let's all have some drinks around the dead pool
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
whoops, can this be moved to ILE?
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
The rolling RIP/obituary thread
There's already this thread
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
the past two years have each gotten their own thread, figured i'd start one for 2k12 as well
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
Can I have an RIP please, Bob?
― James Mitchell, Friday, 6 January 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
eve arnold, first female member of magnum photos who took those famous photos of monroe on the set of 'the misfits', among many other accomplishments:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/eve-arnold-pioneering-photographer-dies-at-99/2012/01/05/gIQAk2kXdP_story.html
(she also made one film, 'behind the veil', a documentary about harems in the UAE. 'sgood)
― donna rouge, Saturday, 7 January 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
Tom Ardolino, NRBQ drummer
http://www.nrbq.com/
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 January 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
Tony Blankley. He used to bug me in the '90s when he worked for Gingrich, but I didn't mind him when he reappeared the last couple of years. Amazing thing from the obituary that I never knew: he played Bogart's son in The Harder They Fall.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/08/tony-blankley-conservative-author-dies-at-63/
― clemenza, Monday, 9 January 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
aw, he was the token right-wing dude on kcrw's left right & center, a pretty mediocre show but he did ok considering the terrible gop positions he had to routinely defend
― buzza, Monday, 9 January 2012 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
!
― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Monday, 9 January 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
She was something like the fifth or sixth oldest person alive, IIRC.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 9 January 2012 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
Architect Ricardo Legorreta
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ricardo-legorreta-20120108,0,3944916.story
― nickn, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 07:48 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
dara greenwald, artist/activist/journalist, at 40 :/
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
'bleu shut' is great but this isn't the best quality^
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
still haven't seen any of his films :(
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
... born in Hamilton!
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 January 2012 09:53 (twelve years ago) link
robert hegyes (juan epstein from welcome back kotter)
― wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
God, ya took the wrong sweathog
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
(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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
...and Kelley is now being reported as a suicide. Damn.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
i remember Stacy Doris!
And damn, Mike Kelley, one of my favorites.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
Poland Nobel poetry laureate Wislawa Szymborska dies
― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
*sadmeltingfacewithboobsforeyesorsomething*
― Yeah Yeah Bohney (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 2 February 2012 11:48 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
aw, rip
― buzza, Saturday, 4 February 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
so so great
rip
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 4 February 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLdyuwqik4Q
;_;
― wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
goddamn you.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
i speak for the common man here, morbz
― wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
ha
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
gonna have to put They All Laughed in the library queue.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 February 2012 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
John Christopher.
― Fizzles, Monday, 6 February 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Had no idea that John Christopher was still alive. RIP.
― Hambone Italiano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 February 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
Florence Green, Last World War I Veteran, Dies at 110
― flopson and jetsam (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
just came here to post that. crazy.
― Z S, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 05:28 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
A Boy Named Clare
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 10 February 2012 13:30 (twelve years ago) link
rest in peace, nello ferrara! you were a giant in candyland!
http://chicagoist.com/attachments/chicagoist_chuck/2012_2_7_ferrara_pan_brands.jpg
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty. The character's role was greatly expanded from that in the novel and Kubrick allowed Sellers to adopt a variety of disguises throughout the film. Early on in the film, Quilty appears as himself: a conceited, avant-garde playwright with a superior manner. Later, he disguises himself as various personae. First, he is an inquisitive policeman on the porch of the hotel where Humbert and Lolita are staying. Next he is the intrusive Beardsley High School psychologist, Doctor Zempf, who lurks in Humbert's front room for the purpose of persuading him to give Lolita more freedom in her after-school activities.[2] Later in the film he is an anonymous phone caller conducting a survey
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 10 February 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
... but always he is a self-indulgent actor ruining a perfectly good film
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 10 February 2012 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
^blech
Peter Breck of TV's "Big Valley" and Fuller's Shock Corridor:
http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/peter-breck-the-big-valley/
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 February 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
David Kelly, quintessentially feckless rogue and charmer, renowned Beckett/stage performer and the recipient of the finest umbrella hits in tv history
― Dr Frogbius (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 10:29 (twelve years ago) link
And walking Oirish hate-crime, never too busy to rubbish up any production with the same wince-inducing character over and over and over again.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 February 2012 10:35 (twelve years ago) link
a gig's a gig
― Dr Frogbius (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 10:36 (twelve years ago) link
"Oh, he didn't just have the one arm then?"
― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Monday, 13 February 2012 10:39 (twelve years ago) link
He was only following orders the script, yes.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 February 2012 10:39 (twelve years ago) link
RIP Mr. Kelly
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 13 February 2012 11:08 (twelve years ago) link
RIP, John Severin.
http://www.comicsbeat.com/2012/02/14/rip-john-severin/
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
RIP Dory Previn, at 86.
http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/music/valley-of-dolls-co-composer-previn-shannon-dies/article_0ed4dd5b-e7d7-5b62-adfa-4a8bf6364d10.html
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
oh man john severin. total boyhood hero.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, one of my alltime favorites. I thought I'd posted here earlier today, but that was during one of today's internet outages. Anyway, it took a great talent to make Herb Trimpe look good.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
Aw, Dory Previn :(
― Madchen, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
rip albert riddle
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
lillian bassman
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/07/16/arts/28993805.JPG
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
Rip miss Bassman :'-(
― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
Was a huge fan of Severin- didn't he sometimes use the name "O O Severin," which I guess I just realized thirty something years later is a play on "007." In avant-ILX times I thought about doing "TS: Mort Drucker vs. John Severin." RIP everybody.
― AINT ET ENNE (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/york-nightlife-fixture-zelda-kaplan-dies-a-fashion-week-article-1.1023306
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-a-new-york-times-reporter-dies-in-syria.html?_r=1&hp
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 February 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
character actor Phil Bruns, best known as Mary Hartman's dad
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/159631-Phil-Bruns-Stage-and-Television-Actor-Dies-at-80
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 February 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
original morty seinfeld too
― buzza, Saturday, 18 February 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
I have strong memory of seeing an episode of Mary H in which she is distraught over her marital problems and has no one to turn to so she calls her dad. He tells her he has been watching a Claudette Colbert movie on TV that he has never seen the end of and if he doesn't watch it now he will never get a chance to see how it turns out. Mary hangs up and endures her troubles in silence, alone. RIP.
― Dalai Mixture (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 February 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
Dick Anthony Williams, Tony-nominated actor whose film roles included The Mack, Dog Day Afternoon, The Jerk, and Malcolm X on stage and in TV's "King" miniseries
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/theater/dick-anthony-williams-actor-and-producer-dies-at-77.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
RIP Frank Carson :(
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17046201
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
:((((
― the world is just a racist onion (stevie), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
RIP
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
Wrecking Crew session man Billy Strange
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2012/02/billy-strange-1930-2012.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/arts/jan-berenstain-dies-at-88-created-berenstain-bears.html?_r=1
― Fonz Hour (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 05:56 (twelve years ago) link
This is a weird one. Neil Hope, who played "Wheels" on the original "Degrassi Junior High" series in the 80s, apparently died in 2007 at the age of 35, but his death was just revealed publicly.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Erland Josephson, of Bergman films and Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-0227-erland-josephson-20120227,0,6567412.story
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
longtime NY theatre critic Howard Kissel
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/howard-kissel-long-time-daily-news-theater-critic-dead-69-article-1.1028518
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
Davy Jones of the Monkees.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
WTF? wow!
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
My wife, who is a Monkees superfan, texted me about 10 minutes ago, so I went to find the link.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
My first crush :(
(My first non-human crush was Fred from Scooby Doo, Davy was my first human crush)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
so suddenRIP
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
My sister was a Monkees superfan from back when MTV would air Monkees reruns, she will be crushed.
― Nicole, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
Holy shit!
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Bruce Surtees, cinematographer on Lenny, The Shootist, Dirty Harry, and many other Eastwood films:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bruce-surtees-20120301,0,7713839.story
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2012 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
Andrew Breitbart:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46588600
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 1 March 2012 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
Breitbart.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 March 2012 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
Gawker:
Breitbart was 43 years old. His last tweet came just seven hours ago.
boil lanced
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it's hard to mourn a total dick.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 March 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
drudgesiren.rip
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 1 March 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
really wish he had dropped in the middle of that "Behave yourselves" meltdown
counting it as a notch for OWS anyway
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
That last tweet, his legacy to the world:
AndrewBreitbart @AndrewBreitbartI called you a putz cause I thought you were being intentionally disingenuous. If not I apologize. @CenLamar @dust92
I called you a putz cause I thought you were being intentionally disingenuous. If not I apologize. @CenLamar @dust92
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Thursday, 1 March 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
^^Tombstone
― Fonz Hour (Eazy), Thursday, 1 March 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/arts/design/eleanor-callahan-photographic-muse-for-harry-callahan-dies-at-95.html
You can see photos of her when she was younger in the exhibit of her husband's photos at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC through Sunday March 4. A nice exhibit
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/callahaninfo.shtm
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 March 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
peace out breitbart, you won't be missed
― the late great, Thursday, 1 March 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
lucio dalla, who wrote some music for antonioni and monicelli films and is overall a national treasure in italy
http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-01/ae/31114450_1_italian-song-mario-monicelli-italian-singer
― althea and (donna rouge), Friday, 2 March 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
also this song is a jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2_iQihFWY
― althea and (donna rouge), Friday, 2 March 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
Artist Ralph McQuarrie, who almost single handedly designed what we think of as the look of the Star Wars universe. Not many artists who have their own action figure.
http://www.starwars.com/news/ralph_mcquarrie_remembered.html
― Flagpost Sitta (Phil D.), Sunday, 4 March 2012 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
RIP, Ronnie Montrose.
http://ronniemontrose.com/
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 4 March 2012 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
Hollywood character actress Martha Stewart, 89, of Daisy Kenyon, In a Lonely Place
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
Robert Sherman! :(
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
ie co-songwriter of Mary Poppins, not teen idol Bobby
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Jungle Book, too, among many others.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
I'll even forgive him for "It's a Small World," a plague upon the earth
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
Ravi—http://ibnlive.in.com/news/noted-musician-ravi-dies-at-85/237097-8.html
New Delhi: Noted musician Ravi Shankar Sharma, popularly known as Ravi, died today at the age of 85 after prolonged illness. The musician was born in Delhi on March 3, 1926.
One of the gifted musicians of the Hindi film industry, Ravi never had any formal training in music. He shifted to Mumbai in 1950 and got his first break in 1952 film 'Anand Math'. Soon his name started to feature among respected musicians. Films such as 'Chaudhvin Ka Chand' (1960), 'Do Badan' (1966), 'Humraaz' (1967), 'Ankhen' (1968), and 'Nikaah' (1982) won his critical as well as commercial success.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
note: this isn't Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar. This is the other Ravi Shankar, aka Ravi.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 March 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
My prayers are with the other Norah Jones.
(Sorry.)
― The Unbearable Lightness Of Peeing (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 8 March 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 March 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
Leslie Cochran, legendary Austin Texas Weirdo
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
damn, that guy was all over South Congress Ave when I was there 3 years ago.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
Jimmy Ellis of the Trammps
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Friday, 9 March 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
Just read that Peter Bergman of the Firesign Theater has died (leukemia).
― nickn, Friday, 9 March 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
oh no!
RIP, Mr. Bergman.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 9 March 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I'm hearing about this as well.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 March 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
fuck fuck fuck
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Friday, 9 March 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
Confirmed:
https://www.facebook.com/philip.proctor2/posts/10150620086438752
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 March 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150673823910209&id=282668140208
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 March 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
Aw, no. :(
― Mayan Calendar Deren (doo dah), Friday, 9 March 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Leonardo Cimino, Obie-winning actor whose films included Moonstruck, Dune, Stardust Memories:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/arts/leonardo-cimino-a-distinctive-actor-dies-at-94.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 March 2012 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
Oh bummer. Remember him from V and Moonstruck :(
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 March 2012 06:01 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, always good to see him pop up in something. That's one long life lived!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 March 2012 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
And a Normandy landing to boot. That's quite an innings.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 March 2012 06:55 (twelve years ago) link
Moebius/Jean Giraud
― Alan Hale's Corn Casserole Recipe (Family Circle, June 1976) (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 11 March 2012 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
Geez, two of the great sci-fi illustrators of all time in two weeks. ;_;
― the Hilary Clinton of Ghostface Killahs (Phil D.), Sunday, 11 March 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/news/2012/03/david-doernberg-1967-2012/
Production designer David Doernberg, who brought a sensitive, finely crafted and observant touch to many excellent independent films, died in New York on Friday after a battle with cancer.
