Rolling Obituary Thread 2013

these are people who died, died

beate gordon, who helped write japan's constitution at 22(!)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/world/asia/beate-gordon-feminist-heroine-in-japan-dies-at-89.html

since we didn't get to him on the last thread, John Ford ensemble actor Harry Carey Jr (who also appeared in Gremlins and Mask):

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/western-character-actor-harry-carey-407048

Patti Page

I remember my mother had a single of "How Much is that Doggie in the Window?"

Her and Nat King Cole kind of define pop music for me pre-Elvis.

Godard collaborator Jean-Henri Roger

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-jean-henri-roger-1949-2012

Patti Page track on the Zabriskie Point soundtrack always threw me for a loop. RIP

so the death count for today alone was huell howser, ada louise huxtable, richard ben cramer and david r. ellis. nice going, 2013

I recognized Cramer's name, but had to refresh my memory on who he was--I read his DiMaggio book. There was all this controversy at the time, but it seemed believable and fair to me. (About the most scandalous revelation that I remember was DiMaggio's cheapness.) Unsettling scene of DiMaggio's agent getting him to sign stuff while on his deathbed.

posted in generic obit thread... director of Cellular, Snakes on a Plane

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/david-r-ellis-dead-at-409382

Sundazed is reporting on FB that Tandyn Almer (60s LA songwriter/Beach Boys collaborator) has died.

'Funky' Claude Nobs

Evan S. Connell Jr., author of Mrs. Bridge, Mr. Bridge, Son of the Morning Star and much more besides.

Oh no. At a loss for words. A huge talent and a great original. RIP.

I made him his own thread on ILB for his five fans here: RIP Evan S Connell Jr.

Jon Finch, Polanski's MacBeth.

Mariangela Melato, of Swept Away (and loads of other Lina Wertmuller movies) fame.

Jeanne Manford, activist mom / founder of Parents of Gays (PFLAG)

http://www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/gay-place/2013-01-10/what-becomes-a-legend-most/

Mariangela Melato, film actress for Wertmüller, Petri, Monicelli

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-mariangela-melato-1941-2013

^^covered on Friday, but that's a better obit.

Nagisa Oshima, director of "In the Realm of the Senses" and "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence".

Conrad Bain!

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2013/01/conrad-bain-dies-diffrent-strokes-star-was-89/

pauline phillips aka dear abby

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/business/media/pauline-phillips-flinty-adviser-to-millions-as-dear-abby-dies-at-94.html

Oh, I didn't realize until I clicked the Conrad Bain link that Rebbie Jackson's husband had died.

actress Sophiya Haque (who formerly played Poppy on Coronation St)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2013/jan/17/sophiya-haque-dies-41

Only 41 :(

Earl Weaver, legend of baseball

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bal-orioles-earl-weaver-dead,0,1452570.story

This longtime Baltimore Orioles fan is sad. He was such a character.

and a deep thinker on tactics, despite the circuslike personality (comparable to Stengel in that regard).

RIP Robert "Prop Joe" Chew

Chew is also identified with Baltimore -- "Homicide" and "The Wire"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/18/james-hood-dead_n_2507556.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=754905,b=facebook

One of the first black students who enrolled at the University of Alabama a half century ago in defiance of racial segregation has died. James Hood of Gadsden was 70.

Stan Musial

At the suggestion of a pal, actor John Wayne, he carried around autographed cards of himself to give away. He enjoyed doing magic tricks for kids and was fond of pulling out a harmonica to entertain crowds with a favorite, "The Wabash Cannonball."

On top of everything else, this is what makes a hero. RIP

Aw that AP story made me cry. RIP

yeah that was a lovely obit

RIP Stan the Man.

:(

Michael Winner apparently

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21123532

http://www.spin.com/articles/ohio-players-leroy-sugarfoot-bonner-dead?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spintwitter

oh no:(

too young

Stanley Karnow, journalist whose Vietnam War history became a PBS landmark:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/arts/television/stanley-karnow-historian-and-journalist-dies-at-87.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/arts/music/butch-morris-dies-at-65-creator-of-conduction.html?hpw&_r=0&pagewanted=print

January 29, 2013
Butch Morris Dies at 65; Creator of ‘Conduction’
By BEN RATLIFF

Butch Morris, who created a distinctive form of large-ensemble music built on collective improvisation that he single-handedly directed and shaped, died on Tuesday in Brooklyn. He was 65.

The cause was cancer, said Kim Smith, his publicist and friend. Mr. Morris, who lived in the East Village, died at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Fort Hamilton.

:-(

patty andrews, last surviving andrews sister

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/patty-andrews-last-surviving-member-of-singing-andrews-sisters-dead-at-94/2013/01/30/a927e6ba-6b2a-11e2-9a0b-db931670f35d_story.html

no longer surviving. :(

Now all under the apple tree in heaven...

I just watched Buck Privates yesterday. RIP

I have a great picture of my Grandad (then in his seventies) and a couple of his pals dressed as the Andrews Sisters.

http://www.newsoxy.com/entertainment/ann-rabson-dies-114094.html

Ann Rabson, co-leader of longtime all-women Virginia blues group Saffire dies of cancer

ah, the Uppity Blues Women.... they were a fixture around here for decades

Andre Cassagnes, inventor of the Etch A Sketch--practically hi-tech when I was a kid:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/02/inventor-of-100-million-selling-etch-a-sketch-dead-at-86-company-announces/

Mitt Romney to deliver eulogy.

bringing whole etch a sketches full of women

http://www.soultracks.com/story-cecil-womack-dies

teardrops by womack & womack

How do I get a mod to add a (RIP Cecil Womack) to this ilm thread?

Thanks.

Below from other roling obit thread:

André Cassagnes, Etch A Sketch Inventor, Is Dead at 86

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RIP Reg Presley, lead singer of the Troggs

― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Tuesday, February 5, 2013 6:10 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rolling

Arpad Miklos, gay porn (and music video) star.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/07/mass-effect-2-zaeed-actor-robin-sachs-passes-away-at-61/

Robin Sachs

http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/remembering-donald-byrd-349#axzz2KLKLdg8W

Remembering Donald Byrd
Eugene Holley, Jr. reflects on the magic and music of the jazz legend, who passed away this week at the age of 80
By Eugene Holley, Jr.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1538546/jazz-great-donald-byrd-dead-nephew-says

Donald Byrd Dead: Legendary Jazz Musician Dies At Age 80
Posted: 02/07/2013 5:01 pm EST | Updated: 02/07/2013 5:07 pm EST

Legendary jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd died earlier this week at the age of 80, but news of his death was only just confirmed.

Amoeba reports that Byrd's nephew, Alex Bugnon, confirmed via Facebook that his uncle died on Feb. 4, adding that for an unexplained reason other family members were trying to keep the news of his death private.

"I have no more patience for this unnecessary shroud of secrecy placed over his death by certain members of his immediate family," wrote Bugnon.

Alan Sharp, screenwriter of Night Moves and Ulzana's Raid:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/topic/obituaries

damn, two of the best scripts of that era

those are a couple of nicely harsh movies. rob roy is classic imo too.

I don't, but i can see the similar tone in RR (had forgotten the same guy was the writer)

I've never seen The Hired Hand--just lazy, I know it's on DVD. I did give up on The Osterman Weekend after about 20 minutes once.

R.I.P. Shadow Morton

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2013/02/16/76d3ebba-5f44-11e2-a389-ee565c81c565_story.html

Recluse Tandyn Almer wrote Along Comes Mary and did other interesting things

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9876075/Tony-Sheridan.html

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a459670/mr-and-mrs-host-derek-batey-dies-aged-84.html

RIP, Jerry Buss:

http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2013/2/18/4000992/lakers-dr-jerry-buss-has-passed-away-cancer

former duke basketball player phil henderson, best known for dunking on alonzo mourning in 1989. he was 44.

richard briers

Donald Richie, scholar/critic of Japanese film and culture

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-donald-richie-1924-2013

Kevin Ayers, the founding member of 1960s psychedelic band Soft Machine, has died aged 68.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21517041

Wow, Richie was a nice guy, the few times I talked to him. And Kevin Ayers! Sad.

Awww RIP Bob Godfrey of Henry's Cat and Roobarb fame (also that Isambard Kingdom Brunel cartoon I was allowed to stay up late and watch a couple of times) (also an animated Kama Sutra which I have never seen)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21552718

Two Roobarb-connected deaths in the space of a week!

