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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

Lean'n'mean

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Yes, Dame Vera Lynn, has finally gone to meet them, she doesn't know where but at least she now knows when. She was 103.
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Tiki Tom

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Thanks for posting. My goodness. Vera Lynn. I had no idea she was still alive. She is as indelibly stamped on the popular image of WWII As Churchill himself. What iconic songs. 103. What a long life. I will certainly toast her tonight and again listen to some of her wartime classics. R.I.P.
 

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^^^

My goodness yes, very sad.

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainm...r-dies-at-88/ar-BB15IsHX?li=AAggFp5&ocid=iehp

I first saw him in Time Bandits, where he played a height-conscious Napoleon meeting the time-travelling little people. LoTR of course, but my favourite role of his is in the quiet little film Big Night (1996). It is my second favourite film and I highly recommend it.

Sir Ian plays an Italian restaurant owner, Pascale, flamboyant and full of life, and hoping to lure away from their own classic restaurant Primo and Secundo, Primo being the classic food loving chef who considers Pascale's version of food "the rape of cuisine".

This film is well worth checking out if you can find it, and it will be even more bittersweet to watch from now on.

Mr. C

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Sharpsburg

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Carl Reiner - incredible man and great actor. Just saw It's a Mad, Mad...World the other day. Tweeted right up to the end wish Mel Brooks a Happy Birthday! Will be missed!
 

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