Rest In Peace: The R.I.P. Thread

[Naughty_Felid]

It's getting like the time I cremated the cat and he came back.

Wow that would have made a twist in Pet Semetery.

Yeah, they are hard to tell apart when they've died. It's all the fur.

 

[Lord Lucan]

Yes, apologies if anyone thought my post was in poor taste; I sometimes feel the need to laugh at sad times. And she really did deserve better. It seems she slipped away slowly, though, so I doubt she was aware of the situation.

In a sense, her death will be written about, read about, discussed and laughed about for years to come which albeit a little dark and black humoured, leaves a legacy that makes her perhaps now more memorable than her acting career would have ever done for her.
By all accounts she was a lovely human being, kind and considerate and you're 100% correct, she did deserve better, as we all do.

 

[Beresford]

Former Manchester City player Colin Bell has died at the age of 74 after a short illness. Last year was a bad one for footballers of the 60s and 70s, this year hasn't started too well either.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55551720

 

[Dinobot]

Tanya Roberts, one of Charlie's Angels and 007's sidekick has passed away. Such a beauty:

Tanya Roberts, Bond Girl and 'That '70's Show' Star, Dies at 65

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tanya-roberts-bond-girl-and-that-70s-show-star-dies-at-65

In perhaps the greatest Fortean twist of 2021 so far, it's now being reported that Tanya Roberts (former Charlie's Angel & Bond Girl) is still alive!

Tanya Roberts Still Alive, Rep Confirms

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/tanya-roberts-not-dead-1234878434/

This is great news, especially for Tanya herself!

She's dead again.

Tanya Roberts is dead, partner says after premature death declaration
The news comes after Roberts' representative mistakenly declared her dead a day prior


https://www.foxnews.com/entertainme...ead-after-premature-declaration-from-publicst

Can someone actually check before declaration? Measure twice, cut once, as my father used to say...

 

[Tempest63]

Albert Roux, top chef has died at the age of 85

 

[Dinobot]

Albert Roux, top chef has died at the age of 85

Are you certain?

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

Are you certain?

Maybe he just lost his huile d'olive.

 

[Tempest63]

Are you certain?

Albert Roux: Chef and culinary 'legend' dies aged 85 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55559343

 

[ChasFink]

Was he the first person to mix butter and flour?

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

Maybe he just lost his huile d'olive.

Or his thyme simply ran out...

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

I heard he went out all buns glazing.

 

[Peripart]

Maybe he just lost his huile d'olive.

Sure you're not thinking of Popeye?

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

Sure you're not thinking of Popeye?

No. It was definitely the master chef Monsieur Roux who pasta way and who will not be making any more gnocchi gnocchi jokes.

 

[Schrodinger's Zebra]

Former Coronation Street ' actor Mark Eden dead aged 92.
The actor was best known for playing the baddie Alan Bradley who famously met his fate by a Blackpool tram in 1987. View attachment 33325View attachment 33326
https://www.google.com/url?q=https:...DMA56BAgFEAI&usg=AOvVaw3qZGecblKAjiOaJznMQ_gs

RIP. And of course he was also in my favourite-film-ever, Seance on a Wet Afternoon.

 

[Victory]

Alan Igbon.

Aged 68.

Very much one of those faces who you would recognise but perhaps not know his name.
Was in many British classic TV shows and films including Coronation Street, Boys from the Blackstuff, Babylon, Scum, No Problem.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0407037/

 

[Bigphoot2]

William Link, co-creator of Columbo has passed away.

William Link, ‘Columbo’ and ‘Murder, She Wrote’ Co-Creator, Dies at 87


William Link, a writer and producer known for co-creating “Columbo” and “Murder, She Wrote,” died of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles on Sunday, his niece confirmed to Variety. He was 87.
Over the course of Link’s decades-long television career, he became known for working alongside screenwriter and producer Richard Levinson. The duo collaborated on a number of projects, including both “Columbo” and “Murder, She Wrote.”
etc

https://variety.com/2020/tv/obituar...ink-dead-columbo-murder-she-wrote-1234876219/

 

[Vardoger]

William Link, co-creator of Columbo has passed away.



https://variety.com/2020/tv/obituar...ink-dead-columbo-murder-she-wrote-1234876219/

Loved Columbo, hated Murder, She Wrote. I thought Murder, She Wrote was crime show for elderly people in the 80s. Now I'll soon be old enough to watch it myself, but still hate it.

Angela Lansbury, still going strong (for now) at 95.

 

[Bigphoot2]

Loved Columbo, hated Murder, She Wrote. I thought Murder, She Wrote was crime show for elderly people in the 80s. Now I'll soon be old enough to watch it myself, but still hate it.

Angela Lansbury, still going strong (for now) at 95.

Angela Lansbury was brilliant in The Manchurian Candidate.

