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Re: Departed Cultural Icons 2022
« Reply #50 on: July 31, 2022, 07:49:40 pm »
Nichelle Nichols.

I'm not sure I need to say more.

I'm feeling sad.
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Re: Departed Cultural Icons 2022
« Reply #51 on: August 01, 2022, 03:37:04 am »
Her role and what she put into it certainly sent a message. That is probably why the role was communications officer.
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Re: Departed Cultural Icons 2022
« Reply #52 on: August 08, 2022, 07:56:39 pm »
Olivia Newton-John
1948 - 2022

73 is no age.
F*** cancer.
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Re: Departed Cultural Icons 2022
« Reply #53 on: August 09, 2022, 09:49:09 pm »
Gord Lewis, founding guitarist for the Punk band Teenage Head, was found murdered in his home yesterday (August 8.) His son Jonathan Lewis has been charged with second-degree murder.
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Re: Departed Cultural Icons 2022
« Reply #54 on: August 09, 2022, 11:20:03 pm »
Judith Durham, lead singer of the Seekers (3 July 1943 – 5 August 2022)
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Re: Departed Cultural Icons 2022
« Reply #55 on: August 10, 2022, 11:56:47 am »
Raymond Briggs: The Snowman illustrator dies at 88.
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Re: Departed Cultural Icons 2022
« Reply #56 on: August 10, 2022, 12:48:52 pm »
Quote from: Mercury Wells on August 10, 2022, 11:56:47 am
Raymond Briggs: The Snowman illustrator dies at 88.

Amongst many, many others he wrote, illustrated or both including...

Father Christmas (1973)
Father Christmas Goes on Holiday (1975)
Fungus the Bogeyman (1977)
Gentleman Jim (1980)
When the Wind Blows (1982)
The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman (1984)
Unlucky Wally (1987)
Unlucky Wally 20 Years On (1989)
The Man (1992)
The Bear (1994)
Ethel & Ernest: A True Story (1998)
Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age (2001)
The Puddleman (2004)
Notes from the Sofa (2015)
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