I dunno. He was pretty firmly opposed to a lot of the bullshit that Eisner pulled, at the very least. Whether that was more a power play than a genuine desire to improve the company, I don't know.
― Zoo Snickers (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP Jennifer Jones
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 December 2009 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Sol Price, Who Founded Price Club, Is Dead at 93
― o. nate, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
until I rewatched Portrait of Jennie last month, I'd forgotten JJ was still around.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
rip dan o'bannon (screenwriter of 'alien' and many others
― you are wrong I'm bone thugs in harmon (omar little), Friday, 18 December 2009 07:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Damn.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 December 2009 07:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Aw. Classic for Alien, Return of the Living Dead, and the "B-17" segment (pretty much the only redeemable segment) from Heavy Metal alone.
― Zoo Snickers (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Also wrote the script for Dark Star, no?
― alter cocker jarvis cocker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Was co-writer, effects supervisor, production designer, editor, AND also played Sgt. Pinback.
He and Carpenter graduated from USC film school the same year.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 December 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, meant to say "was classic if only for ... alone."
"SEND...MORE...PARAMEDICS..."
― Zoo Snickers (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP Brittany Murphy (apparently).
― Melissa W, Sunday, 20 December 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP Arnold Stang, voice of Top Cat
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 10:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Nooo...
"Ivy Will Cling"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 11:07 (fourteen years ago) link
In Mexico, Top Cat is known as Don Gato y su pandilla.
Long WFMU blog article about him here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/06/you_wanna_make_.html
RIP, Arnold.
― Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
(Please ignore extra italics)
Grr, I meant to say Don Gato y su pandilla is much more popular than Top Cat ever was.
― Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP Rainman, counting toothpicks in the sky
Kim Peek, the autistic savant who inspired the Oscar-winning film Rain Man, has died, aged 58.
― Who was that Christmas-jumpered man? (onimo), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-alaina-reed-hall22-2009dec22,0,5733815.story
Olivia from Sesame Street : (
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, Arnold! great in The Man with the Golden Arm, and as one of Jonathan Winters' gas-station tormentors in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
aww, RIP Stang
― America's Next Most Disabled Ballerina (WmC), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
So sad about Olivia!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab-Ne52cwKo&feature=player_embedded
― kate78, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
That is a great version of that song.
― Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Damn it, people! Quit dying! Olivia dying is a serious blow. These people were like surrogate parents during a formative period of your life, y'know? Just saw her in an episode of Friends and wondered what had happened to her. ;_;
Speaking of dead Sesame Street folks, for those of you who remember David and wondered what ever happened to him, I'd recommend (or maybe totally not recommend, depending) reading Street Gang. I knew he was dead but had never heard any specifics of why he left the show or what had happened to him afterwards. He apparently was on a psychological downward spiral for a long time and eventually just went full-blown psychotic before ultimately dying. So, so sad.
― Dif Juz Guys (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember hearing about David having problems when I was a kid and for some reason the mental image I formed as a 5 year old involved him running around the set of Seasame Street, naked, acting crazy, and waving a frying pan around.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
God, I can still remember the day when Mr. Hooper died. A dark time for three-year-old kate78.
― kate78, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, Mr. Hooper! They should've populated that show solely with Muppets so kids never had to endure the trauma of human cast members dying. Although the last couple of times I've seen Big Bird on TV, it was pretty clear that Carroll Spinney wasn't in a good way. Which is just a whole other level of horrifying and sad.
― Dif Juz Guys (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
And from what I've read, joygoat, it sounds like your vision of David sadly isn't that far off from reality.
― Dif Juz Guys (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Just requested Street Gang, I need to get around to reading that.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I know! I just looked it up. Substitute an iron rod for a frying pan, Nashville for Sesame Street, and put a t-shirt on him and it's not too far off. I must have heard a news story or my parents talking about it and that's how I pictured it.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but the death of Mr. Hooper episode, and Big Bird in denial, is one of the most beautiful things ever aired on televison
― Herodcare for the Unborn (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I read Street Gang a few months ago, it's awesome.
― james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
this fucking year
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Ron Asheton, LUX INTERIOR, John Hughes, Rashied Ali, Les Paul, so many great people gone
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
The great film critic Robin Wood.
http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/1345
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't know abt Robin Wood before, thank you for letting me know, Dr Morb - HOLLYWOOD FROM VIET NAM TO REAGAN is prob my all-time fave collection of film crit, a big influence on the way I still try to think and write abt horror movies, especially (even if he was so very wrong abt Cronenberg) - RIP
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Robin Wood, RIP.
― Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Isn't there a scene in Day For Night in which Truffaut is reading the Robin Wood Hitchcock book?
I guess he couldn't show himself reading his own book.
― Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Street Gang is great, but oh man, so many sad things in it.
I hadn't heard about Olivia! RIP
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Also total WTF things in it. Like Jim Henson dating Daryll Hannah?!? Our tabloid culture today would've never let anything so juicy escape their notice.
― Dif Juz Guys (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 07:04 (fourteen years ago) link
according to kristin hersh's twitter, vic chesnutt attempted suicide. i feel bad putting that on this thread, but not sure what would be more appropriate. everyone think good thoughts for vic, ok?
― The Détourn of the Depressed (get bent), Thursday, 24 December 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=4770549
:(
― Plunge Protection Team, Thursday, 24 December 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
rip. i was so confused the first time i heard there was a show called "george michael's sports machine."
― The Détourn of the Depressed (get bent), Thursday, 24 December 2009 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
George Michael was a staple of my childhood growing up in DC. Excellent delivery and top-notch production. The Sports Machine was way ahead of its time; basically Sports Machine was the template for Sports Center.
Also, GM was instrumental in promoting DC sports punditry. Mike Wilbon, Tony Kornheiser, David Aldridge, and probably several others owe their broadcasting careers to George Michael.
― Super Cub, Thursday, 24 December 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw Michael at a few recent Society of American Baseball Research conventions -- he had an avocation of sleuthing out the details of unidentified game photos from the pre-WW2 era; also a good live interviewer.
Also, Lester Rodney, sports editor of The Daily Worker who agitated for the integration of baseball in the '40s:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/23/MNRO1B95TG.DTL
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 December 2009 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://torturedfanbase.com/george_michael_sports_machine.JPG
rip
― mookieproof, Friday, 25 December 2009 06:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I just posted it on ILM, but it merits a mention here: RIP Vic Chesnutt, dead at 45.
― Simon H., Friday, 25 December 2009 06:51 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP Knut Haugland - the last of the six crewmen of the Kon-Tiki
Badass guy too. Before hooking up with Thor Heyerdahl, Haugland was active in the Norwegian resistance and took part in the famous raid on the Nazi heavy-water plant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Haugland
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 28 December 2009 07:19 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP Tim Hart, founding member of Steeleye Span. Many people think of them as MOR folkie dullards due to their mid-70s hit "All Around My Hat", but the first 3 SS albums are up there with Fairport Convention, Incredible String Band etc as innovavtive folk-rock classics, imo anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hart
― Ork Alarm (Matt #2), Monday, 28 December 2009 10:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh damn. I've been listening to early Steeleye Span albums over Christmas, they were the perfect accompaniment to snow and mulled wine and curtains drawn tight against the cold black nights etc. And "All Around my Hat" is from my childhood - I think one of my elder brothers, or my Dad had the 7" single - so I have a big soft spot for it.RIP
― DavidM, Monday, 28 December 2009 10:47 (fourteen years ago) link
John Cushnie, my favourite Gardeners' Question Time panellist.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8437119.stm
― Madchen, Friday, 1 January 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link