Famous People Who Died

Thanks to a heads up from fxh, Glenn O'Brien passed away at age 70, which seems young these days.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/nyregion/glenn-obrien-dies-warhol-editor.html?_r=0

When I first started developing an interest in all things sartorial, I did what most people who stumbled on AAAC and SF did, I browsed GQ. Of course as I figured out how I wanted to dress, I lost interest in GQ but his Style Guy column answering readers' questions was always witty and practically the only thing worth reading in the magazine. I especially liked how he was advising a man who was in the sanitation business on whether it was appropriate to wear a suit whilst heaving trash cans into a truck.
 
Does the figure that one out of every ten people who attempts Mt. Everest dies in the attempt still hold? If so, that means your odds of survival are considerably worse than if you had been a combat Marine on Iwo Jima or Okinawa. Mountaineering is something that never appealed to me, but then I don't like heights. Actually, I ascended many mountains in my younger days, but none of this dangling over the abyss with your fingertips in a rock crevice business!
 
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Does the figure that one out of every ten people who attempts Mt. Everest dies in the attempt still hold? If so, that means your odds of survival are considerably worse than if you had been a combat Marine on Iwo Jima or Okinawa. Mountaineering is something that never appealed to me, but then I don't like heights. Actually, I ascended many mountains in my younger days, but none of this dangling over the abyss with your fingertips in a rock crevice business!
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Lower. Around 500 people summit per year. Deaths numbers in the teens or twenties.
 
Matt Drudge just tweeted Roger Ailes died. No idea if that is remotely legit though.
 
doghouse said:
Fuck, Roger Moore died.
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"Fourth-best Bond," in his own words. RIP, Sir Roger Moore. . .

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Connery was the second best Bond. But Moore had something none of the others had: a British sense of self-deprecating humour interlaced with 1970s style and the best action packed storylines and villains. He represents the acceptable face of 1970s style, he could even make a safari suit look good.

This is a great interview, gets to the essence of Moore and the Bond franchise:

 
Connery, Dalton (the most like the Fleming's Bond), and Craig were all better Bonds. But Moore was the right man for the time, and some of his movies are great fun.
 
It's easy, from a UK perspective, to fall into the trap of looking back at 1970s as one long miserable three-day week, houses like Rising Damp sit-com sets, foreign travel still hideously expensive, endless strikes and power cuts combined with crap television. Moore's Bond is the pefect tonic to all that.

In my household we're split down the middle, 50/50 in favor of Moore and Dalton. Wife and kids are in agreement that they don't like Connery.
 
And then there was the best Bond we never had: Lewis Collins. He went so far as to have a meeting with Broccoli who was considering him for the part, but Collins put on a hard man routine, he was after all in the territorial SAS for real. He came across as arrogant and someone you couldn't work with and so Broccoli dropped him.

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