Never met Ferriter when I was working at WMA, but the rumor was that he was one of the few nice people over in the other building.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 28 July 2019 03:02 (four years ago) link
voice actress Russi Taylor, who has been the voice of Minnie Mouse since 1986 and, among many other things, voiced Martin Prince on "The Simpsons"https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-russi-taylor-voice-of-minnie-mouse-and-the-simp-1836762262
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Sunday, 28 July 2019 03:58 (four years ago) link
Damn, RIP
― flappy bird, Sunday, 28 July 2019 05:06 (four years ago) link
Seriously. RIP.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 July 2019 07:50 (four years ago) link
RIP. She voiced one of the greatest lines in the history of animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdwU_HU8brg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 28 July 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
Aussie tennis star Peter McNamara, at 64.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/28/peter-mcnamara-obituary
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 10:08 (four years ago) link
Hal Prince. Damn.
https://www.broadway.com/buzz/191114/harold-prince-winner-of-21-tony-awards-directorproducer-of-phantom-cabaret-more-dies-at-91/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
21 is a lot
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
"Popular music was the music of musicals, and it isn't anymore," Prince said during a 2017 segment of All Things Considered for NPR. "So, once that happened, you could examine other subjects and make musical numbers about an infinite variety of complicated psychological matter.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harold-prince-dead-king-broadway-musical-was-91-1115559
I saw him walking on Central Park West once, and probably only recognized him because he was with Joel Grey and Carol Burnett.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
Karsten Schubert, German-born London gallerist and publisher who was an early yBa advocate, 57.
― suzy, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
Miami Dolphin legend Nick Buoniconti at 78, quite possibly from CTE related dementia. Used to love watching him on "Inside the NFL." Hell, liked the show more than the games themselves, probably.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 31 July 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
Robert Kennedy's granddaughter Saoirse Roisin Kennedy Hill.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 2 August 2019 02:24 (four years ago) link
many-time champion pro wrestler Harley Race, 76
― Josefa, Friday, 2 August 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
Sy Tomashoff, production designer for Dark Shadows, The Bold and the Beautiful and other classic soap operas, 96
― Josefa, Friday, 2 August 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
That sounds like a fascinating job - will need to learn more about them.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 2 August 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
Kinks keyboardist Ian Gibbons
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 2 August 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
Lol Mason, frontman of City Boy and later the Maisonettes.
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Friday, 2 August 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
c'mon be appropriately respectful here for goodness sake :P
― calzino, Friday, 2 August 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/celibate-rifles-star-damien-lovelock-has-died/news-story/d138bbe5c6c2bca98c0793bc2b0b7060
Damien Lovelock from cancer. Was in Australian band Celibate Rifles
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 3 August 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
that is a great band name
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 August 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
D.A. Pennebaker, 94
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 August 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
The Celibate Rifles were great, RIP (check out The Eastern Dark as well btw)
― StanM, Saturday, 3 August 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
Miami Dolphin legend Nick Buoniconti at 78
I saw Buoniconti play back in the '70s at the no longer existing Orange Bowl in Miami. He was an awesome linebacker. Didn't realize that post-NFL he was the president of the U.S. Tobacco Company (!)
― Josefa, Saturday, 3 August 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
I was surprised Pennebaker's The War Room didn't place in the political-film poll--whatever you think of Clinton, it's pretty great in laying out that election. I love Monterey Pop, too, and about half of Don't Look Back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP7OKxjObNo
― clemenza, Saturday, 3 August 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link
101 remains a fave (and I think was his fave?).
