Mark Swallow @markswallow
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Shocked to hear David Hockney has died. His huge achievement was to make serious painting look effortless. He carried forward one of the most sustained investigations into vision, space and representation by any post-war artist. British art has lost a giant.
This is the best preserved medieval street in Europe. Recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, The Shambles in York, England has had shops trading on it for nearly a thousand years. It's older than the Crusades.
Jimmy White: “Alex Higgins was so out of position. This was my hero. He was steaming because I knew he was drinking large vodka and oranges, but he could play drunk. There were shots in there which under pressure will never be repeated. The drunker he got, the calmer he got.”
Truly sad to hear that #DavidBurke has passed away. I’ll always remember him as #DrWatson alongside the one true Holmes, #JeremyBrett. My thoughts are with his son Tom Burke, his family, friends, and all who loved him at this difficult time. May he rest in peace.
His phone number was in the book. It was 1957. Oliver Hardy had died in August. Stan Laurel was sixty-seven years old. He was living in a small two-bedroom apartment at the Oceana on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. He had moved there after his last divorce because the rent was reasonable and it was within walking distance of the beach. He had been Hardy's partner for thirty years. They had made over a hundred films together. They had been the most famous comedy duo in the world. They had not been wealthy — they had made most of their films for Hal Roach Studios on contracts that gave them almost nothing in residuals — and by the 1950s they had been living on personal appearance tours and what was left of their savings. Hardy had a stroke in 1956. He had lost the ability to speak. Stan had visited him every week at his home in North Hollywood. He had sat by the bed and talked. Hardy could not answer. Stan had talked anyway. Hardy died in August 1957. He weighed a hundred and forty pounds at the end. He had been three hundred at his peak. Stan was too sick to attend the funeral. He had been having his own health problems for years. A stroke of his own in 1955. Diabetes. He could no longer travel. The doctor had told him to stay in Santa Monica and rest. He stayed. He did not stop working. He could not. He had been writing comedy material for forty years, and he did not know how to do anything else, and the work was the thing that kept him from sitting in the apartment looking at the wall. He wrote sketches for younger comedians. He answered fan mail. He kept his phone number listed in the Santa Monica directory under his own name. Anyone who wanted to call him could. The fans started calling. They started writing. They started showing up at the door. Word had gotten out, somehow, that the apartment number was easy to find. Tourists who had grown up watching the films would knock on the door of 849 Franklin Street, and Stan would open it. He invited them in. Every single one of them. For eight years. He sat in his living room and talked to anyone who came. He served them tea. He showed them photographs from the films. He answered questions. He did his small thumb-in-the-tie gesture that he had done at the end of every film. He laughed at his own jokes and theirs. He did not have an assistant. He did not have a secretary. He did not have security. He had his second wife, Ida, who made coffee and brought out cake. He did the rest himself. He did this for hundreds of people. Filmmakers who would later become famous — Dick Van Dyke, Jerry Lewis, Marcel Marceau, Peter Sellers, the writer Larry Harmon — came to the apartment because they had heard the door was open. So did tourists from Iowa. So did salesmen from Toronto. So did teenagers from Glendale who had ridden the bus across town. He gave them all the same hour. Dick Van Dyke later said that Stan Laurel had taught him everything he had ever learned about comedy. He said he had gone to that apartment three times in five years. The first time, Stan had sat with him for four hours. In 1961, Stan was given a special Academy Award for his contribution to comedy. He could not travel to the ceremony. Danny Kaye accepted on his behalf and read a short speech Stan had written. The speech ended with one line, which Stan had insisted on. The line was: I wish my partner could share this with me. He was the funnier of the two of us. Stan kept the Oscar on a bookshelf in the apartment. He showed it to fans when they asked. He let them hold it. He told them which year it was for. He never said it had been awarded to him alone. He always said it was for the two of them. He died in February 1965. He was seventy-four. Heart attack. He had been resting in his armchair in the apartment. The nurse who was attending him in his last weeks had stepped into the kitchen. When she came back, he was gone. His last words, spoken to the nurse minutes before, were about skiing. He had said he would rather be skiing. She had asked him if he liked to ski. He had said no, he had never skied in his life, but he would rather be doing that than what he was doing. Then he laughed. Then he died. Dick Van Dyke gave the eulogy at the funeral. He said one line that became famous in comedy circles afterward. He said: a man like Stan Laurel doesn't really die. The thing he made is the thing that survives him. The phone number in the Santa Monica directory was removed by Ida the week after the funeral. She kept the apartment for another two years. Fans still came to the door. She told them, kindly, that Stan was gone. Some of them had not known. She invited them in for tea anyway. She showed them the photographs. She told them stories. She did this for two years before she could bear to move out. Some people, in the last act of their life, keep the door open to anyone who knocks, because they have nothing left to give but their time, and they discover, surprisingly, that their time is the only thing anyone had ever really wanted from them
Give a Smile today for the late, great… #EricMorecambe …born on this day 100 years ago! Comedian, Author, Dancer, Singer, Actor and of course Concert Pianist… He played all the right notes in exactly the right order! #StillBringingSunshine 👓☀️❤️ #EricMorecambe100
After PETE POSTLETHWAITE’s brilliant performance as the conductor of a brass band in a mining community in BRASSED OFF (1996) he visited Grimethorpe and did it for real! A fantastic actor and man. Still sorely missed.
BBC FA Cup Final Grandstand…LIVE MAY 1972 The Centenary Cup Final Leeds United 1-0 Arsenal Commentator David Coleman #LUFC #Arsenal #FACup #Grandstand
“Apparently there are still people who get a kick out of killing things and taking the lives of others, which is something I find incomprehensible” ~ Sir David Attenborough. #DavidAttenborough 💯.
Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough. Thanks for being you and doing what you do. You are a legend and the world wouldn’t be the same without you in it. #SirDavidAttenborough #DavidAttenborough #DavidAttenborough100
12 months ago, Daniel Farke vibing. What a man.
@will0mutumba @FabrizioRomano Spurs form is terrible. Hammers, Forest and Leeds seem to have more fight in them. Worry about Leeds though after all the injuries picked up in the last round of the FAC.
Back By Popular Demand. The greatest goal of all time, a bit of magic from Frank Worthington, with appreciation from the referee. RIP Frank
Leeds best ever band, the Bridewell Taxis. RIP Mick Roberts, your music will never die.
R.i.P. Campione💙🙏 salutaci Bruce💙 #ChuckNorris
This week marks the 17th missing anniversary of Claudia Lawrence. Claudia, aged 35 at the time, went missing from #York, #Yorkshire, on 18 March 2009. We are thinking of Claudia's loved ones throughout this time. If you think you have seen Claudia, please come forward with your sightings. #findClaudiaLawrence misspl.co/AW2450YqaO8
Statue of Jack Charlton, Cork Airport. Apart from being a great footballer, he loved fishing as well. The sculptor was PJ Heraty, and it has been at the airport since 1994. Must be the only statue of an Englishman in Ireland.
Big Sam’s reaction will always be priceless 😭
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