The line ‘Does Jack Newton swim in circles?’ is part of my DNA. That said he was a terrific golfer and made a gutsy comeback. RIP old mate.
Wow George and Jerry have lost their mum’s within a fortnight.
Liz Sheridan passed away aged 93. Not only Jerry’s tv mum, but dated James Dean!
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IIRC he’d been at a Shitney Swans game, was tanked and walked into a propeller at the airport
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Rapper DJ Kay Slay.
Had worked with Eminem and Jay Z.
Passed away from covid complications
Taking the definition of “celebrity” to new lengths (see what I did there?) it is my sad duty to inform you all of the death of Cynthia Plaster Caster.
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That’ll be a hard one to swallow for some…
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Without looking she did stick flicks didn’t she
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Mad Men star Robert Morse died on Wednesday at the age of 90.
His death was confirmed by his son Charlie while his talent agent David Shaul confirmed to EW that Morse died “peacefully at home yesterday after a short illness”.
Morse, who was born in 1931 in Massachusetts, is best known for his role in Mad Men as Bert Cooper, the eccentric founder of the fictional Sterling Cooper ad agency at the centre of the acclaimed drama series.
He was nominated for the Emmy Award five times for his run on Mad Men .
He was also in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which was a very funny book and not a bad musical. I Believe in You is a great song.
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For NHL fans, Guy LaFleur and Mike Bossy both passed this week. 9 Stanley Cups between them.
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French singer and actress Regine — who laid claim to inventing the modern discotheque and once ran a nightclub empire from Paris to Los Angeles — died on Sunday, aged 92, her granddaughter has said.
Regine — who was born Regina Zylberberg in Belgium to Jewish Polish parents — opened her first club in Paris’s Latin Quarter in the 1950s, replacing the juke-box, ubiquitous in dance venues at the time, with turntables and disc jockeys.
The new format, she often said, justified her claim to “the invention of the discotheque”.
In 2015, she famously said: “If you can’t dance, you can’t make love.”
The new discos caught on with the jet set and Regine — who became known as the “queen of the night” — opened several more venues across the world, including Regine’s in New York in the 1970s, and others in Miami, Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles
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I have never hear of her, but far out, imagine a world where the juke box is the way dance music is played…
Must have had some amazing stories across her life
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Ric Parnell, aka Mick Shrimpton.
Yes, Spinal Tap’s actual drummer has passed away, aged 70.
Cause is not known… out of respect for Harry Shearer (who tweeted it) and the rest, I will refrain from making jokes about spontaneous combustion and bizarre gardening accidents.
A bit of trivia - he played on Toni Basil’s “Mickey”.
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Mike Hagerty, who starred on Friends and more recently the critically acclaimed TV series Somebody, Somewhere, has died at the age of 67.
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Sad news. Minder was one of the best shows going around.
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Leave it out, Arthur!
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Great genuine tough guy actor. In a very British way.
The Sweeney and Minder were compulsory viewing growing up in our house.
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