RIP

ray cusick

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/Dalek_2010_Redesign.jpg/200px-Dalek_2010_Redesign.jpg

RIP, Cleotha Staples, who was the oldest, apart from Pops of course: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/arts/music/cleotha-staples-of-the-staple-singers-dies-at-78.html?_r=0.

Van Cliburn

Bonnie Franklin of TV's "One Day at a Time"

peter harvey

canberra

oh no :(

Chávez has just died, according to the Guardian.

all righty then

maybe that horse will look to the right again

Rest In Peace, Alvin Lee.

http://www.eastvillageradio.com/content/content.php?id=5747

Stompin' Tom Connors, eh!
http://www.globaltoronto.com/music+legend+stompin+tom+connors+77+dies/6442822944/story.html

good ol' hockey game

As a native of Tillsonburg, this is sad news.

Kenny Ball :(

Paul Bearer (William Moody)

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/06/uk-usa-people-moody-idUKBRE9251I220130306

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5230/5617825645_f59c337c25_z.jpg

Bummer! I somehow missed his passing. RIP, wonderfully creepy man.

The geezer might have been a Nazi at one point but I reckons Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist is worthy of an RIP

the thing about peter banks dying is that the headlines look like they're saying 'that's right, he's dead'

noted elsewhere on Maiden thread but: former Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/clive-burr-ex-iron-maiden-drummer-dead-at-56-20130313

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21798955

Norman Collier, R_P

proper Hull :(

rest in pea ig ma

He had the faulty microphone gimmick but I'm sure he had another one as well that I've completely forgotten

winding car window up and down

RIP Leroy Fleming, sax player in Chuck Brown's Soul Searchers, best known for "Bustin' Loose"

http://www.tmottgogo.com/the-passing-of-leroy-fleming/

http://www.soultracks.com/bobby-smith-dies

Singer from the Spinners ("He was also the group's original lead singer, and was the voice on the Spinners' first hit, "That's What Girls Are Made For" and shared the lead with Philippe Wynne - and later, John Edwards - on the group's biggest hits in the 1970s, including "I'll Be Around," "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love" and "Games People Play."

Jason Molina http://stereogum.com/1290512/r-i-p-jason-molina/top-stories/lead-story/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21828965

Frank Thornton aka Captain Peacock of Are You Being Served & Truly from Last Of The Summer Wine

:(

David Dewaele, 37, actor in the last 2 Bruno Dumont films.

James Herbert

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21870413

Harry Reems - http://dangerousminds.net/comments/deep_throat_xxx_porn_actor_harry_reems_has_died

Wow! I've never actually seen Deep Throat, but some of the stories in Inside Deep Throat were great. There was some awful Canadian film that would play on TV here now and again that Reems was in...can't remember the title.

I went through a teenage phase of hoovering up James Herbert books - I remember Shrine in particular freaking me out, but I haven't given him a second thought for years. RIP.

James Herbert is a real blow to adolescent me.

Risë Stevens, star mezzo-soprano of the '40s and ’50s

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/rise-stevens-dead-mezzo-soprano-star-dies-at-99_n_2927143.html

Rest in peace, Chinua Achebe:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/22/novelist-chinua-achebe-dies

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2013/03/22/175080694/bebo-vald-s-giant-of-cuban-music-is-dead

Ray Williams : (

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/sports/basketball/ray-williams-and-micheal-ray-richardson-shined-together.html

RIP Peter Scott, king of the cat burglars:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9949054/Peter-Scott.html

You may have died broke but you left us a fun obituary.

I wasn't aware of him, but this quote in the obituary is fantastic: “The people I burgled got rich by greed and skulduggery. They indulged in the mechanics of ostentation — they deserved me and I deserved them. If I rob Ivana Trump, it is just a meeting of two different kinds of degeneracy on a dark rooftop.”

yeah I'd never heard of him before but I thought the whole thing was great.

this country needs more criminals like him - a charmer, an entertainer, a man of principle.

A man who breaks policemen's noses.

A man who breaks into policemen's noses.

Joe Weider, the 'father of bodybuilding'

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/sports/joe-weider-founder-of-a-bodybuilding-empire-dies-at-93.html

Anthony Lewis, longtime NY Times columnist/Supreme Court reporter

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-anthony-lewis-20130326,0,1080917.story

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/entertainment/20130326/US--Obit-Richards/

Motown songwriter-producer Deke Richards has died at a Bellingham, Wash., hospice at age 68.

Peace Health St. Joseph Medical Center spokeswoman Amy Cloud confirms that Richards, whose real name was Dennis Lussier, died Sunday at the Whatcom Hospice House.

A statement from Universal Music said Richards had been battling esophageal cancer.

Universal Music says that as leader of the Motown songwriting, arranging and producing team known as The Corporation, Richards was involved in writing and producing many Jackson 5 hits. Those songs included the Jackson 5's first three No. 1 hits - "I Want You Back," ''ABC," and "The Love You Save."

He also co-wrote "Love Child" for Diana Ross & The Supremes, as well Ross' solo "I'm Still Waiting."

Associated Press

NOT the singer. But probably someone more important:

http://www.gollancz.co.uk/2013/03/in-memory-of-paul-williams/

In the wider realm of popular culture, you should honour him as the founding father of rock journalism. The magazine he founded as a 17-year-old college student in 1966, Crawdaddy!, was the first publication to focus on serious writing about the then-new music. It launched the career of writers such as Jon Landau (who went on to become Bruce Springsteen’s manager), Sandy Pearlman, and Richard Meltzer. It was the inspiration for subsequent magazines, notably Rolling Stone. Paul wrote many books about music, and particularly about Bob Dylan.

As an sf reader, which I assume you probably are, you should honour him as one of the two principal figures who kept the name of Philip K. Dick alive in the decades following his death. Paul was a close friend of Dick’s, and his 1975 Rolling Stone article “The True Stories of Philip K. Dick” was the most significant piece of writing about him published during his lifetime. (It later formed the basis of a book, Only Apparently Real, which was in turn the first book about Dick.) When Dick died in 1982, Paul was named his Literary Executor, and he worked tirelessly in conjunction with Dick’s long-time literary agent Russ Galen (the other hero of this story) to keep his name alive. Paul founded and ran the Philip K. Dick Society, which attracted hundreds of members in scores of countries. The small publishing company he ran together with David Hartwell published Dick’s novel Confessions of a Crap Artist – the first time any of Dick’s non-sf novels from the 1950s saw the light of day.

RIP Uncle Monty

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21973505

only 65 :-(

RIP Monty, you terrible cunt. I always thought he was about 65 in Withnail, tbh!

I didn't recognize the character name having only seen W&I once. Richard Griffiths is very funny in A Private Function, tho I don't remember him in Gorky Park (or Chariots of Fire).

He was great, twice, in that Naked Gun sequel he's in.

Like I needed another excuse to watch Venus. RIP.

RIP Uncle Monty :( (and fuck the BBC for referring to him constantly as 'Harry Potter actor, Richard Griffiths')

Eh, the Harry Potter films were quite successful, you know.

He himself said on Desert Island Discs that's the role he's most recognised for. News broadcasters look for the opposite of a Pointless answer innit.

RIP, Reid Flair, Ric Flair's 24 year old son:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-reid-flair-dies-20130329,0,704880.story

Former Alberta premier/asshole Ralph Klein:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2013/03/29/ralph-klein.html

Producer Phil Ramone

Jesus/Jess Franco

wow, RIP you crazy auteur-pervert

Milo O'Shea, beetlebrowed actor from Romeo and Juliet to The Butcher Boy and "Frasier"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9969003/Actor-Milo-OShea-dies-aged-86.html

:-(

Had no idea he was still alive, what's he been doing for the past 40 years?

I saw him play Friar Lawrence in a NY staging of R&J in the '80s... have never seen the Zeffirelli film.

also, apparently he was on "Frasier"

he was great in the butcher boy as well iirc

ruth prawer jhabvala, screenwriter for merchant/ivory

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22015002

Carmine Infantino, comic book everything extraordinaire:

http://comicsbeat.com/rip-carmine-infantino/

Missed Milo O'Shea. He's the best kind of hammy in The Verdict: "You go see the Monsignor--he'll punch your ticket" (winks).

