RIP 2022
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I worked on a project and got to meet him a couple times about 20 years ago. Legend! Changed comics. He’s got some interesting ideas (earth is hollow, possibly populated, etc.), but a super-nice guy. RIP.
Neal Adams, Comic Book Artist Who Revitalized Batman and Fought for Creators’ Rights, Dies at 80
He influenced multiple generations with his style and co-created such characters as Ra's al Ghul, the Man-Bat and one of DC's first Black superheroes, Green Lantern John Stewart.
“During his Batman run, Adams and writer Dennis O’Neil brought a revolutionary change to the hero and the comics, delivering realism, kineticism and a sense of menace to their storytelling in the wake of the campy Adam West-starring ’60s ABC series and years of the hero being aimed at kiddie readers. …
“The Batman run also revived some villains who had grown stale, no more so than the Joker, who became less comical and more the homicidal maniac that modern readers and moviegoers know and love, truly taking his place as the Caped Crusader’s archnemesis.
““We took a harder edge. We decided that Joker was just a little crazy,” Adams told Abraham Reisman for a 2019 Vulture article that made the case that without that classic story, 1973’s “The Joker’s Five-Way Revenge” in Batman No. 251, comics such as The Killing Joke and portrayals by Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix would not exist.
““It was no secret that we were doing Batman right,” Adams said during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con in 2010. “It was as if the memory of DC Comics went along with the statements that both Denny and I were making, that we want it to be more realistic, more gritty. And that’s how we remember — whether it was true or not — that Batman should be. And when we did it, everybody went, ‘Ah, that’s it. We don’t need comedy anymore.'”“
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Spinal Tap drummer Ric Parnell dies aged 70
Parnell, who played Mick Shrimpton in This Is Spinal Tap, also performed in bands including Horse, Atomic Rooster, Nova and Stars
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@Machpants Don’t tell me, bizarre gardening accident, yeah?
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@Machpants Don’t tell me, bizarre gardening accident, yeah?
That was their 3rd drummer wasn't it? Who was the one who spontaneously combusted?
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Dennis Waterman. Not one of the greatest actors but pretty much a staple on UK television for decades and by all account a pretty top bloke.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2022:
Dennis Waterman. Not one of the greatest actors but pretty much a staple on UK television for decades and by all account a pretty top bloke.
RIP Minder. Definitely a highlight of my time in the UK seeing him on the tube.
Hopefully he’s making terrible Xmas carols with arfur in heaven.
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RIP Minder. Definitely a highlight of my time in the UK seeing him on the tube.
Brilliantly written and George Cole's acting was outstanding (as always). But what made it was the chemistry between Waterman and Cole who became lifelong close friends.
One of the great TV shows. I worked in East-ish London in the 80's and met loads of characters who could have been straight out of Minder
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2022:
RIP Minder. Definitely a highlight of my time in the UK seeing him on the tube.
Brilliantly written and George Cole's acting was outstanding (as always). But what made it was the chemistry between Waterman and Cole who became lifelong close friends.
One of the great TV shows. I worked in East-ish London in the 80's and met loads of characters who could have been straight out of Minder
Good singer too !
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2022:
Dennis Waterman. Not one of the greatest actors but pretty much a staple on UK television for decades and by all account a pretty top bloke.
The Sweeney was awesome, the violence in it at the time seemed so real but looking at episodes now it looks like slapstick.
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The Sweeney was awesome, the violence in it at the time seemed so real but looking at episodes now it looks like slapstick.
The Sweeney was probably nearer to reality than most of today's choreographed stuff. Waterman came from a well-known boxing family and was pretty handy in the self-defence department by all accounts.
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Tremors has always been a guilty pleasure, and that fishing scene in Short Cuts with Buck Henry and Huey Lewis is a classic. Always liked this guy.
Fred Ward, Star of ‘The Right Stuff,’ ‘Tremors,’ Dies at 79
Fred Ward, who starred in films including "Henry and June," "Tremors," "The Right Stuff" and "The Player," has died. He was 79.
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Terrific show, watched it feverishly in NZ, but they never showed it in North America, not to my knowledge. Usually the best UK comedies and dramas get picked up by public television in USA and Canada, but Minder never was (unless it was buried in a schedule sometime for a small stretch and dropped, because I don’t know any Americans who have ever heard of it), which was a shame because it deserved a bigger audience.
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@Kid-Chocolate just coming to post that, even his bit part in Road Trip was awesome
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Remo
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@Kid-Chocolate said in RIP 2022:
Tremors has always been a guilty pleasure, and that fishing scene in Short Cuts with Buck Henry and Huey Lewis is a classic. Always liked this guy.
Fred Ward, Star of ‘The Right Stuff,’ ‘Tremors,’ Dies at 79
Fred Ward, who starred in films including "Henry and June," "Tremors," "The Right Stuff" and "The Player," has died. He was 79.
Also good in Escape from Alcatraz. RIP
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Vangelis. RIP.
From Dave Weigel’s book on prog rock:
JON ANDERSON WAS COPING with the separation from Yes. In short order he sought out Vangelis, whom he warmly remembered trying to court for the band when Wakeman originally quit. “I saw photographs of him playing four or five keyboards at the same time, and laser beams behind him,” Anderson would recall. “It was unbelievable. I had to meet this guy.” When he did, Vangelis greeted the singer in “a kaftan way down to the floor and a big bow and arrow around his shoulders and arrows coming out of a quiver,” displaying archery before he got down to the music.
