Rolling Obituary Thread 2014

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Grim reaper reaps grimly...

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 2 January 2014 07:17 (eleven years ago)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/01/james-avery-dead-dies_n_4528384.html

R.I.P. "Uncle Phil"

― Cereal. Killed it. No spoon. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 2 January 2014 07:57 (eleven years ago)

^ technically a 2013 death I guess. soz for spoiling the thread so early.

― Cereal. Killed it. No spoon. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 2 January 2014 08:00 (eleven years ago)

another late '13: Juanita Moore

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/juanita-moore-oscar-nommed-for-imitation-of-life-dies-at-99-1201018950/

― Maintenance Engineer of Foolhardiness (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 2 January 2014 08:20 (eleven years ago)

Geoffrey Wheeler, on Dec 30th. Another fixture of childhood gone.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/10546095/Geoffrey-Wheeler-obituary.html

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 January 2014 09:43 (eleven years ago)

Juanita Moore, dead at 99.

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 January 2014 13:10 (eleven years ago)

This is the year where we do not read the immediately preceding posts

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2014 15:40 (eleven years ago)

Guys, Juanita Moore died.

― Lip-Smackin', Finger-Lickin', Ooey-Gooey Goodness (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 January 2014 15:49 (eleven years ago)

This is the year we do not read the immediately preceding posts

― Nhex, Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:03 (eleven years ago)

Sad news, but 99 is a hell of an innings http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/02/juanita-moore-imitation-of-life-dies

― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:09 (eleven years ago)

I heard a rumour Juanita Moore died.

― Madchen, Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:16 (eleven years ago)

uncle phil from fresh prince aka james avery

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:16 (eleven years ago)

Is anyone even reading the preceeding posts? I swear...

― Lip-Smackin', Finger-Lickin', Ooey-Gooey Goodness (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:17 (eleven years ago)

Is anyone even reading the preceeding posts? I swear...

― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:18 (eleven years ago)

I get the joke, but really?

― badgers moved the goalposts (dowd), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:21 (eleven years ago)

It's been a boring year.

― Nhex, Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:22 (eleven years ago)

ugh this is terrible: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/02/259110857/juanita-moore-groundbreaking-actress-dies

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:23 (eleven years ago)

You know when you used to get a brand new diary, all nice and clean for the new year, and then you'd make a mistake writing your address in the front?

― Madchen, Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:24 (eleven years ago)

All too familiar: which is why all my diaries/journals are blank.

― badgers moved the goalposts (dowd), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:25 (eleven years ago)

I hope they get someone almost as good as Mahalia Jackson to sing at Juanita's funeral.

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:31 (eleven years ago)

Juanita who?

― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:32 (eleven years ago)

moore, moore, moore, how da ya like it

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:46 (eleven years ago)

You know that Mahalia Jackson sang at her funeral? In the movie, that is

― Can One Hear the Shape of a Ron Decline Bottle? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 January 2014 17:37 (eleven years ago)

http://lordheath.com/web_images/oliver_hardy___they_go_boom_.jpg

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2014 17:42 (eleven years ago)

Oh man, did Lou Costello die, too?

― Lip-Smackin', Finger-Lickin', Ooey-Gooey Goodness (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 January 2014 17:43 (eleven years ago)

And her daughter is the mother of those American Pie guys? Daughter in the movie, that is.

― Can One Hear the Shape of a Ron Decline Bottle? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 January 2014 17:45 (eleven years ago)

bob grant, roasting for sure in hell if there is one

http://t.co/5WG7ffUr2q

― k3vin k., Friday, 3 January 2014 00:24 (eleven years ago)

^^^^^^

(you Tom Schapling fans may not know "Get off my phone" was a Grant trademark)

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2014 14:05 (eleven years ago)

Tom's been pretty keen on giving credit where credit is due.

― Lip-Smackin', Finger-Lickin', Ooey-Gooey Goodness (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 January 2014 15:00 (eleven years ago)

Mike Vraney, founder of the Something Weird video label:

http://dailygrindhouse.com/thewire/memory-something-weird-founder-mike-vraney-1957-2014/

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 3 January 2014 17:26 (eleven years ago)

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/5862239/the-everly-brothers-phil-everly-dead-at-74

Phil Everly at 74

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/oscar-winning-producer-saul-zaentz-dies-at-92-1201025366/

Saul Zaentz at 92*

*Get Fogerty on the phone for remarks, plz!

― Cereal. Killed it. No spoon. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 4 January 2014 03:41 (eleven years ago)

Oh man mike vraney news is a huge bummer

― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Saturday, 4 January 2014 04:18 (eleven years ago)

Elizabeth Jane Howard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16051546

― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Saturday, 4 January 2014 08:26 (eleven years ago)

Astronomer and radical cosmologist Halton Arp

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2014/01/astronomer-halton-arp-dies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_Arp

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 5 January 2014 06:02 (eleven years ago)

Damn, Eusebio has died:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/05/eusebio-portugal-football-hero-dies-71

― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Sunday, 5 January 2014 09:07 (eleven years ago)

footage of the '66 portugal - north korea match on the bbc site http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25611509

― ogmor, Sunday, 5 January 2014 12:35 (eleven years ago)

Saul Zaentz at 92*

*Get Fogerty on the phone for remarks, plz!

The obit in the LA Times today said that Fogarty posted a link to his song (now called Vanz Cant Danz) but "no comment" otherwise.

― nickn, Sunday, 5 January 2014 18:47 (eleven years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/nyregion/donald-h-forst-feisty-newspaper-editor-dies-at-81.html?ref=nyregion&_r=2&

Donald H. Forst, the feisty former top editor of New York Newsday, The Village Voice and The Boston Herald, died on Saturday in Albany. He was 81.

Was with the Voice from 96 to 2005.

― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 January 2014 02:17 (eleven years ago)

rip, phil everly.

― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 6 January 2014 02:51 (eleven years ago)

Simon Hoggart of the Observer and Guardian

― sktsh, Monday, 6 January 2014 09:28 (eleven years ago)

oh jeez :(

― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Monday, 6 January 2014 09:58 (eleven years ago)

rip.

didn't realise he was Richard Hoggart's son.

― woof, Monday, 6 January 2014 10:01 (eleven years ago)

rip

Knew he was Richard Hoggart's son, but had to check if RH was still alive - and he is, 95 years old!

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 6 January 2014 10:30 (eleven years ago)

Run Run Shaw, Chinese movie/TV producer. 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Five Venoms, many more. 106 years old.

― zanarkand bozo (abanana), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 03:41 (eleven years ago)

Wow, that's too bad. I didn't know he was still alive. I've enjoyed lots of Shaw Brothers.

― jmm, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 03:53 (eleven years ago)

106? damn! shaw bros. responsible for a major chunk of my childhood

― Nhex, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 04:15 (eleven years ago)

http://www.nola.com/music/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2014/01/tabby_thomas_founder_of_tabbys.html

Soulful bluesman and Louisiana club owner

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 15:50 (eleven years ago)

Also father of singer/actor Chris Thomas King

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 15:50 (eleven years ago)

Amiri Baraka.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:30 (eleven years ago)

Trumpeter/composer Roy Campbell, Jr.

(no obit online yet; saw the news posted by his friends and collaborators in my fb feed)

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:00 (eleven years ago)

wow amiri baraka.

― Mordy , Friday, 10 January 2014 00:29 (eleven years ago)

sportswriter bill conlin -- really weird feeling that it at least fleetingly occurred to me to list him in dead pool picks (which i posted today) but didnt - seems like there should be a german word for this feeling

― johnny crunch, Friday, 10 January 2014 04:17 (eleven years ago)

:(( amiri baraka

― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Friday, 10 January 2014 07:37 (eleven years ago)

Reagan press mouthpiece Larry Speakes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/reagan-spokesman-larry-speakes-dies-at-74/2014/01/10/2e113276-7a4f-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 January 2014 02:56 (eleven years ago)

some of his primo material:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/times-the-reagan-white-house-press-briefing-erupted-with

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 January 2014 02:57 (eleven years ago)

Ariel Sharon

― Mule, Saturday, 11 January 2014 12:46 (eleven years ago)

... hot off the presses?

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 January 2014 13:03 (eleven years ago)

What a surprise

― nostormo, Saturday, 11 January 2014 13:50 (eleven years ago)

baruch dayan emet

― Mordy , Saturday, 11 January 2014 15:34 (eleven years ago)

Alexandra Bastedo:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/alexandra-bastedo-actress-best-known-for-her-role-in-the-1960s-television-scifi-series-the-champions-dies-9054808.html

― ailsa, Monday, 13 January 2014 00:00 (eleven years ago)

Bobby Collins, who played for lots of teams I like, and Leeds.

http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/90m4jnapb79f1ajeq55lar4a4/title/bobby-collins

― cis het boy (onimo), Monday, 13 January 2014 23:29 (eleven years ago)

Detroit-based psychedelic concert poster artist Gary Grimshaw

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 13 January 2014 23:34 (eleven years ago)

Roger Lloyd Pack :-(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006

― ailsa, Thursday, 16 January 2014 12:20 (eleven years ago)

Oh no, RIP Roger

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 13:26 (eleven years ago)

^ v. good as David Irving in the TV version of Selling Hitler

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 16 January 2014 14:00 (eleven years ago)

Bobby Collins, who played for lots of teams I like, and Leeds.

Briefly misread this as Bootsy and was bummed.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 14:49 (eleven years ago)

Russell Johnson of "This Gilligan's Island Earth"

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/gilligans-island-star-russell-johnson-dies-kidney-failure/story?id=21561740

― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:09 (eleven years ago)

RIP, we are never gonna get off the island now

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:14 (eleven years ago)

remember that Twilight Zone where he failed to save Lincoln?

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:15 (eleven years ago)

Roger Lloyd Pack :-(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006

― ailsa, Thursday, 16 January 2014 12:20 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh no, RIP Roger

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 13:26 (8 hours ago) Bookmark

i used to work in a bookshop and he used to come in to sell tapes of him reading keats and other romantic poets. they never sold anything. always wanted to say to him if he sold them as keats read in the manner of trigger he'd've had a bestseller.

― Fizzles, Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:49 (eleven years ago)

http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/16/dave-madden-dead-partridge-family-reuben-kincaid/

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:10 (eleven years ago)

Didn't know The Prof. & Mr. Kincaid were still around. RIP guys.

Also from TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/16/playboy-playmate-cassandra-lynn-hensley-dead-overdose-od/?adid=hero3

― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:14 (eleven years ago)

jeez, terrible day for my childhood sitcom foils, be they straight men or slow burners

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:21 (eleven years ago)

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/duneland/chesterton/final-female-oz-munchkin-ruth-duccini-dead-at/article_ff6f20f6-0367-5697-a512-3ff806d3086d.html

There's one left.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:45 (eleven years ago)

I think it's weird that people keep track of the number of living Wizard of Oz munchkins, but whatever.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:45 (eleven years ago)

The last munchkin will reap the reward of a sweetass tontine.

― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:51 (eleven years ago)

the entire trove of the Lollipop Guild

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 23:05 (eleven years ago)

I'm assuming Danny Partridge must have killed the Professor, just to make sure Reuben didn't get the spotlight for even a day.

― clemenza, Friday, 17 January 2014 00:11 (eleven years ago)

Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese WW2 soldier to surrender (after three decades in the jungle).
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25772192

― Madchen, Friday, 17 January 2014 08:12 (eleven years ago)

the dude was insane

― nostormo, Friday, 17 January 2014 12:31 (eleven years ago)

he and similar men inspired many pop culture gags, incl an episode of... Gilligan's Island

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 January 2014 12:59 (eleven years ago)

> the last Japanese WW2 soldier to surrender

that article says there was another one found a few months later

"Mr Onoda was one of the last Japanese soldiers to surrender at the end of World War II.

Private Teruo Nakamura, a soldier from Taiwan who served in the Japanese army, was found growing crops alone on the Indonesian island of Morotai in December 1974."

― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:01 (eleven years ago)

a soldier from Taiwan who served in the Japanese army

not Japanese then

― cis het boy (onimo), Friday, 17 January 2014 14:12 (eleven years ago)

says he was 'from taiwan', doesn't say he was taiwanese. 8)

(and that is a japanese name, not a taiwanese name)

― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:30 (eleven years ago)

( drat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Nakamura )

― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:31 (eleven years ago)

( This article is about the soldier. For the jazz bassist, see Teruo Nakamura (musician). For the golfer, see Teruo Nakamura (golfer). )

― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:32 (eleven years ago)

Does it honestly matter, Andy?

― Madchen, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:35 (eleven years ago)

"calling out a dude by his real name when shit gets heated" thread, RIP 2010 (iirc)

― cis het boy (onimo), Friday, 17 January 2014 14:37 (eleven years ago)

no, was just interesting reading about it all.

― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:37 (eleven years ago)

the brainwash effect of an extreme disciplinary culture

― nostormo, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:41 (eleven years ago)

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/16/travis-jackson-points-drummer-and-windian-records-founder-killed-in-collision/

punky and garage-rock sounds drummer and label owner

― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 January 2014 15:06 (eleven years ago)

Lord McAlpine: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25792289

― ailsa, Saturday, 18 January 2014 12:38 (eleven years ago)

I'm not sure I can believe that until Sally Bercow tweets about it.

― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Saturday, 18 January 2014 12:45 (eleven years ago)

Ha, I expect there are a million twitterers with their fingers poised thinking "hmmm, can I?".

