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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2018 8:56:57 GMT -5
July 1st, 2018Less than a month away Olivia de Havilland will be 102 years old.  She just turned 102 officially and here the link of her news of her turning 102 last Sunday and I totally forgot all about until now ...  Latest Picture of Olivia here ...  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 7, 2018 21:44:03 GMT -5
Steve Ditko, who just turned 90 this year. Well, the jinx struck again. Meanwhile, Al Jafee is 97 and still going. Not too many guys left from pre-Silver Age comics and the number of Silver Age guys isn't that big, anymore. |
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Post by chadwilliam on Aug 29, 2018 21:37:01 GMT -5
I was surprised to discover today that the mother of the recently deceased 81 year old John McCain is still alive at the age of 106. Roberta McCain was born the year the Titanic and seems to be in good enough health that she attended a screening of a documentary on her son and intends to be there for his funeral services.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 23:18:38 GMT -5
I was surprised to discover today that the mother of the recently deceased 81 year old John McCain is still alive at the age of 106. Roberta McCain was born the year the Titanic and seems to be in good enough health that she attended a screening of a documentary on her son and intends to be there for his funeral services. My brother and I were discussing this over dinner earlier today and we spent some time talking about it. I was surprised to learn this today. Thanks for mentioning it to us. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 30, 2018 6:06:34 GMT -5
Henri Vernes, the creator of Bob Morane, will be 100 in October.
His influence on a generation of French-speaking boys can not be overstated. (Yeah, it’s mostly boys... girls of that generation mostly read another series titled Sylvie).
Bob Morane was brave, courteous, honest, idealistic, cultivated, open to the world, curious, eager to help, strong, quiet and resolute. He travelled the world, spoke many languages, acted with the dashing and selfless attitude of a knight servant to any woman he encountered, loved and defended nature whenever he could, and never seeked to be paid for his troubles. He was proficient in martial arts, was a wartime pilot, collected old books and drove a vintage Jaguar E.
One could do far worse as role models went!
I know that Vernes ran into trouble with the licensing of his ideas... Once you sell your rights, in part or in totality, they can become a commodity that some will exploit with little respect for the material. Some new writers wrote bad pastiches while others tried to turn Morane into a generic renegade type action hero. Blech. But I’m convinced that nothing will ever replace the original stories, all 200-odd of them.
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