Rene Vautier, who claimed to be the "most censored director in France", died on Sunday aged 86, his family said.
...Many of his films were banned or condemned by the establishment and one even landed him in prison. He was sentenced to a year in jail for making "Africa 50", which he shot when was just 20, and which is seen as the first French anti-colonial film. It denounced the crimes of the French army and the lack of education afforded to the natives of French colonies. It was banned for 40 years.
http://artdaily.com/news/75510/French-anti-colonial-firebrand-film-maker-Rene-Vautier-dies-aged-86-in-Brittany
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 January 2015 20:20 (eleven years ago)
Rod Taylor
http://www.people.com/people/mobile/article/0,,20890158,00.html
Jack Cardiff's Dark of The Sun RULES.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 9 January 2015 02:23 (eleven years ago)
Another one for the 'I Thought They Died Years Ago'.Appearing in the The Time Machine AND Zabriskie Point is kinda cool.
― The World's Strangest Man 2014 (Tom D.), Friday, 9 January 2015 10:24 (eleven years ago)
musicologist Bob Gilmore
http://www.bobgilmore.co.uk/
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 9 January 2015 13:04 (eleven years ago)
RIP Andraé Crouch
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 January 2015 14:18 (eleven years ago)
Comic actor and calypso singer Lance Percival:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30746784
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 9 January 2015 19:24 (eleven years ago)
Francesco Rosi:
http://www.dw.de/italian-director-francesco-rosi-dies-at-92/a-18183765
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 10 January 2015 22:25 (eleven years ago)
RIP:(
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 January 2015 22:47 (eleven years ago)
Taylor Negron according to Twitter.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 11 January 2015 02:52 (eleven years ago)
No!
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Sunday, 11 January 2015 03:07 (eleven years ago)
http://deadline.com/2015/01/taylor-negron-dead-57-after-long-battle-with-cancer-1201346798/
:-(
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Sunday, 11 January 2015 03:08 (eleven years ago)
RIP. Did not notice mention of The Aristocrats in that obit.
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 January 2015 03:17 (eleven years ago)
I think I'd heard something about him being sick, but I'd totally forgotten it. R.I.P.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 11 January 2015 04:24 (eleven years ago)
Anita Ekberg?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 January 2015 18:00 (eleven years ago)
Yes:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/anita-ekberg-of-la-dolce-vita-fame-dies-1.2897039
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o15UTomYsc
― clemenza, Sunday, 11 January 2015 18:24 (eleven years ago)
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/drummer-vocalist-popsy-dixon-holmes-brothers-dies-28125004
Soulful falsetto vocalist
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 11 January 2015 19:49 (eleven years ago)
Very sad.
This is beautiful and amazing and heartbreaking:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPNhnIwT920
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 11 January 2015 20:26 (eleven years ago)
http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2015/01/brian-clemens-dead-83/
Probably best known for The Avengers, also lots of other British TV and some film work including the Golden Voyage Of Sinbad.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 12 January 2015 08:20 (eleven years ago)
Oh sad - definitely one of the major figures of British genre film/tv. I'm particularly fond of Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, perhaps the most polymorphously perverse of all Hammer movies.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 12 January 2015 08:37 (eleven years ago)
Yeah, shame, RIP Brian.
― The World's Strangest Man 2014 (Tom D.), Monday, 12 January 2015 10:14 (eleven years ago)
Tim Drummond:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tim-drummond-bassist-neil-young-bob-dylan-dead-20150112
Hear him walk a little bit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP1wtIfs8lg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:39 (eleven years ago)
Oh no, that is terrible news. RIP.
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:46 (eleven years ago)
Samuel Goldwyn Jr., key arthouse distributor of the 1980s
http://thedissolve.com/news/4434-samuel-goldwyn-jr-1926-2015/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:52 (eleven years ago)
Dozy!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-30811311
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 12:26 (eleven years ago)
RIP Dozy. I always mean to investigate DDDBMT, I like them, but I never do.
― Peas Be Upon Ham (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 12:29 (eleven years ago)
Now, they are Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich
You want awesome?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51lxwZXeNSI
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 14:10 (eleven years ago)
Novelist Robert Stone
― Brad C., Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:08 (eleven years ago)
RIP Kim Fowley
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6443507/kim-fowley-legendary-record-producer-dead-at-75
― Basically / I Don't Wanna Be / An mp3 / 3-2-0 kb / ps (Craigo Boingo), Friday, 16 January 2015 01:00 (eleven years ago)
o
― Mark G, Friday, 16 January 2015 07:36 (eleven years ago)
Shocker, RIP Kim!!!!!!!
