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Gibbs505
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Indeed, well done!Well done, Mr. Phlebas!!
Looked him up. He was still working. One movie in pre-production and two in post!Always a very entertaining villain, Brian Dennehy. RIP
I’m not sure if anyone noticed, but another passing has occurred. Phlebas has exceeded 100,000 “likes”. And all of them well deserved!
This did "pass" by me a bit, so to mark the occasion I did a quick commemorative manip (based on ph166) to thank you all for your support.
Gibbs505
SERVORUM DOMITOR
Another like for you!
Crux-Emperor Baracus X
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Eddie Cochran
03/Oct/1938-17/April/1960
Sixty years ago,the profilic Rock n Roll guitarist was killed in a vehicle accident en-route to the Airport.
His songwriting talent left behind a legacy of classic tunes,such as "Summertime Blues","Twenty Flight Rock" "C'mon Everybody" and his posthumous #1 Hit "Three steps to Heaven"..
Rest in Peace.
(Ironically this date also marks the (80th) Birthday of his close friend,Billy Fury.)
03/Oct/1938-17/April/1960
Sixty years ago,the profilic Rock n Roll guitarist was killed in a vehicle accident en-route to the Airport.
His songwriting talent left behind a legacy of classic tunes,such as "Summertime Blues","Twenty Flight Rock" "C'mon Everybody" and his posthumous #1 Hit "Three steps to Heaven"..
Rest in Peace.
(Ironically this date also marks the (80th) Birthday of his close friend,Billy Fury.)
That guy with the beard seems very excited by the whole thing. These festive occasions, eh?I did a quick commemorative manip (based on ph166) to thank you all for your support.
That guy with the beard seems very excited by the whole thing. These festive occasions, eh?
Must be Old Slave?
Silent_Water
Tribune
À propos (by the way) "beard" or "moustache": The famous German TV journalist Ulrich Kienzle died yesterday.
en.wikipedia.org
He will ever be remembered because of at least two things.
A) In 1980, he was one of the few European journalists who were allowed to make exclusive interviews with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Ulrich Kienzle had some questions after which you could see on the face of the translator that he only wished to survive this interview, for example straight into the face of Saddam Hussein: "For me and for the most Germans, your actions towards the USA, Sir, seem to have the only goal to commit suicide!"
But Saddam Hussein really laughed and said: "No, I think we are all in the hands of Allah and he has forbidden suicide in our belief."
After this interview, Kienzle was recieved in Germany back again with the words: "Fine, that our 'Saddam Kienzle' is back again!"
Later, he was asked why he thinks, Saddam Hussein was so friendly to him: "My only explanation could be that he had the same moustache as I have and possibly he thought, I made it only for this interview, but he was wrong."
So, no doubt, Kienzle was a really brave and courageous man.
B) Between 1993 and 2000, there was an unique TV news magazine with Ulrich Kienzle and Bodo Hauser on "ZDF", because both were supporters of different political parties and their ways of teasing and making fun of each other during the reports became "legendary" in Germany's TV history.
They both said about each other: "He is a really good colleague and a great journalist whom I admire. Apart from that, I hate everything what he is saying about politics in Germany and this is a good basis to make news reports together!"
Ulrich Kienzle on the left, Bodo Hauser on the right (as they were in real political life) and it is really a loss for Germany that both are dead now:
Ulrich Kienzle - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
He will ever be remembered because of at least two things.
A) In 1980, he was one of the few European journalists who were allowed to make exclusive interviews with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Ulrich Kienzle had some questions after which you could see on the face of the translator that he only wished to survive this interview, for example straight into the face of Saddam Hussein: "For me and for the most Germans, your actions towards the USA, Sir, seem to have the only goal to commit suicide!"
But Saddam Hussein really laughed and said: "No, I think we are all in the hands of Allah and he has forbidden suicide in our belief."
After this interview, Kienzle was recieved in Germany back again with the words: "Fine, that our 'Saddam Kienzle' is back again!"
Later, he was asked why he thinks, Saddam Hussein was so friendly to him: "My only explanation could be that he had the same moustache as I have and possibly he thought, I made it only for this interview, but he was wrong."
So, no doubt, Kienzle was a really brave and courageous man.
B) Between 1993 and 2000, there was an unique TV news magazine with Ulrich Kienzle and Bodo Hauser on "ZDF", because both were supporters of different political parties and their ways of teasing and making fun of each other during the reports became "legendary" in Germany's TV history.
They both said about each other: "He is a really good colleague and a great journalist whom I admire. Apart from that, I hate everything what he is saying about politics in Germany and this is a good basis to make news reports together!"
