Just requested Street Gang, I need to get around to reading that.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I know! I just looked it up. Substitute an iron rod for a frying pan, Nashville for Sesame Street, and put a t-shirt on him and it's not too far off. I must have heard a news story or my parents talking about it and that's how I pictured it.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but the death of Mr. Hooper episode, and Big Bird in denial, is one of the most beautiful things ever aired on televison
― Herodcare for the Unborn (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I read Street Gang a few months ago, it's awesome.
― james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
this fucking year
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Ron Asheton, LUX INTERIOR, John Hughes, Rashied Ali, Les Paul, so many great people gone
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
The great film critic Robin Wood.
http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/1345
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't know abt Robin Wood before, thank you for letting me know, Dr Morb - HOLLYWOOD FROM VIET NAM TO REAGAN is prob my all-time fave collection of film crit, a big influence on the way I still try to think and write abt horror movies, especially (even if he was so very wrong abt Cronenberg) - RIP
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Robin Wood, RIP.
― Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Isn't there a scene in Day For Night in which Truffaut is reading the Robin Wood Hitchcock book?
I guess he couldn't show himself reading his own book.
― Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Street Gang is great, but oh man, so many sad things in it.
I hadn't heard about Olivia! RIP
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Also total WTF things in it. Like Jim Henson dating Daryll Hannah?!? Our tabloid culture today would've never let anything so juicy escape their notice.
― Dif Juz Guys (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 07:04 (fourteen years ago) link
according to kristin hersh's twitter, vic chesnutt attempted suicide. i feel bad putting that on this thread, but not sure what would be more appropriate. everyone think good thoughts for vic, ok?
― The Détourn of the Depressed (get bent), Thursday, 24 December 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=4770549
:(
― Plunge Protection Team, Thursday, 24 December 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
rip. i was so confused the first time i heard there was a show called "george michael's sports machine."
― The Détourn of the Depressed (get bent), Thursday, 24 December 2009 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
George Michael was a staple of my childhood growing up in DC. Excellent delivery and top-notch production. The Sports Machine was way ahead of its time; basically Sports Machine was the template for Sports Center.
Also, GM was instrumental in promoting DC sports punditry. Mike Wilbon, Tony Kornheiser, David Aldridge, and probably several others owe their broadcasting careers to George Michael.
― Super Cub, Thursday, 24 December 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw Michael at a few recent Society of American Baseball Research conventions -- he had an avocation of sleuthing out the details of unidentified game photos from the pre-WW2 era; also a good live interviewer.
Also, Lester Rodney, sports editor of The Daily Worker who agitated for the integration of baseball in the '40s:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/23/MNRO1B95TG.DTL
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 December 2009 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://torturedfanbase.com/george_michael_sports_machine.JPG
rip
― mookieproof, Friday, 25 December 2009 06:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I just posted it on ILM, but it merits a mention here: RIP Vic Chesnutt, dead at 45.
― Simon H., Friday, 25 December 2009 06:51 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP Knut Haugland - the last of the six crewmen of the Kon-Tiki
Badass guy too. Before hooking up with Thor Heyerdahl, Haugland was active in the Norwegian resistance and took part in the famous raid on the Nazi heavy-water plant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Haugland
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 28 December 2009 07:19 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP Tim Hart, founding member of Steeleye Span. Many people think of them as MOR folkie dullards due to their mid-70s hit "All Around My Hat", but the first 3 SS albums are up there with Fairport Convention, Incredible String Band etc as innovavtive folk-rock classics, imo anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hart
― Ork Alarm (Matt #2), Monday, 28 December 2009 10:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh damn. I've been listening to early Steeleye Span albums over Christmas, they were the perfect accompaniment to snow and mulled wine and curtains drawn tight against the cold black nights etc. And "All Around my Hat" is from my childhood - I think one of my elder brothers, or my Dad had the 7" single - so I have a big soft spot for it.RIP
― DavidM, Monday, 28 December 2009 10:47 (fourteen years ago) link
John Cushnie, my favourite Gardeners' Question Time panellist.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8437119.stm
― Madchen, Friday, 1 January 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe there should be new thread for new year?
