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#1 Grim Reaper

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Posted 31 December 2011 - 04:22 PM

The Harper Lee thread

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Posted 01 January 2012 - 10:06 AM

SSSSSsssshhh its very quiet

http://www.dailytele...f-1226104905164

just sitting around waiting for the reaper to pop in by the sound of it
its a Mr Grim, he's come about the reaping....

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Posted 01 January 2012 - 03:06 PM

In 2010 when the BBC did the 50th anniversary doc on Mockingbird, Lee's sister told us that Lee was still active and out and about.

Less than a year later, she is in assisted living, and going blind/suffering from memory loss.

Short of the sister fibbing, sounds like a dramatic downturn in health, which suggests a good pick for 2012.
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Posted 01 January 2012 - 06:19 PM

This is a fine pick. I think her book was the only set text book I actually enjoyed reading.
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Posted 04 April 2012 - 05:26 PM

Harper Lee's sister Alice Finch Lee a practising lawyer who recently turned 100, gives an interview to documentary maker Mary McDonagh Murphy. (but tells us nothing we don't already know).
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Posted 04 April 2012 - 05:33 PM

Is it just me or does Ms Lee's reluctance to show anything and leave us to speculate remind anyone else of a certain Boo Radley?
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Posted 04 April 2012 - 05:36 PM

Wake up, its a beautiful morning...

(sorry)
2013 DDP Team: John Bardon; Dora Bryan; Emile Ford; John Glenn; Eldon Griffiths; Bernard Haitink; Gerald Harper; Patricia Knatchbull; Francis Matthews; Sheila Mercier; Les Munro; Pete Murray; Peter O'Toole; I. M. Pei; Nosher Powell; Dudley Simpson; Mike Stoller; Margaret Thatcher(Joker); Peter Wyngarde; Jimmy Young.

2013 DDP Theme Team 1: Ronald Atkins, Ron Braunstein, Ron Brown, Ronald Chesney, Ronald Coase, Ronnie Walter Cunningham, Ronnie Dawson, Ronald Baron Fearn, Ron Flowers, Ronnie Gilbert, Ronald Harwood, Ronald Hines, Ron Isley, Ronnie Masterson, Ronnie Moore, Ronald Pellar, Ronnie Ronalde, Ron Smith, Ronald Stevenson, Ron Suart (Joker)


2013 DDP Theme Team 2: Roger Alton, Roger Angell, Sir Roger Bannister, Roger Cook, Roger Corman, Roger Daltrey, Roger Ebert, Roger Etchegaray, Sir Roger Moore, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Roger Penrose(Joker), Roger Protz, Roger Sainsbury, Roger Sloman, Roger Smith, Roger Spottiswood, Roger Squires, Roger Staubach, Roger Taylor, Roger Whitaker

Deathrace 2013 Team: Glen Campbell, Henry Kissinger, George Shultz (Joker), Fidel Castro, Stan Lee, Helmut Schmidt, Nelson Mandela, Jerry Lewis, Sidney Poitier, Maximilian Schell, Fats Domino, BB King, Ray Harryhausen, Pierre Cardin, Jiroemon Kimura .

2013 Hartlepool Deadlypool Team: George HW Bush, Jiroemon Kimura, Carl Reiner, Vera Lynn, Kirk Douglas, Patty Andrews, Al Molinaro, BB King, Eydie Gorme, Efrem Zimbalist Jr..

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Posted 03 May 2012 - 01:38 AM

Holy crap Harper Lee is a chick and she's still alive WOW I'd never have thought of her.

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Posted 03 May 2012 - 10:08 AM

http://www.thedailyb...y-luncheon.html

Harper Lee update - with what I can only assume to be a recent pic - yet another one that looks healthy.
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BS' BC - 2010 = 7.
BS' BC - 2011 = 8.

BS' BC - 2012 = 12.

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Posted 27 June 2012 - 06:08 AM

isn´he already dead? I have not heard of him for the last 50 years, since they released "To Kill a Mocking Bird" as a movie

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Posted 27 June 2012 - 08:33 AM

View PostGuest, on 27 June 2012 - 06:08 AM, said:

isn´he already dead? I have not heard of him for the last 50 years, since they released "To Kill a Mocking Bird" as a movie

Clearly
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 09:30 AM

View PostGarn2, on 27 June 2012 - 08:33 AM, said:

View PostGuest, on 27 June 2012 - 06:08 AM, said:

isn´he already dead? I have not heard of him for the last 50 years, since they released "To Kill a Mocking Bird" as a movie

Clearly

I was going to make a comment about our guests ignorance, but decided against it, and when we got the announcement of the passing of Harper, I wondered if our guest would make the same mistake.
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Posted 23 August 2012 - 07:09 PM

View PostangryGreatness, on 23 August 2012 - 08:46 AM, said:

Harper Lee has been reported to have deteriorated in recent years, being almost completely deaf and blind, and wheelchair-bound.

