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