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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Take care, @FoxRox. Grandparents can play an immensely poweful role in our lives. Losing my paternal grandmother in 2016 carved wounds in my heart that still haven't completely healed. Take all the time you need, friend.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    @MajorDSmythe
    @DarthDimi

    Thank you both, I’m very lucky to have a support system both here and in real life. Always best to remember in sad times too is how things could be worse.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    I made note of it over on the General Music Thread, but it should go here as well.

    https://variety.com/2022/film/obituaries-people-news/lenny-lipton-dead-puff-the-magic-dragon-3d-movies-1235411994/
    Lenny Lipton, 3D Film Technology Trailblazer and ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ Lyricist, Dies at 82
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
    edited October 2022 Posts: 3,391
    Dwayne wrote: »
    I made note of it over on the General Music Thread, but it should go here as well.

    https://variety.com/2022/film/obituaries-people-news/lenny-lipton-dead-puff-the-magic-dragon-3d-movies-1235411994/
    Lenny Lipton, 3D Film Technology Trailblazer and ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ Lyricist, Dies at 82

    Puff the magic dragon, live by the sea.
    ......In the land of Colony     (forgot the other lyrics, and am I right in the lyrics either? 😅)
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    MI6HQ wrote: »
    Dwayne wrote: »
    I made note of it over on the General Music Thread, but it should go here as well.

    https://variety.com/2022/film/obituaries-people-news/lenny-lipton-dead-puff-the-magic-dragon-3d-movies-1235411994/
    Lenny Lipton, 3D Film Technology Trailblazer and ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ Lyricist, Dies at 82

    Puff the magic dragon, live by the sea.
    ......In the land of Colony     (forgot the other lyrics, and am I right in the lyrics either? 😅)

    I think we all had our own lyrics at some point for that song. Mind started like this…
    ♫…Pewee, the talking doggie lived up the street….♫

    As I stated on the other thread, no matter how old I get, that song always makes me cry. I think it's due to my childhood interpretation of the lyrics (I thought that little Jackie Paper had died at one point) and then later - as I got older - my empathy for Puff being abandoned.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
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    MI6HQ wrote: »
    Dwayne wrote: »
    I made note of it over on the General Music Thread, but it should go here as well.

    https://variety.com/2022/film/obituaries-people-news/lenny-lipton-dead-puff-the-magic-dragon-3d-movies-1235411994/
    Lenny Lipton, 3D Film Technology Trailblazer and ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ Lyricist, Dies at 82

    Puff the magic dragon, live by the sea.
    ......In the land of Colony     (forgot the other lyrics, and am I right in the lyrics either? 😅)

    Puff the magic dragon/Lived by the sea
    And frolicked in the autumn mist/In a land called Honalee
    Little Jackie Paper/Loved that rascal Puff
    And brought him strings and sealing wax/And other fancy stuff

    Etc. One of the songs I discovered (belatedly) in the 1970s, and which was a staple of my repertoire while I strummed my guitar at appropriate occasions about 40 years ago, ideally with a lot of attentive girls around. :-)

    I never wondered who that "Lipton" was who co-wrote this song with Peter Yarrow, but now I know.
  • GerardGerard
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    Ron Masak, who played sheriff Mort Metzger in Murder she wrote, has passed away, aged 86.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
    edited October 2022 Posts: 8,700
    Dwayne wrote: »
    As I stated on the other thread, no matter how old I get, that song always makes me cry. I think it's due to my childhood interpretation of the lyrics (I thought that little Jackie Paper had died at one point) and then later - as I got older - my empathy for Puff being abandoned.
    @Dwayne
    I must admit the same applies to me, especially in connection with the death of its lyricist, and while I used to sing it all the time while still strumming my guitar under the circumstances then, it now has a very special meaning to me. I guess you get more sentimental or at least nostalgic about it when you get older. But I'm wondering if that sentimentality or nostalgia isn't also a positive thing. I'll shed a tear if I listen to Peter, Paul & Mary singing this, but don't we love this feeling? I'm still breaking up over the Seekers' recordings of the likes of You'll Never Find Another You, Georgy Girl or The Carnival Is Over. I guess with increased age, one does simply feel more of a loss for the pleasures of one's youth. But hey, it's okay, isn't it?

  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    @j_w_pepper.
    Thanks for that really thoughtful reply. Getting older is hard, but, of course, the alternative isn't great either. What hurts (if I may use that term), is seeing family members, people (or things) that you admire pass away and into history.

    Its' hard to describe, but with the passage of time, one feels both more distanced from the past, but also more closely connected to it (and certainly more protective of it). While it's easier said than done, I think the key is never to let our nostalgia overwhelm us to the point where we lose sight of today's possibilities.

    ♫…All these places have their moments
    With lovers and friends I still can recall
    Some are dead and some are living
    In my life I've loved them all…♫


  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
    edited October 2022 Posts: 8,700
    Jerry Lee Lewis, The Killer of "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" fame, passed away at 87. His life was full of scandals, but he was a sort of genius nonetheless.
  • BeatlesSansEarmuffsBeatlesSansEarmuffs
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Jerry Lee Lewis, The Killer of "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" fame, passed away at 87. His life was full of scandals, but he was a sort of genius nonetheless.

