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mullokintyre said:
Just read that Henry Kissinger has died after reaching his century.
One of the more effective Secretary of State the US has had.
mick
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Hmmmm we seen to have two famous people dying threads. Didn't see this before posting in three other thread.
 
farmerge said:
gg I think if the aging grey matter serves me correctly the lady who portrayed Miss Moneypenny spent her retired years here in WA living out her remaining time at Fremantle.
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There were 2 Misses Moneypenny, @farmerge . Lois Maxwell and Pamela Salem. Pamela passed away last month. I get my obits from the Times of London, and cannot find any mention of young Lois having joined the Heavenly Choir. And they would know ! Perhaps she moved to WA.

"In every other Bond film between Dr No (1962) and A View to a Kill (1985), Moneypenny was played by Lois Maxwell but Connery knew Salem from when they had appeared together in the heist comedy The First Great Train Robbery (1978), her big-screen breakthrough after appearing in a string of small roles in such TV dramas as The Onedin Line.

In the 1990s Salem moved to Los Angeles and appeared in the popular American TV dramas ER and The West Wing. She later settled in a beachfront home in Florida and found a new career recording audio-dramas for the company Big Finish and as a co-writer and producer with her husband, the Irish actor Michael O’Hagan. They had married in 1983; he predeceased her in 2017.

Pamela Fortunee Salem was born in 1944 in Bombay (now Mumbai), one of two daughters to a Jewish father and a Sri Lankan mother. Pamela Salem, actress, was born on January 22, 1944. She died of undisclosed causes on February 21, 2024, aged 80 "

gg

oops I've just seen @Knobby22 's post. He seems to have been involved in assisting one of them in passing in to eternity. Check with him !

gg
 
Garpal Gumnut said:
There were 2 Misses Moneypenny, @farmerge . Lois Maxwell and Pamela Salem. Pamela passed away last month. I get my obits from the Times of London, and cannot find any mention of young Lois having joined the Heavenly Choir. And they would know ! Perhaps she moved to WA.

"In every other Bond film between Dr No (1962) and A View to a Kill (1985), Moneypenny was played by Lois Maxwell but Connery knew Salem from when they had appeared together in the heist comedy The First Great Train Robbery (1978), her big-screen breakthrough after appearing in a string of small roles in such TV dramas as The Onedin Line.

In the 1990s Salem moved to Los Angeles and appeared in the popular American TV dramas ER and The West Wing. She later settled in a beachfront home in Florida and found a new career recording audio-dramas for the company Big Finish and as a co-writer and producer with her husband, the Irish actor Michael O’Hagan. They had married in 1983; he predeceased her in 2017.

Pamela Fortunee Salem was born in 1944 in Bombay (now Mumbai), one of two daughters to a Jewish father and a Sri Lankan mother. Pamela Salem, actress, was born on January 22, 1944. She died of undisclosed causes on February 21, 2024, aged 80 "

gg

oops I've just seen @Knobby22 's post. He seems to have been involved in assisting one of them in passing in to eternity. Check with him !

gg
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I seem to remember a Miss Moneypenny who could have been Lois Maxwell living a very quite life here in Freo.
When she passed on it was brought to one and all's attention of who she was.

Another English stage star/comedian who is still very much alive is Ben Elton who has a more than a humble abode here also in Freo
 
Garpal Gumnut said:
Miss Moneypenny has died.

gg
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recently spotted in Noosa

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How sad to hear of the passing of one of the greater easy roots of the 1950's and 60's, the Princess Ira von Fürstenberg. She has died aged 83 and was an Italian socialite, B-movie actress and fashion model, whose “profile of Renaissance beauty and fascination, like the portraits of young noblewomen in the Uffizi” was celebrated in 1960s Vogue.

Famously described when touted as a potential bride for Prince Rainier following the death of the Kelly girl as the biggest Princess for the smallest country by Princess Margaret. The latter vied without success for the greatest easy root title of that era, when they were expensive, and at one stage Ira was worth more than the whole British Royal Family.

Ira was born in to the Fiat dynasty, the Agnellis, and pregnant at 14 married her Prince with special papal dispensation just for the rich. Nowadays von Fürstenberg would have joined Epstein in the big house in Manhattan. Alas she had an unhappy life I am told, but denied same, and was pap for paparazzi when silver was melt for snaps.

