shit, seymour cassel, a classic "that guy"
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 8 April 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
^^^literally said this aloud when i saw the news
― mookieproof, Monday, 8 April 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
really thought he was gone already
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 April 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
I used to think he'd died after shooting Rushmore, but then I saw him on a Boston Public ep in 2000 or so playing a teacher who'd faked his death, which was a funny way to be set straight on the matter.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 April 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/seymour-cassel-dead-dies-rushmore-1203183354/amp/
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 April 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
A cool, neat footnote in Cassell's career is his appearance--alongside Alex Rocco--as a henchman in the Batman/Green Hornet episodes.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 April 2019 21:01 (five years ago) link
Had one of these as a kid:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0758/8457/products/029_0387e290-aebe-4786-88cc-951def1ca03f_large.JPG?v=1463100113
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 April 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
He’s the guy who sets up Ben Gazzara in Killing of a Chinese Bookie right?
― flappy bird, Monday, 8 April 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link
RIP Seymour. Thought he was long dead tho.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 8 April 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link
Richard Cole - last surviving Doolittle Raiderhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/obituaries/richard-cole-dead.html
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 08:12 (five years ago) link
Sandy Ratcliff, actress, best known for Eastenders but best remembered for "Family Life" and "The Final Programme".
https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/sandy-ratcliff-dies-aged-70-eastenders-fans-pay-tribute-as-soap-airs-following-actresss-death-a4113726.html
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X_WqXOJbJf8/XKzy6RueTVI/AAAAAAAAzXE/QpsCqImE-ywVx9Zq858404LdmCohwMTvgCLcBGAs/s640/sandy-ratcliff-schaut-ernst-und-raucht.jpg
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 11:12 (five years ago) link
You can add "mother of the guy who runs Iron Fist magazine" to the résumé.
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 12:10 (five years ago) link
"Twenty-One" stooge Charles Van Doren
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
Hurt yourself a little so your enemies won't hurt you a lot. See also the Comics Code Authority.
Bonus spoonful of "write rules that say your competitors shouldn't be allowed to compete" on the last one.
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 22:28 (five years ago) link
Earl Thomas Conley
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2019/04/10/country-singer-earl-thomas-conley-dies/3425157002/
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 11 April 2019 00:15 (five years ago) link
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/seymour-cassel-dead-dies-rushmore-1203183354/amp🕸/
― nathom, Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
Ian Cognito, probably one of Britain's most challenging comedians and peer with Sadowitz, died onstage (literally) in Bicester last night. Won awards in the late 90s but seemed happy to just be a comedian's comedian.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Friday, 12 April 2019 10:45 (five years ago) link
https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/7036/news-ian-cognito-dies
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Friday, 12 April 2019 10:46 (five years ago) link
The video down the bottom doesn't suggest he'll be missed!
(Does Jimmy Carr have 'risky brutal humour'? What does he do with it?)
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 12 April 2019 11:01 (five years ago) link
other comics who died onstage: Dick Shawn and Parkyakarkus (Albert Brooks' father)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 April 2019 11:13 (five years ago) link
tommy cooper, too
― arli$$ and bible black (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 April 2019 11:14 (five years ago) link
Blimey, used to see him back in my "Comedy Gig-Going" days - he was really good!
I dunno, what can you do? The price of staying alive, I guess.
― Mark G, Friday, 12 April 2019 11:19 (five years ago) link
Appropriately enough Jerry Sadowitz had a routine about this - and some horse that died running the Derby.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Friday, 12 April 2019 12:35 (five years ago) link
(american) football player and coach (bengals, packers) forrest gregg
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 April 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
Tommy Smith, Liverpool FC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47913937
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Friday, 12 April 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link
virulently racist piece of shit who leaves the world a richer place for his having left it
― Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Friday, 12 April 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
I did not know about that. But yes, checks out :(
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/03/howard-gayle-being-liverpool-first-black-player-was-difficult
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 April 2019 22:46 (five years ago) link
google his interview with Dave Hill, warning it's exceedingly unpleasant
― Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Friday, 12 April 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
Gary Stewart, Veteran of Rhino Records and Apple Music, Dies at 62
https://variety.com/2019/music/news/gary-stewart-rhino-records-apple-music-dies-1203188602/?fbclid=IwAR1oDF_TelOhb0J6ODMkyHXtFzONQQthWpLj-fJ4Dv-_29pTJowHlfTeNmc
― nickn, Friday, 12 April 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link
Avant-guitarist and Curlew member Davey Williams, 67:
https://guardiansofguitar.com/2019/04/08/davey-williams-1952-2019/
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
Bibi Andersson
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
Oh no.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
aw man RIP
― flappy bird, Sunday, 14 April 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
We named our cats Harriet and Bibi. Our Bibi also went first :(
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 14 April 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
RIP :(
― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 April 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
Scottish newspaper cartoonist Malky McCormick, best known for his Billy Connolly Big Yin strip in the Sunday Mail (which also featured him as Wee Man) and then the following lightly satirical stuff (when Billy had fallen out with the Record about something and refused his likeness).
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Monday, 15 April 2019 13:19 (five years ago) link
Paul Raymond from UFO
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 15 April 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
SF/fantasy writer Gene Wolfe
― The Carjackers Quickly Dumped ILX Once They Saw What Was Inside (WmC), Monday, 15 April 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
People you thought were dead. RIP Malky.
https://i2-prod.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article14330233.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_THE-BIG-YIN-CARTOON.jpg
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
I thought you'd be the one guy who definitely knew who he was.
You might even say I was Lucan out for you. *
*niche joke
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
i remember his drawings from the record, though the specific big yin strip must be from before my time
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 15 April 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link
I almost did.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2019 19:02 (five years ago) link
david brion davis, historian of slavery
― mookieproof, Monday, 15 April 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
No! Fuck, this one hurts. RIP.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 07:10 (five years ago) link
Les Reed, songwriter, composer of "Delilah", "It's Not Unusual", "There's a Kind of Hush" et al.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47948530
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 11:34 (five years ago) link
Kazuhiko Katou aka Monkey Punch, most famous for writing and drawing the Lupin III manga
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
Georgia Engel, most know for playing Georgette on the Mary Tyler Moore show.
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/16/713892952/georgia-engel-sweet-voiced-star-of-mary-tyler-moore-show-dies-at-70
― nickn, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, April 16, 2019 10:54 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark
oh man rip
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
it'd hard to play a wide-eyed innocent for laughs and not be boring; she was masterful
xp
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/sl3-117-2109_large.jpg
Skylab/Space Shuttle scientist-astronaut Owen Garriotthttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/skylab-and-space-shuttle-astronaut-owen-garriott-dies-at-88/
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 21:13 (five years ago) link