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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
Peter Dunn retweeted
My acting career is 65 years old today. It began at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, which then had a year-round company of actors presenting a new production every two weeks. My first, fresh from my graduation from Cambridge University, was a revival of “A Man for All Seasons”, Robert Bolt’s popular re-telling of Thomas More’s fatal political battle with King Henry 8th. My part was the hero’s son-in-law young Will Roper.
My début was inglorious. After the excitement of my first scene, I went upstairs to my dressing-room to recover, only to hear the stage manager's urgent message on the backstage tannoy system: “Mr. McKellen you are off”, meaning I had missed my entrance for Roper's second appearance. I made it down to the stage level only to discover that my colleagues had completed the scene, effortlessly covering my absence with an imrovisation or two,
I sat disconsolate in the green room after the show. The leading lady Sheila Keith approached the dejected, newest member of the troupe: "Don’t worry, dear. A professional actor is off only once in their career. Aren’t you lucky to have got it over with, so early?"
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Today we remember Lucian Tapiedi, who was among 333 Christians who lost their lives in New Guinea during the occupation of the island by Japanese forces in 1942.
Tapiedi is one of ten 20th-century martyrs whose statues above the Abbey's Great West Door.
ALT Statues to ten 20th-century Christian martyrs standing in niches above the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey
ALT A statue of Lucian Tapiedi standing in a niche above the Great West Door at Westminster Abbey
Peter Dunn retweeted
I hope the Bayeux tapestry exhibition is going to give us some inspired advertising -- like this from the last outbreak of Battle of Hastings fever in 1966 (900th anniversary)
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31 July 1919 | Primo Levi was born in Turin. He was an Italian Jewish writer & chemist. From 26 February 1944 a prisoner of the German Nazi #Auschwitz camp no. 174517. In September 1947 he published his book "If this is a man". He passed away in 1987.
“I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.”
Those words by Primo Levi are still very relevant. 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz we still need this warning to reflect about our moral responsibility for the world we live in.
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"If this is a man"
You who live safe
In your warm houses;
You who find on returning in the evening
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man
Who works in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a bit of bread
Who dies because of a yes and because of a no
Consider if this is a woman,
Without hair and without name
Without enough strength to remember
Vacant eyes and cold womb
Like a frog in the winter:
Reflect on the fact that this has happened:
These words I commend to you:
Inscribe them on your heart
When staying at home and going out,
Going to bed and rising up;
Repeat them to your children:
Or may your house fall down,
Illness bar your way,
Your loved ones turn away from you.
Peter Dunn retweeted
Samuel Beckett in NYC making a silent movie with Buster Keaton. SB judged it "an interesting failure". Years earlier Beckett had asked Keaton to play a part in the Broadway production of Godot. It's even been suggested that Godot was inspired by a 1940s film which featured BK.
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Oh this is mighty fine
#SNLUK Pork nitter.gq/ZoeNope/status/2050974…
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I try to avoid being melodramatic about cultural decline.
Then I read that, when the BBC adapted Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels in 1974, the Radio Times published an *84* page illustrated special on its historical context.
Unimaginable today.
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A couple of years ago I was watching a few episodes of Great Canal Journeys with Tim and Pru at their home in Wandsworth when all of a sudden Tim nudged me and said, "Watch this, Pru's amazing".
Nail on the head!
God bless Pru xx
Peter Dunn retweeted
On this day in 1982 the first episode of Harry's Game was broadcast. Clannad provided the theme music, which reached number five in the UK hit parade and number two in the Irish singles chart.
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Sorry to hear that actor John Woodvine has passed away. A superb career on stage with the RSC and on screen. A semi-regular guest in ITC's Danger Man and The Avengers in the 60s and a notable presence in the outstanding 80s drama Edge of Darkness. Continued acting into his 90s.
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Eric Mival’s Collection
Film is Fabulous! will catalogue the private film collection of Eric Mival, the former freelance editor, who worked for the BBC, MGM, ITC, and other production companies.
More Info: filmisfabulous.org.uk/eric-m…
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An Inspector Calls (6th October 1981). Bernard Hepton headed the cast of this BBC Schools production, which received a primetime BBC1 repeat slot the following year.
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Hello, my name is Bishop Sarah Mullally.
I'm deeply honoured to have been called to serve as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury.
archbishopofcanterbury.org/n…
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1946. Mary Morris next to the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens. She was preparing to play the lead role in JM Barrie's play at the Scala Theatre. Twenty years later, her appearance in The Prisoner would offer a deferential nod to her critically-acclaimed stage performance.