Milo O'Shea was, of course, the original Duran(d) Duran(d).

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/roger-ebert-dead-cancer-article-1.1307967

on achebe http://africasacountry.com/2013/04/05/chinua-achebe-a-poet-of-global-encounters/

Documentary filmmaker Les Blank.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/movies/les-blank-documentary-filmmaker-dies-at-77.html

RIP Lilly Pulitzer

RIP Andy Johns http://www.americanbluesscene.com/2013/04/legendary-jimi-hendrix-led-zeppelin-rolling-stones-engineer-dies/

Robert Zildjian, who split from the family business in the early 80s to start the Sabian cymbal company.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/04/local/la-me-robert-zildjian-20130405

Bigas Luna, director of 'Jamon Jamon'

http://www.writingforums.com/attachments/writers-lounge/2185d1312450036-how-why-did-chose-your-avatar-picture-spitting-image-thatcher.jpg

Annette Funicello

I had to check to see if I had an album of hers, and I do--a Rhino compilation put out in 1984. I don't remember a single song, not even "Tall Paul," her biggest hit. (There actually is a Frankie Avalon song I used to like called "A boy Without a Girl.")

Need to re-watch Back to the Beach in her honour when I don't have so much end of the semester crap going on.

Gus Triandos

http://davidsimon.com/gus-triandos-1930-2013/

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/record-labels/1557242/updated-tim-carr-ar-exec-for-capitol-warner-bros-dreamworks

Tim Carr, A&R Exec for Capitol, Warner Bros., Dreamworks, Dead at 57

He started as a Minneapolis music critic later moved to NY and booked events at the Kitchen before joining the record industry

Mickey Rose, Woody Allen's co-writer on Take the Money and Run, Bananas

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-mickey-rose-20130411,0,1017612.story

RIP, Roosevelt Jamison, writer of "That's How Strong My Love Is," discoverer, manager and mentor of the great soul singers O. V. Wright and James Carr and thereby a key figure in Peter Guralnick's Sweet Soul Music. By day he helped run a hematology lab and a blood bank, where he rehearsed some of his acts. http://redkelly.blogspot.com/2013/03/roosevelt-jamison-1936-2013.html

Also http://www.peterguralnick.com/post/47106712366/roosevelt-jamison-1936-2013

Architect Paolo Soleri. Always wanted to do a C or D on Arcosanti.

LA Times obit

I'd come out somewhere in between on Arcosanti based on my visit-- not classic but not dud either.

James Redd, thanks for those touching Roosevelt Jamison obit items. An impressive guy.

Jonathan Winters, impish improviser

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/arts/television/jonathan-winters-comedian-dies-at-87.html

aw...

Sure, Steve. I figured you'd be interested and almost reposted on the Chitlin Circuit thread.

Jonathan Winters' body of work is one that I need to undertake before I check out. Every time I've seen him over the years, he just automatically made me feel good. There's an Aunt Blabby clip I remember from Carson or somewhere that had Carson or whoever was with him in tears.

v sad to lose Winters

the Maron interview is well worth a listen for Winters fans - v little Maron, and a lot of impish Winters.

thanks vg, will search!

aw dammit, they've made it premium so you would have to pay to listen
here's the link anyway -- keep an eye on the site, maybe they'll un-premium it in light of his passing idk

http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_173_-_jonathan_winters

Maron said on Twitter that he was going to re-run the episode again. Also: http://www.xojane.com/entertainment/jonathan-winters-biography

i have the app on my phone so i think i can access it anyway!

There's an Aunt Blabby clip I remember from Carson or somewhere that had Carson or whoever was with him in tears.

Winters' old lady character was Maude Frickert. Carson's ripoff of that character was Aunt Blabby.

RIP New York session guitarist Hugh McCracken, who played with everybody under the sun and passed away last month at 70. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/arts/music/hugh-mccracken-a-studio-musician-in-high-demand-dies-at-70.html?_r=0

Mr. McCracken delighted in telling stories about his famous friends. When he met John Lennon, he recalled, Mr. Lennon said he had heard that Mr. McCracken had worked with Mr. McCartney. “Yes,” Mr. McCracken answered.

“Well,” Mr. Lennon said, “you know that was just an audition to get to me.”

http://thekey.xpn.org/2013/04/13/rip-vince-montana-jr-member-of-mfsb-and-founder-of-the-salsoul-orchestra/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/chicago-bluesman-jimmy-fast-fingers-dawkins-famous-for-stellar-guitar-playing-dead-at-76/2013/04/12/c4a414b8-a3bf-11e2-bd52-614156372695_story.html

fuckin bummer, a giant

posted by Bill D*hl on F*cebook
The sad news I heard from a friend is true--the Ovations' Nathan "Pedro" Lewis passed away April 10 in Memphis at age 69. He was a terrific interview with an incredible memory, and I always enjoyed getting together with him when I visited Memphis. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal didn't even run an obituary online, just a death notice. What a shame--a founding member of one of Memphis' greatest '60s soul groups deserved better.

Kevin Peek, guitarist from prog(ish) band Sky :

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/small-funeral-for-disgraced-sky-guitarist-kevin-peek/story-e6frg13u-1226580649832

Seems he wasn't the most popular man...

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/14/3344354/rock-and-soul-songwriter-george.html

JACKSON, Miss. -- Songwriter George Jackson, co-author of "Old Time Rock and Roll" and hundreds of other soul, rock and rhythm and blues tunes, has died. He was 68.

Jackson died Sunday morning at his home in Ridgeland, a suburb of Jackson, said Thomas Couch Sr., board chairman of Malaco Records. Jackson had been sick with cancer for about a year.

"It was not unexpected, but it's always too soon," Couch said.

Born in Indianola, Miss., Jackson was writing songs by the time he was in his teens. It was Ike Turner who brought Jackson to New Orleans R&B pioneer Cosimo Matassa's studio in 1963, where he recorded his first song.

Jackson recorded dozens of singles in the 1960s and worked in Memphis, Tenn., but made his mark as a writer, beginning with FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala. He later was a songwriter for crosstown rival Muscle Shoals Sound Studios before returning to Memphis. When Malaco bought Muscle Shoals Sound, it hired Jackson to write songs, said Wolf Stephenson, Malaco's vice president and chief engineer.

"George had hooks coming out of his ears," Stephenson said. "They weren't all hits, but I never heard him write a bad song. He never really got the recognition that's normally due a writer of his stature."

The Osmonds recorded Jackson's "One Bad Apple" in 1970, taking it to No. 1. Jackson and Thomas Jones III wrote "Old Time Rock and Roll," which Bob Seger recorded in 1978.

Stephenson said "Old Time Rock and Roll" is truly Jackson's song, and he has the tapes to prove it, despite Seger's claims that he altered it.

...

He wrote for ZZ Hill ("Downhome Blues") and Seger and the Osmonds and Candi Staton...

RIP

patt summerall

awww, heard him announce football and more for decades

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/04/16/pat-summerall-cbs-fox-nfl/2088571/

Scott Miller of Game Theory and the Loud Family.

(ILM thread/discussion here)

Storm Thorgerson

oh man

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/De-Loused_in_the_Comatorium.jpeg

George Beverly Shea, gospel singer for Billy Graham, really old

Rita MacNeil, CanCon diva

Mike Denness, Scottish former captain of the England cricket team (and thus a useful bit of pub quiz trivia)

Original Parliament/Funkadelic bassist Cordell "Boogie" Mosson (according to Bootsy Collins' fb page).

dude was a monster on those mid-period Funkadelic records :(

USA Today founder Al Neuharth
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/19/al-neuharth-newspaper-founder-dies-at-89/2097995/

Children's book author E.L. Konigsburg

Chrissy Amphlett of the Divinyls

http://www.wafb.com/story/22041592/funeral-arrangements-announced-for-george-perkins

Louisiana soul singer

and singer Artie Blues Boy White

http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoekstra/2013/04/the_deep_soul_of_artie_blues_b.html

Allan Arbus, photographer and ex-husband of Diane, who turned to acting (guest shots as a M*A*S*H psychiatrist)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/arts/television/allan-arbus-mash-actor-dies-at-95.html

RIP crazy good guitarist Bob Brozman

http://www.santacruz.com/news/2013/04/25/santa_cruz_music_icon_bob_brozman_dies

Sad, only 59.

