RIPs

[Dunk!]

Ronald Searle.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16391857

A phenomenal cartoonist.

Gutted, but he had a hell of a life.

[SuperSurfer]

I saw an exhibition of Ronald Searle's work at the Cartoon Gallery, London. In fact it was a drawing session in the exhibition space showing his work. Stunning work and some quite harrowing early pieces – sketches of his time in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. One of the captions said that he and other prisoners would hide drawings or notes under the bedding of men who were dying as the Japanese would not search there. The background of one drawing showed human heads on a shelf.

[TordelBack]

Aw, what a shame.  Searle is a hero of mine, one of the great artists of the 20th C.

[vzzbux]

Is the top walkway the bridge between the landing platform and the ATAT in ROTJ?
Probably a practice for a scene that never was.
Edit: Reference to Bob Anderson.


V

[James Stacey]

former James Bond ... Bob Holness.

[Something Fishy]

Sad news.  Good old bob.

[TordelBack]

Aw, always liked Bob.  Not least for his classic question of two former Blockbusters holiday-winners, "Did you go all the way together?". 

[I, Cosh]

Can I have an RIP please, Bob?

[TordelBack]

Can I have an RIP please, Bob?

That's Blockbusters!

[Heath C Ackley]

Eve Arnold, top photographer in the 40s 50s and 60s, best known for her Marilyn Monroe portraits.

[JOE SOAP]

I wonder did they do that wanky hand-jive at Bob's funeral:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z_uqL8opW8

[ghostpockets]

True story. When I were but a nipper Blockbusters was always on the tellybox after school. Somehow my confuzzled infant mind likened the futuristic intro to what it was like to go to heaven when you died. I think the idea was borne from the combination of the flying over the utopian city and the grecian frieze of zeus at the end, or maybe it was that I found Blockbusters boring like church was. Anyway suffice to say as a child I believed that the face of God was that of Bob Holness, and that when you passed you would play a game of Blockbusters for all eternity. This made me fear death even more.

RIP Bob Holness, you are with your son Jesus now.

[TordelBack]

I'm intrigued, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.  How did a Gold Run fit into your theology? 

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

What 'D' is Bob Monkhouse?

[JOE SOAP]

Intrigued by that first shot - clearly RotJ judging by the lightsabre, but Hamill's costume is entirely unfamiliar.

They're both from Empire but different prop-sabres: