R.I.P. Leslie Nielsen

[Pabmusic]

Star of Ben Hur screen tests, High Noon, Forbidden Planet and 101 bad guys, the great Canadian-born star has died at the age of 84.

He also made some other films.

He made me laugh.

[Pabmusic]

I've been had! He died in 2010!!!

Sorry.



[I'm usually better at fact-checking.]

You can bin this thread if you want.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's still very sad - and seems like only yesterday!

[Pabmusic]

It's still very sad - and seems like only yesterday!

You're very kind. And it does.

[Nick Armstrong]

I've been had! He died in 2010!!!

Sorry.



[I'm usually better at fact-checking.]

You and many others including a BBC News reporter, it seems http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...n-five-7209960

It's still very sad - and seems like only yesterday!

It can't be five years ago already, surely...


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(Come on, ferns - over to you.... )

[vinteuil]

It can't be five years ago already, surely...

.... )

... it was five years - and don't call me Shirley

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... it was five years - and don't call me Shirley

Thank you - I was out when the feed was supplied

[vinteuil]

I was out when the feed was supplied

... o, we call it 'lunch' in these parts

[eighthobstruction]

....Surely ferney isn't going to go for lunch box alternative....he usually handles such things so well....

[Madame Suggia]

Sad news indeed

A brilliant Turandot but it'll be Isolde i'll be playing tonight.

RIP Nielsen

[P. G. Tipps]

Death seems to have really come back into fashion. A bit like Sex a few decades ago.

At various times the very mention of these two subjects was the best and quickest way to bring endless group chatter to an, er, deathly silence or giggly close.

Now, Death seems to have overtaken Sex in the popular discussion stakes.

Fashion seems to apply to just about everything, doesn't it?.

[burning dog]

[BBMmk2]

RIP Leslie A great person to watch

[LeMartinPecheur]

Sad news indeed

A brilliant Turandot but it'll be Isolde i'll be playing tonight.

RIP Nielsen

Surely Nielsen never sang Turandot or Isolde, (s)he was a mezzo for heaven's sake!

https://www.historyforsale.com/html/prodetails.asp?documentid=85842&start=1&page=107

[Pabmusic]

Death seems to have really come back into fashion. A bit like Sex a few decades ago...

There must be a statistical distribution that can show that the age (and other factors) of our boarders correlates with a proportion of those dying now who, when they were at the heights of their careers, were our own contemporaries among possible role models and others who might have attracted our attention.

What I mean is that most of us (I suspect) are at an age when deaths among our contemporaries, including those we admired when we were younger, are rather more common than they once were.

As for sex, it's difficult to think of a time when it's gone out of fashion. However, Thomas Hardy summed it up rather well (last verse especially):

I LOOK into my glass,
And view my wasting skin,
And say, “Would God it came to pass
My heart had shrunk as thin!”

For then, I, undistrest
By hearts grown cold to me,
Could lonely wait my endless rest
With equanimity.

But Time, to make me grieve,
Part steals, lets part abide;
And shakes this fragile frame at eve
With throbbings of noontide.