Sir Clive Sinclair, aged 81. British pioneer of miniature electronics: calculators, watches, and computers. Also attempted to sell electric cars and bikes - but those were commercial failures - ahead of their time in the 1980s, and the batteries then available weren't good enough.
I've always thought Norm was funny but I can't say I was a huge fan. I really only knew him from a few SNL bits. That said, a Twitter mutual who strikes me as very credible claimed to have been sexually assaulted by him after one of his shows (specifically jamming his hand down her pants and squeezing her ass while she got a photo with him) and several other women chimed in with similar stories. All of them have been getting an absolute shitstorm of harassment over the past few days.
To be honest, there are very few men I wouldn't readily believe that about. Especially those with any type of fame or power. I pretty much assume it, really.
I'm guessing that for most of Jimmy's death belongs in the "people you've never heard of" thread, but I'm putting him here because there's almost no one in Britain over 50 who isn't a little bit saddened by this not unexpected news.
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Oh wow! Do you know that thing where, when you hear that an artist whose work was done has died, instead of just a sort of sad but resigned "aaahh!", it's a sense of having been cheated out of something because you'd assumed they'd died way back.
I guess "The Candyman" and "What Kind Of Fool Am I", both made famous by Sammy Davis Jr, were his (and Newley's) best known compositions. Other big numbers with Bricusse's name on them were "Goldfinger" (as fragment said), "Talk to the Animals", "Pure Imagination", and "Who Can I Turn To"
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I'm sure you've all heard of CBT if not Beck himself. I suppose CBT is suffering a wave of hype and over-prescription - it seems to be the solution for everything from PTSD to weight loss - but it's got some good uses and has helped me.
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It prompts patients to focus on distortions in their day-to-day thinking, rather than on conflicts buried in childhood.
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A native of Providence, Rhode Island, and the third son of middle-class Russian Jewish immigrants, Beck’s first exercises in cognitive therapy were on himself, after a childhood hospitalisation at eight. The athletic child and Boy Scout became fearful of hospitals and blood, and the smell of ether could make him faint.
He said he overcame those fears by learning to disregard his wooziness and keep busy with other activities.
Camille Saviola died on October 28 at the age of 71 of heart failure.
I was going to put her in the "people you've never heard of thread" but she's got a credits list longer than my arm (including Turtle's mom on Entourage(?!)), so who am I to say who knows her.
I of course recognize her as the one true Kai, Kai Opaka, who got stranded on a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, leaving the vacancy that was filled by Kai Winn, the evilest villain in the history of Star Trek, if not all media ever.
I of course recognize her as the one true Kai, Kai Opaka
IMO One of the things that would have made Season 1 stronger was more time with Kai Opaka, she reminded me so much of real enlightened religious leaders and it would have been nice to have her really show what the Kai was all about before Winn came along.
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by Kai Winn, the evilest villain in the history of Star Trek, if not all media ever.
In my head cannon, nurse Ratchet is part of the trek universe and exists in the Benny Russel 1950s timeline.
RIP Max Cleland, who after losing both legs and part of an arm to a grenade while serving in Vietnam went on to serve as Director of the Veterans Administrator during the Carter administration, Georgia Secretary of State from 1982 to 1996 and U.S. Senator until 2002, when one of the wormiest smear campaigns in American political history (h/t Karl Rove and Rick Wilson) got Saxby Chambliss elected.
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F. W. de Klerk, the last white president of South Africa, who freed Nelson Mandela in 1990 and served as deputy president under Mandela in the Government of National Unity 1994-1996.
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Bob Dole, long-time U.S. Senator from Kansas and GOP presidential nominee in 1996. I had no love for the man, but you've gotta be glad he died before having to undergo lung cancer treatment at age 98.
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Re: BREAKING: Sometimes Famous People Die
Jimmy's death belongs in the "people you've never heard of" thread, but I'm putting him here because there's almost no one in Britain over 50 who isn't a little bit saddened by this not unexpected news.
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