Friday, January 6, 2017

Shutz Smutz

The Deaths in 2017 site lists under January 6:
  • Om Prakesh Puri  (18 October 1950 – 6 January 2017) 
On his wiki page the birthdays of the first 2 notable persons mentioned  stand out:
  • Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934)
  • Govind Nihalani (born 19 December 1940)
Benegal birthday is the same birthday as my younger sisters and Nihalani's is "one off" from the birthday of my older sister who was born on December 18.  As well, I should mention that January 6, the day of Puri's death is "one off" from the January 5 birthday of our dog, Bailey.
He was associated with all the earlier films of Shyam Benegal and with the cinematographyof Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning epic Gandhi.
From the wiki page of the film Gandhi one of the cast/character stands out
The character name caught my eye-- the similarity between "Jan Smuts" and "Janeshutz" (the middle name of  Patricia Janeshutz MacGregor, a key player in the inner twin world's "Starr Family Production".  In fact she is partly behind the inception of this blog and so factors in the very 1st post in 2012: Censoring Around Michael Jackson's Death (RIIP).  

The surname, Smuts, is also a word --plural of smut, meaning "dirt", butt most today know it as:indecent language or publications; obscenity.  Note from Jan Smutts wiki page.
  •  Jan Christiaan Smuts (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) 

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