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heart attack and found unconscious . 66 years old. Wow.

― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:32 (eight years ago)

And just after finishing a tour (last show Sep 25 at the Hollywood Bowl).

― nickn, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:40 (eight years ago)

A 40th anniversary tour, which (grain of salt) Petty had hinted could be one of his last.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 October 2017 20:43 (eight years ago)

Some confusion - TMZ now reporting that the LAPD can't confirm despite issuing an earlier statement confirming Petty's death.

― ailsa, Monday, 2 October 2017 21:22 (eight years ago)

crossing fingers

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 October 2017 21:55 (eight years ago)

(2/2) However, the LAPD has no investigative role in this matter. We apologize for any inconvenience in this reporting.
— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) October 2, 2017

“We apologize for any inconvenience” somehow manages to trump Trump's "warmest condolences" for the clumsiest death-related statement of the day.

― Alba, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 02:38 (eight years ago)

Well, we can make it official now. RIP. What a day ...

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 04:19 (eight years ago)

electronic musician charles cohen

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=40112

― plp will eat itself (NickB), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 06:20 (eight years ago)

Chuck Low, who played Morrie in Goodfellas

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 14:26 (eight years ago)

Just got an e-mail from friend about Chuck Low--we've been trading Morrie quotes for 25 years. Also fantastic in The King of Comedy, sitting in a restaurant and waving his hands Rupert-style in the background.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 00:33 (eight years ago)

RIP Anne Wiazemsky (haven't seen the obit yet, just from my twitter)

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 5 October 2017 11:18 (eight years ago)

― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 October 2017 11:24 (eight years ago)

Confirmed by Allocine website, RIP Anne.

― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 October 2017 12:00 (eight years ago)

RIP Anne. fuck cancer.

― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:15 (eight years ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/oct/05/anne-wiazemsky-actor-france-jean-luc-godard

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:58 (eight years ago)

http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/9730591/500full-la-chinoise-screenshot.jpg

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:41 (eight years ago)

Gotta love a red redhead.

― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:43 (eight years ago)

Arthur Janov, 93

― flappy bird, Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:46 (eight years ago)

Ralphie May

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/ralphie-may-dead-dies-comedian-last-comic-standing-1202583047/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=72193&utm_term=281970

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 October 2017 21:43 (eight years ago)

bluesman cedell davis died last week at 91

― mookieproof, Friday, 6 October 2017 23:16 (eight years ago)

Bunny Sigler

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/bunny-sigler-helped-create-1970s-philly-sound-dies-50334319

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 7 October 2017 00:32 (eight years ago)

oh whoooa Ralphie May! Shit. Great comic. Goddamn. I don't even know how old he was but I know it was way too fucking young. RIP.

― flappy bird, Saturday, 7 October 2017 00:54 (eight years ago)

Connie Hawkins:

http://www.nba.com/article/2017/10/07/connie-hawkins-dies-75-obit#/

He was in decline when I first started watching basketball in the mid-'70s, but he was still a big name.

― clemenza, Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:04 (eight years ago)

RIP. David Wolf's biography of the Hawk is great and gives you a sense of how the league has changed.

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 8 October 2017 16:15 (eight years ago)

Joe Bailon, inventor of “candy apple red” and other paints, dies aged 94

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/09/27/joe-bailon-inventor-of-candy-apple-red-and-other-paints-dies-aged-94/

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 8 October 2017 21:10 (eight years ago)

my favorite color. RIP

― flappy bird, Monday, 9 October 2017 00:53 (eight years ago)

French actor Jean Rochefort :(

― Dinsdale, Monday, 9 October 2017 11:27 (eight years ago)

Watched him gamely brightening the screen for five minutes in Mr Bean's Holiday (which went down well with my niblings) over the weekend.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 9 October 2017 11:34 (eight years ago)

Watched April & The Extraordinary World this past weekend and the gf got excited over Rochefort being in it, talked about how much she likes him.

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 9 October 2017 11:47 (eight years ago)

Jimmy Beaumont of the Skyliners:

http://www.wtae.com/article/pittsburgh-music-legend-jimmy-beaumont-of-the-skyliners-dies-at-76/12805272

"Since I Don't Have You" is one of the great doo-wop songs ever--being introduced to it via American Graffiti (probably, anyway--I may have heard it on the radio before that) had, as the popular expression goes, a transformative effect on my life. (Geez, a YouTube search turns up the Guns N' Roses cover at the top of the list.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzyEd2soQkk

― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 00:39 (eight years ago)

Grady Tate

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/jazz-drum-star-grady-tate-dies-85-article-1.3554932

― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 10:58 (eight years ago)

― Commandolin Wind (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 11:52 (eight years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nWaV8G8Sw

― Commandolin Wind (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 11:56 (eight years ago)

storied NY Giants QB Y.A. Tittle

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/10/556786699/football-legend-y-a-tittle-dies-at-90

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 15:21 (eight years ago)

Bob Schiller, TV writer for episodes of “I Love Lucy,” “Maude” and “All in the Family”, also Abbott & Costello and Red Skelton.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-schiller-dead-i-love-lucy-writer-was-98-1047459

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2017 20:55 (eight years ago)

For All in the Family, the pair penned the two-part episode "Edith's 50th Birthday" in which Edith (Jean Stapleton) is the victim of an attempted rape.

Also wrote the two-part Maude where Walter's drinking problem spiraled out of control. Dude liked to lay it on thick in the '70s.

― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Thursday, 12 October 2017 21:13 (eight years ago)

also this

https://wpr-public.s3.amazonaws.com/wprorg/s3fs-public/images/segments/i-love-lucy-grape-stomping.jpg

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2017 21:15 (eight years ago)

(I mean, that was the Norman Lear brand. And given the restrictions of their earlier careers, he and Bob Weiskopf were probably thrilled to be able to do those.)

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2017 21:17 (eight years ago)

they also did the "Cousin Liz" lesbian episode of AITF

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 October 2017 21:38 (eight years ago)

Remember the guy who placed the urinating dog statue at the feet of the statue of the girl facing down the Wall Street bull?

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/subway-hit-vic-urinating-dog-art-fearless-girl-statue-article-1.3561378

― nomar, Saturday, 14 October 2017 17:08 (eight years ago)

couldn't have happened to a yadda yadda

― maura, Sunday, 15 October 2017 02:07 (eight years ago)

Karma is a bitch

― Οὖτις, Sunday, 15 October 2017 02:15 (eight years ago)

People on Twitter saying Sean Hughes has died. His last tweet on Oct 8th just says "in hospital".

― nate woolls, Monday, 16 October 2017 10:52 (eight years ago)

It's just broken on BBC news as well.

― Mark G, Monday, 16 October 2017 11:09 (eight years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41632761

Not much on here as yet, I guess it'll get filled in during today.

― Mark G, Monday, 16 October 2017 11:10 (eight years ago)

Possibly Cirrhosis:

https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/4695/news-sean-hughes-dies

Fuck.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 16 October 2017 11:33 (eight years ago)

I always feel uncomfortable + a bit queasy when another boozer dies from booze. RIP and all that, but good lord I found him insufferable as a comedian.

― calzino, Monday, 16 October 2017 11:35 (eight years ago)

Shit! He lived in my neighbourhood. Saw him around a lot.

― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 16 October 2017 11:36 (eight years ago)

xp yeah

― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 16 October 2017 11:49 (eight years ago)

thanks for summing up my thoughts calz

― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 October 2017 11:51 (eight years ago)

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