― Peas Be Upon Ham (Tom D.), Friday, 16 January 2015 10:09 (eleven years ago)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/arts/music/ervin-drake-composer-of-pop-songs-dies-at-95.html?action=click&contentCollection=Music®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article
Ervin Drake’s “Now That I Have Everything” debuted the same day he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983, a fitting coda for a career that was punctuated by hit versions of his songs, like Frank Sinatra’s “It Was a Very Good Year,” Billie Holiday’s “Good Morning Heartache” and the inspirational “I Believe,” sung by Frankie Laine.
Mr. Drake, who wrote lyrics and music, produced television programs and was president of the American Guild of Authors and Composers, died on Thursday at 95 at his home in Great Neck, N.Y. The cause was complications of bladder cancer, said his stepson, Jed Berman.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 17 January 2015 20:19 (eleven years ago)
Takao Saitô, Kurosawa's cinematographer on Ran, Sanjuro and many others
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/takao-saito-cinematographer-18-kurosawa-761859
Faten Hamama, actress who was "Lady of Arabic Cinema"
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-faten-hamama-1931-2015
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 18 January 2015 15:17 (eleven years ago)
http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2015/01/17/dixie-hall-prolific-bluegrass-songwriter-dies/21914181/
Dixie Hall, wife of Tom T. Hall. I didn't really know anything about her before this article, but what a life.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 January 2015 05:38 (eleven years ago)
http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2015/01/bo_dollis_longtime_big_chief_o.html
Theodore Emile "Bo" Dollis, the longtime Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias Mardi Gras Indians, died at his home in New Orleans on Jan. 20, 2015, his son confirmed. He was 71.
....He was among the first to bring the culture and sound of the Indian culture to national prominence, recording the first commercial album of Mardi Gras Indian music, the single "Handa Wanda," in 1970 – the same year that he and Monk Boudreaux of the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians appeared at the first New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. In 1974, along with his wife Laurita Dollis, keyboardist Willie Tee, Snooks Eagilin, percussionist Uganda Roberts and saxophonist Earl Turbinton, Dollis recorded the groundbreaking album "The Wild Magnolias," melding Indian chants with sizzling funk. ...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:30 (eleven years ago)
Saw that coming. RIP
― Zings of Oblivion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:37 (eleven years ago)
Leon Brittan
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/leon-brittan-dead-thatcher-minister-accused-of-failure-to-act-on-child-sex-abuse-dossier-dies-9995572.html
― ailsa, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:10 (eleven years ago)
(also Anne Kirkbride the other day, mentioned on Coronation Street thread but not here)
― ailsa, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:11 (eleven years ago)
Frank Mazzola, editor of Performance (amongst other extraordinary things):
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/frank-mazzola-film-editor-and-rebel-without-a-cause-actor-dies-at-79-1201410982/
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:26 (eleven years ago)
@jeremyscahillThese obit headlines are puke-worthy: "Saudi King Abdullah: patient reformer who battled hardliners"
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 January 2015 06:34 (eleven years ago)
He's getting no RIPs from me.
― A trumpet growing in a garden (Tom D.), Friday, 23 January 2015 12:27 (eleven years ago)
For constant larfs, make sure you read Greenwald's twitter today.
@ggreenwald 2h2 hours agoNext on CNN: Was the dearly departed King Abdullah more like MLK or Gandhi? Our panel remembers this beloved figured of peace and reform.
@ggreenwald · 1h 1 hour agoUK orders flags flown at half-mast for King Abdullah. Will return to lecturing the world about democracy tomorrow
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 23 January 2015 13:55 (eleven years ago)
faith seidenberg, who desegregated mcsorley's ale house in manhattan, among other things
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 January 2015 00:15 (eleven years ago)
Joe Franklin
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 January 2015 06:11 (eleven years ago)
bummer.
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 25 January 2015 06:13 (eleven years ago)
http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/12219755/ernie-banks-former-chicago-cubs-great-dies-age-83
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 25 January 2015 07:26 (eleven years ago)
I got through to Joe Franklin once, as a teenager in the mid- or late-'70s. He must have been syndicated, because I'm pretty sure it was a station out of Cleveland that you could pick up in Toronto. Zero recollection of what we talked about.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 January 2015 10:29 (eleven years ago)
(Check that--think it was this guy instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Franklin.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 January 2015 10:31 (eleven years ago)
VERY DIFFERENT GUY.
I interviewed Joe in his office in 1980. (The OLD office, not the neater one below.) Papers and folders and God-knows-what stacked floor-to-ceiling. He was yakking on the phone about "Gore Vidal's Caligula" ("It's terrible, people are asking for their $10 back").
