'A UK film critic, Jason Solomon's said, 'London ran through him like a stick of rock'. He was certainly well know for being the cockney. Sherlock creator and actor Mark Gatiiss, said, 'a true gent and an inspiration'.
He was 71 years old, and he passed over with 'pneumonia' surrounded by his family on the 29th April, 2014. "In an interview, when asked what he owed his parents, he said, "Confidence. My mum used to say to me, 'If somebody doesn't like you, fuck 'em, they've got bad taste.'" That is the kind of thing a Londoner would say. It is the end of an era, you can be sure that he will have a few words to say to Maggie Thatcher when he gets over the other side. He didn't like Tony Blair either.
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May his family be comforted at this time. In 2012, he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. The 29th was the 'Day of Image'.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27224995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVVrZJaN1IU
The Bob Hoskins Song
I was going to post the film of 'Mona Lisa', then the message received, 'The Bike'. Cyclechat have given him a tribute thread, and I am sure that many Brits will be honoring him at this time. An actor that was loved much by his nation, a working class boy, that made it to the big screen.
http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/r-i-p-bob.155305/
Heiva
http://www.jewishpress.com/tag/heiva-isa/
Bob Hoskins good for cockney laughs. This made me laugh today.
ReplyDelete8. He lived with Bedouins
After the ditching the accountancy career his father had planned for him, Hoskins went travelling in his early 20s. He spent six months on a kibbutz in Israel (at one point he was asked to join the army), and two years with Bedouin tribes in Syria – he looked after their camels.
9. He chose scripts with his behind
Hoskins once told Lynn Barber that he gave all his scripts "the cold bum test". He'd take it to the loo, and if he read it for long enough to end up with a cold bum, he'd do it.
10. He had an excellent telephone manner
When Francis Ford Coppola phoned Hoskins to offer him a part in The Cotton Club, he called at midnight. Hoskins described the exchange as follows: "A voice said, 'Hi, this is Francis Ford Coppola. ' 'Yeah!? And this is Henry the Eighth, and you've just woken up my kid!'"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10798685/Bob-Hoskins-10-things-you-didnt-know.html
And from a comment from a poster. Thanks Bob. We're sure you ain't being sent off like you said, "That's nice innit. Going out like a raspberry ripple."
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