― ailsa, Saturday, 18 January 2014 12:46 (eleven years ago)

A "dedicated supporter of Margaret Thatcher and the Tory party". RIP out of the question then.

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 January 2014 14:06 (eleven years ago)

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72372000/jpg/_72372821_komla-foa.jpg

Komla Dumor, BBC news presenter, 41 heart attack, unexpected.

― Mark G, Saturday, 18 January 2014 21:39 (eleven years ago)

Claudio Abbado:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/20/conductor-claudio-abbado-dies-aged-80

One of the best Italian conductors of the modern era.

― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Monday, 20 January 2014 12:09 (eleven years ago)

Steven Fromholz:

http://www.austin360.com/weblogs/austin-music-source/2014/jan/19/steven-fromholz-ground-breaking-austin-songwriter-/

― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 January 2014 18:05 (eleven years ago)

Former NY Congressman Otis Pike

He went to school with my grandmother, and his daughter was my mother's classmate.

― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 20 January 2014 21:07 (eleven years ago)

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/23/alexandros-alexi-petersen-gentleman-scholar-and-punk-rocker/

Killed in Kabul, Afghanistan in a Taliban attack on a restaurant

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 January 2014 23:10 (eleven years ago)

This one is more for Chicago folks than anybody...

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2014/01/rip-luis-alcala.html

Luis Alcala, founder and proprietor of the Midwest's largest Western wear emporium, Alcala's Ropa Para Caballeros.

― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:52 (eleven years ago)

RIP Señor Alcala. I used to live around the block from his store.

― kate78, Monday, 27 January 2014 22:08 (eleven years ago)

I've been to Chicago a lot but never was at Alcala's until the last time, that place ruled so much. Someday I'll buy a full ensemble - boots, hat, cowboy suit, scorpion belt buckle, the works.

― joygoat, Monday, 27 January 2014 22:11 (eleven years ago)

The scorpion belt buckle may be the single most indelible image of that amazing place.

― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:34 (eleven years ago)

A scorpion is on their logo and their sign.

― kate78, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:06 (eleven years ago)

Oh man I forgot about that, of course. Doesn't the tail move back and forth?

― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 01:22 (eleven years ago)

pete seeger

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html?_r=0

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 06:48 (eleven years ago)

fuck

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 06:57 (eleven years ago)

94 though... that's a hell of a run.

― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 07:15 (eleven years ago)

I don't know that 94 ever calls for "fuck."

Saw him with Arlo G at Carnegie Hall once -- and also on the subway, with his guitar and a bass-fiddle sideman.

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 12:15 (eleven years ago)

i can say fuck if I want to, what are you the fuck police wait nvm

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 14:52 (eleven years ago)

Luis Avalos, whom is you are old enough you knew on the Electric Company. http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-passings-20140128,0,7327295.story#axzz2rioIStVx

― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 19:08 (eleven years ago)

― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 20:54 (eleven years ago)

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

Que en paz descanse

― Wild Mountain Armagideon Thyme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 20:56 (eleven years ago)

(Psst: wrong show, wrong Luis.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c53Tz2981KQ

― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:36 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-aS8IcrR3k

― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:38 (eleven years ago)

Noooooo

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 30 January 2014 04:35 (eleven years ago)

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/30/ibrahima-sylla

RIP at 57. Producer of Orchestre Baobab, Salif Keita, Africando and others. Worked on a number of projects that fused Cuban and West African sounds.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:41 (eleven years ago)

The Mighty Hannibal

http://www.spin.com/#articles/the-mighty-hannibal-dead-74-funk-soul-james-shaw/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6si2esZc2k

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 January 2014 03:42 (eleven years ago)

RIP. You didn't go to that thing at Joe's Pub a few years ago, did you Morbius?

― Wild Mountain Armagideon Thyme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 January 2014 04:58 (eleven years ago)

This thing: http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,4518
Where they showed this: http://vimeo.com/6982727

― Wild Mountain Armagideon Thyme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 January 2014 05:00 (eleven years ago)

Close friends with one o those gals, i know theyre tore up about this

― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 January 2014 06:55 (eleven years ago)

no, Redd. I could swear I saw TMH play somewhere once though.

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 January 2014 12:34 (eleven years ago)

http://clatl.com/cribnotes/archives/2014/01/30/the-mighty-hannibal-rip

Another obit for him

― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 January 2014 14:17 (eleven years ago)

Miklós Jancsó, prize-winning Hungarian film director (The Red and the White, Red Psalm)

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 January 2014 16:06 (eleven years ago)

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-miklos-jancso-1921-2014

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 January 2014 16:10 (eleven years ago)

Paul Warhola, Andy Warhol's older brother.

― Artichoke, Badger, Cornflower, Daisy (doo dah), Saturday, 1 February 2014 14:31 (eleven years ago)

Oscar winner Maximilian Schell... apparently directed quite a few decent things, and his Dietrich doc Marlene (an interview in which she refused to be filmed) is my favorite thing he did.

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-maximilian-schell-1930-2014

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 1 February 2014 16:32 (eleven years ago)

Yeah, that doc is very good. RIP.

Mr. Fine WIne posting lots of Hannibal memories on his FB page.

― Wild Mountain Armagideon Thyme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 February 2014 16:42 (eleven years ago)

i enjoyed some jancso films last year. must get around to 'red palm'.

― koogs, Saturday, 1 February 2014 17:50 (eleven years ago)

Anna Gordy
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/anna-gordy-gaye-ex-wife-of-marvin-gaye-dead-at-92-20140131
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6aXP4FYuIw

― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Saturday, 1 February 2014 20:18 (eleven years ago)

jancso was one of the greats and foremost exponents of the long take / choreographed mis en scene idiom

the red and the white is one of my favourite films, he was making films in his old age that never got much attention so who knows

― Pedro Mba Obiang Avomo est un joueur de football hispano-ganéen (nakhchivan), Saturday, 1 February 2014 20:26 (eleven years ago)

RIP jancso - i have xyzzzz to thank for previously linking to this excellent final essay by raymond durgnat on red psalm (which looks stunning on the second sight region 2 dvd):

http://www.rouge.com.au/8/red_psalm.html

durgnat calls it 'processional cinema', which strikes me as exactly right.

― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 1 February 2014 21:38 (eleven years ago)

Arthur Rankin of Rankin-Bass animation fame, age 89

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/animation-legend-arthur-rankin-jr-676275

― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Sunday, 2 February 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

Philip Seymour Hoffman http://t.co/hNaBnT26jX

― Madchen, Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:46 (eleven years ago)

Working links from the c/d thread :
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304626804579358943360702878
http://nypost.com/2014/02/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-found-dead-in-his-apartment/

― StanM, Sunday, 2 February 2014 21:28 (eleven years ago)

:( Was away this weekend and missed Jancso's passing. RIP. Lots of his stuff I haven't seen, but would always go out of my way if something of his was showing.

― badgers moved the goalposts (dowd), Monday, 3 February 2014 15:06 (eleven years ago)

Joan Mondale, the former veep's wife

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/joan-mondale-political-wife-and-culture-maven-dies-at-83/2014/02/03/50398e42-8d29-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 10:00 (eleven years ago)

Christopher Jones, of the films Wild in the Streets and Ryan's Daughter

http://www.avclub.com/article/rip-christopher-jones-actor-of-the-legend-of-jesse-107461

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 21:22 (eleven years ago)

14 OR FIGHT

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 21:23 (eleven years ago)

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEqWCH_4srU

― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 21:41 (eleven years ago)

(as u might guess, he didn't sing it)

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 21:51 (eleven years ago)

Yeah, it was all L.A. session dudes. I can't find it now, but there was a ILM thread on the song and a googler who happened to be in one of the Max Frost 'road bands' to promote the single popped in to say 'hi'.

― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 21:55 (eleven years ago)

Wait, here it is.

― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 21:58 (eleven years ago)

ralph kiner

― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 February 2014 20:18 (eleven years ago)

oh shit.

Spent a good 40 years or so listening to that guy on the radio and teevee. Not seeing it anywhere, but i assume mook has his sources.

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 February 2014 20:23 (eleven years ago)

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24433472/hall-of-famer-ralph-kiner-passes-away-at-91

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 February 2014 20:31 (eleven years ago)

http://www.freep.com/article/20140131/ENT04/301310148/Detroit-pianist-arranger-Johnny-Allen-dies-at-96

Shared a Grammy with Isaac Hayes for "The Theme from Shaft"

― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 February 2014 05:49 (eleven years ago)

Maicon killed in a car crash.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/feb/08/shakhtar-donetsk-maicon-dies-car-accident

― I am a 'music' fan. Revolutionary, isn't it? (onimo), Saturday, 8 February 2014 10:55 (eleven years ago)

There are two Maicons. That was the one at Shaktar, not the more famous one who played at Inter & Roma.

― I am a 'music' fan. Revolutionary, isn't it? (onimo), Saturday, 8 February 2014 10:59 (eleven years ago)

twitter says Stuart Hall. :(

― Merdeyeux, Monday, 10 February 2014 10:58 (eleven years ago)

(the cultural theorist, not the paedophile)

― Merdeyeux, Monday, 10 February 2014 10:59 (eleven years ago)

Damm, RIP Stuart Hall. This works as a pretty fitting tribute:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/bfi-film-releases/stuart-hall-project

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 10 February 2014 11:47 (eleven years ago)

RIP dude, can't overstate how important your work is

― the undersea world of jacques kernow (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 February 2014 11:49 (eleven years ago)

that documentary is excellent, in a way that seems quite effortless - with someone as interesting and exciting at Hall all they had to do was show him doing his thing.

this article coinciding with its release is good too http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/18/professor-stuart-hall-multiculturalism-film

― Merdeyeux, Monday, 10 February 2014 12:00 (eleven years ago)

What a shame. RIP.

― baked beings on toast (suzy), Monday, 10 February 2014 12:17 (eleven years ago)

On a personal note, I remember very vividly listening to Stuart Hall's Desert Island Discs - the man had one of the great broadcast voices - and being struck by his passion for Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, which superficially seemed to be a million miles away from his own experience and values. It was this that led me to read POAL - and it would now be my own desert island book, too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/caed0ab9#p0094b6r

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 10 February 2014 12:57 (eleven years ago)

http://newleftreview.org/II/61/stuart-hall-life-and-times-of-the-first-new-left

good partial bio, partial political history

― the undersea world of jacques kernow (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 February 2014 13:02 (eleven years ago)

God, just a few weeks ago I was thinking of watching the Stuart Hall Project. What a startling and major loss ;_;

― Fiddler on a hot tin roof (ed.b), Monday, 10 February 2014 13:51 (eleven years ago)

excellent article NV, thanks for posting.

Guardian obit lays the blame for the G2 at Hall's door, which seems a bit unfair:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/10/stuart-hall

― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Monday, 10 February 2014 16:23 (eleven years ago)

think they've mistook "writing about popular culture" for "thinking about popular culture" but let's not have that argument here. i feel like i'm gonna be reading as much of him as i can get hold of for the next few weeks

― the undersea world of jacques kernow (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 February 2014 16:27 (eleven years ago)

Patricia Waters, mother of John Waters

― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 10 February 2014 23:50 (eleven years ago)

Erik Blegvad, children's book illustrator and father of Peter Blegvad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/arts/design/erik-blegvad-childrens-book-artist-dies-at-90.html

― Dr. Strongo's Peppermint Paté (WilliamC), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 03:16 (eleven years ago)

xxp - his writing was such a major part of my college education. I want to post/discuss it more on the semiotics thread.

― sarahell, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 03:22 (eleven years ago)

Leonard Knight, artist of Salvation Mountain in So Cal.

http://www.ivpressonline.com/news/local/quicknews/leonard-knight-of-salvation-mountain-fame-dies-at/article_ceb43720-92b2-11e3-9d6f-001a4bcf6878.html

― nickn, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 07:03 (eleven years ago)

Shirley Temple! She was 85.

― baked beings on toast (suzy), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 10:47 (eleven years ago)

I was amazed to hear she was only 85. Child-star notwithstanding, she exists in my mind alongside Chaplin and Al Jolson. She seemed to come out of another world even when I was kid--yet she was only 33 when I was born.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 12:32 (eleven years ago)

She saved what became 20th Century Fox studios from bankruptcy and made more than 40 movies before she turned 12.

Her most memorable performances included four films she made with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, a black dancer 50 years her senior and a favorite co-star, she later said.

They were first paired as foils for cantankerous Lionel Barrymore in 1935’s “The Little Colonel,” in which 7-year-old Shirley tap dances up and down the staircase, remarkably matching the veteran Robinson step for step.

“I would learn by listening to the taps,” Temple told the Washington Post in 1998. “I would primarily listen to what he was doing and I would do it.”

http://www.latimes.com/la-me-shirley-temple-black-20140211,0,7475592.story#ixzz2t1DjyAV3

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 13:16 (eleven years ago)

RIP Shirl

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 15:27 (eleven years ago)

I'm not sure I'd ever read Graham Greene's notorious review of Wee Willie Winkie before today - it seems unbelievably creepy, now:

http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com/2013/04/23/shirley-temple-and-the-greatest-piece-of-film-criticism-ever-written/

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 15:38 (eleven years ago)

heh, i just found that too. Then again, i had no idea that ST did a Dietrich parody, named as ‘Morelegs Sweet-trick’.

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-shirley-temple-black-1928-2014

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 15:44 (eleven years ago)

yikes!

― Nhex, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 15:45 (eleven years ago)

Also "Madame Cradlebait," per that fandor article.

