Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

let's all have some drinks around the dead pool

whoops, can this be moved to ILE?

The rolling RIP/obituary thread

There's already this thread

the past two years have each gotten their own thread, figured i'd start one for 2k12 as well

Can I have an RIP please, Bob?

eve arnold, first female member of magnum photos who took those famous photos of monroe on the set of 'the misfits', among many other accomplishments:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/eve-arnold-pioneering-photographer-dies-at-99/2012/01/05/gIQAk2kXdP_story.html

(she also made one film, 'behind the veil', a documentary about harems in the UAE. 'sgood)

Tom Ardolino, NRBQ drummer

http://www.nrbq.com/

Tony Blankley. He used to bug me in the '90s when he worked for Gingrich, but I didn't mind him when he reappeared the last couple of years. Amazing thing from the obituary that I never knew: he played Bogart's son in The Harder They Fall.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/08/tony-blankley-conservative-author-dies-at-63/

aw, he was the token right-wing dude on kcrw's left right & center, a pretty mediocre show but he did ok considering the terrible gop positions he had to routinely defend

Frederica Sagor Maas, silent-era screenwriter -- at age 111.

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/frederica-sagor-maas-1900-2012

!

She was something like the fifth or sixth oldest person alive, IIRC.

Architect Ricardo Legorreta

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ricardo-legorreta-20120108,0,3944916.story

aww, i did a project on his pershing square redesign in grad school.

dara greenwald, artist/activist/journalist, at 40 :/

well, a couple of months ago it was kuchar and belson, and now a friend of mine just reported on facebook that robert nelson passed away. dag.

you can see some of his films here:

http://www.ubu.com/film/nelson.html

'bleu shut' is great but this isn't the best quality^

Jesus.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/greek-filmmaker-theo-angelopoulos-killed-in-road-accident/2012/01/24/gIQA4ZBMOQ_story.html

Terrible loss.

still haven't seen any of his films :(

stage acting giant Nicol Williamson, whose best known films are probably Excalibur and Tony Richardson's Hamlet

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/nicol-williamson-1938-2012

RIP. John Osborne called him the greatest actor since Marlon Brando. More impressive than John Osborne though, I have a friend who saw everybody in the 60s and 70s, and generally hasn't got a good word to say about anybody, who says Nicol Williamson's Hamlet at the Roundhouse in 1969 was and is the greatest Hamlet of all time.

... born in Hamilton!

robert hegyes (juan epstein from welcome back kotter)

God, ya took the wrong sweathog

Ian Abercrombie, aka Mr. Pitt from Seinfeld, at 77:

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/01/28/seinfeld-actor-ian-abercrombie-dead-at-77/

Kevin White, 4-term mayor of Boston

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/us/kevin-h-white-82-boston-mayor-during-busing-crisis-dies.html

(what're the odds he'd serve 16 years w/ that name eh)

if u didnt see it in ILM, Don Cornelius of "Soul Train"

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/soul-train-creator-don-cornelius-dead-in-apparent-suicide.html

shit, mike kelley. this is...really unexpected.

http://www.galleristny.com/2012/02/mike-kelley-has-died/

A bad troika today -- add Dorothea Tanning.

http://www.galleristny.com/2012/02/dorothea-tanning-surrealist-painter-and-poet-dies-at-101/

...and Kelley is now being reported as a suicide. Damn.

i know it doesn't mean a lot in terms of larger-known artists and writers and personalities, but Stacy Doris, an amazing poet/writer and incredibly kind, wonderful woman, passed yesterday from cancer complications.

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/702

http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Doris.php

i remember Stacy Doris!

And damn, Mike Kelley, one of my favorites.

Poland Nobel poetry laureate Wislawa Szymborska dies

Muhammad Ali trainer Angelo Dundee dies

... one of those guys you thought had died years ago

Oh, I had no idea that Dorothea Tanning was still alive. That's her and Leonora Carrington passing away in the last few months, must be the last of that whole wave of Surrealists?

*sadmeltingfacewithboobsforeyesorsomething*

ben gazzara

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/movies/ben-gazzara-actor-of-stage-and-screen-dies-at-81.html

aw, rip

so so great

rip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLdyuwqik4Q

;_;

goddamn you.

i speak for the common man here, morbz

ha

The very last quote in that Times obit is amazing.

gonna have to put They All Laughed in the library queue.

It was on HBO once many moons ago when I was home from college on break and in my vegetational state I watched it many times. I don't think overall it was very good but yeah, he and some of the rest of the cast did a good job.

And also, Wild Orchid director Zalman King:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/zalman-king-dies-69-red-shoe-diaries-nine-half-weeks-287000

Which makes me feel horribly shitty for blurbing this only days ago:

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=4893&cpage=1#comment-129068

John Christopher.

That last one makes me sad. The Tripods and Sword of the Spirits trilogies were hugely important to my younger self.

Bill Hinzman, the first onscreen "ghoul" in Night of the Living Dead.

Had no idea that John Christopher was still alive. RIP.

Florence Green, Last World War I Veteran, Dies at 110

just came here to post that. crazy.

RIP keyboardist and arranger to the stars Clare Fischer: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/28/local/la-me-clare-fischer-20120128

A Boy Named Clare

rest in peace, nello ferrara! you were a giant in candyland!

http://chicagoist.com/attachments/chicagoist_chuck/2012_2_7_ferrara_pan_brands.jpg

http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/10477823-418/nello-ferrara-93-invented-lemonheads-saw-macarthur-in-occupied-japan-sang-with-sinatra.html

Tom Dada, I think there is also one in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Well that's Thomas Hardy for you, he has a dude called Jude too

Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty. The character's role was greatly expanded from that in the novel and Kubrick allowed Sellers to adopt a variety of disguises throughout the film. Early on in the film, Quilty appears as himself: a conceited, avant-garde playwright with a superior manner. Later, he disguises himself as various personae. First, he is an inquisitive policeman on the porch of the hotel where Humbert and Lolita are staying. Next he is the intrusive Beardsley High School psychologist, Doctor Zempf, who lurks in Humbert's front room for the purpose of persuading him to give Lolita more freedom in her after-school activities.[2] Later in the film he is an anonymous phone caller conducting a survey

... but always he is a self-indulgent actor ruining a perfectly good film

^blech

Peter Breck of TV's "Big Valley" and Fuller's Shock Corridor:

http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/peter-breck-the-big-valley/

David Kelly, quintessentially feckless rogue and charmer, renowned Beckett/stage performer and the recipient of the finest umbrella hits in tv history

And walking Oirish hate-crime, never too busy to rubbish up any production with the same wince-inducing character over and over and over again.

a gig's a gig

"Oh, he didn't just have the one arm then?"

He was only following orders the script, yes.

RIP Mr. Kelly

RIP, John Severin.

http://www.comicsbeat.com/2012/02/14/rip-john-severin/

RIP Dory Previn, at 86.

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/music/valley-of-dolls-co-composer-previn-shannon-dies/article_0ed4dd5b-e7d7-5b62-adfa-4a8bf6364d10.html

oh man john severin. total boyhood hero.

Yeah, one of my alltime favorites. I thought I'd posted here earlier today, but that was during one of today's internet outages. Anyway, it took a great talent to make Herb Trimpe look good.

Aw, Dory Previn :(

rip albert riddle

lillian bassman

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/07/16/arts/28993805.JPG

Rip miss Bassman :'-(

Was a huge fan of Severin- didn't he sometimes use the name "O O Severin," which I guess I just realized thirty something years later is a play on "007." In avant-ILX times I thought about doing "TS: Mort Drucker vs. John Severin." RIP everybody.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/york-nightlife-fixture-zelda-kaplan-dies-a-fashion-week-article-1.1023306

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-a-new-york-times-reporter-dies-in-syria.html?_r=1&hp

character actor Phil Bruns, best known as Mary Hartman's dad

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/159631-Phil-Bruns-Stage-and-Television-Actor-Dies-at-80

original morty seinfeld too

I have strong memory of seeing an episode of Mary H in which she is distraught over her marital problems and has no one to turn to so she calls her dad. He tells her he has been watching a Claudette Colbert movie on TV that he has never seen the end of and if he doesn't watch it now he will never get a chance to see how it turns out. Mary hangs up and endures her troubles in silence, alone. RIP.

Dick Anthony Williams, Tony-nominated actor whose film roles included The Mack, Dog Day Afternoon, The Jerk, and Malcolm X on stage and in TV's "King" miniseries

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/theater/dick-anthony-williams-actor-and-producer-dies-at-77.html

RIP Frank Carson :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17046201

:((((

RIP

Wrecking Crew session man Billy Strange

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2012/02/billy-strange-1930-2012.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/arts/jan-berenstain-dies-at-88-created-berenstain-bears.html?_r=1

This is a weird one. Neil Hope, who played "Wheels" on the original "Degrassi Junior High" series in the 80s, apparently died in 2007 at the age of 35, but his death was just revealed publicly.

Erland Josephson, of Bergman films and Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-0227-erland-josephson-20120227,0,6567412.story

longtime NY theatre critic Howard Kissel

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/howard-kissel-long-time-daily-news-theater-critic-dead-69-article-1.1028518

Davy Jones of the Monkees.

WTF? wow!

My wife, who is a Monkees superfan, texted me about 10 minutes ago, so I went to find the link.

My first crush :(

(My first non-human crush was Fred from Scooby Doo, Davy was my first human crush)

so sudden
RIP

My sister was a Monkees superfan from back when MTV would air Monkees reruns, she will be crushed.

Holy shit!

Bruce Surtees, cinematographer on Lenny, The Shootist, Dirty Harry, and many other Eastwood films:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bruce-surtees-20120301,0,7713839.story

Andrew Breitbart:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46588600

Breitbart.

Gawker:

Breitbart was 43 years old. His last tweet came just seven hours ago.

boil lanced

Yeah, it's hard to mourn a total dick.

drudgesiren.rip

really wish he had dropped in the middle of that "Behave yourselves" meltdown

counting it as a notch for OWS anyway

That last tweet, his legacy to the world:

AndrewBreitbart ‏ @AndrewBreitbart

I called you a putz cause I thought you were being intentionally disingenuous. If not I apologize. @CenLamar @dust92

^^Tombstone

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/arts/design/eleanor-callahan-photographic-muse-for-harry-callahan-dies-at-95.html

You can see photos of her when she was younger in the exhibit of her husband's photos at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC through Sunday March 4. A nice exhibit

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/callahaninfo.shtm

peace out breitbart, you won't be missed

lucio dalla, who wrote some music for antonioni and monicelli films and is overall a national treasure in italy

http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-01/ae/31114450_1_italian-song-mario-monicelli-italian-singer

also this song is a jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2_iQihFWY

Artist Ralph McQuarrie, who almost single handedly designed what we think of as the look of the Star Wars universe. Not many artists who have their own action figure.

http://www.starwars.com/news/ralph_mcquarrie_remembered.html

RIP, Ronnie Montrose.

http://ronniemontrose.com/

Hollywood character actress Martha Stewart, 89, of Daisy Kenyon, In a Lonely Place

Robert Sherman! :(

ie co-songwriter of Mary Poppins, not teen idol Bobby

Jungle Book, too, among many others.

I'll even forgive him for "It's a Small World," a plague upon the earth

Ravi—http://ibnlive.in.com/news/noted-musician-ravi-dies-at-85/237097-8.html

New Delhi: Noted musician Ravi Shankar Sharma, popularly known as Ravi, died today at the age of 85 after prolonged illness. The musician was born in Delhi on March 3, 1926.

One of the gifted musicians of the Hindi film industry, Ravi never had any formal training in music. He shifted to Mumbai in 1950 and got his first break in 1952 film 'Anand Math'. Soon his name started to feature among respected musicians. Films such as 'Chaudhvin Ka Chand' (1960), 'Do Badan' (1966), 'Humraaz' (1967), 'Ankhen' (1968), and 'Nikaah' (1982) won his critical as well as commercial success.

holy shit

note: this isn't Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar. This is the other Ravi Shankar, aka Ravi.

My prayers are with the other Norah Jones.

(Sorry.)

lol

Leslie Cochran, legendary Austin Texas Weirdo

damn, that guy was all over South Congress Ave when I was there 3 years ago.

Jimmy Ellis of the Trammps

Just read that Peter Bergman of the Firesign Theater has died (leukemia).

oh no!

RIP, Mr. Bergman.

Yeah I'm hearing about this as well.

fuck fuck fuck

RIP

Confirmed:

https://www.facebook.com/philip.proctor2/posts/10150620086438752

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150673823910209&id=282668140208

Aw, no. :(

Leonardo Cimino, Obie-winning actor whose films included Moonstruck, Dune, Stardust Memories:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/arts/leonardo-cimino-a-distinctive-actor-dies-at-94.html

Oh bummer. Remember him from V and Moonstruck :(

Yeah, always good to see him pop up in something. That's one long life lived!

And a Normandy landing to boot. That's quite an innings.

Moebius/Jean Giraud

Geez, two of the great sci-fi illustrators of all time in two weeks. ;_;

http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/news/2012/03/david-doernberg-1967-2012/

Production designer David Doernberg, who brought a sensitive, finely crafted and observant touch to many excellent independent films, died in New York on Friday after a battle with cancer.

Doernberg began his career in the late ’80s/early ’90s working on music videos for bands like Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and Superchunk. He quickly moved into independent features as a propmaster for films by Hal Hartley (Amateur), Daisy von Scherler Mayer (Party Girl) and Eric Schaeffer (If Lucy Fell). Soon after he became a production designer, bookending his career with films by Kelly Reichardt. He designed her 1994 debut film, River of Grass as well as her 2010 period tale of frontier life on the Oregon Trail, Meek’s Cutoff. Other notable credits include Phil Morrison’s Junebug, Alison Maclean’s Jesus’s Son, Morgan J. Freeman’s Desert Blue, Todd Solondz’s Palindromes and Pete Sollett’s Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.

I was just looking at Leonard Cimino's imdb entry Friday because he was on a Law and Order rerun.

Bugs Henderson of Mouse & the Traps:

http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/10/3800606/bugs-henderson-local-blues-guitar.html

For me, the funniest garage record ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obRy59b21TU

Wow, RIP. Didn't know he was sick.

The story behind "A Public Execution" is pretty funny, and rather Texan. Ronnie "Mouse" Weiss was engaged to this girl who'd moved from Tyler down to Houston. One weekend Weiss' had some cousins from West Texas come in for a visit. One of the cousins was a pretty teenage girl who was seen (near a Dairy Queen or something) riding around with Mouse on his motorcycle (or "two-wheeled pony") by a friend of the fiance. The friend called her up and she wrote Mouse an angry letter ending their relationship.

He wrote the song as a response to the letter, intending to just record it and send her the tape. His producer, Robin Hood Brians, talked him into working it up into the garage standard (and charter Nuggets inclusion) we all know and love today.

Mouse and The Traps actually had a pretty solid and stylistically varied body of work. Big Beat did a real nice comp, The Fraternity Years, back in the 90s.

Tom Murrin, The Alien Comic

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/13/rip-the-alien-comic_n_1341225.html

RIP, Mouse & the Traps guy

The friend called her up and she wrote Mouse an angry letter ending their relationship. He wrote the song as a response to the letter, intending to just record it and send her the tape.

I feel like "Mouse retreated to his room, dropped acid, and listened to nothing but 'Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?' for two whole weeks" ought to be inserted between those two sentences.

Was-he-or-wasn't-he convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk. His case caused no end of grief among Cleveland's German, Polish, Slovak and Jewish communities.

