Rolling RIP/obituary thread - 2011 edition

David Nelson. All members of the Ozzie & Harriett family are now gone.

― you think you're cool, but you read ick (Phil D.), Wednesday, January 12, 2011 10:24 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

John Dye, actor in schmaltz-tv and Lifetime movies, died Monday. He was Andrew, the Angel of Death, in "Touched By an Angel". No cause of death announced yet -- he was just a few months older than me (47). Only notable really because he's from here (Amory), and his parents are bringing him home to be buried, and the funeral home 2 blocks away is handling the arrangements. Probably going to be a bit hectic later this week -- he's probably this town's most famous native.

RIP, Susannah York and Nat Lofthouse.

Susannah York was really sexy in this old Canadian film called The Silent Partner. There's a brief shot of her in this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f-oWvGv1to

also in The Killing of Sister George!

she is p sexy in skolimowski's The Shout, too. RIP supermum.

RIP Steve Prestwich (Cold Chisel drummer) and Harvey James (Sherbet guitarist)

what? uh

Don Kirshner, the impresario behind Brill Building pop, the Monkees, the Archies and his own music- television show, has died of heart failure.

Kirshner was 77 and died in Boca Raton, Florida, according to a statement from his publicist cited by Billboard.com. He was born on April 17, 1934, according to Ancestry.com, which would have made him 76.

Wow. If you're a '70s guy like me, that's a huge death. His intros to the Rock Concert show he used to oversee (later parodied by Paul Shaffer) were priceless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6o_t2Q_gkg&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

RIP. He was a high school friend of Bobby Darin, although I'm not sure that they went to same high school, as is often reported, as I learned from this most excellent book, in which he features prominently:
http://www.soulmusichq.com/images/earshot/ear8/boreve8.jpg

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2011/01/r-sargent-shriver-95-an.html

Reynolds Price

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/books/21price.html

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu2O21kASKw

RIP Edgar Tafel - last surviving member of Frank Lloyd Wright's original Taliesin Fellowship.

His death was announced by Robert Silman, a structural engineer who was Mr. Tafel’s legal representative. Mr. Silman said Mr. Tafel was the last surviving member of the original Taliesin Fellowship, which convened in 1932 at Wright’s home and school — known as Taliesin — near Spring Green, Wis.

On his own, Mr. Tafel designed 80 houses, 35 religious buildings and 3 college campuses, among other projects.

As an apprentice in the mid- and late-1930s, he worked on two of Wright’s most important commissions: Fallingwater, the serenely cantilevered house over the Bear Run creek in rural Pennsylvania; and the Johnson Wax Building in Racine, Wis., with its fantastic forest of mushroomlike columns. He also worked on Wingspread, the home of the company’s president, Herbert F. Johnson, near Racine.

RIP "Uncle" Milton Levine - creator of the Ant Farm

Milton Levine liked to give his customers advice from the Bible: "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise."

Mr. Levine, who died Jan. 16 at age 97, knew whereof he spoke. He introduced the Ant Farm to America in 1956.

A mail-order entrepreneur, Mr. Levine said he came to the revelation at a Fourth of July picnic that included the inevitable uninvited insect guests.

Mr. Levine developed the narrow green plastic case with barn and windmill that became a toy sensation of 1957-58, when two million were sold.

Mr. Levine made no claims to have invented the formicarium, as homes for ants are formally called. A patent on one was issued in 1937 to a Dartmouth professor who made and sold "Ant Palaces" from a workshop in Hanover, Vt.

But Mr. Levine, who knew a lot about ants despite lacking formal training, insisted the formicarium was older still. "They're about as old as glass itself," he told The Wall Street Journal in 1958.

The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Mr. Levine was born in Pittsburgh. His father was a dry cleaner, and Mr. Levine's main contact with ants came on visits to his uncle's farm, where he gathered them into mini-terrariums he constructed in Mason jars.

After serving in the Army in World War II, he and his brother-in-law, E. Joseph Cossman, started a mail-order business selling toy soldiers through ads in comic books. Later, they sold novelties like shrunken heads and spud guns.

The Ant Farm was initially sold by mail and later through retailers nationwide. Each Ant Farm came with a coupon for a vial of ants that was mailed separately, since ants don't have a long shelf life.

The ants themselves—red ants known as Pogonomyrmex californicus—were collected in the desert by workers armed with shovels and vacuums. At first they were paid a penny per ant, and the Christian Science Monitor reported in 1967 that the most productive of them made $3,000 weekly.

In 1965, Mr. Levine bought out Mr. Cossman, who went on to become a marketing consultant and author of "How I Made A Million In Mail Order."

Mr. Levine renamed his company Uncle Milton Industries—he said it was "Uncle" Milton because people often asked him if he was in the ant business, where was the uncle?

In a 1970 book Mr. Levine wrote, "Ant Facts and Fantasies," he explained that "this writer is of the opinion that ants are truly socialist. After all, their life is truly a communal one."

As the Cold War was winding down in 1989, Uncle Milton Industries sent representatives to Moscow to explore selling Ant Farms in the Soviet Union.

Uncle Milton Industries also offered products involving live butterflies and frogs, and other science-oriented toys.

Mr. Levine's son, Steven Levine, took over the business in the 1980s. It was sold to a private-equity firm in 2010.

"I love ants," Mr. Levine told Smithsonian magazine in 1989. "They're the greatest things on Earth. I've got three kids, and ants put them all through college. I never even step on ants, I tell you. Never."

Two things...

1. One of my favorite Huell Howser episodes EVER is the one where he visits Uncle Milton and goes ant collecting in the desert. I think Levine had just turned 90 and was hilarious. Reminded me of Bill Gaines.

2. I was on the westbound 101 freeway years ago and was passed by a giant, full-size, fully decked out Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Older gentleman was driving, but the tip off was the "ANTFARM" license plate. Pretty badass

RIP Charlie Louvin, I hardly knew ye were still alive

seems milton was a popular name for early 20th c american jewish families, see also friedman, babbitt

rubber-faced comedian Charlie Callas

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/arts/television/29callas.html

who's left from the Dean Martin roasts besides Rickles and Ruth Buzzi?

Came on to post about Callas...Never knew he was banned from The Tonight Show for shoving the Big Guy as part of a bit. For anyone who never saw him, he defies description.

Nixon impersonator David Frye. It's like a week's worth of Merv Griffin '70s guests are dropping.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/arts/29frye.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pARKb7D490c

RIP Gladys Horton, lead singer of the Marvelettes

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/gladys-horton-of-the-marvelettes-dies-at-66-20110127

who's left from the Dean Martin roasts besides Rickles and Ruth Buzzi?

RIP Gladys Horton

seems milton was a popular name for early 20th c american jewish families, see also friedman, babbitt

― nakhchivan, Thursday, January 27, 2011 1:02 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

r.i.p. milton babbitt

http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/the-blood-of-the-lamb/milton-babbitt-1916-2011-057097

Wasn't Angie Dickinson on some of those roasts as eye candy for the guys? Maybe I'm getting her and Ruth Buzzi mixed up.

yeah people get them mixed up all the time. angie was pals with all those guys.

Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4J_IOyKXu0

Ali, Namath, Cosell, Hope, Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, Orson Welles, Jimmy Stewart...Wow--some other world. (There are also clips of Angie being roasted herself.)

Joey Heatherton was the ueen of Dean Martin eye candy.

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Oh well, click on the first http://www.youtube...

John Barry.

been listening to a lot of john barry the last couple of days : (
rip

wau

I think John Barry deserves a thread of his own, really, if only for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykLCAfVa410

plus of course, so many others,: Bond themes, Midnight Cowboy, Dances with Wolves, Out of Africa, etc.

Good bye, John - thanks for the fantastic music.

Amazing, this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Jw6_Xgszk

RIP.

He also has some less well known non film stuff. I love this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yIrAXZlSx8

That's gorgeous. The album it's from is £2.79 from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Barry-English-Chamber-Orchestra/dp/B00000I60G/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1296464822&sr=8-3

I have already added a few pence to his estate by buying it this morning.

think John Barry deserves a thread of his own, really,

Agreed.

John Barry, supergenius (RIP Jan 2011)

Margaret John :(
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12342913

Brian Rust

Maria Schneider

Awwww, RIP. Must admit however the first thing I thought of was that old joke about "You'll never put a better bit of butter on your wife".