― nickn, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:27 (eleven years ago)

Also noticed that Ehrenstein is solidly pro-Woody (compares Dylan to Tawana Bradley).

― nickn, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:28 (eleven years ago)

apparently maggie estep? hasn't broken on major news sources that I can see.

― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 15:33 (eleven years ago)

Sid Caesar

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26162316

― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 20:33 (eleven years ago)

sheeit. A great clown.

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 20:37 (eleven years ago)

Mel Brooks' assertion that doing 10 years of live tv effectively killed him very possibly otm.

― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 20:42 (eleven years ago)

A great clown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hosNwOscxQM
RIP, Gallipacci.

― The Crescent City of Kador (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 20:53 (eleven years ago)

Full version here: the best (and even the merely good) of the great SID CAESAR

― The Crescent City of Kador (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 20:54 (eleven years ago)

Caesar was a madman, I honestly didn't know he was still alive! RIP

confirmed on estep, sadly: http://evgrieve.com/2014/02/rip-maggie-estep.html

― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 20:55 (eleven years ago)

brooks said in an interview that him & carl reiner visited sid regularly, talked to him about old times & such. i got the impression he'd been in not v good shape for a while

old as he was, it's still sad to see him go :(

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 13 February 2014 01:02 (eleven years ago)

Gabriel Axel, Oscar-winning director of Babette's Feast

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/babette-s-feast-director-gabriel-678895

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 February 2014 19:57 (eleven years ago)

Please tell me it was a ham sandwich.

― Eric H., Thursday, 13 February 2014 20:05 (eleven years ago)

Aw, I just watched Babette's Feast for the 1st time a couple of weeks ago. RIP

― WilliamC, Thursday, 13 February 2014 20:18 (eleven years ago)

One of my favourite ever films, and I finally got to see it on the big screen last year. What a man.

― Madchen, Friday, 14 February 2014 01:11 (eleven years ago)

Goodnight Ralph Waite

http://m.deadline.com/2014/02/ralph-waite-dead-the-waltons-papa-john/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 14 February 2014 03:56 (eleven years ago)

Sir Tom Finney:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26200831

― ailsa, Friday, 14 February 2014 22:34 (eleven years ago)

Wayne Smith, of 'Under Mi Sleng Teng' fame

http://instagram.com/p/kiGWZKNusU/

― Slight damage to cover on top corner (chewed by a kitten) (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 17 February 2014 23:15 (eleven years ago)

Awww no. An important reggae record that is considered to be the start of digital dancehall reggae

― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 February 2014 23:43 (eleven years ago)

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5908442/marty-thau-dies-new-york-dolls-manager-red-star-records-founder-dead

― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 February 2014 23:43 (eleven years ago)

http://variety.com/2014/tv/people-news/green-acres-actress-mary-grace-canfield-dies-at-89-1201109723/

― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 05:59 (eleven years ago)

Mavis Gallant, 91:

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2014/02/18/mavis_gallant_legendary_short_story_writer_dies_at_91.html

― That's So (Eazy), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:43 (eleven years ago)

Bob Casale of DEVO http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/02/18/bob-casale-devo-guitarist-dies-heart-failure-age-61/

― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 18:03 (eleven years ago)

Fuck. RIP.

― weatheringdaleson, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 18:35 (eleven years ago)

Kralle (Gert) Krawinkle from Trio

What a shit day this is.

― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 07:16 (eleven years ago)

http://youtu.be/_Sp9uybENWo

― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 07:19 (eleven years ago)

Man, just saw that Mavis Gallant thing. :(

― A specialist in foolery (Michael White), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 19:22 (eleven years ago)

Ian McNaught-Davis
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26264595
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26278902

― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Friday, 21 February 2014 12:09 (eleven years ago)

Garrick Utley, longtime NBC News foreign correspondent (shocked he was only 74)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/21/280696654/garrick-utley-quintessential-foreign-correspondent-dies

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 February 2014 21:33 (eleven years ago)

Paul Colby, booker/owner of the Village club The Bitter End

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/5908498/paul-colby-owner-and-promoter-behind-landmark

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 February 2014 21:36 (eleven years ago)

Floyd Taylor, the son of the late blues and soul legend Johnnie Taylor has died at the age of sixty-years-old, according to a family friend.

http://blackamericaweb.com/2014/02/21/floyd-taylor-the-son-of-johnnie-taylor-dead-at-age-60/

Floyd Taylor was on the Southern soul scene

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 February 2014 17:19 (eleven years ago)

Alice Herz-Sommer: pianist and oldest known Holocaust survivor dies aged 110

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/23/alice-herz-sommer-holocaust-survivor-dies

― heritage punk act (onimo), Monday, 24 February 2014 13:52 (eleven years ago)

She's the subject of one of this year's doc short Oscar nominees, and she's absolutely charming in it.

― Eric H., Monday, 24 February 2014 13:53 (eleven years ago)

Maria Von Trapp:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/arts/maria-von-trapp-sound-of-music-daughter-dies-at-99.html?_r=0

― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 24 February 2014 14:14 (eleven years ago)

Problem solved.

― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Monday, 24 February 2014 14:44 (eleven years ago)

I almost said that, and didn't.

― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 24 February 2014 15:07 (eleven years ago)

Therefore you are a bad person.

― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 24 February 2014 15:07 (eleven years ago)

This was the last of the children, not the Maria played by Julie Andrews.

― Taking Devil's Tower (by mashed potatoes) (WilliamC), Monday, 24 February 2014 15:19 (eleven years ago)

idgi, your Oscar pool problem? xxxp

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 February 2014 15:20 (eleven years ago)

Oof: Harold Ramis.

― That's So (Eazy), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:14 (eleven years ago)

What what? No.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 24 February 2014 17:17 (eleven years ago)

Holy shit. Wow.

― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:18 (eleven years ago)

damn ;_;

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:18 (eleven years ago)

Aw man, I'll love Groundhog Day forever.

― Nhex, Monday, 24 February 2014 17:19 (eleven years ago)

― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:21 (eleven years ago)

jeez, only 69. didn't know he'd been that sick.

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:25 (eleven years ago)

:-(

― ailsa, Monday, 24 February 2014 17:25 (eleven years ago)

Egone. :-(

― baked beings on toast (suzy), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:28 (eleven years ago)

Always loved him in Stripes.

― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:28 (eleven years ago)

He was my frigging dad's age. And to see this in the article: Ramis’ serious health struggles began in May 2010 after he underwent surgery for diverticulitis and suffered complications related to the autoimmune disease after I just spent a night in the ER being treated for my second bad diverticulitis attack in a year . . . Ever since I was old enough to find "grown-up" comedy funny, Ramis has been a part of that. From the first time I saw "Stripes" on HBO up through his cameo as Seth Rogen's dad in "Knocked Up." God damn it.

― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:28 (eleven years ago)

He's my mother's age, too.

― baked beings on toast (suzy), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:30 (eleven years ago)

His scene in Knocked Up the best thing about it, by far.

RIP

― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:33 (eleven years ago)

RIP Paco de Lucia

― In Walked Sho-Bud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 12:00 (eleven years ago)

http://worldmusiccentral.org/2014/02/26/guitar-genius-paco-de-lucia-dies-at-66/

here's an obit for that flamenco and more guitarist

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 14:53 (eleven years ago)

RIP Paco

― weatheringdaleson, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 15:04 (eleven years ago)

writer and editor bhob stewart:

http://www.tcj.com/bhob-stewart-1937-2014/

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:46 (eleven years ago)

Didn't know him, his work with comics and curating, or that he worked on Wacky Packages for Topps, till now. Fascinating guy. RIP

― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 February 2014 14:48 (eleven years ago)

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/US-based-reggae-producer-Philip-Smart-dies

US-based reggae producer, and former NY reggae radio host Philip Smart dies

excerpt:

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Phillip Smart, whose Long Island studio was the hub for reggae/dancehall in the tri-state area, died Tuesday in Port Washington, New York.

Smart, who was in his late 50s, died from pancreatic cancer, his brother-in-law and business partner Michael McDonald confirmed.

The prolific engineer/producer worked with countless artistes at his HC&F Recording Studio in Long Island, most notably Shaggy who recorded several of his hit songs there.

‘Mampie’, ‘Oh Carolina’, ‘Big Up’ and ‘Angel’ were some of the songs Shaggy worked on at HC&F.

― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 February 2014 14:50 (eleven years ago)

RIP Phil

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:32 (eleven years ago)

RIP Al

http://www.theadvertiser.com/viewart/20140226/ACADIANA04/302260012/Musicians-friends-recall-Al-Berard

53 years old Louisiana Cajun guitarist and fiddler

― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 February 2014 17:25 (eleven years ago)

James Tague, key JFK assassination witness, dies

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 March 2014 23:54 (eleven years ago)

Alain Resnais

http://www.lepoint.fr/ces-gens-la/le-cineaste-alain-resnais-est-mort-02-03-2014-1796944_264.php

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 March 2014 10:21 (eleven years ago)

RIP. Did you go see Je t'aime, je t'aime last week?

And RIP Philip Smart. Used to listen to Get Smart all the time decades ago.

― In Walked Sho-Bud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 March 2014 12:31 (eleven years ago)

RIP Alain

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 March 2014 13:40 (eleven years ago)

"Dating Game" host Jim Lange

http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-jim-lange-20140228,0,6823668.story#axzz2v3dJswhg

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 04:07 (eleven years ago)

Sean Potts, 83, Master of the Tin Whistle and a Founder of the Chieftains, Dies
By WILLIAM YARDLEY New York Times
Mr. Potts learned to play the tin whistle from his grandfather in the 1930s and took stirring solos onstage as a member of the traditional Irish band.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 March 2014 14:49 (eleven years ago)

American La France - builder of fire engines.

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 8 March 2014 01:27 (eleven years ago)

Dr. Frank Jobe, inventor of the Tommy John surgery for baseball pitchers:

http://www.denverpost.com/rockies/ci_25300356/dr-frank-jobe-brought-pitchers-new-life-tommy

― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Saturday, 8 March 2014 15:44 (eleven years ago)

Sheila MacRae, ie mookieproof has bumped off the last regular of "the color Honeymooners":

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/honeymooners-star-sheila-macrae-dies-686939

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 March 2014 15:51 (eleven years ago)

Videomaker Norman Yonemoto, at 67.

http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-norman-yonemoto-20140304,0,1881107.story#axzz2vWNeab81

― nickn, Monday, 10 March 2014 02:05 (eleven years ago)

Wendy Hughes, Aussie film actress best known for My Brilliant Career and Careful, He Might Hear You

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/actress-wendy-hughes-dead-at-61-20140308-34dy5.html

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 16:53 (eleven years ago)

Věra Chytilová:

http://variety.com/2014/film/people-news/vera-chytilova-key-czech-director-of-the-1960s-new-wave-dies-at-85-1201130403/

Still haven't seen Daisies--only found out about it via the Mark Cousins series.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:11 (eleven years ago)

Aw man Daisies was one of those key influences for me & my friends growing up, RIP

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:45 (eleven years ago)

Movie trailer V.O. artist Hal Douglas:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/shareitnow/la-sh-hal-douglas-movie-trailers-20140313,0,444987.story

― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Friday, 14 March 2014 17:46 (eleven years ago)

have I missed a dedicated thread for The Monks Gary Burger? RIP anyway:

http://blog.thecurrent.org/2014/03/gary-burger-of-the-monks-passes-away/

― Fizzles, Friday, 14 March 2014 23:49 (eleven years ago)

Oh no. RIP :(

― I Forgot More Than You'll Ever POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 March 2014 23:54 (eleven years ago)

Only Larry and Eddie left, I guess

― I Forgot More Than You'll Ever POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 March 2014 23:58 (eleven years ago)

Joel Brinkley
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/joel-brinkley-who-won-a-pulitzer-for-a-series-on-cambodian-refugees-dies-at-61/2014/03/13/34f69b60-aabc-11e3-af5f-4c56b834c4bf_story.html

― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 15 March 2014 00:09 (eleven years ago)

I didn't realize there was an issue of authenticity, but the soldier in the famous WWII Times Square photo seems to have died:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/glenn-mcduffie-man-known-as-kissing-sailor-in-wwii-era-photo-dead-at-86-1.2573355

http://www.library.southernct.edu/worldwarii2.jpg

― clemenza, Saturday, 15 March 2014 00:54 (eleven years ago)

David Brenner, standup comedy staple who some people apparently found funny

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/15/comedian-david-brenner-tonight-favorite-dies/6467947/

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 March 2014 01:59 (eleven years ago)

Booooooooooo

― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Sunday, 16 March 2014 02:18 (eleven years ago)

I have a really weird love for his book "soft pretzels with mustard" which was a weird, funny, poignant autobiography abt growing up poor in philly, read it a bunch if times when i was a kid. Oddly fascinating for me as a dude growing up in a very not east coast enclave of Jewish kids in the Midwest. No idea if it even vaguely stands up now, but thx to that this bums me out.

― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Sunday, 16 March 2014 02:24 (eleven years ago)

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM IGGY:
My dear friend Scott Asheton passed away last night.
Scott was a great artist, I have never heard anyone play the drums with more meaning than Scott Asheton. He was like my brother. He and Ron have left a huge legacy to the world. The Asheton's have always been and continue to be a second family to me.
My thoughts are with his sister Kathy, his wife Liz and his daughter Leanna, who was the light of his life.
Iggy Pop

― Scooby Doom (۩), Sunday, 16 March 2014 21:29 (eleven years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26611394

Where next for rightwing TV cookery? RIP.

