About a month ago: actor Peter Benson, whom I first noticed as an astonishingly meek Henry VI in the BBC Shakespeare DVD set.
https://i2.wp.com/www.loways.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/heartbeat-and-blackadder-actor-peter-benson-dies.jpg
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 4 October 2018 10:27 (five years ago) link
And of course he was Henry VII in Blackadder in between those and reprising the role in Richard III.
I'll remember him as Bor, the most confused of the Vanir in the Doctor Who serial Terminus.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 4 October 2018 10:57 (five years ago) link
Juan Romero, the young man who was working as a busboy at the Ambassador Hotel when RFK was shot and held him after he fell (as seen in the photo in the story.)
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/654282422/juan-romero-busboy-who-cradled-dying-rfk-dies-at-68
― omar little, Thursday, 4 October 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
Baritone saxophonist and founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet (along with Julius Hemphill, David Murray, and Oliver Lake) Hamiet Bluiett.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3T-MdIoo8Y
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 4 October 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
Animator Will Vinton (California Raisins, The PJs), 70
― WmC, Friday, 5 October 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
Bluiett :( when I think of Bari sax I think of him.
― Ctrl+Alt+Del in Poughkeepsie (fionnland), Friday, 5 October 2018 07:34 (five years ago) link
My girlfriend’s a big fan, we played some cuts of WSQ in his honor before we headed out tonight.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 October 2018 07:41 (five years ago) link
https://stljazznotes.blogspot.com/2018/10/hamiet-bluiett-1940-2018.html
rip Hamiet.
― calzino, Friday, 5 October 2018 08:17 (five years ago) link
Steptoe and Son creator Ray Galton, 88:https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/oct/06/ray-galton-co-creator-of-steptoe-and-son-dies-aged-88
― GG Allin: The Musical (Matt #2), Saturday, 6 October 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
The great Montserrat Caballé, who for some reason I thought had died a few years ago.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 6 October 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
I always remember her from the Freddie Mercury hit, what a voice!
― calzino, Saturday, 6 October 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
RIP Ray (xxp)
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 October 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
awww, man, hamiet did some fantastic duo gigs with don pullen back in the day
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 6 October 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
The great Montserrat Caballé, who for some reason I thought had died a few years ago.You may have been thinking of Montserrat Figueras, another Spanish classical singer, who died in 2011.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 6 October 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
Scott Wilson
https://comicbook.com/thewalkingdead/2018/10/07/the-walking-dead-scott-wilson-dead-age-hershel/
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 7 October 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link
I'm seeing John Wicks of The Records, but no link.
― nickn, Monday, 8 October 2018 04:01 (five years ago) link
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2018/10/07/john-wicks-the-records-dead/
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 October 2018 04:37 (five years ago) link
RIP Scott. Magnificent in The Ninth Configuration which will be getting a rewatch tonight.
― Ctrl+Alt+Del in Poughkeepsie (fionnland), Monday, 8 October 2018 06:31 (five years ago) link
Pascale Casanova, French literary critic, author of The World Republic of Letters. RIP.
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 October 2018 08:01 (five years ago) link
I always got Scott Wilson confused with Clu Gulager.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 8 October 2018 12:31 (five years ago) link
Actress Celeste Yarnall.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/celeste-yarnall-dead-star-trek-885728
― nickn, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
Japanese composer Takehisa Kosugi (of Taj Mahal Travellers and the solo album Catch-Wave, a minimalist drone classic)
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 12 October 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Stafford
Greg Stafford, creator of the fantasy world Golorantha and the setting for seminal RPG Runequest.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
Betty Grissom, widow of astronaut Gus Grissom, who sued North American Rockwell over the Apollo 1 fire in which he died
https://apnews.com/d90d71139414422e94774fb83ec167ec
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
aw Betty <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
talk about a flamekeeper.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
i agree but uh that might not have been the first word i would have chosen :/
― himalayan mountain hole (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
ugh fuck yr rightlet’s just say the definition of steadfast
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 October 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
done
― himalayan mountain hole (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 October 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
Paul Spudis, regarded as one of the most important lunar scientists ever. https://spacenews.com/lunar-scientist-and-exploration-advocate-paul-spudis-passes-away/
― Chelvis, Saturday, 13 October 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
Peter Brackley, the voice of 90s Italian football.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 14 October 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
William Coors, right-wing beer mogul, at 102
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 October 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
Coors brewery workers struck in 1977 over many issues, including the use of lie-detector tests to ferret out employees who were gay or whose politics were considered radical.
lovely guy, hope he took some time to drink some of that fine stuff!
― calzino, Monday, 15 October 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
Paul Allen
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 October 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/technology/wp/2018/10/15/paul-allen-microsoft-co-founder-and-billionaire-investor-dies-at-65-2/
I'm seeing Kat Arthur, singer of Legal Weapon. No link.
― nickn, Monday, 15 October 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
Wow Paul allen dying is kind of nuts considering his real estate company has been a big part of the construction boom out here. Wonder what’s gonna turn out to be in his will.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 15 October 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
Maybe $1 billion to me
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 15 October 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
I hope it all goes to the Allen Brain Institute, that group has been doing some fine work and making their data freely accessible.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 01:01 (five years ago) link
Allen is kind of a mythical figure to me - I worked at WSU, where he dropped out of after two years in the 70s and there were always rumors that he was on one of the private jets that would show up on home football game days.
And I don't know if it was amazing trolling or just weird timing, but Bill Gates gave the school $25 million for a animal health research building, and a year later Allen gave $26 and they ended up naming it after him.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 02:32 (five years ago) link
One of the bad things Paul Allen did (long-ish, but mentioned at the end):
https://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/lost-hollywood-the-enchanted-hill-of-fred-thomson-and-frances-marion/
― nickn, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link
based on the rotation of costumes exhibited at Cinerama, he also owns…most Hollywood memorabilia. Like possibly most of it that exists.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 03:13 (five years ago) link
Wouldn't anything in the property rooms of any Hollywood studio have been in one or more movies? So, it might just be memorabilia of some forgettable short feature from 1936, but it would still be "Hollywood memorabilia".
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 03:28 (five years ago) link
$26?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 08:25 (five years ago) link
rip paul allen, who will play shreddin' blues licks on your obscenely giant yacht now
― himalayan mountain hole (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 08:54 (five years ago) link
iirc he was a respectable guitarist!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 11:28 (five years ago) link
Favorite comment on video of Allen shredding: "Warren Buffett is better than Steve Vai any day."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 11:29 (five years ago) link
Arto Paasilinna. Finnish writer, best known for The Year of the Hare. RIP.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link
Dennis Hof, owner of the Nevada brothel the Bunny Ranch. I met him once, for work.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
“Less than 24 hours ago, Hof celebrated his birthday along with pornographic actor Ron Jeremy, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist.”how can hell top that. i ask you
― maura, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link