Doernberg began his career in the late ’80s/early ’90s working on music videos for bands like Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and Superchunk. He quickly moved into independent features as a propmaster for films by Hal Hartley (Amateur), Daisy von Scherler Mayer (Party Girl) and Eric Schaeffer (If Lucy Fell). Soon after he became a production designer, bookending his career with films by Kelly Reichardt. He designed her 1994 debut film, River of Grass as well as her 2010 period tale of frontier life on the Oregon Trail, Meek’s Cutoff. Other notable credits include Phil Morrison’s Junebug, Alison Maclean’s Jesus’s Son, Morgan J. Freeman’s Desert Blue, Todd Solondz’s Palindromes and Pete Sollett’s Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 11 March 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
I was just looking at Leonard Cimino's imdb entry Friday because he was on a Law and Order rerun.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 11 March 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
Bugs Henderson of Mouse & the Traps:
http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/10/3800606/bugs-henderson-local-blues-guitar.html
For me, the funniest garage record ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obRy59b21TU
― clemenza, Friday, 16 March 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, RIP. Didn't know he was sick.
The story behind "A Public Execution" is pretty funny, and rather Texan. Ronnie "Mouse" Weiss was engaged to this girl who'd moved from Tyler down to Houston. One weekend Weiss' had some cousins from West Texas come in for a visit. One of the cousins was a pretty teenage girl who was seen (near a Dairy Queen or something) riding around with Mouse on his motorcycle (or "two-wheeled pony") by a friend of the fiance. The friend called her up and she wrote Mouse an angry letter ending their relationship.
He wrote the song as a response to the letter, intending to just record it and send her the tape. His producer, Robin Hood Brians, talked him into working it up into the garage standard (and charter Nuggets inclusion) we all know and love today.
Mouse and The Traps actually had a pretty solid and stylistically varied body of work. Big Beat did a real nice comp, The Fraternity Years, back in the 90s.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 March 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
Tom Murrin, The Alien Comic
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/13/rip-the-alien-comic_n_1341225.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 March 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
RIP, Mouse & the Traps guy
― Everything You POLL Is RONG (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 March 2012 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
The friend called her up and she wrote Mouse an angry letter ending their relationship. He wrote the song as a response to the letter, intending to just record it and send her the tape.
I feel like "Mouse retreated to his room, dropped acid, and listened to nothing but 'Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?' for two whole weeks" ought to be inserted between those two sentences.
― clemenza, Friday, 16 March 2012 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
Was-he-or-wasn't-he convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk. His case caused no end of grief among Cleveland's German, Polish, Slovak and Jewish communities.
― butvi wouls (Phil D.), Saturday, 17 March 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
OMG no way, he's finally dead?!
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Saturday, 17 March 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
do not RIP if you are Ivan the Terrible; RIP if this has all been a huge mistake
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Saturday, 17 March 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
and i mean HUGE
yeah, his trials have dominated Cleveland news...my whole life?
― kate78, Saturday, 17 March 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
Richest guy in Thailand and co-founder of Red Bull.
― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
Ulu Grosbard, director of theatre (American Buffalo) and film (Straight Time, True Confessions)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/arts/music/ulu-grosbard-broadway-and-film-director-dies-at-83.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 04:27 (twelve years ago) link
Tonino Guerra, screenwriter for Antonioni, Fellini, Angelopoulos, Tarkovsky, Rosi
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/tonino-guerra-1920-2012
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 March 2012 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
as mentioned by aero elsewhere, boxing writer Bert Sugar -- would not have guessed he was 'only' 75:
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/story/_/id/7736006/acclaimed-boxing-writer-bert-sugar-dies-cardiac-arrest-75
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 March 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
Just saw that Ulu Grossbard RIP now. Ah well, RIP.
Hilton Kramer:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/arts/design/hilton-kramer-critic-who-championed-modernism-dies-at-84.html?_r=1&ref=arts
― (Dre) vs. (Eazy), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
adrienne rich, 82
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2012/03/adrienne-rich.html
really enjoyed the handful of poems of hers i've read, have always meant to investigate her further
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
oh college lit classes, sigh I loved her for a shining period in my life
v sad
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm
― 1staethyr, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2012/03/28/earl-scruggs-country-music-hall-of-famer-dies-at-age-88/
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
oh fuck earl scruggs was a titan. rest easy world-changingly great picker.
― tempestuous alaskan nites! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
oh no
I saw him at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass a few years back, he was wonderful
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
Rich's gazahls are great.
― (Dre) vs. (Eazy), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
Scruggs and Rich, jammin' in Heaven, I hope.
― (Dre) vs. (Eazy), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
Was suprised by Adrienne Rich, didnt know she was still with us!
― zooey bechamel (Trayce), Thursday, 29 March 2012 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
Southern novelist Harry Crews.
― )Dre( vs. (Eazy), Friday, 30 March 2012 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
Oh booooo that sucks!
― torture prom (jjjusten), Friday, 30 March 2012 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
Nancy L. Earp, 911 operator who may have talked to the Zodiac killer.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
Warren Stevens, character actor who played Doc Ostrow in Forbidden Planet
http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/9036/forbidden-planets-warren-stevens-dies-at-92.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 April 2012 06:56 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry for your loss, Dr. Morbius.
― Singularities Going Steady (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 April 2012 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
according to a FB friend, jamaa fanaka passed away (can't find any obits yet tho) - i missed his films in the LA rebellion screening series that just happened here but 'penitentiary' and 'welcome home, brother charles' are considered blaxploitation classics
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
RIP NY Cosmos and Lazio legend Giorgio Chinaglia
― MIke Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, designer of the Porsche 911
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 April 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
Luke Askew Acording to his wiki, he passed on March 30th.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
Gil Noble
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/business/media/gil-noble-host-of-show-on-black-issues-dies-at-80.html?ref=nyregion
― MrDasher, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
James Marshall, guy who developed those stacked amplifiers
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 April 2012 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
RIP. But the former WFMU dj of the same name seems to still be going strong
― MIke Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 April 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
Thomas Kinkade painter of shite light.
― Madchen, Saturday, 7 April 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
Placerville fellow, just up the hill from Sacramento. Heaven will be full of little candles and Christmas scenes.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 April 2012 03:49 (twelve years ago) link
Mothers and grandmothers everywhere will mourn.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 April 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
Jigsaw puzzles at half-mast
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 April 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
end of an era
― Chris S, Saturday, 7 April 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
Mike Wallace!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 April 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qRyTDbEskM
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 April 2012 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
i'm glad we now recognize bullshit movies as the highest posthumous truth
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 April 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, April 5, 2012 12:02 PM (3 days ago)
http://i.imgur.com/QgNEm.gif
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 9 April 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.texasdude.com/9-11-01/trade%20center%20eagel.jpg
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 April 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Wait, I thought you never saw "The Insider," you doofus.
Anyway, I always wondered what Mike Wallace thought of a characterization that simultaneously lionized him as a journalistic badass and a cynical, self-interested sell-out.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 April 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
dunno where u got that idea; I saw the bipartite Mann hunks-in-gray-hair crapfests
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 April 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore computers and Auschwitz survivorhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/04/09/computer-legend-and-gaming-pioneer-jack-tramiel-dies-at-age-83/
― zappi, Monday, 9 April 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
Raymond Aubrac, French resistance hero
http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2012/04/11/01016-20120411ARTFIG00516-raymond-aubrac-mort-d-une-figure-de-la-resistance.php
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
He was pals with Hô Chi Minh and was an official interlocutor between him and Kissinger.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
Effing heck, even Le Fig wants me to download a sodding app these days
― Madchen, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
William Finley, aka Brian De Palma's Phantom:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/in-memory-of-star-william-finley-1942-2012-5-things-you-might-not-know-about-phantom-of-the-paradise-20120416
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 April 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
Paul Bogart, TV director of All in the Family, Get Smart, The Defenders
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/arts/television/paul-bogart-tv-director-dies-at-92.html
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, wow, William Finley. Outside of DePalma's work, that dude ate more scenery than any other actor in history on Tobe Hooper's "Eaten Alive."
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 12:34 (twelve years ago) link
dick clarkhttp://www.tmz.com/2012/04/18/dick-clark-dead-heart-attack/#.T48aR9klfIV
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
Byliner @TheByliner Reply Retweet Favorite · OpenMany apologies for the incorrect news about Dick Cheney. Of course it is Dick CLARK who just died. Sorry for dropping the ball on that.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
lol, but also ;_; @ not true
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sure that, on balance, Clark contributed a lot to the history of pop. The one thing I always held against him was the way he emerged from the payola scandal of the early '60s untouched, while Alan Freed took the fall.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
millions of lazy sitcom writers mourn the passing of their laziest go to old person joke
― Badu and a sax run hand-in-hand (jjjusten), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
betty white died?
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
Dick Clark just HAD to die in 2012. Fuck, maybe the Mayans were right!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
Chuck Colson, Nixon-admin detritus. Good fucking riddance.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Saturday, 21 April 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57418411-503544/former-nixon-aide-chuck-colson-dies-at-80/
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Saturday, 21 April 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Watergate Club in hell nearly complete
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Don't have a link yet, but the Gram Parsons page on FB is reporting that Chris Etheridge has died.
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
can't find an obit yet but amos vogel reportedly passed away this morning. 'film as a subversive art' was key to my film-fan development (i own 2 copies)
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
more on Vogel... I don't think I've ever seen or heard much about that book. :(
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/amos-vogel-1921-2012
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
it should be in print now (i managed to get a copy off the street from one of the back-of-the-truck booksellers in front of NYU when it wasn't)
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
Pete Fornatale, pioneering deejay at WNEW-FM
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/arts/music/pete-fornatale-a-pioneer-of-fm-rock-dies-at-66.html
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 April 2012 04:54 (eleven years ago) link
david weiss of fischli/weiss
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/news/2012-04-27/david-weiss-of-fischliweiss-has-died/
― madame boo berry (donna rouge), Friday, 27 April 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
This guy was probably going to win Olympic gold this year. :( http://espn.go.com/olympics/swimming/story/_/id/7876459/swimming-world-champ-alexander-dale-oen-norway-dies-arizona-26
― Roz, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
"Skip" Pitts, guitarist on the Isleys' "It's Your Thing" and Hayes' "Theme from Shaft".
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/may/01/stax-music-great-charles-skip-pitts-dies/
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
Don't know if this was noted elsewhere, but Greg Ham, sax/flute player for Men At Work, died a few days ago.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/greg-ham-dies-found-dead-men-at-work-flute-player-314266
― nickn, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
"Skip" Pitts? Oh no. RIP
― Stars on 45 Fell on Alabama (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, RIP Junior Seau.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/sports/football/junior-seau-famed-nfl-linebacker-dies-at-43-in-apparent-suicide.html?_r=1&hp#
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
oh, as usual I didn't find the other thread: nfl offseason transactions, fired coaches, general nonsense 2012
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
whoa fuck!
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
Adam Yauch...
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Friday, 4 May 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
George Lindsey aka Goober Pylehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blQrIySidOA
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 6 May 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
funnier than Gomer IMO
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 May 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
Absolutely.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 May 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Meow
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 7 May 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
Alligator Records says Arkansas bluesman Michael "Iron Man" Burks has died after collapsing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He was 54.
The record label says Burks collapsed Sunday after returning from a European tour. He was pronounced dead at an Atlanta hospital. A spokesman for the record label says Burks died of a heart attack.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
Maurice Sendak ;_;
― on the road to the twilight zone (doo dah), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
Damn. RIP, Maurice.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
if you don't look good (or if you do), he don't look good
http://thelook.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/09/11621751-famed-hairstylist-vidal-sassoon-dead-at-age-84?lite
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons1/300/3001837/14_2009/1a/Vidal_Sassoon.jpg
"You didn't pay them for that, did you?"
― clemenza, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/pixel.gif
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Thursday, 10 May 2012 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
actress Joyce Redman, best remembered for her Tom Jones eating sceme with Albert Finney.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18013687
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
Mort Lindsey, bandleader of Judy at Carnegie Hall and The Merv Griffin Show:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/arts/music/mort-lindsey-musical-director-dies-at-89.html
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
Carroll Shelby, racer and car builder
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 11 May 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
Thought he'd already died. Hm.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 May 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
well, he's dead now.
― ♆ (gr8080), Saturday, 12 May 2012 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
Perhaps more to the point, I finally get onto the Dead Pool scoreboard.
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 12 May 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
Filipino comics artist Tony DeZuniga -- http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/05/10/tony-dezuniga-r-i-p/
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Saturday, 12 May 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
Donald "Duck" Dunn, Stax legend, bass player for Booker T & The MGs
http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/cropper.jpg
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 May 2012 06:20 (eleven years ago) link
Oh holy shit noooooo
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Sunday, 13 May 2012 06:22 (eleven years ago) link
:((((((tried in vain to find the scene from blues bros where he says "[incomprehensible garble] to go piss on some gasoline" or something
― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Sunday, 13 May 2012 08:57 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBnLgNmB1eM
― how's life, Sunday, 13 May 2012 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
you are a star
― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Sunday, 13 May 2012 09:10 (eleven years ago) link
"We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline."
