Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

I at first didn't clue into why I'd seen two or three Sam's-related posts on Facebook:

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/23/sam-the-record-man-sniderman-dies

It's late--I'll post something on the Toronto Record Stores thread tomorrow. If you lived in Toronto anytime before 2000, and especially during the '60s or '70s, this counts as a major death.

http://www.pete.at/SamRecordManNight.jpg

RIP SVEN HA↯↯EL

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g38mFozSZLw/TmkNQmk5jnI/AAAAAAAADDU/5IgD3E7pIbM/s400/n123752.jpg

The teenage me thought he was great.

Was gonna say "I though Sam died years ago" but I was confusing him with Honest Ed.

Anyways, RIP. I bought lotsa gems at that store. (And hey, Goin' Down The Road)

That's what I thought for years and years, but I found out last year that that scene was actually shot in A&A's. I think there might be an exterior shot of Sam's just before they walk in that creates some confusion. The Satie girl...sigh.

Andy Williams http://www.19actionnews.com/story/19643579/singer-andy-williams-dead

Nooooo!!!

RIP Chief Inspector Dreyfus, Herbert Lom: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19745910

RIP Herb, wasn't sure he was still around. Last of The Ladykillers?

i thought he died a year or two ago? weird.

RIP

Frank Wilson RIP

RIP Miami-based Cuban pianist Francisco “Paquito” Hechavarría.

He´s the one who played the exacting, driving tumbao (a repeated pattern) in Gloria Estefan’s monster hit “Conga.” And well before that he played on Mongo Santamaría´s classic Our Man in Havana. But also you probably heard him on Barry Manilow’s “Hey Mambo,” or with David Byrne, or Ricky Martin, or Israel “Cachao” Lopez, or Christina Aguilera. The list is long.

Chris Economaki, Rumbling Voice of Auto Racing, Dies at 91

Missed the Frank Wilson notice. "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" is worth all the myth-making that surrounds it from the record-collector end of things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwvpeYiQwss

Punch Sulzberger, NY Times publisher 1963-92

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/punch-sulzberger-rip/

RIP Michael O'Hare, who played Commander Sinclair on Babylon 5, one of my fave characters on the show. Very sad at this news. And this is the 4th actor from the series to have had an early death, now.

http://www.inquisitr.com/347878/michael-ohare-commander-sinclair-on-babylon-5-dead-at-60-report/

RIP Eric Hobsbawm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/01/eric-hobsbawm-died-aged-95?CMP=twt_fd

Love Hobsbawm, RIP

boo, very sad, although 95 is a ripe old age. Born 1917! Left Germany in 1933! Amazing.

Damn, Hobsbawm. When I was doing A-levels my history teacher, who was a massive H fan, kept on directing me to him. Good. RIP.

biologist/ecologist Barry Commoner

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/us/barry-commoner-dies-at-95.html

Recognized the name right away--my first-year roommate was always talking about him, and I think he probably voted for him in '80.

In a “Last Word” interview with The New York Times in 2006, videotaped to accompany this obituary online

never noticed this practice before

Michael Henry Heim, Russian and Slavic scholar and translator of writers like Kundera and Grass. Great, great instructor at UCLA and I remember both his classes I took as an undergrad on Russian and Soviet literature very well.

R.B. Greaves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Y0x1jLkLg

http://www.kalamu.com/bol/wp-content/content/images/john%20tchicai%2005.jpg

RIP John Tchicai
http://othersideoflife.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/john-tchicai-r-i-p/

http://londonjazz.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/rip-john-tchicai-1936-2012.html

The Danish Jazzblog.dk reports that saxophonist John Tchicai died in his sleep in hospital in Perpignan yesterday. He had suffered a brain haemorrhage and collapsed at Barcelona airport on June 11th. He had been in good spirits and started to work with a physiotherapist, but had cancelled all gigs. His recent work in the UK had been in a duo with the late Tony Marsh. RIP.

Very sad news.

Sad news about Tchicai. I got to see him live once, with Yo Miles! around 2000 or '01.

I caught him with the reformed New York Art Quartet in '99, and he sounded as amazing as ever. I wondered why John Zorn had taken his place in that group lately, though.

RIP John. Still don't know how to pronounce your surname tho :(

chick eye.

