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Author Richard Adams

Richard Adams

Author of Watership Down, and several other books dies.

Shardik is one of my favorite books.

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.

Yeah, he did have a long run. And Writers tend to last longer than Rock and Roll musicians.

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.

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.

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.

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

Debbie was my first love, this song did it for me.

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.





eta:

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.

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

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.

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.

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'

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.

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.