RIPs

[ZenArcade]

Paul Daniels came across as a good egg. RIP. Z

[Something Fishy]

I used to lovely Daniel's show back in the 80's.   It was always fun and cleverly done.  RIP.

[sheridan]

Larry Drake, 66.  Best known for his role in LA Law.

[Professor Bear]

Aw no, not Dr Giggles, too!

I think it's a real shame about Paul Daniels.
It's been unfashionable to like him since the 90s but I used to love his TV shows and think he was a great magician. He's the yardstick by which I measure any other magician or performer of that ilk.
A bloke who was properly good at his job.

These would be my sentiments.  I gather he lost a generation when he announced ahead of the 1997 election that if Labour got in he'd leave the country, but his shows were always good family entertainment, and Wizbit remains a mind worm of a series/theme.

[Greg M.]

I gather he lost a generation when he announced ahead of the 1997 election that if Labour got in he'd leave the country...

When quizzed on why he hadn't left the country, he explained that Labour had carried on with Conservative policies anyway, so it hadn't proved necessary.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Barry Hines. He wrote Kes but Threads will always be imprinted on my memory.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35855544

[Spikes]

What a crappy, crappy year 2016 is turning out to be, eh?

Both Kes, and Threads are must watch films, and ones I've gone back to more times than I can remember.

Kes has always seemed to be there - the superb film adaptation, and reading the book at school (and sniggering at the rude bits...), and Threads is simply astounding, and chilling, in equal effect.

RIP, Mr Hines.

[Ghost MacRoth]

Threads was quite possibly the most disturbing thing I watched in my youth.  Brilliant television....another sad loss.

[Dark Jimbo]

The baby boomers are still fairly numerous so we'll all be reading the obituaries more than we like in the years to come. RIP Boomers, you changed the world but perhaps not as much as you thought you could. I'm feeling a bit miserable now.

Reading Complete Nemesis the Warlock II earlier, it hit me that two of the four artists who contributed to the book are no longer with us. That was a shock, I must say.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Johnny Hicklenton I know was one, but who was the other?

[TordelBack]

Johnny Hicklenton I know was one, but who was the other?

Tony Luke.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Oh yeah; I forgot he worked on Nemesis.  A sad loss.

[Grugz]

the victims of Brussels...

[von Boom]

 

the victims of Brussels...

[Something Fishy]

Indeed.  Very sad.