OMG no way, he's finally dead?!

do not RIP if you are Ivan the Terrible; RIP if this has all been a huge mistake

and i mean HUGE

yeah, his trials have dominated Cleveland news...my whole life?

Richest guy in Thailand and co-founder of Red Bull.

Ulu Grosbard, director of theatre (American Buffalo) and film (Straight Time, True Confessions)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/arts/music/ulu-grosbard-broadway-and-film-director-dies-at-83.html

Tonino Guerra, screenwriter for Antonioni, Fellini, Angelopoulos, Tarkovsky, Rosi

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/tonino-guerra-1920-2012

as mentioned by aero elsewhere, boxing writer Bert Sugar -- would not have guessed he was 'only' 75:

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/story/_/id/7736006/acclaimed-boxing-writer-bert-sugar-dies-cardiac-arrest-75

Just saw that Ulu Grossbard RIP now. Ah well, RIP.

Hilton Kramer:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/arts/design/hilton-kramer-critic-who-championed-modernism-dies-at-84.html?_r=1&ref=arts

adrienne rich, 82

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2012/03/adrienne-rich.html

really enjoyed the handful of poems of hers i've read, have always meant to investigate her further

oh college lit classes, sigh I loved her for a shining period in my life

v sad

http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm

http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2012/03/28/earl-scruggs-country-music-hall-of-famer-dies-at-age-88/

oh fuck earl scruggs was a titan. rest easy world-changingly great picker.

oh no

I saw him at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass a few years back, he was wonderful

Rich's gazahls are great.

Scruggs and Rich, jammin' in Heaven, I hope.

Was suprised by Adrienne Rich, didnt know she was still with us!

Southern novelist Harry Crews.

Oh booooo that sucks!

Nancy L. Earp, 911 operator who may have talked to the Zodiac killer.

Warren Stevens, character actor who played Doc Ostrow in Forbidden Planet

http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/9036/forbidden-planets-warren-stevens-dies-at-92.html

Sorry for your loss, Dr. Morbius.

according to a FB friend, jamaa fanaka passed away (can't find any obits yet tho) - i missed his films in the LA rebellion screening series that just happened here but 'penitentiary' and 'welcome home, brother charles' are considered blaxploitation classics

RIP NY Cosmos and Lazio legend Giorgio Chinaglia

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, designer of the Porsche 911

Luke Askew Acording to his wiki, he passed on March 30th.

Gil Noble

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/business/media/gil-noble-host-of-show-on-black-issues-dies-at-80.html?ref=nyregion

James Marshall, guy who developed those stacked amplifiers

RIP. But the former WFMU dj of the same name seems to still be going strong

Thomas Kinkade painter of shite light.

Placerville fellow, just up the hill from Sacramento. Heaven will be full of little candles and Christmas scenes.

Mothers and grandmothers everywhere will mourn.

Jigsaw puzzles at half-mast

end of an era

Mike Wallace!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qRyTDbEskM

i'm glad we now recognize bullshit movies as the highest posthumous truth

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, designer of the Porsche 911

― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, April 5, 2012 12:02 PM (3 days ago)

http://i.imgur.com/QgNEm.gif

http://www.texasdude.com/9-11-01/trade%20center%20eagel.jpg

xpost Wait, I thought you never saw "The Insider," you doofus.

Anyway, I always wondered what Mike Wallace thought of a characterization that simultaneously lionized him as a journalistic badass and a cynical, self-interested sell-out.

dunno where u got that idea; I saw the bipartite Mann hunks-in-gray-hair crapfests

Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore computers and Auschwitz survivor
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/04/09/computer-legend-and-gaming-pioneer-jack-tramiel-dies-at-age-83/

Raymond Aubrac, French resistance hero

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2012/04/11/01016-20120411ARTFIG00516-raymond-aubrac-mort-d-une-figure-de-la-resistance.php

He was pals with Hô Chi Minh and was an official interlocutor between him and Kissinger.

Effing heck, even Le Fig wants me to download a sodding app these days

William Finley, aka Brian De Palma's Phantom:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/in-memory-of-star-william-finley-1942-2012-5-things-you-might-not-know-about-phantom-of-the-paradise-20120416

Paul Bogart, TV director of All in the Family, Get Smart, The Defenders

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/arts/television/paul-bogart-tv-director-dies-at-92.html

Oh, wow, William Finley. Outside of DePalma's work, that dude ate more scenery than any other actor in history on Tobe Hooper's "Eaten Alive."

dick clark
http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/18/dick-clark-dead-heart-attack/#.T48aR9klfIV

Byliner ‏ @TheByliner Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Many apologies for the incorrect news about Dick Cheney. Of course it is Dick CLARK who just died. Sorry for dropping the ball on that.

lol, but also ;_; @ not true

I'm sure that, on balance, Clark contributed a lot to the history of pop. The one thing I always held against him was the way he emerged from the payola scandal of the early '60s untouched, while Alan Freed took the fall.

millions of lazy sitcom writers mourn the passing of their laziest go to old person joke

betty white died?

Dick Clark just HAD to die in 2012. Fuck, maybe the Mayans were right!

Chuck Colson, Nixon-admin detritus. Good fucking riddance.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57418411-503544/former-nixon-aide-chuck-colson-dies-at-80/

Watergate Club in hell nearly complete

Don't have a link yet, but the Gram Parsons page on FB is reporting that Chris Etheridge has died.

can't find an obit yet but amos vogel reportedly passed away this morning. 'film as a subversive art' was key to my film-fan development (i own 2 copies)

more on Vogel... I don't think I've ever seen or heard much about that book. :(

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/amos-vogel-1921-2012

it should be in print now (i managed to get a copy off the street from one of the back-of-the-truck booksellers in front of NYU when it wasn't)

Pete Fornatale, pioneering deejay at WNEW-FM

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/arts/music/pete-fornatale-a-pioneer-of-fm-rock-dies-at-66.html

david weiss of fischli/weiss

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/news/2012-04-27/david-weiss-of-fischliweiss-has-died/

This guy was probably going to win Olympic gold this year. :(

http://espn.go.com/olympics/swimming/story/_/id/7876459/swimming-world-champ-alexander-dale-oen-norway-dies-arizona-26

"Skip" Pitts, guitarist on the Isleys' "It's Your Thing" and Hayes' "Theme from Shaft".

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/may/01/stax-music-great-charles-skip-pitts-dies/

Don't know if this was noted elsewhere, but Greg Ham, sax/flute player for Men At Work, died a few days ago.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/greg-ham-dies-found-dead-men-at-work-flute-player-314266

"Skip" Pitts? Oh no. RIP

Oh man, RIP Junior Seau.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/sports/football/junior-seau-famed-nfl-linebacker-dies-at-43-in-apparent-suicide.html?_r=1&hp#

oh, as usual I didn't find the other thread: nfl offseason transactions, fired coaches, general nonsense 2012

whoa fuck!

Adam Yauch...

George Lindsey aka Goober Pyle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blQrIySidOA

funnier than Gomer IMO

Absolutely.

RIP Meow

Alligator Records says Arkansas bluesman Michael "Iron Man" Burks has died after collapsing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He was 54.

The record label says Burks collapsed Sunday after returning from a European tour. He was pronounced dead at an Atlanta hospital. A spokesman for the record label says Burks died of a heart attack.

Maurice Sendak ;_;

Damn. RIP, Maurice.

oh no

if you don't look good (or if you do), he don't look good

http://thelook.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/09/11621751-famed-hairstylist-vidal-sassoon-dead-at-age-84?lite

http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons1/300/3001837/14_2009/1a/Vidal_Sassoon.jpg

"You didn't pay them for that, did you?"

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/pixel.gif

actress Joyce Redman, best remembered for her Tom Jones eating sceme with Albert Finney.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18013687

Mort Lindsey, bandleader of Judy at Carnegie Hall and The Merv Griffin Show:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/arts/music/mort-lindsey-musical-director-dies-at-89.html

Carroll Shelby, racer and car builder

Thought he'd already died. Hm.

well, he's dead now.