Gary Moore.

Maria Schneider's great in Last Tango. Whatever you think of the film, I can't imagine anybody more right for that character (notwithstanding that she's basically playing the young Bardot).

apparently daniel bell died last month? kind of a big one to miss

Dorothy Thompson :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Thompson_%28historian%29

Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall books:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-12380763

Former England cricketer Trevor Bailey dies in fire.

RIP "The Boil" :(

Betty Garrett, MGM musical player, blacklistee, and "All in the Family" semi-regular:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-betty-garrett-20110213,0,2531900.story

(Goodnight, Irene Lorenzo)

Blind British jazz pianist and composer of "Lullaby Of Birdland," George Shearing:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-george-shearing-20110215,0,1741942.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29

I've got the album Shearing did with Nat King Cole--there's a song called "There's a Lull in My Life" that's really nice.

(Irene Lorenzo's my association for Betty Garrett too; she and Vincent Gardenia were great together.)

Can't believe I posted that long link instead of just: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-george-shearing-20110215,0,1741942.story

(Last week I enjoyed the episode where she gives the Stivics a copy of Rodin's The Kiss.)

My dad had Shearing LPs I would listen to.

Kenneth "Franz Liebkind" Mars:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/movies/15mars.html

Oh no!!!!!!!!!!

RIP Top floor of WH Smiths at Brent Cross

Mars was great in Young Frankenstein.

That AP obit doesn't mention his bizarre stint as comic relief on The Sha Na Na Show.

Also great in "What's Up, Doc", tho why a character called Hugh Simon would have a Russian accent I don't know

the same reason John Simon has a Prussian accent? Maybe it was a rip.

yep, a bunch of ppl on the interwebs say it was a lampoon after Simon had panned The Last Picture Show.

Ah!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw5pmDgWMaU

Come to think of it, a radio station I used to listen to way back when would always play a quote from that clip, WLIR, maybe.

Another really good Mars performance: Desperate Characters.

From the Paul Fox book?

Arggh. Paula Fox

I imagine it is--haven't read the novel. It's a low-key, rather bleak film from the early '70s. Stanley Kauffmann's the only major critic I know of who reviewed it.

I imagine Desperate Characters is most notable in certain circles as "the movie where Shirley MacLaine gets them out."

I didn't know Mars was still alive. Checking his IMDB, I also didn't realize he was Otto, Francis' boss at the dude ranch on "Malcolm In The Middle".

Another classic 70s supporting performance: Night Moves.

David F Friedman, producer of Blood Feast amongst countless other exploitation landmarks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/movies/15friedman.html?_r=3

Dwayne McDuffie:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=30969

And this is pretty amazing.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/682new_storyimage1636614_full.jpg

Yeah, I posted about McDuffie on ILC -- didn't think about xposting over here. Really tragic and the cruelest irony in timing.

Oh wow, I've never seen that letter before, but Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz must've been inspired by it to create Night Thrasher. He's real name is even Dwayne!

Anyway, RIP Dwayne McDuffie, he was way too young.

Doctor Who 'Brigadier' Nicholas Courtney dies aged 81

Phil Vane of Extreme Noise Terror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CDButf0go8

I posted about this on the metal thread but this is only slightly less personal for me as Nick Courtney tbh. I no doubt will post later, but ENT were massive in the UK Grind scene, however, that said we shouldn't overlook Phil's time in other bands (including Napalm Death).

Sad to hear that, I saw ENT in The Queen Elizabeth Hall once, not their natural habitat really

Suze Rotolo

Oh wow, that's something. RIP Suze.

RIP Suze.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMGKIGpD1tk

annie girardot, french actress from 'dillinger is dead', 'cache', 'rocco and his brothers' and others, RIP

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110228/ennew_afp/entertainmentfrancefilm

Big sigh for Suze Rotolo. That album cover is beyond iconic.

Everyone knows about it by now, but I was caught totally by surprise the time I saw Vanilla Sky--great moment:

http://www.sonyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/normal_vanilla-sky-194.jpg

Film director/producer Gary Winick

My mom loved Letters to Juliet.

Rev. Peter Gomes

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/us/02gomes.html?_r=3&emc=eta1

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/03/02/obituaries/02gomes_obit/02gomes_obit-articleInline.jpg

Then, in 1991, he appeared before an angry crowd of students, faculty members and administrators protesting homophobic articles in a conservative campus magazine whose distribution had led to a spate of harassment and slurs against gay men and lesbians on campus. Mr. Gomes, putting his reputation and career on the line, announced that he was “a Christian who happens as well to be gay.”

When the cheers faded, there were expressions of surprise from the Establishment, and a few calls for his resignation, which were ignored. The announcement changed little in Mr. Gomes’s private life; he had never married and said he was celibate by choice. But it was a turning point for him professionally.

“I now have an unambiguous vocation — a mission — to address the religious causes and roots of homophobia,” he told The Washington Post months later. “I will devote the rest of my life to addressing the ‘religious case’ against gays.”

..."intolerance, in the name of virtue, is ruthless and uses political power to destroy what it cannot convert.”

Gotta confess I had never heard of him, but that's some serious otm right there.

He made an impression on me a few years ago when PBS did that ancestry search mini-series on black Americans and I followed up on some of his actions since then. Didn't have any idea he was ill, though (if he even was).

Stories like his interest me, because I'm a member of an ELCA church (currently causing schisms for its gay-tolerant outlook.) And because radical-right fundamentalists really piss me off.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/profiles/gomes.html

^ clip from the PBS thing I mentioned.

Blair River, Heart Attack Grill spokesman, died at 29 from pneumonia.

Not job related, but still, let's stir up some outrage and hate because we're gutter tabloid hacks, eh?
http://theweek.com/article/index/212864/death-of-the-heart-attack-grills-575-pound-frontman-whos-to-blame

Joe Morello, Dave Brubeck quartet drummer on "Take Five"

http://www.longislandpress.com/2011/03/13/joe-morello-joe-morello-dead-at-82/

Owsley Stanley, San Francisco's original LSD "benefactor"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110313/people_nm/us_owsleystanley

He was also the first manager of the Grateful Dead. Interesting piece on him from 2007 SF Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/07/12/MNGK0QV7HS1.DTL

Just saw this now. Charles Perry wrote a fantastic piece on him in Rolling Stone sometime in the '80s, I think. He's also the hero of probably the greatest Jefferson Airplane song, "Mexico":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T4pBysFk84

This is the kind of death that makes me sad: not someone monumentally important, but an indelible character from a specific moment that's rapidly fading from view.

I think that's the best that anyone can ever be.

Including yr McCartneys and yr Hendrixes..

In a million years from now, ......

(philosophy over)

Well said.

I had no idea Owsley maintained a page from his home in Australia:

http://www.thebear.org/

There are essays on there, info about Grateful Dead recordings he had a hand in, and a variety of his metal engravings for sale. The interesting thing is, unless I'm missing something, nowhere does he make reference to who he actually is. He's just "the Bear." Not sure how long this page will remain up.

Michael Gough, known to most people as Alfred, the butler from the Tim Burton Batman films: http://www.slashfilm.com/good-night-alfred-michael-gough-passes/

collection of obits/links on Gough:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/3010

Warren Christopher:

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/warren-christopher-1925-2011/72732/

This is so weird--I made a joke about him on the "Abandoned Thread Ideas" three days ago. When I saw the James Fallows link this morning, I immediately wondered if he'd died a few days ago and I had unknowingly stepped into Gilbert Gottfried territory.

Fuckin' 'Ell It's Fred Titmus

Fuckin' 'Ell It's Dead Titmus

At this time, our thoughts are with his family...

Elizabeth Taylor too, apparently.

Playwright Lanford Wilson, RIP.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/theater/lanford-wilson-pulitzer-prize-winning-playwright-dies-at-73.html

Dorothy Young, Houdini’s Stage Assistant, Is Dead at 103: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/us/25young.html?ref=obituaries

wow, amazing that she lived for so long!

Though she was with the Houdini tour for only a little more than a year, Miss Young gained notice. Soon after, her dancing skills were paired with those of Gilbert Kiamie, the son of a silk lingerie magnate. As Dorothy and Gilbert, they toured the country and became known for their own Latin dance, the “rumbalero.” She also danced in several movies, among them the Fred Astaire musical comedy “Flying Down to Rio” (1933).

