In Appreciation

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In Appreciation

There are so many people, that have contributed their gifts to the world.

16 March 2016

Sylvia Anderson, best known as the voice of Lady Penelope in the TV show Thunderbirds, has died after a short illness, her family has confirmed.


She had a daughter, Dee Anderson, a singer and songwriter, and a son, Gerry Anderson Junior, an anaesthetist.

She also leaves four grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.


http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35818530


Puppet pioneers

Born in south London to a boxing promoter and a dressmaker, Sylvia Anderson graduated from the London School of Economics with a degree in sociology and political science.

She spent several years in the US and worked as a journalist before returning to the UK and joining a TV production company, where she met her future husband, Gerry Anderson.

26 December 2012 Gerry Anderson died. Sylvia was his second wife.

Gerry Anderson was made an MBE in 2001 and is survived by his third wife Mary and four children.

 

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In appreciation of Patty Duke


Patty Duke died Tuesday

Patty Duke won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Miracle Worker, becoming the then-youngest person to win an Oscar and thus one of the most famous American teenagers ever. She earned it playing the blind-and-deaf American icon Helen Keller, first on stage and later in the 1962 film, both of which told the story of how Keller learned to communicate as a child through her tutor Anne Sullivan (Anne Bancroft).

The Patty Duke Show


1963-1966, was hard work: She played both characters, Patricia "Patty" Lane, a "typical" rock 'n roll American teenager who occasionally got into minor trouble at school and home, and Catherine "Cathy" Lane, her more well-behaved cousin from Scotland who adores "a minuet, The Ballet Russes and crepe suzette."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...r-child-star-patty-duke-dies-age-69/82382666/

She portrayed lookalike cousins on the sitcom The Patty Duke Show, was known for Valley of the Dolls, and played leading roles in the musicals Oklahoma! and Wicked.


http://www.vulture.com/2016/03/actress-patty-duke-dead-at-69.html

 

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Garry Shandling, 66, American comedian, actor and writer


http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/24/garry-shandling-groundbreaking-comedian-actor-dies


Larry Sanders Show debuted in 1992, earning the comedian cult status and numerous awards.

 

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Victoria Wood was not part of my life.
We did not watch her TV shows during the week.
She did not treat us to funny sketches.
We did not see her sing and dance.
We did not hear her funny jokes.
We did not have her as part of our lives, year after year.
We did not have the chance to enjoy seeing a different slice of life, presented by Victoria Wood.

Today, I watched many video clips and read many funny things written by her.
I also read many tributes to her, by people that liked and admired her, and her many talents.

She was a wonderful, talented woman with a great sense of humor.
She was a caring, intelligent woman who went out of her way to help people.
And, now, she is gone.

Comedian Victoria Wood has died aged 62 after a short battle with cancer.





John Cleese paid tribute to Wood on Twitter, writing: “Shocked by news of Victoria Wood. I worked with her last year and was reminded of just what a superlative performer she was. Only 62!”

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also paid tribute to Wood, tweeting: “So sad to hear about Victoria Wood. A great comic performer & writer whose talent broke through a male dominated scene.”

The Prestwich-born writer and performer came to prominence in the 1980s with her TV collaborations with Julie Walters

As well as writing in award-winning TV series Victoria Wood as Seen On TV and Dinner Ladies, Victoria Wood wrote and directed The Day We Sang for the 2011 Manchester International Festival.

Born on May 19, 1953, in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, Wood was still a drama student at Birmingham University when she won talent series New Faces.

Her first play, Talent, was adapted for television in 1979.

It reunited her with Julie Walters, whom she met while auditioning at Manchester Polytechnic’s student theatre when she was 17.

It was a partnership which was to endure for decades and included their own show on Granada Television in the early 1980s.

In 1985, Wood moved back to the BBC for the series that would finally establish her as a television force: Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV.

Showcasing her skill for observational comedy and sharp characterisation, it also included her most memorable pastiche: Acorn Antiques.

This amusing homage to daytime soap operas became a series in its own right and a musical, and was a favourite with critics and viewers.


Here’s a collection of some of her most-loved lines over the years

I thought Coq au Vin was love in a lorry.

My children won’t even eat chips because some know-all bastard at school told them a potato was a vegetable.

In my day we didn’t have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don’t know who got my moped but I’ve been driving that Peugeot for years.

My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar.

Jogging is for people who aren’t intelligent enough to watch television.