― get wolves (get bent), Sunday, 13 May 2012 10:40 (eleven years ago) link
An amazing bass player and a fantastic guy. If you only know the Blues Brothers, go here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/32187
― Three Word Username, Sunday, 13 May 2012 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
:(
― The Unbassful Serpent (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 May 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
ah hell. RIP Duck Dunn.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 13 May 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
didn't see the talk here before i started a thread. well, he deserves his own.
― arby's, Sunday, 13 May 2012 13:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/chuck-brown-dies-the-godfather-of-go-go-was-75/2012/05/16/gIQAJAfPUU_story_1.html
RIP Godfather of Go-go Chuck Brown. Will treasure your gogo and your jazz sounds and your warm presentation
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 May 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
Hailed as the President of DC in today's Washington Post
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
wouldn't argue with that at all.
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
Donna Summer
― on the road to the twilight zone (doo dah), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
Donna Summer! Holy Shit.
http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/17/11745326-donna-summer-dead-at-63
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
― Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
Carlos Fuenteshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18081034
RIP, Carlos
And RIP, Donna Summer. Man, Booker T was right.
― Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
from wfmu's twitter stream:
Pete Seeger, Iconic Songwriter, Found Resting Under Tree Near NY Home: 93Yr-Old Folk Legend Was Serene, Tranquil
so far that's the only mention i've seen. i hope it doesn't mean what i think it means.
― get wolves (get bent), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
Sure it wasn't the Onion?
― Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
nonononono
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I hope that's doesn't mean what I think it means either
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
WFMU @WFMU@clemmusic No, Pete Seeger was just resting. Hes 93, but for the most part he is perfectly OK. Some rheumatism. A bit of arthritis.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
thank goodness
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
strange thing to report tho? "pete seeger still alive, napping"
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
A variation of the old SNL Franco bit
― Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 May 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Never really got into the Rock And Roll Heaven iconography genre but if somebody made one of those with Duck Dunn, Andrew Love, Levon Helm, Skip Pitts and Donna Summer I would totally use it as a screensaver.
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 May 2012 11:46 (eleven years ago) link
Robin Gibb, apparently.I loved the Bee Gees when I was young :(
― on the road to the twilight zone (doo dah), Sunday, 20 May 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
:(Remove bookmark from this thread
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
noooooo
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
I guess we can take comfort in the fact that Spin has provided us with a long list of best guitarists, most of whom won't be going anywhere anytime soon
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
"Jam Master Jay still . . . lives"
― mookieproof, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
aww RIP
― Chris S, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
Score score
― Jeff, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
what a month
― the late great, Monday, 21 May 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
It won't be long before Otis Redding will able to record some new material on Stax Celestial.
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 May 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Led Zeppelin IIhttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-talk-led-zeppelin-ii-dies-0524-20120523,0,1108232.story
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
Love this:
"Since I became Led Zeppelin, my life has improved a thousand fold."
Fuck it. I'm changing my name to In A Silent Way.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
Pathos and lols all at once:
The 64-year-old Zeppelin "climbed the 'Stairway to Heaven'" May 18 at Alton Memorial Hospital, according to a death notice published in newspapers, including the Tribune. He died of a heart attack, his daughter said.
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
"I don't want to appear to be some off-the-wall, drug-addict idiot. I just changed my name from the standpoint that I can be a better person than I used to be."
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
i think i actually have a lot of respect for that guy
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
No I do not want to meet your friend named In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, I'm fairly certain I won't like him.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
Survived by his wife Custard Pie
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
after reading that article I have formed a short mental list of friends of mine who might be convinced to change their name to "Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game"
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
As of today you can all refer to me as Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
can i call you HOTS for short?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
sure
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
"If he'd become Sabbath Bloody Sabbath instead, he'd have lived to 200" muses Bill Magill
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
But then his soul would belong to Satan.
― nickn, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
worth it imo
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
paul fussell
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:54 (eleven years ago) link
“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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m527a9FJ0y1qz6f9yo1_r3_500.jpg
― mookieproof, Monday, 4 June 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Eduard "Mr Trololo" Khil.
― i like slash and i vote (j.lu), Monday, 4 June 2012 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
Dag
― Jeff, Monday, 4 June 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
Ray Bradbury
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
already discussion of this on his thread.
― how's life, Thursday, 7 June 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
Oops, only just popped on the Beeb, hadn't heard.
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 7 June 2012 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
^Two major car films there
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 June 2012 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Of course I mean The Small Back Room.
― F is for Fule (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 June 2012 04:56 (eleven years ago) link
Frank Cady
― Hare Kinsey (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 June 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Actress Ann Rutherford: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gone-wind-ann-rutherford-dead-336296
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Rodney King
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Sunday, 17 June 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
RIP, of course, my minds just elsewhere.
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Sunday, 17 June 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Victor Spinetti
and
Brian Hibbard
Not a good week to be Welsh and have cancer.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Was just coming to post Victor Spinetti :(
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, Reuters saying he's "clinically dead"
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
...after having a stroke in prison
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
More notably, Andrew Sarris/
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Aww, RIP
― Neil Jung (WmC), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
sad.RIP.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxLxTZHKM8
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
I totally missed hearing of Frank Cady's death a month ago. So used to seeing him as kindly Sam Drucker as a kid, so it was a weird moment when I first watched The Bad Seed; his small performance as Mr. Daigle alongside grieving Eileen Heckart is minor, but moving.
― Mafia-owned bar for transvestites (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101016125260/simpsons/images/0/00/Matlock_expressway.png
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
After Mayberry and A Face in the Crowd, I most associate Andy Griffith with Go Ask Alice.
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/JMM3X3hqj3w/0.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
In the 60s and 70s, the Andy Griffith Show was one of the few positive portrayals of the South we got to see on TV. A cloying, one-dimensional South, true, but a gentle one, with recognizable similarities to where we lived. RIP.
― Brad C., Tuesday, 3 July 2012 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
in honor of Andy Griffithhttp://www.undergroundcomixart.com/drawings/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1321&g2_serialNumber=2http://www.undergroundcomixart.com/drawings/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1325&g2_serialNumber=2
― your petty attempt at destroying me is laughable (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
what the fuck is that shit?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
anyone left besides jim nabors?
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
there's this goofy bald guy that makes movies now, maybe you've heard of him
― your petty attempt at destroying me is laughable (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
"that shit" is work by artist Drew Friedman. From an early RAW, I think.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
ffs xxxxp
― Chris S, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
lol Shakey
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
That was Friedman's first comics work!
― Neil Jung (WmC), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
RIP car designer Sergio Pininfarina
The world of automotive design has lost another great. Sergio Pininfarina – the honorary chairman of the Pininfarina Group that bears his family name – passed away last night at age 85.Sergio took control of Pininfarina as chairman back in 1966 after his father, Gian Battista 'Pinin' Farina, passed away. He would hold this role until transitioning to honorary chairman in 2006.Over his tenure, his Pininfarina firm worked on design projects for everyone from Alfa Romeo to Chevrolet to Bentley and Volvo, but he is perhaps most known for his work for Ferrari and Maserati. No stranger to edgy aesthetics, Pininfarina presided over designs like the 2002 Ferrari Enzo and the 1984 Ferrari Testarossa before it. Conversely, he was also responsible for some beautifully simple forms, including the lauded 1996 Peugeot 406 Coupe and 2003 Maserati Quattroporte.
Sergio took control of Pininfarina as chairman back in 1966 after his father, Gian Battista 'Pinin' Farina, passed away. He would hold this role until transitioning to honorary chairman in 2006.
Over his tenure, his Pininfarina firm worked on design projects for everyone from Alfa Romeo to Chevrolet to Bentley and Volvo, but he is perhaps most known for his work for Ferrari and Maserati. No stranger to edgy aesthetics, Pininfarina presided over designs like the 2002 Ferrari Enzo and the 1984 Ferrari Testarossa before it. Conversely, he was also responsible for some beautifully simple forms, including the lauded 1996 Peugeot 406 Coupe and 2003 Maserati Quattroporte.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
My grandfather wanted a specific Andy Griffith gospel song played at his funeral, and all we could find was a medley of AG songs that contained the requested song therein, so at his funeral, we all sat and listened to a ten-minute medley of Andy Griffith's greatest gospel hits, which was not unlike living in morbid, surreal sketch comedy skit.
Anyway, RIP, dude. Your TV show used to bore me to tears as a kid, but my grandfather liked you a lot.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
Was shocked to see a mid-90s (likely non-US-compliant) Alfa Spyder the other day. I thought, "How come no one designs cars like that anymore?" RIP.
xp
― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
RIP andy g have fun chilling in heaven w/ don knotts
― the late great, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
a face in the crowd is so good.
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
r.i.p.http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/bastardang/1160825688/1/tumblr_l929joFvh91qzc4ea
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
sing him off, fellas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcuKlnlCQYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p34LFnMKyhs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3NdEEKZz7I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVU8Tz2xmAQ
― Chris S, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 08:00 (eleven years ago) link
Eric Sykeshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18704263
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 10:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.art247.com/images/large/MIRRORPIX/WA/WA447350.jpg
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 10:06 (eleven years ago) link
"The plank itself was sold at auction on Monday 5 December 2011 for £1050."
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
aw.
if you're reading, BBC4, and you haven't already done so then we'll be fine without a gritty docudrama about his life cheers
― coopflaggypost (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 10:52 (eleven years ago) link
but an evening of his best bits would be luverly thanks
― Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Poo-poo-pa-doop. (stevie), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
The "Sykes" show is kinda terrible when you see it now - though maybe it was better in the 60s - but what a great guy and great talent RIP
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 11:28 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah, they show it on itv4 or summat like that don't they - watched one a few weeks back where sykes ate cheese and had a nightmare he and hattie were mice. pretty trippy in a grim low budget way...
http://distilleryimage6.s3.amazonaws.com/20d8f76ea3f611e180d51231380fcd7e_7.jpg
― Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Poo-poo-pa-doop. (stevie), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 11:33 (eleven years ago) link
"Tellytubbies!!!"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
RIP ernest borgnine, age 95.
― higgs bosonned by a wite kid after a aol beef (get bent), Sunday, 8 July 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
yeah
rip big man, probably worth a thread
― manticore values (nakhchivan), Sunday, 8 July 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
I had just stumbled over this earlier today:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oUjmZeacI3I/ShVkZR_Qc7I/AAAAAAAABKs/w9gMsSgFNRE/s400/ebpark1.jpg
I associate him with The Poseidon Adventure more than anything else, even though I know he made more famous films. He was just always there.
― clemenza, Sunday, 8 July 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
I still associate him with McHale's Navy more than anything else
(2nd, killing Sinatra)
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 July 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
RIP EB.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/borgnine.jpg
― Neil Jung (WmC), Sunday, 8 July 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
He was married to both Katy Jurado and Ethel Merman, iirc. Not sure of any other spouses, I guess I'll find out now.
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 July 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sByx33TUGZU
― balls, Sunday, 8 July 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
"He was married to both Katy Jurado and Ethel Merman, iirc. Not sure of any other spouses, I guess I'll find out now."
tova! guess you didn't used to read the national enquirer.
― scott seward, Sunday, 8 July 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
Morbius is right, how could I forget--he's really scary in From Here to Eternity.
― clemenza, Sunday, 8 July 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
"My Linda! Ya killed her! The only thing I ever loved!"
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 July 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Mermaid Man ;_;
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 July 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
Tova was on QVC just the other day.
― Madchen, Monday, 9 July 2012 06:18 (eleven years ago) link
Because of my age, I'll forever associate Borgnine with Airwolf. I've seen him in a lot of other things at this point, but I saw him co-piloting a super helicopter first.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 July 2012 06:37 (eleven years ago) link
jesus, i LOVED that dopey supercop movie balls linked to up there, as a kid.
― Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Poo-poo-pa-doop. (stevie), Monday, 9 July 2012 07:08 (eleven years ago) link
Borgnine was in a LOT of great shit, kinda bummed he hasn't gotten his own RIP thread. :(
anyway RIP Ernie
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 July 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
You have the power.
― Jeff, Monday, 9 July 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
For me he's forever linked to The Poseidon Adventure, a flick which continues to unnerve me deeply to this day.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Monday, 9 July 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
My nextmost vivid memories of Borgnine aside from The Poseidon Adventure are Disney's The Black Hole and Escape From New York. And, of course:
http://www.oocities.org/per100s/gueststars/borgnine.gif
He really did it all.
(I'll wait for Ned to bring up Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders.)
