RIPs

[Wils]

The original Mish Moneypenny, Lois Maxwell.

[vzzbux]

Joey Bishop, last of the infamous Rat Pack dies at the age of 89.


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[Wils]

Killing Joke bass player Paul Raven.

[JOE SOAP]

Raven, dead, fuck me.

[Trout]

A particularly interesting one, this, with an apparent comics connection.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3169124.stm" target="_blank">Chad Varah

[Bolt-01]

Stone me. What a thoroughly wonderful man.

Great link Trouty, thanks

Bolt-01

[Eric Plumrose]

>> Sadly, Chad Varah had been at odds with Samaritans' management council for several years because he felt it had betrayed its original principles by becoming an evangelical support group, instead of an emergency service for the desperate.

>> He felt the job of volunteers was to listen, without talking about themselves.

Eh? Samaritans is neither an evangelical support group nor do volunteers talk about themsleves.

Sloppy, sloppy journalism from Auntie.

[Pete Wells]

Hilda Braid who played Nana Moon in Eastenders and the mam Citizen Smith died on Tuesday.

Poor Alfie :(

[House of Usher]

The death of Ned Sherrin on October 2nd got overlooked in a week when the RIP thread didn't seem to be working, and Alan Coren has passed on since as well.

[paulvonscott]

Verity Lambert, something of a TV legend.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7109538.stm" target="_blank">BBC

[ukdane]

Evil Knievel

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7122258.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7122258.stm

[Bart Oliver]

I first became aware of Evel when I received a one of these as a birthday present from my antie in the states..

http://www.cloudcuckooland.biz/evelchopper.jpg>

My quiet obsession with all things Evel continued-

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/Diaz57/EK_PL.jpg>

This is a clipping from one of the Sundays I saved in an art school sketchbook.

God rest EK.

[Buttonman]

In my great Sun Christmas TV pull out ("To be confirmed" is on an awful lot) they mention a programme 'Richard Hammond meets Evel Kinevil'. Hopefully it's prefilmed or it'll be a dull interview. You can see the production meeting ' they've both crashed cars - TV dynamite!'

[johnnystress]

Very sad. To those of us of a certain age he was as big a hero and as much a part of our lives as Dredd and Warlord. I still have a this poster of him that I had on my bedroom wall as a kid.

http://emporiumsports.com/store/catalog/images/Knievel_Poster.jpg">

[satchmo]

I had that bike too, Bart. Very sad news indeed, this. Evel Knievel can't be dead, for Christ's sake!
I feel as old as Methuselah :(