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[orokiah]

cc said:

Im feeling reeeeeally cruddy today .... Well its kind of a mixture of and

I found out I cant have another surgery on my back for at least another 6 months ..... I couldnt find anyone to actually vent my frustration on, so Im trying to write it out, so please forgive any bitterness that leaks out into any of the other threads.

Sorry to hear that.

Is it a medical thing that's causing the six month wait or have they just bumped you down the waiting list?

[Beattie~Babe]

orokiah said:

cc said:

Im feeling reeeeeally cruddy today .... Well its kind of a mixture of and

I found out I cant have another surgery on my back for at least another 6 months ..... I couldnt find anyone to actually vent my frustration on, so Im trying to write it out, so please forgive any bitterness that leaks out into any of the other threads.

Sorry to hear that.

Is it a medical thing that's causing the six month wait or have they just bumped you down the waiting list?

I originally went in to have a discectomy on just one disc and ending up having it done on three (over two seperate surgeries). But the original disc has prolapsed again and the surgery Im going to have is going to be more intrusive (segmental decompression).
The reason for the delay is my back muscles are still pretty weak from both the surgeries and I had a fair bit of a gap from physio after the second one.

[fenris]

I see that the annual Sporting Mascots Grand National took place yesterday, and as usual it only received a ten second spot on the TV news as a light-relief item.

Personally, I think it should be treated each year with the same importance shown to the genuine Grand National, the Derby, and the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race. Yes, I know it's just a couple of dozen of grown men and women running the length of a field in over-sized animal costumes, but that's precisely why it should be celebrated: it's so wonderfully British.

[Beattie~Babe]

What the hell is Black Sheep about ??

[orokiah]

cc said:

What the hell is Black Sheep about ??

Genetically engineered killer sheep.

When I saw the trailers for it I thought it was a spoof rather than an actual film, but it's for real..!

[fenris]

fenris said:

I read last weekend that American actress Adrienne Shelly had been found dead, having apparently committed suicide by hanging herself. Although I couldn't honestly call myself an avid fan, she was one of those actresses who registered on my personal radar, and I'd always enjoyed seeing her turn up in various films and TV shows. While she unfortunately never reached the heights of major stardom, she was extremely pretty and specialised in playing sweet, vulnerable and quirky characters. Amongst her movie roles she was particularly memorable in the spoof thriller Hexed and also had a scene-stealing bit part in the offbeat relationship comedy Sleep With Me.
Today I read on the internet that despite the initial reports that she'd killed herself, the police have actually declared she was murdered, and a 19 year old construction worker who was working in her apartment building has been arrested and charged.
Adrienne Shelly was 40 years old, and leaves a husband and 3 year old child. RIP.

Have just seen this on today's IMDB news page;

Stars Team Up To Honor Adrienne Shelly at Fundraiser.
Rosanna Arquette, Keri Russell and Edie Falco are among the stars auctioning lunch with themselves in an online fundraiser for the charity set up to honor murdered Waitress filmmaker Adrienne Shelly. Prizes on the eBay auction include lunches with Arquette, Russell, Falco and Cheryl Hines and memorabilia signed by Matt Dillon and the late Richard Pryor. All proceeds will go to The Adrienne Shelly Foundation (ASF), a non-profit organization that awards film school scholarships and grants to women filmmakers. The Asf is also holding its inaugural fundraising gala in New York City on Monday night, where singer Alanis Morissette will perform and stars including Dillon, Falco, Mary-Louise Parker and Ally Sheedy are expected to attend. Shelly was murdered in New York in November 2006. Construction worker Diego Pillco was arrested days later and claims he killed the actress/director after she complained from noise coming from his apartment downstairs. He is currently awaiting trial for the slaying.

Copyright: World Entertainment News Network. All rights reserved.

It's nice to know that she's being remembered, and that good work is being done in her name.

[fenris]

Have just read on-line that radio presenter Kevin Greening has died, aged only 44.

I used to love his Radio One show in the mid-Nineties, especially his various characters and sketches, such as inept corporate spokesman Raymond Sinclair, hapless secret agent Tony Meringue (complete with his own theme song: 'When you really, really, need him, he's never, ever, there'), and slightly seedy commercials for an ill-defined product called 'Blowchap'. Wonderful stuff.

