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spatch just came into my office to warn me that he had some news I would not like and when I asked who had died he said David Collings.He was correct. I do not like that at all.
spatch just came into my office to warn me that he had some news I would not like and when I asked who had died he said David Collings.He was correct. I do not like that at all.
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Now I feel especially bad about never writing up the second half of Sapphire & Steel.
(I am tired, tired of the people who make value in the world dying and the people who destroy it living on. The alternative would be such a refreshing change.)
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For context: he was just about to be blown up by aliens who had turned him into an unwitting human bomb. A fairly typical day for the 70s, really.
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Your people have good traditions. Good luck with whichever you choose.
A fairly typical day for the 70s, really.
I think we can all relate.
*hugs*
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And I apparently now have a Official Old Telly Actor Day or something, because after I went to bed, I was, like, isn't this James Maxwell's birthday? (I was trying to remember, but I forgot.) So, yeah. 23rd March is JM's birthday and David Collings's death day.
(I bet I still forget though.)
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Well, now the rest of us know, too.
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Oh, btw, random, but I was looking back through my david collings tag in search of things and fell over an entry from years ago when I was very ill where I also dreamt media that doesn't exist (whether or not it should is more debatable). I thought it'd amuse you: https://thisbluespirit.dreamwidth.org/215689.html
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That is delightful and I would almost certainly have watched it, since it was so kindly un-burninated in your dream.
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Btw, I was looking, because if you did at all feel like some more Mr Collings in honour of his passing, while there are things that have more of him, I think that few things could be better for current times than the very lovely BBC radio LotR, if audio plays are a format that work for you. I expect it can be purchased by the usual means, and someone also seems to have the whole thing up here. We are all very different, of course, but I found it a lifesaver during my first horrible summer of being ill. ♥
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I watch B-movies whose entire budget extended to flashlights and cardboard. We're cool.
I think that few things could be better for current times than the very lovely BBC radio LotR, if audio plays are a format that work for you. I expect it can be purchased by the usual means, and someone also seems to have the whole thing up here.
Thank you! I've heard pieces of it, but never the entire thing. *hugs*
[edit] The first piece of it I ever heard was, because I also like Bill Nighy, "In Western Lands." I will not say the day is done, nor bid the stars farewell. So, yes.
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XD My dreams come in well under budget!
Thank you! I've heard pieces of it, but never the entire thing. *hugs*
Yes, I do recall having talked about it before, given that it contains Ian Holm and Bill NIghy as well as David Collings - i'm pretty sure I've linked you to some of the music. But, yes, it is always a good day to relisten to Sam singing in Mordor, doubly so now. ♥
(Bill Nighy as Sam and Bill Nighy generally are two things I cannot quite connect in my head, though they are both very excellent, but I watched Their Finest recently, and he suddenly sang in it and I was just: Oh! Sam! ♥)
I don't want to risk overselling it, but I do believe the Radio LOTR is just one of those things that is a Good Thing in the world. But, anyway. Whatever works for each of us! *hugs*
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I thought you gave me the official music, because otherwise I'm not sure how it got onto my computer. But the first bit I heard was still Bill Nighy's Sam.
(Bill Nighy as Sam and Bill Nighy generally are two things I cannot quite connect in my head, though they are both very excellent, but I watched Their Finest recently, and he suddenly sang in it and I was just: Oh! Sam! ♥)
Nobody told me he sang in Their Finest! That's even more reason for me to see it.
Whatever works for each of us!
Everyone finds their own light.
*hugs*
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Nobody told me he sang in Their Finest! That's even more reason for me to see it.
It was very unexpected, halfway through, but a very nice bonus, and I can at last now believe Hobbit Bill Nighy and actual Bill Nighy are genuinely the same person.
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A friend just linked me the track tonight. It's lovely. And especially affecting for me, since "Wild Mountain Thyme" was the first song I ever performed by myself, in front of an audience. (I was in fourth grade, I think, although I'll check with my parents. I had heard it sung at the previous year's graduation and fallen in love.) I believe that particular version is also a total anachronism in 1940, and I don't care.
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He did very little film as opposed to TV, stage, and radio. The really weird thing is that I must have seen him first in the 1970 musical film of Scrooge, which I disliked intently at the time because it wasn't the 1951 non-musical film with Alastair Sim, and now I kind of want to try it again.
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I did retain the passive-aggressive total earworm of "Thank You Very Much" to the point that I was sorry when Anton Rodgers died. I really objected to the future scene where Scrooge is shown his office in Hell since, although I don't know that I could articulate it as such at age elementary school, it seemed superfluous to me beside the emotional horror of Scrooge realizing that no one will mourn him, miss him, or feel anything but perhaps financial relief when he dies. That was much worse to me than the weight and breadth of the chains he forged in life, about which Marley's already warned him. It probably still is.
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Thank you. I discovered him as Silver and enjoyed him very much as Chief Mover Poul, but he was the kind of actor I was just glad to see turn up for five minutes in the 1995 Persuasion or break down in a 1966 TV adaptation of Mordecai Roshwald's Level Seven. He had a trickster's high-strung face and a voice to match and he could do a lot with both. I wasn't even completist about him and I am not happy that he is gone out of the world.
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*cough*
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It's not a good time to lose anyone who makes the world better, but there are some people I especially object about.
*hugs*