She died aged 83. Quite suddenly.
 
Freddy Nock has died of a broken heart after his second wife left him and took their son. An acrimonious parting two years ago saw him gaoled unjustly and he was freed on appeal.

The Nock family are multigenerational Swiss high wire artists and a nephew is being closely watched. Freddy eschewed any safety as he was capable of falling to hold on with one hand and using core strength to regain the wire complete with pole.

His specialty was walking backwards up a 57 degree ski lift wire at which he was unmatched. He broke all the usual records, Twin Towers, numerous Alpine mountain tops and the more difficult chair lifts. He broke many Guinness world Book of Records and unless one was married to him was an amiable and knowledgable conversationalist.

Vale Freddy.

gg
 
Shigeichi Negishi is no more. He died at 100 having fallen over. Thus ended the life of a man who profoundly changed weddings, late night booze ups, alcohol fuelled crooning and gang fights over a lost chord. In 1967 he invented the Karaoke.

SN was a tinkerer and a very successful one and a constant inventor of audio and transistor machines in the days of radio and early TV. He was singing to a song on Tokyo radio one day in 1967 when an employee mocked his timing. Thus an idea was born and shortly after he had boxed a gadget which he called a Sparko. He took it home and his family sang long in to the night.

It was initially accompanied by a pamphlet with words to the songs but eventually evolved to the machine it is today. He continued his inventing but none of his ideas were as successful nor as annoying as the Karaoke Machine.

gg
 
Garpal Gumnut said:
Shigeichi Negishi is no more. He died at 100 having fallen over. Thus ended the life of a man who profoundly changed weddings, late night booze ups, alcohol fuelled crooning and gang fights over a lost chord. In 1967 he invented the Karaoke.

SN was a tinkerer and a very successful one and a constant inventor of audio and transistor machines in the days of radio and early TV. He was singing to a song on Tokyo radio one day in 1967 when an employee mocked his timing. Thus an idea was born and shortly after he had boxed a gadget which he called a Sparko. He took it home and his family sang long in to the night.

It was initially accompanied by a pamphlet with words to the songs but eventually evolved to the machine it is today. He continued his inventing but none of his ideas were as successful nor as annoying as the Karaoke Machine.

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gg never heard of him but an interesting post.
 
I enclose an obituary of Danny Kahneman. Thanks CNN. He was a giant in behavioural economics and psychology and his book
Thinking, Fast and Slow,
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should be essential reading for all investors and traders.

CNN —

Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize for his pioneering theories on behavioral economics, has died. He was 90.

The Israeli-American psychologist died peacefully on Wednesday, according to a release from Princeton University, whose faculty he had joined in 1993. His cause of death was not provided.

Kahneman, who also wrote the best-selling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, helped debunk the notion that people’s behavior is driven by rational decision-making, and instead is often based on instinct.

“Danny was a giant in the field,” Eldar Shafir, a former colleague at Princeton University said in the release. “Many areas in the social sciences simply have not been the same since he arrived on the scene. He will be greatly missed.”

Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv in 1934, but his French parents returned home to Paris when he was three months old.

Six years later, as Kahneman was finishing first grade, the Nazis invaded France, and his family was forced to wear the yellow star that marked Jews for mass deportations to concentration camps.

His father, a research chemist, was taken away but then released and the family escaped to unoccupied France and spent the rest of the war in hiding. His father died in 1944, and 12-year-old Kahneman moved to British-ruled Palestine with his mother two years later, just before the creation of the state of Israel.

Kahneman studied math and psychology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and went on to earn a Ph.D. at Berkeley, studying statistics, the psychology of visual perception — why things look the way they do — and how people interact in groups.

Then, at 27, he returned to Hebrew University to teach statistics and psychology and began his famous partnership with Amos Tversky, also a Hebrew University psychology professor.

In 2002, six years after Tversky’s death, Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their models of how intuitive reasoning is flawed in predictable ways.

Kahneman integrated insights from psychology into economics, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in its citation at the time.
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gg
 
Bev Brock passed away aged 77.
Met her and Peter in Exmouth in 1981, just happened to be filling up next to them in the servo, they were in a Falcon rental.
So we had a bit of a pizz taking chat and a laugh, really nice people.
She also did a lot of charity work, I'm sure she will be missed. RIP

 

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