― Alba, Monday, 17 March 2014 11:27 (eleven years ago)

"She was christened Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright."...

― koogs, Monday, 17 March 2014 11:57 (eleven years ago)

13 fat names.

― Eric H., Monday, 17 March 2014 12:19 (eleven years ago)

She was only 66? I thought she was that age when she made Two Fat Ladies.

― Madchen, Monday, 17 March 2014 13:18 (eleven years ago)

No, she just hit the bottle very hard, very young. I remember an interview with her when she talked about going to Oddbins and there being a parade outside. She asked the assistant about it and got told it was to celebrate the end of the war. "There was a war?" She'd been comatose through the Falklands (which ties in with the death of Clive (? her bf the worse alcoholic) and her drinking really kicking in).

― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Monday, 17 March 2014 14:10 (eleven years ago)

her dad was an alcoholic, and he abused her badly iirc

― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Monday, 17 March 2014 14:22 (eleven years ago)

Also, doctors assumed she'd lived in the tropics and taken lots of antimalarials because her blood was so thick. Real reason: quinine build-up from decades of G&T.

― Madchen, Monday, 17 March 2014 15:50 (eleven years ago)

L'Wren Scott, fashion designer (and current partner of Mick Jagger):

http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2014/03/17/lwren-scott-dead-suspected-suicide-found-dead

― baked beings on toast (suzy), Monday, 17 March 2014 16:52 (eleven years ago)

Or as the NYTimes would call her, Mick Jagger's girlfriend: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/445613085400006656

― kate78, Monday, 17 March 2014 19:09 (eleven years ago)

"Mick Jagger's Girlfriend" could be anyone...

― Interior. Ibiza Bar (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 March 2014 19:12 (eleven years ago)

harold daw, who invented the table (for friction experiments) which was turned into air hockey

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 19:28 (eleven years ago)

Oswald Morris, cinematographer for Kubrick's Lolita and 9 John Huston films

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26646395

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 March 2014 15:00 (eleven years ago)

Comics writer Steve Moore:

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/03/uk-comics-writer-steve-moore-passes-away-at-age-64/

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 20 March 2014 20:20 (eleven years ago)

Strange fiction author Lucius Shepard: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/03/lucius-shepard-1947-2014

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 20 March 2014 20:34 (eleven years ago)

Lawrence Walsh, special prosecutor for Iran-Contra

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/us/politics/lawrence-e-walsh-iran-contra-prosecutor-dies-at-102.html?hp&_r=0

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 March 2014 21:18 (eleven years ago)

Bob Strauss, Dem chair who helped save the party from progressivism

http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-robert-strauss-20140320,0,946334.story#axzz2wXZ4VI5v

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 March 2014 21:24 (eleven years ago)

James Rebhorn :(

http://time.com/34858/james-rebhorn-veteran-character-actor-dies-aged-65/

― continually topping myself (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 23 March 2014 20:19 (eleven years ago)

Was just coming to post that. He always played great, weaselly bad guys.

― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Sunday, 23 March 2014 20:31 (eleven years ago)

always liked that actor

― Nhex, Sunday, 23 March 2014 21:35 (eleven years ago)

they must've aired that L&O episode where he was the capital punishment doctor/executioner like a billion times

― Nhex, Sunday, 23 March 2014 21:36 (eleven years ago)

: /

there were so many hard-nosed, besuited operators with high-level clearance left for him to play

― j., Sunday, 23 March 2014 23:32 (eleven years ago)

Dave Brockie, lead singer of GWAR: http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/gwar-frontman-dave-brockie-a-k-a-oderus-urungus-reportedly-dead-at-50

― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 24 March 2014 12:52 (eleven years ago)

James Schlesinger, secretary of defense, energy, and for a few weeks CIA chief.

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:25 (eleven years ago)

Jonathan Schell

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/03/postscript-jonathan-schell-1943-2014.html

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:52 (eleven years ago)

Bummer. On clemeneza's rec a few years ago I read the excellent The Time of Illusions

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:57 (eleven years ago)

Former MM journalist Dave Jennings apparently died suddenly a few days ago. Suprised that one seems not to have been mentioned here of all places. The man gave Daft Punk their name. RIP good sir.

― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Saturday, 29 March 2014 02:04 (eleven years ago)

Dave was a lovely man and his sudden passing has been a shock to all of us who worked with him.

― ronnie waitrose (stevie), Saturday, 29 March 2014 08:45 (eleven years ago)

I can imagine. I was so sad to stumble on the news :(

― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Saturday, 29 March 2014 09:37 (eleven years ago)

Only 54. Apparently had a heart attack

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 29 March 2014 18:26 (eleven years ago)

Lorenzo Semple Jr

http://www.thewrap.com/lorenzo-semple-jr-creator-batman-tv-60s-dead-91/

― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Saturday, 29 March 2014 18:41 (eleven years ago)

good screenwriter!

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 March 2014 00:02 (eleven years ago)

Used to confuse him with Lorenzo Music. RIP

― Bristol Stomper's Breakout (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 March 2014 00:06 (eleven years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26809417

The Rani regenerates.

― Berk errs Gibbs/Ox (aldo), Sunday, 30 March 2014 12:54 (eleven years ago)

RIP

― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Sunday, 30 March 2014 14:06 (eleven years ago)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 March 2014 16:59 (eleven years ago)

You say comedian Eddie Lawrence has died? Is that what's bothering you, Bunkie?http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/31/arts/eddie-lawrence-comedian-actor-and-pitchman-is-dead-at-95.html?_r=3

― Three Word Username, Monday, 31 March 2014 08:33 (eleven years ago)

RIP. Also

Soon after the war, he did impersonations on radio, including on a show with the actor John Marley

― Bristol Stomper's Breakout (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 March 2014 10:51 (eleven years ago)

couldn't imagine he was still around

never give up... THAT SHIP

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 March 2014 10:58 (eleven years ago)

http://m.exclaim.ca/News/do_guitarist_dave_gregg_passes_away

Dave Gregg of DOA. I was just reading that Rebellion was going to be their last UK show and considered going. RIP dude.

― Berk errs Gibbs/Ox (aldo), Monday, 31 March 2014 20:10 (eleven years ago)

Southern California surfing/sailing maven Hobie Alter: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/sports/hobie-alter-surfboard-and-sailboat-innovator-dies-at-80.html

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 01:12 (eleven years ago)

Frankie Knuckles, :((( http://gawker.com/legendary-house-dj-frankie-knuckles-dies-at-59-1555847551

― there was a definite cool-factor in tupac's hologram (stevie), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 06:37 (eleven years ago)

"I think dancing is one of the best things anyone can do for themselves. And it doesn’t cost anything.”

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 11:51 (eleven years ago)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/turnitup/chi-frankie-knuckles-obit-20140331,0,565674.column

;(

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 11:51 (eleven years ago)

RIP

― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 18:11 (eleven years ago)

Charles Keating, the savings & loan scammer who counted Johns McCain and Glenn among his buddies

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/01/charles-keating-dead-keating-five-savings-and-loan-failure_n_5073770.html

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 11:42 (eleven years ago)

What's the film where somebody plays him...prominent film.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 18:08 (eleven years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117318/

― weatheringdaleson, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 18:24 (eleven years ago)

Bob Larbey, co-writer of The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles. RIP.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26899040

― Alba, Saturday, 5 April 2014 11:38 (eleven years ago)

Peter Matthiessen:
http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-mew-peter-matthiessen-20140406,0,585400.story#axzz2y6fng8Kx

― That's So (Eazy), Sunday, 6 April 2014 12:01 (eleven years ago)

― cwkiii, Sunday, 6 April 2014 21:29 (eleven years ago)

Just discovered his work last year, phenomenal writer. RIP.

― cwkiii, Sunday, 6 April 2014 21:30 (eleven years ago)

News just breaking via Kristian Hoffman on Facebook that Leee Black Childers, Warhol assistant, photographer, and band manager, has passed on after some time in the hospital.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 April 2014 22:55 (eleven years ago)

Mickey Rooney, apparently.

― That's So (Eazy), Monday, 7 April 2014 03:08 (eleven years ago)

x-post

http://www.artlyst.com/articles/leee-black-childers-chronicler-of-drag-queens-and-punks-dies

― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 April 2014 03:30 (eleven years ago)

And comedian John Pinette

http://www.thewrap.com/john-pinette-stand-comedian-dead-50/

― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Monday, 7 April 2014 04:11 (eleven years ago)

http://www.alsarah.com/soulsudani/home/defiance-on-oud-rest-in-power-haig-manoukian?fb_action_ids=10152017045663456&fb_action_types=og.likes

oud player, luthier, and founding member of the Nubatones Haig Manoukian passed on

― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 April 2014 04:22 (eleven years ago)

Peaches Geldof. wtf

― Berk errs Gibbs/Ox (aldo), Monday, 7 April 2014 17:17 (eleven years ago)

wow, 25. sad stuff.

― I made a grave mistake with my balloon at the end (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 April 2014 17:26 (eleven years ago)

wow. she had 2 kids :(

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 April 2014 17:45 (eleven years ago)

BBC has lost the plot:

What is your reaction to the death of Peaches Geldof? Send us your comments. You can email us at haveyour✧✧✧@b✧✧.c✧.u✧ using the subject line 'Peaches'.

― mohel hell (Bob Six), Monday, 7 April 2014 17:46 (eleven years ago)

Sue Townsend :( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26982680

― Trespassers William (dowd), Friday, 11 April 2014 00:13 (eleven years ago)

anoraks at half mast. or we all glue model planes to our noses

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 April 2014 03:23 (eleven years ago)

god, i loved the adrian mole books so much.

― there was a definite cool-factor in tupac's hologram (stevie), Friday, 11 April 2014 06:09 (eleven years ago)

Richard Hoggart http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/10/richard-hoggart tbh I didn't know he was still alive. Outlived his son Simon by a year or so.

― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Friday, 11 April 2014 08:30 (eleven years ago)

xp BRB painting my bedroom walls black and then lighting a joss stick to get rid of the smell.

― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Friday, 11 April 2014 19:33 (eleven years ago)

I'm seeing notices on Fb that singer/songwriter Jessie Winchester has died.

― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 11 April 2014 19:56 (eleven years ago)

Awww, "Biloxi" is such a beautiful song. Even the Jimmy Buffett version is good.

― purrington, Friday, 11 April 2014 22:12 (eleven years ago)

Music and film writer/editor Phil Hardy:

http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/music-journalist-phil-hardy-dies-aged-69/058184

― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 12 April 2014 09:27 (eleven years ago)

RIP. He belongs on Create a Super-ILXer!

― tl;dr5-49 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 April 2014 19:23 (eleven years ago)

Rest In Peace Ernesto Laclau www.buenosairesherald.com/article/156933/ernesto-laclau-passes-away-at-78

Kind of strange, I just got Hegemony and Socialist Strategy a few days ago.

― Fiddler on a hot tin roof (ed.b), Sunday, 13 April 2014 22:42 (eleven years ago)

Conspiracy researcher Michael Ruppert commits suicide.

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 04:17 (eleven years ago)

That's what they want you to think, anyway.

― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 09:50 (eleven years ago)

Ashamed to say that was my first thought

― Nhex, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 14:55 (eleven years ago)

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/salsa-great-cheo-feliciano-dies-car-crash-78-23358479

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:51 (eleven years ago)

yeah that's hella sad; he was likely performing in something i was working on this summer. pretty bummed.

― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 April 2014 17:38 (eleven years ago)

Really? What exactly, if I may ask.

― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 April 2014 18:07 (eleven years ago)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, reported on twitter, can't find a confirmed link

― ailsa, Thursday, 17 April 2014 20:14 (eleven years ago)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/gabriel-garcia-marquez-dead_n_5169325.html

― ailsa, Thursday, 17 April 2014 20:15 (eleven years ago)

Oh boooooooo

― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 April 2014 20:26 (eleven years ago)

damn

― balls, Thursday, 17 April 2014 20:34 (eleven years ago)

For some reason I thought he was a lot younger than that! But 87's not a bad old age.

― emil.y, Thursday, 17 April 2014 20:35 (eleven years ago)

still. made me sad.

― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 April 2014 05:56 (eleven years ago)

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 20 April 2014 17:40 (eleven years ago)

Justifiably acclaimed Canadian writer Alistair MacLeod, whom I'd occasionally run into in the halls of the English department at my university (where he taught for many years and was currently the writer-in-residence) as recently as two weeks ago. Mostly known for his short fiction, though his No Great Mischief remains one of the Canadian novels.

― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Sunday, 20 April 2014 18:39 (eleven years ago)

Country singer Kevin Sharp:

http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1726478/kevin-sharp-hitmaker-of-the-90s-dies-at-age-43.jhtml

― That's So (Eazy), Monday, 21 April 2014 03:12 (eleven years ago)

JFK conspiracy expert John Judge

http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/john-judge-passes/

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 05:29 (eleven years ago)

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2014/04/20/dominican-singer-sonia-silvestre-dies--after-two-strokes-at-61/

Dominican ballad singer

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 17:21 (eleven years ago)

documentary filmmaker Michael Glawogger

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-michael-glawogger-1959-2014

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 14:09 (eleven years ago)

Steve Backer; Arista/RCA Records exec who championed such musician-composers as Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, and Henry Threadgill:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/arts/music/steve-backer-advocate-for-jazz-records-dies-at-76.html?_r=0

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:49 (eleven years ago)

Sandy Jardine. One of the formative footballers of my youth and someone I would always have associated with the notion of liking football.

