding - it's not opaque or wordy - the last couple of lines just floor me.
He has another poem about drowning kittens but I don't want to ruin your Sunday!!!!!!
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David Frost 74 years old is dead.
dhermann1
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David Frost, 1963. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h56_IbHqTIo
RBH
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A.C. Lyles dies Friday.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...ran-hollywood-producer-ac-lyles-dies/2898169/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...ran-hollywood-producer-ac-lyles-dies/2898169/
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The late AC Lyles with his Golden Spur Award. [for Red Tomahawk 1967]
With Howard Keel, Joan Caulfield, Scott Brady and Brodwick Crawford
With Howard Keel, Joan Caulfield, Scott Brady and Brodwick Crawford
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RIP Tom Clancy
Black Dahlia
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RIP Janet Leigh. Died on this day, Oct. 3, 2004.
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