V S Naipaul
https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/v-s-naipaul-dies-at-age-85-the-legacy-of-the-trinidadian-nobel-prize-winner.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 August 2018 02:24 (five years ago) link
Beckett's publisher John Calder, barely two months after I posted about him in the "people you were surprised to discover were still alive" thread.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
RIP. Despite the numerous howling errors in so much of the Beckett stuff he published.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
RIP. He is now with Grove Press's Barney Rossett, who passed away six years ago, and Les Editions de Minuit's Jérôme Lindon, who died in 2001.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
I've read most of the Beckett prose works on Calder and I don't recall seeing a single typo.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
They're famously full of textual and editing errors if not actual typos.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
the errors in his editions have been criticized in reviews etc. e.g. the collection "as the story was told" and the collection of poems from 1930-1989
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
To be fair, even as (or because) he was obsessed with le mot juste, Beckett reworked his plays repeatedly, to such an extent that what he would later deem 'an error' is not always as obvious as it appears. Other instances are rather egregious, though, and both Calder and Rossett are variously responsible for them.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
Morgana King, jazz singer and Mama Corleone
only 87! about 9 years younger than Pacino
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:47 (five years ago) link
ummm i meant older
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:49 (five years ago) link
Aretha Franklin
https://news.sky.com/story/queen-of-soul-aretha-franklin-dies-at-76-11474096
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 16 August 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
awww, morgana king sang my favorite take on "tomorrow never knows".
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Thursday, 16 August 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
Strangely, she died in March, but it was only just announced.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45194833
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
RIP Doodzieke
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Thursday, 16 August 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
RIP Rampage from DOA
― Ross, Thursday, 16 August 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
Huntress singer Jill Janus, suicide.
I saw them perform two or three times, and met her once. She seemed nice, and mildly nuts, but in a theater-girl sort of way, not a manic/suicidal sort of way. And I liked their music; they weren't great, but they improved on each of their three albums.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Kofi Annan
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45232892
― Number None, Saturday, 18 August 2018 09:45 (five years ago) link
knee deep in corruption, did fuck all to prevent 2 major genocides - classic nobel peace prize winner!
― calzino, Saturday, 18 August 2018 10:21 (five years ago) link
RIP Morgan Freeman
― calzino, Saturday, 18 August 2018 10:30 (five years ago) link
In commemoration today I'm having coffee and a nan for breakfast
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 18 August 2018 11:44 (five years ago) link
*throws fruit* booo get off the stage
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTfcWd8Ygg8
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
That is almost certainly where I got it from, so it wasn't even original
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
I assumed you were referring to that!
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
charles blackman
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 20 August 2018 03:19 (five years ago) link
oh no :( i was just thinking about him yesterday. we had a school trip to one of his exhibitions in early high school & i became a huge fan of his workgood innings though
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 August 2018 03:37 (five years ago) link
Motown session guitarist Eddie Willis:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eddie-willis-guitarist-for-motowns-funk-brothers-dead-at-82-713708/
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
RIP :(
― The Vermilion Sand Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
Barbra Harris (Nashville, A Thousand Clowns, Peggy Sue Got Married etc)
https://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/barbara-harris-dies_86195.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=21aug2018
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
BARBARA Harris
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
Oh no, always loved her RIP ;_;
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
Had forgotten she was Jodie Foster's mom in the original Freaky Friday.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
RIP Barbara Harris. As Joseph McBride pointed out on Facebook, she was in the last shot of Hitchcock's last film.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
She was great in Freaky Friday.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
I always remember her and the son playing baseball in flairs...
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
great quote in here about how she preferred rehearsing to the show
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/barbara-harris-dies-second-city-actress-freaky-friday-nashville/
Also she asked her hospice nurse "am I supposed to lay here til I die?"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
Yeah, unfortunately :(
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BYyDusJYJo
― na (NA), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
I just watched Nashville this past weekend. :'(
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0OhE6O-c0k
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
she was the Broadway star of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, you know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TQxWrrzL-Y
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
per that sun-times article, she apparently also came from an improv background and was part of the first second city performance!
― na (NA), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
That's how she met up with Mike Nichols (who directed her on Broadway), Alan Alda, etc.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
Apparently she wound up with terrible stage fright and quit the theatre (but kept teaching acting).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
She was great in everything I ever saw her in. Funny. And Sexy. *loosens collar*
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
I used to have (might still have) a Second City coffee table book which had this great story about Harris calling in sick right before showtime one night. The audience was already being seated as the staff was called for an emergency meeting back stage to debate whether or not to go on with that night's performance (it was a semi-scripted show in which Harris did a lot of singing and acting). One of the waitresses spoke up and said she could cover for her, because even though she hadn't done much prior performing, she'd been studying Harris from the audience every night and knew the whole show. A chance was taken and the waitress brought the house down, soon becoming an official member of the troupe.
That waitress was Melinda Dillon (Close Encounters..., Slap Shot, A Christmas Story etc.).
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLfeRy080kE
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:34 (five years ago) link
^A candidate for her greatest scene on film.
and not many years after that break, Melinda Dillon played Honey in the original staging of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
that Melinda Dillon story is amazing
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
Brian Murray, lauded stage actor/director (I saw him in the first Broadway production of Noises Off, you may have seen him in "30 Rock")
http://www.playbill.com/article/three-time-tony-award-nominee-brian-murray-dies-at-80
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link