She was diagnosed with vascular dementia in the early stages before the canal series. They were also involved in off screen programs to conserve canals and industrial buildings.
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Roy Haynes, the great jazz drummer - 99! This dude played with Charlie Parker.
Heâs 94 in this videoâŚ
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Weâll always have Manhattan and US jazz, when the rest of the US goes down.
Whenever I get embarrassed about my own cultural cringes (and there is MORE than enough to go around right now), jazz is one of the things I can turn to.
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Also, the gift of some American cinema. A country that produced Singing in the Rain , Citizen Kane and Chinatown , just about any Billy Wilder film, John Ford, canât be all bad.
The McCarthy clean out of some of the best talent in US cinema was a gift to UK , French and Italian cinema. The exiled dragged their cinema out of the dreary stuff churned out in their cinema industries. Losey was among the many gifted to them .
This, in addition to the home found in Hollywood for those driven out of Europe by anti-semitism.
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Shades of Spinal Tap with the death of former Bee Gees drummer Colin Petersen just four days after another of their former drummers Dennis Bryon died.
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Colin Petersen definitely sounds like a Spinal Tap drummerâs name.
Maybe needs a nickname in the middle.
Ah, and he has one.
Colin âSmileyâ Petersen. Perfect.
Condolences to fans, though.
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Geez, theyâd have to be the only two regular drummers the Bee Gees had.
He wasnât the only drummer with the nickname âSmileyâ. Remember this bloke?
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Looks like every 70s bloke I ever did see.
Hush drummer?
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Thatâs him! The one and only Chris âSmileyâ Pailthorpe.
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They were a great band.
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Fun fact, my old next door neighbor in Oak Park was the Hush drummer AFTER Pailthorpe. He also played with Jeff Duff and Kush. Told a few decent yarns.
Ended up as the house stick-wielder at the Swagman!!
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And as far as I know, he hasnât died in a freak gardening accident either
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A bloke I went to school with played bass in that particular house band, so we collectively knew the Swagman rhythm section.
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Fair hike from Oak Park to Ferntree Gully every day!!..
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Yep
He was a man dedicated to his craft for sure.
Either that, or he REALLY loved the smorgasbordâŚ
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I thought I recognised his name. He got his nickname by starring in a film called Smiley in 1956 when he was 9 years old, and was in a couple more films after that.
John Prescott ~ old school Labour ( and for that, I liked him).
Always loved watching him tussle with Ian Hislop on HIGNFY.
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