2020 Deaths.

[steve_holmes_11]

As long as JPR Williams is safe, the universe will continue

I thought Keith Richards was the galactic lynchpin.

[Steve J]

Sean Connery aged 90 . The James Bond for me! Not a bad innings at all and he's left us some great films, which is not a bad legacy.

[Raider4]

Sean Connery aged 90 . The James Bond for me! Not a bad innings at all and he's left us some great films, which is not a bad legacy.

Yeah, just heard this. Some great films, but also the image of him in a red leather nappy & long boots in Zardoz

[Techno II]

Awwww    ...The best (If not the very first....007 on film.)

Cheers - Phil 

[petercooman]

I loved him in the league of extraordinary gentlemen as well

[Raider4]

I loved him in the league of extraordinary gentlemen as well

Easily the best thing in that film. He had such a miserable time filming that movie - he wasn't the only one by some accounts - that he promptly retired.

[DaveH]

I'll always think of Connery as Bond as he was the first one I remember seeing even though Roger Moore had already taken over the role by the time I was old enough to see them in the cinema. Another great role from him was in The Man who would be King.

Zardoz is actually an interesting film despite the flaws.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Oh no! 

[fsn]

Gentlemen. I am in deep mourning. Sean Connery was my Mastermind subject .. I have all his films (including Tarzan's Greatest Adventure) and a guiding principle in my life is "what would Sean do?"




If you want me, I shall be in my room.


But please don't knock unless it's really important.


I'll just take that decanter if you don't mind.

[sean66]

A real Gentleman (my mother had a thing for him)
Hence the name   
A real sad day.
:-
I also have a lot of his films some will be getting an airing tonight
Regards
Sean

[Poggle]

Oh no!    I always thought that he was indestructible. A great actor and a hell of a legacy.

[Orcs]

Oh no!    I always thought that he was indestructible. A great actor and a hell of a legacy.

Yes but shame he had only one accent 

[Ithoriel]

Sean Connery dead?!! Shurely shome mishtake!

An actor who made every part his own ... in the sense that he played the same character every time .... but still managed to be absolutely awesome each time.

"Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else." - Sir Sean Connery

Not a popular choice, I'm sure, but I've always had a soft spot for Rising Sun.

"They say if you resort to violence, then you've already lost."

[hammurabi70]

The JJ Williams thing (72 - no age these days) illustrates a pattern I've noticed recently.

There's a worrying number of Sport's people falling before the median age.
While sport and exercise is such a positive in our deskbound society, you'd expect the opposite.

A look back at sport in the late '60s and the '70s shows some events were quite brutal, and physically demanding.
Combine with poorly understood training regimes (steak, chips and a woodbine), poorly spent downtime (Best, Baxter, Gasgoigne), and some extremely questionable therapies.
The result was often an industry that took fit young men and produced middle aged invalids.

My Father was a prodigy at Football and Cricket, played for his local non-league team at 16, had trials for big clubs in both sports, captained his school and college at both then joined the army where he captained the Sergeant's teams at a very large (National service era) training establishment.
He enjoyed his army time, frequently being released to play sports.
The training establishment had a large number of NS man cycled through, and the Colonel keenly scanned the intake lists for any proper footballers he could draft.
Over his enlistment, Dad claims to have captained most of the contemporary Scotland team, a few who went on to play for England and a huge number of youth prospects who went on to professional careers.

When home visiting, we would often walk up the high street together, and somebody would stop of to chat with Dad.
Some were later cricketing fprofessionals were - men in their late '50s wakjing with sticks or walking frames.
This was the age of miracle cures and no substitutes, the  magic sponge, run it off and a shot of Cortizone at half time.riends, but occasionally he'd explain "That's XXXX Scotland and Tottenham".
I was usually taken aback by how aged the former

Football has become a gentler game, excepting the odd atrocity, through more demanding on acceleration and stamina.
What scares me now is to look at the ferocity of tackling by huge men in Rugby.
I wonder what future difficulties the players of today might suffer.

Not sure it follows that high fitness when young necessarily prolongs life when older.  I have heard it said that Mr Universe contenders, and similar, sparkle when young but certainly not when they age. Jim Fixx, who generated the jogging craze, died at age 52, for which the contributory factors are disputed.  I had heard it as an actuarial fact that if you make 70 you have a better than 90% chance of making 80.  This recent trend of notable deaths for men in their 70s seems a worrying development.

[FierceKitty]

A sad, sad loss.