― MacArthur Parkour (Phil D.), Monday, 9 July 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
Ernest Borgnine on the Bus (doc made by my pal who did Heavy Metal Parking Lot)
http://www.wtop.com/541/2936049/Ernest-Borgnine-almost-reality-show-star
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 July 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
Lol Coxhill:http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/news-mainmenu-139/69-2012/12425-jazz-breaking-news-saxophonist-lol-coxhill-dies-age-79
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theshed.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/skip_sax_shed_2.jpg
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:02 (eleven years ago) link
aw
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FXmTwKZmSts/TI-12246NyI/AAAAAAAACHM/pHyOJnB8GOI/s1600/coxhill.jpg
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:03 (eleven years ago) link
Last time I saw him play was when he opened for John Fahey at the QE Hall; now they're both gone...
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.morgan-fisher.com/miniatures/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/M1-18sm.jpghttp://www.morgan-fisher.com/miniatures/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/m1-18.jpg
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:09 (eleven years ago) link
very :-(
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:52 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Lol - have esp fond memories of seeing him and Billy Jenkins play for free in a park in London one Sunny day
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 12:04 (eleven years ago) link
Poss. Lol (RIP) needs thread of his own on ILM?
― SomeTwat from Tring (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
go for it
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 12:11 (eleven years ago) link
documentarian/professor george stoney (never took one of his classes but i think he was teaching right up until the end tho)
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/13/headlines/community_media_pioneer_george_stoney_dies_at_96
― radical ferry (donna rouge), Friday, 13 July 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
Richard Zanuck
― Don't Feel Like Santana, But Oye Como Va To Them (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 July 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
sage stallone!
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/screencrush.com/files/2012/07/sage-stallone-dead1.jpg
― scott seward, Saturday, 14 July 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
feel bad for rocky :(
― scott seward, Saturday, 14 July 2012 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
what a mug
― the late great, Saturday, 14 July 2012 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
survived by his brother, seargeoh
― the late great, Saturday, 14 July 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
aka seth stallone
sage looks more like travolta imo
― the late great, Saturday, 14 July 2012 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
celeste holm : (
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/15/156810156/oklahoma-actress-celeste-holm-dies-at-95
― buzza, Sunday, 15 July 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
Jon Lord of Deep Purple.
http://www.nme.com/news/deep-purple/64953
RIP, Jon.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 16 July 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man. Will put on Child In Time next.
― Desire is withered away from the sons of men! (aldo), Monday, 16 July 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
Man, Jon Lord, Sobol, and Funk Brother Bob Babbitt. What a day.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
Here is link to Bob Babbitt obit:http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120716/ENT09/207160405/1361/Motown-bassist-and-Funk-Brother-Bob-Babbitt-dies-at-74
― My Elusive Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
Stephen Covey author of that shitty book that all the MBAs read. No, the other one.
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
Kitty Wells
― rods & cones (doo dah), Monday, 16 July 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
Isuzu Yamada
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/movies/isuzu-yamada-actress-who-worked-with-kurosawa-dies-at-95.html?_r=1&ref=movies
― MrDasher, Monday, 16 July 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
Here is link to Bob Babbitt obit:
Very sad. Only a few Funk Brothers left.
― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 16 July 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
dennis from the frogs died - has this been on here yet? http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2012/07/09/dennis-flemion/
― Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Poo-poo-pa-doop. (stevie), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
Here you go stevie:
The Frogs. (Edit -- Dennis Flemion RIP)
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
thanks nick!
also - WILLIAM ASHER!!!
― Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Poo-poo-pa-doop. (stevie), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Stephen R. Covey, people were always after your book. Our copy never got returned.
― jel --, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
RIP first Blade Runner (Holden) Morgan Paull
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
Robert Creamer:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/baseball/mlb/07/19/robert-creamer-walter-bingham/index.html?sct=mlb_t12_a0
His Ruth and Stengel biographies are two of my favourite baseball books; the long segment in Baseball where he describes Jackie Robinson walking and then going on to score a run is a highlight.
― clemenza, Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, those books are essential.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
Tom Davis!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/arts/television/tom-davis-saturday-night-live-comedy-writer-dies-at-59.html
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
I knew Davis had been ill a long while (Dennis Perrin met up with him several times recently).
Search: Franken & Davis sketch of candidate ads sliming each other.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 July 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
his autobiography is a really great read
― Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Poo-poo-pa-doop. (stevie), Thursday, 19 July 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
The good news: my chemotherapy is working and I’m still buying green bananas.
The bad news: two years ago, before we knew it as MDD (Michael Douglas Disease), I was diagnosed with tonsorial squamous cell carcinoma, a/k/a head and neck cancer. After surgery, I elected to go with radiation therapy sans complementary chemo, which was probably a big mistake. The malignancy unexpectedly spread to the bones of my pelvis and lower spine, where it has been munching away without thought of its host’s well-being. It’s now described as “exotic and aggressive,” but it’s getting its cancerous ass kicked by taxotere, a drug that imitates the chemistry of the European Yew tree. Made in China, of course. I’ll be using it, or a related drug “for the rest of my life,” which could be as long as two more high-quality-of-life years. I’d be thrilled with that.
There are side effects, the two weirdest being a “recall effect,” in which radiation sores reappear, and neuropathy in my fingernails, which are in the unpleasant process of falling off. Ow. I’ve lost hair from all over my body. With only a little bit of white fluff on my head, I visited my mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease in Minneapolis.
“Now I want you to take all your medicine and your hair will grow back,” she said cheerfully. “I think you look a little like that bird Woodstock in Peanuts.” I’ll take that; better than Uncle Fester.
My old comedy partner (Senator) Al Franken, volunteered to draw my hair back on with a magic marker, which would be funny for about two days. We’re planning to write something for him to read once I de-animate, the final Franken and Davis piece. We’ll see. Typically, we would wait until the last minute.
I’ve lost about 50 pounds. (I needed to lose 49.) It’s great to wear jeans from the 70s, although I remember making a few people laugh when I said I would save them in case I got cancer. Once, in the early eighties, Franken and Davis appeared on the David Letterman Show as “The Comedy Team that Weighs the Same,” a piece so stupid it was really funny. We dressed in bathrobes and Speedos for the final weigh-in on a huge scale. David asked if any other comedy team had weighed the same, and I said “Laurel and Hardy, but only near the end of Ollie’s life,” which got a good groan laugh. Maybe I tempted fate a little too often.
My grocer at the Claverack Market, Ted the Elder, recently asked if I had heard that there are two stages in life: “youth,” and “you look great.” Wish I’d thought of that.
Several close friends have asked if I was aware of alternative medicines, therapies, protocols, doctors, clinics, and books. One offered personal testimony. His colon cancer was supposed to have killed him several years ago. He attributes his survival to an exclusive diet of blueberry smoothies. My fear is not death; my fear is spending my last years slurping blueberry, whey and soy powder shakes in a rock star hospital in Houston, surrounded by strangers. No.
My daily regimen begins with half a medical marijuana cookie in my oatmeal, and ends with dinner at a fancy restaurant with friends or family. And before bed, ice cream.
False hope is my enemy, also self pity, which went out the window when I saw children with cancer. I try to embrace the inevitable with whatever grace I can muster, and find the joy in each day. I’ve always been good at that, but now I’m getting really good at it.
Before I was diagnosed, I was also good at getting high recreationally. “Pain management” is another ballgame, the goal being to recreate the feeling of “wellness,” while minimizing the side effects of taxotere. My extensive past experience enables me to fine tune my protocol. These days I get my marijuana through airport security by hiding it in the morphine.
I wake up in the morning, delighted to be waking up, read, write, feed the birds, watch sports on TV, accepting the fact that in the foreseeable future I will be a dead person. I want to remind you that dead people are people too. There are good dead people and bad dead people. Some of my best friends are dead people. Dead people have fought in every war. We’re all going to try it sometime. Fortunately for me, I have always enjoyed mystery and solitude.
Many people in my situation say, “It’s been my worst and best year.” If that sounds like a cliché, you don’t have cancer. On the plus side, I am grateful to have gained real, not just intellectual empathy. I was prepared to go through life without having suffered, and I was doing a good job of it. Now I know what it’s like to starve. And to accept “that over which I have no control,” I had to turn inward. People from all over my life are reconnecting with me, and I’ve tried to take responsibility for my deeds, good and bad. As my friend Timothy Leary said in his book, Death by Design, “Even if you’ve been a complete slob your whole life, if you can end the last act with panache, that’s what they’ll remember.”
I think I’ve finally grown up.
It is odd to have so much time to orchestrate the process of my own death. I’m improvising. I’ve never done this before, so far as I know. Ironically, I probably will outlive one or two people to whom I’ve already said goodbye. My life has been rife with irony; why stop now?
As an old-school Malthusian liberal, I’ve always believed that the source of all mankind’s problems is overpopulation. I’m finally going to do something about it.
― scott seward, Friday, 20 July 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
cheers, Tom
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2012 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/dining/sylvia-woods-soul-food-restaurateur-is-dead-at-86.html
― Grimy Little Pimp (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 20 July 2012 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
Alastair Burnet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jul/20/itv-news-sir-alastair-burnet
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Friday, 20 July 2012 11:15 (eleven years ago) link
Sally Ride
https://www.sallyridescience.com/sallyride/bio
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 23 July 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
Margaret Mahy:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10821711
― etc, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
Frank Pierson, screenwriter of Dog Day Afternoon and former AMPAS prez.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/frank-pierson-death-obituary-353052
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
^^RIP. Just discovered one of his last writing credits was the Mad Men ep, "Signal 30"--home of one of the greatest scenes in recent tv history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM_88FfHcIo
― Don't Feel Like Santana, But Oye Como Va To Them (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
Aw, RIP Margaret Mahy.
― still small voice of clam (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 10:03 (eleven years ago) link
Chad Everett, so-what TV star of the '60s and '70s who deserves to be remembered for his astounding scene with Naomi Watts in Mulholland Dr.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-chad-everett-20120725,0,1572963.story
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 07:50 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Mary Tammhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/jul/26/doctor-who-mary-tamm-dies
― Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Poo-poo-pa-doop. (stevie), Thursday, 26 July 2012 10:14 (eleven years ago) link
Romana ;_;
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 July 2012 13:14 (eleven years ago) link
What a babe, RIP Mary
― SomeTwat from Tring (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 July 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
German film actress Susanne Lothar (Funny Games, The Lives of Others), only 51:
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-susanne-lothar-1960-2012/
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
Sie hätte nur mit Mühe überlebt. (Bad German pun.)
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
It's looking like heroin and/or suicide on Lothar -- a shocking number of critically acclaimed German stage and screen actors are junkies -- the family's lawyers are being extremely hush hush but actor colleagues are hinting strongly in the German press.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
aw man :/
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
i stumbled across this short film she's in while flipping through channels once and i still get creeped out thinking about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxpIwpLEez0
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
austrian artist franz west passed away as well
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/franz-west/
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
No English-lang obits yet, but French filmmaker Chris Marker has died at 91.
http://www.metrofrance.com/culture/le-cineaste-chris-marker-est-mort/mlgD!hVkHar3vcKogc/
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 July 2012 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, that's terrible news. Thought my day was going well, too.
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
91 is a pretty good age, esp if you don't have a long decline.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
His birthday too, apparently.
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
R.G. Armstrong, TV western actor who became a regular for Peckinpah and Warren Beatty:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/arts/television/r-g-armstrong-character-actor-in-westerns-dies-at-95.html
Tony Martin, pop singer of the '40s and '50s, married to Cyd Charisse for 60 years:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/arts/music/tony-martin-debonair-pop-baritone-dies-at-98.html
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 08:00 (eleven years ago) link
Maeve Binchy, writer
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0730/writer-maeve-binchy-dies-aged-72.html
― ledge, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 08:40 (eleven years ago) link
aww :(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
In the 1930s my dad spent a college year in the south and roomed with R.G. Armstrong for a bit. Nice guy, always sent xmas cards (and sent a nice eulogy to my dad's funeral). Always liked seeing him appear in shows and movies when I didn't expect it.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 05:36 (eleven years ago) link
gore vidal (link: the whole internet)
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 05:55 (eleven years ago) link
Tony Sly, 41, Singer and song writer for No Use For A Name. http://s3.fatwreck.com/498.html
― StanM, Thursday, 2 August 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
Robert Hughes, art critic, writer, documentary guy.
― woof, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 10:13 (eleven years ago) link
Marvin Hamlisch
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
Fashion editor Anna Piaggi, link to come.
― higgs' besom (suzy), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
Jeez, I guess that locks in Marvin's songs for the Nutty Professor musical.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
Was just 68. Hamlisch collapsed after a brief illness, his family announced
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
RIP, Robert Hughes. A great populizer and genuinely captivating guy.
― sive gallus et mulier (Michael White), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
Bernard Lovell, founder of Jodrell Bank:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19164236
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Mark O'Donnell, playwright, novelist, librettist of the Broadway musical of Hairspray
http://news-briefs.ew.com/2012/08/07/tony-winning-hairspray-writer-mark-odonnell-dies/
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Sir Bernard was also an accomplished musician, a keen cricketer and an internationally-renowned arboriculturalist who created an arboretum at Jodrell Bank.He is survived by four of his five children, 14 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
He is survived by four of his five children, 14 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
What a guy!