Life’s not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

Sexual harassment at work - is it a problem for the self-employed?

People think I hate sex. I don’t. I just don’t like things that stop you seeing the television properly.

 

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French Resistance Fighter, 97, Dies

Apr 11, 2012

Raymond Aubrac, one of the last remaining leaders of the infamous French resistance, died Tuesday evening.

Aubrac was a co-founder of the “Liberation Sud” movement and was one of the only living people to have known the great resistance fighter Jean Moulin.

Aubrac (whose real name was Raymond Samuel) was born in 1914. He was an engineer specializing in bridges and came to the United States to study at Harvard.

His wife, Lucie Aubrac, was also a hero of the French resistance. She died in 2007

http://plus.lefigaro.fr/note/french-resistance-fighter-97-dies-20120411-880245

“The history of the Resistance was made up of many difficult moments. But starting on the very first day, June 18, 1940, when Charles de Gaulle called us to action, he explained that losing a battle didn’t mean that we had lost the war. Only one thing guided us: optimism and the conviction that when we engage, we can change things.

“Here is what I say to young people: if you leave the fight beaten, you have achieved nothing; if you fight, you have a chance of achieving something.”

- Raymond Aubrac


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/11/french-resistance-raymond-aubrac-dies

11 April 2012


Aubrac was arrested in June 1943 at Caluire, near Lyon, with Jean Moulin, head of the Resistance Council, and 12 other fighters. He was interrogated and tortured by the notorious head of the Gestapo, Klaus Barbie – nicknamed the Butcher of Lyon. Moulin died after the ordeal.

 

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nice thread, slushie

 

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In appreciation of all the gifts that Glenn Yarborough gave to the world.

Part of being part of the tail end of the Baby Boomers, is no fun.
The older Boomers tease you, and treat you like a pest.
The other part of being late to the party, is feeding your mind
on all of the things they know. They have tales full of adventure
and new sights and sounds.

They were witnesses to what was happening.
It was happening in New York.
It was happening in California.
A bit of it was happening in Boston.
(Though, it promptly got banned.)
East, West, North and South
From the bones of tradition, something new and fresh
was born.

Glenn Robertson Yarbrough was born in Milwaukee on Jan. 12, 1930.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/a...nger-with-the-limeliters-dies-at-86.html?_r=0


Raised in New York City, Yarbrough began singing as a paid boy soprano at Grace Church to help support his mother. He went on to attend St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md., where he studied philosophy. He eventually served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, deciphering codes before entering its entertainment corps. Upon his return, Yarbrough pursued his music career before moving to South Dakota to help his father run a dance barn.


While at St. John’s College, Yarbrough roomed with Jac Holzman, who went on launch Elektra Records in their dorm room in 1950. They released Yarbrough’s LP “Here We Go, Baby” seven years later. In 1960, Yarbrough was joined by musicians Alex Hassilev and Lou Gottleib in Aspen, Colo. to form The Limeliters, named after the club in which Yarbrough ran. The Limeliters were known for songs like”There’s a Meetin’ Here Tonight,” “City of New Orleans” and “Whiskey in a Jar.” Yarbrough left the group in 1963.


http://variety.com/2016/music/news/glenn-yarbrough-dead-dies-folk-singer-1201836777/


One day in 1950, "This Land is Your Land" singer Woody Guthrie came to town for a performance. After the show, he played guitar and sang songs all night in Holzman and Yarbrough's room. The day after that impromptu dorm room concert, Yarbrough bought a guitar of his own.

Yarbrough then ended up in Aspen, Colo., where he ran a club called the Limelite. He ended up forming a folk group with Alex Hassilev and Lou Gottleib, who arranged music for the Kingston Trio; they took their name from the club and released their first album, "Limeliters," on Elektra Records in 1960.

(In 2013, the music of The Limeliters was introduced to a new generation when their song "Take My True Love by the Hand" was included in the final season of acclaimed drama "Breaking Bad.")


http://www.tennessean.com/story/ent...8/12/singer-glenn-yarbrough-dead-86/88599116/


He achieved his highest charting success with the 1965 song "Baby the Rain Must Fall." It reached No. 2 on Billboard's adult contemporary chats.

http://www.pantagraph.com/entertain...cle_cc13a69f-60c2-5d97-b3e9-bea294f4c511.html


Glenn Yarbrough (January 12, 1930) is the composer and performer of the music of The Hobbit (1977 film) and The Return of the King. His songs include "The Greatest Adventure", "Frodo of the Nine Fingers" and "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way". In The Return of the King, he is also the voice of the "Minstrel of Gondor", a character that sings the story of the movie to Bilbo and Elrond in Rivendell.


http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Glenn_Yarbrough


He would have kept giving the world more treasures, but flesh is not built to last forever. He chanced his life on having his voice to the end. But, that was not to be.