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr2s7K8Qmdk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFXsMTS9MS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpf1j0cA5Hg
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 January 2015 14:11 (eleven years ago)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30984851
Demis Roussos. I suspect he might get his own thread, or the Aphrodite's Child one.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 26 January 2015 12:38 (eleven years ago)
:((((((((
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=321JxxzlGio
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Monday, 26 January 2015 12:43 (eleven years ago)
Wow, what a résumé.
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 December 2015 00:02 (ten years ago)
Stevie Wright of The Easybeats
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2015/12/28/australian-rock-legend-stevie-wright-dies.html
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 27 December 2015 20:30 (ten years ago)
Helped shape a decade:
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/haskell-wexler-dead-93-cinematographer-1201668018/
― clemenza, Sunday, 27 December 2015 20:30 (ten years ago)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/us/gen-h-norman-schwarzkopf-us-commander-in-gulf-war-dies-at-78.html?_r=0
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 28 December 2015 03:27 (ten years ago)
GODDAMMIT FACEBOOK, QUIT CIRCULATING 3 YEAR OLD STORIES!
I usually don't get taken by these, but...
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 28 December 2015 03:29 (ten years ago)
Ellsworth Kelly
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/arts/ellsworth-kelly-artist-who-mixed-european-abstraction-into-everyday-life-dies-at-92.html
― nickn, Monday, 28 December 2015 04:37 (ten years ago)
Carson Van Osten, bass player for the (Todd Rundgren) Nazz, and later an artist for Disney
http://www.noise11.com/news/r-i-p-carson-van-osten-of-nazz-1945-2015-20151227
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 28 December 2015 05:10 (ten years ago)
Meadowlark Lemon!
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/28/entertainment/meadowlark-lemon-obit-globetrotters-feat/
I'm not 100% sure, but I think I did see them at Maple Leaf Gardens when I was kid.
― clemenza, Monday, 28 December 2015 19:31 (ten years ago)
I gasped when I read that, coming back on the train to London. RIP big guy.
― voodoo rage (suzy), Monday, 28 December 2015 20:10 (ten years ago)
Lemmy.
― Vernon Locke, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 01:20 (ten years ago)
Oh, damn. His recent interview with Marc Maron was hilarious. RIP.
― Bitch I'm in the 2112 (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 01:35 (ten years ago)
aw, fuck.
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 01:36 (ten years ago)
Well, that seems unlikely. RIP.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 01:47 (ten years ago)
There's no question that the news is true, but allow me to not believe it for a while longer. R.I.P. Lemmy
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 02:32 (ten years ago)
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/10710773_1106121706072795_6645400775584024850_n.jpg?oh=5c0f1489cd175d37201045b21bd96b00&oe=5717672D
― nomar, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 02:38 (ten years ago)
RIP stormin norman
― the late great, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 02:47 (ten years ago)
RIP Lemmy - Killed by Death, just like he predicted.
― StanM, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 04:39 (ten years ago)
it's like when Ronnie James Dio died. I knew he was sick but it never crossed my mind to picture what it would be like without him
and now bummertown usa ;_;
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 05:12 (ten years ago)
Let me get this straight, Lemmy is dead?
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 10:06 (ten years ago)
Meadowlark Lemmy
― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 13:25 (ten years ago)
I don't wanna live forever ;_;
― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 14:01 (ten years ago)
Czech goalie Pavel Srnicek, 47:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/dec/29/pavel-srnicek-newcastle-united-sheffield-wednesday-west-ham-dies-aged-47-cardiac-arrest
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 15:38 (ten years ago)
The Specials' John Bradbury
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/29/john-bradbury-of-the-specials-dies-ages-62
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 19:47 (ten years ago)
Guru Josh
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/9092/Muzieknieuws/article/detail/2570076/2015/12/29/Danceproducer-Guru-Josh-Infinity-overleden.dhtml
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 19:49 (ten years ago)
Hearing Guru Josh as well, but can't find a link
xpost, ah there we go
― ailsa, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 19:51 (ten years ago)
And there's your English-language report:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/29/guru-josh-rave-star-dies-aged-51
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 20:21 (ten years ago)
Aidan Higgins.http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/acclaimed-irish-writer-aidan-higgins-dies-aged-88-1.2478631
― gradually louden lots (Øystein), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 20:50 (ten years ago)
http://tvline.com/2015/12/31/wayne-rogers-dead-age-82-mash/
R.I.P. Trapper John
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 1 January 2016 03:13 (ten years ago)
No way. He always had that youthful glow. RIP
― Instant Karmagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 January 2016 03:32 (ten years ago)
natalie cole
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 1 January 2016 16:57 (ten years ago)
rip
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/singer-natalie-cole-dead-65-article-1.2482580
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 January 2016 17:01 (ten years ago)
Ring out the old: Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016
― Green Dolphin Street Hassle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 January 2016 17:22 (ten years ago)