― Berk errs Gibbs/Ox (aldo), Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:57 (eleven years ago)

re Michael Glawogger - I'd seen Megacities and, just the other day, Workingman's Death. Reminded. myself to keep an eye out for what he was doing :(

― Fizzles, Friday, 25 April 2014 06:09 (eleven years ago)

'70s-80s Country Singer Mundo Earwood

― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 April 2014 01:52 (eleven years ago)

Mike Atta of the band Middle Class, fuck cancer.

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2014/04/mike_atta_cancer_dead_middle_class.php

― nickn, Saturday, 26 April 2014 20:57 (eleven years ago)

Awww man. RIP

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:12 (eleven years ago)

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/footwork-music-star-dj-rashad-dies-chicago-23489614

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:12 (eleven years ago)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dj-e-z-rock-of-it-takes-two-fame-dead-at-46-20140427

― sktsh, Monday, 28 April 2014 08:54 (eleven years ago)

Bob Hoskins

― back-up duck (doo dah), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 12:49 (eleven years ago)

EC Comics and Mad Magazine editor/writer Al Feldstein
http://www.newsfromme.com/2014/04/30/al-feldstein-r-p/

― Alvarius B. Goode (WilliamC), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 20:37 (eleven years ago)

That's a sore one. RiP Al.

― Berk errs Gibbs/Ox (aldo), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 20:40 (eleven years ago)

Yep, bummer. 88 is a nice old age though.

― Alvarius B. Goode (WilliamC), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 20:43 (eleven years ago)

Anxiously awaiting his hands coming out of the grave a la most EC horror comic victim/heroes.

― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 22:43 (eleven years ago)

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6077182/juan-formell-of-los-van-van-dead-at-71

A joke known in Havana and in Miami’s Cuban community may start making the rounds again, tinged with sadness this time, as fans and fellow artists mourn the loss of Juan Formell, the founder of Cuba’s 45-year-old dance band Los Van Van. The story goes that years from now, Fidel Castro comes back from the dead in search of his legacy. He finds the entry for his name in an encyclopedia: “Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuban politician in the era of Los Van Van.”

― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 May 2014 11:56 (eleven years ago)

Assi Dayan, Israeli filmmaker and actor

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-assi-dayan-1945-2014

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 May 2014 18:41 (eleven years ago)

http://variety.com/2014/tv/people-news/77-sunset-strip-f-b-i-star-efrem-zimbalist-jr-dies-at-95-1201170658/

― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 May 2014 06:18 (eleven years ago)

Aw man, Alfred Pennyworth! :(

― Nhex, Saturday, 3 May 2014 15:51 (eleven years ago)

Elena Baltacha, only 30 :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/27280549

― pick it up for ripple laser (onimo), Monday, 5 May 2014 00:08 (eleven years ago)

My beloved grandmother Zeta who passed away last week aged 98. A good run, and a very sad last few years of nursing homes and fear but I will miss her optimism and endless support of all the batty things I did in my life.

― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Monday, 5 May 2014 00:47 (eleven years ago)

*sends sympathy your way*

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 5 May 2014 01:56 (eleven years ago)

Sorry to hear that, Trayce. 98 is an amazing innings, but when we love them we always want the runs to keep on coming.

― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Monday, 5 May 2014 08:20 (eleven years ago)

Tatiana Samoilova, Russian film actress best known for her performances in The Cranes Are Flying (1957), Letter Never Sent (1959) and Anna Karenina (1967)

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-tatiana-samoilova-1934-2014

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 May 2014 15:10 (eleven years ago)

Dick Ayers, Marvel Silver Age penciller and inker:

http://comicsbeat.com/rip-dick-ayers/

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 5 May 2014 22:02 (eleven years ago)

Cornelius Gurlitt

― back-up duck (doo dah), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 14:44 (eleven years ago)

Farley Mowat

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:13 (eleven years ago)

Jimmy Ellis, Louisville boxer who was both Ali's sparring partner and heavyweight champ (during the Ali-Vietnam "vacuum")

http://www.badlefthook.com/2014/5/6/5687756/former-heavyweight-champion-jimmy-ellis-passes-away-at-74-boxing-news

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 May 2014 03:08 (eleven years ago)

X-15 astronaut Bill Dana
http://www.latimes.com/business/aerospace/la-fi-mo-bill-dana-death-20140507-story.html

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 8 May 2014 04:37 (eleven years ago)

A contact who would know has reported on FB that Jerry LaCroix aka Jerry "Count" Jackson has passed away. A noted Gulf Coast area blue-eyed soul singer, he got his start singing with The Boogie Kings in the '60s before working with both Edger Winter's White Trash Revue and Blood, Sweat & Tears in addition to recordings with his own band LaCroix in the '70s. Up until some recent health problems, he was a stalwart fixture on the area club scene.

― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 May 2014 05:02 (eleven years ago)

Wait there were two Bill Danas, one who played a comedy astronaut and one who actually was one?

― Run Through The Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 May 2014 05:09 (eleven years ago)

(Elaine) Sturtevant, artist:

http://galleristny.com/2014/05/sturtevant-uncompromising-progenitor-of-appropriation-has-died/

― baked beings on toast (suzy), Thursday, 8 May 2014 07:00 (eleven years ago)

Ornery scientist Colin Pillinger :

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/08/beagle-2-scientist-colin-pillinger-dies

― めんどくさい (Matt #2), Thursday, 8 May 2014 10:10 (eleven years ago)

Wildlife writer Farley Mowat: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/world/americas/farley-mowat-canadian-writer-and-wildlife-advocate-dies-at-92.html?_r=0

― Diddley Hollyberry (Phil D.), Thursday, 8 May 2014 14:32 (eleven years ago)

http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/morre-cantor-jair-rodrigues-12419622

Brazilian singer

― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 May 2014 03:48 (eleven years ago)

Obit for Jerry LaCroix: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/jerry-lacroix-dies/

― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 9 May 2014 04:18 (eleven years ago)

Ornery scientist Colin Pillinger

One of the people who reminds me most of the "at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly" line from 'The Man In The Arena'. RIP

― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Friday, 9 May 2014 18:31 (eleven years ago)

Wait there were two Bill Danas, one who played a comedy astronaut and one who actually was one?

Yeah. The comedian Bill Dana was actually a stage name.

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 10 May 2014 10:03 (eleven years ago)

OK, I see. His stage name had nothing to do with the other guy. Never knew about Get Smart connection.

― Bo Diddley Is A Threadkiller (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 May 2014 11:52 (eleven years ago)

Prog album cover artist Patrick Woodroffe

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Pentateuch_of_the_Cosmology.jpg

― めんどくさい (Matt #2), Monday, 12 May 2014 14:53 (eleven years ago)

H.R. Giger: http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/5843945-le-pere-d-alien-l-artiste-suisse-hans-ruedi-giger-est-decede.html

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 08:06 (eleven years ago)

I can only imagine what his headstone will look like.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 08:49 (eleven years ago)

^^^ mindmeld! I was just thinking that on my way over here.

― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:26 (eleven years ago)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:23 (eleven years ago)

my college dorm would have been far less interesting without his conceptual art pieces stuck on my wall that I tore out of magazines

weird, awesome dude

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:24 (eleven years ago)

Filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul (Searching for Sugar Man) has killed himself, according to Swedish media.

― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 21:54 (eleven years ago)

Oh dear. I interviewed him once (I think everyone in the biz did) and he seemed nice.

― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 21:56 (eleven years ago)

(Not in the sense that nice people don't commit suicide.)

― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 21:57 (eleven years ago)

whoa thats fucked up

― ohhhh lorde 2pac big please mansplain to this sucker (jjjusten), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 22:18 (eleven years ago)

Nash the Slash

― nickn, Thursday, 15 May 2014 04:51 (eleven years ago)

http://m.kesq.com/news/singer-jerry-vale-dies/26045480

― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 May 2014 23:13 (eleven years ago)

Great scene with "Pretend You Don't See Her" in Goodfellas (not on YouTube--just the Sammy Davis set-up), performed by his son, I believe.

― clemenza, Sunday, 18 May 2014 23:19 (eleven years ago)

That's a great scene, but that's Jerry himself. You may be thinking of the scene with Bobby Vinton -- that's actually Vinton's son Robbie.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 18 May 2014 23:23 (eleven years ago)

Copa scene, yes.

― clemenza, Sunday, 18 May 2014 23:44 (eleven years ago)

Gordon Willis RIP:http://variety.com/2014/film/news/the-godfather-cinematographer-gordon-willis-dies-at-82-1201185649/

― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 May 2014 05:31 (eleven years ago)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 May 2014 05:36 (eleven years ago)

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/18/tessa-watts

Didn't know who she was before today, tbh, but I've seen her at work for most of my life.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 May 2014 05:46 (eleven years ago)

That's one hell of a list.

― Mark G, Monday, 19 May 2014 08:38 (eleven years ago)

Louise Wilson, teacher of some great fashion designers and 'prickly character'.

― Madchen, Monday, 19 May 2014 09:22 (eleven years ago)

gabriel kolko, influential new left historian, author of some excellent books on the cold war:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/20/gabriel-kolko-1932-2014/

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:21 (eleven years ago)

he was on the first syllabus i received in college

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:04 (eleven years ago)

Formula 1 driver, designer, builder Jack Brabham

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:17 (eleven years ago)

:( farewell jack old son

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:19 (eleven years ago)

Knowlton Nash:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/knowlton-nash-longtime-anchor-of-cbc-s-the-national-dead-at-86-1.2653467

Anchored the CBC national news forever. Just about everything I've looked at calls him our Walter Cronkite; I don't have a strong sense of him myself 20 years after his retirement. Wrote a book on the animosity between JFK and Diefenbaker.

― clemenza, Sunday, 25 May 2014 04:38 (eleven years ago)

Did anyone mention Gerald Edelman? http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/science/gerald-m-edelman-nobel-laureate-and-neural-darwinist-dies-at-84.html?_r=0&referrer=

― Jeff, Sunday, 25 May 2014 14:41 (eleven years ago)

RIP Bunny Yeager

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-bunny-yeager-20140526-story.html

― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 May 2014 20:42 (eleven years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/arts/music/herb-jeffries-singing-star-of-black-cowboy-films-dies-at-100.html?_r=0

Herb Jeffries, a.k.a. 'Bronze Buckaroo' of Song and Screen, Dies at 100 (or So)
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Mr. Jeffries sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns using a nickname that evoked his malleable racial identity.

Over the course of his century, he changed his name, altered his age, married five women and stretched his vocal range from near falsetto to something closer to a Bing Crosby baritone. He shifted from jazz to country and back again, and from concert stages to movie theaters to television sets and back again.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 14:35 (eleven years ago)

Very sad to hear. Tremendous vocalist.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 14:45 (eleven years ago)

Manuel Uribe, the world's fattest man died.

http://news.sky.com/story/1269753/worlds-former-fattest-man-manuel-uribe-dies

― Norma Normita (Norma Duval), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 14:50 (eleven years ago)

massimo vignelli

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 15:12 (eleven years ago)

Maya Angelou.

http://myfox8.com/2014/05/28/maya-angelou-dead-at-86/

― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 13:34 (eleven years ago)

The highway is full of big cars going nowhere fast
And folks is smoking anything that’ll burn
Some people wrap their lives around a cocktail glass
And you sit wondering
where you’re going to turn.
I got it.
Come. And be my baby.

Some prophets say the world is gonna end tomorrow
But others say we’ve got a week or two
The paper is full of every kind of blooming horror
And you sit wondering
what you’re gonna do.
I got it.
Come. And be my baby.

― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 13:46 (eleven years ago)

RIP Maya. My dad met her in the early 90s and said she was the smartest person he'd ever met by quite some distance.

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 13:55 (eleven years ago)

This was such an amazing moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59xGmHzxtZ4

I remember watching this as it happened, and even though I've never been much for poetry, I was just floored.

― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 13:58 (eleven years ago)

Man Utd and Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Malcolm Glazer: http://www.buccaneers.com/news/article-1/Buccaneers-Owner-Malcolm-Glazer-Passes-Away/93db9a70-e779-4653-a4e5-4dc7991365c0

― ailsa, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 20:03 (eleven years ago)

Jay Lake

http://io9.com/r-i-p-jay-lake-totally-irreplaceable-science-fiction-1584527320

― I Miss You(tube embeds) (onimo), Sunday, 1 June 2014 23:40 (eleven years ago)

Word going around that Yuri Kochiyama has passed on -- an incredibly important American figure.

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

On another cultural note, Ann B. Davis:

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/06/01/ann-b-davis-beloved-brady-bunch-maid-dies-at-88/

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 1 June 2014 23:51 (eleven years ago)

Karlheinz Bohm, film actor for Michael Powell (Peeping Tom) and RW Fassbinder

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-karlheinz-bohm-1928-2014

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 June 2014 11:28 (eleven years ago)

Photographer Burton Wilson

http://artslaboraustin.com/burton-wilson-1919-2014/

― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 2 June 2014 22:05 (eleven years ago)

Trumpeter - composer Charles Moore, perhaps best known for his work on the MC5's "Skunk (Sonically Speaking)."

http://blogs.metrotimes.com/music-blahg/rip-charles-moore/

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 2 June 2014 22:24 (eleven years ago)

Wiki and others noting:

Elodie Lauten (October 20, 1950-June 3, 2014) was a French-born American composer described as postminimalist or a microtonalist.
Born in Paris, France. Her father Errol Parker, born Raphael Schecroun in Algeria, was a jazz musician who played with Django Reinhardt, her mother was a classical pianist.[1][2]

Lauten was classically trained as a pianist since age 7. She contributed to the early punk-rock scéne in Paris in 1975/76. After relocating to New York City, she received a Master's in composition from New York University where she studied Western composition with Dinu Ghezzo and Indian classical music with Ahkmal Parwez. She became an American citizen in 1984. Lauten received awards from the NEA, ASCAP, MTC, and the American Music Center, as well as chamber and orchestral commissions.