Basically this kind of obituary of some kind of "minor" figure who brushed up against various forms of greatness is one of my favorite kinds of things to read ever.

Or the memoirs of such a person, if they are done right. Such as n One Ear, And In The Other: Memories Of 48 Years In Recording, by Irv Greenbaum, who somehow didn't get mentioned on the 2009 obit thread, a man who worked not only on every Fania recording ever but also on all sorts of other interesting projects with all kinds of great artists. I know this is two years late, but RIP, Irv.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2009/05/latin_jazz_vitural_community.html

Just today, someone posted an announcement of the death of recording engineer Irv Greenbaum. Who was he? Timbalero Ralph Irrizary explains:

Irv was one of the engineers at La Tierra Sound Studio where I recorded such records with people like Pupi Legarretta, Ray Barretto, Adalberto Santiago and many more. With all the chaos in the booth always going on he always had this calming effect and never had a bad thing to say to anyone. He had the ability to make these very difficult splices on 2' tape with a razor blade that always came out perfect. If there was ever someone directly responsible for all of the magic created in the 70's that has now been named the "Fania era" it's definitely Irv Greenbaum. RIP Irv. My condolences to his wife and family.

Diana Wynne Jones, it seems.

Geraldine Ferraro, only major-party candidate for vice president I ever voted for.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/us/politics/27geraldine-ferraro.html

What a hack. (Her and Mondale both.)

Documentary filmaker Richard Leacock

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-richard-leacock-20110326,0,4442697.story

xxpost -- Damn, how sad to hear. She was sharp as hell.

Dr. Morbius, you are a class act.

death does elevate sleazeballs, just doing my futile bit

Farley Granger

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/strangers-a-train-star-farley-171994

Eddie Stobart http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-12923203

Everyone stops whatever they are doing to doff their trucker hat.

fuck doffing a hat

The first and only time I ever hitchhiked anywhere, the first lift I got was from an Eddie Stobart lorry. Apparently they weren't really allowed to take hikers, so we sat in the wee sleeping bit at the back of the cabin and talked to lovely friendly driver through the curtain all the way to Carlisle. He then took us to a trucker cafe and got one of his mates to take us as far as Birmingham. Nice chap.

Gil Robbins, folkie w/ the Highwaymen and father of Tim

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-gil-robbins-20110410,0,5623517.story

Recording engineer Roger Nichols, best known for his work with Steely Dan:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118035225?refCatId=16

minimalist artist john mccracken, 76. he was all over the last documenta and his work definitely made an impression on me (maybe even more now that i'm in CA)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/arts/design/john-mccracken-sculptor-of-geometric-forms-dies-at-76.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

RIP violinist and Vietnam vet Billy Bang.

http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/jazzblog/archive/2011/04/12/r-i-p-billy-bang.aspx

RIP Cyrus Harvey, founder of Janus Films

RIP, actor Michael Sarrazin

Marathoner Grete Waitz

Aw, one of my early heroines.

I saw her win the London marathon in 83 and 86. Well, I saw her come past at Greenwich and on the Isle of Dogs while I was waiting for my Dad, about half an hour behind her.

Elisabeth Sladen. :(

war fotog and Restrepo director Tim Hetherington killed in Libya

http://abcnews.go.com/International/war-photographer-tim-hetherington-killed-libya-attack/story?id=13418813

was just coming to post that

his co-director is apparently in grave condition as well :/

fuckin ell, i was just going to watch it this weekend.

Hazel Dickens, RIP
In case you don't know who she is:
Hazel Dickens, a clarion-voiced advocate for coal miners and working people and a pioneer among women in bluegrass music, died on Friday in Washington. She was 75.

obit: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/arts/music/hazel-dickens-bluegrass-singer-dies-at-75.html?hpw

singing "black lung" unaccompanied
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnyYODhW4zI

Wow. Thank you, that's amazing.

Cheung Sai-Ho, scorer of the world's fastest goal.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hlLgW6Tzhmx9rQAy2HcqT12-Ptaw?docId=CNG.1b9b35fd989073a6ca436895c36a65d3.4e1

Only Fools and Horses writer, John Sullivan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13176198

That's a biggie. RIP John, I may well fall through a bar in your honour tonight.

http://www.britishclassiccomedy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/wolfie_243x278.jpg
RIP

"I Love Lucy" writer Madelyn Pugh Davis:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-madelyn-pugh-davis-20110422,0,4154147.story

gutted about john sullivan.

RIP Hazel

Marie-France Pisier, actress for Truffaut and Rivette

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/3182

RIP marie

http://www.lheuredelasortie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/Bulle-Ogier-Marie-France-Pisier-Barbet-Schroeder-et-Dominique-Labourier.jpg

I love this still:

http://image.toutlecine.com/photos/a/m/o/amour-a-20-ans-1962-01-g.jpg

Norio Ohga, former president of Sony, credited with developing the CD format.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/24/former-sony-president-norio-ohga-dies

RIP Bill Blackbeard, comics historian;

http://www.tcj.com/bill-blackbeard-1926-2011/

Late to this, but RIP Marie-France. The Other Side of Midnight is a disaster like no other, and as pointed out in the linked obit, pretty much wrecked her Hollywood career.*

She was quite splendid in Love on The Run, probably the best part of the movie.

http://www.intemporel.com/images/produit/images/909912.jpg

*Fun Fact: Fox was so sure TOSoM would be a smash in the summer of '77 that they made any theatre that wanted it book another film Fox had on offer for earlier that season which the studio felt needed any and all help to at most break even.

That film was called Star Wars.

bah,

http://www.intemporel.com/images/produit/images/909912.jpg

RIP Violet Cowden, wartime airplane pilot http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/us/24cowden.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries

Comic strip historian Bill Blackbeard

Four posts up, William

whoops, sorry Ward

Phoebe Snow: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42763432

Blimey, RIP Phoeb

I think I last heard her guesting on Howard Stern in the '90s?

And for those who don't look at ILM, Poly Styrene:

http://pitchfork.com/news/42327-rip-poly-styrene/

Elmer Hauldren, the face/voice of Empire Carpet: http://gapersblock.com/merge/archives/2011/04/27/empire-carpet-man-rip/

I'd been wondering every time I see an Empire commercial how old that guy would have to be by now (it's been a long, long time since he actually appeared in person in the commercials). Old enough to be dead now, apparently. R.I.P. nice old man.

I can't remember a time when those commercials (and his presence in them) didn't exist. I distinctly remember feeling that an era had ended when "800" was tacked onto the beginning of the jingle.

oh wow, a Chicago classic.

Ira Cohen:

http://ginsbergblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/ira-cohen-1935-2011.html

Snooker commentator, 'Whispering' Ted Lowe. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/snooker/13253010.stm

Henry Cooper: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/13256045.stm

Oh, seriously Henry was one of the boxing greats, if only for puttin Cassius Clay on his arse in 63. Which he should have gone on and finished and maybe become one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time.

RIP, if that wasn't implied.

Ah, just listened to a bit of Ted Lowe commentary I found on youtube, now I'm basking in a warm haze of relaxation. RIP Ted.

A question at the local pub quiz tonight was 'who was the first boxer to receive a knighthood?'. RIP Henry.

Poured one out for Henry and Ted tonight. RIP both of them.

RIP Yvette Vickers (Attack of the 50ft Women, Attack of the Giant Leeches etc.)

http://www.spookytoms.com/TR-YvetteVickers.JPG

Soz, better link here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/03/people-playmate-idUSN0226450520110503

I do not want to see her body now. :-( This is so sad: noone noticed until a year later.

Yeah, very sad indeed

beauty is fleeting, that's some depressing shit right there

I do not want to see her body now. :-( This is so sad: noone noticed until a year later.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, May 3, 2011 10:25 AM (1 hour ago)

Would you have wanted to see her body if she was freshly dead?

Vickers, born Yvette Vedder in Kansas City, Missouri, was variously described as being either 82 or 74.

That's one hell of a range.

William Campbell, star of Francis Coppola's first film and Star Trek's Squire of Gothos

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/arts/television/william-campbell-played-star-trek-klingon-dies-at-87.html

Jackie Cooper -- child star, M*A*S*H director, Perry White

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/movies/jackie-cooper-film-and-television-actor-is-dead-at-88.html

After Superman, I associate him with of all things the spectacularly awful The Love Machine.

rip jackie cooper -- another part of my childhood is gone:

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v162097097epDNnn6

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RIP Arthur Laurents

If cadence deaths come in threes, after Lanford Wilson and Arthur Laurents, David Mamet had better watch out.

