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Tannin Capricorn

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:42 pm
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He was much, much more than Bond. Connery was a master of his trade, outstanding in every role I can remember seeing him in.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 8:51 pm
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Robert Fisk died. A British journalist and writer who lived in Lebanon and was a fluent Arabic speaker. He was one of the few to interview Osama Bin Laden and not lose his head Wink

I disagreed with him on a few matters but he was a good journalist at times in my opinion but biased at others. Nonetheless he was pretty good but became a bit too embittered I thought towards the end, at times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:21 am
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Here’s an obit that attempts to synthesise the man and his performances. Very interesting:

https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/bonded-and-unbound-sean-connery-1930-2020

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Connery’s brutish persona offscreen will be forever fused to his image as a leading man: patriarchial, reactionary, a lad, a boss; a self-satisfied asshole, often a bully; the best friend, the big brother, the mentor; the taskmaster and shit-stirrer; a man who considers fists an extension of words; and, virtually without exception, the type of person who rarely questions himself, and does not take kindly to being questioned.

Like the saying goes: it comes from somewhere. Connery was a street fighter who was used to solving problems with his knuckles. He continued to do so after he'd started to figure out how to make a living as an actor. According to the biography Sean Connery: Neither Shaken Nor Stirred, in 1953 he intimidated a feared Edinburgh gang that was trying to steal his jacket in a pool hall, then singlehandedly beat up a group of them after they followed him home to get revenge. During the filming of "Another Time, Another Place," Lana Turner's boyfriend Johnny Stompanato became convinced that Connery was sleeping with her, stormed onto the set, and confronted Connery with a loaded gun; Connery took it away from him and knocked him down. John Boorman told RogerEbert.com contributor Simon Abrams that when he had to convince Connery to reshoot some physically demanding time-lapse scenes for "Zardoz" and a camera loader accidentally exposed the film the second time (necessitating a third attempt), the star flew into a violent rage. "He went after this camera-loader and nearly killed him," Boorman said. "It took three grips to restrain him." When the story got around, the camera loader became unemployable and had to change his name to find work again.

Connery’s flinty-eyed dangerousness made him an emblem of an ancient brand of masculinity—one that would become increasingly questioned during the second half of his life and in the decades following his retirement. Like certain film stars from before his time (like John Wayne) and after (think Mel Gibson), Connery continues to fascinate and excite despite (or because of) knowledge that the image and the man had a lot in common.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 9:39 am
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PyreneesPie wrote:
Pies4shaw wrote:
I have often wondered what it must be like to start your own band, with your own name, make great music and number one hits and then live the rest of your life associated in the public mind with a genius who played and sang with you when he was a kid. It must have been a hard road.
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And couldn't that Winwood kid sing!!!! Very Happy


Yes, Vale to The Professor. To obtain that rhythm, I'm sure he must have met at the same crossroad as Robert Johnson. The SDG songs have stood the test of time and his legacy to British music is now very much part of the DNA.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2020 6:36 pm
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-07/australian-entertainer-jeanne-little-dies/12860638

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Little made her debut on the Mike Walsh Show in 1974, where she won a Gold Logie and went on to appear in numerous television shows.


A very unique, eccentric and flamboyant individual. But an Aussie TV legend none the less.

RIP Daaaarling!

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:01 pm
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If you know who he is and something of the calibre of the man, no words of mine are necessary. If you don't, no words of mine are adequate. 97 years old. What a man.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:03 pm
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Did he invent the drink Yeager-Meister?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:56 am
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It is with heavy heart that I post the passing of a witty erudite and clever political journalist Mungo MacCullum

https://www.theage.com.au/national/australian-journalist-mungo-maccallum-dies-aged-78-20201210-p56m6q.html

Famously once called the 1972 election between Whitlam and wee Billy McMahon a contest between a big cnut and a little prick. He was very funny. Retired many years ago to just North of Byron Bay and was a regular writer for the Byron Echo.

He also famously published amongst others two small ‘books’: one was the “wit of Whitlam” which was histerically funny the other was “the wit of Fraser” just after he was PM for the Libs: it was blank 😂

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 11:57 am
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Sad news. He was, in his own peculiar way, one of the greats.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 12:04 pm
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mungo_Wentworth_MacCallum
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 10:01 pm
Post subject: RIP Charlie PrideReply with quote

The old hometown looks the same
As I step down from the train
And there to meet me is my mama and papa
Down the road I look and there runs Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home
Yes, they'll all come to meet me
Arms reaching, smiling sweetly
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home
The old house is still standing
Though the paint is cracked and dry
And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on
Down the lane, I walk with my sweet Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home
Then I awake and look around me
At four grey walls that surround me
And I realize, yes, I was only dreaming
For there's a guard and there's a sad, old padre
On and on, we'll walk at daybreak
Again, I'll touch the green, green grass of home
Yes, they'll all come to see me
In the shade of that old oak tree
As they lay me
'Neath the green, green grass of home

I don’t have very many happy or kind memories of my dad, Charlie is one of them, he played his tapes endlessly in the car, I know all his songs by heart, and I still sing them now.

RIP Charlie, thanks for the memories xxx

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:28 am
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Vale indeed. A pioneer in some ways for Black Country and Western singers although the roots of country music owes a lot to black music as it were.

Wierd as Charlie was in my lounge room just the other day: I’ve been watching Ken Burns ( He of the Civil War, US national Parks, Jazz, the Blues and Baseball amongst other brilliant docos) series called “Country Music” on SBS on Friday’s or better still on SBS on demand.

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-music/charley-pride-biography

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:35 am
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Vale to a brilliant writer. Some of us grew up with “ Smileys people”: now that is writing.

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/13/john-le-carre-author-of-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-dies-aged-89

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_le_Carr%C3%A9

Amongst numerous awards he won two “Golden Dagger” awards from the British Crime Writing Association

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think positive Libra

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:05 am
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gosh, ive seen a couple of his movie adaptions, i had no idea they were based on truth, im saving the link for later, amazing life. RIP indeed.

well as long as he only spied for England!!!

cheers

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 4:17 pm
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think positive wrote:
The old hometown looks the same
As I step down from the train
And there to meet me is my mama and papa
Down the road I look and there runs Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home
Yes, they'll all come to meet me
Arms reaching, smiling sweetly
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home
The old house is still standing
Though the paint is cracked and dry
And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on
Down the lane, I walk with my sweet Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home
Then I awake and look around me
At four grey walls that surround me
And I realize, yes, I was only dreaming
For there's a guard and there's a sad, old padre
On and on, we'll walk at daybreak
Again, I'll touch the green, green grass of home
Yes, they'll all come to see me
In the shade of that old oak tree
As they lay me
'Neath the green, green grass of home

I don’t have very many happy or kind memories of my dad, Charlie is one of them, he played his tapes endlessly in the car, I know all his songs by heart, and I still sing them now.

RIP Charlie, thanks for the memories xxx


God, I can still sing that song word perfect, although with due respect to Charley Tom Jones did it better.

We had the old radiogram with a small supply of LPs and there was 2 or 3 Charley Pride in there, Mum loved him. Bloody good singer

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