Friends, Romans, countrymen...
 

I'm giving links to [i]two[/i] Lyndon LaRouche obituaries, from [url=https://www.apnews.com/f37818ce7354487fa7d0032f032d2e03]The AP[/url] and [url=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/political-cult-leader-lyndon-larouche-dies-at-96.html]The Intelligencer[/url].
[quote]The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;[/quote]

-- Mark Antony, [u]Julius Caesar[/u], Act 3, Scene 2

[URL="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47264709"]Bruno Ganz[/URL] (77)

[url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/18/us/sailor-kiss-vj-day-photo-george-mendonsa-dies/index.html]George Mendonsa, the "kissing sailor"[/url]

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;508931][url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/18/us/sailor-kiss-vj-day-photo-george-mendonsa-dies/index.html]George Mendonsa, the "kissing sailor"[/url][/QUOTE]

If someone were to do that today, they could be arrested for sexual assault.

[QUOTE=rogue;508935]If someone were to do that today, they could be arrested for sexual assault.[/QUOTE]Following the links in the story leads [url=http://feministing.com/2012/10/04/iconic-kissing-sailor-photo-depicts-sexual-assault-not-romance/]here[/url]. Yessirree, the guy should have been strung up from the nearest lamppost...

Of course, today is not the day World War II ended. The woman clearly didn't enjoy being kissed by a drunken sailor. But she also recognized that it wasn't especially sexual. As she put it, "It wasn't much of a kiss."

[QUOTE=Batalov;508751][URL="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47264709"]Bruno Ganz[/URL] (77)[/QUOTE]

Fine, fine actor, whose range is captured by contrasting e.g. the Australian-produced [i]The Last Days of Chez Nous[/i] with his by-now-immortal performance in [i]Der Untergang[/i]. It would be interesting to see a count of how many YouTube riff videos have been made based on the famous "Es bleiben..." epic-rant scene in the latter movie.

No longer monkeying around
 

[url]https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47319788[/url]

[QUOTE=xilman;509065][url]https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47319788[/url][/QUOTE]
I remember watching their TV series. Rather innovative in some respects as I recall.

[i]Wait[/i] a minute! A [i]TV series[/i]? That [i]can't[/i] be right! That was [i]over fifty years ago![/i] Must have been listening to it on the crystal set...

Smoke signals way back then.....

[URL="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-17342940"]Andre Previn[/URL].

AKA [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GeKLE0x3s"]Andrew Preview[/URL].

Previn is a name I heard throughout most of my life. Classical music was ubiquitous in my family.