RIPs

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Larry Hagman aged 81 due to complications from his cancer!

[Daveycandlish]

Larry Hagman aged 81 due to complications from his cancer!

That's a shame. He didn't look well during that remake series that has just been shown on Brit TV (and I can't see that show surviving without him as he was the only thing that made it worth watching)

[JamesC]

A shame about Larry - but I'm pretty sure he had fun while it lasted.

[Frank]

I always thought Major Nelson and his army buddy must have been lovers, since he made use of Jeannie's devotion and her powers for every possible purpose except the most obvious :

DON'T MENTION BEWITCHED, IT'S A VERY DIFFERENT SHOW

[Spikes]

Aye a shame about Larry Hagman.
I'd recently caught a radio 2 interview by him as part of the UK promotion for the new Dallas, and he seemed full of beans for that.

[Professor Bear]

FUCK.

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

The actress Dinah Sheridan, Time Lady Chancellor Flavia in the 20th-anniversary story The Five Doctors, has died

[Frank]

The actress Dinah Sheridan, Time Lady Chancellor Flavia in the 20th-anniversary story The Five Doctors, has died

She was Jenny Agutter's Mum in The Railway Children too.

[Daveycandlish]

I was just watching Counsellor Flavia last month in my regular re-watch of old Who.

Damned good innings though.

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

Dave Brubeck, aged 91

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-dave-brubeck-dead-20121205,0,7126256.column

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJE92phKzI

[Daveycandlish]

Another good innings - and a damned fine tune, to boot.

[judgefloyd]

A damn shame.  I was surprised that he was still alive, so to me it feels as though Brubeck got extra time.  He was in a Patrick McGoohan movie called 'all night long' which was a London Jazz scene version of Othello

[ming]

Oscar Niemeyer moved on (aged 104) on Wednesday.  I've seen a fair few of his buildings first-hand, and they're an incredible legacy to leave behind.  I love the fact he remarried (aged 99) after the death of his first wife.

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Oscar Niemeyer moved on (aged 104) on Wednesday.  I've seen a fair few of his buildings first-hand, and they're an incredible legacy to leave behind.  I love the fact he remarried (aged 99) after the death of his first wife.

And he was still working! Finished a commission last week by all accounts.

[judgefloyd]

Rupert Murdoch's mum has just died.  His papers here are celebrating by pretending it was her fault and then apologising when forced to do so more than twenty years later.  Apparently she was a very nice and philanthropic person, but given she was responsible for Rupert being alive, she had a lot to make up for.