The Earth has lost its last great dictator

[sovay]

R.I.P. Milo O'Shea, a man with great eyebrows and a way with a rape piano. I saw him first as the owlish-eyed Friar Lawrence in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968), but I remember him most vividly from Barbarella. This is probably unsurprising on some level. I have never heard that the 1966 Ulysses is a great adaptation of the novel, but I still want to see it someday.

I do not want to requiescat Iain Banks while he's still making personal statements, but I don't like this one. I still need to read The Crow Road (1992).

handful_ofdust, have a 1985 interview with Peter Cushing. Starlog has just gone up at the Internet Archive.

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RIP

I'm sorry to hear about the state of Iain Banks' health, although I admire the way he's responding to it.

[sovay]

I'm sorry to hear about the state of Iain Banks' health, although I admire the way he's responding to it.

"Well, at least he gets twenty-four hours' notice. That's more than most of us get. All most of us get is, 'Mind that bus!'–'What bus?!' Splat."