 

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Eric (Winkle) Brown amazing pilot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brown_(pilot)

Extract from Wikipedia:

Captain Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS, RN (21 January 1919 – 21 February 2016) was a British Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew 487 different types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history. He was also the most-decorated pilot in the history of the Royal Navy.

Brown held the world record for the most aircraft carrier deck take-offs and landings performed (2,407 and 2,271 respectively)[1] and achieved several "firsts" in naval aviation, including the first landings on an aircraft carrier of a twin-engined aircraft, an aircraft with a tricycle undercarriage, a jet propelled aircraft, and rotary-wing aircraft.

He also flew almost every category of RAF aircraft: glider, fighter, bomber, airliner, amphibian, flying boat and helicopter. During World War II, he also flew many types of captured German aircraft, including new jets and rocket planes. He was a pioneer of jet technology into the post-war era.

Apart from his amazing technical skills as a pilot, he was an all-round nice guy and a pleasure to listen to when he was persuaded to talk about flying.

 

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I had a friend who had been through the wars, as a pilot.
He was modest, cheerful, friendly, and was gifted with being able to tell interesting and amusing stories.

In his retirement, he put his flying skills to charity work, delivering needed goods to third world countries that were in trouble.

He loved the sea, and if he was not flying, he was sailing.


He passed along what he could, to his children. He set a very high example, and they became wonderful and delightful adults.



In appreciation of a generation that I admire, that did not believe they must be regimented to a role, as if they were ants.
That spoke and read many languages, that appreciated the olden classics in the original languages. Multifaceted, multitalented, and resourceful. They made themselves at home, everywhere on the Earth, and they were lovely neighbors and friends.


The men and the women were brave, loyal, and generous. I really miss the ancient 100 plus year old lady that I met when I had barely left my pre teens.
She gave me an example of what to be, when I grew older.

 

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Tonight, I heard Robin William's voice, from the TV speakers.

Stranger still, Robin's voice was interacting with voices that I had not ever imagined, that it would.

Some of the voices from the Happy Days show.

Star Wars started in 1977.

The official first US run ends on 7/20/1978, but Star Wars is re-released the next day due to its overwhelming popularity. This release is extended until 11/7/1978

Mork starred on Happy Days, because a child requested a Martian.
The child had seen Star Wars.

Original air date January 28, 1978

The air date for "My Favorite Orkan" was erroneously given as February 11, 1975. The actual date was February 28, 1978


http://www.tvbanter.net/2014_08_01_archive.html


1978, Robin Williams was 26 years old, when Happy Days creator Garry Marshall cast him in the role of Mork from Ork.

Over his lifetime, Robin Williams became an actor. A true artiste.

Robin Williams has been gone, since 11 August 2014

 

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Artist, animator and color designer Michiyo Yasuda has passed away last week at the age of 77. Yasuda, born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, was part of Studio Ghibli when it was founded in 1985 by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.

She was the head of the color department until 2008 when she retired after working on Ponyo. She returned in 2013 to work on the Academy Award nominated film The Wind Rises. She is best known for her work on the Academy Award winning 2001 film Spirited Away. Other notable credits include Future Boy Conan, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, My Neighbour Totoro and Porco Rosso.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/10/13/spirited-away-artist-colorist-michiyo-yasuda-passed-away/


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...o-ghibli-animator-spirited-away-a7358791.html

Japan's Mainichi has reported on the death of long time color designer and the chief of the ink and paint division of Studio Ghibli Michiyo Yasuda, who passed away of an undisclosed illness on October 5 at the age of 77. Yasuda started working at Toei Dogo before she was 20 and joined Studio Ghibli co-founders Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki on the 1968 anime feature Horus, Prince of the Sun.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/news/date/2016-10-11+22:55:52


http://www.indiewire.com/2016/10/michiyo-yasuda-dead-studio-ghibli-hayao-miyazaki-1201735490/

Yasuda, who was born in Tokyo on April 29, 1939, began her career in Toei’s ink-and-paint department when she was 20. In 1997 she was the subject of Yasuko Shibaguchi’s book “The Color Artisan of Animation,” which has yet to be published in English; she retired once, in 2008, before returning to work on “The Wind Rises.”

http://www.artforum.com/news/id=64023


She also was the color designer for Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), made before the founding of Ghibli but commonly regarded as their first film.