Perhaps more to the point, I finally get onto the Dead Pool scoreboard.

Filipino comics artist Tony DeZuniga -- http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/05/10/tony-dezuniga-r-i-p/

Donald "Duck" Dunn, Stax legend, bass player for Booker T & The MGs

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/cropper.jpg

Oh holy shit noooooo

:((((((
tried in vain to find the scene from blues bros where he says "[incomprehensible garble] to go piss on some gasoline" or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBnLgNmB1eM

you are a star

"We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline."

An amazing bass player and a fantastic guy. If you only know the Blues Brothers, go here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/32187

:(

ah hell. RIP Duck Dunn.

didn't see the talk here before i started a thread. well, he deserves his own.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/chuck-brown-dies-the-godfather-of-go-go-was-75/2012/05/16/gIQAJAfPUU_story_1.html

RIP Godfather of Go-go Chuck Brown. Will treasure your gogo and your jazz sounds and your warm presentation

Hailed as the President of DC in today's Washington Post

wouldn't argue with that at all.

Donna Summer

Donna Summer! Holy Shit.

http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/17/11745326-donna-summer-dead-at-63

:(

Carlos Fuentes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18081034

RIP, Carlos

And RIP, Donna Summer. Man, Booker T was right.

from wfmu's twitter stream:

Pete Seeger, Iconic Songwriter, Found Resting Under Tree Near NY Home: 93Yr-Old Folk Legend Was Serene, Tranquil

so far that's the only mention i've seen. i hope it doesn't mean what i think it means.

Sure it wasn't the Onion?

nonononono

yeah I hope that's doesn't mean what I think it means either

WFMU ‏@WFMU
@clemmusic No, Pete Seeger was just resting. Hes 93, but for the most part he is perfectly OK. Some rheumatism. A bit of arthritis.

thank goodness

strange thing to report tho? "pete seeger still alive, napping"

A variation of the old SNL Franco bit

German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Never really got into the Rock And Roll Heaven iconography genre but if somebody made one of those with Duck Dunn, Andrew Love, Levon Helm, Skip Pitts and Donna Summer I would totally use it as a screensaver.

Robin Gibb, apparently.
I loved the Bee Gees when I was young :(

:(
Remove bookmark from this thread

noooooo

I guess we can take comfort in the fact that Spin has provided us with a long list of best guitarists, most of whom won't be going anywhere anytime soon

"Jam Master Jay still . . . lives"

aww RIP

Score score

what a month

It won't be long before Otis Redding will able to record some new material on Stax Celestial.

RIP Led Zeppelin II
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-talk-led-zeppelin-ii-dies-0524-20120523,0,1108232.story

Love this:

"Since I became Led Zeppelin, my life has improved a thousand fold."

Fuck it. I'm changing my name to In A Silent Way.

Pathos and lols all at once:

The 64-year-old Zeppelin "climbed the 'Stairway to Heaven'" May 18 at Alton Memorial Hospital, according to a death notice published in newspapers, including the Tribune. He died of a heart attack, his daughter said.

"I don't want to appear to be some off-the-wall, drug-addict idiot. I just changed my name from the standpoint that I can be a better person than I used to be."

i think i actually have a lot of respect for that guy

No I do not want to meet your friend named In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, I'm fairly certain I won't like him.

Survived by his wife Custard Pie

after reading that article I have formed a short mental list of friends of mine who might be convinced to change their name to "Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game"

As of today you can all refer to me as Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.

can i call you HOTS for short?

sure

"If he'd become Sabbath Bloody Sabbath instead, he'd have lived to 200" muses Bill Magill

But then his soul would belong to Satan.

worth it imo

Hal Jackson, radio personality of 70+ years including pioneering stints at WABC and WBLS, at 96:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/hal-jackson-pioneer-black-radio-dies-96-article-1.1083551

paul fussell

“From the 1950s on,” he wrote in “Doing Battle,” “my presiding emotion was annoyance, often intensifying to virtually disabling anger.”

Patron saint of IA thread?

Somewhere I have Class and BAD. Or at least, I did.

x-post from the Hal Jackson obit:

"Born in Charleston, S.C., Jackson grew up loving sports and school. He attended Howard University and made his way onto WINX by finding a white company to sponsor him and not telling the station owner who the announcer would be."

Is there an opposite of a RIP thread? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18219795

Filmmaker Kaneto Shindo (at 100), director of ILX fave Onibaba

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-kaneto-shindo-1912-2012/

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m527a9FJ0y1qz6f9yo1_r3_500.jpg

rip

RIP Eduard "Mr Trololo" Khil.

Dag

Ray Bradbury

Mars is heaven. RIP

Has own RIP thread: R.I.P. Ray Bradbury

i always think it's weird when people post really famous RIPs on this thread when it's pretty certain they're going to get a dedicated RIP thread. or is this thread just supposed to be a comprehensive list of dead celebs? i guess i don't understand what this thread is for.

Thought it was for people who might not be well-known for their own thread but could also be used to announce and link to standalone threads for more famous persons.

announce the passing of

also it's a handy one-stop REMINDER OF OUR OWN MORTALITY

ha, exactly.

RIP Bob Welch formerly of Fleetwood Mac. Shotgun suicide.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18363214

already discussion of this on his thread.

Oops, only just popped on the Beeb, hadn't heard.

A week late w/this, but:

Cinematographer Chris Challis (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Arabesque, Genevieve, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Top Secret! etc)

^Two major car films there

Didn't he understudy with Jack Cardiff or shoot some of his films when Jack turned director?

Wait, he shot The Small Black Room! RIP http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/Challis/Challis01.html

Of course I mean The Small Back Room.

Frank Cady

http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/obituaries/obituary-jan-fairley-writer-broadcaster-lecturer-1-2348562

ethnomusicologist and writer

Actress Ann Rutherford: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gone-wind-ann-rutherford-dead-336296

wiseguy Henry Hill

http://www.examiner.com/article/mobster-henry-hill-dead-at-69-heart-gave-out-over-unknown-illness

and as posted in the boxing thread, 3-time Olympic heavyweight boxing champ Teofilo Stevenson

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-teofilo-stevenson-20120612,0,308275.story

Rodney King

RIP, of course, my minds just elsewhere.

Just saw this, Drowned in his pool.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/us/obit-rodney-king/index.html

Victor Spinetti

and

Brian Hibbard

Not a good week to be Welsh and have cancer.

Had no idea that guy had a career outside of the Flying Pickets. RIP sideburns man.

Was just coming to post Victor Spinetti :(

His stage career saw him win a Tony award for his Broadway performance in Oh, What a Lovely War!, as well as co-starring with Jack Klugman when The Odd Couple toured London.

Hosni Mubarak according to BBC Newsnight. Not sure he deserves his own thread, but he was very powerful for a very long time.

Yeah, Reuters saying he's "clinically dead"

...after having a stroke in prison

B-movie/TV actor Richard Lynch, beloved by MST3K fans for Werewolf, best known to most other people maybe from The Sword and the Sorcerer?

More notably, Andrew Sarris/

Don Grady--Robbie on My Three Sons.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/r-i-p-don-grady/

Chip and Ernie, very much alive.

Doris Singleton from "I Love Lucy".

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/-i-love-lucy--star-doris-singleton-dies.html

Don't think anyone posted this before, and I can't find a thread for The Peanuts, but Emi Ito on June 15th: http://english.kyodonews.jp/photos/2012/06/166252.html

http://www.laopinion.com/article/20120702/ENTRETENIMIENTO/120709982/-1/ENTRETENIMIENTO

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/NiLP-FYI--The-Passing-of-Yomo.html?soid=1101040629095&aid=UCI59BzK6YU

Who Will Be Playing Yomo Toro In The Soon-To-Be-Released Hector Lavoe Biopic El Cantante?

