RIP - November

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My Nan was one of 5 sisters, all made over 90 and one made 100, quite an achievement. Good genes, sherry and guinness apparently.

I credit the alcohol more than the genes.<cheers> Not many families will have achieved that for sure.
One of my nans lived to 95. She was a teetotaller. The other lived to 91 and liked a drink. No prizes for guessing which one I put down to genes and which the alcohol.<laugh>
 
It certainly is 3 sisters living into their nineties, fond memories watching them on variety shows in the early days of TV in the fifties.

Yes, the same here. Hard for anyone younger to recall how big they were. Also early pioneers in the USA where Glenn Miller was an admirer and Irving Berlin wrote their signature song "Sisters".

Remember the Frost Report in the mix 1960s when Frost said "Apparently statistics show a third of the world's population are Chinese or Communist. Something to think about next time you are watching the Beverley Sisters."?
 
My Nan was one of 5 sisters, all made over 90 and one made 100, quite an achievement. Good genes, sherry and guinness apparently.

been thinking of related tuff lately - i have aunts alive more than a hundred years after their parents married, and they have a cousin alive also over a hundred years after her parents married. got me wondering how unusual that is. standard for centenarians, of course.
 
RIP film director Nicolas Roeg

The man who sold the world, among many other cult movies.

Think you mean 'The Man Who Fell To Earth'?

The only good song Mick Jones was ever involved in- a sharp tribute to the man.Listen carefully.

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It must be directors week. Bernardo Bertolucci, director of Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor, etc.. Aged 77 from cancer. As a impressionable teenager, I had a serious crush on Maria Schneider after seeing Last Tango.