Frederica Sagor Maas, silent-era screenwriter -- at age 111.
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/frederica-sagor-maas-1900-2012
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 January 2012 03:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
!
― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Monday, 9 January 2012 04:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
She was something like the fifth or sixth oldest person alive, IIRC.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 9 January 2012 04:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Architect Ricardo Legorreta
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ricardo-legorreta-20120108,0,3944916.story
― nickn, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 07:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
aww, i did a project on his pershing square redesign in grad school.
― reconstituted pork offal slurry (get bent), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 08:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
dara greenwald, artist/activist/journalist, at 40 :/
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
well, a couple of months ago it was kuchar and belson, and now a friend of mine just reported on facebook that robert nelson passed away. dag.
you can see some of his films here:
http://www.ubu.com/film/nelson.html
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 02:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
'bleu shut' is great but this isn't the best quality^
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jesus.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/greek-filmmaker-theo-angelopoulos-killed-in-road-accident/2012/01/24/gIQA4ZBMOQ_story.html
Terrible loss.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
still haven't seen any of his films :(
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
stage acting giant Nicol Williamson, whose best known films are probably Excalibur and Tony Richardson's Hamlet
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/nicol-williamson-1938-2012
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
RIP. John Osborne called him the greatest actor since Marlon Brando. More impressive than John Osborne though, I have a friend who saw everybody in the 60s and 70s, and generally hasn't got a good word to say about anybody, who says Nicol Williamson's Hamlet at the Roundhouse in 1969 was and is the greatest Hamlet of all time.
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 January 2012 09:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
... born in Hamilton!
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 January 2012 09:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
robert hegyes (juan epstein from welcome back kotter)
― wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
God, ya took the wrong sweathog
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ian Abercrombie, aka Mr. Pitt from Seinfeld, at 77:
http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/01/28/seinfeld-actor-ian-abercrombie-dead-at-77/
― Who wants to see the great Pavarotti sit on a pie? (jer.fairall), Sunday, 29 January 2012 01:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Kevin White, 4-term mayor of Boston
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/us/kevin-h-white-82-boston-mayor-during-busing-crisis-dies.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 January 2012 12:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
(what're the odds he'd serve 16 years w/ that name eh)
if u didnt see it in ILM, Don Cornelius of "Soul Train"
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/soul-train-creator-don-cornelius-dead-in-apparent-suicide.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
shit, mike kelley. this is...really unexpected.
http://www.galleristny.com/2012/02/mike-kelley-has-died/
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
A bad troika today -- add Dorothea Tanning.
http://www.galleristny.com/2012/02/dorothea-tanning-surrealist-painter-and-poet-dies-at-101/
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 19:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
...and Kelley is now being reported as a suicide. Damn.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
i know it doesn't mean a lot in terms of larger-known artists and writers and personalities, but Stacy Doris, an amazing poet/writer and incredibly kind, wonderful woman, passed yesterday from cancer complications.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/702
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Doris.php
― Sophomore subs are the new Smith lesbians. (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
i remember Stacy Doris!
And damn, Mike Kelley, one of my favorites.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Poland Nobel poetry laureate Wislawa Szymborska dies
― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Muhammad Ali trainer Angelo Dundee dies
... one of those guys you thought had died years ago
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 February 2012 10:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh, I had no idea that Dorothea Tanning was still alive. That's her and Leonora Carrington passing away in the last few months, must be the last of that whole wave of Surrealists?
― Phibes Kartel (NickB), Thursday, 2 February 2012 10:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
*sadmeltingfacewithboobsforeyesorsomething*
― Yeah Yeah Bohney (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 2 February 2012 11:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
ben gazzara
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/movies/ben-gazzara-actor-of-stage-and-screen-dies-at-81.html
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Saturday, 4 February 2012 00:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
aw, rip
― buzza, Saturday, 4 February 2012 00:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
so so great
rip
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 4 February 2012 00:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
;_;
― wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
goddamn you.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
i speak for the common man here, morbz
― wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
The very last quote in that Times obit is amazing.
― I Can Only Give You Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 February 2012 02:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
gonna have to put They All Laughed in the library queue.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 February 2012 02:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
It was on HBO once many moons ago when I was home from college on break and in my vegetational state I watched it many times. I don't think overall it was very good but yeah, he and some of the rest of the cast did a good job.
― I Can Only Give You Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 February 2012 02:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
And also, Wild Orchid director Zalman King:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/zalman-king-dies-69-red-shoe-diaries-nine-half-weeks-287000
Which makes me feel horribly shitty for blurbing this only days ago:
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=4893&cpage=1#comment-129068
― Who wants to see the great Pavarotti sit on a pie? (jer.fairall), Saturday, 4 February 2012 03:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
John Christopher.
― Fizzles, Monday, 6 February 2012 17:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
That last one makes me sad. The Tripods and Sword of the Spirits trilogies were hugely important to my younger self.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 6 February 2012 17:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bill Hinzman, the first onscreen "ghoul" in Night of the Living Dead.
― You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Monday, 6 February 2012 17:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Had no idea that John Christopher was still alive. RIP.
― Hambone Italiano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 February 2012 18:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Florence Green, Last World War I Veteran, Dies at 110
― flopson and jetsam (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 02:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
just came here to post that. crazy.
― Z S, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 05:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
RIP keyboardist and arranger to the stars Clare Fischer: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/28/local/la-me-clare-fischer-20120128
― I Can't Give You Any Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 February 2012 13:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
A Boy Named Clare
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 10 February 2012 13:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
rest in peace, nello ferrara! you were a giant in candyland!
http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/10477823-418/nello-ferrara-93-invented-lemonheads-saw-macarthur-in-occupied-japan-sang-with-sinatra.html
― scott seward, Friday, 10 February 2012 13:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tom Dada, I think there is also one in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
― I Can't Give You Any Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 February 2012 13:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well that's Thomas Hardy for you, he has a dude called Jude too
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 10 February 2012 13:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.noise11.com/news/legendary-funk-diva-marva-whitney-passes-away-20121224
Marva Whitney, one of the greats of funk and soul and the woman whom James Brown called “Soul Sister #1″, passed away last night (December 23, 2012). She was 68.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 December 2012 08:03 (5 months ago) Permalink
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/arts/music/jimmy-mccracklin-rb-singer-and-songwriter-dies-at-91.html?ref=music&gwh=91AD3338CFE178EEE2E227B4A6357A56
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 December 2012 08:30 (5 months ago) Permalink
aw shit marva no
― You're gonna need a fruit kebab. Trust. (stevie), Monday, 24 December 2012 10:39 (5 months ago) Permalink
Jack Klugman:(
― Zweitgeist (doo dah), Monday, 24 December 2012 23:16 (5 months ago) Permalink
Quincy.M.E :(
A little more of my youth has just faded.
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 00:36 (4 months ago) Permalink
last of the Angry Men
now he can play more Challenge Yahtzee with Tony Randall
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 00:39 (4 months ago) Permalink
Forgot about challenge Yahtzee. RIP, Jack. I don't like pits pits pits in my juice juice juice either.
― Rumba de Schmillsson (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 02:56 (4 months ago) Permalink
Charles Durning
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-mew-charles-durning-dies-20121225,0,7403321.story
(Santa Claus in 4 different movies)
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 12:47 (4 months ago) Permalink
:-(
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 14:36 (4 months ago) Permalink
Was particularly good in Tootsie. RIP
― Rastaquouere Vibration (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 15:04 (4 months ago) Permalink
RIP Pappy ODaniel and Waring Hudsucker
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 15:39 (4 months ago) Permalink
and Sgt. Moretti :(
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 17:38 (4 months ago) Permalink
Weird that for all the Tootsies and Dog Day Afternoons he was in, my immediately association with him is always as Holly Hunter's father in Home From The Holidays (which is underrated, and which it's been far too long since I've watched).
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 19:47 (4 months ago) Permalink
i always think of him in O Brother Where Art Thou
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:01 (4 months ago) Permalink
search: Twilight's Last Gleaming, True Confessions
Saw him as the ex-prez in The Best Man on Broadway in 2000. He was very heavy but the line readings were gossamer.
NYT:
Mr. Durning was also remembered for his combat service, which he avoided discussing publicly until later in life. He spoke at memorial ceremonies in Washington, and in 2008 France awarded him the National Order of the Legion of Honor.
In the Parade interview, he recalled the hand-to-hand combat. “I was crossing a field somewhere in Belgium,” he said. “A German soldier ran toward me carrying a bayonet. He couldn’t have been more than 14 or 15. I didn’t see a soldier. I saw a boy. Even though he was coming at me, I couldn’t shoot.”
They grappled, he recounted later — he was stabbed seven or eight times — until finally he grasped a rock and made it a weapon. After killing the youth, he said, he held him in his arms and wept.
Mr. Durning said the memories never left him, even when performing, even when he became, however briefly, someone else.
“There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don’t want anyone to know about,” he told Parade. “There’s terror and repulsion in us, the terrible spot that we don’t talk about. That place that no one knows about — horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.”
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:26 (4 months ago) Permalink
For whatever reason, him yelling "I don't give a fuck!" in Sharkey's Machine has always been one of my favorite lines in a film. RIP.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:41 (4 months ago) Permalink
Two consecutive best supporting actress noms in the early eighties (never saw Best Little Whorehouse in Texas).
He plays this beautifully:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvMKDVUoTqc
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 20:44 (4 months ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfNMsVdRmeU
(not the scene i was hoping to find, but a good, and appropriate, one)
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 21:09 (4 months ago) Permalink
"Languishing!! Goddamn campaign is languishing!!"
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 22:36 (4 months ago) Permalink
"Eckard! You may as well start draftin' my concession speech right now.""OK Pappy.""I'm just makin' a point, ya stupid sonovabitch! Gimme back my hat!""Pappy just makin' a point.""Shut up!!"
(it's a lot funnier when you see it)
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 22:40 (4 months ago) Permalink
love this guy, RIP
― banlieue jagger (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 14:18 (4 months ago) Permalink
My favourite moment of his is right at the end of Alfred's first clip above: where he fake-punches Hoffman out of exasperation/affection after Hoffman confesses. It's like Keaton fake-strangling his girl in The General.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 14:43 (4 months ago) Permalink
Let's all dance a little sidestep in his honor
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 17:17 (4 months ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/v/RiKy3ktxw6M
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:00 (4 months ago) Permalink
Someday I will figure out how to embed videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiKy3ktxw6M
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:01 (4 months ago) Permalink
sigh
Fontella Bass
― WilliamC, Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:09 (4 months ago) Permalink
Oh no you didn't, WmC .
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:22 (4 months ago) Permalink
I didn't do it! It was a heart attack!
― WilliamC, Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:29 (4 months ago) Permalink
I think it was the image posted here that did it: "Rescue Me" (Denis Leary firefighter show on FX) - anyone?
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:35 (4 months ago) Permalink
seeing on twitter that norman schwarzkopf is dead
― curly moe shempsen (donna rouge), Friday, 28 December 2012 00:23 (4 months ago) Permalink
RIP Fontella Bass, Stormin Norman, not quite so much, but still.
― Alba, Friday, 28 December 2012 00:36 (4 months ago) Permalink
Jean Harris, Scarsdale diet doc killer.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 December 2012 21:36 (4 months ago) Permalink
tony greig
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 29 December 2012 20:28 (4 months ago) Permalink
Former Indy 500 driver, wannabe actor, and hard-luck case Salt Walther. Perhaps most remembered for this crash in 1973
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 29 December 2012 21:45 (4 months ago) Permalink
http://www.tmz.com/2007/12/04/rapper-pimp-c-found-dead-in-hollywood-hotel-room/
― I had such a fontasy (stevie), Sunday, 30 December 2012 00:42 (4 months ago) Permalink
aw shit of course that happened five years ago.
Not going to be missed: Sir Irvine Patnick.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Monday, 31 December 2012 11:55 (4 months ago) Permalink
Ray Collins, singer with the Mothers
― nickn, Thursday, 3 January 2013 06:22 (4 months ago) Permalink
need new thread
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 January 2013 12:36 (4 months ago) Permalink
Rolling Obituary Thread 2013.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 3 January 2013 12:56 (4 months ago) Permalink