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
Ad exec Curvin O'Reilly, who was responsible for the Bill Cosby/Jell-O pudding campaign (among many other things).
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
I missed that about Robert Hughes--he was great in Crumb, contemptuously deriding the hallowed halls of Berkeley or something like that. Culture of Complaint was quite good.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
Judith Crist. Man, it's been a rough month for the arts.
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
I remember Crist's column about the week's network movie telecasts in TV Guide very well.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
'zinging and influential'!
― half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
Wow--along with Toronto's Clyde Gilmour, the first film critic I ever encountered. Can't even find an image of Judith Crist's TV Guide to the Movies to post.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
Like Morbz and clemenza, first film critic I ever read -- loved her column though I was too young to really get a grasp on much of what was discussed.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://gos.sbc.edu/c/crist.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
At one point the Times obit treats her almost on a plane with Kael and Sarris, and, as with Rex Reed, that just wasn't where she resided. Her blurb on Vertigo, from the book I mentioned earlier: "You'll find yourself helpless in the hands of the ultimate artist of chill-and-thrill films." I'm sure she would have been the first to admit that she served a different function. Could be wrong, but in Kellow's biography I think there was mention of Kael maintaining a casual friendship with her.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
Jairo Varela, Founder of Colombia's Grupo Niche, Dead at 62August 08, 2012 | By Leila Cobo (@leilacobo), Miami
Jairo Varela, the iconic founder and leader of celebrated Colombian salsa band Grupo Niche, died suddenly of apparent heart failure in his home in Cali, Colombia. He was 62 years old.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 August 2012 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, no idea Hughes died. "Fatal Shore" is fascinating.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 August 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
Humorist and This American Life contributor David Rakoff.
― kate78, Friday, 10 August 2012 08:46 (eleven years ago) link
wait what
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 August 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/david-rakoff-humorist-and-essayist-dies-at-47/
― kate78, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Mel Stuart, TV documentarian who went on to make Wattstax and, of course, Wonka
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/mel-stuart-director-willy-wonka-dead-83-article-1.1133430
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 August 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
wattstax is a great movie.
― if i had a goat's cheese tostada i might cream myself a little (stevie), Friday, 10 August 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
Carlo Rambaldi, FX designer of E.T., Alien, Possession etc.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/italian-special-effects-master-carlo-rambaldi-father-of-et-dead-at-86/2012/08/10/eade6e52-e30e-11e1-89f7-76e23a982d06_story.html
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
Rest In Peace, Joe Kubert. Will post a link when I have one. Absolutely crushed.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 12 August 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
NOOOOOOO
― Death Grits (WmC), Sunday, 12 August 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
exactly. Tearing up here.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 12 August 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, no. Have been wasting time watching this Olympic shite when I could have been reading his stuff again.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Sunday, 12 August 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
Gary Cox, guitarist/songwriter for US power pop band Artful Dodger.
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Sunday, 12 August 2012 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
Joe Kubert, comic book artist on Sgt Rock, Hawkman and many others:
http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/08/12/joe-kubert-r-i-p/
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 13 August 2012 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
Damn, how'd I miss hearing about David Rakoff? That's awful.
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Monday, 13 August 2012 06:20 (eleven years ago) link
My cousin Paul has some great things to say about Kubert, for whom he worked, here: http://kupps.malibulist.com/2012/08/13/joe-kubert/
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Monday, 13 August 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
Great memories from Kupperberg. Thanks Phil, and thanks to your cousin, too.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 13 August 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
Al Green??
― gygax! II: pornograffitti (admrl), Monday, 13 August 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
Hearing things through FB but see no reference to this anywhere yet. Hopefully it's not true
― gygax! II: pornograffitti (admrl), Monday, 13 August 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
dunno about that but helen gurley brown seems definite
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Legendary-editor-Helen-Gurley-Brown-dies-3784845.php
― half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Monday, 13 August 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
hope al green is still with us...
― if i had a goat's cheese tostada i might cream myself a little (stevie), Monday, 13 August 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
oh man RIP Joe :(
― the choogler and the chosen one (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 August 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
The internet's killed Al Green at least a couple other times.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 August 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
Just heard about Rakoff. What a bummer.
― doglatting (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
Ron Palillo, Horshack on Welcome Back, Kotter
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/ron-palillo-actor-best-horshack-back-kotter-dead-63-article-1.1136024
― Ermahgerd Thomas (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
Brett Grulke, SxSW Creative Director
http://www.austin360.com/music/brent-grulke-creative-director-at-sxsw-dies-2435507.html
― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
BRENT GRULKE
― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
A good friend of mine that was a former roommate of his described him once to me as, I wish I could remember the exact wording, one of those guys who seems a little gruff at first and bugs people or rubs them the wrong way but then they all end up liking. RIP.
― He Wasn't Even The Best Drummer In The Rutles (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
Harry Harrison: http://io9.com/5934884/rip-harry-harrison-creator-of-the-stainless-steel-rat-bill-the-galactic-hero-and-soylent-green
― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 11:52 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man! RIP Harry.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
another good obit here:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/15/harry-harrison
yet another skiffy author i haven't read enough of.
― ledge, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
found a paperback of Make Room! Make Room! on the street a few months ago, haven't read yet.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
RIP "not the radio guy" Harry.Mark Evanier's obit, incl. stuff about Harrison's comic book career: http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/08/15/harry-harrison-r-i-p/
― Romney's Kitchen Nightmares (WmC), Thursday, 16 August 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
Did you get the radio DJ Harry Harrison where you live, William?
― Safe European Momus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 August 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't -- wish I had! When I hear his short late 60s interview spots on Psychedelicized Radio (and previously TechWebSound), that slick radio-puker patter always gives me a laugh.
― Romney's Kitchen Nightmares (WmC), Thursday, 16 August 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
Al Freeman Jr, a volcanic actor from '60s Broadway (Blues for Mister Charlie, The Slave) to his performance as Elijah Muhammad in Spike Lee's Malcolm X:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/theater/al-freeman-jr-actor-prominent-in-civil-rights-era-dies-at-78.html
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
Watched this a few years ago; one of the early made-for-TV movies, and I think considered one of the best.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/MySweetCharlie2.JPG/150px-MySweetCharlie2.JPG
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 August 2012 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Harry HarrisonHeaven needed the Stainless Steel Rat.
― no-one seemed to hear him so he leafed through a magazine (snoball), Thursday, 16 August 2012 08:03 (eleven years ago) link
Phyllis Thaxter, studio-era "wife" and Ma Kent '78 vintage:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/actress-phyllis-thaxter-dies-superman-mother-362757
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
William Windom
This obit just highlights his tv work. He also appeared in Brewster McCloud and perhaps most famously in an uncredited part as Steve Martin's indecisive client/boss in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 August 2012 08:14 (eleven years ago) link
I watched My World and Welcome to It as a kid--vague memories of the way that drawings were incorporated into the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2_w_DnmZkA
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 August 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
http://classified.post-gazette.com/classimages/17125018.jpg
BASILONE, FRANK J., AKA "CHIEF"
88, of Springdale, passed away Friday, August 17, 2012, at Family Hospice Cantebury Center with his family by his side. He was born March 25, 1924 in Springdale to the late Fedel and Anna Basilone and was a lifelong resident. Frank was formerly employed as a supervisor with Duquesne Light Co. before retiring after 35 years of service He was a veteran of WWII, serving in the US Army. Frank was a member of St. Alphonsus Church where he regularly served at weekday mass, the Knights of Columbus, the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars in Springdale, the Allegheny-Kiski Sports Hall of Fame and the American Legion Baseball Hall of Fame. He played football at Duquesne University and was a Pittsburgh Steeler draft selection in 1945. Frank served his community over the years as a former member of Springdale Boro Council, was deeply involved in youth athletics having served as past President of the Lower Valley Little League, a high school and Springdale American Legion baseball coach, and a high school football coach. He will long be remembered for his years as a proud and loving father of three sons and grandfather of six and as a coach for many athletes in the local area.
assistant coach of my high school and american legion baseball teams and just really nice guy. he was as bow-legged as anyone i've ever known. rip chief
― mookieproof, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
William WindomRIP Commodore Matt Decker and James Thurber surrogate. Even if Norman Spinrad did want Robert Ryan for the role, he did all right in The Wild Bunch while you created one unforgettable Star Trek performance.
― Safe European Momus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 August 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
Director Tony Scott, (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II) committed suicide this afternoon. Jumped off a bridge in LA.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/08/director-tony-scott-jumps-to-death-from-bridge/1?csp=34news
― nickn, Monday, 20 August 2012 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
Scott McKenziehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19312310
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Monday, 20 August 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
Phyllis Diller :( http://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/television/Phyllis-Diller-Dead-at-95-166791256.html
― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Monday, 20 August 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 August 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
Just noticed this one
SOLOMON GRUBERGER R.I.P.October 18, 1951--June 10, 2012Speaking for the Gulcher/Gizmos gang, we are saddened to note the passing of proto-punk musician and fanzine editor Solomon Gruberger at the age of 60.Solomon was among the early rock fanzine people in the 1970s, starting his own zine O. Rextasy in 1973. That same year, he and his younger brother Jay met Ken Highland, who visited them in Brooklyn from Upstate New York. The three of them began the living-room band O. Rex, a lengthy relationship that culminated in the 1976 release of their one 7" record: "My Head's In '73"/"Califawnia Gurls"/"Suzi." Proto-punk in its rawest form, Solomon's nonchalant attitude towards recording also made them unintentional pioneers of lo-fi punktitude.O. Rex led to the Afrkia Korps in 1977, with the Grubergers and Highland being joined by members of the Slickee Boys and other musicians. They released Music To Kill By, one of the earliest US DIY Punk full-length LPs, played a couple of live shows, and went their separate ways. The group reunited in 1987 for God It's Them Again! on New Rose Records in France.Solomon and brother Jay also continued recording in the 80s, with some of the results released last year by Rerun Records. Jay was killed in a car accident in 1993.Personally, I met Solomon in early 1976 while traveling around the East Coast with Ken Highland after we recorded the first Gizmos EP. I got to play drums with O. Rex on that trip, and was thrilled when some of those recordings surfaced on their My Head's In '73! double-CD a few years back. I also wrote reviews for Solomon's O. Rextasy fanzine.He will be missed.Here are the official obit details: Solomon Gruberger, 60, of Reading, PA, passed away at 1:09 AM, Sunday, June 10th, peacefully, at his residence. Solomon was born in Brooklyn, NY on October 18, 1951, a son of the late Toby (Strasman) and Oscar Gruberger. He is survived by his wife, Jill (nee Wentzel) Gruberger.--Eddie Flowers
SOLOMON GRUBERGER DISCOGRAPHY: O. Rex / "My Head's In '73" b/w "Califawnia Gurls"/"Suzi" maxi-single (Oral Records, 1976)Afrika Korps / Music To Kill By LP (Iron Cross/Dacoit, 1977)Afrika Korps / Got It's Them Again 12" EP (New Rose, France, 1987)Afrika Korps / Music To Kill By CD (Gulcher, 2001)Afrika Korps / Music To Kill By LP (with bonus 7" EP) (Hate/Vulcher, Italy, 2002)Afrika Korps / Live At Cantone's CD (Gulcher, 2002)O. Rex / My Head's In '73! Double-CD (Gulcher, 2010)The Gruberger Brothers / Greetings From Reading, PA LP (Rerun, 2011)
http://gulcher.bigcartel.com/solomon-gruberger-r-i-p
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-08-21/ethiopian-prime-minister-dead/57179608/1
authoritarian prime minister of Ethiopia dead
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:39 (eleven years ago) link
Muppeteer Jerry Nelson (The Count, Lew Zealand, Emmett Otter)
http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-jerry-nelson,84229/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 August 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
Aw, no. Such a talented guy.
― Old Lunch, Friday, 24 August 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
nbc news reporting that neil armstrong's died
― half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Saturday, 25 August 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 25 August 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
damn. i literally just finished reading moonshot.
― a bag of andy capp's hot fries (stevie), Saturday, 25 August 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
I think he deserves his own RIP thread, surely?
― emil.y, Saturday, 25 August 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
Fuck yes.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 August 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Neil Armstrong
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 August 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
Singer Gene Thomas of "Sometimes" and Gene & Debbe's "Playboy" fame.
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2012/08/gene_thomas_rip.php
― Hut Stricklin at Lake Speed (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 August 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
Rhodes Boyson, hero of mutton chops, homophobia, and legislated S+M for minors.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02322/boyson_2322970b.jpg
― ledge, Friday, 31 August 2012 08:36 (eleven years ago) link
RIP big man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB3mvNeiNtc
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Friday, 31 August 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
Shulamith Firestone, author of The Dialectic of Sex
http://www.thevillager.com/?p=7172
― nedless summer (Ówen P.), Friday, 31 August 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
I only read that a couple of months ago, enjoyed it. Plus, super name. RIP.
