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)
rod mckuen
can't understand it anymore
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:54 (eleven years ago)
Colleen McCullough, author of The Thorn Birds: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31036362
― ailsa, Friday, 30 January 2015 01:12 (eleven years ago)
What not to do. Seriously, what NOT TO DO:
http://www.crikey.com.au/2015/01/30/why-the-oz-called-colleen-mccullough-fat-and-ugly-in-her-obituary/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 January 2015 05:04 (eleven years ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Marie_McCoy
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100823151
Prolific songwriter who had songs recorded by Big Maybelle, Elvis Presley, Little Jimmy Scott, Nat King Cole, Ike & Tina Turner and others died on January 20th at age 92 according to Wiki and a Yahoo Southern Soul group email listserv thing I get. She was a New Jersey-based independent songwriter who rejected offers to join well-known house songwriting operations at Stax, Motown and elsewhere
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 January 2015 15:46 (eleven years ago)
Edward Saylor one of the surviving Doolittle Raiders (three left)http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/us/edward-j-saylor-airman-who-took-fight-to-japan-with-the-doolittle-raiders-dies-at-94.html
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 1 February 2015 03:32 (eleven years ago)
navy ace alexander vraciu, who once shot down six japanese bombers in eight minutes
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 February 2015 04:00 (eleven years ago)
NY Times now has obit of songwriter McCoy
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/arts/music/rose-marie-mccoy-a-songwriter-for-rock-pop-and-jazz-legends-dies-at-92.html?_r=1
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 1 February 2015 16:32 (eleven years ago)
http://oregonmusicnews.com/2015/02/02/don-covay-soul-singer-songwriter-dead-76/
He had been in ill health for awhile after a stroke. No larger outlets are reporting this yet. Reports of the death have also been on facebook
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:25 (eleven years ago)
more online tributes starting to show up
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:36 (eleven years ago)
RIP Don
― A trumpet growing in a garden (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:43 (eleven years ago)
Geraldine McEwan, star of theatre, television and film
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/01/geraldine-mcewan-from-mrs-malaprop-to-miss-marple
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 18:23 (eleven years ago)
LA based saxophonist Zane Musa, at 36.
http://www.laweekly.com/music/la-jazz-scene-reels-from-untimely-death-of-zane-musa-5367964
― nickn, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 21:36 (eleven years ago)
prolific churchill/holocaust/war historian martin gilbert
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31129677
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 20:05 (eleven years ago)
Sandy Socolow, key CBS News editor/producer of the Cronkite era
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-peyronnin/broadcast-news-icon-sandy_b_6590202.html
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:32 (eleven years ago)
pianist aldo ciccolini
― mookieproof, Thursday, 5 February 2015 08:53 (eleven years ago)
Suzette Haden Elgin
http://io9.com/r-i-p-suzette-haden-elgin-author-poet-verbal-self-d-1684006640
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:56 (eleven years ago)
Mary Healy, singer who teamed with her hubby on records, Vegas, radio and movies including The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Stage-and-Screen-Actress-Mary-Healy-Dies-at-96-20150204
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyf_A3dUI-E
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:51 (eleven years ago)
Stewart Stern, screenwriter of Rebel without a Cause and The Last Movie
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/stewart-stern-dies-writer-of-rebel-without-a-cause-obituary-1201426670/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 February 2015 06:40 (eleven years ago)
Buddy Holly & The Crickets bassist Joe B. Mauldin
http://lubbockonline.com/local-news/2015-02-07/crickets-bassist-joe-b-mauldin-remembered-gentle-soul#.VNcTTPnF-So
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 8 February 2015 07:46 (eleven years ago)
Dean Smith:
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/12296176/dean-smith-former-north-carolina-tar-heels-coach-dies-age-83
― clemenza, Sunday, 8 February 2015 15:10 (eleven years ago)
Rik Mayall
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jun/09/rik-mayall-dies-comedian-actor
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Monday, 9 February 2015 19:56 (eleven years ago)
Fuck, nevermind. Didn't notice taht was old.
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Monday, 9 February 2015 19:57 (eleven years ago)
Still shocking, but yeah.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 16:24 (eleven years ago)
Architect Jon Jerde.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jon-jerde-20150209-story.html#page=1
― nickn, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 01:31 (eleven years ago)
60 Minutes's Bob Simon:
http://nypost.com/2015/02/11/60-minutes-bob-simon-killed-in-car-crash/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 February 2015 02:39 (eleven years ago)
Jerry Tarkanian; wow, these assholes are droppin' like flies
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/12309861/jerry-tarkanian-was-hall-fame-coach-battled-ncaa
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 February 2015 12:13 (eleven years ago)
Steve Strange, of Visage:
http://www.vanyaland.com/2015/02/12/report-steve-strange-new-romantic-electronic-music-pioneers-visage-dead-55/
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 February 2015 23:15 (eleven years ago)
Oh fuck, and Moebius!
http://io9.com/5892148/legendary-french-artist-moebius-the-man-who-made-the-abyss-alien-and-tron-even-weirder-is-dead-at-73
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 February 2015 23:19 (eleven years ago)
Er, except that (Moebius) is from a few years ago. Never mind.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 February 2015 23:23 (eleven years ago)
David Carr:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/business/media/david-carr-media-equation-columnist-for-the-times-is-dead-at-58.html?_r=0
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 February 2015 03:40 (eleven years ago)
jesus… really loved his work.
― a cake of three ingredients (stevie), Friday, 13 February 2015 09:19 (eleven years ago)
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/gary-owens-announcer-of-laugh-in-fame-dies-at-80-1201433731/
Brilliant voice
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 February 2015 21:50 (eleven years ago)
Indeed. RIP.
― Up the Junction Boulevard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 February 2015 22:00 (eleven years ago)
THIS STUPID WEEK.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 February 2015 22:28 (eleven years ago)