Lauten was a former student of her father Errol Parker and of LaMonte Young, Dinu Ghezzo, and Akhmal Parwez. A writer of operas, theater pieces, orchestral, chamber and instrumental music, she was recognized in North America and Europe as a pioneer of postminimalism and a force on the new music scene with over 20 releases on a number of labels including Lovely Music, Point/Polygram, 4-Tay, O.O. Discs, and New Tone (Italy).[3]

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 18:58 (eleven years ago)

Here's Kyle Gann's post about her passing
http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2014/06/one-of-the-greats-elodie-lauten-1950-2014.html

― Øystein, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 19:42 (eleven years ago)

Oh no. She gave me a vintage dress once.

― back-up duck (doo dah), Thursday, 5 June 2014 01:13 (eleven years ago)

And this record:
http://www.discogs.com/Elodie-Lauten-No-Mans-Land-Sunrise/release/1331256

which I still have but haven't listened to in a while.
:(

― back-up duck (doo dah), Thursday, 5 June 2014 01:28 (eleven years ago)

Elodie Lauten :(

― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Thursday, 5 June 2014 16:01 (eleven years ago)

Steven Scheuer, TV/film critic and public TV host who also published the first Maltin-style "Movies on TV" guide

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-h-scheuer-tv-listings-709521

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 June 2014 02:46 (eleven years ago)

Chester Nez, last of the WW2 Navajo "code talkers"

http://www.npr.org/2014/06/05/319030285/chester-nez-last-of-navajo-code-talkers-dies-at-93

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 June 2014 11:35 (eleven years ago)

Rik Mayall :-(

― ailsa, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:09 (eleven years ago)

http://bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27770266

― ailsa, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:12 (eleven years ago)

No thread of Mayall's own? I probably shouldn't start it as I wasn't the world's biggest fan (liked some of his stuff, hated others), but I feel like he deserves it.

― emil.y, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:49 (eleven years ago)

There's one just below this one

― Mark G, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:49 (eleven years ago)

If you're referring to SNA, then... thanks, that's really helpful. Because threads don't move up or down dynamically as people post or anything.

― emil.y, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:53 (eleven years ago)

was true at time of posting.

― Mark G, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:56 (eleven years ago)

if you're still looking emil.y it's below again now

― conrad, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:03 (eleven years ago)

now it's six below check new answers

― conrad, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:03 (eleven years ago)

got it?

― conrad, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:04 (eleven years ago)

That Rik Mayall thing - Classic or Dud?

― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 June 2014 16:04 (eleven years ago)

that's the one - it's still six below as I type

― conrad, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:04 (eleven years ago)

Lol, conrad. Thanks, forks.

― emil.y, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:05 (eleven years ago)

ok it's one below again

― conrad, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:05 (eleven years ago)

two

― conrad, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:05 (eleven years ago)

Bob Welch. (The pitcher, not the Fleetwood Mac guy, who died in 2012.)

― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 20:26 (eleven years ago)

holy shit

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 20:27 (eleven years ago)

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-phyllis-patterson-20140610-story.html

Phyllis Patterson, who with her husband, Ron, originated the Renaissance Pleasure Faire as a summer class in her Laurel Canyon backyard before it grew into a national corset-and-codpiece phenomenon, has died in a Marin County hospital. She was 82.

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 20:44 (eleven years ago)

Another Toronto-centric death: Steven Davey, a new-wave local in the late-'70s (Dishes, Everglades), later a longtime restaurant critic for NOW:

http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=198370

The Dishes are somewhere in here...Peter Goddard, wow--I got all worked up over some list of his a million years ago and wrote him a nasty letter he actually responded to (sarcastically).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j88zsWjmB-A

― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 02:58 (eleven years ago)

Martha Hyer, '50s Hollywood actress in Some Came Running and Sabrina

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/academy-award-nominated-actress-martha-hyer-dies/article_5410fdae-1987-5544-989f-0efdbffe60df.html

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 19:50 (eleven years ago)

Ruby Dee :(

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/12/showbiz/obit-ruby-dee/

― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Thursday, 12 June 2014 17:38 (eleven years ago)

#SayHiToOssie

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 June 2014 17:51 (eleven years ago)

awww :-(

― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Thursday, 12 June 2014 18:51 (eleven years ago)

Jimmy Scott, wonderful vocalist RIP

― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 June 2014 15:44 (eleven years ago)

aw fuck i'm really sorry to hear that
saw him several times over the past few years and the voice was always amazing

― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 June 2014 15:46 (eleven years ago)

Carla Laemmle, who appeared in the Chaney Phantom of the Opera and the Lugosi Dracula:

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-et-mn-carla-laemmle-dies-20140613-story.html

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 13 June 2014 21:44 (eleven years ago)

Chuck Noll :(

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/former-pittsburgh-steelers-coach-chuck-noll-dead-at-82-061314

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 14 June 2014 04:30 (eleven years ago)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 June 2014 04:48 (eleven years ago)

Porridge and 'Allo 'Allo actor Sam Kelly, 70.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27851420

― Maurice Malpas Holiday Jotter Blues (onimo), Saturday, 14 June 2014 18:19 (eleven years ago)

TLER

― Daniwa, guys! Daniwa! (aldo), Saturday, 14 June 2014 18:25 (eleven years ago)

CLOP!

― Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Saturday, 14 June 2014 18:33 (eleven years ago)

― Every post you make is dripping with failure (stevie), Saturday, 14 June 2014 19:41 (eleven years ago)

Casey Kasem :((((((((((

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 15 June 2014 15:08 (eleven years ago)

Francis Matthews, probably best known as the voice of Captain Scarlet.

― Daniwa, guys! Daniwa! (aldo), Sunday, 15 June 2014 16:38 (eleven years ago)

xp - it's okay, he's with snuggles now

― sarahell, Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:53 (eleven years ago)

Ultra Violet

http://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2014/06/her-15-minutes-at-an-end-ultra-violet-dead-at-78/

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 June 2014 03:33 (eleven years ago)

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/06/16/hall-of-famer-tony-gwynn-dies-at-age-54/20913404/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cresponsive%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D489165

Great baseball hitter, dead from cancer.

― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:10 (eleven years ago)

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jun/18/flowers-for-algernon-genius-daniel-keyes

Daniel Keyes, of "Flowers For Algernon" fame

― めんどくさい (Matt #2), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:12 (eleven years ago)

horace silver

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:05 (eleven years ago)

:-(

― no matter how crabby of a mood I’m in because of the New World Order (WilliamC), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:05 (eleven years ago)

Very sad to hear about Silver.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:24 (eleven years ago)

Peace, Horace. Glad you made it to one last Father's Day.

― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 June 2014 01:19 (ten years ago)

So Horace Silver died as did a guy who wrote for Horace Gold. Horace Bronze better watch his back.

― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 June 2014 01:24 (ten years ago)

as noted on ILM, Gerry Goffin

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/06/19/us/ap-us-obit-gerry-goffin.html?hp&_r=0

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 June 2014 22:07 (ten years ago)

Awww. RIP

― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 June 2014 14:07 (ten years ago)

Another Gerry gone, RIP

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/75711000/jpg/_75711737_guilford_4_release_guilford_4-_pic_1.jpg

― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 June 2014 11:45 (ten years ago)

http://www.alabama3.co.uk/public/images/NEWS/conlon.jpg

― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 June 2014 11:48 (ten years ago)

Late with this, but Bill Traut of Dunwich Records (Shadows of Knight, Things To Come, The Luv'd Ones etc.)

http://www.sundazed.com/shop/news/?p=1789

― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 June 2014 01:42 (ten years ago)

teenie hodges

― mookieproof, Monday, 23 June 2014 05:11 (ten years ago)

was looking for a thread re Guildford four or etc

― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Monday, 23 June 2014 07:35 (ten years ago)

start one. i would read the crap out of it.

― Every post you make is dripping with failure (stevie), Monday, 23 June 2014 09:36 (ten years ago)

I've no info tbh, other than the movie and a vague recollection of the release. but def a case well worth a thread, might scout later on and throw some links up to get it rolling

― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Monday, 23 June 2014 10:09 (ten years ago)

Felix Dexter, Oz hippie and millionaire publisher, etc

― Mark G, Monday, 23 June 2014 12:48 (ten years ago)

Felix Dennis, I mean. Not the actor bloke.

― Mark G, Monday, 23 June 2014 12:49 (ten years ago)

x-post re the great Teenie Hodges

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2014/jun/23/songwriter-guitarist-and-anchor-hi-rhythm-mabon-te/

During Hi Records' glory years starting in the late '60s, Mr. Hodges wrote or co-wrote many classics of the R&B genre, including a succession of hits with and for Al Green: "Here I Am," "Full of Fire," "Take Me to the River" and "Love and Happiness"

Mr. Hodges was also the cornerstone of the famed Hi Rhythm band,

― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 June 2014 14:14 (ten years ago)

Stanley Marsh 3, Texas oilman and art benefactor (he commissioned Cadillac Ranch for his property). Was accused of child molesting but hadn't yet stood trial.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/23/arts/design/stanley-marsh-patron-of-the-cadillac-ranch-dies-at-76.html?_r=0

― nickn, Monday, 23 June 2014 20:55 (ten years ago)

Patsy Byrne

― cheese is never wrong (doo dah), Monday, 23 June 2014 23:24 (ten years ago)

eli wallach

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 06:33 (ten years ago)

Just saw that. If I'm being honest, I could've sworn he'd already fled this mortal coil. 98 years is a hearty run, though!

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 06:34 (ten years ago)

he and his wife were married for 66 years

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 06:42 (ten years ago)

Was coming to post that. Last thing I saw him in was an episode of Aaron Sorkin's blessedly short-lived "Studio 60," where despite an idiotic storyline he made the rest of the cast look like amateurs.

― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 09:45 (ten years ago)

need to rewatch Baby Doll

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 10:52 (ten years ago)

RIP Tuco.

― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 12:55 (ten years ago)

He once told me he liked sneaking up behind people and whistling the "Good, Bad, Ugly" theme. :(

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 13:01 (ten years ago)

ethnographic filmmaker Robert Gardner (I've only seen Dead Birds, which is amazing)

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-robert-gardner-1925-2014

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:43 (ten years ago)

Mary Rodgers Guettel

― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 27 June 2014 00:06 (ten years ago)

Steve Rossi

― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 27 June 2014 00:12 (ten years ago)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bobby-womack-dead-at-70-20140627

Teenie Hodges, Hi Rhythm and Al Green guitarist died the other day and now the great soulful singer/guitarist Bobby Womack (teenage gospel singer, guitarist with Sam Cooke, Wilson Pickett and Sly Stone, pal of the Rolling Stones and successful solo artist). RIP Bobby

― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 June 2014 23:42 (ten years ago)

Admittedly I never heard it until Jackie Brown, but "Across 110th Street" is a great track

― Nhex, Friday, 27 June 2014 23:47 (ten years ago)

Aww man. RIP.

― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Saturday, 28 June 2014 01:21 (ten years ago)

oh jeez. i mean, i know he was really ill, but... i interviewed him a year or so ago, like a day or so after he got the all clear from his last batch of chemo. i guess he knew his days were still numbered, but the sense of a life-force still at its most vivid, having been given a reprieve, was palpable, and his hunger to make another album following the Bravest Man LP was very clear.

― The Littlest Boho (stevie), Saturday, 28 June 2014 06:12 (ten years ago)

Meshach Taylor

http://www.studioqtv.com/2014/06/actor-meshach-taylor-from-designing.html?m=1

― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 28 June 2014 15:26 (ten years ago)

UK stuntman Terry Richards a.k.a. the swordsman that Indiana Jones shoots dead.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27978446

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 30 June 2014 06:57 (ten years ago)

Paul Mazursky, apparently.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 18:43 (ten years ago)

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-paul-mazursky-20140701-story.html

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:06 (ten years ago)

http://www.liberation.fr/culture/2014/07/03/annik-honore-morte-amoureuse-du-chanteur-ian-curtis_1056810

Ian curtis' girlfriend, died at 56 after a long illness.

― StanM, Friday, 4 July 2014 08:10 (ten years ago)

(er, mistress)

― StanM, Friday, 4 July 2014 08:13 (ten years ago)

That's a terrible piece of writing, ugh.

― Madchen, Friday, 4 July 2014 08:25 (ten years ago)

veuve bis du Kafka new wave épileptique

Is Libération worse than it used to be?

