Passages

[swo17]

He also directed Buster Keaton in The Railrodder, and several of his films are featured on that Canadian International Pictures release

[beamish14]

He also directed Buster Keaton in The Railrodder, and several of his films are featured on that Canadian International Pictures release

That’s right. I’m very fond of his “Pinter People” shorts that are on the Pinter at the BBC box set

[Aunt Peg]

I've long wanted to see his 1971 film Tiki Tiki.

[agnamaracs]

Creed Taylor

[brundlefly]

Joe E. Tata

[DarkImbecile]

Mikhail Gorbachev, according to Russian state media reports

[colinr0380]

Mikhail Gorbachev, according to Russian state media reports

The star of Wim Wenders' Perestroika-set sequel to Wings of Desire, Faraway, So Close!

[MichaelB]

And the man whose reforms were instrumental in the belated unshelving of a whole load of substantially better films than Faraway, So Close!.

[Never Cursed]

Mikhail Gorbachev, according to Russian state media reports

The star of Wim Wenders' Perestroika-set sequel to Wings of Desire, Faraway, So Close!

More importantly, the most high-profile Pizza Hut spokesperson by far

[hearthesilence]

Sterling Lord at 102.

He famously championed Jack Kerouac's On the Road, getting it published when Kerouac was ready to give up, and was later the longtime agent for poet and playwright Amiri Baraka, novelist Ken Kesey and poet and City Lights bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

His high-profile clients are too many to name, but to pick just a few more, he helped launch Stan and Jan Berenstain’s multimillion-selling books about an anthropomorphic bear family, and later found a publisher for Nicholas Pileggi’s mob story Wiseguy and helped arrange the deal for its eventual adaptation into Goodfellas.

[colinr0380]

Bernard Cribbins - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62330478

Matthew Harris has put up a nice episode of his Hard Sell series devoted to Bernard Cribbins' appearances in Public Information Films and adverts. I never knew he was voicing a character in a wider framing film that the 'electrified frisbee' segment came from! When I was shown that film at school, they jumped straight to the more shocking moment!

And those Hornby train adverts are very fun!

[dwk]

Peter Straub

[L.A.]

Just Jaeckin.

[flyonthewall2983]

Queen Elizabeth II

[DarkImbecile]

Great time to wind this whole monarchy idea down

[Fiery Angel]

not before King Charles III takes the throne

[Mr Sausage]

So do we have change all our money now?

[yoloswegmaster]

Do Canadians get a day off on the day of the funeral or is that only for the U.K. citizens?

[colinr0380]

So do we have change all our money now?

I hope not immediately as I have been building up cash for my various needs over the last few months. I don't need another event happening to make my money worth less than paper it was printed on!

[willoneill]

Do Canadians get a day off on the day of the funeral or is that only for the U.K. citizens?

We will most likely get a day of mourning off, and also possibly another day off for Chuck3’s coronation.

[bdsweeney]

So do we have change all our money now?

I hope not immediately as I have been building up cash for my various needs over the last few months. I don't need another event happening to make my money worth less than paper it was printed on!

Not sure if you’re joking or not, but no … this will not happen. All of your currency will remain legal tender regardless of whomever’s face (as the monarch) appears on it.

In Australia, newly minted coins within 2022 will retain the queen’s face. Charles III’s face will first appear on 2023 coinage.

[MichaelB]

I was born a decade and a half after George VI’s death, and it wasn’t at all uncommon to encounter shilling coins with his face on them (they were accepted as the equivalent of 5p even after decimalisation) for many years thereafter. In fact, I think they only completely disappeared when they changed the design of the 5p coin to make it smaller - I can’t remember when that was, but it may well have been the 1980s or even later.

[Dr Amicus]

Same here - and indeed 2 shilling pieces for 10p. Weren't there copper equivalents as well? My memory tells me so, but that may have been a local issue (Guernsey has its own sterling - UK currency is legal tender as well).

[MichaelB]

Old pennies would definitely have been legal tender up to decimalisation c. 1971, but I don’t think they were afterwards - they were substantially bigger than the new ones.

Although that’s reminded me of how decimalised coins were called “new pence” on the actual coin at first. I have no first-hand experience of pre-decimal currency (for some reason I wasn’t entrusted with money under the age of four), but I do remember the after-effects continuing for some time.

[colinr0380]

Well I still have disturbing memories of all my paper notes becoming worthless when they moved to plasticy ones a few years ago, so I would not be surprised if they all have to be changed within a certain deadline all over again.

After my last parent died in May last year I thought I would leave up some of the various nick-nacks that they had put up on high shelves over the years. Mostly because I did not have any particular notion of what to replace them with, but I did see that they had two matching commemorative mugs from the Queen's Silver Jubilee back in 1977 and had thought that I may as well leave them up at least until this particular event occurred. On taking them down to have a look at them this morning, I found that inside one of the mugs my parents had kept three stamps marking the period with their 8½ pence price tag on them and one 9p stamp (the least expensive of the range here), so my parents obviously were keen on the monarchy back in the day. (I think my mother cooled a bit in the early 90s to mid 2000s with the whole Charles and Diana situation, but she blamed that more on Charles than the Queen)

I also found that my father had an engraved tankard from the Jubilee year with an inscription on the back showing it is from the "Sergeant's Mess at R.A.F. Wyton", which felt a little bit more personal to him given that my father spent much of his early career in the RAF (it is also the reason why I was born in Ely in Cambridgeshire since my parents were stationed there at the time). So I might need to give all of these pieces of memorabilia a bit of a wipe down and dust off before putting them into a box for safekeeping.