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A favourite player as a small boy. Remember well his career ending injury.

My uncle will be devastated. Even as a lifelong member of the Toon Army he spoke most fondly about seeing Bell play at St James for city. He wouldn't have any debate, Bell was the greatest player who ever lived for him

Tanya Roberts has finally made the journey, bless her. RIP

Phil Spector dies at 81, who will be remembered as a murderer and a producer who did much to create the sound of early sixties pop.

was he still in prison?

Yes.

Capt Tom has passed away. Gawd bless him. Too poorly to have the vaccination and tested +ve


but what a final year he had. We could all only hope for a year like that. RIP

Ironic, but a sad story in the end.

Though living to 100 under your own steam is a lot of good fortune.

Christopher Plummer 91

No announcement yet on the cause

Durhamfootman wrote:Christopher Plummer 91

No announcement yet on the cause

You'll have to watch your favourite film Arthur....bit of dragnet.

I think it is you who said you hated it (and Dan ackroyd)

I'm not going to criticise Plummer as he was in Durham's favourite film, The Man Who Would Be King. As Kipling.

Don't really dislike Sound of Music so much as would never want to go on a Sound of Music bus tour around the Alps with a tour guide singing Edelweiss.

He was working up until a couple of years ago. He was in Knives Out, which was well received among a few CMS posters.

Dragnet was a bad film. Nothing against Dan Ackroyd who was in some ok films without being necessarily one of the reasons they were good. But I don't really like any of Belushi/Ackroyd/Chase/Hanks etc comedy actors of the late seventies/eighties. Sort of acts who came out of Animal House.

Here are some good comedies in the 80s, leaving the Woody Allen films out which go without saying: Spinal Tap, Midnight Run, Pretty in Pink, Naked Gun, Airplane, When Harry Met Sally, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Riordon. Just so I'm not being relentlessly negative.

Anyway, he's still alive...

It strikes me as being a bit of a shame that he keeps being described as 'the Sound of Music actor, Christopher Plummer', given that it seemed to have been one of his least favourite films.

He got a bit of a slagging by the tour guide because he was so uncomplimentary about TSOP.