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Sorry we’re so late in posting this here but we had quite a rough build up to the festive season and then a mad dash to get everything sorted for our own family Christmas.
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Leslie Nielsen is best known for playing bumbling cop Frank Drebin in the Naked Gun series and the doctor in Airplane! who hated being called Shirley.
Yet the Canadian actor spent nearly 30 years playing it straight in hundreds of film and television productions before he became a cult comedy figure.
- BBC news
Hammer horror actress Ingrid Pitt, best known for starring in cult classics such as Countess Dracula, has died at the age of 73.
The Polish-born star passed away at a hospital in south London after collapsing a few days ago.
She was regarded by many fans as the queen of Hammer Horror films. – BBC News
Cult comic author Harvey Pekar, creator of American Splendor, has died at the age of 70.
Pekar’s life and work provided the basis for the 2003 film American Splendor, starring Paul Giamatti.
Eschewing superheroes, capes and other more traditional comic material, Pekar preferred to show the mundanity of the daily grind.
Adam Cadwell has started a group on Flickr for other people to add their drawings of Harvey, called, Draw Harvey! and invites anyone to add a drawing. Adam’s own Harvey portrait here is pretty damn wonderful, incidentally.
From Wiki
Frank Sidebottom was instantly recognisable by his large spherical head, styled like an early Max Fleischer cartoon. This was initially made from papier-mâché, but later rebuilt out of fibreglass.
Frank, usually dressed in a 1950s-style sharp suit, was portrayed as an aspiring pop star from the small village of Timperley near Altrincham, Greater Manchester. His character was cheerfully optimistic, enthusiastic, and seemingly oblivious to his own failings. Although supposedly 35 years old (the age always attributed to Frank irrespective of the passage of time), he still lived at home with his mother, to whom he made frequent references. His mother was apparently unaware of her son’s popularity. Frank sometimes had a sidekick in the form of “Little Frank”, a hand puppet who was otherwise a perfect copy of Frank.
From menmedia.co.uk
Manchester has joined forces to raise thousands of pounds to give the man behind comedy legend Frank Sidebottom a fitting send-off.
Fans and friends of Chris Sievey, famous as his alter ego Frank, raised a staggering £8,000 within four hours of launching a massive internet fundraising campaign to pay for his funeral.
The appeal was set up after the M.E.N. revealed the 54-year-old, who died following a cancer battle, was virtually penniless and facing a pauper’s funeral.
Generous offers of support have flooded in from across the region, including from a number of funeral directors. The family are now considering which one to use, but hope to use a Timperley based one – because that is what ‘Frank would have wanted’.
From Comic Book Resources:
Iconic fantasy illustrator Frank Frazetta passed away today at the age of 82.
A New York City native whose career began in the comic book field at the end of the Golden Age, Frazetta was best known for his fantasy illustrations. From his character and genre-defining run of cover images depicting sword-and-sorcery hero Conan The Barbarian to his own haunting Death Dealer painting and character, the artist found immense popularity across a wide spectrum of fans. From fantasy buffs to heavy metal bands and from comic collector’s to western enthusiasts, Frazetta’s paintings not only inspired many imitators and followers but also made him incredibly popular and comparatively wealthy for a creator in the field of genre art.
Writer, director, producer – the man responsible for The Breakfast Club, Planes Trains and Automobiles, National Lampoon’s European Vacation, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and a host of other films including Weird Science which was always a big favourite of mine.
Hughes will above all be remembered for a small number of movies which perfectly captured the spirit of 1980s America – BBC News
From BBC News:
The author JG Ballard, famed for novels such as Crash and Empire of the Sun, has died aged 78 after a long illness.
His agent Margaret Hanbury said the author had been ill “for several years” and had died on Sunday morning.
Despite being referred to as a science fiction writer, Jim Ballard said his books were instead “picturing the psychology of the future”.
From www.pjfarmer.com:
February 25th:
Philip José Farmer passed away peacefully in his sleep this morning.
He will be missed greatly by his wife Bette, his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, friends and countless fans around the world.
January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009. R.I.P.
We love you Phil.
image from www.myspace.com/pjfarmer
To Your Scattered Bodies Go remains one of my favourite books of all time and Mr. Farmer one of my favourite authors.
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The mathematician and second world war codebreaker Alan Turing is to be celebrated on a special stamp as an online petition calls for a posthumous pardon to quash his conviction for gross indecency.
