RIP 2025
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Gene Hackman, 95. Strange circumstances.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360596935/actor-gene-hackman-found-dead-home-wife-and-dog
So many good movie performances in a number of genres
A titan
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David Johansen, New York Dolls Frontman and Punk Pioneer, Dead at 75
David Johansen, frontman for the New York Dolls and the last surviving original member of that pioneering punk band, has died at the age of 75.
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David Johansen RIP. His original band wasn't good, but they were the soundtrack of that great Colin Farrell coke binge sequence from True Detective Season 2. He was also Buster Poindexter from Feeling Hot Hot Hot fame.
A true party ANIMAL.
Hope he is partying in heaven.
Was also in a great episode of Miami Vice.
One of the true NYC legends.
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I don't care if it was uncool - I really liked David Johansens alter ego Buster Poindexter
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2025:
Arguably one of the best 5 films I've seen.
Always thought Mississippi Burning was his best role. Played a really complex character superbly.
French Connection for me, will be going back through his library and rewatching most of them though
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Roy Ayers has died at 84 — these were just 5 of the funk legend's best songs
The vibraphone player and producer is one of the most sampled artists in popular music.
Couple of great tunes there.
RIP
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2025:
Arguably one of the best 5 films I've seen.
Always thought Mississippi Burning was his best role. Played a really complex character superbly.
French Connection for me, will be going back through his library and rewatching most of them though
I rewatched French Connection a few weeks ago. Still a bloody good movie.
I can't think of a bad movie I've seen with Gene Hackman in it. Either I've not seen much of his catalogue, he was incredibly lucky to not to work on donkeys, or he added to everything. I'm inclined to think the latter given how many of his movies I enjoy.
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John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway: Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies aged 105
Prince of Wales hails ‘bravery and sacrifice’ of RAF Group Captain who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2025:
John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway: Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies aged 105
Prince of Wales hails ‘bravery and sacrifice’ of RAF Group Captain who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross
Never heard of him but by golly do these guys need to be celebrated and remembered. RIP
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2025:
John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway: Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies aged 105
Prince of Wales hails ‘bravery and sacrifice’ of RAF Group Captain who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross
Never heard of him but by golly do these guys need to be celebrated and remembered. RIP
We owe a debt of gratitude that can never be fully repaid
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Eddie Jordan passes away aged 76 following cancer battle
The former F1 team boss-turned-TV pundit announced his diagnosis in 2024.
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He was an awesome guy, and fucking smart - intoriducing a few future GOATS/Champs. He never had the money for continual winning but made the best of what he had.
Eddie Jordan was one of F1’s biggest characters, we’re all going to miss him | Johnny Herbert
The wheeler-dealer side of him was wonderful and he was always thinking outside the box to get the best out of people
Also his snake rig cars were the best looking ever
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Oleg Gordievsky. KGB colonel who was a British double agent during the Cold War. His info on Soviet nuclear thinking did much to avoid WWIII and improve the West's understanding of Soviet thinking.
Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies in Surrey aged 86
Soviet spy defected to Britain from Moscow under threat of exposure after supplying information to MI6 and MI5
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2025:
Oleg Gordievsky. KGB colonel who was a British double agent during the Cold War. His info on Soviet nuclear thinking did much to avoid WWIII and improve the West's understanding of Soviet thinking.
Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies in Surrey aged 86
Soviet spy defected to Britain from Moscow under threat of exposure after supplying information to MI6 and MI5
Never heard of the guy. But it sounds like he was an invaluable asset and surely took crazy risks to leak intel
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2025:
Oleg Gordievsky. KGB colonel who was a British double agent during the Cold War. His info on Soviet nuclear thinking did much to avoid WWIII and improve the West's understanding of Soviet thinking.
Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies in Surrey aged 86
Soviet spy defected to Britain from Moscow under threat of exposure after supplying information to MI6 and MI5
Never heard of the guy. But it sounds like he was an invaluable asset and surely took crazy risks to leak intel
Yeah, he warned the West the Soviets were convinced they were going to pre-emptively attack the USSR. NATO changed their exercises as a result to reassure the Soviets. Def. one of the good guys on either side.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2025:
@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2025:
Oleg Gordievsky. KGB colonel who was a British double agent during the Cold War. His info on Soviet nuclear thinking did much to avoid WWIII and improve the West's understanding of Soviet thinking.
Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies in Surrey aged 86
Soviet spy defected to Britain from Moscow under threat of exposure after supplying information to MI6 and MI5
Never heard of the guy. But it sounds like he was an invaluable asset and surely took crazy risks to leak intel
Yeah, he warned the West the Soviets were convinced they were going to pre-emptively attack the USSR. NATO changed their exercises as a result to reassure the Soviets. Def. one of the good guys on either side.
After everything that's happened it is crazy that Putin still thinks the West wants to invade Russia. Otherwise why does he need buffer states. The guy sounds like a friend to both sides, almost singlehandedly de-escalated the Cold war
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How the Brits smuggled him out of the USSR reads like the plot of a Le Carre novel. Well worth a read.
Escape or Die: MI6’s Daring Extraction of Russian Spymaster Oleg Gordievsky