Great Puerto Rican Cuatro player Yomo Toro RIP

andy griffith

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/07/andy-griffith-dies-at-age-86/1#.T_MBtlGhDzI

Aw. A Face in the Crowd will always be one of my favorite movies.

Aww, RIP

sad.RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxLxTZHKM8

I totally missed hearing of Frank Cady's death a month ago. So used to seeing him as kindly Sam Drucker as a kid, so it was a weird moment when I first watched The Bad Seed; his small performance as Mr. Daigle alongside grieving Eileen Heckart is minor, but moving.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101016125260/simpsons/images/0/00/Matlock_expressway.png

After Mayberry and A Face in the Crowd, I most associate Andy Griffith with Go Ask Alice.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/JMM3X3hqj3w/0.jpg

In the 60s and 70s, the Andy Griffith Show was one of the few positive portrayals of the South we got to see on TV. A cloying, one-dimensional South, true, but a gentle one, with recognizable similarities to where we lived. RIP.

in honor of Andy Griffith
http://www.undergroundcomixart.com/drawings/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1321&g2_serialNumber=2
http://www.undergroundcomixart.com/drawings/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1325&g2_serialNumber=2

what the fuck is that shit?

anyone left besides jim nabors?

there's this goofy bald guy that makes movies now, maybe you've heard of him

"that shit" is work by artist Drew Friedman. From an early RAW, I think.

ffs xxxxp

RIP

lol Shakey

That was Friedman's first comics work!

RIP car designer Sergio Pininfarina

The world of automotive design has lost another great. Sergio Pininfarina – the honorary chairman of the Pininfarina Group that bears his family name – passed away last night at age 85.

Sergio took control of Pininfarina as chairman back in 1966 after his father, Gian Battista 'Pinin' Farina, passed away. He would hold this role until transitioning to honorary chairman in 2006.

Over his tenure, his Pininfarina firm worked on design projects for everyone from Alfa Romeo to Chevrolet to Bentley and Volvo, but he is perhaps most known for his work for Ferrari and Maserati. No stranger to edgy aesthetics, Pininfarina presided over designs like the 2002 Ferrari Enzo and the 1984 Ferrari Testarossa before it. Conversely, he was also responsible for some beautifully simple forms, including the lauded 1996 Peugeot 406 Coupe and 2003 Maserati Quattroporte.

My grandfather wanted a specific Andy Griffith gospel song played at his funeral, and all we could find was a medley of AG songs that contained the requested song therein, so at his funeral, we all sat and listened to a ten-minute medley of Andy Griffith's greatest gospel hits, which was not unlike living in morbid, surreal sketch comedy skit.

Anyway, RIP, dude. Your TV show used to bore me to tears as a kid, but my grandfather liked you a lot.

Was shocked to see a mid-90s (likely non-US-compliant) Alfa Spyder the other day. I thought, "How come no one designs cars like that anymore?" RIP.

xp

RIP andy g have fun chilling in heaven w/ don knotts

a face in the crowd is so good.

r.i.p.
http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/bastardang/1160825688/1/tumblr_l929joFvh91qzc4ea

sing him off, fellas

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p34LFnMKyhs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3NdEEKZz7I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVU8Tz2xmAQ

Eric Sykes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18704263

:(

http://www.art247.com/images/large/MIRRORPIX/WA/WA447350.jpg

"The plank itself was sold at auction on Monday 5 December 2011 for £1050."

aw.

if you're reading, BBC4, and you haven't already done so then we'll be fine without a gritty docudrama about his life cheers

but an evening of his best bits would be luverly thanks

The "Sykes" show is kinda terrible when you see it now - though maybe it was better in the 60s - but what a great guy and great talent RIP

oh yeah, they show it on itv4 or summat like that don't they - watched one a few weeks back where sykes ate cheese and had a nightmare he and hattie were mice. pretty trippy in a grim low budget way...

http://distilleryimage6.s3.amazonaws.com/20d8f76ea3f611e180d51231380fcd7e_7.jpg

"Tellytubbies!!!"

RIP ernest borgnine, age 95.

yeah

rip big man, probably worth a thread

I had just stumbled over this earlier today:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oUjmZeacI3I/ShVkZR_Qc7I/AAAAAAAABKs/w9gMsSgFNRE/s400/ebpark1.jpg

I associate him with The Poseidon Adventure more than anything else, even though I know he made more famous films. He was just always there.

I still associate him with McHale's Navy more than anything else

(2nd, killing Sinatra)

RIP EB.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/borgnine.jpg

He was married to both Katy Jurado and Ethel Merman, iirc. Not sure of any other spouses, I guess I'll find out now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sByx33TUGZU

"He was married to both Katy Jurado and Ethel Merman, iirc. Not sure of any other spouses, I guess I'll find out now."

tova! guess you didn't used to read the national enquirer.

Morbius is right, how could I forget--he's really scary in From Here to Eternity.

"My Linda! Ya killed her! The only thing I ever loved!"

xp

RIP Mermaid Man ;_;

Tova was on QVC just the other day.

Because of my age, I'll forever associate Borgnine with Airwolf. I've seen him in a lot of other things at this point, but I saw him co-piloting a super helicopter first.

jesus, i LOVED that dopey supercop movie balls linked to up there, as a kid.

Borgnine was in a LOT of great shit, kinda bummed he hasn't gotten his own RIP thread. :(

anyway RIP Ernie

You have the power.

For me he's forever linked to The Poseidon Adventure, a flick which continues to unnerve me deeply to this day.

My nextmost vivid memories of Borgnine aside from The Poseidon Adventure are Disney's The Black Hole and Escape From New York. And, of course:

http://www.oocities.org/per100s/gueststars/borgnine.gif

He really did it all.

(I'll wait for Ned to bring up Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders.)

Ernest Borgnine on the Bus (doc made by my pal who did Heavy Metal Parking Lot)

http://www.wtop.com/541/2936049/Ernest-Borgnine-almost-reality-show-star

Lol Coxhill:
http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/news-mainmenu-139/69-2012/12425-jazz-breaking-news-saxophonist-lol-coxhill-dies-age-79

http://www.theshed.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/skip_sax_shed_2.jpg

aw

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FXmTwKZmSts/TI-12246NyI/AAAAAAAACHM/pHyOJnB8GOI/s1600/coxhill.jpg

Last time I saw him play was when he opened for John Fahey at the QE Hall; now they're both gone...

http://www.morgan-fisher.com/miniatures/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/M1-18sm.jpg
http://www.morgan-fisher.com/miniatures/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/m1-18.jpg

very :-(

RIP Lol - have esp fond memories of seeing him and Billy Jenkins play for free in a park in London one Sunny day

Poss. Lol (RIP) needs thread of his own on ILM?

go for it

documentarian/professor george stoney (never took one of his classes but i think he was teaching right up until the end tho)

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/13/headlines/community_media_pioneer_george_stoney_dies_at_96

Richard Zanuck

sage stallone!

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/screencrush.com/files/2012/07/sage-stallone-dead1.jpg

feel bad for rocky :(

what a mug

survived by his brother, seargeoh

aka seth stallone

sage looks more like travolta imo

celeste holm : (

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/15/156810156/oklahoma-actress-celeste-holm-dies-at-95

Jon Lord of Deep Purple.

http://www.nme.com/news/deep-purple/64953

RIP, Jon.

Oh man. Will put on Child In Time next.

Man, Jon Lord, Sobol, and Funk Brother Bob Babbitt. What a day.

Here is link to Bob Babbitt obit:
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120716/ENT09/207160405/1361/Motown-bassist-and-Funk-Brother-Bob-Babbitt-dies-at-74

Stephen Covey author of that shitty book that all the MBAs read. No, the other one.

Kitty Wells

Isuzu Yamada

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/movies/isuzu-yamada-actress-who-worked-with-kurosawa-dies-at-95.html?_r=1&ref=movies

Here is link to Bob Babbitt obit:

Very sad. Only a few Funk Brothers left.

dennis from the frogs died - has this been on here yet? http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2012/07/09/dennis-flemion/

Here you go stevie:

The Frogs. (Edit -- Dennis Flemion RIP)

thanks nick!

also - WILLIAM ASHER!!!