RIP.

[laurapyper]

just extending on the black sheep thing, i;ve seen it and it is really gorey, but really cool, and it is about sheep! One problem, after youve seen it, you dont want to be alone with a sheep any more!

Has anyone else seen it?

[fenris]

Have just read on the Fangoria website that actress Maila Nurmi died on 10/01/08, aged 86. She was best known for creating and playing the legendary horror movie hostess Vampira on American TV in the Fifties, and for her iconic appearance in Ed Wood's film Plan 9 from Outer Space.

In Tim Burton's biopic Ed Wood, Nurmi was played by Lisa Marie, Burton's then-girlfriend. The silent 'Martian Girl' that Marie portrayed in Burton's subsequent movie Mars Attacks was also reportedly based on the equally silent character that Nurmi had played in Plan 9.

Nurmi apparently had no surviving relatives, but will doubtlessly be missed by her friends and her many fans in the cult film community. RIP.

Here's a link to the report about Nurmi's death, which also contains info about her life and career; www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=5748

[WarrenWitchesRule]

I'm sure you've all probably heard by now but two very promising and relatively young actors have been found dead. Brad Renfo last week and yesterday Heath Ledger.

[Beattie~Babe]

warrenwitchesrule said:

I'm sure you've all probably heard by now but two very promising and relatively young actors have been found dead. Brad Renfo last week and yesterday Heath Ledger.

Bloody hell ..... I hadnt actually heard anything.

[fenris]

I wasn't particularly a big fan of either Renfo or Ledger, but it's tragic for anyone to die so young, whether they're rich and famous or poor and unknown. Especially sad is that Ledger had an infant daughter (with Dawson's Creek actress Michelle Williams, from whom he split last September) and as she grows up the only connection she'll have with her father will be by watching his movies.

On the other end of the age scale, a couple of days ago veteran actress Suzanne Pleshette died, aged 70. Although never an A list star, she was a familiar face in America, having starred in numerous films and TV shows over the decades. She was best known for her roles in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and the long-running 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show. I personally have fond memories of her appearances in two episodes of The Invaders and the movie Support Your Local Gunfighter.

I guess it's true what they say. Celebrities die in threes.

[fenris]

Have just read on another forum that American artist and illustrator Dave Stevens has died, following a long illness.

Best known for his 'good girl' art, Stevens also wrote and drew The Rocketeer, a wonderful science-fiction/superhero comic book series that was set in the 1930s. It's simply a beautiful and affectionate homage to the cliffhanger serials and pulp novels of the period, and I'm lucky enough to own both of the graphic albums that collect the entire series. Unfortunately it only lasted a few issues, because Stevens was so in demand for other work that he just couldn't dedicate enough time to it.

The Rocketeer was adapted into an equally wonderful movie in 1991, which inexplicably failed to find an audience, resulting in poor takings at the box office.

Stevens was briefly married to legendary B movie actress Brinke Stevens. They apparently remained on good terms following their divorce - she kept his name and continued to model for him (providing the body of The Rocketeer's frequently under-dressed heroine). Stevens also famously produced many illustrations and prints based on 1950s pin-up queen Bettie Page, and actually met and befriended her during the Nineties.

RIP Dave Stevens.

[fenris]

I haven't bothered watching The Eurovision Song Contest since I was a kid, but I heard on the news this morning that we came last again. And prior to the contest, other countries were reportedly complaining about Terry Wogan's comments in previous years, and also criticising the UK for not taking Eurovision 'seriously enough'.

I think next year we should just go the whole hog, and submit as our entry a cover version of 'Nobody Likes Us, We Don't Care'.

[orokiah]

May 25, 2008 17:00:23 GMT fenris said:

I haven't bothered watching The Eurovision Song Contest since I was a kid, but I heard on the news this morning that we came last again. And prior to the contest, other countries were reportedly complaining about Terry Wogan's comments in previous years, and also criticising the UK for not taking Eurovision 'seriously enough'.

When it comes to Eurovision, the UK can't win (which goes without saying after Saturday). First we get criticised for not taking it seriously enough, and now there are criticisms floating about that we take it too seriously, just because we came last and then--with some justification--started kicking up a fuss about political voting.