RIPs

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Angela Lansbury, another actor with over seven decades in the business, has died just short of her 97th Birthday.
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/angela-lansbury-dead-murder-she-wrote-beauty-and-the-beast-1235399636/

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

Angela Lansbury, another actor with over seven decades in the business, has died just short of her 97th Birthday.
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/angela-lansbury-dead-murder-she-wrote-beauty-and-the-beast-1235399636/

I misread that headline as:

Angela Lansbury Dead: Murder.

She Wrote Beauty and the Beast.

Murder, She Wrote has long been hungover TV of choice for my wife and I. One of the channels has marathons of it on Saturdays/Sundays. We always amuse ourselves by reading her nice old lady act as deeply sarcastic passive aggression.

[Dandontdare]

Always liked this photo (and comment) of her with her longtime friend Bea Arthur:

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Austin Stoker, best known for starring as the black Police Officer in John Carpenter's Assault On Precinct 13, has died.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/austin-stoker-death-assault-precinct-075136408.html

[Jim_Campbell]

RIP Pat Mills' career, credibility, and rapidly-dwindling fanbase.

[Woolly]

RIP Pat Mills' career, credibility, and rapidly-dwindling fanbase.

It's the credibility bit that disappoints me the most.

After everything he's said for creator's rights, to then jump on this bandwagon is just baffling.
But then, I've read some post about how he's treated his artists recently, and they're pretty bloody shocking too.

I hate to say it, but I think it's for the best that Pat has left the prog.

[Jim_Campbell]

After everything he's said for creator's rights, to then jump on this bandwagon is just baffling.

TBH, Mills has never been about "creators" rights, he's only ever been about his rights.

Presumably, his position has been that it's up to other creators to stand up for themselves and maybe it's his supporters who've cast him as a champion of creator rights in general, but his willingness to replace artists at will on his strips (and the shameful exclusion of Martin Emond from the Accident Man credits) seems to indicate that he regards the artist as very much secondary in the creator hierarchy. In that light, his willingness to embrace AI 'art' is unsurprising.

However, we should probably break this out into another thread rather than completely derail this one...

[rogue69]

 Argentinian comic artist Mario Adalberto Morhain, aka "Morhain", best known for his work on the Comando comics aged 77

https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-commando-comic-artist-mario-adalberto-morhain/

[Richard]

Robbie Coltrane.

[Funt Solo]

Robbie Coltrane.

RIP Hagrid (for millions), but I think I first saw him in sketch shows like Kick up the 80s, then Tutti Frutti, then Cracker.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

The regrettable news about Robbie Coltrane means another one of those featured in the Young Ones has gone.
He was superb in almost everything he performed, whether comic relief as Hagrid or serious acting in Cracker.

[Proudhuff]

Trussnomics

[Angry Vince]

The regrettable news about Robbie Coltrane means another one of those featured in the Young Ones has gone.
He was superb in almost everything he performed, whether comic relief as Hagrid or serious acting in Cracker.

He was in the Young Ones?! Time to crack open the video archives...

[sheridan]

The regrettable news about Robbie Coltrane means another one of those featured in the Young Ones has gone.
He was superb in almost everything he performed, whether comic relief as Hagrid or serious acting in Cracker.

He was in the Young Ones?! Time to crack open the video archives...

Everyone was in the Young Ones (albeit in blink and you miss them cameos sometimes).

[JayzusB.Christ]

I remember Motorhead playing a gig in their house, for no apparent reason