RIP Stephen R. Covey, people were always after your book. Our copy never got returned.

RIP first Blade Runner (Holden) Morgan Paull

Robert Creamer:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/baseball/mlb/07/19/robert-creamer-walter-bingham/index.html?sct=mlb_t12_a0

His Ruth and Stengel biographies are two of my favourite baseball books; the long segment in Baseball where he describes Jackie Robinson walking and then going on to score a run is a highlight.

yeah, those books are essential.

Tom Davis!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/arts/television/tom-davis-saturday-night-live-comedy-writer-dies-at-59.html

I knew Davis had been ill a long while (Dennis Perrin met up with him several times recently).

Search: Franken & Davis sketch of candidate ads sliming each other.

;_;

his autobiography is a really great read

The good news: my chemotherapy is working and I’m still buying green bananas.

The bad news: two years ago, before we knew it as MDD (Michael Douglas Disease), I was diagnosed with tonsorial squamous cell carcinoma, a/k/a head and neck cancer. After surgery, I elected to go with radiation therapy sans complementary chemo, which was probably a big mistake. The malignancy unexpectedly spread to the bones of my pelvis and lower spine, where it has been munching away without thought of its host’s well-being. It’s now described as “exotic and aggressive,” but it’s getting its cancerous ass kicked by taxotere, a drug that imitates the chemistry of the European Yew tree. Made in China, of course. I’ll be using it, or a related drug “for the rest of my life,” which could be as long as two more high-quality-of-life years. I’d be thrilled with that.

There are side effects, the two weirdest being a “recall effect,” in which radiation sores reappear, and neuropathy in my fingernails, which are in the unpleasant process of falling off. Ow. I’ve lost hair from all over my body. With only a little bit of white fluff on my head, I visited my mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease in Minneapolis.

“Now I want you to take all your medicine and your hair will grow back,” she said cheerfully. “I think you look a little like that bird Woodstock in Peanuts.” I’ll take that; better than Uncle Fester.

My old comedy partner (Senator) Al Franken, volunteered to draw my hair back on with a magic marker, which would be funny for about two days. We’re planning to write something for him to read once I de-animate, the final Franken and Davis piece. We’ll see. Typically, we would wait until the last minute.

I’ve lost about 50 pounds. (I needed to lose 49.) It’s great to wear jeans from the 70s, although I remember making a few people laugh when I said I would save them in case I got cancer. Once, in the early eighties, Franken and Davis appeared on the David Letterman Show as “The Comedy Team that Weighs the Same,” a piece so stupid it was really funny. We dressed in bathrobes and Speedos for the final weigh-in on a huge scale. David asked if any other comedy team had weighed the same, and I said “Laurel and Hardy, but only near the end of Ollie’s life,” which got a good groan laugh. Maybe I tempted fate a little too often.

My grocer at the Claverack Market, Ted the Elder, recently asked if I had heard that there are two stages in life: “youth,” and “you look great.” Wish I’d thought of that.

Several close friends have asked if I was aware of alternative medicines, therapies, protocols, doctors, clinics, and books. One offered personal testimony. His colon cancer was supposed to have killed him several years ago. He attributes his survival to an exclusive diet of blueberry smoothies.

My fear is not death; my fear is spending my last years slurping blueberry, whey and soy powder shakes in a rock star hospital in Houston, surrounded by strangers. No.

My daily regimen begins with half a medical marijuana cookie in my oatmeal,
and ends with dinner at a fancy restaurant with friends or family. And before bed, ice cream.

False hope is my enemy, also self pity, which went out the window when I saw children with cancer. I try to embrace the inevitable with whatever grace I can muster, and find the joy in each day. I’ve always been good at that, but now I’m getting really good at it.

Before I was diagnosed, I was also good at getting high recreationally. “Pain management” is another ballgame, the goal being to recreate the feeling of “wellness,” while minimizing the side effects of taxotere. My extensive past experience enables me to fine tune my protocol. These days I get my marijuana through airport security by hiding it in the morphine.

I wake up in the morning, delighted to be waking up, read, write, feed the birds, watch sports on TV, accepting the fact that in the foreseeable future I will be a dead person. I want to remind you that dead people are people too. There are good dead people and bad dead people. Some of my best friends are dead people. Dead people have fought in every war. We’re all going to try it sometime. Fortunately for me, I have always enjoyed mystery and solitude.

Many people in my situation say, “It’s been my worst and best year.” If that sounds like a cliché, you don’t have cancer. On the plus side, I am grateful to have gained real, not just intellectual empathy. I was prepared to go through life without having suffered, and I was doing a good job of it. Now I know what it’s like to starve. And to accept “that over which I have no control,” I had to turn inward. People from all over my life are reconnecting with me, and I’ve tried to take responsibility for my deeds, good and bad. As my friend Timothy Leary said in his book, Death by Design, “Even if you’ve been a complete slob your whole life, if you can end the last act with panache, that’s what they’ll remember.”

I think I’ve finally grown up.

It is odd to have so much time to orchestrate the process of my own death. I’m improvising. I’ve never done this before, so far as I know. Ironically, I probably will outlive one or two people to whom I’ve already said goodbye. My life has been rife with irony; why stop now?

As an old-school Malthusian liberal, I’ve always believed that the source of all mankind’s problems is overpopulation. I’m finally going to do something about it.

cheers, Tom

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/dining/sylvia-woods-soul-food-restaurateur-is-dead-at-86.html

Alastair Burnet

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jul/20/itv-news-sir-alastair-burnet

Sally Ride

https://www.sallyridescience.com/sallyride/bio

Margaret Mahy:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10821711

Frank Pierson, screenwriter of Dog Day Afternoon and former AMPAS prez.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/frank-pierson-death-obituary-353052

^^RIP. Just discovered one of his last writing credits was the Mad Men ep, "Signal 30"--home of one of the greatest scenes in recent tv history:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM_88FfHcIo

Aw, RIP Margaret Mahy.

Chad Everett, so-what TV star of the '60s and '70s who deserves to be remembered for his astounding scene with Naomi Watts in Mulholland Dr.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-chad-everett-20120725,0,1572963.story

RIP Mary Tamm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/jul/26/doctor-who-mary-tamm-dies

Romana ;_;

What a babe, RIP Mary

German film actress Susanne Lothar (Funny Games, The Lives of Others), only 51:

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-susanne-lothar-1960-2012/

Sie hätte nur mit Mühe überlebt. (Bad German pun.)

It's looking like heroin and/or suicide on Lothar -- a shocking number of critically acclaimed German stage and screen actors are junkies -- the family's lawyers are being extremely hush hush but actor colleagues are hinting strongly in the German press.

aw man :/

i stumbled across this short film she's in while flipping through channels once and i still get creeped out thinking about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxpIwpLEez0

austrian artist franz west passed away as well

http://www.gagosian.com/artists/franz-west/

No English-lang obits yet, but French filmmaker Chris Marker has died at 91.

http://www.metrofrance.com/culture/le-cineaste-chris-marker-est-mort/mlgD!hVkHar3vcKogc/

Oh man, that's terrible news. Thought my day was going well, too.

91 is a pretty good age, esp if you don't have a long decline.

His birthday too, apparently.

R.G. Armstrong, TV western actor who became a regular for Peckinpah and Warren Beatty:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/arts/television/r-g-armstrong-character-actor-in-westerns-dies-at-95.html

Tony Martin, pop singer of the '40s and '50s, married to Cyd Charisse for 60 years:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/arts/music/tony-martin-debonair-pop-baritone-dies-at-98.html

Maeve Binchy, writer

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0730/writer-maeve-binchy-dies-aged-72.html

aww :(

In the 1930s my dad spent a college year in the south and roomed with R.G. Armstrong for a bit. Nice guy, always sent xmas cards (and sent a nice eulogy to my dad's funeral). Always liked seeing him appear in shows and movies when I didn't expect it.

gore vidal (link: the whole internet)

Tony Sly, 41, Singer and song writer for No Use For A Name. http://s3.fatwreck.com/498.html

Robert Hughes, art critic, writer, documentary guy.

