RIPs

[Dark Jimbo]

Really, Goaty? These are getting stupidly obscure now. I can see the sense in the on-topic, genre stuff - Anne McCaffrey, for instance - but why, on a comics message board, do we need to know about the death of someone from an obscure ITV weight loss show (I had to google it)? It's obviously very sad that she's dead and all, but... why here?

[M.I.K.]

No offence meant, Jimbo - and I understand your point,  but can we please not start debating which people's deaths are relevant to the message board. That kind of thing makes me feel more than a bit uncomfortable. It's in the "Off Topic" bit, anyway.

[Eric Plumrose]

Gary Speed

[spireite68]

Gary Speed. I am shocked! Fantastic footballer and a genuine and rare positive football role model. RIP.

[Daveycandlish]

Holy crap. Shocked by that one.
I can only echo what Spireite said

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Yeah, shocked at that. A shame.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Ken Russell aged 84

[Goaty]

Ken Russell aged 84

Aw no, always like his films; Altered States, The Devils and Gothic.

[Heath C Ackley]

Ah Ken.

He was a genuine master of film. He put so much colour, so much exuberance into his work. They were dark, crazy sexy and joyous. I have always admired his movies and the specials he made for TV,  such as those on the great composers for The South Bank Show.

On the other hand...I once attended a Memorabilia fair and Ken was there, looking bored beyond belief. As he was one of my favourite Directors I wanted to meet him. It didn't go well. Let's just say I was a little nervous and he was little arsey. Well, perhaps sometimes you shouldn't meet your heroes.

Favourite Russell films? The Devils, Women In Love, Lair Of The White Worm (I'm suddenly hit with the image of a fanged Amanda Donahoe sporting a huge strap-on. You didn't get that in The King's Speech, did you?} 

[Roger Godpleton]

Napster.

[Hoagy]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2069290/Deliverance-mountain-man-Bill-McKinney-dies-aged-80.html

In the film that was made in the year of my birth.  Bill McKinney was teaching us how to love one another without disturbing the horses long before Brokeback Mountain.

[vzzbux]

Socrates. Brazilian Legend.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16017071.stm






V

[Daveycandlish]

Harry Morgan (Colonel Potter in TV series M*A*S*H).

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2011%2F12%2F08%2Farts%2Ftelevision%2Fharry-morgan-mash-and-dragnet-actor-dies-at-96.html&h=uAQGI1F5iAQG4oqfmEy4dP25gHgYNGD8Mgk-FTYx5P55Swg

He was 96 and y'all probably thought he died years ago.

One of the great character actors who was always watchable

[Hoagy]

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/jerry-robinson-passed-away-111208.html

This sucks.

[Mangamax]

Yeah, a true legend leaves us.
Doesn't matter whether the bitching of whether he created Robin or not, or if it was him that chose to use Conrad Veidt as the basis for the Joker, he was a genius artist, resonsible for some truely iconic images