[Boboff]

Crap Shag?

[Andy B]

No I get mine finest quality.......with just a hint of spice to it.

[DevilsDuck]

iain_smith is dead

Oh no!!!

[SAV1OUR]

Will this thread go with him, or will it be his legacy? Only time will tell.

[SpaceBoy]

Tim Russert, NBC News' host of "Meet the Press,"
has died at the age of 58.

Tim Russert, a fixture in American homes on Sunday mornings and election nights since becoming moderator of Meet the Press nearly 17 years ago, died Friday (13/06/08) after collapsing at the Washington bureau of NBC News. He was 58. With his plain-spoken explanations and hard-hitting questions, Russert played an increasingly outsize role in the media's coverage of politics.

The elegantly simple white memo board he used on election night in 2000 to explain the deadlock in the race between George W. Bush and Al Gore — "Florida, Florida, Florida," he had scribbled, in red marker — became one of the most iconic images in the history of American television coverage of the road to the White House. He was “one of the premier political journalists and analysts of his time,” Tom Brokaw, the former longtime anchor of “NBC Nightly News,” said in announcing Russert’s death Friday afternoon. Brian Williams, managing editor and anchor of “NBC Nightly News,” called his death a “staggering, overpowering and sudden loss.” "He really was the best political journalist in America, not just the best television journalist in America," said Al Hunt, the Washington executive editor of Bloomberg News and the former Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal.

President George W Bush issued a statement:
"Laura and I are deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Tim Russert. Those of us who knew and worked with Tim, his many friends, and the millions of Americans who loyally followed his career on the air will all miss him.
As the longest-serving host of the longest-running program in the history of television, he was an institution in both news and politics for more than two decades. Tim was a tough and hardworking newsman. He was always well-informed and thorough in his interviews. And he was as gregarious off the set as he was prepared on it.
Most important, Tim was a proud son and father, and Laura and I offer our deepest sympathies to his wife Maureen, his son Luke, and the entire Russert family. We will keep them in our prayers."

When stricken, Russert had been recording voice-overs for this Sunday's program. Russert, who was the Washington bureau chief of NBC News and a senior vice president, had recently returned from a trip to Italy to celebrate the recent graduation of his son, Luke, from Boston College. In addition to his son, Russert is survived by his wife, Maureen Orth, a writer for Vanity Fair magazine, and his father, Tim Russert. The elder Russert is the subject of his son's best-selling book, Big Russ & Me, which also spawned a sequel of sorts, a collection of letters people wrote to Russert about their fathers. He is also survived by three sisters.

[Zoot]

Jack Sugden has died

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080704/t ... 4616c.html

[Yudster]

Oh no!

[SAV1OUR]

Seconded!

[Boboff]

turdid

[Zenon]

Isaac Hayes, soul legend and the voice of Chef off South Park has just died.

[S4B]

"Just" - are you now hovering at bedsides?

[S4B]

"Just" - are you now hovering at bedsides?

[Munki Bhoy]

Bernie Mac died yesterday. See Oceans 11, 12 and 13 if you don't know who he was.

[TIAL]

Oh my God, they killed Chef!

[MK Chris]

Didn't they kill him ages ago because he was a Scientologist freak?

[Zoot]

Shaft!

[Console]

Didn't they kill him ages ago because he was a Scientologist freak?

He was brought back to life (Vader style) at the end of that episode.

[Bruvva]

Ah well, he's with Xenu now, the stupid scientologist weirdo.

[Console]

Do they go to Xenu? I thought that the thetans just moved on to another body.

[Nicola_Red]

South Park killed Chef off ages ago, yeah. He stropped off the show and they retorted by having his character become a paedophile and eventually fall into a burning pit. A very clever episode, albeit one built around a childish gag! I wonder if they feel a bit guilty now Isaac Hayes has popped his clogs for eal - probably not.

[MK Chris]

built around a childish gag!

Surely that's all South Park has ever been.

[Console]

Originally, yes, but in later seasons they actually started handling serious subjects, and some taboo ones, too - albeit with their 'childish' humour take on things.

[TIAL]

I'm not bothered about his beliefs, people can believe whatever they like, as long as they don't expect the world to follow them (à la Tom Cruise).

I loved his stuff in South Park and his music was really good too.

[Nicola_Red]

I'm not bothered about his beliefs, people can believe whatever they like, as long as they don't expect the world to follow them (à la Tom Cruise)..

That was pretty much what Isaac Hayes did tho. He was fine with SP taking the mick out of anything and everything else, but expected them not to take the mick out of his religion. When they refused to comply, he walked. Or that was how it was painted by the media anyway.

[MK Chris]

I'm not bothered about his beliefs, people can believe whatever they like, as long as they don't expect the world to follow them (à la Tom Cruise).

Yeah but wasn't the whole thing with his departure to do with him spitting his dummy out because they took the piss out of Scientology, when he was quite happy to sit and watch other cultures and beliefs get a battering on the show? Something like that anyway. I've never been the biggest South Park fan, so I could be wrong.