Damn RIP
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 12 May 2019 01:53 (four years ago) link
Bummer
― flappy bird, Sunday, 12 May 2019 05:02 (four years ago) link
Alvin Sargent, screenwriter of Straight Time, Paper Moon, Ordinary People et al
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48238573
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 12 May 2019 06:13 (four years ago) link
This is horrible and sad...
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/may/12/silver-king-wrestler-and-nacho-libre-star-dies-at-london-show
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 May 2019 10:22 (four years ago) link
RIP. Is that Janeane Garofalo standing behind him in that Jack Black Instagram?
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 May 2019 11:40 (four years ago) link
Brian Walden
― calzino, Sunday, 12 May 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
... people you thought...
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 May 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
My rotting brain has a memory of Walden asking John Smith (who is 25 years dead today) if that was his real name. Naturally I can't find any corroboration of this on the internet.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 May 2019 07:53 (four years ago) link
"I put it to.." *pointing at pol* was his frequent style of questioning, I think. I vaguely remember him calling someone "a weasel" once. It was a long time ago.
― calzino, Monday, 13 May 2019 07:57 (four years ago) link
Apparently Brian Walden was a brexiteer, which certainly proves... something.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 13 May 2019 08:01 (four years ago) link
Seems as good a time as any to post some Mountain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7Ab8tX590
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Monday, 13 May 2019 08:38 (four years ago) link
fuck me i thought he died 20 years ago
― Doctor Nu (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 May 2019 09:21 (four years ago) link
The other surprising thing, I put it to you, being he was only his mid-40s to early-50s when he was presenting Weekend World.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Monday, 13 May 2019 11:04 (four years ago) link
Too much slow living...
― calzino, Monday, 13 May 2019 11:12 (four years ago) link
The oldest of Old Labour basically
― Doctor Nu (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 May 2019 11:14 (four years ago) link
Doris Day!
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 May 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
She couldn't last for ever I guess.
― Alba, Monday, 13 May 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link
Kirk Douglas, watch your back.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 May 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
RIP Doris, does she not have her own thread?
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Monday, 13 May 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
Peggy Lipton of Mod Squad fame
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 13 May 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
Machiko Kyo
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
8(
(didn't know she was still alive tbh)
― koogs, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
https://people.com/tv/tim-conway-dies/
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
good night funnyman
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
:(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
RIP. I missed his golden age, but lil me laughed at The Apple Dumpling Gang. He did a nice, self-mocking bit on The Simpsons too.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
A hometown hero, from right down the road from me in Willoughy, OH. I knew him first from The Carol Burnett Show, then used to see him pop up occasionally on Big Chuck and Little John here in Cleveland.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
e.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEA7Dq-NeLc
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/machiko-kyo-dead-star-akira-kurosawas-rashomon-was-95-1210433
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
One of the kids on the cover of Sonic Youth's Washing Machine has died. https://t.co/7YpBDbjIqa pic.twitter.com/ipmurEmoqw— John M. Cunningham (@jmcunning) May 14, 2019
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
oh, man. Ugetsu is one of my all-time faves and she was incredible in that. RIPxpost
― Jamie Handricks is the batman of guitar (outdoor_miner), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
R.I.P. Chuck Barksdale at 84 from The Dells of “Stay in my Corner” soul fame
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/charles-barksdale-bass-singer-for-the-dells-dies-at-84/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 May 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
hawkie
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 16 May 2019 09:56 (four years ago) link
wow i am actually gutted by this
AA is referring to Bob Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia 1983-1991
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Thursday, 16 May 2019 10:50 (four years ago) link
Mike Wilhelm, guitarist and founding member of the (US) Charlatans. I knew some of their songs and history previously, but spent a bunch of time today with this, great stories:
http://www.flyingsnail.com/Scrapbook/Mike_Wilhelm.html
― While My Guitar Gently Wheedly-Wheedly-Wheedly-Weeps (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
Phew. At 102, I. M. Pei has passed:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/obituaries/im-pei-dead.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
.. also in the Flamin' Groovies (xp)
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
For a split second I thought you were saying IM Pei was in the Flamin Groovies.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
Well, yes.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
They've been around a long time.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
in an inverse of not knowing someone was still alive, i had no idea I.M. Pei was remotely that old
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art is a beautiful modernist home for modernist painting and much else. The atrium is light-filled, has great sight lines, complemented by the monumental Calder mobile; the galleries are intimate and functional. A place my heart dwells.
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 May 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
xpost man... i had a few unexpected hours in d.c. and walked right past it today. i've been before and admired it, just wasn't in the mood. RIP. think my fave is his museum in ithaca, a surprisingly well-scaled and thoughtful treat (it seemed less humane in dramatic old b&w photos).(also shoutout to whichever ilxor it was that permanently welded his name to elton john's "pain" in my mind)
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 16 May 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
xpHe also designed those big plastic balls.
― nickn, Thursday, 16 May 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
Ha, or Flaming Lips, whatev.
Flaming Custard Pei.
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 May 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
https://www.hindustantimes.com/rf/image_size_960x540/HT/p2/2018/01/25/Pictures/grumpy-cat-awarded-710k-in-lawsuit_3d814a7e-01ba-11e8-a2b4-180df2fa46c1.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 17 May 2019 11:19 (four years ago) link
rip big man, heaven needed a cat with extremely monetisable facial deformities
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 May 2019 11:36 (four years ago) link