TV / stage star Marian Mercer

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/comic-actress-marian-mercer-dies-185823

Sada Thompson of stage & TV

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-sada-thompson-20110507,0,3069981.story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/13311206.stm

RIP Seve, brilliantly charismatic and still brilliant even as he faced up to cancer.

poor Seve :(

I know :(

RIP u genius

He will live on in US crosswords as Golfer Ballesteros as long is there are tricky crossings with the letter 'V' in them.

He will live on as a guy who probably had the biggest heart, along with Walter payton, as any athlete I've ever seen. I will tell my grandkids about seve. RIP

This one kind of hurts. I feel bad about seve. There will only be one seve.

Up-and-down-game, astonishing. The type of golf he played seems so manual to the drive, chip and putt stuff you can see now. That's not really right I guess, but watching Seve play just looked great. Graceful, loads of feel and technique, poise. I'd still rather watch footage of him than anyone else.

He also was a great sportsman. He wanted to crush you on the course, but if you beat him, he was extremely gentlemanly (based on what I've heard of interviews with golfers today). If this guy didn't exist he's the type of guy hollywood would have to invent.

He just looked great when he was playing. Something that you get with certain cricketers as well. I guess footballers like Zidane as well. You could feel such admiration watching him play. It looked great.

I don't know anything about cricketers, or "footballers" other than the kind that wear helmets, but I agree. Seve bridged the atlantic divide. I respect how cut throat he was in the ryder cup, he wanted to kill us-any means necessary.

Fist pump forever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpchlvAHp-4

Fist pump forever

o_O

Met Seve a few times (worked at the Old Course to pay through uni), he always seemed very nice, interested in you. RIP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13329935

John Walker of The Walker Brothers.

Belgian cyclist Wouter Weijlandt just died after a heavy crash in the third stage of the Giro d'Italia.

Just awful.

Oh shit.

27 years, was going to be a father for the first time this September. Damn...

It's desperate news. I'm in shock. There were interviews a few days ago with riders saying how scary the descents were (I'm assuming it was on a descent). Horrific.

UK peeps should have a look at this video of Seve, if you've not already seen it when it was on before the Open last year. Found myself choking up at the part where he talks about destiny and his glory years and stuff, so sad but such a charismatic guy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/golf/8830338.stm

@Mark C, I know... I'm gutted. He actually won the third stage of the Giro last year, too.

It was indeed in a descent (Passo del Bocco). They tried to reanimate him right there for 40mins, and then had to give up.

It's so, so sad

Reanimate????

Sorry... slipped a Dutchism in there.. I mean CPR

resuscitate

Oh god, dreadful news about Wouter Weijlandt.

Gazzetta needs to take some of those pictures down, seriously.

Yeah, it's graphic.

I know this was said already, but it's only just sunk in. Won stage three last year, died on stage three this year. Fuck.

dana wynter of "invasion of the body snatchers" fame - i think i had her on my dead pool list last year : /

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dana-wynter-20110508,0,4958981.story

David Mason, trumpeter who played the solo on Penny Lane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQyBRS8Nby8

;_;

I am struck every time by how *bright* the trumpet is. But I guess it is a good way to live forever

Legendary guitarist Cornell Dupree: http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2011/05/guitar_great_cornell_dupree_wh.php

RIP Cornell.

bummer RIP Dupree

Not many people read the backs of albums

songwriter/sweater model Dolores Fuller

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/05/10/2865532/dolores-fuller-actress-who-dated.html

"Not in my wildest nightmares did I ever think I'd see the day when Eddie's movies would be popular," said Fuller, who was in Kansas City to appear at an Ed Wood Film Festival.

Sammy Wanjiru

http://www.universalsports.com/news-blogs/article/newsid=533569.html

That's shocking. I saw both his Chicago Marathon wins in person. Either last year's Chicago or his Olympic gold in Beijing in 2008 might be considered the greatest marathon ever run. A fearless competitor, apparently a troubled individual, 24 years old.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jzv2ZSZAdyU/TLQJsO6IeMI/AAAAAAAABdI/K3XlklOJNDI/s1600/chicago2010-wanjiru-40km.jpg

Harmon Killebrew, baseball's leading home run hitter of the 1960s.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6559023

Macho Man Randy Savage

http://www.tmz.com/2011/05/20/randy-savage-car-accident-macho-man-dead-dies-died-killed-wwe-wrestler-florida/

bruce ricker, jazz documentarian ('the last of the blue devils') who was served as clint eastwood's music consultant:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/arts/music/bruce-ricker-filmmaker-with-affinity-for-jazz-dies-at-68.html?_r=2

-was

holy shit @ Macho Man ;_;

bruce ricker, jazz documentarian

Macho Man Randy Savage

http://www.tmz.com/2011/05/20/randy-savage-car-accident-macho-man-dead-dies-died-killed-wwe-wrestler-florida/

I love the hyperlink on that "dead", "dies", died", "killed". Lets cover all the search bases here guys.

Wow, apparently I hadn't seen a picture of him in a loooong time.

http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/05/20/0520-randy-savage-wife-lynne-payne-getty-swipe-2-credit.jpg

omg rip savage that's my childhood there

oops -- bumped HA HA HA HA HA! Machoman Randy Savage! Tha Album Drops Now, MuhFuah!

RIP

whoa

http://youtu.be/53hiHAkK6KA

rip

I think Macho Man is going to need a proper thread

definitely

Revamped his thread to an RIP and yeah, he's special.

Bill Hunter

Aw man... :(

Leonard Kastle, writer-director of The Honeymoon Killers

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/3333

Joseph Brooks, ending a mother of a down-hill slide.

jeeeeezus, what a mess

did not light up much

suicide possibly a reasonable choice at that point

Another cyclist, Xavier Tondo:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/23052011/58/tondo-killed-garage-door.html

Holy Shit, had read about this but never seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agl4IvNnQPo

CNBC's stock market dude Mark Haines.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cnbcs-mark-haines-he-took-no-bs-2011-05-25

Former Page 3 girl Suzanne Mizzi. 43. Fuck.

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/864419-former-glamour-model-suzanne-mizzi-43-dies-after-cancer-battle

Leonora Carrington, surrealist painter & writer. If you can find a copy of her short stories collection The Seventh Horse buy it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13569266

:-(

http://lh5.ggpht.com/-jUtars1-DQk/TSjBIR0zrfI/AAAAAAAADWU/0i-74UGQiPg/Lee%252520Miller%252520-%252520ELT%252520Mesens%25252C%252520Max%252520Ernst%25252C%252520Leonora%252520Carrington%252520et%252520Paul%252520Eluard%25252C%252520Lamb%252520Creek%25252C%252520Cornwall%252520England%25252C%2525201937.jpg

Oh no, I was thinking about Leonora just last week :(

That's her getting hugs from Max Ernst and Paul Eluard btw.

had also been thinking about her recently. not a total surprise maybe, but still sad. love that photo of her in her mexican studio with a cat in her lap.

Leonora & Max

http://joannavandergrachtderosado.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/leonora_carrington_max-ernst.jpg

Was just searching for this thread to post Carrington. RIP.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/sports/margo-dydek-37-towering-womens-basketball-center.html

adolfas mekas, jonas' brother and a filmmaker/teacher/writer in his own right, at 85:

http://www.indiewire.com/article/2011/05/31/filmmaker_and_professor_adolfus_mekas_dies_at_85

Wasn't he a bit old to be a Jonas brother?

too bad to die at 37 with kids!

William Clements, who helped make Texas a worser place.

Jack Kevorkian

Miriam Karlin

Kevorkian totally missed an opportunity here.

i'm pretty sure there's a good joke to be made at kevorkian's expense but i haven't heard it yet

stiffs.com one liner:

He died doing what he loved: dying.

mmm, not bad?

James Arness

The Onion doesn't even have to mention his name: http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-dies-all-by-himself,20673/

Wow, I thought Arness died back in the 90s or something. RIP Marshal Dillon

never remember seeing an entire "Gunsmoke" so he'll always be The Thing to me.

Lawrence Eagleburger, US empire scumfuck

i'm pretty sure there's a good joke to be made at kevorkian's expense but i haven't heard it yet

RIP Jack Kevorkian. I wish you were still around to help me drink a disgusting combination of sodas in your honor.

