RIP Thread

[KlaxonCow]

Posdnuos needs a haircut.

[Jonesey]

Raquel Welch.

"Now he needed a new project. It was...the same reason he hung his fantasy girlies on the wall. By 1966...it was lovely Raquel."

[KlaxonCow]

[RedOktober]

Argh, not Dickie Davies! (94)

[TFO]

Argh, not Dickie Davies! (94)

In fairness he was on my “I thought he died about 25 years ago” list

[Deckard]

One of the few guys ever along with Oliver Reed to look good with a moustache

[F-ZeroOne]

Legendary manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, creator of "Captain Harlock", among many others:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-64703518

[gilesgoat]

I just read that Maurizio Costanzo is dead ...

It won't mean probably a thing for anyone non-italian but he was one of those "eternal TV presenters" that seemed to be on TV "since TV existed in Italy", he was famous for his "Maurizio Constanzo Show" where he was "interviewing people of all sorts" I think without exxagerating that for Italians ( only ) his show could have been compared to the likes of Oprah show in USA.

He was politically significant and interviewed/commented on a number of political figures in Italy, he was even target of certain mafia attacks for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Costanzo

One those figures that "we have seen on TV since ever" ..

[gilesgoat]

Legendary manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, creator of "Captain Harlock", among many others:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-64703518

Just to say "for anyone in Italy born around the 1970-80 Captain Harlock" was quite a thing, I've seen this movie once I quite reccomend even if it's a bit long :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlock:_Space_Pirate

the CGI is VERY GOOD, the story is a bit "strange" and lightly out of the canon but it's a good movie.

If you are born in Italy in the 70's you'd definitely grew up with :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grendizer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazinger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Jeeg ( also known as Jeeg Robot )

And of course Kenshiro and Captain Harlock ..

"While in UK you had stuff like Postman Pat or Magic Roundabout or educational cartoons, in Italy meanwhile we had fighting giant robots, female robots that shoot missiles out of the tits ( for real, no kidding ), strange love stories, people fighting to death in gory ways and politicians an educators worrying abou the impact of such things on children"

Italy IS a strange place ... probably nowadays things would be LOT more controlled than in 1975 or so ..

[F-ZeroOne]

Its a little later, but here in the UK we did get the likes of "Battle of the Planets" ("Gatchaman"), the various Saban co-productions like "The Mysterious Cities of Gold", "Thunderbirds 2086" ("TechnoVoyager") and also some odd sci-fi puppet show with an "X" fetish that absolutely no-one remembers... Granted, we didn't get some of the more... character building stuff that you did but all the stuff I listed were my first hints at a wider world of animation beyond "He-Man" and "Danger Mouse".

[Rhythm]

Gordon Moore, he of "Moore's Law" fame.

94, bloody good innings

[TFO]

Gordon Moore, he of "Moore's Law" fame.

94, bloody good innings

In his next reincarnation he’ll have twice the power

[WiteWulf]

...and yet he objected to it being called a "law" his whole life. He considered it an observation

[Whiteball]

Another one of the flock. RIP Jerry

[PFVA]

Yes, RIP Jerry.