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Post by KTJ on Aug 17, 2019 16:13:39 GMT 10
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Post by KTJ on Aug 31, 2019 8:13:35 GMT 10
Has the “Display Post” button karked it?
'cause that's all I can see.
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Post by pim on Aug 31, 2019 17:42:39 GMT 10
Lol I just looked up "throttlejockey" on the Urban Dictionary site. Check out Meaning #3: Soemone (sic) who loiters around gay bars, has mental issues and frequents News community groups, such as newstalkback.au. Oooo I'm feeling so poofy Throttlejockey I'm going to hang around a gay bar with a jar of vaseline. #innocent#bantam#premier#ol'cods#manx[Give you a sense of déjà vu? Blast from the past kinda thing?
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Post by KTJ on Aug 31, 2019 19:03:08 GMT 10
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Post by pim on Aug 31, 2019 22:22:04 GMT 10
ROFL no you misunderstand me. I wasn't having a go at you - mind you I don't blame you for thinking I was having a go at you since I often do have a go at you. Just not at that particular time. I was idly "site surfing" on google and came across the Urban Dictionary meaning for "throttlejockey". Remember the old TJ? He whom I used to refer to - scornfully - as Jockstrap? It was a site that had nothing to do with NTB, I was just curious to find out what the correct meaning of "throttlejockey" is. I came up with three definitions in the Urban Dictionary. Now Prickles if I had really wanted to have a go at you I'd have gone with what they call the "Top Definition". Are you curious? You'll be sorry ... and remember I wasn't going to post it! Here's the link www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=throttle%20jockeyI haven't investigated "pamela handerson". Should we? Here's definition #2 which I'm sure you agree is a lot less controversial ... And finally definition #3 again: Who do we have here? Innocent Bystander? Bantam? Premier? Premier!! The dirty old bugger! Posting slanderous and defamatory "stuff" on the Urban Dictionary site? Reflect that it's dated 2010 which was the end of the old NTB when Premier, Matt, Lechat, Jockstrap and all that basket of deplorables flounced out of NTB. And I don't think the "Throttlejockey" that they're referring to is you but "Jockstrap" Throttlejockey. I swear I wasn't on the lookout for them. Talk about a blast from the past. I thought it was all somewhat droll.
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Post by KTJ on Sept 6, 2019 15:36:07 GMT 10
It's PARTY TIME ... the Zimbabwe witch has kicked the bucket.A “dancing on the grave” party is in order.
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Post by pim on Sept 6, 2019 16:32:38 GMT 10
Stipendium peccati mors est
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2019 12:25:28 GMT 10
Poor bloke didn't quite make it to retirement age....government would be cheering...another one bites the dust before getting their pension.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2019 7:52:05 GMT 10
One of the good ones....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 22:41:14 GMT 10
He was up there as a great actor and good guy....loved his movies.
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Post by pim on Feb 7, 2020 6:13:54 GMT 10
I knew he was past it when he took those two roles in the Man from Snowy River which is down there as the Worst Australian Movie Ever Made. Know what I mean? It was one of those truly awful movies that even the presence of a big name Hollywood star like Kirk Douglas couldn’t lift it out of its awfuness. I’ll always remember him for this scene ...
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Post by jody on Feb 7, 2020 6:20:39 GMT 10
He was up there as a great actor and good guy....loved his movies. He raped Natalie Wood when she was 16 years old. Not such a good guy.
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Post by pim on Feb 7, 2020 6:33:44 GMT 10
A timely reminder Jody.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 6:34:42 GMT 10
I didn't know that....if true not such a great guy.