Eh? Ehhh?

yeah, eh.

ZIPPY DEAD!!!!!!!!! And George.

nooooooooooooooooo

Also voice of the Daleks, Cybermen and Krotons!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Like_It_When_You_Die

I Like It When You Die is an Anal Cunt album, released in 1997 on Earache Records as MOSH 169CD. It contains 52 tracks, with the average track length well under a minute.

Track listing

1."Jack Kevorkian is Cool" - 0:41

(I didn't 'get' the reference at the time...)

ZIPPY DEAD!!!!!!!!! And George.

RIP

So he was the guy who said "EXTERMINATE!"? RIP

RIP Leonard B. Stern, television writer, producer and director and creator of Mad Libs: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/arts/television/leonard-b-stern-creator-of-mad-libs-dies-at-88.html?src=recg

I'm so ___________, I could ____________.

Brian Lenihan, former not-very-good finance minister of ireland

Patrick Leigh Fermor aged 96. Quite a life.

Seth Putnam, 43 of the grindcore band An*l Cu*t has died of a heart attack.

labor leader Gus Tyler

http://forward.com/articles/138362/

RIP. Especially at a time and place where socialists are in short supply. Can't say I know the man's work well - I read a book of his on the US union movement in the 60s about a million years ago, but it feels like a loss regardless.

Seth Putnam, 43 of the grindcore band An*l Cu*t has died of a heart attack.

You Suffered a Heart Attack
Being Dead Is Gay

John Mackenzie, director of The Long Good Friday, but he also made lots of other interesting stuff esp. A Sense of Freedom which had a big impact on me as a teenager.

Shortest time between a reference on this thread and actually dying?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Like_It_When_You_Die

I Like It When You Die is an Anal Cunt album, released in 1997 on Earache Records as MOSH 169CD. It contains 52 tracks, with the average track length well under a minute.

Track listing

1."Jack Kevorkian is Cool" - 0:41

(I didn't 'get' the reference at the time...)

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iirc Tuomas killed Michael Jackson? But he maybe merely commented on his Dead Pool failures v shortly his choice MJ kicked the bucket.

v shortly before

Yeah, that was on the Dead Pool thread, you can read the whole thing here:

Dead Pool '09

It was pretty eerie.

Btw, I've stopped taking part in Dead Pool after that year.

Not that I've superstitious or anything, but I felt pretty morbid about making the right guess for once, so I decided the game was not for me.

Gunnar Fischer, regular cinematographer for Ingmar Bergman from 1948-60

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/gunnar-fischer-bergmans-cinematographer-dies-at-100/2011/06/12/AGMUomRH_story.html

RIP Gunnar

Jorge Semprun, novelist, writer of Z, a few days ago. I read his book Literature or Life, it was very powerful, though I felt like I should have read his previous work as well. Must read The Long Voyage soon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/books/jorge-semprun-spanish-novelist-and-screenwriter-dies-at-87.html

Literature and Life was great, never read anything else he wrote either. RIP.

RIP Mike Waterson, aged 70.

Family spokesman confirms to CBS News that actor Peter Falk died last night.

i just watched the larry sanders ep he guested on :(

Damn.

Only yesterday I found out the existence of and ordered the blu-ray of Der Himmel Über Berlin (Wings Of Desire) where he's excellent. RIP.

Bugger all. Rest in peace peter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biW9BbWJtQU

he was amazing in the cassavettes movies

And the Princess Bride is so amazing. RIP

Alice Playten, Obie winner for National Lampoon's Lemmings and actor in the original productions of Gypsy, Oliver! and Hello Dolly!

http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/06-2011/obie-winner-alice-playten-has-died_38468.html

Anna Massey :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jul/04/anna-massey-dies-aged-73

Wow, RIP Anna... just don't mention Prince Philip

robert sklar, film historian/author of 'movie-made america', passed away this weekend:

http://fxreflects.blogspot.com/2011/07/robert-sklar-1936-2011-what-i-learnt.html

he advised my UG thesis, one of the few pieces of writing that i'm really truly proud of, and was an all-around great, warm guy whose class i always looked forward to. RIP

RIP, Anna Massey and Bob Sklar.

(any relation to cory?)

cy twombly, at 83:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=14001691

bad week for people whose work i admire immensely :/

uh...sorry, slightly more info here:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/07/05/artist-cy-twombly-dead-at-83.html

It's already been posted on her own thread, but RIP Jane Scott.
http://www.cleveland.com/popmusic/index.ssf/2011/07/jane_scott_legendary_plain_dea.html

Fanny Aronsen.

Couldn't find the baseball RIP thread, so I'll post this here:

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/07/07/3000729/dick-williams-who-won-consecutive.html

Charlie O. has company.

A great manager

A publicist emailed me this:

Manuel Galbán born in 1931 (Gibara, Holguín Province Cuba), died Thursday of a heart attack in Havana at 80 years old.

Making his professional debut in 1944, Galbán joined the internationally acclaimed Los Zafiros in 1963, which combined the traditional filín movement with other music styles such as bolero, doo-wop, calypso music, bossa nova and rock. This fusion transformed Los Zafiros into one of the most popular Cuban groups of the time. They group achieved international fame and performed at several venues in Europe including the Paris Olympia, a concert that was even attended by the Beatles. Although Galbán wasn't the first guitarist to perform for Los Zafiros, he did remain with the group for the majority of their careers, becoming one of their key members. He was so important to the group's success that the prominent Cuban pianist Peruchi once said of him: "You'd need two guitarists to replace Galbán".

From 1972 through 1975, Galbán led Cuba's national music ensemble, Dirección Nacional de Música, before forming his own group Batey where he remained for 23 years. With Batey, Galbán toured the world and became one of the key ambassadors of Cuban music. During this period he recorded number of albums documenting popular Cuban music with the prestigious Cuban record label Egrem and the Bulgarian label Balkanton.

Galbán later joined the group Vieja Trova Santiaguera for two years before answering Ry Cooder's call to take part in a project featuring Ibrahim Ferrer which subsequently lead to his long standing membership with the Buena Vista Social Club along with, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Compay Segundo, Omara Portuondo and Cachaito Lopez.

Wim Wenders' film on the BVSC allowed an entire generation of Cuban musicians to experience a new beginning and revived Galbán's recording career. Galbán not only was the guitarist for the other members of the Buena Vista Social Club's recordings such as Ibrahim Ferrer and "Cachaíto" López, but his duet world-wide internationally acclaimed album Mambo Sinuendo with Ry Cooder catapulted him to a household name in world music circles. "Galbán and myself felt that there existed a sound that had yet to be explored, there was scope for a Cuban band with an electric guitar to once again convey that fifties atmosphere in a smooth, simple yet lush manner. Our group has two electric guitarists, two drummers, a conga player and a bassist: a sextet with the potential to sound like a big band and unveil the mysteries of classical melodies. The result is powerful, lyrical and entertaining music", Cooder explains referring to the sessions when the album was concocted. In 2003 Mambo Sinuendo was nominated for a Latin GRAMMY Award, and was recognized by Downbeat magazine for best jazz performance. In 2004 the album received a GRAMMY Award for the Best Pop Instrumental Album.

For more than a decade Manuel Galbán has toured the world performing with the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club Orchestra, and over the past three years preparing his latest album BlueChaCha.

Galbán reworks some of the tracks that he himself has stated formed his musical identity. "Initially we had a list of more than one thousand tunes", he reveals when discussing the album's initial plans. Galbán surrounds himself with some of his long-time colleagues including Omara Portuondo, Rosa Passos, and is joined by Trío Esperança, Eric Bibb, Marcelo Mercadante and Sissoko Ballaké. His daughter Magda Rosa Galbán and Juan Antonio Leyva contributed to the arrangements.

Long-time manager of Manuel and the Buena Vista Social Club Daniel Florestano says, "it is a very sad day for Cuban music and fans of Cuban Music. Galbán's enormous impact world-wide with his unique guitar sound and warm smile will be missed by many."

wow, i hadn't heard. RIP

CNN.com saying Betty Ford has passed.

in "i had no idea he was even still alive" news, sherwood schwartz has passed at 94:

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/07/12/brady-bunch-gilligans-island-creator-sherwood-schwartz-dead-at-94/

and, um:

At the time of his death, Sherwood Schwartz was working with his son on the next Brady Bunch movie, which Lloyd Schwartz said will go on as planned.

