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Bud Spencer (1929 - 2016)
Bud Spencer’s death in Roma on Monday June 27, 2016 has now been confirmed: the actor best known for his roles in Crime Busters or They Call Me Trinity died at 86.
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Rest in Peace Bud!
 
Geoffrey Hill
18 June 1932 - 30 June 2016​

I think he was one of the finest English poets of the post-war years -
a great craftsman and wordsmith,
who spoke prophetically of the interwoven decline of England and the English language
his passing seems another toll of the bell...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...ne-of-the-greatest-english-poets-dies-aged-84

(I'm not so thrilled to find Michael Gove shares my opinion :eek:
but in truth I don't disagree with all of Gove's views on education and culture,
it's the way he tries to impose them that alienates me and many others)​
 
Three passings today - all affecting for me, in very different ways:

Yves Bonnefoy - another great craftsman with words,
part of the pan-European culture too much of the English-speaking world ignores

Yves Bonnefoy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36692358

Robin Hardy - who directed The Wicker Man, much of it filmed in my corner of Scotland,
some of it very close indeed, but before my time

Robin Hardy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36693545

Carolin Ahern - a very clever, very funny comic actress,
though a sadly troubled life, and too young to die

Carolin Ahern http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36694598​
 
Eulalia said:
Three passings today - all affecting for me, in very different ways:

Yves Bonnefoy - another great craftsman with words,
part of the pan-European culture too much of the English-speaking world ignores

Yves Bonnefoy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36692358

Robin Hardy - who directed The Wicker Man, much of it filmed in my corner of Scotland,
some of it very close indeed, but before my time

Robin Hardy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36693545

Carolin Ahern - a very clever, very funny comic actress,
though a sadly troubled life, and too young to die

Carolin Ahern http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36694598​
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I am not familiar with the other two, but Robin Hardy I know of. The "Wicker Man" was a great movie. I rented this movie one time, not really knowing what it was, it just looked interesting. I loved it.
 
windar said:
Elie Wiesel died today. A great writer and a great human being.
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The Holocaust survivor and Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel has died aged 87.

He died in the US, where he lived and had been a citizen since the 1960s.

He became famous after writing about his experiences as a teenager in Nazi concentration camps, where he lost his mother, father and younger sister.

He dedicated his life to ensuring the atrocities committed under the Nazis were never forgotten, and the president of the World Jewish Congress has called him "a beacon of light".

Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance centre announced his death on Saturday.


Mr Wiesel was born in Romania in 1928. In 1940 his town, Sighet, was part of a region that was annexed by Hungary. Four years later the town's entire Jewish population - including 15-year-old Elie and his family - was deported to Auschwitz.

Mr Wiesel's mother and one sister were killed in Nazi death chambers. His father died of starvation and dysentery in the Buchenwald camp. Two other sisters survived.

After the war Mr Wiesel lived in a French orphanage and he went on to become a journalist.

He wrote more than 60 books, starting with Night, a memoir based on his experiences in the death camps.
 
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death."
Elie Wiesel, 1987
 
Naraku said:
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death."
Elie Wiesel, 1987
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Yes, we lost someone, here. His writings were the proof that intelligence and sensitivity can go together... :(
 
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