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Post by jody on Feb 7, 2020 7:34:47 GMT 10
I didn't know that....if true not such a great guy. It is true. It happened when he auditioned her for a role. She had to go to hospital, had vaginal tearing etc.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Apr 4, 2020 15:33:10 GMT 10
from the Los Angeles Times…Bill Withers, ‘Lean on Me’ and ‘Ain't No Sunshine’ singer-songwriter, dies at 81By DOUGLAS WOLK | 7:38AM PDT — Friday, April 03, 2020Bill Withers wrote and sang a string of soulful songs in the 1970s that have stood the test of time, including “Lean on Me”, “Lovely Day” and “Ain't No Sunshine”. — Photograph: Gilles Petard/Redferns.SINGER-SONGWRITER BILL WITHERS, who came to music late and left it early but created enduring hits like “Ain't No Sunshine”, “Lean on Me” and “Just the Two of Us”, died in Los Angeles from heart complications on March 30, according to an announcement from his family. He was 81.
“We are devastated by the loss of our beloved, devoted husband and father. A solitary man with a heart driven to connect to the world at large, with his poetry and music, he spoke honestly to people and connected them to each other,” the family statement read. “As private a life as he lived close to intimate family and friends, his music forever belongs to the world. In this difficult time, we pray his music offers comfort and entertainment as fans hold tight to loved ones.”
Born on July 4, 1938 (“that makes me very American,” he joked), in the coal-mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, Withers always made a point of emphasizing his working-class origins and sympathies. A stuttering, socially awkward teenager, he joined the Navy after high school, becoming an aircraft mechanic. After nine years in the military, he moved to California and got interested in music as a way to meet women, so he bought his first guitar and learned to play it. His first single, “Three Nights and a Morning”, came out in 1967 and made no commercial impact at all. (Later, he would rerecord it as “Harlem”.)
In 1971, the independent record label Sussex released Withers' debut album, “Just As I Am”, on which he was backed by Stephen Stills and members of Booker T. & the M.G.'s. The cover photograph showed Withers in jeans and T-shirt, leaning against the Weber Aircraft factory where he worked at the time, holding his lunchbox; with characteristic prudence, he didn't give up his job at the factory until it laid him off shortly before the album appeared.
A folk-soul landmark, “Just As I Am” was built around Withers' calm, supple baritone voice and acoustic guitar. “Ain't No Sunshine”, his first hit, was a quiet thunderbolt: a plain-spoken and devastating love song, barely two minutes long, with a break in which Withers simply sang “I know” 26 times in a row over Al Jackson Jr.'s skeletal drums. It became an instant standard. So did its follow-up, “Grandma's Hands”, a sentimental memory with genuine, sharp pain, and the cadences of black churches and the gospel songs he'd heard there as a child beneath its surface.As a songwriter, Withers built on the traditions of Thomas Dorsey, Hank Williams and Irving Berlin, distilling overwhelming emotions to thoughtful, aphoristic phrases. “To me,” he told Songfacts in 2004, “the biggest challenge in the world is to take anything that's complicated and make it simple so it can be understood by the masses. … I'm a stickler for saying something the simplest possible way with some elements of poetry. Because simple is memorable.”
As his musical career was taking off, Withers bought a Wurlitzer electric piano — he hadn't really played that before, either — and promptly came up with the rising-and-falling melody at the center of “Lean on Me”, which topped both the pop and R&B charts in 1972. The album on which it appeared, “Still Bill”, also produced the slinky funk hit “Use Me”, and a triumphant October 1972 Carnegie Hall concert was released as a live album.
After that, though, Withers' career and personal life grew more turbulent. His 1973 marriage to “Room 222” actress Denise Nicholas quickly collapsed; they were divorced the next year, and the bitter emotional fallout from the breakup underscored his messy 1974 album "+'Justments”. Sussex Records folded in 1975, and Withers moved to the much larger label Columbia, whose executives' ideas about what he should be recording clashed with his own. His songwriting left the raw emotion of his earlier work behind, and although the slick, good-mood pop he was now making had its moments — 1977's “Lovely Day” was a substantial hit — his heart clearly wasn't in it most of the time, which was a problem for an artist who had built his reputation on direct sincerity.