Marvin Hamlisch

Fashion editor Anna Piaggi, link to come.

Jeez, I guess that locks in Marvin's songs for the Nutty Professor musical.

Was just 68. Hamlisch collapsed after a brief illness, his family announced

RIP, Robert Hughes. A great populizer and genuinely captivating guy.

Bernard Lovell, founder of Jodrell Bank:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19164236

Mark O'Donnell, playwright, novelist, librettist of the Broadway musical of Hairspray

http://news-briefs.ew.com/2012/08/07/tony-winning-hairspray-writer-mark-odonnell-dies/

Sir Bernard was also an accomplished musician, a keen cricketer and an internationally-renowned arboriculturalist who created an arboretum at Jodrell Bank.

He is survived by four of his five children, 14 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

What a guy!

Ad exec Curvin O'Reilly, who was responsible for the Bill Cosby/Jell-O pudding campaign (among many other things).

I missed that about Robert Hughes--he was great in Crumb, contemptuously deriding the hallowed halls of Berkeley or something like that. Culture of Complaint was quite good.

Judith Crist. Man, it's been a rough month for the arts.

I remember Crist's column about the week's network movie telecasts in TV Guide very well.

'zinging and influential'!

Wow--along with Toronto's Clyde Gilmour, the first film critic I ever encountered. Can't even find an image of Judith Crist's TV Guide to the Movies to post.

Like Morbz and clemenza, first film critic I ever read -- loved her column though I was too young to really get a grasp on much of what was discussed.

http://gos.sbc.edu/c/crist.html

At one point the Times obit treats her almost on a plane with Kael and Sarris, and, as with Rex Reed, that just wasn't where she resided. Her blurb on Vertigo, from the book I mentioned earlier: "You'll find yourself helpless in the hands of the ultimate artist of chill-and-thrill films." I'm sure she would have been the first to admit that she served a different function. Could be wrong, but in Kellow's biography I think there was mention of Kael maintaining a casual friendship with her.

Jairo Varela, Founder of Colombia's Grupo Niche, Dead at 62
August 08, 2012 | By Leila Cobo (@leilacobo), Miami

Jairo Varela, the iconic founder and leader of celebrated Colombian salsa band Grupo Niche, died suddenly of apparent heart failure in his home in Cali, Colombia. He was 62 years old.

Wow, no idea Hughes died. "Fatal Shore" is fascinating.

Humorist and This American Life contributor David Rakoff.

wait what

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/david-rakoff-humorist-and-essayist-dies-at-47/

Mel Stuart, TV documentarian who went on to make Wattstax and, of course, Wonka

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/mel-stuart-director-willy-wonka-dead-83-article-1.1133430

wattstax is a great movie.

Carlo Rambaldi, FX designer of E.T., Alien, Possession etc.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/italian-special-effects-master-carlo-rambaldi-father-of-et-dead-at-86/2012/08/10/eade6e52-e30e-11e1-89f7-76e23a982d06_story.html

Rest In Peace, Joe Kubert. Will post a link when I have one. Absolutely crushed.

NOOOOOOO

exactly. Tearing up here.

Oh man, no. Have been wasting time watching this Olympic shite when I could have been reading his stuff again.

Gary Cox, guitarist/songwriter for US power pop band Artful Dodger.

Joe Kubert, comic book artist on Sgt Rock, Hawkman and many others:

http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/08/12/joe-kubert-r-i-p/

Damn, how'd I miss hearing about David Rakoff? That's awful.

My cousin Paul has some great things to say about Kubert, for whom he worked, here: http://kupps.malibulist.com/2012/08/13/joe-kubert/

Great memories from Kupperberg. Thanks Phil, and thanks to your cousin, too.

Al Green??

Hearing things through FB but see no reference to this anywhere yet. Hopefully it's not true

dunno about that but helen gurley brown seems definite

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Legendary-editor-Helen-Gurley-Brown-dies-3784845.php

hope al green is still with us...

oh man RIP Joe :(

The internet's killed Al Green at least a couple other times.

Just heard about Rakoff. What a bummer.

Ron Palillo, Horshack on Welcome Back, Kotter

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/ron-palillo-actor-best-horshack-back-kotter-dead-63-article-1.1136024

Brett Grulke, SxSW Creative Director

http://www.austin360.com/music/brent-grulke-creative-director-at-sxsw-dies-2435507.html

BRENT GRULKE

A good friend of mine that was a former roommate of his described him once to me as, I wish I could remember the exact wording, one of those guys who seems a little gruff at first and bugs people or rubs them the wrong way but then they all end up liking. RIP.

Harry Harrison: http://io9.com/5934884/rip-harry-harrison-creator-of-the-stainless-steel-rat-bill-the-galactic-hero-and-soylent-green

Oh man! RIP Harry.

another good obit here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/15/harry-harrison

yet another skiffy author i haven't read enough of.

found a paperback of Make Room! Make Room! on the street a few months ago, haven't read yet.

RIP "not the radio guy" Harry.
Mark Evanier's obit, incl. stuff about Harrison's comic book career: http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/08/15/harry-harrison-r-i-p/

Did you get the radio DJ Harry Harrison where you live, William?

I didn't -- wish I had! When I hear his short late 60s interview spots on Psychedelicized Radio (and previously TechWebSound), that slick radio-puker patter always gives me a laugh.

Al Freeman Jr, a volcanic actor from '60s Broadway (Blues for Mister Charlie, The Slave) to his performance as Elijah Muhammad in Spike Lee's Malcolm X:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/theater/al-freeman-jr-actor-prominent-in-civil-rights-era-dies-at-78.html

Watched this a few years ago; one of the early made-for-TV movies, and I think considered one of the best.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/MySweetCharlie2.JPG/150px-MySweetCharlie2.JPG

RIP Harry Harrison
Heaven needed the Stainless Steel Rat.

Phyllis Thaxter, studio-era "wife" and Ma Kent '78 vintage:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/actress-phyllis-thaxter-dies-superman-mother-362757

William Windom

This obit just highlights his tv work. He also appeared in Brewster McCloud and perhaps most famously in an uncredited part as Steve Martin's indecisive client/boss in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

I watched My World and Welcome to It as a kid--vague memories of the way that drawings were incorporated into the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2_w_DnmZkA

http://classified.post-gazette.com/classimages/17125018.jpg

BASILONE, FRANK J., AKA "CHIEF"

88, of Springdale, passed away Friday, August 17, 2012, at Family Hospice Cantebury Center with his family by his side. He was born March 25, 1924 in Springdale to the late Fedel and Anna Basilone and was a lifelong resident. Frank was formerly employed as a supervisor with Duquesne Light Co. before retiring after 35 years of service He was a veteran of WWII, serving in the US Army. Frank was a member of St. Alphonsus Church where he regularly served at weekday mass, the Knights of Columbus, the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars in Springdale, the Allegheny-Kiski Sports Hall of Fame and the American Legion Baseball Hall of Fame. He played football at Duquesne University and was a Pittsburgh Steeler draft selection in 1945. Frank served his community over the years as a former member of Springdale Boro Council, was deeply involved in youth athletics having served as past President of the Lower Valley Little League, a high school and Springdale American Legion baseball coach, and a high school football coach. He will long be remembered for his years as a proud and loving father of three sons and grandfather of six and as a coach for many athletes in the local area.

assistant coach of my high school and american legion baseball teams and just really nice guy. he was as bow-legged as anyone i've ever known. rip chief

William Windom
RIP Commodore Matt Decker and James Thurber surrogate. Even if Norman Spinrad did want Robert Ryan for the role, he did all right in The Wild Bunch while you created one unforgettable Star Trek performance.