/t͡ʃɪkɑy/ i think?

gah this is the coolest thing on earth http://ipa.typeit.org/full/

I see new usernames in the future. ʊ

Frank Wilson, a Motown producer and songwriter who wrote or co-wrote some of the label’s biggest hits, including “Love Child,” performed by the Supremes, “All I Need” by the Temptations and “Castles in the Sand” by Stevie Wonder, died on Sept. 27 in Duarte, Calif. He was 71.

AKA Frank Wilson, singer of Do I Love You (Indeed I Do).

AKA Frank Wilson, from the Sept 28 posts on this thread?

Dude posted here a day after he died? Creepy!

alex karras ('blazing saddles', 'webster', 'victor/victoria', football)

http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/alex-karras-webster-and-nfl-star-dead-77-video-59936

oh damn, last Candygram for Mongo. Very underrated ex-jock actor, esp in Victor/Victoria ("Do you have heat in your room?").

Nothing formal yet but I've just heard that Mark Poster has passed on.

http://www.screenrush.co.uk/news/films/news-18503227/

I worked with Savides. Sad news.

shit, 55. I think Gerry is the most underrated of his Van Sants.

beano cook

UCI's tribute to Mark Poster:

It is with immense sadness that we share the news that our dear colleague Mark Poster, Emeritus Professor of History and Film & Media Studies, passed away in the hospital earlier this morning. Mark Poster was a vital member of the School of Humanities, and for decades one of its most widely read and cited researchers. He made crucial contributions to two different departments, History and Film & Media Studies, and played a central role in UCI's emergence as a leading center for work in Critical Theory.

In the first part of his career, when his focus was on modern European intellectual history, his path-breaking publications included the influential book *Existential Marxism in Postwar France* (Princeton University Press 1975), a study of the intellectual world around Jean-Paul Sartre. When the theory boom hit the U.S., thanks in part to this book, he became a widely sought-after authority on French critical thought, especially the writing of Michel Foucault, whose work he helped introduce to American audiences. He played a crucial role in setting the History Department on its current course, as one of the first departments--if not the first department--in the discipline with a required graduate sequence in theory. In that sequence Mark taught a Foucault seminar that became legendary.

His investments in French intellectual history also positioned Mark Poster for crucial contributions to the Critical Theory Institute at UC Irvine, which he helped start as an informal reading group; by 1987 it was established as a campus research institute. The distinction of Irvine, reflected in the CTI, the graduate emphasis, the Critical Theory Archive, and departmental strengths, still defines the special character of the School, and contributes to its international reputation for scholarly innovation. Hosting internationally known scholars, the Critical Theory Institute with its public seminars and Wellek lecture series soon became one of the global hotspots in the humanities.

In the second part of his career, Mark became a seminal theorist of media and technology. He was the founding chair of the Department of Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine. Together with Franco Tonelli and Eric Rentschler, he had helped shepherd the Film Emphasis of the early 1980s to Program status by the end of that decade, and then to departmentalization by 2002. In the process he was pivotal in hiring and mentoring faculty who now serve the School's second largest major.

Mark Poster was a major figure in the rapid development of media studies and theory in the USA and internationally. While as an intellectual historian he could draw on Frankfurt School thought as well as on cybernetics, he was particularly interested in the potential of poststructuralism for media studies. From his translations of Baudrillard to his dissemination of Foucault, Poster played a highly influential role in the study of media culture, including television, databases, computing, and the Internet; he continued to offer crucial commentary on the relevance to technology and media of cultural theory, and his numerous articles and books have been translated into a number of different languages. Reflective of the breadth of his interests and expertise, Poster held courtesy appointments in the Department of Information and Computer Science and in the Department of Comparative Literature. First hired at UCI in 1968, Poster had recently retired after 40 years of service to the School and the Campus.

We will let you know as plans for a memorial event in the School develop. In the meantime, we extend our condolences to his family and to all those close to him.

Jim Steintrager, Interim Dean, School of Humanities

Peter Krapp, Chair, Department of Film & Media Studies

Jeff Wasserstrom, Chair, Department of History

Arlen Specter

Surely the last living Warren Commission guy. The headline on your link resonates in view of today's Republican Party.

The AP describes Spectre as "a key voice in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of both Bork and Clarence Thomas" - yah, he was the one who was out to get Anita Hill.