Is Ben Stiller's wife still on board as Marsha?

A Very Brady Sequel was p.great iirc

Rob Grill of the Grass Roots, according to dangerousminds.net.

"Rob Grill lead vocalist of The Grass Roots has died at the age of 67 from complications resulting from a head injury.

The Grass Roots were never considered a hip band during their decade of popular success in the 1960s and 70s, but they created a solid stream of hits, including one of rock’s great anthems, that any group would be proud of.

“Let’s Live for Today,” “Midnight Confessions,” “Temptation Eyes” and “Two Divided by Love” were, and still are, staples of mainstream radio and their monster hit “Let’s Live For Today” is one of rock and roll’s great fist pumpers.

A good part of The Grass Roots success was due to Rob Grill’s sweetly insistent vocal style which combined a sense of urgency with a lovelorn cri de couer. Grill’s voice gave the group an emotive punch that lifted the band a notch or two above the candy gloss of the lite psychedelia that surfed the wake of the Bay Area and L.A. hippie scene."

Experimental filmmaker Owen Land (George Landow): http://artforum.com/archive/id=28613

veteran (ie, 94-yo) Brit actress Googie Withers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jul/16/googie-withers-obituary

(xpost)“Let’s Live for Today,” “Midnight Confessions,” “Temptation Eyes” and “Two Divided by Love” were, and still are, staples of mainstream radio

Not on any station I hear, I think they've been focus-grouped out of existence.

The bloke who designed the wheel out of 'Wheel of Fortune'

Lucian Freud. A misanthrope's eye, but...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/arts/lucian-freud-adept-portraiture-artist-dies-at-88.html

Saw an off-the-cuff retrospective of the Gallery period the other weekend at the Met, including Freud vs Bacon. A great loss, RIP.

The 'benefits officer' is a friend of mine; she will be gutted.

was that part of his will

Finally 'got' Lucien Freud at the Pompidou last year. Some lovely works. RIP.

RIP :-/

Elwy Yost, Toronto TV host:

http://www.thestar.com/news/books/article/1028603--elwy-yost-host-of-saturday-night-at-the-movies-dies-at-85

Before there was even home video, he's the guy that introduced a lot of us to old movies. He hosted a show on public television called Saturday Night at the Movies, where he'd show a double-bill of stuff from the '30s and '40s (with interviews between), and during the week for a time he had Magic Shadows, which was a similar film chopped up into five parts serial-style. I bet the word "genial" shows up all over his obits: he looked like everybody's uncle, and he never said a negative word about anything. His son was Graham Yost the screenwriter (Speed). I remember this great interview where G.Y. talked about E.Y. writing him a note in high school, excusing him from school because he wanted G.Y. to stay up late and watch Citizen Kane on television. I generally hate people breaking down on television, but that time it didn't seem the least bit phony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGtqA1I2RPg&feature=related

I'm a bit shocked we haven't got a Lucian Freud thread. I think of him as one of the great painters. RIP.

Here's a short film about him and his paint covered studio.

http://www.nowness.com/day/2010/2/26/376/the-god-of-small-things

(well a bit of a short film anyway)

I wholeheartedly agree about there not being a thread. Thanks for that link, looking forward to see that.

Amy Winehouse

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Amy-Winehouse-Found-Dead-At-Home-In-Camden-London-Police-Confirm/Article/201107416036201?lpos=Showbiz_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_16036201_Amy_Winehouse_Found_Dead_At_Home_In_Camden%2C_London%2C_Police_Confirm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237

makes 'rehab' a really tragic song. :\

Yeah :-/

Poor lass

jesus fuck

omg

I wonder how the mockers now feel? All those pathetic stupid ill-placed comments when she was still alive. This woman was real. She had a real addiction. And now her death is real. It doesn't make it more or less tragic than some non-famous person dying. She is a lover lost. A daughter lost. A friend lost. A singer lost. A human being lost. It is sad. To say it is less tragic because her addiction was "a life style" or "chosen" is wrong.

RIP Amy. And condolences to the family and friends and fans.

kinda feel she took a bullet that was meant for pete doherty

RIP tenor sax player Gil Bernal: http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/07/rip_gil_bernal_los_angeles_ten.php

Back in Los Angeles two years later, a now-seasoned Bernal formed his own jazz combo with trumpeter Shorty Rogers and drummer Shelley Manne. Jazz remained Bernal's life-long avocation, but in the Big Beat era the hot new R&B "honking" style was in vogue. He went onto to record some of R&B's fiercest, funkiest solos with the Coasters (nee Robins) -- among them "Youngblood," "Searchin'," "Riot in Cell Block #9" "Down in Mexico" and "Smokey Joe's Café." He had his own kicking R&B instrumentals, and did sessions with Big Mama Thornton, Ray Charles, and The Dominos. With Lee Hazlewood at the controls, he raunched up Duane Eddy's 1958 hit "Rebel Rouser."

makes 'rehab' a really tragic song. :\

Wasn't it a;ways meant to be kind of tragic? I don't know, I've just always taken it that way.

Yes it does put an ironic spin on what was once a joyful song about depression and addiction.

New Hampshire folksinger Bill Morrissey

http://www.nhpr.org/letters-heaven-bill-morrissey

Michael Cacoyannis, Zorba the Greek director:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/zorba-greek-director-michael-cacoyannis-dies-89-093724123.html

I know I've seen Never on a Sunday, but I'm really not sure if I've ever seen Zorba. Being Greek on my dad's side and growing up in the '60s, the music for both was just sort of there as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AzpHvLWFUM

Figured that if anyone posted Elwy Yost's passing here, it'd be Clemenza

G.D. Spradlin. His name may not be familiar, but you do know him:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/character-actor-g-d-spradlin-had-roles-godfather-041140970.html

One of my favourite actors of the '70s for his performances in Godfather II and North Dallas Forty, although people may know him more for Apocalypse Now. I'll link here to something I wrote on '70s character actors many years ago--he was really one of the main guys I was thinking of when I wrote the piece. His last roll, perfectly enough, was Ben Bradlee in Dick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm18N2ppCaA

Mis-ter Cor-lee-oh-nee....

Tom Aldredge, NY stage vet and 5-time Tony nominee:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/theater/tom-aldredge-character-actor-dies-at-83.html

I did some research and found out that G.D. Spradlin's last roll was in fact pumpernickel. Sorry.

More cause to get so damn depressed if you love the '70s:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/dan-peek-singer-founding-member-1970s-band-america-200620701.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzUQZw3wfro

Aw damn... ;_;

To complete that 70s RIP hat trick, Polly Platt

aw shit... know her mainly through appearances on docs in recent years, she seemed rad.

Was just gonna post Polly Platt. A better person than me, since she continued to work with Peter Bogdanovich after he unceremoniously dumped her for Cybil Shepherd.

you were dumped by PBog too?

Ha, that's how I read it too.

We still have coffee sometimes and he tells me stories about Orson.

How's his ascot hanging.

That's an ascot? I just thought it was neck flaps.

y u hurt he

http://images.buddytv.com/articles/the-sopranos/images/peter-bogdonavich.jpg

The one is there to cover the other.

Dean Faulkner Wells, William Faulkner's niece, had a stroke Sunday and died yesterday. Her father had died in a plane crash before she was born, and William Faulkner became her legal guardian and raised her. She had been the last living Faulkner relative.

RIP, Frank Foster, tenor saxophonist with Count Basie : http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/frank-foster-dynamic-saxophonist-who-led-basie-band-dies-at-82/2011/07/27/gIQADRsefI_story.html

Claude Laydu, star of Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest

(I don't see an obit in English yet)

Bubba Smith

fucking hell curse of Police Academy this just ain't right

and yet Steve Guttenberg is still with us

was gonna do a Guttenberg joke last night. :(

he'll go when hes

guttenready

http://static.royalacademy.org.uk/images/width370/hoyland-loveandgrief5-4-006-154.jpg

John Hoyland

Mark Hatfield, from when there were liberal! Republican! senators!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/us/politics/08hatfield.html

Hey wait, no words on Hugh Carey?

Marshall Grant dies at 83; bass player, manager for Johnny Cash

Marshall Grant dies at 83; bass player, manager for Johnny Cash

Marshall Grant, who worked as Johnny Cash's road manager and played bass for him for more than two decades, helped create the singer's famous sound.
Marshall Grant, who played standup bass in Johnny Cash's original trio and helped create the legendary singer's distinctive, rhythmic sound in the 1950s, has died. He was 83.

Grant, who remained with Cash as a bass player for more than two decades and later managed the Statler Brothers, died Sunday in a hospital in Jonesboro, Ark., according to a spokesman for Memorial Park Funeral Home and Cemetery in Memphis.

Yeah, but how old was he and what instrument did he play?

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I remember seeing a great interview in which he talked about how he and Luther Perkins hooked up with Johnny Cash, it seemed like what he was saying was "I just plumped on that bass." RIP

John Wood, stage legend

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/theater/john-wood-actor-known-for-nimbleness-dies-at-81.html

Only just noticed that news -- great actor from what I remember of his screen parts and he sounds like he killed onstage. The Stoppard connections alone! Another piece in memory here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2011/aug/11/john-wood-actor

A metalhead facebook friend just posted that Jani Lane of Warrant died...

bit late with this news, but http://alteredzones.com/posts/1756/rip-conrad-schnitzler/

Ok ok, there's a dedicated thread. Damn spelling.

experimental filmmaker/animator robert breer passed away this weekend - i've only seen a handful of his films but they're all delightful:

http://www.badlit.com/?p=18493

and now raul ruiz, at 70

http://www.indiewire.com/article/2011/08/19/raul_ruiz_famed_chilean-born_director_dead_at_70

Is EVERY great filmmaker going to die this year?

John Wood no!

Like who else? xp

errrr, Richard Leacock? Tim Hetherington?

OK, i've seen a few things Leacock shot for others, never knew his name. I liked Restrepo, but "great" is a big word.

John Howard Davies, Oliver Twist in David Lean's version, early approver/director/defender of Monty Python and general shepherd of Fawlty Towers among many other shows.

Oh crap, I just realised there are two RIP threads.

Jimmy Sangster, Hammer horror screenwriter, director and producer;

http://www.hammerfilms.com/news/article/newsid/308/jimmy-sangster-1927---2011

jack layton, canadian ndp leader, last week

Spent much of the day watching the eulogies.

RIP Honeyboy Edwards
http://www.davidhoneyboyedwards.com/

Len Ganley died on 28th August.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-14708481

RIP Tony Sale, who set up the team rebuilding WWII code-breaking computers at Bletchley Park

Construction of a fully functional replica of a Colossus Mark 2 was undertaken by a team led by Tony Sale. In spite of the blueprints and hardware being destroyed, a surprising amount of material survived, mainly in engineers' notebooks, but a considerable amount of it in the U.S.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14720180

Leonard Harris, the TV arts critic who became Travis Bickle's target.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/arts/television/leonard-harris-tv-critic-with-star-turn-dies-at-81.html

I know what you mean, Travis--but it's not gonna be easy.

Tom Hibbert of Smash Hits and Q

Rosel Zech, Fassbinder's Veronika Voss

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/veronica-voss-actress-rosel-zech-230235

Shame to read about Tom Hibbert, I didn't realise he'd been ill for some time. 'Who the hell is..' was a delicious treat, will have to dig out my copy of it.

salvatore licitra, tenor

filmmaker (and ALL-TIME HERO) george kuchar, last night:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/george-kuchar-1942-2011

nooooooooooooo

RIP George, a Bronx original; I saw him introduce or follow programs of his films many times over the years.

(I know there is a program in his honor at the NYFF)

Bummer news. First learned about him through the John Waters/Divine documentary years ago and thought "Okay this guy is a great character, full stop."

RIP Wardell Quezergue, New Orleans arranger of "Mr Big Stuff", "Groove Me," and more

echoing ned's sentiments exactly.

anybody who hasn't seen "It Came From Kuchar" should try to do that immediately

available on netflix instant watch fyi

(its not an amazing doc by any means but if you dont know much about the kuchars its a good primer)

mmmm, I'd watch some of their films first.

It pays to wait. For things that aren't easily available. For a long, long time.

Not a good day for ice hockey

...or for SF-based experimental filmmakers either, for that matter

http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Belson/

yeah, just heard about Jordan Belson...so sad.

Just heard about Belson too. That CVM DVD is a must watch...

Michael S Hart, the American feller credited for inventing ebooks and starting Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart

Cliff Robertson, 1968 Best Actor Oscar winner
(for a science-fiction film, no less)

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-cliff-robertson-20110911,0,4031128.story

A very good Nixon in The Best Man.

Good grief, this is a weird detail, via Wikipedia:

Robertson was airborne and piloting a private Beechcraft Baron directly over New York City on the morning of September 11, 2001. He was directly over the World Trade Center, climbing through 7,500 feet, when the first Boeing 767 struck. He was ordered by air traffic control to land immediately at the nearest airport following a nationwide order to ground all civilian and commercial aircraft following the attacks.

http://www.tmz.com/2011/09/11/andy-whitfield-dead-dies-spartacus-lymphoma

I was just about to come post this. I had been thinking of him now and again, wondering and hoping that he would survive. :-((((

William Sleator, author of House of Stairs and other YA science fiction novels, died last month.

rip richard hamilton, og pop artist

<3 pop hamilton

Aw, hadn't heard about Sleator. Interstellar Pig was a childhood favorite for me and my brothers.

Gordon Ramsay's dwarf porn double Percy Foster dies in badger den

according to UK tabloid The Sunday Sport

a badger's sett on the moon

are you suggesting that i should question reports made in the uk news media

http://www.badidea.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/sunday-sport-cover.gif

the cream of oxford

thank god it wasn't a jamie oliver dwarf porn double or i would have been unduly worried

is everything but the ww2 bomber on the moon headline a parody there? or was this a partiularly highbrow-themed issue of the sport?

PARADIGM SHIFT

is everything but the ww2 bomber on the moon headline a parody there? or was this a partiularly highbrow-themed issue of the sport?

The WW2 Bomber Found On Moon story was a direct ripoff of a 1988 Weekly World News headline anyway.

Carl Oglesby, noted 60s Anti-War leader

Weird:

His other books include “Bob Vila’s Guide to Buying Your Dream House” (1990), written with Mr. Vila; and “The New Left Reader” (1969), which he edited.

frances bay, character actress (several david lynch movies, the grandma from happy gilmore, the old lady seinfeld mugs for the marble rye loaf, etc etc)

The Sport followed up the bomber story with another exclusive
http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sunday-sport-bomber-on-moon-150x150.png

then there was
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/thumb/2/24/Spurt2.gif/445px-Spurt2.gif

RIP Frances Bay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv=96bqcoO1cYU

Eleanor Mondale, entertainment reporter and "wild child" daughter of VP Walter Mondale

man, I don't remember her at all.

Charles Percy, Illinois senator for 18 years, a Rockefeller Republican who wouldn't get elected in today's GOP:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/us/politics/charles-percy-former-illinois-senator-is-dead-at-91.html

Didn't really remember Eleanor Mondale either, or that she was married to the guy from The Suburbs.

Dolores Hope, singer and widow of Bob: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dolores-hope-bob-hope-237283

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/arch-west-97-invented-doritos-for-frito-lay/2011/09/26/gIQAfYpE0K_story.html

"Mr. West’s cremated remains will be placed in an urn and buried in a vault, his daughter said. At a memorial service, family members will dust his grave with a layer of Doritos."

They were going to sprinkle his ashes, but you'd never get that smell off your fingers afterwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4_dH0qkd2c

Wade Mainer, old-time banjoist and band leader

he was the last person alive to have appeared on the Anthology of American Folk Music.

David Croft

x-post-

Mr. West ate Doritos his entire life and was sometimes sent batches to taste-test. About three months ago, he tried a new flavor, Late Night All Nighter Cheeseburger.

Mr. West took one bite and spit it out.

awesome

RIP Frank Driggs, writer, music historian, jazz photograph collector and producer of King of the Delta Blues Singers: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/arts/music/frank-driggs-jazz-age-historian-and-photo-collector-dies-at-81.html?_r=1&ref=margalitfox

David Zelag Goodman, a screenwriter of Straw Dogs, Monte Walsh, Logan's Run, Lovers and Other Strangers, Eyes of Laura Mars

^

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/movies/david-zelag-goodman-far-ranging-screenwriter-dies-at-81.html

Sylvia Robinson, half of Mickey & Sylvia, co-owner of Sugar Hill Records

Salvador Iborra, 33 year old promising Spanish poet, saw two guys pass by with a friend's stolen bike, told them it was stolen, got stabbed to death.
The two bike thieves/murderers were arrested.