Withers made no albums in the seven years after 1978's “'Bout Love”, although he did have one of his biggest hits in 1981: “Just the Two of Us”, a collaboration with smooth jazz saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. And then, after 1985's forgettable “Watching You Watching Me” album, he was done. He'd become frustrated by the music business, he explained, and since he'd come to it relatively late, it wasn't the only path he could imagine for himself. As he later told Rolling Stone, “There’s no rule that says your life has to be one thing.”
So he moved on. Withers simply stepped out of the public eye, in a way that seemed unthinkable for a pop star of his caliber. The music business wasn't entirely done with Withers, though. He won a 1988 Grammy Award for R&B song for the 16-year-old “Lean on Me”, whose cover by Club Nouveau had topped the charts; his old recordings were sampled by artists like Blackstreet (“No Diggity”), Eminem (“'97 Bonnie and Clyde”) and Kendrick Lamar (“Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst”).Stevie Wonder, left, and Bill Withers at the 2015 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, where Withers was among the inductees. — Photograph: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images.Meanwhile, Withers went his own way, investing in real estate and managing his songwriting catalog. He didn't eschew publicity altogether — he was the subject of a 2009 documentary, “Still Bill”, and gave a witty speech when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. But aside from a few brief guest appearances on friends' records and a cover of “(You've Been Quite a Doll) Raggedy Ann” on a Little Jimmy Dickens tribute album in 2017, he released no new music in the last 35 years of his life.
“A very famous minister actually called me to find out whether I was dead or not,” Withers told Rolling Stone in 2015. “I said to him, ‘Let me check’.”
Withers is survived by his second wife, Marcia, and their children, Todd and Kori.__________________________________________________________________________ Related to this topic: • Bill Withers dies: Kamala Harris, John Legend, Alicia Keys pay respects to R&B greatwww.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-03/lean-on-me-lovely-day-singer-bill-withers-dies-at-81
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Post by Gort on Jul 6, 2020 19:29:08 GMT 10
Ennio Morricone, Oscar-winning Italian film composer, dies aged 91Morricone’s work helped define the western but he went on to work across all film genres Ennio Morricone in London in 2016. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer whose symphonic scores backed everything from spaghetti westerns to romance, horror and sci-fi films, has died aged 91. Morricone had broken his femur days ago and died during the night in a clinic in Rome. His death was confirmed by his lawyer, Giorgio Assumma. In a statement, Assumma said that the composer “died at dawn on 6 July in Rome with the comfort of faith. He preserved until the final moment full lucidity and great dignity. “He said goodbye to his beloved wife Maria, who accompanied him with dedication in every moment of his human and professional life and was close to him until his final breath, and thanked his children and grandchildren for the love and care they have given him. He gave a touching remembrance to his audience, whose affectionate support always enabled him to draw strength for his creativity.” Film composer Hans Zimmer was among those paying tribute, saying he was “devastated … Ennio was an icon and icons just don’t go away, icons are forever … his music was always outstanding, and done with great emotional fortitude and great intellectual thought”. Born in Rome in 1928, Morricone took up the trumpet and wrote his first composition aged six. He studied classical music and after graduating began writing scores for theatre and radio. He was hired as an arranger by the label RCA in Italy and also began writing for pop artists; his songs became hits for Paul Anka, Françoise Hardy and Demis Roussos, and he later collaborated with Pet Shop Boys. He also made boundary-pushing avant garde work with Gruppo di Improvvisazione di Nuova Consonanza, a collective of experimental, improvisational composers. But it was his film scores that brought him the most fame. He began in the mid-1950s as a ghostwriter on films credited to others, but his collaborations with Luciano Salce, beginning with Il Federale (The Fascist), established his name. Morricone went on to work in almost all film genres, and some of his melodies are perhaps more famous than the films for which he wrote them. Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s 1971 film Maddalena is little remembered today, but Morricone’s two pieces for the film, Come Maddalena and Chi Mai, are among his most loved, the latter reaching No 2 in the UK Top 40 following its reuse in the BBC drama series The Life and Times of David Lloyd George. His 1960s scores for Sergio Leone, backing a moody Clint Eastwood in the Dollars trilogy, were huge successes and came to define him: with their whistling melodies, and blend of symphonic elements with gunshots and guitars, they evoke the entire western genre. “The music is indispensable, because my films could practically be silent movies, the dialogue counts for relatively little, and so the music underlines actions and feelings more than the dialogue,” Leone has said. Morricone has said his own best work was for Leone’s 1984 film Once Upon a Time in America. Those films, and Morricone’s scores, were a clear influence on Quentin Tarantino who hired him for his western The Hateful Eight. It earned Morricone his first Oscar outside of his lifetime achievement award. Tarantino also used his music in Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, with Morricone writing an original song for the latter. Other films he scored include The Thing (directed by John Carpenter), Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore), The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo), Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick), The Untouchables (Brian de Palma) and the La Cage aux Folles trilogy (Édouard Molinaro). He frequently toured highlights from his catalogue, and was still conducting his orchestra in 2019. He sold more than 70m albums, and as well as his two Academy awards, he won four Grammy awards and six Baftas. The British film director Edgar Wright paid tribute on Twitter. “Where to even begin with iconic composer Ennio Morricone? He could make an average movie into a must see, a good movie into art, and a great movie into legend. He hasn’t been off my stereo my entire life. What a legacy of work he leaves behind. RIP.” The electronic music duo Orbital called him “a great influence. One of the best film composers of all time.” Video game designer Hideo Kojima, who used the 1971 Morricone and Joan Baez song Here’s to You in the Metal Gear Solid series, said he was “shocked to know Ennio Morricone has passed away. RIP.” www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/06/ennio-morricone-dies-aged-91-film-composer-good-bad-uglyOnce more for old times sake:
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Post by Gort on Jul 14, 2020 17:57:53 GMT 10
Former MythBusters co-host Grant Imahara has died suddenly aged 49 after reportedly suffering a brain aneurysm. His long-time MythBusters colleague, Adam Savage, paid tribute to the electronics and robotics expert on Twitter:
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Post by Gort on Sept 11, 2020 0:41:04 GMT 10
Diana Rigg kicks off at 82She was the thinking man's crumpet back in the day.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2020 3:08:35 GMT 10
Another one bites the dust....
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Post by KTJ on Sept 11, 2020 10:02:16 GMT 10
I liked her better as the murderous, scheming granny in Game of Thrones.
She behind the poisoning of the young, despot King Joffrey.
That was absolutely delicious karma.
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Post by Gort on Sept 19, 2020 10:55:49 GMT 10
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has diedJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died.CREDIT:AP Ginsburg, a champion of women's rights who became an icon for American liberals, died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said in a statement. Her departure could dramatically alter the ideological balance of the court, which currently has a 5-4 conservative majority, by moving it further to the right. "Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement. "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her - a tireless and resolute champion of justice." www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/us-supreme-court-justice-ruth-ginsburg-has-died-20200919-p55x76.htmlShe was certainly a very colourful* character. * RBG after all!
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Post by Gort on Jul 23, 2021 10:52:46 GMT 10
John ‘Strop’ Cornell dies at 80A lot smarter than his character of "Strop"! Crocodile Dundee was a pretty good movie and the push to World Series Cricket was a winner too. Sadly, John died of Parkinson's disease. Cornell is survived by Delvene Delaney, who he was married to for 46 years, and daughters Melissa, Allira and Liana Cornell.
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Post by caskur on Jul 23, 2021 11:33:11 GMT 10
Bye Strop.... You entertained us. You did a good job.. Rest in Peace.
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Post by Gort on Jan 1, 2022 9:24:37 GMT 10
Almost made it to 100. My favourite quote from Betty ... “Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.” ― Betty White
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