R.I.P. George Jones

master cellist janos starker

http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/world-renowned-cellist-janos-starker-dies-88-48050/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/arts/music/cordell-mosson-of-parliament-funkadelic-dies-at-60.html?ref=music

Deanna Durbin, silver-screen teen idol of the '30s and '40s

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/movies/deanna-durbin-1930s-star-of-universal-pictures-dies-at-91.html

RIP. Did you see Christmas Holiday when it played, I can't remember.

RIP DD

I don't think I've seen any of her films.

Came up recently on the Justin Bieber thread (re Anne Frank)...Had no idea she was still alive. My dad had a thing for her--bought him a CD once.

Kenneth Appel, the man who proved the four-color theorem using computers: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/technology/kenneth-i-appel-mathematician-who-harnessed-computer-power-dies-at-80.html?pagewanted=all

Best part is

Before their revolutionary work was published, Dr. Appel and Dr. Haken enlisted their entire families to check hundreds of pages of calculations, making sure that diagrams of map configurations matched the computer printouts and did not have typos. Andrew Appel said his sister, Laurel, found some 800 mistakes, most of which she could fix herself.

Chris Kelly of Kris Kross:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/showbiz/georgia-chris-kelly-obituary/index.html

Brozman was a suicide; he hadn't been able to play guitar for quite some time.

Should have said "play guitar up to his standards"; he had degenerative problems relating to an old car accident, and the rumor is that the deterioration was accelerating.

Jeff Hanneman of Slayer
http://thequietus.com/articles/12176-jeff-hanneman-of-slayer-r-i-p

http://www.memphisflyer.com/SingAllKinds/archives/2013/05/02/memphis-musician-sid-selvidge-dies-after-a-struggle-with-cancer

Also was a dj and a Professor

I know of his legend but not too much about his work. RIP

(ok, I did see Christmas Holiday!)

(Really enjoyed that one- both of them were playing against type!)

x-post
Spotify has some Sid Selvidge-- quieter bluesy stuff with his unique voice, and youtube has some, but yep his legendary stuff with Jim Dickinson and others does not appear to be easily accessible

Believe he features prominently in the book It Came From Memphis, by Robert Gordon.

That's where I first heard of him. Author Robert Gordon once brought along great obscure film footage for a book tour and I vaguelly recall he might have had home movie quality Mudboy stuff.

Reggae legend Cedric 'Im' Brooks:
http://www.wral.com/jamaican-musician-cedric-brooks-dies-at-70/12412113/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqc9XEDHI-4

this week sucks.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/04/3380491/cuban-bolero-giant-cesar-portillo.html

Recently had to learn one of his tunes. RIP.

Not famous, but Greg Quill, a Toronto music writer:

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/05/toronto_star_entertainment_columnist_greg_quill_dies.html

Don't think I ever met him, but we probably reviewed some of the same shows in the '80s, and Wikipedia says he once edited a magazine I wrote for (unless he did that at the very beginning of the magazine's existence, I think that's probably incorrect). He's the first local music writer I can recall dying, so sobering.

Oh damn...didn't he write for Music Express? Or edit it or something? Pretty sure he wrote for Graffiti.

I think he did edit Music Express for a while, yes. I'd have to check about Graffiti--I don't remember him in there, but you might be right. I didn't realize he'd made albums until reading the obit.

Ray Harryhausen

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/movies/ray-harryhausen-cinematic-special-effects-innovator-dies-at-92.html?ref=arts&_r=0

Yeah, that's my saddest RIP for a while.

Cedric Brooks
:(

Custom car legend Dean Jeffries - responsible for the Monkeemobile, the cars from Death Race 2000, the Landmaster tank from Damnation Alley, the Diamonds Are Forever moon buggy, etc. etc.

Bryan Forbes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22459886

That's so weird--someone posted about the movie Gandhi yesterday on the Philip French thread, and I went on to say that Attenborough's Seance on a Wet Afternoon was an odd film. Then I remembered that it wasn't his film, he was just in it--Forbes directed. So I never posted.

I like The Stepford Wives a lot; think I voted for it in the horror poll.

Comic book artist Dan Adkins.
http://www.newsfromme.com/2013/05/08/dan-adkins-r-i-p/

Taylor Mead has really left New York

:o

now I can aim for the messiest apartment in NYC.

:-((((

have only seen 'seance' & 'the wrong box' but both are classic imo, rip b. forbes

I remember Seance being quite good, and also this one w/ Malcolm McDowell as a paralyzed soccer player:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067357/

yeah, forbes also acted in and wrote the screenplay for The League of Gentlemen movie (terrific british crime-comedy drama not to be confused w/...) and under his watch EMI Films produced a number of interesting genre pictures, as well as classics like The Railway Children. Can't think of a more 'hyphenated' brit film person, tbh.

katherine chancellor of the young & the restless

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22463848

malcolm shabazz, malcolm x's grandson, killed in mexico

steve martland, factory classical associated composer

Damn, that's a sad surprise. Quite young, wonder what happened there?

Strange last paragraph in that obit:

Steve Martland kept fit by going on training runs with Arsenal, but he was rarely seen without a packet of Marlboro cigarettes and a bottle of Stella Artois. He died in his sleep and had no survivors.

Joyce Brothers RIP

Peter Worthington:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/05/13/toronto-peter-worthington-dies.html

Huge name in Toronto. (He got the front page of The Toronto Sun today, his home base, rather than the Leafs.) Arch-conservative, which up here is not synonymous with wingnut, though he did try to provoke. I vaguely remember writing a letter once in response to something that irked me, but I'm not sure if it was him.

do people see the purpose of this thread as:
* listing people who died but are not famous enough to be RIPed in their own dedicated thread
or
* a comprehensive list of all the celebs who died in a specific year
?

Both, I think. People who get their own thread generally first get noted here. (My last two have been very Toronto-centric.)

Dick Trickle

http://www.wistv.com/story/22273981/nascar-legend-dick-trickle-dead-from-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound-sheriff-says

The Lincoln County Communications Center received a call apparently from the victim that "there would be a dead body and it would be his ".

damn...

i have a dick trickle t-shirt, too.

RIP Dick Trickle

we mourn the passing of dick trickle

paul shane, from hi-de-hi: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22563351

ho-de-ho big man

Bye-de-bye!

Alexey Balabanov, Russian filmmaker (his Brother was a real good one)

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-alexey-balabanov-1959-2013

ray manzarek

oh shit, there's an ilm thread about it. carry on...

Trevor Bolder : http://www.uriah-heep.com/newa/index.php

:(

There's a little cloud next to Dee Murray for you up above.

http://images.tvrage.com/people/103/306452.jpg

Mick McManus RIP

Now that was wrestling. RIP big man.

This is a bit wtf from the announcement though:

Even the arrival of his old friend Lord Richard Attenborough recently, failed to lift his spirits, refusing all food and drink until he quietly slipped into a coma three days ago.

How does a wrestler get to be best mates with Dickie Attenborough?

Isn't Attenborough in a care home now, possibly the same one as McManus was?

I think so, yes, but this implies they were friends before.

RIP Brian Greenhoff.

RIP Ed Shaughnessy. Drummer with Count Basie, Jimmy Smith, and others; best known as the Tonight Show drummer from the early 60s until 1992.

Haynes Johnson:

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/haynes-johnson-pulitzer-prize-winning-journalist-dies-at

I'd see him on round-tables now and again. He seemed like the kind of moderate, old-fashioned reporter who regularly gets ridiculed on the politics thread.

Un-RIP on Tim Dog, apparently.

Dad's Army's Bill Pertwee
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22680499

Jack Vance:

http://www.jackvance.com/

vance refrigeration

Henry Morgentaler--huge death here:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/05/29/obit-morgentaler.html

In '84, a year out of university, a friend and I shot some super-8 footage of a Morgentaler rally close to his clinic on Harbord St. Can't remember the occasion--a court decision had come down, and there were pro- and anti-Morgentaler people demonstrating. We turned it into a two-minute film, with Husker Du's "Something I Learned Today" as the soundtrack.

R.I.P. Jack Vance. I grew up on those books. I need to revisit some of them.

George RR Martin: "Jack Vance is the greatest living SF writer, in my opinion, and one of the few who is also a master of Fantasy. His The Dying Earth (1950) was one of the seminal books in the history of modern Fantasy, and I would rank him right up there with Tolkien, Dunsany, Leiber, and T.H. White as one of the fathers of the genre."

