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Satirist John Bird has sadly died. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64108691

 

Probably best known doing these sketches with John Fortune on Brember, Bird and Fortune.  I'd add that the video below is what I would consider proper satire, not just the topical jokes you get on shows today. They manage to explain the situation that led to the 2008 financial crash in a well-informed yet very entertaining way. 

 

 

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5 hours ago, JohnC said:

Ruggero Deodato, probably best known as the director of Cannibal Holocaust, died at age 83.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/29/ruggero-deodato-director-cannibal-holocaust-dies-aged-83

 

Sad news.

 

CH was, and still is, an astonishing that stood head and shoulders above all the others in that short lived exploitation sub genre and, also, above the vast majority of 'found footage' movies that have followed it. 

 

As an aside, Riz Ortolani's lovely main them is one of a very few tunes that I find myself humming randomly whenever I need to hum. On e of the others being 'The Gonk' as heard most famously in Dawn of The Dead.

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I had the privilege and honour of not only meeting Dame Viv but also getting rat arsed with her. Was on a work trip at the time to Munich in the mid 90s and was early for my flight home. Obviously I went to the bar to drink as many German wheat beers that I could manage on the company credit card before the flight. Back then you could still smoke in airports and I was still a smoker. She was at the bar being served along with a couple of other folk (assistants rather than entourage) and asked me if she could have a cig which I happily provided (everyone she was with were non smokers). She then proceeded to have a rant about German bureaucracy and bought me a couple of shorts while basically chain smoking all my cigs lol. Turned out we ended up sitting across the aisle from each other on the flight and she kept ordering me drinks. Was hammered by the time we got to Stansted. Even offered to have me dropped off at my hotel but I already had a taxi booked and paid for. What a lovely absolute nutter of a woman.

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2 minutes ago, Hawklord said:

I had the privilege and honour of not only meeting Dame Viv but also getting rat arsed with her. Was on a work trip at the time to Munich in the mid 90s and was early for my flight home. Obviously I went to the bar to drink as many German wheat beers that I could manage on the company credit card before the flight. Back then you could still smoke in airports and I was still a smoker. She was at the bar being served along with a couple of other folk (assistants rather than entourage) and asked me if she could have a cig which I happily provided (everyone she was with were non smokers). She then proceeded to have a rant about German bureaucracy and bought me a couple of shorts while basically chain smoking all my cigs lol. Turned out we ended up sitting across the aisle from each other on the flight and she kept ordering me drinks. Was hammered by the time we got to Stansted. Even offered to have me dropped off at my hotel but I already had a taxi booked and paid for. What a lovely absolute nutter of a woman.

 

Would love to see a pic of you in those shorts

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3 hours ago, Hawklord said:

I had the privilege and honour of not only meeting Dame Viv but also getting rat arsed with her. Was on a work trip at the time to Munich in the mid 90s and was early for my flight home. Obviously I went to the bar to drink as many German wheat beers that I could manage on the company credit card before the flight. Back then you could still smoke in airports and I was still a smoker. She was at the bar being served along with a couple of other folk (assistants rather than entourage) and asked me if she could have a cig which I happily provided (everyone she was with were non smokers). She then proceeded to have a rant about German bureaucracy and bought me a couple of shorts while basically chain smoking all my cigs lol. Turned out we ended up sitting across the aisle from each other on the flight and she kept ordering me drinks. Was hammered by the time we got to Stansted. Even offered to have me dropped off at my hotel but I already had a taxi booked and paid for. What a lovely absolute nutter of a woman.

 

She was the actual punk of punk, as opposed to the likes of Lydon.

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Barbara Walters has passed away.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-31/barbara-walters-dead-aged-93-the-view-creator/101819208

 

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Barbara Walters, a pioneer as US television news' first woman superstar, has died, according to American TV network ABC News. She was 93.
 

Walters's death was announced by the US network on air on Friday night (local time) and confirmed by her publicist in a statement.

Walters, who appeared on and created the popular women's talk show The View in 1997, died on Friday at her home in New York, Robert Iger, chief executive of ABC's parent company, the Walt Disney Company, said on Twitter.

Iger described Walters as a "one-of-a-kind reporter" who was a "true legend" and pioneer of journalism.

 

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13 hours ago, Unofficial Who said:

Barbara Walters has passed away.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-31/barbara-walters-dead-aged-93-the-view-creator/101819208

 

 


my mum…

 

I know Barbara Walters! 
 

huh? How do you know Barbara Walters?

 

She read the news when I went to school in Antigua.

 

she read the news in Antigua?

 

oh no, on the American channel. There was no local news…

 

:facepalm:
 

Thanks mum. This would have been around 1969-1970, so when she was co-hosting Today, on NBC…

 

hell of a career, mind.

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