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cataluna/poeta/Iborra/murio/intentar/recuperar/bicicleta/amigo/elpepuespcat/20111001elpcat_12/Tes

RIP Sylvia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa_A_-ykD3w

RIP Marv Tarplin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/03/marv-tarplin?newsfeed=true

RIP bert jansch

Own thread, Now.

Graham Dilley RIP

... I'm sure there must have been at least one Test match where Dilley, Willey and Lillee played

Lillee C. Dilley B. Willey I think was a famous wicket?

Sad about this, Dilley was one of the first cricketers I remember when I started watching cricket.Very good bowler in his day too.

Oh rats, he used to my hero - i was *always* Graham Dilley when we played cricket as kids.

Argh, Neil S OTM. People who were my sporting heroes as a kid should not be dying anytime soon.

Lillee C. Dilley B. Willey I think was a famous wicket?

...in the gulley iirc!

it was Lillee c. Willey b. Dilley!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Willey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y77urWilI7M

confirmation that the catch was indeed taken in the gully!

Awesome. RIP Graham. He was down the other end for much of Botham's 149 at Headingley, I think?

... shoulda read my own link!

i just posted about this on the cricket thread. one of my fave cricketers ever

RIP Charles Napier... character actor in everything.

Had to GIS the name, but yeah, that guy was in about 15,000 movies.

Napier meets a bad end in Silence of the Lambs.

A.C. Nielsen Jr, age 92 with a 64 share

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ratings-empire-builder-ac-nielsen-244469

Daisy Debolt, half of 70s musical duo Fraser & Debolt

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/10/05/daisy-debolt-obit.html

Weird story: I spent a year in the late '80s as a proofreader for Woolworth-Woolco advertising flyers (sounds like something out of Joseph Heller novel), and my immediate boss was a guy who managed Daisy Debolt on the side (and was involved with Fraser & Debolt during the '70s).

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, civil rights hero of Birmingham

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-fred-shuttlesworth-20111006,0,752108.story

Was talking about Napier with a co-worker while walking into the office this morning. Blew his mind reminding him that Napier played a romantic lead in "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls." But I'll always love him most for his work on "The Critic."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWmlFBTa608

francesco cominelli, editor of vogue hommes int'l. dunno his age but he doesn't look much older than me:

http://www.gq.com/style/blogs/the-gq-eye/2011/10/in-our-thoughts-francesco-cominelli.html

Miss Rose from The Wicker Man, Diane Cilento:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15211014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcB39PeoZyY

George Baker

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15225021

Al Davis

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-al-davis-20111009,0,3942490.story

^long overdue

David Hess, star of Last House on the Left and The House on the Edge of the Park:

http://www.fearnet.com/news/b24139_rip_actor_david_hess.html

Mikey Welsh, formerly of Weezer:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/09/showbiz/weezer-bassist-dead/

oh jeez

Kenneth Dahlberg, WW2 ace and Nixon fundraiser whose check helped illuminate the Watergate trail:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/us/kenneth-h-dahlberg-watergate-figure-and-wwii-ace-dies-at-94.html

I think you only hear him over the phone in All the President's Men--I believe he's the guy who calls back and harangues Ben Bradlee because he doesn't want it printed that he was having dinner with one of the Post's female reporters.

Frank Kameny, gay rights activist, 86 - died on National Coming Out Day.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/frank-kameny-dies-wasleading-gay-rights-leader/2011/10/11/gIQAIsUwdL_story.html

Dennis Ritchie, one of the creators of Unix and C.

:(

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
printf("goodbye, dennis\n");
return 0;
}

if only we could re-creat dennis. rip

Hopefully his doppelganger initialize-wise ilx poster dmr is still going strong.

RIP the original C-Man, creator of one of many languages I never quite learned properly.

Barbara Kent, 103, actress in silents and early Harold Lloyd talkies

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/movies/barbara-kent-silent-film-star-dies-at-103.html

Gene Kurtz, one-time bassist for Roy Head & The Traits, and co-writer of "Treat Her Right"

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2011/10/gene_kurtz_treat_her_right_co-.php

Barry Feinstein

http://i.imgur.com/tySdS.jpg

Florian Albert, the 1967 winner of the Golden Ball award given to Europe's best football player, has died. He was 70.

Ferencvaros TC, Albert's Hungarian club, said the former striker died early Monday. No cause of death was given, but Albert underwent heart surgery last week.

Albert played 537 matches for Ferencvaros, scoring 383 goals and winning four Hungarian championships. He also played 75 times for Hungary, tallying 31 goals. He took part in the 1962 and 1966 World Cups and won a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympic Games.

Thanks for the Barry Feinstein link. Didn't know the name at all; fantastic body of work.

RIP Florian (xp)

Also didn't know from Barry Feinstein. Thanks.

Gilbert Cates, frequent producer of the Oscars and director of TV and film (I Never Sang for My Father):

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gilbert-cates-dies-255874

man, bubba smith RIP
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-bubbasmith

Leonard Stone, character actor who played Violet Beauregarde’s father in Wonka:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/arts/television/leonard-stone-character-actor-is-dead-at-87.html

"Crash" Collins, legendary Houston FM Rock DJ & Personality

http://www.29-95.com/music/story/sadness-alert-crash-collins-dies

Cynthia Myers, one-time Playmate and also bassist for The Carrie Nations (link NSFW obvs.)

http://blog.mrskin.com/playboy-favorite-and-russ-meyer-girl-cynthia-myers-dies-age-61-pics---14027

film/TV comic perennial Sid Melton, 94:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/arts/television/sid-melton-tv-and-film-actor-dies-at-94.html

Richard Gordon, producer of 'Insemenoid' and many other exploitation pics:

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/newsworldnation/939102-227/richard-gordon-producer-of-horror-and-science.html

Ward Fowler, are you named Ward Fowler after that episode of Columbo where William Shatner played a ham actor called Ward Fowler?

no its complete coincidence.

ok i am really, yes. i've always loved shatner's early gigantic video recorder in that episode, which provides him w his false alibi (and which of course columbo sees right through)

Pure class

are you named Ward Fowler after that episode of Columbo

Ha, I remember seeing that episode and having that exact thought.

Hal Kanter, Golden Age TV writer-director-producer, Emmy winner for The George Gobel Show (which I watched some excerpts of at a klassik komedy party on Sunday, aren't YOU jealous?).

http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/r-i-p-hal-kanter/

Heavy D :(

fucking fuck that sucks so bad

fuckin' love 'now that we've got love', but whenever i hear heavy d's name its phiphe dawg's namecheck on 'butter' that pops into my head rather than any of heavy's tunes...

Bill Keane...

whoa, he was almost 90!?

*looks up age of Marmaduke creator*

no way

TFC was a comic-page warhorse when I was in kindergarten. Schulz would be almost 90 now too.

Feels disrespectful to have his name misspelled here, it was Bill Keane, one l

strikeout hardly visible

Bill

http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc

Mick Anglo, widely held to be the creator and own of Marvelman:

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2011/mick-anglo-1916-2011/

Peter Roebuck
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/current/story/540275.html

Aw, I always relied on him to stir things up a bit during/before big Test series, and he rarely let me down.

suicide apparently, very sad.

Right, I just read the article - that is v sad. A problematic figure in many ways, for many people, including himself by the sounds of it. RIP.

According to a report on the Herald's website, Roebuck "appeared to be in a disturbed state last night" after being spoken to by police, who had removed personal items from his room.

That doesn't sound so good.

Latest word is that he jumped while a police officer was still in the room. Something to do with a load of kids he helped to house in Pietermaritzburg.

Doyle Bramhall Sr., Texas Garage & Blues Legend, co-writer of several key Stevie Ray Vaughan songs, father of Clapton & Waters sideman Doyle Jr., and general all-around Bro

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2011/11/rip_doyle_bramhall_austin_blue.php

RIP Laura Kennedy, bass player for the NYC band Bush Tetras, of early '80s "Too Many Creeps" fame. Discussed on ILM:

Why is there no thread on the Bush Tetras?