I remember some really awful anti-Semitic protesters back in the day - signs reading "JEWISH ABORTIONIST = FEWER CHRISTIAN BABIES" and the like, yeesh. RIP

(re: Morgenthaler)

http://www.eurweb.com/2013/05/we-remember-marvin-junior-lead-singer-of-the-dells-dies/

"Stay in My Corner" is classic

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/arts/music/mulgrew-miller-jazz-pianist-dies-at-57.html

What? That is terrible. He wasn't that old. RIP, big man with the long fingers making the beautiful music.

Yep. It sounds like it was sudden. I'm feeling 77-year-old Marvin Junior's passing. I saw the Dells live in 2005 and Marvin Junior's vocals on some cuts were just still chin-dropping great (years after the group's prime). One of the great soul vocalists ever, but he will likely only get mourned by old-school r'n'b fanatics as they never crossed over pop enough though they did get indicted into the RnR Hall of fame.

"We arrest you, Marvin Junior, in the name of rock."

Clarence Burke; Jr. of the Five Stairsteps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4a8vMZGaFg

It always brings me back when I hear "Ooh Child". R.I.P.

awwwwwwwww :(

Truly one of the most evocative songs of its era. Love this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gk7uzwptGA

I've really misremembered that--I thought it was played while students wrote SATs.

Andrew Greeley:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-andrew-greeley-20130531,0,1017591.story

My dad loved his books.

m yunupingu of yothu yindi

http://tonede.af/11l6V8c

My mom handed out the pamphlets Greeley wrote before he wrote his racy books.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/nyregion/frank-lautenberg-new-jersey-senator.html?hp&_r=0

sen. frank lautenberg of nj

Deacon Jones, RIP

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-0604-deacon-jones-20130604,0,2236197.story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHdrMYh-6uI

Didn't realize Deacon Jones was the first to use the term "sack" to refer to tackling the quarterback. RIP

yup!

Didn't know that either. Just looked for youtube of him on The Odd Couple but couldn't find anything.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/us/will-d-campbell-maverick-minister-and-civil-rights-stalwart-dies-at-88.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130605

The Rev. Will D. Campbell, a renegade preacher and author who joined the civil rights struggle in the 1950s, quit organized religion and fought injustice with nonviolent protests and a storyteller’s arsenal of autobiographical tales and fictional histories, died on Monday night in Nashville. He was 88.

...

Mr. Campbell was the only white person invited by Dr. King to the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta in 1957. Months later, Mr. Campbell helped escort nine black students through angry crowds in an attempt to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.

Throw a fuckin party for ruairi o'bradaigh

Ah no I'm grand.

Chrisht dont tell me you're strong on the national question along with everythin else

He wanted the centre of government moved to Athlone, no censure too great.

(Plus the calling for the death of the Provos - for sealing arms dumps)

We are in agreement so!

Tom Sharpe

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22795507

don't know if Sharpe has been ill-served by his book covers and his telly adaptations but have never felt the urge to read him

Might call him the father of modern British farce but you know, speaking ill of the dead...

Tom Sharpe pioneered, Bruce Dickinson consolidated :

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bU-66c2YL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Actress Esther Williams dies at 91

She then married former lover, Argentine actor/director, Fernando Lamas on December 31, 1969. For 13 years, she lived in total submission to him, where she had to stop being "Esther Williams" and could not have her children live with her. In return, he would be faithful.[45][81] They were married until his death from pancreatic cancer on October 8, 1982.[82] She resided in Beverly Hills with actor husband Edward Bell, whom she married on October 24, 1994.[83]

I felt really bad for her when I first read the Lamas stuff.

Oh shit.

What a horrible bastard

My mom just gave me the rundown on that and then made me look up Arlene Dahl on Wikipedia just to confirm which one was Lorenzo Lamas' mother.

Sorry for the tiny pic, but here's Esther w/young Roger Kynard Erickson:

http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/54/26a6d3223b3253a14c28cf2ff8b0bf36/m.jpg

Underrated Esther Williams movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049904/ (also may have indirectly inspired a song by The Church)

joey covington, drummer for jefferson airplane/starship

http://laist.com/2013/06/06/jefferson_airplane_drummer_joey_covington_dead.php

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theithacajournal/obituary.aspx?pid=165292105#fbLoggedOut

Martin Gardiner Bernal, Professor Emeritus of Government and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University, died on June 9, 2013 in Cambridge, England.

The first volume of his seminal and controversial work, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, was published in 1987. Two more volumes followed, as well as a book written in response to his critics.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/06/14/191396165/johnny-smith-revered-guitar-player-has-died

Wrote the surf song "Walk, Don't Run," popularized by the Ventures

Which is a great accomplishment but he did so much more, as NPR says. Here is a some more information about him: http://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/guitar-legend-johnny-smith-alive-and-well-in-colorado-springs/Content?oid=1111071

"Popularized by" caught my eye, so I read up a bit--had no idea "Walk, Don't Run" wasn't their song.

Did not know his history re playing at Birdland and then later in life giving it all up and not playing the guitar, period. Interesting

Bernie Sahlins (co-founder of Second City)

http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/theater/bernard-sahlins-patriarch-of-sketch-comedy-dies-at-90.html

Michael Hastings

damn!

damn...i wonder if it was this accident??

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/06/18/1-killed-in-solo-vehicle-crash-in-hollywood/

it was genuinely awful

Sadly, yes, it was that accident:

https://twitter.com/romenesko/status/347139845346430977

just heard about hastings, horrible news.

That's so sad. He was a great reporter.

Slim Whitman

RIP. Trying to remember if George Harrison sang a Slim Whitman song at a Carl Perkins memorial but can't quite find it on intranetz.

Red State-fave author Vince Flynn

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/06/19/mn-author-vince-flynn-dies-at-47/

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/1567364/chet-flippo-longtime-music-writer-former-billboard

kim thompson of fantagraphics :-(

http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/kim_thompson_rip/

Slim Whitman!

:(

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-slim-whitman-dies-20130619,0,1573998.story

I know Chet Flippo's byline well, but I'm surprised he's not in the Rolling Stone Illustrated History (the second version) at all. So he must be all over the red record guide.

James Gandolfini?

http://www.tmz.com/2013/06/19/james-gandolfini-dead-dies-italy/

fuck dude that sucks if it's true

HBO confirming

whoa what?

I don't want this to be true!!!

HBO confirming

― polyphonic, Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:33 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

where?

Lot of organizations confirming it, ny daily news being one.

http://variety.com/2013/more/news/james-gandolfini-dead-of-sudden-stroke-at-51-1200499141/

omg waht

@latimes
Actor James Gandolfini, who played Tony Soprano on HBO's "The Sopranos," has died at age 51, HBO has confirmed.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/james-gandolfini-dead-51-article-1.1377435

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/james_gandolfini_XKEsZRGTj0ADAuscnNhbXL

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/19/james-gandolfini-dead_n_3468861.html

fuuuuuuuuuck

man this day has been a huge bummer

brilliant fucking actor... rip

ffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

goddammit. loved him ever since he played the creepy hitman in True Romance

sad to hear about Kim Thompson.

Michael Baigent - one of the authors of Holy Blood Holy Grail (and Dan Brown irritant)

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/23/3467092/blues-singer-bobby-blue-bland.html

A great soulful voice. RIP

Time Team's Mick Aston

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mick-aston-dead-time-team-1989900

Richard Matheson, writer of I Am Legend, Twilight Zone episodes, and generally made everything I liked better.

http://io9.com/r-i-p-richard-matheson-author-of-i-am-legend-and-many-564036878

oh no :(

Alan Myers, Devo drummer through the 80s.

http://m.billboard.com/articles/news/1568156/alan-myers-devo-drummer-dies

RIP Jim Kelly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRjOB4qy4zo

Where are you seeing that sad news?

Ron Van Clief confirms here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201512164072976&set=a.2028429117352.2124983.1442810908&type=1&theater

Although I've seen nothing through regular media to be fair.