― the embed's too big without you (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 January 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
John Cushnie, my favourite Gardeners' Question Time panellist
Ditto, he was a very funny guy.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Friday, 1 January 2010 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought I was the only square round here :)
― Madchen, Saturday, 2 January 2010 11:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Always listen to GQT on iPlayer if I'm feeling fretful about the hydrangeas.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Saturday, 2 January 2010 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20334459,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+people%2Fheadlines+%28PEOPLE.com%3A+Top+Headlines%29
― A flamebaiter named Tinderbox? I admire your subtlety. (stevie), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Singer Sandro, the 'Argentine Elvis,' Dies at 64
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 10:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Good idea... Here it is: The rolling RIP/obituary thread - 2010 edition
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/schmuck/ERNIEAAP.jpg
RIP Ernie Harwell, legendary Detroit Tigers radio announcer 1918-2010
Growing up in SE Michigan, WJR AM Detroit was on in my house & my dad's car ALL the time. My strongest memories of this are Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story" & this dude, who was the Tigers announcer for many, many years (55 seasons I read). My dad absolutely loved himm, to the extent that when he watched games at home, he would dial the volume down on the television & prop up an ancient single-speaker radio tuned to WJR. My dad even took me to an autograph signing at the downtown Jacobson's department store once. I was really young, but I remember EH seeming very genuinely gracious & friendly. He signed the foul ball I caught in Tiger Stadium '85!
Here is a quality feature from today's Detroit News - a list of misc. personal remembrances basically
― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
he worked for other teams too, but Detroit for 40+ years.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 May 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
abbey lincolnhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTGUkQQkttg
― are you some kinda rap version of marc loi (stevie), Monday, 16 August 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
[aw crap, just saw new thread]
― are you some kinda rap version of marc loi (stevie), Monday, 16 August 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Pete Postlethwaite.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 3 January 2011 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I kind of think he should have had his own thread. Seems to have been around for years, in lots of enjoyable films, all round good guy. So sad. RIP.
― specifically, the word talking (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 3 January 2011 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Check out The Muscle Market on youtube if you've got an hour to spare.
― specifically, the word talking (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 3 January 2011 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Postlethwaite was one of those actors who was always a real pleasure to watch, whatever he was in. 64 is no age at all. RIP.
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 January 2011 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone mentioned him on Distant Voices, Still Lives and he was excellent on that.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 January 2011 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Thought he was older, he's been in so many things, real shame, liked him :(
― not_goodwin, Monday, 3 January 2011 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Teena Marie RIP
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Monday, 3 January 2011 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP Anne Francis
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8k7m4e2TYeU/TCFjdzIrNsI/AAAAAAAAJCw/Xt6nTQ2MMY0/s400/rbbyaf.jpg
― kkvgz, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
that just leaves me and Robby :(
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 January 2011 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Earl Holliman's still kicking.
― kkvgz, Monday, 3 January 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
terrible cook
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 January 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Aw, man. Anne Francis. One of my first childhood crushes, thanks to "Honey West."
http://www.tvder60er.de/bilder/west.jpg
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I was just watching Forbidden Planet on TCM a day or two ago.
― not the sort of person who would wind up in a landfill (Nicole), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
http://davidmerryweather.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/forbiddenplanet_altaira.jpg
Altaira: [swiming in a pool] Come on in.Commander John J. Adams: I didn’t bring my bathing suit. Altaira: What’s a bathing suit? Commander John J. Adams: [quickly turning his back] Oh, murder!
― if there's a straw, I will clutch (DavidM), Monday, 3 January 2011 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
(i nearly posted that exact quote when nielsen died and everyone else was quoting airplane)
― koogs, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
that was in the FP trailer!
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link