― the so-called socialista (dowd), Saturday, 1 September 2012 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
Max Bygraves:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19450696
Someone on Twitter posted this: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/1sma8d
― DavidM, Saturday, 1 September 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
Looks like Jim Davidson's autobiography has a lot to live up to.
― wise men farting over you (snoball), Saturday, 1 September 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
Hal David
― * The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 1 September 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
Aw :(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 September 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/02/reverend_sun_myung_moon_dead_at_92/
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 September 2012 07:51 (eleven years ago) link
Green Miles actor Michael Clarke Duncan (no details yet)
― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Monday, 3 September 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
mile*
Had suffered a heart attack recently:
On July 13, 2012, Duncan was sent to the hospital after suffering from a heart attack.[17] It was reported that his girlfriend, Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, potentially saved his life by performing CPR before he was transported to the hospital.[18]
Duncan's publicist Joy Fehily said in a statement on August 6, 2012 that he was moved from the intensive care unit but remained hospitalized following his July 13 heart attack.[19]
On September 3, Duncan's fianceé told the Associated Press that he had died that morning in a Los Angeles Hospital
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 3 September 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
I missed the heart attack news, so I'm doubly sad now.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
He was a mighty Kingpin.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
rip big guy
― Hungry4Ass, Monday, 3 September 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
damn
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 September 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
― how's life, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/62663000/jpg/_62663818_62663817.jpg
RIP, very big guy
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/09/04/vance-bockis-d-c-punk-rocker-dies-at-age-50/#more-78620
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
Griselda Blanco, Colombia's infamous "queen of cocaine" of the 1970s: murdered in Medellin
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
DJ Matthew Africa
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2012/09/rip_matthew_africa_beloved_oak.php
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 6 September 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
Kinda ripped up about this one. Listened to him on KALX all the time.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 6 September 2012 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
aw, R.I.P.
his DJ Quik mix is essential:
http://matthewafrica.podomatic.com/entry/2009-07-31T18_06_33-07_00
― RAP GAME MARiSSA MARCHANT (gr8080), Thursday, 6 September 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
Wildlife presenter Terry Nutkins RIP:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19520824
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Friday, 7 September 2012 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
― Madchen, Friday, 7 September 2012 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
Aw :( My dad knew him a bit, and one of my favouritest bits of rubbish memorabilia is a script for Animal Magic autographed by Terry Nutkins and Johnny Morris.
― ailsa, Friday, 7 September 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
Not rubbish!
― Madchen, Friday, 7 September 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
Terry you were cool. RIP dude!
― jel --, Friday, 7 September 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
rev. howard moody, pastor at judson memorial church in NYC, who did so many amazing things
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/nyregion/howard-moody-minister-of-judson-memorial-church-dead-at-91.html
― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, a very impressive life
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 September 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
Did we miss Derek Jameson? We surely did.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Friday, 14 September 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
James 'Sugar Boy' Crawford, New Orleans rhythm & blues singer of 'Jock-A-Mo,' dies at 77Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune By Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune
James “Sugar Boy” Crawford, the New Orleans rhythm & blues singer who wrote and recorded the enduring Mardi Gras season standard “Jock-A-Mo,” died early Saturday after a brief illness. He was 77.
“Jock-A-Mo” borrowed its lyrics from age-old Mardi Gras Indian chants. It was later remade by the Dixie Cups as “Iko Iko.” Artists as diverse as Dr. John, the Grateful Dead and Cyndi Lauper also recorded variations.
Mr. Crawford’s own career came to a premature end following a police beating in 1963. Only in recent years did he return to the stage, and then only occasionally.
...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 15 September 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, I didn't even know Sugar Boy was still alive! I knew about the police beating and the legal fights over "Iko Iko." I only know a few songs besides "Jock-a-Mo," but they're all great.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 15 September 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
I at first didn't clue into why I'd seen two or three Sam's-related posts on Facebook:
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/23/sam-the-record-man-sniderman-dies
It's late--I'll post something on the Toronto Record Stores thread tomorrow. If you lived in Toronto anytime before 2000, and especially during the '60s or '70s, this counts as a major death.
http://www.pete.at/SamRecordManNight.jpg
― clemenza, Monday, 24 September 2012 07:05 (eleven years ago) link
RIP SVEN HA↯↯EL
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g38mFozSZLw/TmkNQmk5jnI/AAAAAAAADDU/5IgD3E7pIbM/s400/n123752.jpg
― woof, Monday, 24 September 2012 11:09 (eleven years ago) link
The teenage me thought he was great.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Monday, 24 September 2012 11:26 (eleven years ago) link
Was gonna say "I though Sam died years ago" but I was confusing him with Honest Ed.
Anyways, RIP. I bought lotsa gems at that store. (And hey, Goin' Down The Road)
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 24 September 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
That's what I thought for years and years, but I found out last year that that scene was actually shot in A&A's. I think there might be an exterior shot of Sam's just before they walk in that creates some confusion. The Satie girl...sigh.
― clemenza, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
Andy Williams http://www.19actionnews.com/story/19643579/singer-andy-williams-dead
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Nooooo!!!
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Chief Inspector Dreyfus, Herbert Lom: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19745910
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Thursday, 27 September 2012 13:15 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Herb, wasn't sure he was still around. Last of The Ladykillers?
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 September 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
i thought he died a year or two ago? weird.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 27 September 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Thursday, 27 September 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
Frank Wilson RIP
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 28 September 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Miami-based Cuban pianist Francisco “Paquito” Hechavarría.
He´s the one who played the exacting, driving tumbao (a repeated pattern) in Gloria Estefan’s monster hit “Conga.” And well before that he played on Mongo Santamaría´s classic Our Man in Havana. But also you probably heard him on Barry Manilow’s “Hey Mambo,” or with David Byrne, or Ricky Martin, or Israel “Cachao” Lopez, or Christina Aguilera. The list is long.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 29 September 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
Chris Economaki, Rumbling Voice of Auto Racing, Dies at 91
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 29 September 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
Missed the Frank Wilson notice. "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" is worth all the myth-making that surrounds it from the record-collector end of things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwvpeYiQwss
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
Punch Sulzberger, NY Times publisher 1963-92
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/punch-sulzberger-rip/
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 September 2012 07:26 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Michael O'Hare, who played Commander Sinclair on Babylon 5, one of my fave characters on the show. Very sad at this news. And this is the 4th actor from the series to have had an early death, now.
http://www.inquisitr.com/347878/michael-ohare-commander-sinclair-on-babylon-5-dead-at-60-report/
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Sunday, 30 September 2012 07:37 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Eric Hobsbawm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/01/eric-hobsbawm-died-aged-95?CMP=twt_fd
― Alba, Monday, 1 October 2012 09:44 (eleven years ago) link
Love Hobsbawm, RIP
― the so-called socialista (dowd), Monday, 1 October 2012 09:53 (eleven years ago) link
boo, very sad, although 95 is a ripe old age. Born 1917! Left Germany in 1933! Amazing.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Monday, 1 October 2012 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
Damn, Hobsbawm. When I was doing A-levels my history teacher, who was a massive H fan, kept on directing me to him. Good. RIP.
― Fizzles, Monday, 1 October 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
biologist/ecologist Barry Commoner
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/us/barry-commoner-dies-at-95.html
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
Recognized the name right away--my first-year roommate was always talking about him, and I think he probably voted for him in '80.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
In a “Last Word” interview with The New York Times in 2006, videotaped to accompany this obituary online
never noticed this practice before
― J0ni D. Franco (buzza), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
Michael Henry Heim, Russian and Slavic scholar and translator of writers like Kundera and Grass. Great, great instructor at UCLA and I remember both his classes I took as an undergrad on Russian and Soviet literature very well.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
R.B. Greaves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Y0x1jLkLg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.kalamu.com/bol/wp-content/content/images/john%20tchicai%2005.jpg
RIP John Tchicaihttp://othersideoflife.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/john-tchicai-r-i-p/
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Monday, 8 October 2012 09:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://londonjazz.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/rip-john-tchicai-1936-2012.html
The Danish Jazzblog.dk reports that saxophonist John Tchicai died in his sleep in hospital in Perpignan yesterday. He had suffered a brain haemorrhage and collapsed at Barcelona airport on June 11th. He had been in good spirits and started to work with a physiotherapist, but had cancelled all gigs. His recent work in the UK had been in a duo with the late Tony Marsh. RIP.
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Monday, 8 October 2012 09:24 (eleven years ago) link
Very sad news.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 8 October 2012 13:08 (eleven years ago) link
Sad news about Tchicai. I got to see him live once, with Yo Miles! around 2000 or '01.
― Death Grits 2 (WmC), Monday, 8 October 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
I caught him with the reformed New York Art Quartet in '99, and he sounded as amazing as ever. I wondered why John Zorn had taken his place in that group lately, though.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 8 October 2012 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
RIP John. Still don't know how to pronounce your surname tho :(
― Hello, Good Evening and Expenses (Tom D.), Monday, 8 October 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
chick eye.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 8 October 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
/t͡ʃɪkɑy/ i think?
gah this is the coolest thing on earth http://ipa.typeit.org/full/
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Monday, 8 October 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
I see new usernames in the future. ʊ
― nickn, Monday, 8 October 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
Frank Wilson, a Motown producer and songwriter who wrote or co-wrote some of the label’s biggest hits, including “Love Child,” performed by the Supremes, “All I Need” by the Temptations and “Castles in the Sand” by Stevie Wonder, died on Sept. 27 in Duarte, Calif. He was 71.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 October 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
AKA Frank Wilson, singer of Do I Love You (Indeed I Do).
― Madchen, Monday, 8 October 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
AKA Frank Wilson, from the Sept 28 posts on this thread?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 8 October 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
Dude posted here a day after he died? Creepy!
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 09:29 (eleven years ago) link
alex karras ('blazing saddles', 'webster', 'victor/victoria', football)
http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/alex-karras-webster-and-nfl-star-dead-77-video-59936
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
oh damn, last Candygram for Mongo. Very underrated ex-jock actor, esp in Victor/Victoria ("Do you have heat in your room?").
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
Nothing formal yet but I've just heard that Mark Poster has passed on.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.screenrush.co.uk/news/films/news-18503227/
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
I worked with Savides. Sad news.
― The windiest militant trash (Michael White), Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
shit, 55. I think Gerry is the most underrated of his Van Sants.
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 October 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
beano cook
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 October 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
UCI's tribute to Mark Poster:
It is with immense sadness that we share the news that our dear colleague Mark Poster, Emeritus Professor of History and Film & Media Studies, passed away in the hospital earlier this morning. Mark Poster was a vital member of the School of Humanities, and for decades one of its most widely read and cited researchers. He made crucial contributions to two different departments, History and Film & Media Studies, and played a central role in UCI's emergence as a leading center for work in Critical Theory.In the first part of his career, when his focus was on modern European intellectual history, his path-breaking publications included the influential book *Existential Marxism in Postwar France* (Princeton University Press 1975), a study of the intellectual world around Jean-Paul Sartre. When the theory boom hit the U.S., thanks in part to this book, he became a widely sought-after authority on French critical thought, especially the writing of Michel Foucault, whose work he helped introduce to American audiences. He played a crucial role in setting the History Department on its current course, as one of the first departments--if not the first department--in the discipline with a required graduate sequence in theory. In that sequence Mark taught a Foucault seminar that became legendary.His investments in French intellectual history also positioned Mark Poster for crucial contributions to the Critical Theory Institute at UC Irvine, which he helped start as an informal reading group; by 1987 it was established as a campus research institute. The distinction of Irvine, reflected in the CTI, the graduate emphasis, the Critical Theory Archive, and departmental strengths, still defines the special character of the School, and contributes to its international reputation for scholarly innovation. Hosting internationally known scholars, the Critical Theory Institute with its public seminars and Wellek lecture series soon became one of the global hotspots in the humanities.In the second part of his career, Mark became a seminal theorist of media and technology. He was the founding chair of the Department of Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine. Together with Franco Tonelli and Eric Rentschler, he had helped shepherd the Film Emphasis of the early 1980s to Program status by the end of that decade, and then to departmentalization by 2002. In the process he was pivotal in hiring and mentoring faculty who now serve the School's second largest major.Mark Poster was a major figure in the rapid development of media studies and theory in the USA and internationally. While as an intellectual historian he could draw on Frankfurt School thought as well as on cybernetics, he was particularly interested in the potential of poststructuralism for media studies. From his translations of Baudrillard to his dissemination of Foucault, Poster played a highly influential role in the study of media culture, including television, databases, computing, and the Internet; he continued to offer crucial commentary on the relevance to technology and media of cultural theory, and his numerous articles and books have been translated into a number of different languages. Reflective of the breadth of his interests and expertise, Poster held courtesy appointments in the Department of Information and Computer Science and in the Department of Comparative Literature. First hired at UCI in 1968, Poster had recently retired after 40 years of service to the School and the Campus.We will let you know as plans for a memorial event in the School develop. In the meantime, we extend our condolences to his family and to all those close to him.Jim Steintrager, Interim Dean, School of HumanitiesPeter Krapp, Chair, Department of Film & Media StudiesJeff Wasserstrom, Chair, Department of History
In the first part of his career, when his focus was on modern European intellectual history, his path-breaking publications included the influential book *Existential Marxism in Postwar France* (Princeton University Press 1975), a study of the intellectual world around Jean-Paul Sartre. When the theory boom hit the U.S., thanks in part to this book, he became a widely sought-after authority on French critical thought, especially the writing of Michel Foucault, whose work he helped introduce to American audiences. He played a crucial role in setting the History Department on its current course, as one of the first departments--if not the first department--in the discipline with a required graduate sequence in theory. In that sequence Mark taught a Foucault seminar that became legendary.
