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Post by elvisuk on May 13, 2009 1:09:45 GMT
George Best
(22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional football player, best known for his years with Manchester United. He was a winger whose game combined pace, acceleration, balance, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to beat defenders.[1] In 1968, his annus mirabilis, he won the European Cup with Manchester United, and was named the European Footballer of the Year. When fit, he was an automatic choice for the Northern Ireland team, but he was unable to lead them to the World Cup qualification, despite being capped 37 times and scoring nine goals.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 13, 2009 14:41:46 GMT
Bonnie Parker
(Bonnie & Clyde)
Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker
The real one
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Post by ken on May 13, 2009 14:52:39 GMT
Percy John Thrower MBE (January 30, 1913 - March 18, 1988)  Was a British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer born at Horwood House in the village of Little Horwood in Buckinghamshire. He became nationally known through presenting various gardening programmes, starting in 1956 on the BBC's Gardening Club then later on the BBC's Gardeners' World from 1969 until 1976. He has been described as "Britain's first celebrity gardener". KC |
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Post by nocky2 on May 14, 2009 21:49:49 GMT
T-Bone Walker, great Blues/R"n"B singer and guitar player
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Post by ken on May 14, 2009 23:01:50 GMT
Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, film producer and martial artist.  KC |
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Post by Dunnit on May 15, 2009 13:02:08 GMT
Simon Templer
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Post by ken on May 15, 2009 16:26:22 GMT
Tamasin Day-Lewis, (born 17 September 1953 [1] in London) is an English television chef, daughter of the poet Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon, and sister of the actor Daniel Day-Lewis. She is currently on the Board of Governors at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She writes for the Daily Telegraph, Vanity Fair, Vogue and Food Illustrated  KC |
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Post by Lynnrose on May 15, 2009 16:31:14 GMT
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Post by ken on May 15, 2009 16:48:48 GMT
Harold Clayton Lloyd.  American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies. Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era. Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies," between 1914 and 1947. He is best known for his "Glasses Character", a resourceful, success-seeking go-getter who was perfectly in tune with 1920s era America. His films frequently contained "thrill sequences" of extended chase scenes and daredevil physical feats, for which he is best remembered today. Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street in Safety Last! is one of the most enduring images in all of cinema. Lloyd did many of these dangerous stunts himself, despite having injured himself in 1919 during the filming of Haunted Spooks when an accident with a prop bomb resulted in the loss of the thumb and index finger of his right hand (the injury was disguised on film with the use of a special prosthetic glove, though the glove often did not go by unnoticed). Although Lloyd's individual films were not as commercially successful as Charlie Chaplin's on average, he was far more prolific (releasing twelve feature films in the 1920s while Chaplin released just three), and they made more money overall ($15.7 million to Chaplin's $10.5 million). KC |
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Post by Dunnit on May 15, 2009 21:44:01 GMT
Larry Hagman
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Post by ken on May 15, 2009 23:35:28 GMT
Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896)  Was an American abolitionist and author. Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) depicted life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the U.S. and Britain and made the political issues of the 1850s regarding slavery tangible to millions, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Upon meeting Stowe, Abraham Lincoln allegedly remarked, "So this is the little lady who started this great war!" KC |
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Post by nocky2 on May 16, 2009 7:35:31 GMT
Susan Boyle. Being the boring old fart that I am, and never having watched these so called "Talent Shows" on TV, I'm probably one of the dozen or so people in the country who hasn't heard her singing. (puts tin hat on and ducks for cover) 
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Post by Dunnit on May 16, 2009 11:12:19 GMT
Barry Gibb
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Post by Lynnrose on May 16, 2009 17:10:59 GMT
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Post by nocky2 on May 16, 2009 17:42:54 GMT
Gaynor Faye.
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Hi LR  , Susan has a good voice, not my faourite music, though I hope she does well. ;D.
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Post by Dunnit on May 16, 2009 22:01:18 GMT
Fiona Pears
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Post by nocky2 on May 19, 2009 0:36:54 GMT
Did the voice of Balloo the Bear in "The Jungle Book", also lots of very funny records, way back in early 50s.
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Post by Dunnit on May 19, 2009 7:07:33 GMT
Henry Cooper " Our Henry " 
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Post by ken on May 19, 2009 14:36:34 GMT
Carlos Saúl Menem, 48th President of Argentina. July 8th 1989 - December 9th 1999.  KC |
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Post by Dunnit on May 19, 2009 23:31:43 GMT
Mark Spitz
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Post by Lynnrose on May 20, 2009 20:00:47 GMT
Sharon Stone
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Post by ken on May 20, 2009 20:29:07 GMT
Spike Milligan.  Born 16 April 1918 Ahmednagar, British India Died 27 February 2002 (aged 83) Rye, East Sussex, England Nationality Irish Influenced Monty Python. Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan, KBE KC |
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Post by nocky2 on May 21, 2009 0:22:09 GMT
Madeline Kahn, very good comedy actress, (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, etc.)
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Post by ken on May 21, 2009 1:03:29 GMT
 Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Kristofferson is the sole writer of most of his songs, but he has collaborated with various other figures of the Nashville scene such as Shel Silverstein and Fred Rumfelt. KC |
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Post by Dunnit on May 21, 2009 5:45:22 GMT
Kate Winslet
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Post by nocky2 on May 21, 2009 14:45:36 GMT
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, great 50s R n B singer. Did the original version of "Hound Dog". ;D
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Post by Dunnit on May 22, 2009 7:08:11 GMT
Tommy Cooper
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Post by Dunnit on May 26, 2009 9:47:02 GMT
Carl Lewis 
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Post by Lynnrose on May 26, 2009 16:24:01 GMT
Lionel Richie
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Post by Dunnit on May 27, 2009 1:05:12 GMT
Ronnie Corbet
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, Susan has a good voice, not my faourite music, though I hope she does well. ;D.