― Madchen, Friday, 4 July 2014 08:26 (ten years ago)

Wow @ the Chrome translation (I know, I know)

DISAPPEARANCEIt is always embarrassed to widows of artists, especially when geniuses are called Ian Curtis and hang 23 years at home, in Macclesfield-sur-Spleen, one morning in May 1980 to highlight the saga Joy Division, ideally crowning two albums Funeral and dust ... Since Thursday, Annik Honoré, bis widow of Kafka new wave epileptic, married to Deborah but some friend gently with Annik, died in turn 56, "long illness" . The missing was a young embassy secretary (Belgium) to London when she interviewed Joy Division, ex-Warsaw changing and befriended his singer in full domestic and existential crisis. It seems that the passion related outlined ( "purely platonic" by Annik ...) has inspired the singer's posthumous anthem Love Will Tear Us Apart ("Something so good just can not function no more" ). Off Joy Division, Annik Honoré was to produce discs of twilight, his Belgian minilabel taste, precious or Durutti Column Pale Fountains (Blaine Reininger of Tuxedomoon, Josef K ...). Annik Honoré leaves two children. B.

― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 July 2014 08:31 (ten years ago)

Idiomatic French difficult to translate properly, journalese even more so.

― Riot In #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 July 2014 10:15 (ten years ago)

That's no excuse for that article (I speak French, for what it's worth).

― Madchen, Friday, 4 July 2014 10:49 (ten years ago)

"veuve bis" is that an actually thing, a term in common use?

― Riot In #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 July 2014 11:10 (ten years ago)

Macclesfield-sur-Spleen????

― thomasintrouble, Friday, 4 July 2014 11:15 (ten years ago)

Maybe it was google-translated into French

― Riot In #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 July 2014 11:21 (ten years ago)

Walter Dean Myers http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/04/arts/walter-dean-myers-childrens-author-dies-at-76.html

― 龜, Friday, 4 July 2014 13:30 (ten years ago)

Richard Mellon Scaife

― cheese is never wrong (doo dah), Friday, 4 July 2014 15:26 (ten years ago)

http://www.everlandfarm.com/uploads/6/8/2/7/6827975/7404048_orig.jpg

― balls, Friday, 4 July 2014 18:47 (ten years ago)

Hank LoConti, founder of the Cleveland Agora: http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/northeast-ohio/2014/07/08/hank-loconti-founder-of-the-cleveland-agora-dies-at-85/12372249/

― Queef Latina (Phil D.), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:51 (ten years ago)

Brazilian football team, RIP.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:54 (ten years ago)

Lol

― Madchen, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 21:07 (ten years ago)

On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 10 July 2014 20:00 (ten years ago)

Peter Harcourt, an early Canadian film writer.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/professor-peter-harcourt-saw-film-as-a-form-of-resistance/article19539188/

― clemenza, Thursday, 10 July 2014 20:37 (ten years ago)

Eileen Ford, model agent.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/modelling-agent-eileen-ford-dies-92

― leave the web alone boys (suzy), Thursday, 10 July 2014 21:33 (ten years ago)

John Seigenthaler. I heard him speak back in January, he was genuinely inspiring.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2014/07/11/john-seigenthaler-dies/12529753/

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 11 July 2014 19:21 (ten years ago)

An ECM record company email is reporting that jazz and more bassist Charlie Haden died today after a long illness

― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:35 (ten years ago)

Shit. Seriously bummed at that.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 11 July 2014 20:38 (ten years ago)

oh shit no :(

― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 11 July 2014 20:39 (ten years ago)

http://variety.com/2014/music/news/charlie-haden-legendary-jazz-bassist-dies-at-77-1201261391/#

― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:58 (ten years ago)

Holy shit, I just got a press email, and I had glossed over it, thinking it was a new album or tour or live appearance. :(

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 July 2014 21:00 (ten years ago)

I saw the other thread thread revive and thought something similar. RIP :(

― Don't Want To Know If Only You Were Lonely (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 July 2014 21:20 (ten years ago)

Picturing him floating on a cloud leaning up next to Hank Jones playing some spirituals.

― Don't Want To Know If Only You Were Lonely (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 July 2014 21:20 (ten years ago)

;_;

― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 21:29 (ten years ago)

He and D, together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iOmn7trXpQ

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 July 2014 21:36 (ten years ago)

Tommy Ramone. :(

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 July 2014 12:53 (ten years ago)

Rosemary Murphy, Emmy-winning vet of TV, Broadway, film

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-rosemary-murphy-20140710-story.html

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 July 2014 15:33 (ten years ago)

pittsburgh's own lorin maazel

― mookieproof, Sunday, 13 July 2014 17:19 (ten years ago)

:( He lived in my old apartment building, as a boy; found him in the 1940 census.
RIP.

― cheese is never wrong (doo dah), Sunday, 13 July 2014 17:21 (ten years ago)

rip

― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 July 2014 22:16 (ten years ago)

Nadine Gordimer
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/14/nadine-gordimer-dies-90-johannesburg-nobel-prize

― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 14 July 2014 15:02 (ten years ago)

Had no idea she was 91.

― everybody chives this is nowhere (Eazy), Monday, 14 July 2014 15:44 (ten years ago)

Red Klotz; lost some basketball games.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11213311/harlem-globetrotters-mourn-death-foe-red-klotz-93

― clemenza, Monday, 14 July 2014 21:14 (ten years ago)

Johnny Winter, apparently.

― a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Thursday, 17 July 2014 09:43 (ten years ago)

Hey hold on there, no way!

― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 July 2014 09:46 (ten years ago)

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/blues-legend-johnny-winter-dead-at-70/

― a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Thursday, 17 July 2014 09:46 (ten years ago)

Heard about it from former MOJO editor Paul Trynka who interviewed Johnny on Friday, just now via Facebook.

― a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Thursday, 17 July 2014 09:48 (ten years ago)

Shit

― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 July 2014 09:48 (ten years ago)

Elaine Stritch of Broadway at 89.

Love this interview she did with Baldwin:
http://www.wnyc.org/story/292223-elaine-stritch/

― everybody chives this is nowhere (Eazy), Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:10 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=virv-1o2KjE

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:27 (ten years ago)

Logan Hill @loganhill33
One of my favorite reporting moments: Late, great Elaine Stritch asking me if I was "Fucking stupid?! Or just slow?"

Logan Hill @loganhill33
Elaine Stritch is also only celeb I've ever hung up on (same intvw, 230am). She called back. "Honey, why so sensitive? We're having fun!"

― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:37 (ten years ago)

RIP
awesome lady

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:02 (ten years ago)

Tom Rolf, editor of Taxi Driver, The Right Stuff, Heat, Heaven's Gate

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-tom-rolf-1931-2014

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 July 2014 14:24 (ten years ago)

James Garner

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-james-garner-20140721-story.html#page=1

― jbn, Sunday, 20 July 2014 15:51 (ten years ago)

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2014/07/lionel_ferbos_the_longest-tenu_1.html

RIP Lionel Ferbos at 103

Trumpeter Lionel Ferbos, who enjoyed a late-in-life celebrity as the oldest active jazz musician in New Orleans, died early Saturday, July 19. He celebrated his 103rd birthday two nights earlier, on July 17, at a party at the Palm Court Jazz Café, a favorite venue of his.

Mr. Ferbos was the personification of quiet dedication to craft. Even some residents of his 7th Ward neighborhood, he once said, didn't realize he was a musician — they knew him as a master tinsmith who had taken over his father's sheet metal business. That occupation sustained him and his family for decades.

But he always nurtured a musical career on the side.

"He proved that the greatness of the city of New Orleans is that ordinary people can be extraordinary on a daily basis," said trumpeter and New Orleans Jazz Orchestra founder Irvin Mayfield. "Everyone has an opportunity to be something special. The culture gives us the opportunity. He was an example of that."

His life in music spanned the Roosevelt administration to the Obama administration, the Great Depression to the Internet era. Louis Armstrong was only 10 years his senior, but Mr. Ferbos outlived Armstrong by more than 40 years.

― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 July 2014 03:30 (ten years ago)

Skye McCole Bartusiak, 21

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/20/showbiz/obit-skyemccolebartusiak/index.html

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140720132945-the-patriot-horizontal-gallery.jpg

― StanM, Monday, 21 July 2014 04:09 (ten years ago)

RIP Thomas Berger, author of Little Big Man, Neighbors, and Arthur Rex among many others, at age 89. The Feud was robbed of its Pulitzer.

― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 03:02 (ten years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/books/thomas-berger-little-big-man-author-is-dead-at-89.html

― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 03:04 (ten years ago)

TV chef Ross Burden: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11296564

― ailsa, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 15:21 (ten years ago)

Dora Bryan, 91, stage/film actress best remembered as Rita Tushingham's mother in A Taste of Honey

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10986390/Dora-Bryan-obituary.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq0ncaMfAbs

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 20:51 (ten years ago)

Christian Falk, the Swedish producer who did the excellent Dream On with Robyn and Ola Salo, died from cancer today.

― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:09 (ten years ago)

Dora once owned Clarges Hotel in Brighton, the exterior of which was used in both Carry On at Your Convenience and Carry On Girls.

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 24 July 2014 17:47 (ten years ago)

Bel Kaufman, author of Up the Down Staircase

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/arts/bel-kaufman-up-the-down-staircase-writer-dies-at-103.html

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 July 2014 07:41 (ten years ago)

In a few weeks, an envelope will arrive at the New York Times addressed in an old-fashioned, elegant cursive, splattered with dirt and smelling vaguely of the tomb. It will contain only a clipping of Bel Kaufman's obituary, with style and grammar corrected in red pencil.

― Three Word Username, Saturday, 26 July 2014 09:22 (ten years ago)

Carter USM affiliate Jon Beast :

http://www.gofundme.com/c6cbn8

― めんどくさい (Matt #2), Sunday, 27 July 2014 19:19 (ten years ago)

:-(

― ailsa, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:28 (ten years ago)

Noel Black, director of the cult film Pretty Poison and the landmark short Skaterdater

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-noel-black-1937-2014

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:50 (ten years ago)

I've seen Pretty Poison a couple of times. Interesting precursor to Badlands, but it didn't quite live up to expectations for me.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 04:33 (ten years ago)

Re Jon Beast

I remember he did a charity single with a great many versions of "Gimme shelter" and the same interview as the given a-side, the idea that all those b-sides would propel it up the chart.

They appeared on Wogan to promote it, killed it stone dead..

Also, the all-dayer at Dingwalls where he played a very strange sort of version of "Crash" which involved smashing raw eggs on his head shouting "Doing this is stupid don't do it!"

I dare say there are many more tales to be told...

― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 11:00 (ten years ago)

... not all good, but now is not the time

― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 11:04 (ten years ago)

There is that, yes.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:24 (ten years ago)

James Shigeta, actor in The Crimson Kimono, Flower Drum Song, Die Hard, tons of TV, and "The Frank Sinatra of Japan" as a pop singer

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/james-shigeta-dies-at-81-1201270730/

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 13:36 (ten years ago)

Just about to post that one. Much respect for that guy

― Nhex, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 15:15 (ten years ago)

R.I.P. Giorgio Gaslini, who composed the music for Antonioni's La Notte and worked on the score of Argento's Deep Red, amongst other accomplishments:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2014/07/29/pioneering-jazz-musician-giorgio-gaslini-dies-aged-84_e5125991-7057-45eb-9806-2ec79615728d.html

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 07:39 (ten years ago)

I'm hearing Dick Wagner, guitarist with Lou Reed and Alice Cooper (among others) is dead at 71.

― nickn, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:23 (ten years ago)

http://www.freep.com/article/20140730/ENT04/307300185/dick-wagner-dies-michigan-guitarist

― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:54 (ten years ago)

Margot Adler, longtime reporter for NPR (and NYC's WBAI) and a Wiccan high priestess

http://www.current.org/2014/07/margot-adler-veteran-npr-correspondent-dies-at-68/

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 21:01 (ten years ago)

RIP jazz and funk drummer extraordinaire Idris Muhammad :(

― Dr. Winston O'Boogie Chillen' (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:31 (ten years ago)

Bummer.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:34 (ten years ago)

At 16 years old, one of Muhammad's earliest recorded sessions as a drummer was on Fats Domino's 1956 hit "Blueberry Hill".

woah.

― The beer was cold, but so was the glass, which drives me crazy. (stevie), Thursday, 31 July 2014 07:11 (ten years ago)

Oh no, RIP Idris! One of my favourite drummers.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:34 (ten years ago)

I can't believe he doesn't even had a thread of his own! Such a versatile musician, he shone in every context, from free jazz to disco.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:38 (ten years ago)

German filmmaker Harun Farocki

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-harun-farocki-1944-2014

and "father of American cinéma vérité" Robert Drew

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-robert-drew-1924-2014

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:41 (ten years ago)

and Dick Smith:

http://www.vulture.com/2014/07/dick-smith-film-makeup-artist-dead-at-92.html

― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:45 (ten years ago)

Was just coming to post that. I literally just watched the new Criterion Blu-Ray of Scanners last night, for which the exploding head was of course both a watershed moment in mainstream cinema gore, and barely a blip in Smith's body of work. Damn it.

― brimming with misplaced confidence (Phil D.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:45 (ten years ago)

bummed about Idris - was just looking for some of this stuff the other day. :( RIP

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:51 (ten years ago)

damn

http://nypost.com/2014/07/30/older-brother-of-law-order-actor-jumped-to-his-death/

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:11 (ten years ago)

The worker said he was always struck by the incredible resemblance between Leonard and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” co-star Richard Belzer, 69.
“Side by side you couldn’t tell them apart,” he observed. “They look just alike.”

I can vouch for this. Saw them walking up Broadway once and it was uncanny. Seen identical twins before too. RIP

― Dr. Winston O'Boogie Chillen' (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:43 (ten years ago)

More re Idris M.:

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2014/07/idris_muhammad_legendary_new_o.html

Idris Muhammad, whose drumming crossed over several musical styles including funk, jazz, and rhythm and blues, died Tuesday (July 29).

