Chocolate Forum
Chat => General => Topic started by: loulou on September 20, 2009, 02:58:06 pm
-
No mention of Patrick Swayze or Keith Floyd dying then.
-
Or Mary Travers from Peter, Paul and Mary fame?
Patrick Swayze was a very brave man who suffered a terrible illness with much dignity. I didn't really follow his film career since Dirty Dancing, which I personally thought was a 'nice little film' as I do not really go to the cinema or watch films much these days.
I never watch any sort of cooking on TV so was not that familiar with Keith Floyd, except to say he had the same surname as my grandmother (who in any case died long before I was born). I heard on Radio Four that he did a lot to promote men in the kitchen and got a lot of men cooking. That's a very good thing - except the trend completely passed my husband by!
Dear, dear Mary Travers was a beautiful person who did an enormous amount for human rights for over forty years. She aslo had a beautiful singing voice. Peter, Paul and Mary were great favourites of mine as I was growing up because they sang lovely, sing-along songs that had a moral theme to them and I happen to like folk music very much - even the commercial stuff.
It's a shame we didn't think of tributes for these people earlier in the week (I did a tribute to Mary Travers on another music site I belong to) but personally, I have seen so much death this year and have been to so many funerals that I just want to get away from it when I'm on a site like this. Sadly, even as I type, my father-in-law is on his death bed and has a few days, maybe a fortnight at most, to live.
-
also there was that bloke from Hi de hi!
-
Who di who?
-
sad to see swayze and floyd go.
i was never the biggest swayze fan, but he seemed like a very nice guy. i hate 'dirty dancing', for the record... but his performance in 'donnie darko' was awesome. and i guess the long awaited 'ghost 2' wont happen now.
i used to stay up late as a kid and watch 'floyd on fish'... it was good back in the day, but with all these cookery programmes these days it would never work now. this guy was oddly cool and made me want to buy a 'pie-magic' every time i saw him on that advert.
-
Who di who?
The Jockey from Hi De Hi http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8255264.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8255264.stm)
Comic performer Felix Bowness, who played ex-jockey Fred Quilly in sitcom Hi-de-Hi, has died at the age of 87, his family has confirmed.
The Berkshire-born actor appeared in other TV comedies penned by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, including You Rang, M'Lord? and Oh, Doctor Beeching!
Among his first small screen turns as a funnyman was in The Benny Hill Show in the 1960s.
Bowness was also a warm-up man for Sir Terry Wogan's 1980s BBC One chat show.
-
Oh that hi de hi person.
-
I was quite sad when I heard Patrick Swayze was dead, especially with the condition he had. I don't mind Dirty Dancing, although the music doesn't fit the era, which is strange. Ghost is a guilty pleasure.
-
I liked Keith Floyd and thought it sad that he looked a lot older than his 65 years. He was a lot better to watch than Gordon Ramsay and the rest of them.
-
i just found out that mr. floyd dies in dorchester hospital - which is my local (only a couple of miles up the road - and where i'll be having the all the baby action next week.) apparently he lived down here, too. well i never knew that! my childhood hero was my neighbour! (ish.)
-
Awwwww you could have visited.
-
If he knew you were coming he'd have baked a cake..
-
I see the TV schedulers went a bit Swayze bonkers this weekend.
-
twas nice to see Point Break again though - swayze was actually pretty cool in that one.
-
There were a lot of Keith Floyd shows on at the weekend as well, back to back on the Freeview channels!