Author Richard Adams
Richard Adams
Author of Watership Down, and several other books dies.
Shardik is one of my favorite books.
And now, Richard Adams
And now, Richard Adams
The home of the soul is the Open Road.
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He was 96. I think the relative and collective mood of shock with the number of deaths this year is more focused on how young those people have been.
Adams had a good innings.
Loved watership down. We had it read to us at school. Dad took us to the drive in to watch it when it became a movie. He didnt go shooting for ages after that. And he didnt cry when watching the next feature Heidi.......he swears it was the wind coming through the crack of the car window that made him teary.
Adams had a good innings.
Loved watership down. We had it read to us at school. Dad took us to the drive in to watch it when it became a movie. He didnt go shooting for ages after that. And he didnt cry when watching the next feature Heidi.......he swears it was the wind coming through the crack of the car window that made him teary.
The 'radical' left just wants everyone to have food, shelter, healthcare, education and a living wage. Man that's radical!....ooooohhhh Scary!
And now, Richard Adams
Yeah, he did have a long run. And Writers tend to last longer than Rock and Roll musicians.
The home of the soul is the Open Road.
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Magenta, I really like your pic! I told you once you looked like a friend of mine, & wow you sure do. Remarkable. Anyway, you are lovely.
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LarsMac;1504647 wrote: Yeah, he did have a long run. And Writers tend to last longer than Rock and Roll musicians.
What, no tears for Carrie Fisher--actress, author, intellect?
Ha. Most people last longer than R 'n R musicians. Hard life, Fast life.
What, no tears for Carrie Fisher--actress, author, intellect?
Ha. Most people last longer than R 'n R musicians. Hard life, Fast life.
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AnneBoleyn;1504695 wrote: What, no tears for Carrie Fisher--actress, author, intellect?
Ha. Most people last longer than R 'n R musicians. Hard life, Fast life.
Except for Keith
He seems to thrive.
We will miss Carrie, as well. She was a delightful person.
Ha. Most people last longer than R 'n R musicians. Hard life, Fast life.
Except for Keith
He seems to thrive.
We will miss Carrie, as well. She was a delightful person.
The home of the soul is the Open Road.
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LarsMac;1504700 wrote: Except for Keith
He seems to thrive.
We will miss Carrie, as well. She was a delightful person.
And now her mum too - RIP Debbie Reynolds
He seems to thrive.
We will miss Carrie, as well. She was a delightful person.
And now her mum too - RIP Debbie Reynolds
And now, Richard Adams
Debbie was my first love, this song did it for me.
I thought I knew more than this until I opened my mouth
And now, Richard Adams
I have just spent the last hour thinking Des O'Connor was in Singing in the Rain until I finally gave up and checked. It would have been a very different film.
It's a terrible end to the year, losing those two.
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Yes I had heard of Debbie Reynolds but I thought I'd go and find out why, so I checked her films. She has 82 credits on imdb.
I thought for a bit that I must have seen How the West was Won but I've checked the plot and no, I've not seen it.
The only film she was in that I've seen is Singing in the Rain and it's a film I couldn't stomach on account of the part played by Gene Kelly which I found irredeemably repellent, he played someone I quite simply couldn't stand. I've certainly never re-watched it.
I may go and listen to her sing on YouTube eventually. I'm reluctant because I'm quite sure they're all songs I dislike by their nature, which doesn't mean I would dislike the singer or her voice. Just the songs. It can't be entirely a matter of when they were made because I happily play my Doris Day CD.
My memory hasn't been helped by thinking, for most of my life, that she was Dorothy Squires.
I am, despite all this, saddened by the way she went.
It's a terrible end to the year, losing those two.
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Yes I had heard of Debbie Reynolds but I thought I'd go and find out why, so I checked her films. She has 82 credits on imdb.
I thought for a bit that I must have seen How the West was Won but I've checked the plot and no, I've not seen it.
The only film she was in that I've seen is Singing in the Rain and it's a film I couldn't stomach on account of the part played by Gene Kelly which I found irredeemably repellent, he played someone I quite simply couldn't stand. I've certainly never re-watched it.
I may go and listen to her sing on YouTube eventually. I'm reluctant because I'm quite sure they're all songs I dislike by their nature, which doesn't mean I would dislike the singer or her voice. Just the songs. It can't be entirely a matter of when they were made because I happily play my Doris Day CD.
My memory hasn't been helped by thinking, for most of my life, that she was Dorothy Squires.
I am, despite all this, saddened by the way she went.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
And now, Richard Adams
spot;1504706 wrote: I have just spent the last hour thinking Des O'Connor was in Singing in the Rain until I finally gave up and checked. It would have been a very different film.
I think you might be mis-remembering the Morecambe and Wise sketch which You Tube tells me I can't see because "This video contains content from BBC Worldwide, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds".......and to rub salt in the wound then says "Sorry about that " LINK
I think you might be mis-remembering the Morecambe and Wise sketch which You Tube tells me I can't see because "This video contains content from BBC Worldwide, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds".......and to rub salt in the wound then says "Sorry about that " LINK
I thought I knew more than this until I opened my mouth
And now, Richard Adams
There was a Don O'Connor in the film, a fact lodged unregarded these forty years in my memory that bubbled (slightly corrupted) to the surface and confused me.
You appear to be using a foreign VPN.
You appear to be using a foreign VPN.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
And now, Richard Adams
spot;1504712 wrote: There was a Don O'Connor in the film, a fact lodged unregarded these forty years in my memory that bubbled (slightly corrupted) to the surface and confused me.
You appear to be using a foreign VPN.
I wouldn't know what a VPN was if it bit my bum.
You appear to be using a foreign VPN.
I wouldn't know what a VPN was if it bit my bum.
I thought I knew more than this until I opened my mouth
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AnneBoleyn;1504694 wrote: Magenta, I really like your pic! I told you once you looked like a friend of mine, & wow you sure do. Remarkable. Anyway, you are lovely.
Thats a very sweet thing ti say. Ive got a doppledanga? . But ive had to change it after yesterdays storm. Caption..... 'and then the rain came in sideways'
Thats a very sweet thing ti say. Ive got a doppledanga? . But ive had to change it after yesterdays storm. Caption..... 'and then the rain came in sideways'
The 'radical' left just wants everyone to have food, shelter, healthcare, education and a living wage. Man that's radical!....ooooohhhh Scary!
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I met my doppelganger in childhood. We were vacationing in Miami Beach. Her family at our hotel. So freaky. Then, coming home, we saw her in my neighborhood!!!!!!!!!!! Seems she lived there. Haven't seen her in 59 years. Never got her name, as we tried to ignore each other, it was so bizarre. Wonder sometimes if she is still living & what she looks like now.
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spot;1504712 wrote: There was a Don O'Connor in the film, a fact lodged unregarded these forty years in my memory that bubbled (slightly corrupted) to the surface and confused me.
Donald O'Connor. One of my favorites. Especially great in the film "There's No Business Like Show Business." Had such a crush on him--singer, dancer, actor, comedian. A winner. Never called Don.
Donald O'Connor. One of my favorites. Especially great in the film "There's No Business Like Show Business." Had such a crush on him--singer, dancer, actor, comedian. A winner. Never called Don.