http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/nyregion/donald-h-forst-feisty-newspaper-editor-dies-at-81.html?ref=nyregion&_r=2&
Donald H. Forst, the feisty former top editor of New York Newsday, The Village Voice and The Boston Herald, died on Saturday in Albany. He was 81.
Was with the Voice from 96 to 2005.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 January 2014 02:17 (ten years ago) link
rip, phil everly.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 6 January 2014 02:51 (ten years ago) link
Simon Hoggart of the Observer and Guardian
― sktsh, Monday, 6 January 2014 09:28 (ten years ago) link
oh jeez :(
― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Monday, 6 January 2014 09:58 (ten years ago) link
rip.
didn't realise he was Richard Hoggart's son.
― woof, Monday, 6 January 2014 10:01 (ten years ago) link
rip
Knew he was Richard Hoggart's son, but had to check if RH was still alive - and he is, 95 years old!
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 6 January 2014 10:30 (ten years ago) link
Run Run Shaw, Chinese movie/TV producer. 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Five Venoms, many more. 106 years old.
― zanarkand bozo (abanana), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 03:41 (ten years ago) link
Wow, that's too bad. I didn't know he was still alive. I've enjoyed lots of Shaw Brothers.
― jmm, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 03:53 (ten years ago) link
106? damn! shaw bros. responsible for a major chunk of my childhood
― Nhex, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 04:15 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nola.com/music/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2014/01/tabby_thomas_founder_of_tabbys.html
Soulful bluesman and Louisiana club owner
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Also father of singer/actor Chris Thomas King
Amiri Baraka.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link
Trumpeter/composer Roy Campbell, Jr.
(no obit online yet; saw the news posted by his friends and collaborators in my fb feed)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
wow amiri baraka.
― Mordy , Friday, 10 January 2014 00:29 (ten years ago) link
sportswriter bill conlin -- really weird feeling that it at least fleetingly occurred to me to list him in dead pool picks (which i posted today) but didnt - seems like there should be a german word for this feeling
― johnny crunch, Friday, 10 January 2014 04:17 (ten years ago) link
:(( amiri baraka
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Friday, 10 January 2014 07:37 (ten years ago) link
Reagan press mouthpiece Larry Speakes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/reagan-spokesman-larry-speakes-dies-at-74/2014/01/10/2e113276-7a4f-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 January 2014 02:56 (ten years ago) link
some of his primo material:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/times-the-reagan-white-house-press-briefing-erupted-with
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 January 2014 02:57 (ten years ago) link
Ariel Sharon
― Mule, Saturday, 11 January 2014 12:46 (ten years ago) link
... hot off the presses?
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 January 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
What a surprise
― nostormo, Saturday, 11 January 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
baruch dayan emet
― Mordy , Saturday, 11 January 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
Alexandra Bastedo:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/alexandra-bastedo-actress-best-known-for-her-role-in-the-1960s-television-scifi-series-the-champions-dies-9054808.html
― ailsa, Monday, 13 January 2014 00:00 (ten years ago) link
Bobby Collins, who played for lots of teams I like, and Leeds.
http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/90m4jnapb79f1ajeq55lar4a4/title/bobby-collins
― cis het boy (onimo), Monday, 13 January 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
Detroit-based psychedelic concert poster artist Gary Grimshaw
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 13 January 2014 23:34 (ten years ago) link
Roger Lloyd Pack :-(
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006
― ailsa, Thursday, 16 January 2014 12:20 (ten years ago) link
Oh no, RIP Roger
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 13:26 (ten years ago) link
^ v. good as David Irving in the TV version of Selling Hitler
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 16 January 2014 14:00 (ten years ago) link
Briefly misread this as Bootsy and was bummed.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
Russell Johnson of "This Gilligan's Island Earth"
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/gilligans-island-star-russell-johnson-dies-kidney-failure/story?id=21561740
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
RIP, we are never gonna get off the island now
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
remember that Twilight Zone where he failed to save Lincoln?
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link
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i used to work in a bookshop and he used to come in to sell tapes of him reading keats and other romantic poets. they never sold anything. always wanted to say to him if he sold them as keats read in the manner of trigger he'd've had a bestseller.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/16/dave-madden-dead-partridge-family-reuben-kincaid/
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link
Didn't know The Prof. & Mr. Kincaid were still around. RIP guys.
