US television producer & writer Steven Bochco who created Hill Street Blues and helped to define L.A Law & NYPD Blues has died in New York from Leukaemia aged 74 yoa..
I think Hill St Blues was the first programme to show that the Americans could make really good telly;
Bilko was brilliant, I childhood favourite of mine, especially Dobbleman, who reminds me of an owner of a football club we know.
Oops, I got an alert on celebrity passing and it must be of that which happened on this date , in years gone by. SORRY.
RIP please log in to view this image Synopsis: ANC Political Activist and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, President of ANCWL, member of the NEC of the ANC First name: Winnie Last name: Madikizela-Mandela Date of birth: 26 September 1936 Location of birth: Mbongweni, Transkei, Eastern Cape, South Africa Date of death: 2 April 2018
It needs people to discuss it before it’s being asked at a terrible time Hull is fairly good for people on the organ donation register, but sadly has a really high % of times that the family still decide not to use the deceased organs because they hadn’t discussed it so they’re worried that it wasn’t what they really wanted It’s good to talk
Kind of a tragic story. Keith Murdoch: disgraced All Black who 'went bush' in Australia dies at 74 Sun 1 Apr 2018 04.07 BST After a bar brawl in Cardiff, Murdoch became the only All Black sent home from tour, but he didn’t make it to New Zealand please log in to view this image Former All Black Keith Murdoch in Australia’s Northern Territory in 2001. He lived as a recluse since 1972. Photograph: Rod Mcguirk/AAP Keith Murdoch played just three Tests for the All Blacks, but his name was etched in New Zealand rugby folklore after he became a recluse in the Australian outback following a scandal that ended his career. The hulking prop, whose death aged 74 was confirmed by New Zealand Rugby, became the only All Black ever sent home from a tour in disgrace, after a 1972 bar brawl. Rather than face the wrath of the New Zealand sporting public, Murdoch hopped off his flight in Singapore, caught a plane to Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory and went walkabout for the rest of his life. “No All Black has been more controversial, more enigmatic and more tragic,” the team’s official website says in its profile of him. Murdoch was part of the 1972-73 All Black touring party, a group sports writer Norman Harris described as “an unlovely bunch” – arrogant, boorish and prone to hurling expletives at autograph-hunting fans. Even among this company, Murdoch was regarded as a wild man, so much so that when the All Blacks arrived in Britain a newspaper cartoon depicted him being taken off the plane in a cage. Murdoch weighed 110kg (242 pounds) and his 1.2-metre (48-inch) barrel chest was so large the All Blacks’ tailor had to sew panels of extra material in his shirts. The combination of brawn and snarling attitude was topped off by a Zapata moustache that made Murdoch look like a cartoon villain. Yet he had every reason to be in a glorious mood after scoring the match-winning try in the All Blacks’ 19-16 victory over Wales at Cardiff Arms Park on 2 December, 1972. The New Zealanders celebrated long into the night at the Angel Hotel near the ground, but Murdoch refused to take no for an answer when told the bar had shut. He stormed into the kitchen searching for more beer and became involved in a fight with security guard Peter Grant, who ended up on the floor with a black eye. Murdoch awoke with a hangover expecting to apologise but, as media pressure mounted, within two days he was on a plane back to New Zealand. He never arrived, opting instead to go bush in Australia. It was a vanishing act unprecedented in New Zealand, a small nation where All Blacks past and present are feted by adoring fans. Over the years, he became something of an obsession for reporters eager for a scoop about the infamous All Black who went walkabout. Rugby writer Terry McLean tracked him down at an oil-drilling site near Perth in 1977 only to have a spanner-wielding Murdoch growl “get back on the bus”. “I got back on the bus,” McLean wrote. He is known to have briefly returned to New Zealand at least once, in 1979, but author Bob Howitt wrote that his attempt to keep a low profile ended in dramatic fashion. While Murdoch was visiting a former teammate, the man’s three-year-old boy wandered into the backyard and fell into the swimming pool. The toddler was close to drowning when Murdoch spotted him and performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until he was breathing again. Rather than using the rescue as a way to redeem his image, Murdoch fled back to Australia as soon as he discovered local media were chasing the story. Journalist Margot McRae managed a brief conversation with him in 1990, when she found him at Tully, in the remote Queensland rainforest. He refused to appear on camera but the fleeting encounter made such an impression that McRae later wrote a play about it called Finding Murdoch. “He was a deeply shy person and not very articulate,” she told the BBC. “There was a real sense of a wound that has never healed.” His last public appearance was in 2001, when he was called as a witness at an inquiry into the death of a man who went missing shortly after he was caught breaking into Murdoch’s Northern Territory home. Photographs showed Murdoch – who was cleared of any involvement in the man’s death – slightly stooped and sporting a grey beard in place of the dark moustache, but still exuding an imposing physical presence. His former teammates, including ex-All Black captain Ian Kirkpatrick, believe Murdoch was harshly treated and have expressed regret they did not threaten to leave the tour in solidarity with him. He never accepted invitations to join them for reunions, but Murdoch was not forgotten by the All Blacks. To this day, whenever they play in Cardiff, a delegation of players visits the Angel Hotel and raises a glass to the memory of the giant who never made it home.