Photographer Bert Stern

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/28/local/la-me-bert-stern-20130629

Worth seeing:

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

Jim Kelly now being reported more widely: http://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2013/06/30/enter-the-dragon-actor-jim-kelly-dies

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2013/07/texas_johnny_brown_rip.php

Houston-based bluesman co-wrote "Two Steps From the Blues" it says for/with Bobby Blue Bland

Bernadette Nolan:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bernie-nolan-dead-singer-loses-2024875

well that sucks

Douglas Englebart, inventor of the computer mouse:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23174052

Scottish comedy actor Iain McColl: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/iain-mccoll-star-of-tvs-rab-c-nesbitt-and-city-lights-dies-at-59.1373024138

Evi Nemeth - godmother of all Unix admins everywhere. Lost at sea...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/05/evi_nemeth_unix_dead/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evi_Nemeth
http://www.sailfeed.com/2013/06/schooner-nina-missing-and-presumed-sunk/

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=200340061

(AP) — Edmund S. Morgan, a leading scholar of the colonial era who helped reinvigorate the reputations of the founding fathers, probed the country's racial and religious origins and, in his 80s, wrote a best-selling biography of Benjamin Franklin, has died in Connecticut. He was 97.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/11/twister-inventor-obit/2508769/

Charles Foley, inventor of Twister.

would not want to be a pallbearer at that guy's funeral.

Barbara Robinson, author of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever:

http://www.slj.com/2013/07/books-media/authors-illustrators/barbara-robinson-best-christmas-pageant-author-dies-at-85/

Alan Whicker, 87.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23287351

Alan Whicker RIP

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/toshi-seeger-wife-of-pete-seeger-dead-at-91-20130711

aw :(

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/business/amar-g-bose-acoustic-engineer-and-inventor-dies-at-83.html?ref=obituaries&_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/arts/television/cory-monteith-star-of-hit-show-glee-is-dead-at-31.html

was not the biggest Glee fan, but his death seems painfully pointless, predictable and sad, especially given his flight to rehab in the spring.

xp thx for the link on Bose

http://www.noise11.com/news/charles-pope-of-the-tams-dies-at-76-20130715

Old-school r'n'b singer

Pope is survived by his wife, Dianne and their children Tameka “Tiny” Harris (of Xscape who is married to rapper T.I.), Albert “Little Redd” Cottle and Michelle Pope.

Leonard Garment, Nixon's lawyer/adviser who advised him not to destroy the tapes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/leonard-garment-former-adviser-to-richard-nixon-at-height-of-watergate-dies-in-nyc-at-89/2013/07/15/b234a92a-edbe-11e2-bb32-725c8351a69e_story.html

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/leonard-garment-1924-2013-nixon-s-watergate-lawyer-and-israel-s-man-in-the-white-house-1.535976

I read his Deep Throat book, which came out a year or two before Mark Felt spoke up. He went through a bunch of possibilities and decided that it was most likely John Sears--Felt was on the short list (can't remember why Garment eliminated him). Also have his biography but haven't read it.

T-Model Ford

http://www.fatpossum.com/news/333
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1890763/t-model-ford-salty-bluesman-dead-at-94

aw.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/actor-dennis-burkley-king-of-the-hill-585754

Who?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/p480x480/1044814_385667278229744_1549419644_n.jpg
http://www.dennisburkley.com/Malone.jpg
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130716210756-dennis-burkley-restricted-story-top.jpg

Aw, shit. That guy.

Goalkeeper Bert Trautmann, who famously broke his neck in the 1956 FA Cup Final but got up and carried on playing to the end of the match:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jul/19/bert-trautmann-manchester-city-germany

Mel Smith, apparently.

Wiki has "born 3 December 1952 - 20 July 2013" but no other mention of his dying

apart from 'was' sprinkled throughout the entry. bizarre.

Twitter says the source is Kathy Lette.

wikipedia got changed back

Kathy Lette tweeted about 50 minutes ago, Twitter is failing me in a search to see if she was the first to mention it.

No, wait, I found one from 2 hours ago, some guy with only 8 tweets to his name tweeting the BBC to tell them:

Michael Charrier ‏@MC57 2h
@BBC I understand Mel Smith has died aged 61.

not bad for a 60 year old

BBC reporting it now:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23390982

Only 60. Shame. Never liked him mind you! But RIP nonetheless.

oh no :( UK Gold been showing Not The Nine O'Clock News the past week or 2. Saw one last night.

Helen Thomas

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/journalist-helen-thomas-dead-at-92?ref=fpb

Ten presidents. A little surprised they didn't mention the controversy that led to her retirement.

i just came to post that. too bad. it's a cliche at this point, but her independence really distinguished her from the current generation of beltway journalists.

John Casablancas, 70:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/nyregion/john-casablancas-modeling-visionary-dies-at-70.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

@AP
BREAKING: Publicist: Actor Dennis Farina, police officer turned star of "Law & Order," has died at 69.

Just a few months after his character on New Girl died, too...

(Uh, spoilers, I guess, but it's a sitcom and he was in, like, two episodes.)

His performance in the last episode of Luck was so amazing.

the Buffalo Trace whiskey guy just died, too lazy to go get the article. But apparently he was the main person responsible for the revival of Bourbon as a "premium" drink.

I haven't seen Crime Story since I was a kid, but I always thought he was a badass.

:-(

Hilarious in Get Shorty. "The fuckin' airport."

Was just coming to see if this had been posted. His scene in Get Shorty arguing over the difference between "e.g." and "i.e." never failed to make me laugh. Plus he's a big part of my favorite underrated comedy, Midnight Run.

Ugh, Gandolfini and Farina both great in Get Shorty, both dead within a month of each other. :(

Damn. Best part of Get Shorty, great on Luck.

Don't say a word to me, Sydney. Don't say a fuckin' word to me I'll get up and I'll bury this telephone in your head.

love the farina/keaton scene in out of sight

"Have anything to declare?"

"Yeah, don't go to England."

love the farina/keaton scene in out of sight

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, July 22, 2013

yeah ^ this.

lol, I forgot about that. "Hey, Ray, you ever wear one that says 'undercover?'"

"Naw."

the worst news, i loved dennis farina

"Crime Story" was a big thing in my house when I was a little kid, although I don't think my parents let me see any more of it than the opening credits. RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlAx3SmFJTU

I wasn't allowed to watch 'Crime Story' either but forever associate "Runaway" with the credits. Is it worth doing so now?

every single time there's a beautiful sunset in l.a. i think of "They say the fucking smog is the fucking reason you have such beautiful fucking sunsets."

I wasn't allowed to watch 'Crime Story' either but forever associate "Runaway" with the credits. Is it worth doing so now?

― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, July 22, 2013 2:37 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd say so, but with a grain of salt, as it was a show that probably would have benefited from shorter, cable-style seasons. There's a fair number of filler episodes. Another issue, although in some respects minor, is that they've never been able to get new clearances for the music on the dvds, so occasionally you get some distracting poorly done period library music in place of a good oldie.

BTW, the Mafia case they used as inspiration for the main arc of the series is the same one from Casino.

uncle cob otm about crime story, it was pretty great at the time and still worth watching (esp if you love mann obv) but it hasn't aged fantastically. somehow wiseguy and miami vice have probably aged better despite (or due to probably) a relative lack of ambition. farina was great in it obv and great in a ton of other things. least surprising 'he used to be a cop' ever. neat story from the av club writeup: In the meantime, Farina starred as the hardboiled Kennedy-era supercop Mike Torello in Mann’s TV series Crime Story, an ambitious tribute to early ‘60s fashions, longform pulp storytelling, violent male one-upmanship, tail fins, and Chicago architecture, at least until the action shifted to Las Vegas toward the end of the first of its two seasons. The series gave him the chance to work again with actor John Santucci, a former jewel thief who had also worked as a technical advisor on Thief. In an earlier life, Farina had once arrested him.

