Yes, the more sensible news outlets confirm that story, Ex-A, although one or two local outlets have suggested he caught the Covid in hospital after being admitted. It wouldn't surprise me. He was in a standard NHS hospital in Bedford, which is a Covid hotspot.Ex-Ascot wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 5:53 amRIP Sir Tom.
Yes indeed Wodders. Hopefully they will have a memorial service, maybe on the anniversary of his death.
Pretty sure the way I read it; he had pneumonia for two weeks then tested positive for covid then went into hospital. They must have made an exception for his family to be with him. Problem is where do they draw the line. Only Knighthoods and above?
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Yes indeed Tango. There are conflicting reports. Now it is said that he was in hospital for 10 days before being tested positive. Anyway at the end of the day he did not die of Covid. It was pneumonia and old age. But he will go down on the statistics as covid.
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A favourite phrase of my grammar-school mathematics and form teacher - dates from 1955 . . .
He eschewed television.
He also averred that all advertising should be confined to a publication that people could peruse in search of whatever product they sought.
Though of advanced age he is still with us,
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No searches returned his age.
Any idea?
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Date of birth April 1951
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Christopher Plummer https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55954950
The Sound of Music as the Austrian naval captain von Trapp who escaped from the Nazis with his family choir, but could also play nasty villains. Great actor.
The Sound of Music as the Austrian naval captain von Trapp who escaped from the Nazis with his family choir, but could also play nasty villains. Great actor.
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He will always be Captain von Trapp or Sir Charles Litton "the notorious Phantom"...
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He certainly was not type-cast.
I recall watching Christopher Plummer as Atahualpa in the memorable 1969 film The Royal Hunt of the Sun.
More recently in The Man Who Invented Christmas, and with Shirley Maclaine in Elsa & Fred.
Great actor.
I recall watching Christopher Plummer as Atahualpa in the memorable 1969 film The Royal Hunt of the Sun.
More recently in The Man Who Invented Christmas, and with Shirley Maclaine in Elsa & Fred.
Great actor.
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He was a good Wellington in Waterloo.
Though Rod Steiger was a better Napoleon.
Though Rod Steiger was a better Napoleon.
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Also Sqn Ldr Harvey in Battle of Britain.
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RIP to boxer Leon Spinks who beat the great Ali for the World Heavyweight Crown, when it meant something, and then delighted the young Goblin and his sister, the Goblette, who got up at some ridiculously early hour, some months later, to listen to him fight, and lose by a knock out, to South African, Gerrie Coetzee, in Monte Carlo. Needless to say our joy was unbounded!
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/ ... t-champion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Spinks
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/ ... t-champion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Spinks
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The Boksburg Bomber; now I've been to Boksburg and if it was my home town, I'd keep quite about it.TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 7:43 amRIP to boxer Leon Spinks who beat the great Ali for the World Heavyweight Crown, when it meant something, and then delighted the young Goblin and his sister, the Goblette, who got up at some ridiculously early hour, some months later, to listen to him fight, and lose by a knock out, to South African, Gerrie Coetzee, in Monte Carlo. Needless to say our joy was unbounded!
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/ ... t-champion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Spinks
Maybe lie a little and claim to be from Benoni.
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My stepfather was born in Benoni, as was my ex-wife's brother in law! Apropos not much at all.
Old Gerrie was was a good boxer but his family had been pitifully poor and there wasn't much fresh milk on the table as a kid and he ended up with brittle hands, breaking multiple bones in a fight against Mike Schutte. Coetzee won the fight but was in absolute agony and despite the metal pins he was never quite the same boxer again.
He is still around I read, although he seems to have lost any money he might have made from his brief reign as world champion, having had to return to working as a dental technician and falling foul of the authorities for not keeping his qualifications up to date!
Old Gerrie was was a good boxer but his family had been pitifully poor and there wasn't much fresh milk on the table as a kid and he ended up with brittle hands, breaking multiple bones in a fight against Mike Schutte. Coetzee won the fight but was in absolute agony and despite the metal pins he was never quite the same boxer again.
He is still around I read, although he seems to have lost any money he might have made from his brief reign as world champion, having had to return to working as a dental technician and falling foul of the authorities for not keeping his qualifications up to date!
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RIP George Schultz....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... state-diesPresident Ronald Reagan’s longtime secretary of state, George P Shultz, who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East, has died. He was 100.
Shultz died Saturday at his home on the campus of Stanford University, according to the Hoover Institution, a thinktank where he was a distinguished fellow.
Shultz held three major cabinet posts in Republican administrations during a long career of public service. He was labor secretary and treasury secretary under President Richard Nixon before spending more than six years as Reagan’s secretary of state. He had been the oldest surviving former cabinet member of any administration.
As the nation’s chief diplomat, Shultz negotiated the first-ever treaty to reduce the size of the Soviet Union’s ground-based nuclear arsenals. The 1987 accord was a historic attempt to begin to reverse the nuclear arms race.
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Ah, Benoni! I made a couple of visits there when I was a merchant of death for Vickers. We bought the company there known as OMC, who made some excellent armoured vehicles. Great group of guys and always a pleasure to visit, because they looked after us so well. I see that Benoni has spawned some interesting people:TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 3:47 pmMy stepfather was born in Benoni, as was my ex-wife's brother in law! Apropos not much at all.
Old Gerrie was was a good boxer but his family had been pitifully poor and there wasn't much fresh milk on the table as a kid and he ended up with brittle hands, breaking multiple bones in a fight against Mike Schutte. Coetzee won the fight but was in absolute agony and despite the metal pins he was never quite the same boxer again.
He is still around I read, although he seems to have lost any money he might have made from his brief reign as world champion, having had to return to working as a dental technician and falling foul of the authorities for not keeping his qualifications up to date!
Charlene, Princess of Monaco (although I prefer her stepdaughters).
Charlize Theron (can't argue with that!).
Grace Mugabe - well OK - a bad apple in every barrel
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Ah, Alberton (the dormitory), Boksburg, Benoni, Springs and the East Rand generally, unappealing as it is, became the the workshop for the mines and heavy industry like the railways, and attracted some usefully skilled people from all over the world whose influence, and descendants, were very good influences in South Africa and, latterly, the world generally... e.g. people like Rory Byrne.tango15 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 9:43 pm
Ah, Benoni! I made a couple of visits there when I was a merchant of death for Vickers. We bought the company there known as OMC, who made some excellent armoured vehicles. Great group of guys and always a pleasure to visit, because they looked after us so well. I see that Benoni has spawned some interesting people:
Charlene, Princess of Monaco (although I prefer her stepdaughters).
Charlize Theron (can't argue with that!).
Grace Mugabe - well OK - a bad apple in every barrel
As for Grace Mugabe, well there always has to be an exception!
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TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 7:43 amRIP to boxer Leon Spinks who beat the great Ali for the World Heavyweight Crown, when it meant something...
The Spinks story is a sad one really.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/box ... 99086.html
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