Actually I was going to post this in that thread I don't remember, about WWII sites. "Blessent mon cœur D'une langueur Monotone." In English "Wound my heart with a monotonous languor" was the cue, read over the BBC, for the French Resistance to begin sabotage operations 48 hrs before D-Day. As depicted in 'The Longest Day'. Interestingly, as probably few know, Richard Todd - Guy Gibson of course - playing Major (iirc) John Howard, landing by glider to secure a bridge (Pegasus) over the Orne, was actually on that mission, under Howard (Lord Lovat really did arrive to relieve them with his one piper piping beside him). Tom Verlaine took his name from the poet who wrote those words; though I very much doubt that is why. (My little 'joke' references the Polish airman shot down and mistaken for a German in 'The Battle of Britain'. And re falling from the sky, the guy really did crash through the greenhouse, while the church at St. Mere Eglise has a parachute 'memorial' hanging from its roof for the Yank who really did get snagged there from where he watched his comrades machine gunned)
Anne Perry: Murderer turned crime writer dies aged 84 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65261971
Antiques Roadshow expert Judith Miller dies at 71 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65264303
RIP Mark Sheehan https://news.sky.com/story/the-script-guitarist-mark-sheehan-has-died-at-the-aged-46-12857322
There was a time when they’d say why/ how someone died, but those days seem to be gone. Very strange.
It certainly wasn’t old age! Thinking of it, that’s an expression you don’t hear of much these days, not since we’ve all become pseudo medical analysts Gotta love the internet
A terribly sad loss . He made me laugh for over 40 years - From the Barry McKenzie comic strip , back in Private Eye's glory days .... " ignorant, loud, crude, drunk, and pugnacious " to the fabulous Parkinson interview ..... " I had a very easy passage through the menopause " and Sir Les Patterson ..... " I've just released my own fragrance " RIP Barry , you will be very much missed .
I lived him/her, fabulous wit, loved it when he had a laugh with the royal family. Very talented chap who contributed more than he probably realised.RIP
Genuinely gutted at his passing, such a funny guy, fantastic comic timing. Sir Les Patterson was my hero and role model, a real man, I will miss him… Just so, so funny
I remember seeing him for the first time in the Barry McKenzie film when he played just Aunty Edna as a one-off. Always loved him as Sir Les Patterson.
