RIPs

[Something Fishy]

any old fans of wrestling from the 80's will know of The American Dream Dusty Rhodes who has sadly died today.  RIP.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Christopher Lee now, I read it first here.

So I don't know much about it except that he did seem very old and I glad to see fulfil his last roles as Saruman of the White or Many Colours.

Not sure what else he was in lately except the other part he played as Count Duku in the earlier Star Wars films.

I'm as sorry to see he expire as I would be towards any other celebrity I don't personally know.

The original Lord of Misrule

[rogue69]

wrestler Virgil Runnels aka "the American dream" Dusty Rhodes aged 69

[The Legendary Shark]

Sir Christopher Lee (R.I.P.) Reads Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," and From "The Fall of the House of Usher."

[blackmocco]

The.mighty James Horner, composer of the scores for Aliens, Wrath of Khan and Titanic. I'll throw Krull in there too.

[Keef Monkey]

Sad news indeed, a tragic loss of one of the real greats.

[Goaty]

What is scores? songs or background music for film scenes? like that Jaws shark music?

[Steve Green]

More background music, but not necessarily exclusively so, it depends on the film.

Background music is doing it a disservice though, it can be as much a character as an actor.

RIP James Horner.

[Professor Bear]

A good movie score is part of the sense memory, Goaty, like the smell of Bacon cooking is a part of the experience of eating it.  I can't picture matinee staple Battle Beyond the Stars without Horner's bouncy Trek-tinged theme, and I know many people who to this day can't hear the 20th Century Fox anthem at the start of a movie without thinking of Star Wars.

RIP James Horner.

[Dark Jimbo]

Aye, when I think back on all my favourite films/tv series I can't remember the exact dialogue or every last scene, but the music stays with you long afterward, and just one or two notes of a good score can re-spark all the emotions I felt the first time I watched.

Every time I've been to see Mad Max I walked home madly drumming that key bit of the theme on my legs. 

[Daveycandlish]

John Steed himself, Patrick Macnee, has died at the grand age of 93

He was great

[von Boom]

Terrible news about Patrick Macnee. RIP.

[hippynumber1]

I got the news about this literally 2 minutes after we'd watched 'Silent Dust' from series 3. Black and white with Mrs Peel - classic era British TV. I shall savour the rest of the series even more now... 

[Heath C Ackley]

I love the Avengers, best 60s tv adventure show by far. McNee was a great actor and the played the unruffled, cool and quintessent Englishman to a tee.

[sheridan]

John Steed himself, Patrick Macnee, has died at the grand age of 93

He was great

I was watching Battlestar Galactica just the other day (the 1970s version, otherwise I wouldn't be mentioning it now)...