Director Tony Scott, (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II) committed suicide this afternoon. Jumped off a bridge in LA.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/08/director-tony-scott-jumps-to-death-from-bridge/1?csp=34news

Scott McKenzie
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19312310

Phyllis Diller :( http://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/television/Phyllis-Diller-Dead-at-95-166791256.html

;_;

Just noticed this one

SOLOMON GRUBERGER R.I.P.
October 18, 1951--June 10, 2012
Speaking for the Gulcher/Gizmos gang, we are saddened to note the passing of proto-punk musician and fanzine editor Solomon Gruberger at the age of 60.
Solomon was among the early rock fanzine people in the 1970s, starting his own zine O. Rextasy in 1973. That same year, he and his younger brother Jay met Ken Highland, who visited them in Brooklyn from Upstate New York. The three of them began the living-room band O. Rex, a lengthy relationship that culminated in the 1976 release of their one 7" record: "My Head's In '73"/"Califawnia Gurls"/"Suzi." Proto-punk in its rawest form, Solomon's nonchalant attitude towards recording also made them unintentional pioneers of lo-fi punktitude.
O. Rex led to the Afrkia Korps in 1977, with the Grubergers and Highland being joined by members of the Slickee Boys and other musicians. They released Music To Kill By, one of the earliest US DIY Punk full-length LPs, played a couple of live shows, and went their separate ways. The group reunited in 1987 for God It's Them Again! on New Rose Records in France.
Solomon and brother Jay also continued recording in the 80s, with some of the results released last year by Rerun Records. Jay was killed in a car accident in 1993.
Personally, I met Solomon in early 1976 while traveling around the East Coast with Ken Highland after we recorded the first Gizmos EP. I got to play drums with O. Rex on that trip, and was thrilled when some of those recordings surfaced on their My Head's In '73! double-CD a few years back. I also wrote reviews for Solomon's O. Rextasy fanzine.
He will be missed.
Here are the official obit details: Solomon Gruberger, 60, of Reading, PA, passed away at 1:09 AM, Sunday, June 10th, peacefully, at his residence. Solomon was born in Brooklyn, NY on October 18, 1951, a son of the late Toby (Strasman) and Oscar Gruberger. He is survived by his wife, Jill (nee Wentzel) Gruberger.
--Eddie Flowers

SOLOMON GRUBERGER DISCOGRAPHY:
O. Rex / "My Head's In '73" b/w "Califawnia Gurls"/"Suzi" maxi-single (Oral Records, 1976)
Afrika Korps / Music To Kill By LP (Iron Cross/Dacoit, 1977)
Afrika Korps / Got It's Them Again 12" EP (New Rose, France, 1987)
Afrika Korps / Music To Kill By CD (Gulcher, 2001)
Afrika Korps / Music To Kill By LP (with bonus 7" EP) (Hate/Vulcher, Italy, 2002)
Afrika Korps / Live At Cantone's CD (Gulcher, 2002)
O. Rex / My Head's In '73! Double-CD (Gulcher, 2010)
The Gruberger Brothers / Greetings From Reading, PA LP (Rerun, 2011)

http://gulcher.bigcartel.com/solomon-gruberger-r-i-p

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-08-21/ethiopian-prime-minister-dead/57179608/1

authoritarian prime minister of Ethiopia dead

Muppeteer Jerry Nelson (The Count, Lew Zealand, Emmett Otter)

http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-jerry-nelson,84229/

Aw, no. Such a talented guy.

nbc news reporting that neil armstrong's died

;_;

damn. i literally just finished reading moonshot.

I think he deserves his own RIP thread, surely?

Fuck yes.

RIP Neil Armstrong

Singer Gene Thomas of "Sometimes" and Gene & Debbe's "Playboy" fame.

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2012/08/gene_thomas_rip.php

Rhodes Boyson, hero of mutton chops, homophobia, and legislated S+M for minors.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02322/boyson_2322970b.jpg

RIP big man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB3mvNeiNtc

Shulamith Firestone, author of The Dialectic of Sex

http://www.thevillager.com/?p=7172

I only read that a couple of months ago, enjoyed it. Plus, super name. RIP.

Max Bygraves:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19450696

Someone on Twitter posted this: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/1sma8d

Looks like Jim Davidson's autobiography has a lot to live up to.

Hal David

Aw :(

Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/02/reverend_sun_myung_moon_dead_at_92/

Green Miles actor Michael Clarke Duncan (no details yet)

mile*

Had suffered a heart attack recently:

On July 13, 2012, Duncan was sent to the hospital after suffering from a heart attack.[17] It was reported that his girlfriend, Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, potentially saved his life by performing CPR before he was transported to the hospital.[18]

Duncan's publicist Joy Fehily said in a statement on August 6, 2012 that he was moved from the intensive care unit but remained hospitalized following his July 13 heart attack.[19]

On September 3, Duncan's fianceé told the Associated Press that he had died that morning in a Los Angeles Hospital

I missed the heart attack news, so I'm doubly sad now.

He was a mighty Kingpin.

rip big guy

damn

rip

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/62663000/jpg/_62663818_62663817.jpg

RIP, very big guy

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/09/04/vance-bockis-d-c-punk-rocker-dies-at-age-50/#more-78620

Griselda Blanco, Colombia's infamous "queen of cocaine" of the 1970s: murdered in Medellin

DJ Matthew Africa

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2012/09/rip_matthew_africa_beloved_oak.php

Kinda ripped up about this one. Listened to him on KALX all the time.

aw, R.I.P.

his DJ Quik mix is essential:

http://matthewafrica.podomatic.com/entry/2009-07-31T18_06_33-07_00

Wildlife presenter Terry Nutkins RIP:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19520824

:(

Aw :( My dad knew him a bit, and one of my favouritest bits of rubbish memorabilia is a script for Animal Magic autographed by Terry Nutkins and Johnny Morris.

Not rubbish!

Terry you were cool. RIP dude!

rev. howard moody, pastor at judson memorial church in NYC, who did so many amazing things

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/nyregion/howard-moody-minister-of-judson-memorial-church-dead-at-91.html

Wow, a very impressive life

Did we miss Derek Jameson? We surely did.

James 'Sugar Boy' Crawford, New Orleans rhythm & blues singer of 'Jock-A-Mo,' dies at 77
Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune By Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune

James “Sugar Boy” Crawford, the New Orleans rhythm & blues singer who wrote and recorded the enduring Mardi Gras season standard “Jock-A-Mo,” died early Saturday after a brief illness. He was 77.

“Jock-A-Mo” borrowed its lyrics from age-old Mardi Gras Indian chants. It was later remade by the Dixie Cups as “Iko Iko.” Artists as diverse as Dr. John, the Grateful Dead and Cyndi Lauper also recorded variations.

Mr. Crawford’s own career came to a premature end following a police beating in 1963. Only in recent years did he return to the stage, and then only occasionally.

...

Wow, I didn't even know Sugar Boy was still alive! I knew about the police beating and the legal fights over "Iko Iko." I only know a few songs besides "Jock-a-Mo," but they're all great.

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

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

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

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

RIP SVEN HA↯↯EL

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

The teenage me thought he was great.

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

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

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

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

Nooooo!!!

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

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

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

RIP

Frank Wilson RIP

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

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

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

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

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

Punch Sulzberger, NY Times publisher 1963-92

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

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

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

RIP Eric Hobsbawm

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

Love Hobsbawm, RIP

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

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

biologist/ecologist Barry Commoner

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

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

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

never noticed this practice before

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

R.B. Greaves.

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

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

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

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

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

Very sad news.

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

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

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

chick eye.

/t͡ʃɪkɑy/ i think?

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

I see new usernames in the future. ʊ

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

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

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

Dude posted here a day after he died? Creepy!

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

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

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

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

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

I worked with Savides. Sad news.