Stephen Moore :(((((
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 12 October 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
which one?
― wasdnuos (abanana), Saturday, 12 October 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
Good question
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 October 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
Dalkey Archive guy?
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 October 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
He spells it with a ‘v’ so I guess not
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 October 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
Our dear friend Stephen Moore has died. A fine actor, a lovely man and the original and most iconic voice of Marvin The Paranoid Android in The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. Our thoughts are with his family and our memories of him will always make us smile. RIP Stephen. pic.twitter.com/d01PFDpVDq— Dirk Maggs (@DirkMaggs) October 12, 2019
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 12 October 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
I thought it was him but then I didn't think he famous enough to end up itt.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 October 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
He was also in Clockwise, and Adrian Mole, and The Queen's Nose, and Harry Enfield, loads of other stuff too.
He even had a hit single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTXOW_jJdKE
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 12 October 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
https://www.lococofineart.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Slaughter-We-got-here-Text.251.jpg
― mick signals, Saturday, 12 October 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
there was another Marvin single which included "Marvin, I Love You" which is probably better known than the above.
― koogs, Saturday, 12 October 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
i listened to his audiobook recording of 'roadside picnic' last year. he had a wonderful voice.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 13 October 2019 03:20 (four years ago) link
Anna Quayle
http://www.playbill.com/article/anna-quayle-tony-award-winner-for-stop-the-worldi-want-to-get-off-dies-at-86
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 October 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
Her scene with John Lennon in A Hard Day's Night is so, so great. And Lewy body dementia is a hell of a way to go. That's what took my grandfather. :(
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Sunday, 13 October 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
Never knew who that was. RIP
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 October 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
https://sofiaglobe.com/2019/10/13/milcho-leviev-bulgarian-jazz-great-dead-at-82/
Milcho Leviev, Bulgarian jazz pianist of some renown - worked with Don Ellis and Billy Cobham in the 70's.
― calzino, Monday, 14 October 2019 07:09 (four years ago) link
Sophia Kokosalaki, fashion designer.
― coup de twat (suzy), Monday, 14 October 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
western canonizer harold bloom
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/books/harold-bloom-dead.html
― mookieproof, Monday, 14 October 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
Architecture writer Charles Jencks, 80. Also co-founded Maggie’s cancer centres with his late wife.
― coup de twat (suzy), Monday, 14 October 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
RIP Harold Bloom
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 October 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
It usually takes a bit to make me really sit up and take notice of a dress at televised events of various sorts. The stadium-covering one worn by Björk when performing "Oceania" at the Athens Olympic opening ceremony in 2004 sure did.
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 14 October 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
Scotty Bowers, self-proclaimed Hollywood pimp to the closeted stars
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/scotty-bowers-dead-male-madame-stars-was-96-1247422
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
Kate Bravermanhttps://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2019-10-14/kate-braverman-poet-author-obituary
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 03:43 (four years ago) link
RIP
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
i know this is a RIP thread, but i went out and got a celebratory beer when i heard about Bloom yesterday. what a racist old shithead.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
Yeah, also:
https://jezebel.com/a-look-back-at-how-the-media-demonized-naomi-wolf-for-a-1839046051
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
Loránd Gáspár, Hungarian-born French poet and a personal favourite. He was 94. RIP.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
Yeah, the Wolf stuff is pretty egregious, too. I re-read the infamous Boston Review opinion piece yesterday, and had forgotten how truly execrable it is, like one huge dog whistle. What a total piece of shit, imo.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
Ah yes, I remember that. Marjorie Perloff's response was unsurprisingly otm.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
i think Rita Dove's is a bit more my style, but i also despise Perloff.
enough derailment, though. poetics thread?
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
Emmerdale actress Leah Bracknell https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50069971
― ailsa, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
RIP Elijah CummingsDamn that’s a tough one
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Thursday, 17 October 2019 10:40 (four years ago) link
Márta Kurtág, Hungarian pianist and wife of György Kurtág. She was 92. RIP.
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 October 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bill-macy-dead-maude-husband-922206
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 18 October 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
also the jury foreman in The Producers: "We find the defendants incredibly guilty"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 October 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
Also the "Damn these glasses!" guy in The Jerk who gives Steve Martin the idea for the Opti-grab.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 18 October 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71kXok7hxgL._SY500_.jpg
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
Critics say you'll laugh so HARD, eh?
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
Nick Tosches
― Brad C., Sunday, 20 October 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
RIP. He wrote some great stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 20 October 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
RIP. Seems like maybe now I’ll finally get around to reading the Emmett Miller book.
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 October 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
I've only read In the Hand of Dante and the Dean Martin book. I'm sure Hellfire is as good as everyone says, but...I just don't care that much about Jerry Lee Lewis, or feel like there's anything I need to know that I can't get from listening to the records.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 20 October 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
Hellfire is great, it's written like a novel, iirc, so more than just another "and then this happened, and then this ..." etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 20 October 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
I'm reading the Emmett Miller book right now.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 20 October 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
Is that directly or indirectly because of the Ken Burns Country doc?
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 October 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
No, haven't watched that yet, I've had the book for a while but am currently listening to 1929 and there is lots of Emmett making the cut, so thought I would give it a go, and it's really good.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 20 October 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
Always loved his piece about listening to the Rolling Stones in Stranded.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 20 October 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah. Forgot he wrote that one. Think about it quite often.
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 October 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
Actually its the Simon Frith one I think about sorry.
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 October 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
Deborah Orr, cancerhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/20/award-winning-columnist-deborah-orr-dies-aged-57
― Alba, Sunday, 20 October 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
The story of her cancer relapse is so awful and was 100 per cent avoidable. I didn’t know her well but we have tons of mutuals and one of these posted about her death first thing this morning, and I’ve been ruminating on it all day. RIP Deborah.
― coup de twat (suzy), Sunday, 20 October 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link