Oh Dear!

Regards,

kev35

Indeed. What did you expect?

JoeyR

The question is whether or not you are doing the man a great disservice by even suggesting that he may or may not have declined any Honour offered.

Regards,

kev35

Then I regret ever having mentioned it and suggest it is never referred to again and return to the Ian Carmichael thread. And I’ll bear your comment in mind when I next encounter unsubstantiated speculation in these forums.

This is what Wiki says.
Ronald William George Barker, OBE (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor and comedian, best known for his roles as Norman Stanley Fletcher

That we know. The question at issue was whether or not he had been offered a knighthood and declined it, as had a number of other notables.

JoeyR

So did Ronnie Barker decline a Knighthood? Or is it just guesswork?

Regards,

kev35

As I did say, I think it to be the case along with a number of reported declined honours. Whether or not we will know for sure will be up to someone who knows, incontrovertibly, to reveal the truth.

Several have – some of whom have made it public and others where it is thought to have been the case. Alan Bennett, Albert Finney, David Hockney, Trevor Howard, Harold Pinter, Vanessa Redgrave and Paul Scofield are all on record as declining ( DBE in Vanessa Regrave’s case ) and Scofield declined at least 3 times.

Many others have declined other orders and sometimes accepted a higher order later. Helen Mirren declined a CBE but accepted a DBE a few years later.

And on the assumption that the report is fundamentally correct, although we should have some reservations about that, it raises far more complex subjects.

Some parents wanted to give their children away and would do it again, for the good of the child. Some didn’t know the children had been taken. Some parents are colluding to kidnap their and other children.

Haiti is an appalling tragedy, and was so before the earthquake and now it is many, many times worse. Estimates of orpaned children run into the hundreds of thousands.

Are we, sitting in relative comfort in Western Europe ( and elsewhere of course ) able to judge, dispassionately, the actions of these people in that god forsaken country?

And it was reported that ” the smell of sewage quickly collected in the room”.:(

Awesome movie for the SFX. But the story is Pochahontas. Nowthen, who else fancied the big blue bird? I did!!:D

[B][I]Pelham 123. Good film indeed, a few holes in the plot (In the way the Police / FBI didn’t do stuff…and when do any of the forces have trousers that are not tucked in their boots?) but it didn’t spoil the activity of enjoying a film. Of course, the acting of Denzel Wash. and Travolta uplifted the whole thing.

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I didn’t think it was a patch on the original with Robert Shaw, Matthau and Balsam – 1974 or 5 I think.