    Goodness gracious, great balls of fire...

    Yeah, scandal was very much his companion throughout his professional life...but rock & roll wasn't exactly respectable when The Killer first started playing it!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited October 2022 Posts: 2,934
    One of the greats. I always imagine how people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard must've sounded to kids in the 1950s - no context for it, nothing to prepare them, just bang!: have this. No wonder it felt world-changing. There's some great b/w footage of Jerry Lee Lewis from British tv in the early 60s in a tv studio with a small audience - the energy comes right through the screen. Amazing.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    RIP Jerry Lee Lewis and Robbie Coltrane.
  • TracyTracy
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    Speaking of Puff the magic dragon.....it reminds me of Meet the parents

    Father : "Are you a pothead , Focker ?" :D
  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
    edited November 2022 Posts: 4,447
    Heard on the radio Aaron Carter only turn 34, the litle brother of one members of the Backstreetboys. If you whant you can say 90's Justin Bieber.



    Other source: https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artikel/5344876/aaron-carter-overleden-34-jaar
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Sad to hear of the death of Leslie Phillips, aged 98. He was a great character actor. He had a very good innings. Sadly, his wife Angela Scoular who played the OHMSS Bond girl, Ruby Bartlett, came to a tragic end in 2011.
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Sad to hear of the death of Leslie Phillips, aged 98. He was a great character actor. He had a very good innings. Sadly, his wife Angela Scoular who played the OHMSS Bond girl, Ruby Bartlett, came to a tragic end in 2011.

    He could now be with his wife.....RIP to him
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    R.I.P. Leslie Phillips. Like Terry-Thomas, Phillips could play all those skirt chasers, and still make them likeable through his charm.

    :(
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited November 2022 Posts: 23,395
    'Ding dong!' R.I.P. Leslie Phillips.


    MajorDSmythe wrote: »
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    R.I.P. Leslie Phillips. Like Terry-Thomas, Phillips could play all those skirt chasers, and still make them likeable through his charm.

    :(

    Phillips and Thomas were indeed legendary Cad's of British cinema.

    98 is great age though incredible really.

    Leslie Phillips discusses Catch Phrases


    The Sorting Ceremony | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone


  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    edited November 2022 Posts: 15,818
    Watched THE MAGNIFICENT 7 DEADLY SINS recently. Lelsie Philips was great in his segment with Julie Ege.
    Superb actor. Sorry to hear of his passing. :(
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
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    Remembering Dusty Springfield...since Google does too by way of a Doodle. Exactly 59 years ago, her defining single record "I Only Want to Be with You" was issued. Sadly, she died of breast cancer shortly before her 60th birthday.
  • BennyBenny In the shadowsAdministrator, Moderator
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    RIP to the always wonderful Leslie Philips.
  • GerardGerard
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    Heard that news yesterday morning, forgot to write about it yesterday afternoon : British comic book artist Kevin O'Neill (Nemesis the Warlock, Marshall Law, and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen among others) has passed away from a "long illness", aged 69.

    https://comicbook.com/comics/news/kevin-oneill-league-extraordinary-gentlemen-comics-dead-obituary/
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
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    Renowned artist Brian O'Doherty dies at age of 94

    The artist Brian O'Doherty has died at the age of 94.

    A spokesperson for the Arts Council confirmed that Mr Doherty died yesterday in New York.

    He was often described as one of the pioneering generation of conceptual art.

    Mr O'Doherty's work is held in numerous private and public collections including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the George Pompidou Centre in Paris.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2022/1108/1333983-brian-odoherty-death/
  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
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    The singer from The Smurfs song past a way three days a go. The Smurfs aka De Smurfen is French Belgium comic and song was anwser on animated tv series Flemish, Dutch creation.


    But he also was one of people who send Sieneke to Eurovision 2010


    Vader Abraham (Pierre Kartner) rip. 11 April 1935 - 08 November 2022
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
    edited November 2022 Posts: 4,120
    https://www.cbr.com/kevin-conroy-batman-obituary/

    A sad day. He IS the voice of Batman. He will be truly missed.

  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    This is soul crushing for me. This was MY Batman, MY Bruce, my biggest hero watching on TV as a child. From the definitive original animated series through the masterclass Arkham games…. THE Batman. RIP.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    This hurts! This hurts like hell.

    We spoke once. Such a nice man! There will never be a Batman like him anymore.

    You were vengeance, Kevin. You were the (k)night. But you'll always remain Batman! Rest in peace, and from the bottom of my heart, as a Batman fan, Thank you! Thank you so much.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    Always hard in these situations to find words that aren’t cliche or sound sensitive or right enough. But anyone who knows me knows how much I loved his work, and am forever grateful for all of it. No one could or will ever forge and leave behind a bigger or better Batman legacy. Still processing this.
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