Kate Barry, daughter of Jane Birkin and John Barry.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/12/jane-birkin-daughter-kate-barry-dies-fall-paris-flat
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 14 December 2013 13:38 (ten years ago) link
Peter O'Toole, Lawrence of Arabia star, dies aged 81
― All that self-sacrifice, judgement, self-pity! I’d say it’s (snoball), Sunday, 15 December 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
Ouch.
― hatcat marnell (suzy), Sunday, 15 December 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
Tom "Billy Jack" Laughlin
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-tom-laughlin-billy-jack-films-dies-20131215,0,5952470.story#axzz2nZw0q8TO
― Maintenance Engineer of Foolhardiness (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 15 December 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
nooooo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 December 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
Joan Fontaine too, according to people on twitter. Any stories about this yet?
― papa smango (fadanuf4erybody), Monday, 16 December 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
Joan Fontaine, Oscar-Winning Star of Hitchcock Classics, Dies at 96
― nackt nacht (doo dah), Monday, 16 December 2013 01:01 (ten years ago) link
I guess Olivia de Havilland wins.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 16 December 2013 01:13 (ten years ago) link
crikey, Olivia's still alive!
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Monday, 16 December 2013 08:22 (ten years ago) link
She's probably rung the Oscar people to arrange some kind of victory lap during the In Memoriam montage.
― hatcat marnell (suzy), Monday, 16 December 2013 08:41 (ten years ago) link
Pianist-composer Horace Silver.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 12:44 (ten years ago) link
RIP Horace. Needs his own RIP thread p'raps?
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
Country singer Ray Price a couple days ago. Pancreatic cancer at age 87.
― nickn, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
Wasn't that retracted?
― The Glam Of That All The Way From Memphis Man! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
This time for real, I guess. RIP.
― The Glam Of That All The Way From Memphis Man! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
the horace silver story was
― karajan up the khyber (NickB), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
it was a fauxbituary
They jumped the gun on Ray Price too, over the weekend
― The Glam Of That All The Way From Memphis Man! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
I thought that might have been some sort of medical term for a minute
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
Reminds me off some time travel off-color patter I heard Ray Price deliver when I saw him perform a decade ago.
― The Glam Of That All The Way From Memphis Man! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
yeah I heard Ray Price's obit on NPR last night and went huh, they're 2 days late...
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
Jazzwise @Jazzwise 3m
Jazzwise apologises unreservedly for passing on reports on social media websites that Horace Silver had died and any offence this caused
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
http://isgeneralissimofranciscofrancostilldead.com/Franco.jpg
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
Exactly
― The Glam Of That All The Way From Memphis Man! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
Ronnie Biggs
― nackt nacht (doo dah), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link
legendary Chicago radio DJ Larry Lujack
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 December 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
Al Goldstein, Screw magazine publisher and cable pioneer
http://www.technologytell.com/entertainment/33980/remembering-al-goldstein-midnight-blue-and-channel-35/
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 December 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
Reading the Playboy interview with him in '74 when I was 13 (courtesy the for-show subscription belonging to my pretty-sure closeted uncle) was eye-opening.
― clemenza, Thursday, 19 December 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
oh man, the Gilbert Gottfried interview in that TT obit.
"Are there any animals you wouldn't fuck?" "You."
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 December 2013 05:32 (ten years ago) link
wow gilbert is SO coked up there
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 December 2013 07:30 (ten years ago) link
v v v funny tho"when you're done masturbating how do you know you've cum?""well i'm generally notified by mail"
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 December 2013 07:32 (ten years ago) link
kinda feeling watching midnight blue on youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wQCe_5wY6A
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 December 2013 07:41 (ten years ago) link
i mean goddamnhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A98NnK8IWo
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 December 2013 08:03 (ten years ago) link
Jerry Lewis' technologized lifestyle in the '70s could be the subject of a v dark Wes Anderson film.
The host there is Stanley Siegel, who was a bit of a NY TV star in the late '70s cuz his therapist wd come on once a week and do a session w/ him.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 December 2013 12:58 (ten years ago) link
Ned Vizzini, teenage columnist for NY Press in the '90s and YA author, a suicide at 32
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-writer-ned-vizzini-has-died-20131220,0,6354622.story#axzz2o4yJaNjc
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 December 2013 04:15 (ten years ago) link
David Coleman
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25476438
― ailsa, Saturday, 21 December 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link
!
― lorde othering (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 December 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
Lord Infamous of Three 6 Mafia? The only mention I can find is via Gangsta Boo's twitter, but they were of the same group: https://twitter.com/GangstaBooQOM/status/414422057959424000
― papa smango (fadanuf4erybody), Saturday, 21 December 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
aw fuck that's really sad
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 21 December 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
Skip first 15 seconds of music, then...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCHrtO9WhSs
― Meg White America (Eazy), Saturday, 21 December 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
Diomedes Diaz died! http://www.elespectador.com/entretenimiento/murio-diomedes-diaz-articulo-465606
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Monday, 23 December 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
As did yer man who invented the Kalashnikov (I only learned a couple of weeks ago that he was still alive) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25497013
― ailsa, Monday, 23 December 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
Rest in Peace, Ben Curtis:
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2013/12/benjamin_curtis_rip.php
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 30 December 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link
:-(
― ailsa, Monday, 30 December 2013 23:48 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/12/30/jerry-fine-the-man-who-made-superman-happen-dies-at-age-97
Jerry Fine, the man that introduced Jerry Siegel to Joe Shuster, and therefore is a majot player in the creation of Superman.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 10:02 (ten years ago) link
Eiichi Ohtaki of 1970s Japanese band Happy End :
http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/singer-songwriter-eiichi-ohtaki-dies-after-collapsing-at-home
― bleak strategies (Matt #2), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 10:48 (ten years ago) link
John Fortune
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/british-comedian-john-fortune-dies-at-the-age-of-74-1.1641371
― lorde othering (darraghmac), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, just saw that. RIP John.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 14:31 (ten years ago) link
Golden age car racing figure (and STP guy) Andy Granatelli
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/30/sports/autoracing/andy-granatelli-dies-at-90-revved-businesses-and-cars.html
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link
James Avery, aka Uncle Phil from the Fresh Prince
― sktsh, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link