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 August 2019 23:29 (four years ago) link
The War Room rules, feelings about Clintons aside of course, it's not about them - how in the world did that not even place? So bummed I missed that poll.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 August 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
I'd heard that too. For many reasons it is my absolute keeper from him.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 August 2019 04:12 (four years ago) link
Joe Longthorne, tho he made a right fight of it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-49219270
― seven against feebs (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 4 August 2019 08:10 (four years ago) link
Oakland Raider wide receiver Cliff Branch
Cliff Branch, one of the Raiders' career-leading receivers who won three Super Bowls, has died. He was 71. https://t.co/EXE38cBNaI— The Sacramento Bee (@sacbee_news) August 4, 2019
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
https://www.avpress.com/news/phil-hymes-who-lit-snl-dies-at/article_3984196a-b66d-11e9-9835-7fd5a51244c2.html
Phil Hymes, a veteran lighting director who became a major, if irascible, backstage figure with “Saturday Night Live” for his strong opinions about stagecraft he liked and comedy he disliked, died Monday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 96.His son, Jeff, said the cause of death was complications of bladder cancer.“He was a force to be reckoned with, and his presence and strength were something I came to rely on,” Lorne Michaels, the longtime executive producer of “SNL,” said in a statement. “He will be missed, but if God has him now, despite all the arguing, heaven will be much better lit.”Hymes joined “Saturday Night Live” in 1976, in its second season, bringing with him decades of experience at NBC, much of it spent in live programming beginning in the early 1950s.He remained with the show until early 2018, after nearly 42 years of putting up lights and designing the look they gave to sketches, monologues and musical numbers.Several months later, at 95, he accepted an Emmy Award, his first since 1965, for outstanding lighting design and direction for a variety series.
His son, Jeff, said the cause of death was complications of bladder cancer.
“He was a force to be reckoned with, and his presence and strength were something I came to rely on,” Lorne Michaels, the longtime executive producer of “SNL,” said in a statement. “He will be missed, but if God has him now, despite all the arguing, heaven will be much better lit.”
Hymes joined “Saturday Night Live” in 1976, in its second season, bringing with him decades of experience at NBC, much of it spent in live programming beginning in the early 1950s.
He remained with the show until early 2018, after nearly 42 years of putting up lights and designing the look they gave to sketches, monologues and musical numbers.
Several months later, at 95, he accepted an Emmy Award, his first since 1965, for outstanding lighting design and direction for a variety series.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 5 August 2019 03:38 (four years ago) link
Tim Dundon, aka Zeke the Sheik, local counterculture guy in Altadena, Cal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWk6wdCf51s&fbclid=IwAR0E68crD43t42Xwb5hLdPehCf_FurHaxl2qK44V4iHN86UC8GB5gxGGpT4
― nickn, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 06:36 (four years ago) link
Toni Morrison
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
Oh no. :(
― Liberals are insane in the mimbrain!!! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
Damn. RIP.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
RIP Toni Morrison.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
oof that is a loss
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
Seems cruel she had to pass with Trump still in power
― SHANTY the golden fish portion (stevie), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
Henri Belolo, the writer of Y.M.C.A., In The Navy and Go West
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
(For NYC people): Lucien Bahaj, the head honcho of the French bistro Lucien, in business since 1998 at 1st Ave and 1st St. Also opened the bar Pink Pony on the Lower East Side.
It would be too much of a task to list every celebrity who passed through Lucien - their photos are on the wall. Among the regulars were Jonas Mekas, and from the old Andy Warhol crowd, Gerard Malanga and Taylor Mead. Lucien was always a mensch to me, and always a lovely conversationalist (that means a good listener also) and I will miss him like family.
https://www.documentjournal.com/2019/08/remembering-lucien-bahaj-creator-of-the-french-bistro-that-became-nycs-last-cultural-salon/
― Josefa, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 02:39 (four years ago) link
David Berman
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
We couldn't be more sorry to tell you this. David Berman passed away earlier today. A great friend and one of the most inspiring individuals we've ever known is gone. Rest easy, David. pic.twitter.com/5n5bctcu4j— 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖌 𝕮𝖎𝖙𝖞 (@dragcityrecords) August 7, 2019
aw man :(
― Today he dances jazz, but tomorrow he will sell his homeland (seandalai), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link
Fuck!
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 August 2019 00:46 (four years ago) link
Nicky Wonder, Brian Wilson and Wondermints Guitarist, Dead at 59
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nicky-wonder-brian-wilson-wondermints-guitarist-dead-at-59-obituary-868888/?fbclid=IwAR0Gh3rya7SNAMaq7jw8pUk7fnQbY3ZghmAEeMxVLUODxhitwoqWBtxKE-4
― nickn, Thursday, 8 August 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
Rosie Ruiz, Boston Marathon fraud
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 August 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link
Jeffrey Epstein, "suicide"
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 10 August 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
Well then.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 10 August 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
Let the conspiracy theories begin!
― Ned Trifle X, Saturday, 10 August 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
somebody find Bubba and Dershowitz
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 August 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
I mean you don't need to theorize that hard
― Simon H., Saturday, 10 August 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link