Well that is shit. RIP the real pennywise
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Theres an old internet rumours that goes around aboht him and Michael Caine.
The reason Michael Caine’s muppet movie is good is because he treats the muppets like serious actors. Tim Curry’s is good because he treats himself like one of the muppets.
Sums up his approach to movie making. He understands the assignment and enjoys himself.
The clip of him on the verge of pissing himself during the Command and Conquer cutscenes he filmed is great.
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I think there is something in that. Caine works, probably because he plays Scrooge straight and serious rather than a pantomime character. Long John Silver is a rather cartoonish character, so playing him with Muppet sensibilities is perfect.
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I saw an exhibition of her work a couple of years ago and it was extraordinary. A true original and unique talent.
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The film I will always remember him for, weirdly is probably one of his least liked films, Congo.
Whilst not a great film, for some reason, his role always stands out for me
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I was years old today when I only just realised this song was based loosely on a true story… Here is the confirmation and the funny side of how it came about…
RIP - Dolly Parton. The world is a worst place without you
Wild true story behind Dolly Parton’s hit song, ‘Jolene’
Re: Andrew Bucklow
When Dolly Parton wrote Jolene, she created one of history’s greatest country tracks. But who was the mystery woman who inspired it?
Who exactly was Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene?
With the sad news that Dolly Parton has died aged 80, we thought we’d take a look back at her most famous song and find out who inspired the country classic.
What the song is about
In 1966, Dolly married the love of her life, Carl Dean, who died last year.
“They say that opposites attract, and it’s true,” Dolly told People magazine in 2015. “We’re completely opposite, but that’s what makes it fun”.
Dolly Parton and her husband, Carl Dean
“He has a great and warped sense of humour,” she added. “He makes me laugh and entertains me”.
One thing the happy couple liked to joke about early on in their marriage was the attention Carl received from a local female bank teller.
“She got this terrible crush on my husband,” Dolly told US radio network NPR. “And he just loved going to the bank because she paid him so much attention”
“It was kind of like a running joke between us when I was saying, ‘hell, you’re spending a lot of time at the bank, I don’t believe we’ve got that kind of money!’”
Dolly was a tad threatened by the bank teller, telling NPR, “She was about six feet tall and had all the stuff that some little short, sawed-off honk like me don’t have”.
The flirty behaviour between Carl and the bank teller inspired the hit song, Jolene, in which a vulnerable narrator begs a beautiful woman not to steal her partner simply because she can.
But here’s a fun fact, the bank teller’s name was not actually Jolene.
Where did the name Jolene come from
“I got the name from a little girl that had come up to the stage for an autograph in my early career,” Dolly told Norway’s NRK in an interview about the song’s origin.
The singer told the young girl that she was adorable, and when she told her that her name was Jolene, she added, “that’s the prettiest name I ever heard”.
“I just started (singing), ‘Jolene, Jolene, Jolene,’” Dolly told NRK. “I said (to the girl), ‘I’m going to write a song about you and if you ever hear it you’ll know it was about you.’”
A purple patch of songwriting
Dolly wrote Jolene in 1973. For years, there was a rumour that she wrote it on the same night as I Will Always Love You, which went on to become one of the world’s most famous songs thanks to Whitney Houston’s cover version.
“Well, I don’t really know if they were written in the same night,” Dolly told TED speaker Adam Grant in 2022.
“When we found an old tape, they were on the same cassette. That could have been a few days apart. … They were certainly written within a very short span of time.”
An instant classic
Jolene was the hit single on Dolly’s 1974 album, also called Jolene, and quickly went to number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
The song was nominated for two Grammys, and in 2024 was named by Rolling Stone as the Greatest Country Song of All Time
So how did Dolly’s husband, Carl, feel about the fact his flirtation with a bank teller went on to become one of the world’s most iconic songs?
“Well he was a little embarrassed when I wrote the song,” Dolly told the BBC in 2024. “I just joke about it now”.
“I say, ‘every time I see you over there in that lazyboy chair, snoring, I think … you can have him now, Jolene!’” she laughed.
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Peter Cullen, the Canadian voice actor behind Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh and Optimus Prime in the Transformers franchise, has died.
His agent Kevin Motley confirmed to CBC News that Cullen died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 85.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/peter-cullen-voice-eeyore-optimus-prime-dead-85-9.7322769
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Nnoooooooo!! 
I saw him live plying King Arthur in Monty Python’s Spamalot. Simply brilliant!
Rest in peace Tim.
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“ His Optimus Prime voice was inspired by his older brother, a decorated US Marine and Vietnam War veteran, who suggested he should play the character as “a real hero, don’t be a Hollywood hero”.
"He said, ‘Don’t go yelling and screaming. He’s strong enough to be gentle.’
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Cullen gave his brother a cut of the wages he received for playing Optimus Prime until his death.“
Just like Optimus Prime himself would have behaved 
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@Magnus I thought this fact had to be a mistake but appears that your royal family are Danish. Bit like our German crew then… 
Harald was Norway’s first king born in Norway since the 14th Century.
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It’s more than enough Norwegian for us. The male line changed several times in the early middle ages anyway.
The direct “high noble” linages on the male side, died out during the Black Plague and Civil War era.
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But yes, it is obvious that something happened around here:
“Det kom et skip til Bjørgvin i 1349” (A ship came to Bjørgvin/Bergen in 1349).
Unique among Europe, our elite social classes were amost eradicated. We had among the highest mortality rates from the Black Death, but again, unique her is that our elites all died (this was not the case in other countries with high mortality rate from the Black Plague). Literally, elites here also means those who could write, as an example (clergy, nobility so on). So much was lost during that demographic shock.
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The fans are to hold up the mosaic just before kick-off 
Ratko Mladić has let himself go.
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