Emile Griffith, boxing champ of the '60s

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/sports/emile-griffith-boxer-who-unleashed-a-fatal-barrage-dies-at-75.html

Ryutaro Nakamura, director of Serial Experiments Lain and Kino's Journey.
this is big as Satoshi Kon's passing to me, and like Kon his illness prevented him from completing a final potential masterpiece. fuck you cancer.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/news/2013-07-25/serial-experiments-lain-director-ryutaro-nakamura-passes-away

rip, loved his work and was really hoping despera would somehow happen

Bernadette Lafont, one of the first French New Wave stars, worked w/Truffaut (in Les mistons his first completed short), Godard, Chabrol, Malle, Eustache...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ri1Lw2HTIFQ/Ttl1WRHCCUI/AAAAAAAAeNY/r_YiNGm12OQ/s400/Bernadette%2BLafont%2BClose-Up.jpg

http://www.soundonsight.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/The-mother-and-the-whore.png

RIP :(

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/us/virginia-johnson-masterss-collaborator-in-sex-research-dies-at-88.html?pagewanted=2&ref=science

http://blogs.artinfo.com/blunotes/2013/07/remembering-drummer-and-percussionist-steve-berrios/#more-2289

Artist Walter "Lightning Field" De Maria

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-walter-de-maria-20130727,0,3932187.story

JJ Cale

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-singer-songwriter-jj-cale-dead-at-74-20130727,0,7365598.story

RIP everybody. Had not now Steve Berrios pronounced his name with the accent on the last syllable until Thursday night. He was one of those h

guys like Mulgrew Miller, of that in-between generation-I guess they were apart ten years apart in age- neither was on a ton of magazine covers or widely known, but both were very well-respected by musicians and clued-in jazz d-bags.

Making the rounds on twitter and facebook:

RIP, Mick Farren. :(

Christian Benitez, Ecuadorian international footballer, age 27.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/mick-farren-dies/

x-post

NYT Steve Berrios obit for curmudgeon: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/arts/music/steve-berrios-master-of-latin-jazz-and-drums-dies-at-68.html?_r=0

Thanks. I think I saw Berrios with the Gonzalez brothers and other Fort Apache band types once down my way in DC. RIP

RIP Virginia Johnson, 1960s sex researcher

Working with an initial group of 694 volunteers — 382 men and 312 women — Masters and Johnson hooked subjects up to instruments that recorded heart rate, brain activity and metabolism as they copulated or masturbated. Using a tiny camera placed in an artificial phallus, they were able to capture direct evidence, previously unseen, of what happens inside the vagina during female sexual arousal.

Among their findings were these:

■ Contrary to popular belief, there was absolutely no difference between a vaginal orgasm (the good kind, according to Freud) and a clitoral orgasm (the bad kind).

■ The length of a man’s penis has no bearing on his ability to satisfy his partner.

■ For elderly people, a group long considered sexually demure if not altogether chaste, vigorous sexual activity was not only possible but normal.

Harry F. Bird, Jr., former Virginia Senator
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/harry-f-byrd-jr-former-us-senator-from-va-dies-at-98/2013/07/30/54de3f70-c5da-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html?hpid=z4

I mean, senator from Virginia.

Lindy Boggs, 9-term rep from Louisiana

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323854904578634102729730638.html

If you must h8, she was firmly anti-abortion, and was the mother of Cokie Roberts.

eileen brennan

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/actress-eileen-brennan-dies-595503

she was in pretty rough shape when i saw her at the 'last picture show' 40th anniversary screening :/

RIP Mrs. Peacock

Kongar-ol-Ondar

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/arts/music/kongar-ol-ondar-a-bewitching-master-of-remarkable-sounds-dies-at-51.html?ref=music&_r=0

Tim Wright, bassist for Pere Ubu and DNA

http://www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2013/08/tim_wright_original_bassist_of.html

Baltimore Colts' Hall of Fame defensive tackle Art Donovan, who was funny as fuck on many Letterman stints in the '80s and '90s

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/sports/football/art-donovan-a-behemoth-of-modesty-dies-at-89.html

I remember an episode of The Tonight Show where Donovan told Johnny a story about playing football on a field that had hosted a circus on the previous day.

Only time I can remember hearing the word "shit" said so many times on network tv,

Hearing or seeing? Because surely it was bleeped.

It wasn't! That's why I remember it.

Ruth Asawa: http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/well-known-sf-artist-ruth-asawa-dies-87/nZHMQ/

http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/requiem-badass-ten-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-late-ruth-asawa

Flight Lieutenant Tony Snell

Spitfire pilot. His obit is 100% "people who figured out how to live"

karen black

https://www.facebook.com/stephen.eckelberry/posts/10151524884835178

Damn.

THAT SUCKS

Damn, RIP Kongar-ol, you ruled.

ahit, I am never opening this thread again! So many bummers.

Saw on another forum that Kitten Natividad is reporting that fellow Meyer superstar Haji has died from a sudden heart attack.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/10/eddie-perez-dead-el-gran-combo_n_3736421.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices

Eddie Perez Dead: Co-founder Of Puerto Rico's El Gran Combo Dies

Eydie Gorme:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/08/10/us/ap-us-obit-eydie-gorme-.html?hp

poor Steve

Must have listened to those Spanish recordings she made with Trio Los Panchos hundreds if not thousands of times. RIP.

Obit for Haji

William Clark, one of Reagan's most influential advisers and his second national security adviser.

Allan Sekula

Charlatans drummer Jon Brookes

jack germond

there's a great story in the boys on the bus of jack germond and hunter s thompson having a footrace on the beach while the rest of the reporter pool placed bets. germond won!

always my favorite McLaughlin Group member

RIP bro

Pauline Maier, author and historian of the early US.

Allan Lanier of Blue Oyster Cult. Already noted on the ILM BOC thread.

I missed Jack Germond...He was so funny in the midst of that spectacle. Read an article when the show was still prominent, and I think he said it was just to pay his daughter's tuition or something like that. I thought he was already dead. He always seemed to be struggling, shifting around in his chair and clearing his throat.

Germond's memoir is worth tracking down and absolutely mandatory if you like journalist war stories. Who's left of that era?

Lisa Robin Kelly of That '70s Show (age 43): http://gawker.com/how-do-you-die-in-your-sleep-at-a-rehab-facility-natur-1149952202

oof.

Germond always looked like he was about to heave on that show

xxp

man, lisa robin kelly. that sucks.

Every so often, I still like to randomly thunder out, "JACK GER-MOND!"

you've been obsessed with putrid American punditry for awhile now, eh? (or is that Dana Carvey's version?)

american putridty

Germond always looked like he was about to heave on that show

xxp

― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius)

Sounds like you may have seen it more than once or twice yourself.

Not usu much more than 10 minutes. It might've taken me awhile in my 20s to wake up to David Brinkley's show being a circus of the self-interested, but McLaughlin was a precursor of the idiocy that surrounds us now.

As far as it said it being "just to pay his daughter's tuition," well it's all 95% of us remember you for now, Dead Guy.

what was a morbs like in his 20s?

cuter and better at sleeping

unpossible

Every so often, I still like to randomly thunder out, "JACK GER-MOND!"

― clemenza, Thursday, August 15, 2013 8:39 PM (Yesterday)

YES! RIP Jack

lol at morbs getting all "part-time punks" about the mclaughlin group

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/tompall-glaser-79-country-artist-was-outlaw-movement-pioneer/2013/08/14/d7eb8e94-04fd-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story.html

Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter protege who was forced to resign as OMB director in '77

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bert-lance-ally-of-former-president-carter-and-former-us-budget-director-dies-at-age-82/2013/08/15/dee2c98c-0616-11e3-bfc5-406b928603b2_story.html

About all I remember about Bert Lance was a hilarious SNL spoof of the then-current "everybody knows my name, but nobody knows my face" American Express commercials, where Bert Lance's AmEx card was turned down and voided whenever he tried to use it

had no idea about this:

Lance is credited with originating the phrase "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", when he was quoted saying it in the May 1977 issue of the magazine Nation's Business. The expression became widespread, and William Safire wrote that it "has become a source of inspiration to anti-activists."

I remember Paul Conrad's political cartoons in the LA TImes that portrayed Jimmy Carter as a medieval knight with a "broken Lance"

Pianist/composer Cedar Walton.

Albert "Bell Curve" Murray:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/books/albert-murray-essayist-who-challenged-the-conventional-dies-at-97.html?hp

Oh fuck, that's Charles Murray. Anyway, Albert Murray.

http://tvline.com/2013/08/19/lee-thompson-young-dead-at-29/#more-453246

Jett Jackson, R.I.P.

(more recent reports confirmed suicide)

Eazy I am lolling hardcore over here

lol eazy

Elmore Leonard :(

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130820/ENT09/308200051/American-novelist-Elmore-Leonard-has-died?odyssey=mod|breaking|text|FRONTPAGE

aw man

knew that was coming but what a loss

RIP Dutch

Own thread needed?

almost certainly.

