Things I learned today (Part 2)

[Massey]

I heard her talk about this on OTB a few months back,she seems like a brilliant person I was really impressed with her.The kind of person you’d like your kid to turn into.

[Locke]

Just like in KK, everyone is related in Waterford. You wouldn’t know who you’d be talking to.

@Fagan_ODowd

@Gary_Birtles_Lovechi

Olympian Sarah Lavin was in a relationship with the late rally driver Craig Breen.

Craig Breen was a first cousin of former Waterford goalkeeper Stephen O’Keeffe.

[Kyle]

They’re making a movie about Saipan and the bust up between Mick and Roy. Steve Coogan is playing Mick.

[Elvis_Brandenberg_Kr]

@Kyle

They’re making a movie about Saipan and the bust up between Mick and Roy. Steve Coogan is playing Mick.

Bag o’shite.

[Gary_Birtles_Lovechi]

Dylan Jones, the journalist and author behind the award-winning biography of David Bowie, traced his life ‘from the English suburbs to London to New York to Los Angeles, Berlin, and beyond’. Jones, who interviewed more than 150 people for his book, caught up with screenwriter and novelist Hanif Kureishi, who, in turn, detailed the quite bizarre meeting between Bowie and Roger Moore in the late 1970s.

Explaining the book David Bowie: A Life, in an interview with the Telegraph, Dylan explained: “Kureishi told me this story, that when David Bowie moved to Switzerland in the late 70s to escape tax and drug dealers, he didn’t know anybody there. He was in this huge house on the outskirts of Geneva – he knew nobody”.

One day, about half-past five in the afternoon, there’s a knock on the door, and there he was: ‘Hello, David.’ Roger Moore comes in, and they had a cup of tea. He stays for drinks, and then dinner, and tells lots of stories about the James Bond films. They had a fantastic time – a brilliant night.”

He continues: “But then, the next day, at 5.30… Knock, knock, it’s Roger Moore. He invites himself in again, and sits down: ‘Yeah, I’ll have a gin and tonic, David.’ He tells the same stories – but they’re slightly less entertaining the second time around”.

“After two weeks [of Moore turning up] at 5.25pm – literally every day – David Bowie could be found underneath the kitchen table pretending not to be in.”

Hilariously, that wouldn’t spell the end of Bowie’s mission to dodge Moore. A few years later, in 1985, Moore returned to Bond for the final time for the film A View to Kill. At the time, director John Glen approached Bowie with the goal of offering him the part of the film’s main villain, Max Zorin.

Bowie, likely with some of Moore’s stories still ringing in his ears, turned down the role.

[habanerocat]

@Kyle

They’re making a movie about Saipan and the bust up between Mick and Roy. Steve Coogan is playing Mick.

Upcoming Movies

Is there really a need, demand, want for a movie on this? https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2024/0729/1462367-steve-coogan-to-play-mick-mccarthy-in-new-irish-film/ It’s not about Saipan…

[artfoley]

@Gary_Birtles_Lovechi

Dylan Jones, the journalist and author behind the award-winning biography of David Bowie, traced his life ‘from the English suburbs to London to New York to Los Angeles, Berlin, and beyond’. Jones, who interviewed more than 150 people for his book, caught up with screenwriter and novelist Hanif Kureishi, who, in turn, detailed the quite bizarre meeting between Bowie and Roger Moore in the late 1970s.

Explaining the book David Bowie: A Life, in an interview with the Telegraph, Dylan explained: “Kureishi told me this story, that when David Bowie moved to Switzerland in the late 70s to escape tax and drug dealers, he didn’t know anybody there. He was in this huge house on the outskirts of Geneva – he knew nobody”.

One day, about half-past five in the afternoon, there’s a knock on the door, and there he was: ‘Hello, David.’ Roger Moore comes in, and they had a cup of tea. He stays for drinks, and then dinner, and tells lots of stories about the James Bond films. They had a fantastic time – a brilliant night.”

He continues: “But then, the next day, at 5.30… Knock, knock, it’s Roger Moore. He invites himself in again, and sits down: ‘Yeah, I’ll have a gin and tonic, David.’ He tells the same stories – but they’re slightly less entertaining the second time around”.

“After two weeks [of Moore turning up] at 5.25pm – literally every day – David Bowie could be found underneath the kitchen table pretending not to be in.”

Hilariously, that wouldn’t spell the end of Bowie’s mission to dodge Moore. A few years later, in 1985, Moore returned to Bond for the final time for the film A View to Kill. At the time, director John Glen approached Bowie with the goal of offering him the part of the film’s main villain, Max Zorin.

Bowie, likely with some of Moore’s stories still ringing in his ears, turned down the role.

[Massey]

Connolly looking to cash in

https://twitter.com/MrDavidConnolly/status/1817859330097492445?t=30X5wqJO7cOx9-EiAiSKNA&s=19

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

@Gman & @padjo hero Charles Gavin Duffy or as I like to call him Charles Give in Duffy became premier of Victoria & took a knighthood

[farmerinthecity]

Four years after 52 year old Bill Wyman married 18 year old Mandy Smith, Nyman’s son, aged 30, married Smith’s 46 year old mother,

[Fagan_ODowd]

Bill Wyman.

[farmerinthecity]

I knew it was a Jewish name,

[Fagan_ODowd]

It was a stage name. He was born Bill Perks.

[Fitzy]

That’s a cracking story.

[Fitzy]

I think I would have preferred Bill Perks.

[Massey]

jaysus will ye stop it

[balbec]

He perked her up

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Fitzy

I think I would have preferred Bill Perks.

Wasn’t Perks the name of the merries in Youghal cc @backinatracksuit

[backinatracksuit]

Perks was indeed the merries in Youghal, permanent for the summer in the seafront there

Perks also had a travelling merries which rocked up in the Showgrounds behind park ui chaoimh and was a highlight of the year

[Arthur]

I think it was permanent all year round?