Though she retired following the completion of Ponyo, she came back to work for Miyazaki’s own final film The Wind Rises (2013). Recognizing her body of work, Yasuda was honored with an Animation Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 from the Japan Movie Critics Awards.


https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ne...r-designer-michiyo-yasuda-passes-away/.107512



Her husband Mikio and close relatives will hold a funeral service

 

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Maggie Roche of The Roches sisters vocal trio dies at 65

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/arts/music/maggie-roche-dead-singer-songwriter.html

Growing up in Park Ridge, New Jersey, eldest sister Maggie formed a duo with her middle sister Terre, and while touring, they caught the attention of Paul Simon, who brought them in as backup singers for his 1973 album, “There Goes Rhymin’ Simon.”

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/21/maggie-roche-of-the-roches-sister-vocal-trio-dies-at-65/

They played Greenwich Village folk venues and, in 1979, released the well-received "The Roches," the first of their dozen albums as a trio, and were booked on "Saturday Night Live."

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/mus...roche_nj_folk-rock_songwriter_dies_at_65.html

Just five years separated the sisters — Maggie, Suzzy and, in the middle, Terre — who never parted in terms of geography; each of them lived in Manhattan. They were brought up in music, performed together in a choir at Park Ridge's Our Lady of Mercy Church and sang campaign songs for local Democrats.


Suzzy said the group owes much of its fame to its early success onstage at Gerde's Folk City in the West Village section of Manhattan; the venue closed in 1987.


Fans of the folk-rock trio reacted to Maggie's death on social media with memories and prayers. "She was a singular, unique, fragile voice in this crazy world," said one, as a second mused, "Another voice joins the celestial choir."


http://www.northjersey.com/story/ob...aggie-roche-folk-rock-park-ridge-65/96897584/

 

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Here, is to a man that lived his dreams, and gave joy to many people.

He fulfilled an actor's role in film productions, and helped people put aside reality, while watching fantasy based films.

He gained widely popular recognition from his role in the "Game of Thrones" TV fantasy series.He played the Warrior Ice Giant, Mag the Mighty.

"Neil Fingleton appeared in Keanu Reeves' 47 Ronin, as a Russian bodyguard in X-Men: First Class and did motion capture of Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron."

He joined the cast of the Doctor Who, as the villain The Fisher King.

He was the tallest man in Britain.Neil Fingleton was recognized by Guinness World Records in 2007 as the U.K.'s tallest man.

(I was surprised to read that he was in Massachusetts.)

"His height made him a basketball natural, and Fingleton played college basketball in the United States for the University of North Carolina and the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts."
He became a professional player, and be ame known in Spain, Italy, Greece, China, and England. He also played in the ABA and the NBA developmental league.

He left this Earthly plane on Saturday, 25 February 2017
I am glad that he had multiple communities that gave him support and love.


I hope he knew happiness and fulfillent, though his life was cut short.




https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...thrones-star-and-uks-tallest-man-dies-aged-36


http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...ritain-tallest-man-dies-aged-36-a7600591.html


http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/g...neil-fingleton-has-died-aged-36-a3476381.html

http://watchersonthewall.com/neil-fingleton-game-thrones-mag-mighty-passed-away/

Mag the Mighty broke the steel gate, to the tunnel into Castle Black. He was the King of the Ice Giants.

 

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so very young

 

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There was a woman, that saved David Letterman from appearing to be an utter monster.

His mom.

Dave left his show, and retired. His mom had a private death, and Dave has private mourning.

April 12, 2017

Dorothy Mengering, David Letterman’s mother and Late Show’s three-time Winter Olympics “correspondent,” died on Tuesday confirms The Hollywood Reporter. She was 95. Mengering, who was often referred to on television as “Dave’s Mom” or “Dave’s Mom Dorothy” appeared on the CBS talk show regularly for Mother’s Day and Thanksgiving via satellite from her kitchen in Carmel, Indiana, where she’d be showing off one of her beloved homemade pies.



http://www.vulture.com/2017/04/david-lettermans-mom-dorothy-mengering-late-show-dead-at-95.html



Peace

 

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Sweet, sweet Dorothy.