Marian McPartland.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/08/21/161653933/marian-mcpartland-piano-jazz-host-has-died

Not a shock -- she was 95 -- but sorry for her to go. I've learned a lot from her show over the years.

aw dammit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fV1M-hlllk
this whole show was wonderful, alice did a fantastic giant steps that's my favourite version of the song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fV1M-hlllk

Ted Post, TV/film director of Go Tell the Spartans, Hang ‘em High, Magnum Force, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, and The Baby:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/magnum-force-director-ted-post-dies-609803

RIP Gil Taylor, cinematographer on Star Wars...A Hard Day's Night...Dr Strangelove...Frenzy...and so many more:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23808854

RIP, Gil.

BBC being mean with their headline/caption.

Gilbert Taylor, Star Wars cinematographer, dies aged 99

Gilbert Taylor, pictured here in 2009, said he would most like to be remembered for his work on Dr Strangelove

Dean Meminger:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/sports/basketball/dean-meminger-who-helped-knicks-to-a-title-dies-at-65.html?_r=0

I watched basketball then--still remembered "Dean the Dream" being his nickname.

Julie Harris, giant of the stage

(I had no idea she was on Knots Landing for EIGHT YEARS)

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-julie-harris-1925-2013

aw :(

The Member of the Wedding makes my teeth hurt, but she and Ethel Waters were great in it anyway.

She was a p great Mary Chestnutt in KB's Civil War imo

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1240665_10152471621562137_1538507264_n.jpg

Amazing in The Haunting.

Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., one of the last remaining people who claimed to have handled debris from the crashed UFO at Roswell.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/jesse-marcel-jr-dies_n_3831147.html

Seamus Heaney

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23920336

...david frost

Paradine, lost.

Sad. I know he did a lot of other things, but I think of him as the calm centre of The Satire Boom. Cook, Moore and Chapman went a long time ago (and Barker & Kinnear from the supporting players of that era), of course.

Greatest television ever:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkcZAB4_wd4

Frost only appears a couple of times over the course of nine minutes. He knew enough to shut up and let Nixon ramble. Someone today would get impatient and jump in constantly to pin him down--i.e., I must get the upper hand. That can be what's called for, but not here; you need to get out of the way and let Nixon slowly, circuitously, inexorably find his way to that amazing last couple of minutes.

RIP David F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evc8KTGdF7E

Frost had been dead since 1979.

RIP, Frederik Pohl.

His granddaughter posted it on twitter.

RIP.

Broadcaster David Jacobs dies at 87

Tommy Morrison, former WBO heavyweight boxing champion & Rocky V chump

http://www.19actionnews.com/story/23331636/convicted-cleveland-kidnapper-hangs-himself

Ariel Castro, good riddance.

wouldn't have minded him doing at least ten before putting on the skinny necktie.

Do these people not know how to run prisons or are they perhaps deliberately negligent?

from documentaries i've seen i'd go with "disgrace to the notion of belonging to a civilized society". the US penal system is a sick, disgusting denial of human rights law.

British prisons also have a track record of allowing notorious mass murderers to hang themselves

yeah i know i was thinking of the wider context of savagery tbh

http://www.bustle.com/articles/4741-sushmita-banerjee-author-of-escape-from-taliban-murdered-in-afghanistan

Frederik Pohl

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23955298

Cal Worthington

trawled youtube trying to find a clip of him saying '...or I'll eat a bug!' was v bummed to come up empty handed

rip cal

x-post-- Sushmita Banerjee's death is so sad.

Zelmo Beaty, Undersize Force in Pro Basketball, Dies at 73
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Beaty was probably about 6 feet 8 inches, but he excelled as a scorer and as a rebounder in his battles with bigger opponents.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/sports/basketball/zelmo-beaty-undersize-force-in-pro-basketball-dies-at-73.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130910

I always liked the name Zelmo.

Really sad here -- Andrew Goodwin, author of Dancing in the Distraction Factory. Died in an apartment fire in Berkeley.

6'8" is undersize?
xp

modernist Marxist philosopher Marshall Berman, author of the very important and still a good read All That Is Solid Melts Into Air.

Saul Landau, Maker of Films With Leftist Edge, Dies at 77
By DOUGLAS MARTIN NY Times
Mr. Landau's passion for asking what he called "the most intrusive questions" yielded penetrating cinematic profiles of leaders like Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende.

Otto Sander, German film actor best known as Wings of Desire angel

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-otto-sander-1941-2013

Bummer. RIP, Otto.

:-(

Ray Dolby, who developed the noise-reduction system bearing his name and co-invented the videotape recorder, at 80.

RIP Marshall Berman.

RIP Jackie Lomax.

Marshall Berman will be missed. RIP

Ken Norton, one of the heavyweight greats.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24155378

Lindsay Cooper of Henry Cow et al

Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo 1949-2002
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24160150

In addition to beating Ali (twice if you account for bullshit scoring), Ken Norton was one of God's most aesthetically appealing designs. Hollywood briefly noticed.

http://www.theimagist.com/files/images/mandingo1.thumbnail.jpg

Ken Norton, one of the heavyweight greats.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24155378

― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Thursday, 19 September 2013 11:01 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Amazing boxer. Beat Ali at least twice imo, but only got one decision from their three fights.

http://news.msn.com/obits/hiroshi-yamauchi-nintendo-pioneer-dies

Richard Sarafian, director of Vanishing Point
http://www.latimes.com/la-me-richard-sarafian-20130919,0,4552797.story

Gilles Verlant, Belgian music journalist and Serge Gainsbourg's biographer
http://www.franceinfo.fr/culture-medias/gilles-verlant-journaliste-musical-est-mort-1148673-2013-09-20

Bill Bartell of White Flag

Marta Heflin.

(Ashamed to admit that I had to see the pic on the link to remember who she is. RIP.)

I tried to watch A Perfect Couple once, but bailed after about 20 minutes.

x-post
Bill Bartell was only 52

Jane Connell, theatre/nightclub/TV vet best known for Mame

http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/theater/jane-connell-agnes-gooch-of-mame-is-dead-at-87.html

S.M. Goenka

:(

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/vipassana-guru-s-n-goenka-dies/1176659/

S. N. even

Marcella Hazan

R.I.P. Anthony Hinds, the main man behind Hammer films:

http://www.starburstmagazine.com/movie-news/6704-rip-anthony-hinds

http://shelf-life.ew.com/2013/10/02/tom-clancy-dead/

Tom Clancy

I've never read any of his books and can't remember anything about the movies I've seen that have been adapted from them.

Sorry, that's a horrible epitaph.

Somebody else give this a go, will you?

ok, how 'bout

The political left, they deal in symbols rather than reality. The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across. And conservatives are indeed conservative because if the bridge falls down then people die, whereas the liberals figure, we can always build a nice memorial and make people forget it ever happened and was our fault. They're very good at making people forget it was their fault. Allright? The CIA was gutted by people on the political left who don't like Intelligence operations... and as a result of that, as an indirect result of that, we lost 5,000 citizens last week. (Sept. 21, 2001)

glad to see you go go go go goodbye

hahahaha and how many bridges are in massive states of disrepair right now thanks to conservative tax cuts, etc?

jesus christ

don't hit your arse on the way out, clancy

Warhol star Mario Montez

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-mario-montez-1935-2013

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/10/07/rip-butch-warren-d-c-jazz-great/

Patrice Chereau, director of film (Queen Margot, Son Frere), theatre, opera

(no obits in English as yet)

links here

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-patrice-chereau-1944-2013

Only saw Queen Margot, which I very much enjoyed; Think I only ended up watching it because Isabelle Adjani. Which of his other films are recommended?

Of the ones I've seen besides QM (hope US gets the full version someday), Son Frere and Gabrielle. Others like Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train more than I do.

Horror writer Philip Nutman has died, according to Clive Barker. No obit yet, but a short bio here https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/PhilipNutman

(not sure 'horror writer' is the write term, really. Miscellaneous writer.)

http://www.tmottgogo.com/rest-in-paradise-go-go-legend-melvin-butch-lewis-phenomenal-drummer/

Stanley Kauffmann, 97, longtime film critic for the New Republic

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115090/tribute-stanley-kauffmann

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/arts/music/philip-chevron-guitarist-with-the-pogues-dies-at-56.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131009&_r=0

RIP. Had cancer