Ulrich Kienzle on the left, Bodo Hauser on the right (as they were in real political life) and it is really a loss for Germany that both are dead now:
Very interesting, thanks for telling us about him. I'm afraid that kind of journalist is passing into legend, it must have been a golden age when TV News was the main window on the world, and characters like him put the fear of God into puffed up politicians!À propos (by the way) "beard" or "moustache": The famous German TV journalist Ulrich Kienzle died yesterday.
Ulrich Kienzle - Wikipedia
He will ever be remembered because of at least two things.
A) In 1980, he was one of the few European journalists who were allowed to make exclusive interviews with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Ulrich Kienzle had some questions after which you could see on the face of the translator that he only wished to survive this interview, for example straight into the face of Saddam Hussein: "For me and for the most Germans, your actions towards the USA, Sir, seem to have the only goal to commit suicide!"
But Saddam Hussein really laughed and said: "No, I think we are all in the hands of Allah and he has forbidden suicide in our belief."
After this interview, Kienzle was recieved in Germany back again with the words: "Fine, that our 'Saddam Kienzle' is back again!"
Later, he was asked why he thinks, Saddam Hussein was so friendly to him: "My only explanation could be that he had the same moustache as I have and possibly he thought, I made it only for this interview, but he was wrong."
So, no doubt, Kienzle was a really brave and courageous man.
B) Between 1993 and 2000, there was an unique TV news magazine with Ulrich Kienzle and Bodo Hauser on "ZDF", because both were supporters of different political parties and their ways of teasing and making fun of each other during the reports became "legendary" in Germany's TV history.
They both said about each other: "He is a really good colleague and a great journalist whom I admire. Apart from that, I hate everything what he is saying about politics in Germany and this is a good basis to make news reports together!"
Ulrich Kienzle on the left, Bodo Hauser on the right (as they were in real political life) and it is really a loss for Germany that both are dead now:
View attachment 850068
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
That looks like a Günter Grass moustache to me. Hussein, Stalin--you have to be brave to wear a moustache in that company. Of course the famous American TV news anchor Walter Cronkite had a moustache also.À propos (by the way) "beard" or "moustache": The famous German TV journalist Ulrich Kienzle died yesterday.
Ulrich Kienzle - Wikipedia
He will ever be remembered because of at least two things.
A) In 1980, he was one of the few European journalists who were allowed to make exclusive interviews with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Ulrich Kienzle had some questions after which you could see on the face of the translator that he only wished to survive this interview, for example straight into the face of Saddam Hussein: "For me and for the most Germans, your actions towards the USA, Sir, seem to have the only goal to commit suicide!"
But Saddam Hussein really laughed and said: "No, I think we are all in the hands of Allah and he has forbidden suicide in our belief."
After this interview, Kienzle was recieved in Germany back again with the words: "Fine, that our 'Saddam Kienzle' is back again!"
Later, he was asked why he thinks, Saddam Hussein was so friendly to him: "My only explanation could be that he had the same moustache as I have and possibly he thought, I made it only for this interview, but he was wrong."
So, no doubt, Kienzle was a really brave and courageous man.
B) Between 1993 and 2000, there was an unique TV news magazine with Ulrich Kienzle and Bodo Hauser on "ZDF", because both were supporters of different political parties and their ways of teasing and making fun of each other during the reports became "legendary" in Germany's TV history.
They both said about each other: "He is a really good colleague and a great journalist whom I admire. Apart from that, I hate everything what he is saying about politics in Germany and this is a good basis to make news reports together!"
Ulrich Kienzle on the left, Bodo Hauser on the right (as they were in real political life) and it is really a loss for Germany that both are dead now:
View attachment 850068
Silent_Water
Tribune
Yes, you are all right on Ulrich Kienzle's great times and on his moustache. These were really interesting times and it was simply great for us Germans to see two honest, generous and truth-loving journalists like Kienzle & Hauser together on TV-screen every week with different opinions in the same report - especially when both were always saying that they really could be very good friends, if the other one would not always have so strange political "alien"-opinions. But they never had a real dispute with each other, both always said that the current political system in Germany is the best this country ever had in history and to see something like these two guys together is today really rare.
Walter Cronkite would most probably have been a good friend of both of them, if they had ever met together. (But then, Hauser would have been the minority because there would have been two moustaches against one person with no moustache - no parity any more.)
By the way, I made a typing error because the famous interview of Kienzle with Saddam Hussein was in 1990, not 1980. ( I must have got broader fingertips in my age.)
