German film actress Susanne Lothar (Funny Games, The Lives of Others), only 51:
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-susanne-lothar-1960-2012/
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
Sie hätte nur mit Mühe überlebt. (Bad German pun.)
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
It's looking like heroin and/or suicide on Lothar -- a shocking number of critically acclaimed German stage and screen actors are junkies -- the family's lawyers are being extremely hush hush but actor colleagues are hinting strongly in the German press.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
aw man :/
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
i stumbled across this short film she's in while flipping through channels once and i still get creeped out thinking about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxpIwpLEez0
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
austrian artist franz west passed away as well
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/franz-west/
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
No English-lang obits yet, but French filmmaker Chris Marker has died at 91.
http://www.metrofrance.com/culture/le-cineaste-chris-marker-est-mort/mlgD!hVkHar3vcKogc/
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 July 2012 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, that's terrible news. Thought my day was going well, too.
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
91 is a pretty good age, esp if you don't have a long decline.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
His birthday too, apparently.
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
R.G. Armstrong, TV western actor who became a regular for Peckinpah and Warren Beatty:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/arts/television/r-g-armstrong-character-actor-in-westerns-dies-at-95.html
Tony Martin, pop singer of the '40s and '50s, married to Cyd Charisse for 60 years:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/arts/music/tony-martin-debonair-pop-baritone-dies-at-98.html
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 08:00 (eleven years ago) link
Maeve Binchy, writer
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0730/writer-maeve-binchy-dies-aged-72.html
― ledge, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 08:40 (eleven years ago) link
aww :(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
In the 1930s my dad spent a college year in the south and roomed with R.G. Armstrong for a bit. Nice guy, always sent xmas cards (and sent a nice eulogy to my dad's funeral). Always liked seeing him appear in shows and movies when I didn't expect it.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 05:36 (eleven years ago) link
gore vidal (link: the whole internet)
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 05:55 (eleven years ago) link
Tony Sly, 41, Singer and song writer for No Use For A Name. http://s3.fatwreck.com/498.html
― StanM, Thursday, 2 August 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
Robert Hughes, art critic, writer, documentary guy.
― woof, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 10:13 (eleven years ago) link
Marvin Hamlisch
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
Fashion editor Anna Piaggi, link to come.
― higgs' besom (suzy), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
Jeez, I guess that locks in Marvin's songs for the Nutty Professor musical.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
Was just 68. Hamlisch collapsed after a brief illness, his family announced
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
RIP, Robert Hughes. A great populizer and genuinely captivating guy.
― sive gallus et mulier (Michael White), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
Bernard Lovell, founder of Jodrell Bank:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19164236
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Mark O'Donnell, playwright, novelist, librettist of the Broadway musical of Hairspray
http://news-briefs.ew.com/2012/08/07/tony-winning-hairspray-writer-mark-odonnell-dies/
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Sir Bernard was also an accomplished musician, a keen cricketer and an internationally-renowned arboriculturalist who created an arboretum at Jodrell Bank.He is survived by four of his five children, 14 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
He is survived by four of his five children, 14 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
What a guy!
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
Ad exec Curvin O'Reilly, who was responsible for the Bill Cosby/Jell-O pudding campaign (among many other things).
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
I missed that about Robert Hughes--he was great in Crumb, contemptuously deriding the hallowed halls of Berkeley or something like that. Culture of Complaint was quite good.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
Judith Crist. Man, it's been a rough month for the arts.
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
I remember Crist's column about the week's network movie telecasts in TV Guide very well.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
'zinging and influential'!
― half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
Wow--along with Toronto's Clyde Gilmour, the first film critic I ever encountered. Can't even find an image of Judith Crist's TV Guide to the Movies to post.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
Like Morbz and clemenza, first film critic I ever read -- loved her column though I was too young to really get a grasp on much of what was discussed.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://gos.sbc.edu/c/crist.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
At one point the Times obit treats her almost on a plane with Kael and Sarris, and, as with Rex Reed, that just wasn't where she resided. Her blurb on Vertigo, from the book I mentioned earlier: "You'll find yourself helpless in the hands of the ultimate artist of chill-and-thrill films." I'm sure she would have been the first to admit that she served a different function. Could be wrong, but in Kellow's biography I think there was mention of Kael maintaining a casual friendship with her.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
Jairo Varela, Founder of Colombia's Grupo Niche, Dead at 62August 08, 2012 | By Leila Cobo (@leilacobo), Miami
Jairo Varela, the iconic founder and leader of celebrated Colombian salsa band Grupo Niche, died suddenly of apparent heart failure in his home in Cali, Colombia. He was 62 years old.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 August 2012 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, no idea Hughes died. "Fatal Shore" is fascinating.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 August 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
Humorist and This American Life contributor David Rakoff.
― kate78, Friday, 10 August 2012 08:46 (eleven years ago) link
wait what
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 August 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/david-rakoff-humorist-and-essayist-dies-at-47/
― kate78, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Mel Stuart, TV documentarian who went on to make Wattstax and, of course, Wonka
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/mel-stuart-director-willy-wonka-dead-83-article-1.1133430
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 August 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
wattstax is a great movie.
― if i had a goat's cheese tostada i might cream myself a little (stevie), Friday, 10 August 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
Carlo Rambaldi, FX designer of E.T., Alien, Possession etc.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/italian-special-effects-master-carlo-rambaldi-father-of-et-dead-at-86/2012/08/10/eade6e52-e30e-11e1-89f7-76e23a982d06_story.html
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
Rest In Peace, Joe Kubert. Will post a link when I have one. Absolutely crushed.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 12 August 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
NOOOOOOO
― Death Grits (WmC), Sunday, 12 August 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
exactly. Tearing up here.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 12 August 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, no. Have been wasting time watching this Olympic shite when I could have been reading his stuff again.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Sunday, 12 August 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
Gary Cox, guitarist/songwriter for US power pop band Artful Dodger.
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Sunday, 12 August 2012 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
Joe Kubert, comic book artist on Sgt Rock, Hawkman and many others:
http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/08/12/joe-kubert-r-i-p/
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 13 August 2012 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
Damn, how'd I miss hearing about David Rakoff? That's awful.
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Monday, 13 August 2012 06:20 (eleven years ago) link
My cousin Paul has some great things to say about Kubert, for whom he worked, here: http://kupps.malibulist.com/2012/08/13/joe-kubert/
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Monday, 13 August 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link