His investments in French intellectual history also positioned Mark Poster for crucial contributions to the Critical Theory Institute at UC Irvine, which he helped start as an informal reading group; by 1987 it was established as a campus research institute. The distinction of Irvine, reflected in the CTI, the graduate emphasis, the Critical Theory Archive, and departmental strengths, still defines the special character of the School, and contributes to its international reputation for scholarly innovation. Hosting internationally known scholars, the Critical Theory Institute with its public seminars and Wellek lecture series soon became one of the global hotspots in the humanities.
In the second part of his career, Mark became a seminal theorist of media and technology. He was the founding chair of the Department of Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine. Together with Franco Tonelli and Eric Rentschler, he had helped shepherd the Film Emphasis of the early 1980s to Program status by the end of that decade, and then to departmentalization by 2002. In the process he was pivotal in hiring and mentoring faculty who now serve the School's second largest major.
Mark Poster was a major figure in the rapid development of media studies and theory in the USA and internationally. While as an intellectual historian he could draw on Frankfurt School thought as well as on cybernetics, he was particularly interested in the potential of poststructuralism for media studies. From his translations of Baudrillard to his dissemination of Foucault, Poster played a highly influential role in the study of media culture, including television, databases, computing, and the Internet; he continued to offer crucial commentary on the relevance to technology and media of cultural theory, and his numerous articles and books have been translated into a number of different languages. Reflective of the breadth of his interests and expertise, Poster held courtesy appointments in the Department of Information and Computer Science and in the Department of Comparative Literature. First hired at UCI in 1968, Poster had recently retired after 40 years of service to the School and the Campus.
We will let you know as plans for a memorial event in the School develop. In the meantime, we extend our condolences to his family and to all those close to him.
Jim Steintrager, Interim Dean, School of Humanities
Peter Krapp, Chair, Department of Film & Media Studies
Jeff Wasserstrom, Chair, Department of History
― Perfect Chicken Forever (Merdeyeux), Friday, 12 October 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
Arlen Specter
― Gingham Style (doo dah), Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
Surely the last living Warren Commission guy. The headline on your link resonates in view of today's Republican Party.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
The AP describes Spectre as "a key voice in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of both Bork and Clarence Thomas" - yah, he was the one who was out to get Anita Hill.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 14 October 2012 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
Surely the last living Warren Commission guy.
There are a couple of Commission assistant counsels still around... Bill Coleman (who was the commission's main Cuba guy) is alive and so is Mel Eisenberg - who was one of the co-creators of the Single Bullet Theory. (it wasn't just Specter who came up with it)
The last member of the actual commission to pass was Gerald Ford. This is, of course, assuming that Hale Boggs did die in that plane crash.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 14 October 2012 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks. I feel silly saying this, but I always thought Specter was on the Commission.
― clemenza, Monday, 15 October 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
That monster Bugliosi book (which I never finished) about the assassination has all the details. In short, Specter, Eisenberg, and one or two other assistant counsels had authored the Single Bullet Theory memorandum that the Commission then used to hang the whole case on. The final report came out in late 1964 and by 1965 Specter was DA and branding himself as the guy who "solved" the JFK assassination.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 15 October 2012 06:04 (eleven years ago) link
michael asher (acc. to martha rosler on FB, haven't seen any official news reports)
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
Sylvia Kristel. Only 60 :(
― Hello, Good Evening and Expenses (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:10 (eleven years ago) link
Japanese film director Koji Wakamatsu -- always wanted to see Go, Go, Second Time Virgin.
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-koji-wakamatsu%EF%BB%BF-1936-2012
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 October 2012 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
Saxophonist/composer David S. Ware. Don't know the cause yet, have only seen a few fb posts. Very sad news. Such a towering talent.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 19 October 2012 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
Oh no
― I'M THE ONLY ON (jjjusten), Friday, 19 October 2012 02:17 (eleven years ago) link
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Friday, 19 October 2012 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
aw, david ware was awesome.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Friday, 19 October 2012 02:20 (eleven years ago) link
fuck!
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 19 October 2012 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
Mortality rates post-kidney transplant are high, sadly.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 19 October 2012 07:41 (eleven years ago) link
OH FUCK
― a punch-up at a web zing (NickB), Friday, 19 October 2012 09:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2012/10/18/rip-david-s-ware/
Yash Chopra
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20023315
Russell Means
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-russell-means-indian-activist-actor-dies-at-72-20121022,0,3901740.story
― MrDasher, Monday, 22 October 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
;_; Russell Means
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 October 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
russell rip indeed, we've worked with him and the rest of AIM for like 30 years, and its sad to see how few of those original dudes are left. one of the nicest people I ever worked with. super bummed out actually.
― I'M THE ONLY ON (jjjusten), Monday, 22 October 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
sorry if this is a dumb question: in what capacity di u work with him, jjj?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 October 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/opinion/who-will-mourn-george-whitmore.html?hpw
Forty-eight years ago, as a New York City teenager, Whitmore was initiated into an ordeal at the hands of a racist criminal justice system. For a time, his story rattled the news cycle. He was chewed up and spit out: an ill-prepared kid vilified as a murderer, then championed as an emblem of injustice and, finally, cast aside. That he survived his tribulations and lived to the age of 68 was a miracle.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 October 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/rapidcityjournal.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/c/d9/cd9907ce-5a93-5c59-a8b0-aea24cb7254d/5085676e6a133.preview-300.jpg
― the late great, Monday, 22 October 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
After its deeply corrupt and vicious work on the AIM, the FBI should have been dismantled, razed, plowed under and salt sown where the buildings once stood.
― Aimless, Monday, 22 October 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
wow just found out that run wrake died last weekend. i first saw "rabbit" about 5 years ago and still think it's one of the best animations ever.
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2012/10/rip-run-wrake-the-most-talented-dude-youve-never-heard-of
― just1n3, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
oh wow, those videos he did for howie b and FSOL that would run on MTV AMP blew my 13-yo mind :(
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc9l7pygQRo
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
xxxp that said looks like leonard peltier probably did shoot those dudes
― the late great, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
aw RIP Run Wrake, I am posthumously digging your youtube channel
― doxxy fule (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
Michael Marra :(
http://news.stv.tv/tayside/196471-dundee-musician-michael-marra-dies-following-battle-with-illness/
― ailsa, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 11:27 (eleven years ago) link
RIP, I know his children a bit, very nice people and seem like a very nice family.
― Perfect Chicken Forever (Merdeyeux), Friday, 26 October 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.eunicetoday.com/view/full_story/20609817/article-Services-pending-for-Hadley-Castille
http://www.offbeat.com/2012/10/25/hadley-castille-1933-2012/#.UIoJwNqOB1E.email
Wonderful Cajun fiddler whom I last saw perform in April at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 October 2012 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
Jo Dunne, bass player in We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It.
http://louderthanwar.com/jo-dunne-from-fuzzbox-rip/
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Saturday, 27 October 2012 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkOj282VD-Q
RIP Jo!
― Aimeej0rd0nian Ghoulcaper (NickB), Saturday, 27 October 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Hans Werner Henze.
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 27 October 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
Jacques Barzun, at 104
― Brad C., Saturday, 27 October 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
Just hearing from Twitter that Terry Callier has passed away, aged 67.
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Sunday, 28 October 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
Architect Lebbeus Woodshttp://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/lebbeus-woods-architect-of-the-imaginary-realm-dies/
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/nyregion/larry-bloch-who-opened-wetlands-club-dies-at-59.html?ref=obituaries
― how's life, Monday, 5 November 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
Clive Dunn, 92.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13411725
RIP Clive. Just leaving Ian Lavender from the cast?
xposted
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
Bill Pertwee is still alive I think
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
Looking him up, he is and actually is/was younger than Clive.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
Frank Williams is still alive too.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, the vicar!
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KJGJRd8pGE
― Madchen, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
elliott stein, film critic/historian and, apparently, partial inspiration for 'notes on camp'
http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/elliott-stein-1928-2012
― GAY HIPSTER BATMAN ON HIS WAY TO A CIRCUIT PARTY (donna rouge), Friday, 9 November 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
Used to see him around town back in the day, mostly when he was running a Japanese film series at the YWCA, iirc. RIP.
― Do You Like POLL Music? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 November 2012 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
Almost like one of those premonitions people are always claiming to have: in something I was looking up I came across his byline on a post-2000 Voice review a few days ago, and, realizing I'd been seeing his name for years, started reading up on him to try to find out how old he was.
― clemenza, Saturday, 10 November 2012 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
Mingus/Cecil Taylor trumpeter-composer Ted Curson.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 10 November 2012 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
Major Harris of the Delfonics
http://pitchfork.com/news/48547-rip-the-delfonics-major-harris/
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Monday, 12 November 2012 05:48 (eleven years ago) link
Stalking Cat
http://news.bme.com/2012/11/12/rip-stalking-cat/
― Fieri-brand sausages into my and your ready holes (silby), Thursday, 15 November 2012 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
Well, that one sent me down a body mod/furry/native American rabbit hole of websurfing for about 45 minutes. O_o.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 15 November 2012 10:17 (eleven years ago) link
There is nothing O_o about Native American tradition, but get the furry transethnic thing involved and my right eye grows suddenly huge.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 15 November 2012 10:19 (eleven years ago) link
Ray Zone, king of 3D comics.
― WilliamC, Friday, 16 November 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
Jack Gilbert, great poet; lived to 87.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jack-gilbert#about
― cruel silver of hope (Eazy), Friday, 16 November 2012 04:26 (eleven years ago) link
Pete Namlook :(
― Random Penguin House (doo dah), Friday, 16 November 2012 12:01 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, that sucks. He was a bit older than I thought, but still way too young to die.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 18 November 2012 12:05 (eleven years ago) link
Boris Strugatsky died at 79 a few days ago :(
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Thursday, 22 November 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
macho camacho
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 22 November 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/entertainment/-Ranchie--McLean-is-dead_13044689
Jamaican reggae bassist
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 November 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
TV's "Mr. Food", Art Ginsburg
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/tv-chef-art-ginsburg-mr-food-dies-81-155816058.html
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 November 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
RIP, Larry Hagman.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 24 November 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
damn. Liked him in Fail Safe.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 November 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
adios, JR
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 November 2012 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
RIP, Larry. Was just reading Space Oddities: Women and Outer Space in Popular Film and Culture, 1960-2000, which talked a lot about your old show.
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 November 2012 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
Liked Hagman in both Nixon (bad guy) and Primary Colors (good guy).
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 November 2012 04:54 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, no. I'm a big Hagman fan (wearing my J.R. Ewing t-shirt as I read/write here). He still brought it in this recent Dallas revival, but the fact that they shot around his cancer treatments as much as they did didn't seem to bode well.
― Come Into My Layer (Old Lunch), Saturday, 24 November 2012 05:01 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR7A0cXogW0
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 24 November 2012 07:12 (eleven years ago) link
RIP JR
― Dermot O'Leary, picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been (snoball), Saturday, 24 November 2012 09:55 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Larry, seemed like a fun guy
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 November 2012 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
... also reliably watchable in whatever he was in, he was really good in this:
http://www.iphotoscrap.com/Image/522/1297150974-m.jpg
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 November 2012 11:52 (eleven years ago) link
His appearance on 'Shooting Stars' is rightly famous, Nancy Banks-Smith in The Guardian said Hagman 'looked like a man in a nightmare'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy5UTHaRs8U&hd=1
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Saturday, 24 November 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
Never forget
http://tgda.vcmedia.vn/Images/Uploaded/Share/2009/03/20090314095339499/220.jpg
― super perv powder (Phil D.), Saturday, 24 November 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
Former Who co-manager (and brother of actor Terence) Chris Stamp
― and I scream Fieri Eiffel Tower High (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 24 November 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZKpIEnBSwQ
― and I scream Fieri Eiffel Tower High (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 24 November 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
You co-starred with Lauren Bacall in the 1973 made-for-TV movie “Applause.” Tell me why you licked her the first time you met her.