I'll be digging out my box set of Columbo DVDs and spending a cold, snowy day watching them.

 

[GNC]

RIP Marion Ramsey, Broadway star and squeaky-voiced Hooks from Police Academy:
Obit

She was 73. She did a PA in Glasgow once to promote one of the sequels and was completely mobbed, one of the most popular appearances they ever had at that cinema.

 

[Bigphoot2]

Michael Apted, director of feature films and documentaries has passed away

Michael Apted, Director of ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ and ‘Up’ Series of Documentaries, Dies at 79


Michael Apted, who directed the “Up” series of documentaries, as well as “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “Gorillas in the Mist” (1988), “Nell” (1994), James Bond film “The World Is Not Enough” (1999) and “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” (2010), has died, his agency Gersh confirmed. He was 79.
Apted directed three actors in performances that drew Academy Award nominations: Sissy Spacek in “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” Sigourney Weaver in “Gorillas in the Mist” and Jodie Foster in “Nell,” with Spacek going on to win the Oscar.
etc

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/michael-apted-dead-up-docs-1234881490/

 

[GNC]

I guess that really is the end of the 7 Up series. He made some good films, but that simple idea for a TV documentary was so ingenious, so riveting, that it's justifiably regarded as a classic. It's a wonderful legacy. RIP.

 

[GNC]

John Richardson, British film star, dies at 86 of Covid:
Obit

Best known for romancing Raquel Welch in One Million Years BC and Ursula Andress in She. Also made a lot of Italian movies. Bit stolid, but a handsome fellow. RIP.

 

[Lord Lucan]

I guess that really is the end of the 7 Up series. He made some good films, but that simple idea for a TV documentary was so ingenious, so riveting, that it's justifiably regarded as a classic. It's a wonderful legacy. RIP.

Absolutely! It (the Up series) runs the gamut of life itself, it's ups and downs, it's wonders and disappointments, it's sadness and achievements. It speaks of life long friendships, marriages that did and didn't last the distance, of watching your own children grow and their own successes. Families and their never ending problems and never ending joys. Unexpected careers and the places they can take you and the people they can introduce you to. I don't think I've ever watched and episode and not shed a tear. ''It's a wonderful legacy''... Indeed.

 

[stu neville]

I thought Murder, She Wrote was crime show for elderly people in the 80s. Now I'll soon be old enough to watch it myself, but still hate it.

It's twee, unchallenging and has a seemingly endless number of episodes, none of which vary much from one another, but it clearly had a solid audience or they wouldn't have kept it going (US television is a lot of things, but sentimental it ain't.) As has been said though, Angela Lansbury is a very capable actor, and to be honest Murder She Wrote was probably undemanding and quite fun to make, so why not?

 

[Anome]

It's twee, unchallenging and has a seemingly endless number of episodes, none of which vary much from one another, but it clearly had a solid audience or they wouldn't have kept it going (US television is a lot of things, but sentimental it ain't.) As has been said though, Angela Lansbury is a very capable actor, and to be honest Murder She Wrote was probably undemanding and quite fun to make, so why not?

It fits in with the genre like Diagnosis: Murder and, as referred to frequently on The Simpsons, Matlock. It's simple procedural with an older lead for the audience to identify with. Nothing ground breaking, but it's not meant to be.

 

[Mythopoeika]

It's twee, unchallenging and has a seemingly endless number of episodes, none of which vary much from one another, but it clearly had a solid audience or they wouldn't have kept it going (US television is a lot of things, but sentimental it ain't.) As has been said though, Angela Lansbury is a very capable actor, and to be honest Murder She Wrote was probably undemanding and quite fun to make, so why not?

I've watched quite a few episodes over the years. It's pretty formulaic stuff, is completely unlikely and a bit 'cosy' - like an old pair of boots. It's what you watch when there's nothing else on, really.

 

[Bigphoot2]

I've watched quite a few episodes over the years. It's pretty formulaic stuff, is completely unlikely and a bit 'cosy' - like an old pair of boots. It's what you watch when there's nothing else on, really.

I was always hoping for a final episode where Jessica Fletcher is revealed as a serial killer.

 

[Vardoger]

I was always hoping for a final episode where Jessica Fletcher is revealed as a serial killer.

I think most of her friends ended up in prison, for murders. I watched a few episodes in the beginning, but it was too formulaic. It was usually one of her friends who had did it. But she could of course trust her friend, the sheriff.

 

[escargot]

I thought the introduction to Murder She Wrote shows New York scenes including the World Trade Buildings. Having checked, I now find it doesn't. So what series was I thinking of?

 

[TangletwigsDeux]

I thought the introduction to Murder She Wrote shows New York scenes including the World Trade Buildings. Having checked, I now find it doesn't. So what series was I thinking of?

Barney Millar? My hind brain is seeing that as a fit... to youtube!


EDIT: Well its definitely there: