Hal Jackson, radio personality of 70+ years including pioneering stints at WABC and WBLS, at 96:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/hal-jackson-pioneer-black-radio-dies-96-article-1.1083551
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
paul fussell
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
“From the 1950s on,” he wrote in “Doing Battle,” “my presiding emotion was annoyance, often intensifying to virtually disabling anger.”
Patron saint of IA thread?
Somewhere I have Class and BAD. Or at least, I did.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
x-post from the Hal Jackson obit:
"Born in Charleston, S.C., Jackson grew up loving sports and school. He attended Howard University and made his way onto WINX by finding a white company to sponsor him and not telling the station owner who the announcer would be."
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 May 2012 15:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
Is there an opposite of a RIP thread? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18219795
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
Filmmaker Kaneto Shindo (at 100), director of ILX fave Onibaba
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-kaneto-shindo-1912-2012/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
rip
― mookieproof, Monday, 4 June 2012 00:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
RIP Eduard "Mr Trololo" Khil.
― i like slash and i vote (j.lu), Monday, 4 June 2012 12:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
Dag
― Jeff, Monday, 4 June 2012 12:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
Ray Bradbury
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:28 (11 months ago) Permalink
Mars is heaven. RIP
― I don't know what to read so I am reading it here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
Has own RIP thread: R.I.P. Ray Bradbury
i always think it's weird when people post really famous RIPs on this thread when it's pretty certain they're going to get a dedicated RIP thread. or is this thread just supposed to be a comprehensive list of dead celebs? i guess i don't understand what this thread is for.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
Thought it was for people who might not be well-known for their own thread but could also be used to announce and link to standalone threads for more famous persons.
― I don't know what to read so I am reading it here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
announce the passing of
also it's a handy one-stop REMINDER OF OUR OWN MORTALITY
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:25 (11 months ago) Permalink
ha, exactly.
― I don't know what to read so I am reading it here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
RIP Bob Welch formerly of Fleetwood Mac. Shotgun suicide.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18363214
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 7 June 2012 23:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
already discussion of this on his thread.
― how's life, Thursday, 7 June 2012 23:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oops, only just popped on the Beeb, hadn't heard.
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 7 June 2012 23:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
A week late w/this, but:
Cinematographer Chris Challis (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Arabesque, Genevieve, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Top Secret! etc)
― Hare Kinsey (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 June 2012 01:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
^Two major car films there
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 June 2012 02:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
Didn't he understudy with Jack Cardiff or shoot some of his films when Jack turned director?
― F is for Fule (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 June 2012 04:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
Wait, he shot The Small Black Room! RIP http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/Challis/Challis01.html
― F is for Fule (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 June 2012 04:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
Of course I mean The Small Back Room.
― F is for Fule (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 June 2012 04:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
Frank Cady
― Hare Kinsey (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 June 2012 04:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/obituaries/obituary-jan-fairley-writer-broadcaster-lecturer-1-2348562
ethnomusicologist and writer
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 June 2012 17:04 (11 months ago) Permalink
Actress Ann Rutherford: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gone-wind-ann-rutherford-dead-336296
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 16:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
wiseguy Henry Hill
http://www.examiner.com/article/mobster-henry-hill-dead-at-69-heart-gave-out-over-unknown-illness
and as posted in the boxing thread, 3-time Olympic heavyweight boxing champ Teofilo Stevenson
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-teofilo-stevenson-20120612,0,308275.story
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 05:07 (11 months ago) Permalink
Rodney King
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Sunday, 17 June 2012 19:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
RIP, of course, my minds just elsewhere.
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Sunday, 17 June 2012 20:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
Just saw this, Drowned in his pool.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/us/obit-rodney-king/index.html
― nickn, Sunday, 17 June 2012 20:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
Victor Spinetti
and
Brian Hibbard
Not a good week to be Welsh and have cancer.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 12:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
Had no idea that guy had a career outside of the Flying Pickets. RIP sideburns man.
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 12:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
Was just coming to post Victor Spinetti :(
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 13:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
His stage career saw him win a Tony award for his Broadway performance in Oh, What a Lovely War!, as well as co-starring with Jack Klugman when The Odd Couple toured London.
― Stumpy Joe's Cafe (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
Hosni Mubarak according to BBC Newsnight. Not sure he deserves his own thread, but he was very powerful for a very long time.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, Reuters saying he's "clinically dead"
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
...after having a stroke in prison
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
B-movie/TV actor Richard Lynch, beloved by MST3K fans for Werewolf, best known to most other people maybe from The Sword and the Sorcerer?
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 17:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
More notably, Andrew Sarris/
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 17:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
Don Grady--Robbie on My Three Sons.
http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/r-i-p-don-grady/
Chip and Ernie, very much alive.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 23:52 (10 months ago) Permalink
Doris Singleton from "I Love Lucy".
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/-i-love-lucy--star-doris-singleton-dies.html
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 June 2012 18:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
Don't think anyone posted this before, and I can't find a thread for The Peanuts, but Emi Ito on June 15th: http://english.kyodonews.jp/photos/2012/06/166252.html
― emil.y, Thursday, 28 June 2012 23:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
http://www.laopinion.com/article/20120702/ENTRETENIMIENTO/120709982/-1/ENTRETENIMIENTO
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/NiLP-FYI--The-Passing-of-Yomo.html?soid=1101040629095&aid=UCI59BzK6YU
Who Will Be Playing Yomo Toro In The Soon-To-Be-Released Hector Lavoe Biopic El Cantante?
Great Puerto Rican Cuatro player Yomo Toro RIP
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 July 2012 14:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
andy griffith
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/07/andy-griffith-dies-at-age-86/1#.T_MBtlGhDzI
― omar little, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
Aw. A Face in the Crowd will always be one of my favorite movies.
― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:33 (10 months ago) Permalink
Aww, RIP
― Neil Jung (WmC), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
sad.RIP.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:58 (10 months ago) Permalink