Deid

[TheDeeDon]

Sylvia Sims is deid (89). Adolescent self-abuse fantasy in the classic Ice Cold In Alex, where a scene was cut due to an extra blouse button coming undone. I think a still of it was printed in John Mills’s autobiography.

She also starred with the great Mills in Flame In The Streets, an early (1961) examination of post-Windrush racism in London.



https://youtu.be/ouYKeeTz7Yw

She was a natural looker, although I only came across her (not literally) in more recent times.

Was only earning £30 a film for years due to her contract, which included Ice Cold in Alex and this was only rectified when a fellow actor fought her corner in the 60s.

Gave up the chance of greater stardom too by staying in the UK and being married instead of going to Hollywood.

[donsdaft]

Tom Verlaine


Hesitating.

Fück sake, what a January.

[InversneckieDob]

Barrett Strong today, seems to be a conveyor belt just now.
RIP fella.

[DondyDan]

That’s very good. A mark off for using ‘gotten’ though. Fuçking Yankeeisms.

Much as it pains me to defend American (basta*dised) English, gotten was the common past participle of get until the 16th/17th century. There are examples if its usage in Chaucer, in letters from Walter Raleigh and in Shakespeare to name but a few.

Whilst it declined in usage on our side of the Atlantic, it remained on the other.

So whilst it can be infuriating to see its increasing use amongst today's youth (due to Americanisation) it is not technically wrong.

Does beg the question why the past participle of forget never got reduced to forgot.

[donsdaft]

Lots of old English words survived in American usage.

Bill Bryson wrote a decent book on the subject.

[57vintage]

Barrett Strong today, seems to be a conveyor belt just now.
RIP fella.

The Blue Moment (fed to me every Monday morning) applies mega-informative grouting as usual.

https://thebluemoment.com/

[TheDeeDon]

Ex Dundee Utd and St Mirren goalkeeper Billy Thomson dead at 64.

[Donanddusted]

Ex Dundee Utd and St Mirren goalkeeper Billy Thomson dead at 64.

You realise you're getting old when you read of his generation passing away.

Ouch.

RIP

[TheDeeDon]

You realise you're getting old when you read of his generation passing away.

Ouch.

RIP

Just realised he played for the dead club. I mind he coached them, but not playing for them.

64 is no age really.

[donsdaft]

No age at all, well my knees tell a different story.

RIP min.

[Freescotland]

Billy Thomson was a superb goalkeeper .
Rest in peace .

Same age as me fkn hell it's getting nearer.

[stewarty27]

The Blue Moment (fed to me every Monday morning) applies mega-informative grouting as usual.

https://thebluemoment.com/

Nice piece in there about Seb Rochford, Though not a huge jazz fan I knew the family, Lovely review as well,

[TheDeeDon]

Burt Bacharach dies aged 94.

[TheDeeDon]

Just read a list of some of the songs Bacharach was behind. Heard of them all, but hadn't realised he was behind them.

[Freescotland]

I've never heard of him had to look him up.
But 94 is a fantastic age to live .

He certainly done much for the music industry.