Also from TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/16/playboy-playmate-cassandra-lynn-hensley-dead-overdose-od/?adid=hero3
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
jeez, terrible day for my childhood sitcom foils, be they straight men or slow burners
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/duneland/chesterton/final-female-oz-munchkin-ruth-duccini-dead-at/article_ff6f20f6-0367-5697-a512-3ff806d3086d.html
There's one left.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
I think it's weird that people keep track of the number of living Wizard of Oz munchkins, but whatever.
The last munchkin will reap the reward of a sweetass tontine.
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:51 (ten years ago) link
the entire trove of the Lollipop Guild
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link
I'm assuming Danny Partridge must have killed the Professor, just to make sure Reuben didn't get the spotlight for even a day.
― clemenza, Friday, 17 January 2014 00:11 (ten years ago) link
Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese WW2 soldier to surrender (after three decades in the jungle).http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25772192
― Madchen, Friday, 17 January 2014 08:12 (ten years ago) link
the dude was insane
― nostormo, Friday, 17 January 2014 12:31 (ten years ago) link
he and similar men inspired many pop culture gags, incl an episode of... Gilligan's Island
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 January 2014 12:59 (ten years ago) link
> the last Japanese WW2 soldier to surrender
that article says there was another one found a few months later
"Mr Onoda was one of the last Japanese soldiers to surrender at the end of World War II.
Private Teruo Nakamura, a soldier from Taiwan who served in the Japanese army, was found growing crops alone on the Indonesian island of Morotai in December 1974."
― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:01 (ten years ago) link
a soldier from Taiwan who served in the Japanese army
not Japanese then
― cis het boy (onimo), Friday, 17 January 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
says he was 'from taiwan', doesn't say he was taiwanese. 8)
(and that is a japanese name, not a taiwanese name)
― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:30 (ten years ago) link
( drat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Nakamura )
― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
( This article is about the soldier. For the jazz bassist, see Teruo Nakamura (musician). For the golfer, see Teruo Nakamura (golfer). )
― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:32 (ten years ago) link
Does it honestly matter, Andy?
― Madchen, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
https://33.media.tumblr.com/53d9eb7aa7a9cc5f923430adfb8ea906/tumblr_mmaq7bkQLJ1rbgu1so2_250.gif
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
To those of us of a certain age, he was FDR in a couple '70s miniseries (opp Jane Alexander as Eleanor). And in the John Huston film of Annie, which I've never seen.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 January 2015 10:03 (nine years ago) link
First thing I thought of was this:http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/rip-edward-herrmann-1943-2014-a-john-cheever-memory-20141231aa
― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2015 13:48 (nine years ago) link
Probably time for somebody to roll thread.
― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
Sorry that link had some extra junk on the end. Repostinghttp://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/rip-edward-herrmann-1943-2014-a-john-cheever-memory-20141231
― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
there will be spillover deaths for a few days yet
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 January 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
Rainer is well-known to people who participate in dead pools. Good for her for proving them wrong.
― Whitney Di-Ennial (I M Losted)
by dying
― local eire man (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 January 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mario-cuomo-new-york-governor-dead-82-article-1.2063258
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Friday, 2 January 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link
I thought the late WBAI/WABC radio iconoclast Lynn Samuels summed up Mario's liberal bona fides rather well: "Makes pretty speeches."
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 January 2015 05:32 (nine years ago) link
(more than the son manages, God knows)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 January 2015 05:36 (nine years ago) link
Forgot this was presented as a New Year's commercial...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z4JDBgVWKs
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 January 2015 06:15 (nine years ago) link
http://artsfuse.org/120300/fuse-remembrance-bishop-lee-mitchell-an-appreciation/
excerpt:
A beloved figure to both the local gospel community and deep southern soul collectors, Bishop Lee Mitchell has passed following a long illness, according to social media reports from his friends and family. Mitchell was 75.
One of the leading deep soul websites called the Alabama-born Mitchell “one of the great unknowns who never made a bad disc” because of the staggering secular 45s he released in the ’60s and ’70s.
After moving to Boston in 1958, Mitchell replaced the renowned Bill Moss in the Bibletones. In 1967 he cut a record for Sure Shot, a label owned by the infamous Texas wheeler and dealer Don Robey. The discs he made in the ’70s weren’t big hits, but in recent years they’ve been spun by the legendary British DJ John Peel and fetched upwards of $350 on eBay. According to one story, Mitchell was offered “Let’s Stay Together” before Al Green cut it but turned it down. Sessions for the great Alabama producer Neal Hemphill resulted in a few 45s, but the full album has still never seen the light of day.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 January 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
Recent years?
Never mind..
― Mark G, Friday, 2 January 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link