Oh, and finally one of Kienzle's famous playing with words. There once was a famous Disney production with the translated German title "Die Wüste lebt" (= "The Desert is alive" / "The living Desert"). In German you can also say about a man who is ruthless and cruel that he is "ein wüster Mann" (= "a deserted Man"). Ulrich Kienzle once began one report about the first US-led war against Saddam Hussein with the words: "Der Wüste lebt - immer noch!" ("The Deserted is alive - still yet!")
Walter Cronkite would most probably have been a good friend of both of them, if they had ever met together. (But then, Hauser would have been the minority because there would have been two moustaches against one person with no moustache - no parity any more.)
By the way, I made a typing error because the famous interview of Kienzle with Saddam Hussein was in 1990, not 1980. ( I must have got broader fingertips in my age.)
Oh, and finally one of Kienzle's famous playing with words. There once was a famous Disney production with the translated German title "Die Wüste lebt" (= "The Desert is alive" / "The living Desert"). In German you can also say about a man who is ruthless and cruel that he is "ein wüster Mann" (= "a deserted Man"). Ulrich Kienzle once began one report about the first US-led war against Saddam Hussein with the words: "Der Wüste lebt - immer noch!" ("The Deserted is alive - still yet!")
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Migoz2
Senator
Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk, 1947-2020.
www.theguardian.com
**Edited to add, that is not the best link - ignore the lyrics onscreen. He is actually singing "We drive, drive, drive on the Autobahn." (!)
Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk co-founder, dies aged 73
Co-founder of hugely influential electronic pop group, who has died of cancer, had a UK No 1 hit with The Model in 1982
www.theguardian.com
**Edited to add, that is not the best link - ignore the lyrics onscreen. He is actually singing "We drive, drive, drive on the Autobahn." (!)
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
He is now on the eternal Autobahn.
Naraku
Draconarius
Don Shula, the winningest head coach in NFL history (347-173-6 with the Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins), and the coach of the only team to have a perfect season (Dolphins 1972) has died at the age of 90.
www.espn.com
In the 70s, Tampa didn't have a football team (neither did Jacksonville, but, they still don't really have one) so all of us in Florida were Dolphins fans. Shula made being a Dolphins fan worth while.
"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal." - Don Shula
Dolphins Hall of Fame coach Shula dies at 90
Don Shula, the NFL's winningest coach who led the Dolphins to the league's only undefeated season, died Monday at the age of 90.
www.espn.com
"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal." - Don Shula
Shula's passing reminded of a song I heard on the radio in 1972 which was total gibberish to me then, and remains so to this very day. It helps if you know or remember who the hell Howard Cosell was
en.wikipedia.org
but even if you do you have be an incredible sports history geek to make any sense of the song at all.
Howard Cosell - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
but even if you do you have be an incredible sports history geek to make any sense of the song at all.
I hadn't heard of her, but when they played her hit I thought, wow, she sounds such fun!
I so love the Jamaican accent -
"you set the world on fiyah
you are my one desiyah!"
Millie Small: My Boy Lollipop singer dies aged 72
The singer, who had Jamaica's first million-selling single, dies after suffering a stroke.
www.bbc.co.uk
I so love the Jamaican accent -
"you set the world on fiyah
you are my one desiyah!"
fallenmystic
Tribune
I hadn't heard of her, but when they played her hit I thought, wow, she sounds such fun!
Millie Small: My Boy Lollipop singer dies aged 72
The singer, who had Jamaica's first million-selling single, dies after suffering a stroke.www.bbc.co.uk
I so love the Jamaican accent -
"you set the world on fiyah
you are my one desiyah!"
I doubt anyone would remember this, but I mentioned of an old cassette tape in my parent's car by which I first experienced the pop music. And "My Boy Lollipop" by Millie Small was included in the album and it was one of the first songs that I could identify when I the internet became available because the first line of the lyric coincides with the title.
In short, it is one of the songs that defined my current taste in music, and for that I'll probably remember her as long as I live.
Thanks, and rest in peace!
Naraku
Draconarius
Roy Horn, half of the Las Vegas act Siegfried and Roy, has died of complications of Covid-19, at the age of 75.
www.ktnv.com
www.rollingstone.com
Roy Horn, of Siegfried & Roy, passes away of complications from COVID-19
The legendary entertainer and magician Roy Horn has died of complications from COVID-19, according to his representatives.
Siegfried & Roy's Roy Horn Dead at 75 From COVID-19 Complications
“Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend,” Siegfried Fischbacher says in statement
www.rollingstone.com