She didn't look too bad back in May
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Posted 21 October 2012 - 05:34 AM

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Posted 21 October 2012 - 08:17 AM

This made me compelled to check if there was any news on her. Unsurprisingly, there's none.

http://www.lettersof...soft-pages.html

Ok, there's that, but its from 2006.


Hmm, in 2010, the BBC did a documentary about Lee, which she refused to appear in, but her sister told us she was doing well. In late 2011, reports of her becoming increasing frail came out. Suggesting more news at the end of 2012 or in 2013... then again, her sister is 99 and still working (as a lawyer, having replaced the dad who is the avatar for Atticus Finch).

She's a hard one to keep tabs on, as apart from snippets of gossip from other people, next time we hear anything about her will probably be her death.
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Other combined Deadpools: E Wallach, R Attenborough, L Ferlinghetti, VN Giap, R Misch, H Kissinger, A Savoldi, F Bough, F Phelps, M Winner, B Nolan, GHW Bush, R Ebert, E Priebke, J Talabani, J Lovelock, A Briggs, D Sinden, J Freeman, C Pincher, R Asherson, J Garner, M McManus, G Willard, L Rainer, D Slocombe, G Clerides, B Foulkes, B Cant, FGD Jean, Philip, N Mandela, P MacNee, P Worsthorne, L Blue, Sir H Cecil, M Weiner, C Townes, P de Jong, R Coase, T Finney, R Clark, D Ellis, J la Motta, L Zamperini, K Ollerenshaw, P Cardin, G Hamilton, F Thornton, C de Duve, A Whicker, C James, G Whitlam, P Andrews, J Pardee, R Dean, C Hollingworth, H Lee, J Williams, M Gorbachev, H Garza, O Sharif, J Fontaine, H Wouk, L Philips, A Suarez, D Day, E de Souza, B Kay, D Simpson, S Rimmer, G Johns, R Dotrice, P Vaughan, R Moody, R Hardy, G Cole, A di Stefano, F Fielding, R Harris. total 8/100

2012: 25/100
Shadow Deathlist 2011- 10/50

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Posted 21 October 2012 - 10:14 AM

View Postmsc, on 21 October 2012 - 08:17 AM, said:

This made me compelled to check if there was any news on her. Unsurprisingly, there's none.

http://www.lettersof...soft-pages.html

Ok, there's that, but its from 2006.

Did you not look at the link I posted above, which shows her in May of this year?
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Posted 21 October 2012 - 11:54 AM

View PostToast, on 21 October 2012 - 10:14 AM, said:

View Postmsc, on 21 October 2012 - 08:17 AM, said:

This made me compelled to check if there was any news on her. Unsurprisingly, there's none.

http://www.lettersof...soft-pages.html

Ok, there's that, but its from 2006.

Did you not look at the link I posted above, which shows her in May of this year?

It was hiding in a blind spot. Must get my eyes checked. :banghead:
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Other combined Deadpools: E Wallach, R Attenborough, L Ferlinghetti, VN Giap, R Misch, H Kissinger, A Savoldi, F Bough, F Phelps, M Winner, B Nolan, GHW Bush, R Ebert, E Priebke, J Talabani, J Lovelock, A Briggs, D Sinden, J Freeman, C Pincher, R Asherson, J Garner, M McManus, G Willard, L Rainer, D Slocombe, G Clerides, B Foulkes, B Cant, FGD Jean, Philip, N Mandela, P MacNee, P Worsthorne, L Blue, Sir H Cecil, M Weiner, C Townes, P de Jong, R Coase, T Finney, R Clark, D Ellis, J la Motta, L Zamperini, K Ollerenshaw, P Cardin, G Hamilton, F Thornton, C de Duve, A Whicker, C James, G Whitlam, P Andrews, J Pardee, R Dean, C Hollingworth, H Lee, J Williams, M Gorbachev, H Garza, O Sharif, J Fontaine, H Wouk, L Philips, A Suarez, D Day, E de Souza, B Kay, D Simpson, S Rimmer, G Johns, R Dotrice, P Vaughan, R Moody, R Hardy, G Cole, A di Stefano, F Fielding, R Harris. total 8/100

2012: 25/100
Shadow Deathlist 2011- 10/50

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Posted 17 April 2013 - 12:53 PM

Just checked her website and whilst it had little to tell me about her current state of health did inform me that she was descended from General Robert E Lee.
"I appear to have bypassed my good taste chip"

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Posted 04 May 2013 - 01:58 AM

To Sue A Mockingbird
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