Forum games 🎲 2025 Celebrity death watch

[fringe]

Nina Totenberg of NPR. One of NPR's founders.

 

[Gedunker]

Nina Totenberg of NPR. One of NPR's founders.

Are you sure you don't mean Susan Stamberg, a founding mother of NPR? (as posted by @JNA ?)

 

[fringe]

Are you sure you don't mean Susan Stamberg, a founding mother of NPR? (as posted by @JNA ?)

Exactly...Nina Totenberg reported it for NPR. Nina was also one of those female founders. Thanks.

 

[Faust_Motel]

Prunella Scales, Sybil on Fawlty towers, dies at 93:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/...e_code=1.xE8.QbPm.pMyX5ura96FD&smid=url-share

 

[mendelman]

Prunella Scales, Sybil on Fawlty towers, dies at 93:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/...e_code=1.xE8.QbPm.pMyX5ura96FD&smid=url-share

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I like that show because it's mercifully short run and the sitcom tropes are not overbearing because of the cast.

RIP [really old person who died expectedly].

 

[Faust_Motel]

I like that show because it's mercifully short run and the sitcom tropes are not overbearing because of the cast.

RIP [really old person who died expectedly].

I always felt it was (mostly due to Cleese's energy) juuuust unhinged enough without being completely wacky.

We have a good friend who grew up near Torquay where this was set- and worked in a seaside tearoom for bit in the 1980's. The depictions of the tourists in the show, she says, are spot-on.