I had been rehearsing with her stand-in for two weeks before I met her, and I was told, “Do not kiss her, and do not touch her if you can help it,” and it was driven into my mind. So I am ushered into her dressing room, and she presented her hand kind of like the Dowager Empress Maria Theresa of the Austro-Hungarian empire would offer her hand. I just couldn’t resist it. I licked her from her hand up to her elbow. She held it in check very well, though I do think it may have colored our relationship
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/magazine/the-rollicking-life-of-larry-hagman.html?_r=0
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 November 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
Larry DIRECTED B!tB?? That's quite a "guest-star" cast too.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 November 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
He's terrific in Harry and Tonto.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 November 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
Deborah Raffin:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/arts/television/deborah-raffin-actress-and-publisher-is-dead-at-59.html
Looking over her credits, I don't think I saw her in anything. But I do remember her.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 November 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
Had no idea Hagman was such a leftie. That's awesome.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 24 November 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
I am angry at Larry Hagman because he couldn't quit drinking.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Debbie D. Talks About People Behind The (Mount Cleaners), Saturday, 24 November 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know what the hell "Shooting Stars" is, but I imagine that's the sort of clip Japanese people play to show how fucked up Western game shows are.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 November 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
Shooting Stars was the attempt to transfer Vic & Bob to game show (see also Families At War), which they used as an attempt to launch Ulrika Jonsson's comedy career. The best period was the first three (?) series, the Mark Lamarr era, especially John Peel trying to climb into a baby's pram but a late highlight was Donald Cox The Sweaty Fox.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Saturday, 24 November 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
vic & bob is basically surreal/non sequitur humour combined with running gags that you couldn't possibly get unless you've seen loads more of their stuff
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 24 November 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
the first vic & bob exposure i ever had was concert footage in which they said 'and now, here's the man with the stick' and a man walked on stage with a stick and the crowd went UTTERLY BONKERS and then the man with the stick left again. my face at the time == hagman's face upthread
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 24 November 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, see, I love the Man With The Stick. Graham Lister on Novelty Island doing Three Laughs With Lard was the first real WTF moment for the viewing public I think.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Saturday, 24 November 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
Maudlin and full of self-pity. He's magnificent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIEOsVofRZk
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 November 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like hags was at death's door ever since dallas ended, feel like there was a time when the tabs were showing him exiting hospitals and crowing about "months to live", and this was pre-"nixon". good for him for hanging around to a respectable age tbh.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Saturday, 24 November 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
He looks older in that Primary Colors than he did last week.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 November 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
Michael Dunford of the progressive band Renaissance. Had no idea he was in the Nashville Teens too.
http://www.progrockmag.com/news/renaissance-guitarist-michael-dunford-dies/
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 25 November 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
RIP strugatsky
― the late great, Sunday, 25 November 2012 02:17 (eleven years ago) link
Frank Barsalona
One of Barsalona's lasting legacies was to see that musicians' compensation and treatment improved whereby they could earn a good portion of their living through touring and beyond selling records. He is also credited with vastly improving the fan experience upgrading the quality of live rock performances.
― and I scream Fieri Eiffel Tower High (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 25 November 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
Almost as important to sport in the 20th century as Robinson, Ruth, or Ali:
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/ex-players-association-exec-marvin-miller-dead-95-article-1.1208710?localLinksEnabled=false
― clemenza, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
damn.
possibly the most significant person I have shared an elevator with.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
dang RIP
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
Mickey "Guitar" Baker, of Mickey & Sylvia and who knows how many classic blues and R&B sessions.
Great photo/interview here, from a few years ago: http://jimherrington.tumblr.com/post/16519854865/mickey-baker-musician-toulouse-france-c-jim
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
aw :(
I was just listening to Love is Strange this morning
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
"Love Is Strange" was great in Casino. Classic album cover:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tyNeUNytv6s/TzEtE_4JrJI/AAAAAAAAHpA/esOsGgEZfbs/s1600/Mickey%2BBaker%2B-%2BThe%2BWildest%2BGuitar.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
bummer. RIP, Mickey.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
About half a year too late to be turning over in his grave re: the Pitbull sample.
Seriously, though, RIP.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/cadillacs-singer-earl-carroll-dead-at-75-20121127
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 05:48 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Spain Rodriguez:
http://comicsbeat.com/rip-spain-rodriguez/
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
Re "Speedo": another song I identify with Scorsese (Goodfellas, first time we meet Jimmy Conway). One of the greatest fast doo-wop songs ever.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Spain. :-(
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
Rest in peace, Spain.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
just saw that about Spain. RIP dude. made my neighborhood a more beautiful place
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 November 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
Jack Brooks, pro-civil rights Texas Dem legend who was Nixon's "executioner."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/us/politics/jack-brooks-former-texas-congressman-dies-at-89.html
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 13:08 (eleven years ago) link
Dave Brubeck :(
― Zen Jet Era (doo dah), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
oh whoa
― i dream of booze pinata (jjjusten), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
bummer.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
awww man
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
Off to that Sunday brunch in the sky.
― blues bras (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
Jonathan Harvey today as well.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/dec/05/jonathan-harvey-dies-73-composer
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
posting here re: Spain Rodriguez' passing:
http://images.tcj.com/2012/11/Nestor-Makhno-page-1-650x796.jpghttp://images.tcj.com/2012/11/Nestor-Makhno-page-2-650x828.jpg
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
Oscar Niemeyer, aged 104. What a day.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 6 December 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
Huw Lloyd Langton of Hawkwind, aged 61
http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/hawkwinds-huw-lloyd-langton-dies/
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Friday, 7 December 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer and broadcaster, dies aged 89
― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Sunday, 9 December 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Mr Moore, he was a legend.
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 9 December 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
No Moore Mr. Night Guy.
― DavidM, Sunday, 9 December 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
aw RIP
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 9 December 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
Don't know how I feel about this guy, seemed to get away with saying a lot of very horrible things on the grounds that he was just a funny old eccentric.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Sunday, 9 December 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
I mean sure, it's Wikipedia and all but:
Proudly declaring himself to be English (rather than British) with "not the slightest wish to integrate with anybody",[60] he stated his admiration for controversial former MP politician Enoch Powell.[64] Moore devoted an entire chapter ("The Weak Arm of the Law") of his autobiography to denouncing modern British society, particularly "motorist-hunting" policemen, sentencing policy, as well as the Race Relations Act, Sex Discrimination Act and the "Thought Police / Politically Correct Brigade".[65] He later wrote that "homosexuals are mainly responsible for the spreading of AIDS (the Garden of Eden is home of Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve)".[66]
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Sunday, 9 December 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
You don't need to go to Wikipedia, there are newspaper reports of a lot of them; not least in 2002 when at an Age Concern function he described immigrants as parasites and that we should send them all back where they came from. Or the May interview for the Radio Times where he said:
“We must take care,” warned Moore. “There may be another war. The Germans will try again, given another chance. A Kraut is a Kraut is a Kraut. And the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut.“There can be good, free, honourable, decent Germans," he conceded. "I haven’t met them myself, but I’m sure they exist.”
“There can be good, free, honourable, decent Germans," he conceded. "I haven’t met them myself, but I’m sure they exist.”
UKIP since the 90s to boot.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
on the other hand, he did love cats
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
OK, I didn't know that, although I do recall some women-should-be-in-the-kitchen remarks. Ho hum.
(I remember liking the guy as a kid but I've no idea when or why I would ever have seen him - my Dad watched The Sky at Night semi-regularly but I'm sure I only saw it very occasionally, if at all)
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
Gamesmaster, maybe?
― ailsa, Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
That's a good thought but I think I liked him before that and found his appearances on it kind of silly? (I was a stuffy little kid.)
Probably my Dad just told me he was good or something. My mum had one of his 50s fiction books, which was pretty tedious and outdated even to a kid like me who'd grown up reading my parents' old Jennings books and Eagle annuals.
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
wasn't his fiance killed in a bombing raid during the war? Perhaps explains anti-German sentiments, without wishing to try to excuse them.
― Neil S, Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, but when that interview (from May this year) also contains such gems as "the French betrayed us, the Belgians did nothing and the Italians are only good for ice cream" and "those countries were much better off when the English ran them" (where "those countries" are the Commonwealth) you quickly get the concept that he wasn't particularly anti-German, he was anti-foreigner.
Still he wore a monocle. How could anybody that wore a monocle ever be bad?
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
it was genuinely moving to hear him talk on tv about his fiancees death. he himself flew with raf bomber command during the war btw but i'm sure he only ever killed bad guys
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
Think he was a navigator wasn't he? Having little Englander views might make him a bore, but I don't think it necessarily makes you a bad person- I'm not sure you it's possible to judge people on those terms.
― Neil S, Sunday, 9 December 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
sorry that sentence got a bit mangled!
saying "homosexuals are mainly responsible for the spreading of AIDS (the Garden of Eden is home of Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve)" makes you a bad person
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 9 December 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
hah true enough
― Neil S, Sunday, 9 December 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
I saw a bit of the Patrick Moore tribute thing last night. It featured a man saying "We were the luckiest boys alive, being invited to his house to see his telescope."
Jimmy Savile has tainted everything :(
― BANJOS ARE ALWAYS RACIST (onimo), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
Ravi Shankar ;_;
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
Kenneth Kendall
― Black Rod, Jane, and Freddy (snoball), Friday, 14 December 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
Maurice Herzog - first person to summit a 8000 meter peak (Annapurna in 1950).
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 15 December 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
Robert Bork, apparently.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.towleroad.com/2012/12/gay-adult-film-actor-josh-weston-dies.html
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
firebomb the towleroad comments section, fucksake
spencer cox, AIDS activist:
http://www.queerty.com/pioneering-aids-activist-spencer-cox-dead-at-44-20121219/
― curly moe shempsen (donna rouge), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
Huh. When I was in 7th gr I got this "a year in my life" scrapbook thing, and usually I hate those things but I think I was so bored in the summer that I filled it out. Apparently Robert Bork was a big deal that year because I distinctly remember him making it into my scrapbook. RIP, I guess.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
borked from this mortal coil
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Weston. I've "enjoyed" his work over the years.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
Co-sign (his early, not totally irresponsible work, I mean).
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
Honestly didn't know he had gone the irresponsible route, but I guess it explains a lot.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
Prince Fatty, UK producer RIP:http://www.facebook.com/gentlemansdubclub/posts/436438596409492
― Neil S, Thursday, 20 December 2012 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/princefatty
hoax.
― mark e, Thursday, 20 December 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
ha I'm gullible! sorry.
― Neil S, Thursday, 20 December 2012 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
Mike Scaccia, guitarist for Rigor Mortis, died onstage in Fort Worth last night:
http://centraltrack.com/Music/3040/Rest-in-Peace/Rigor-Mortis-and-Ministry-Guitarist-Mike-Scaccia-Died-After-Falling-Onstage-on-Saturday-He-Was-47
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 23 December 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
:/
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 December 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
Rest In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Lee Dorman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/arts/music/lee-dorman-bass-guitarist-for-iron-butterfly-dies-at-70.html?_r=0
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 23 December 2012 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
aw shit marva no
― You're gonna need a fruit kebab. Trust. (stevie), Monday, 24 December 2012 10:39 (eleven years ago) link
Jack Klugman:(
― Zweitgeist (doo dah), Monday, 24 December 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
Quincy.M.E :(
A little more of my youth has just faded.
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
:-(
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
Was particularly good in Tootsie. RIP
― Rastaquouere Vibration (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Pappy ODaniel and Waring Hudsucker
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
and Sgt. Moretti :(
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
"Languishing!! Goddamn campaign is languishing!!"
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
"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 (eleven years ago) link
love this guy, RIP
― banlieue jagger (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Let's all dance a little sidestep in his honor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJG75FJkjr8
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/v/RiKy3ktxw6M
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
sigh
Fontella Bass
― WilliamC, Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
Oh no you didn't, WmC .
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't do it! It was a heart attack!
― WilliamC, Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
seeing on twitter that norman schwarzkopf is dead
― curly moe shempsen (donna rouge), Friday, 28 December 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Fontella Bass, Stormin Norman, not quite so much, but still.
― Alba, Friday, 28 December 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
Jean Harris, Scarsdale diet doc killer.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 December 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
tony greig
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 29 December 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
Former Indy 500 driver, wannabe actor, and hard-luck case Salt Walther. Perhaps most remembered for this crash in 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-IsOuo5be8
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 29 December 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Ray Collins, singer with the Mothers
― nickn, Thursday, 3 January 2013 06:22 (eleven years ago) link
need new thread
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 January 2013 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
Rolling Obituary Thread 2013.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 3 January 2013 12:56 (eleven years ago) link