People Who Died (11 Viewers)

[pete]

Awww

 

[Deadmanposting]

Gams for days, in fairness

 

[Squiggle]

Angela Lansbury, 96 years young. RIP
Strangely, a new fella just moved into town who keeps to himself.....

I was sorry to see this news. I actually met her once, with her husband and a friend of theirs (I think her producer?). I was 16 and working in an architectural salvage yard and they drove up from Cork unannounced to see what we had in the way of granite piers and troughs for her garden. Because she was unnanounced I was in charge of the yard at the time (and the five men who worked there) and the boss (who was a total toady when it came to "famous" people wasn't around. He appeared as I was showing them what we had and giving them some quotes and when he went to take over and shoo me back to the office Ms Landsbury (who could smell his obsequiousness a mile off) said "No thank you, I'd rather finish up our business with S-" with such a gracious smile that he just walked away again. She paid full price, plus delivery. She was friendly and normal, and I think she appreciated me treating her as a normal person. My Mum was furious I didn't ask for an autograph though.

 

[Cormcolash]

I was sorry to see this news. I actually met her once, with her husband and a friend of theirs (I think her producer?). I was 16 and working in an architectural salvage yard and they drove up from Cork unannounced to see what we had in the way of granite piers and troughs for her garden. Because she was unnanounced I was in charge of the yard at the time (and the five men who worked there) and the boss (who was a total toady when it came to "famous" people wasn't around. He appeared as I was showing them what we had and giving them some quotes and when he went to take over and shoo me back to the office Ms Landsbury (who could smell his obsequiousness a mile off) said "No thank you, I'd rather finish up our business with S-" with such a gracious smile that he just walked away again. She paid full price, plus delivery. She was friendly and normal, and I think she appreciated me treating her as a normal person. My Mum was furious I didn't ask for an autograph though.

And then it turned out your boss was the murderer all along!!

 

[rettucs]

I was sorry to see this news. I actually met her once, with her husband and a friend of theirs (I think her producer?). I was 16 and working in an architectural salvage yard and they drove up from Cork unannounced to see what we had in the way of granite piers and troughs for her garden. Because she was unnanounced I was in charge of the yard at the time (and the five men who worked there) and the boss (who was a total toady when it came to "famous" people wasn't around. He appeared as I was showing them what we had and giving them some quotes and when he went to take over and shoo me back to the office Ms Landsbury (who could smell his obsequiousness a mile off) said "No thank you, I'd rather finish up our business with S-" with such a gracious smile that he just walked away again. She paid full price, plus delivery. She was friendly and normal, and I think she appreciated me treating her as a normal person. My Mum was furious I didn't ask for an autograph though.

great story Squigs

 

[pete]

Angela Lansbury Left Los Angeles To Save Her Children From Charles Manson's Influence - SlashFilm

Somehow, there is only a single degree of separation between Angela Lansbury and Charles Manson.

www.slashfilm.com

Because of the dangers that the cult leader posed, Lansbury told her then-husband, Peter Shaw, that the family needed to move. She wanted their children, especially her daughter, as far away from Manson's influence as possible, as her drug addiction was getting worse under his influence. She decided on County Cork, Ireland, which she still visited up until her passing.

"I was drawn to Ireland because it was the birthplace of my mother and it was also somewhere my children wouldn't be exposed to any more bad influences," she explained. "So I refused all work for a year and simply kept house."

 

[Deadmanposting]

Angela Lansbury Left Los Angeles To Save Her Children From Charles Manson's Influence - SlashFilm

Somehow, there is only a single degree of separation between Angela Lansbury and Charles Manson.

www.slashfilm.com

Mallow She Wrote



Honestly can't imagine a worse place to go cold turkey than Cork. Super parenting to be fair.

 

[therealjohnny]

Steve Roberts of UK Subs

York punk rock star dies suddenly, aged 68

YORK punk rocker Stevie Ze Suicide has died suddenly, aged 68.

www.yorkpress.co.uk

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

Angela Lansbury Left Los Angeles To Save Her Children From Charles Manson's Influence - SlashFilm

Somehow, there is only a single degree of separation between Angela Lansbury and Charles Manson.

www.slashfilm.com

her great mate Hurd Hatfield already had a place here so presumably that's why she picked cork..... his place is a swanky guest house now....

Manhattanite of many parts

Hurd Hatfield, the stage and screen actor who died in his adopted county Cork on Christmas Day, was never an American so much…

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The accidental hoteliers

With no previous experience in the hospitality sector, Michael Garvey and his partner Ann O’Sullivan have turned Ballinterry House in Co Cork, the former home of Hollywood actor Hurd Hatfield, into a luxury guesthouse in the rebel county

www.irishtimes.com

 

[dudley]

Awww

Robbie Coltrane, Comic Performer Who Played Hagrid in ‘Harry Potter’ Movies, Dies at 72

The eccentric actor appeared in the movie franchise based on J.K. Rowling’s novels and also starred in the British crime drama 'Cracker.'

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[pete]

Noel Duggan, founding member of Clannad, dies aged 73

Well known musician and songwriter took ill while out with friends on Saturday

www.irishtimes.com

 

[flashback]

Mallow She Wrote



Honestly can't imagine a worse place to go cold turkey than Cork. Super parenting to be fair.

That house in cork is within walking distance of me now. A local bartender here lives in it currently, with his other half who's related to Ms. Lansbury. For ages I didn't know who he was on about, he kept mentioning Ms. Lansbury as if I should know who that was.

edit- oh yeah, my point! There's loads of drugs around here these days. Not sure if all Ireland is like this now, but there's shit loads of coke and other serious enough kinda stuff around. Mightn't be the best detox place in the world now.

 

[therealjohnny]

R.I.P Robert Gordon

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[therealjohnny]

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Was also the singer in NY's Tuff Darts

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[therealjohnny]

Noel Duggan, founding member of Clannad, dies aged 73

Well known musician and songwriter took ill while out with friends on Saturday

www.irishtimes.com

Here's Noel and his twin brother (who also played in Clannad, also deceased), along with Moya Brennan. The guy in the middle was my uncle who was also part of their pre-Clannad band.

 

[ann post]

Clannad,
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Are you going to the gig?

 

[taubstumm]

Northern Ireland trade unionist (and ulster unionist), May Blood

also notable for accidentally ending up with the most metal name imaginable after winding up in the house of lords — Baroness Blood

May Blood: Trade unionist and former Labour peer dies aged 84

May Blood was a former Labour peer and was involved with the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition.

www.bbc.com

 

[pete]

Jules Bass, Producer Behind the ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ and ‘Frosty the Snowman’ TV Specials, Dies at 87

He and the late Arthur Rankin Jr. also worked on such classics as 'Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town,' 'Here Comes Peter Cottontail' and 'Mad Monster Party.'

www.hollywoodreporter.com

The pair shared an Emmy nomination for outstanding children’s special in 1977 for their work on The Little Drummer Boy Book II and received a Peabody a year later for their animated version of The Hobbit. They also handled an adaptation of another J.R.R. Tolkienproperty, The Return of the King, in 1980.

 

[therealjohnny]

Jules Bass, Producer Behind the ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ and ‘Frosty the Snowman’ TV Specials, Dies at 87

He and the late Arthur Rankin Jr. also worked on such classics as 'Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town,' 'Here Comes Peter Cottontail' and 'Mad Monster Party.'

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Wow. I assumed he must have died ages ago

 

[nuke terrorist]

Rock Of Gibraltar (race horse, sex worker, MUFC hell raiser)

Rock of Gibraltar - the racehorse at the centre of Old Trafford split - has died

Rock of Gibraltar was the first horse ever to win seven consecutive Group 1 races in the Northern Hemisphere.

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