Williams said that Muhammad got his first national touring gig with Sam Cooke before moving on to Jerry Butler, Curtis Mayfield and beyond.

"He was eclectic in terms of his playing," Williams said. "He mixed the New Orleans sound, that sound of the street music, with jazz music and rock 'n' roll, and had all that intertwined," Williams explained. "He tuned his drum to get the sound from the New Orleans street bands, the marching bands, and he'd get that kind of sound that would come from New Orleans. That's why he was so sought after.

"He had the syncopation of New Orleans."

The news devastated the WWOZ-FM staff, who had gotten to know Muhammad personally and through his music. After learning of the news, Wednesday's (July 30) "Morning Set" jazz show featured plenty of Muhammad's work.

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 2 August 2014 15:33 (ten years ago)

The first time I encountered him was on a James Moody gig and I hadn't known who he was. After they played a little bit I couldn't take my eyes off him or his kit. He just was one of those guys whose playing and presence just radiated.

― Erdős Number 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 August 2014 15:47 (ten years ago)

Princess Diana's favourite Radio 1 DJ, Mike 'Smitty' Smith:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28623367

― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Saturday, 2 August 2014 19:29 (ten years ago)

crikey

― The beer was cold, but so was the glass, which drives me crazy. (stevie), Saturday, 2 August 2014 19:48 (ten years ago)

and yet edmonds still lives

― The beer was cold, but so was the glass, which drives me crazy. (stevie), Saturday, 2 August 2014 19:48 (ten years ago)

linked from that page, this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-28623350 - Last 'Pitman painter' Norman Cornish dies aged 94

there were a lot of his paintings in Kings Place when i was there killing time a few weeks ago, including that one at the bottom there.

― koogs, Saturday, 2 August 2014 19:58 (ten years ago)

James Brady, Reagan press secretary / Hinckley victim / gun-control advocate

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/james-brady-press-secretary-shot-assassination-attempt-81/story?id=24835830

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 August 2014 20:32 (ten years ago)

Marilyn Burns, actress in the original Texas Chainsaw massacre.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-marilyn-burns-dead-at-65-20140806-story.html

― nickn, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 21:30 (ten years ago)

Robert Crumb's first wife, Dana.

― Harper Valley PTSD (WilliamC), Friday, 8 August 2014 21:51 (ten years ago)

Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28705318

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 8 August 2014 22:04 (ten years ago)

R&B/Disco Impresario Henry Stone

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2014/08/rip_henry_stone_king_of_independent_records_dead_at_93.php

― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 9 August 2014 07:11 (ten years ago)

Not familiar with him until now, was getting confusion with Jesse Stone of Atlantic and Henry Glover of King, but RIP anyway .

― Dedekind Cut Creator (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 August 2014 22:12 (ten years ago)

RIP...I get emails from his company about soulman Latimore and others

― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 August 2014 14:10 (ten years ago)

Simon Leys
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/the-death-of-pierre-ryckmans-and-his-alter-ego-simon-leys-20140811-102s1s.html

― Øystein, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:28 (ten years ago)

Lauren Bacall.

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/08/12/lauren-bacall-dies/

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 00:10 (ten years ago)

Theodore Van Kirk - last surviving member of the Enola Gay
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/us/30vankirk.html

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 01:23 (ten years ago)

aw, i'm sad to hear about lauren bacall. god bless her.

― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 01:47 (ten years ago)

Arlene Martel, best known to Trekkies/-ers as Spock's betrothed, T'Pring, in the "Amok Time" episode: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/arlene-martel-dead-spock-s-725371

― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 August 2014 13:21 (ten years ago)

RI'P

― Dedekind Cut Creator (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 August 2014 13:27 (ten years ago)

survived by Stonn

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 August 2014 14:11 (ten years ago)

http://dcartnews.blogspot.com/2014/08/lida-moser-1920-2014.html

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2014/08/15/why-photographer-lida-moser-couldnt-be-pigeonholed/

Moser began her career in 1947 by working under Berenice Abbott in New York, where she became a member of the city's well-regarded Photo League, a pioneering force in street-style photojournalism. She shot for glossy magazines like Look, Esquire, and Vogue, the latter of which sent her to Quebec to produce a series of photos in rural towns that were published widely, eventually comprising the book Québec à l’été 1950. In an industry dominated by male photographers, Moser had to fight for work, sometimes taking assignments under the table from editors who were discouraged from hiring women.

Perhaps her most famous photograph, "Judy and the Boys," a fashion shoot that took a turn for the hilarious when the model flipped a bunch of rowdy interlopers the bird,

― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 August 2014 15:38 (ten years ago)

Jacques Wolfsohn, artistic director at Vogue Records who discovered Johnny Hallyday, Françoise Hardy and Jacques Dutronc.

http://www.voici.fr/news-people/actu-people/deces-de-jacques-wolfsohn-l-homme-qui-a-decouvert-johnny-hallyday-539257

― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 18 August 2014 00:39 (ten years ago)

James Alexander Gordon, voice of the classified results.

― and she's crying in a stairwell in Devon (aldo), Monday, 18 August 2014 17:54 (ten years ago)

CBSRadioNews: Longtime @nbcsnl announcer Don Pardo has passed away at age 96

― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 03:04 (ten years ago)

Aww, RIP.

― Cindy Operahouse (WilliamC), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 03:05 (ten years ago)

Damn, RIP. 96!

― weatheringdaleson, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 03:10 (ten years ago)

No one was able to give as much gusto to "MYUUUUUSIKAL GUEST- FOUR NON BLONDES!" as he could

― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 03:13 (ten years ago)

96 is a fucking amazing innings. RIP sir

― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 03:29 (ten years ago)

Tell them what they've won!

― Liquid Plejades, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 03:43 (ten years ago)

damn.

― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 06:45 (ten years ago)

I still miss hearing JAG doing the footie results (and trying to predict the second team's score based on his intonation).

― Madchen, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 07:08 (ten years ago)

I have a vague memory of someone doing exactly that on a game show at one point and getting most of them correct.

― a curious shade of pale (onimo), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 08:45 (ten years ago)

I've seen a couple of Facebook posts saying Charles M. Young has died--can't find anything online yet.

http://rockcritics.com/2013/03/06/from-the-archives-charles-m-young-2001/

http://eil.com/images/main/Sex+Pistols+-+Rolling+Stone+-+October+1977+-+MAGAZINE-346501.jpg

Still have that issue--fantastic piece.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 12:39 (ten years ago)

B.K.S. Iyengar. Went to his school in Austin for a few years and greatly improved my balance and posture.

― Liquid Plejades, Thursday, 21 August 2014 01:48 (ten years ago)

x-post

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/charles-m-young-rock-journalist-who-championed-punk-dies-at-63-20140819

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 August 2014 03:23 (ten years ago)

Brian G. Hutton, film director of Where Eagles Dare, Kelly's Heroes, X Y & Zee

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-brian-g-hutton-1935-2014

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:40 (ten years ago)

Lord Richard Attenborough

― Mark G, Sunday, 24 August 2014 21:13 (ten years ago)

What?!

― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Sunday, 24 August 2014 21:19 (ten years ago)

That's all The Great Escape guys then, if so.

― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 August 2014 21:21 (ten years ago)

We've still got David mccallum and angus lennie

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Sunday, 24 August 2014 21:25 (ten years ago)

Oh ok.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28923074

― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 August 2014 21:26 (ten years ago)

He had a good run

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Sunday, 24 August 2014 21:32 (ten years ago)

I know it barely needs to be said aloud, but The Great Escape is a magnificent motherfucker of a movie.

― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Sunday, 24 August 2014 22:01 (ten years ago)

Fantastic Poshie Jazz Enthusiast in All Night Long.

― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 August 2014 22:20 (ten years ago)

babyfaced killer in Brighton Rock

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 24 August 2014 22:34 (ten years ago)

his best role by far imo

― Daphnis Celesta, Sunday, 24 August 2014 22:38 (ten years ago)

also good as Christie in 10 Rillington Pl

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 24 August 2014 22:47 (ten years ago)

His suburban creepy in Rillington Pl was my fave as well.

― autumn reckoning faction (xelab), Sunday, 24 August 2014 23:04 (ten years ago)

I love him in seance on a wet afternoon

― soref, Sunday, 24 August 2014 23:08 (ten years ago)

I keep forgetting he directed Magic.

― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Sunday, 24 August 2014 23:18 (ten years ago)

William Greaves, pioneering documentarian and TV producer/host

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-william-greaves-1926-2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5noJA3xDCF4

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 14:07 (ten years ago)

If you aren't familiar with Greaves, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One is streaming on hulu and is fantastic. So boooooooo

― Everyone is awful except you. Wait, no, you are also awful. (jjjusten), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 14:31 (ten years ago)

Sandy Wilson, composer of the musical The Boyfriend

http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/08-2014/sandy-wilson-obituary_69681.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_name=27aug2014

― I Don't Wanna Ice Bucket With You (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 20:02 (ten years ago)

Services for Joe 'Poonanny' Burns will be Wednesday, September 3rd,
12 Noon Wednesday, at New Bethal Baptist Church 1730 11 th ave.North
Bessemer, Al

bawdy, raunchy southern-soul and comedy guy

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 August 2014 15:44 (ten years ago)

Australian actor and comedian Bill Kerr, best known as a regular on the Tony Hancock show:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28980254

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 29 August 2014 18:52 (ten years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/30/world/middleeast/ahmed-seif-who-was-tortured-in-egypt-and-became-rights-defender-dies-at-63.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

Ahmed Seif, whose experience of torture as a political prisoner in Egypt inspired him to become a leading human rights lawyer defending leftists, Islamists, atheists and gays, died on Wednesday in Cairo. He was 63.

His family said the cause was complications from heart surgery.

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 August 2014 15:07 (ten years ago)

Reiner Schwarz, a radio/TV guy who was all over the place in Toronto during the '70s and '80s (including a brief part in Cronenberg's Videodrome).

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-o4b6Xr_R8UE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAABY/oEOS-vA1EqQ/photo.jpg

― clemenza, Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:46 (ten years ago)

Comic book artist Stan Goldberg. (Marvel, Archie)

― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Monday, 1 September 2014 13:07 (ten years ago)

The Survivor vocalist who didn't sing the Rocky III song but did sing the Rocky IV song:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jimi-jamison-survivor-lead-singer-dead-at-63-20140901

― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 16:06 (ten years ago)

Werner Franz - last surviving crew member of the Hindenburg
http://news.yahoo.com/werner-franz-survivor-hindenburg-crash-dies-174119005.html

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 00:27 (ten years ago)

Fassbinder actor Gottfried John (Reinhold Hoffmann in Berlin Alexanderplatz)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/german-actor-gottfried-john-dies-729710

Hong Kong filmmaker Patrick Lung Kong

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-patrick-lung-kong-1935-2014

Hollywood western director Andrew V. McLaglen

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-andrew-v-mclaglen-1920-2014

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 17:10 (ten years ago)

Joan Rivers

https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/507603368512999424

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:06 (ten years ago)

oh, i guess that WCBS news truck i saw outside Mt Sinai 3 hours ago may have been an actual portent

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:11 (ten years ago)

One of my friends was complaining about CNN this morning on FB, when they referred to Melissa Rivers' comments that Joan had been "moved from the ICU to a private room" and was "resting comfortably" as "encouraging news."

― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:14 (ten years ago)

CNN doesn't understand "still in a coma," or Larry King wouldn't have lasted so long.

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:16 (ten years ago)

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2014/09/nicky_da_b_rising_new_orleans.html

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/why-nicky-da-bs-death-will-be-felt-past-new-orleans-roots-20140903

New Orleans bounce music performer Nicky Da B

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:11 (ten years ago)

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-gustavo-cerati-20140905-story.html

Gustavo Cerati, Argentina's much-loved and influential rock star who was the leader of the acclaimed band Soda Stereo, died Thursday, four years after lapsing into a coma. He was 55.

Widely hailed as an innovator whose popularity spanned Latin America, Cerati died in Buenos Aires, where he was brought after collapsing after a May 2010 concert in Caracas. He underwent surgery for a blood clot in his brain and never regained consciousness.

― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 September 2014 04:51 (ten years ago)

More re him over on ilm

― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:22 (ten years ago)

On the facebook 'trending' thing, I misread an announcement that Gene Simmons had declared rock dead. And my heart jumped. Am I a terrible person? Also, who cares if Simmons declares rock dead?

― Spaceport Leuchars (dowd), Sunday, 7 September 2014 20:56 (ten years ago)

Heh, I did that too. Thankfully he was only declaring himself old.

― Basically / I Don't Wanna Be / An mp3 / 3-2-0 kb / ps (Craigo Boingo), Sunday, 7 September 2014 21:34 (ten years ago)

Gottfried John was so brilliant in several Fassbinder movies. Years since I've felt a need to watch any of those but his portrayal of Reinhold especially is timeless acting, incredible.

― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 7 September 2014 23:47 (ten years ago)

Otm

― Good Time Charlie Don't Surf (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 September 2014 23:54 (ten years ago)

Musician/composer/arranger/bandleader Gerald Wilson:

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-gerald-wilson-20140909-story.html#page=1

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 17:10 (ten years ago)

Richard Kiel has died, aged 74
http://i.imgur.com/UrwOyxJ.jpg

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/11/richard-kiel-jaws-actor-from-james-bond-dead-at-74-reports

― Alba, Thursday, 11 September 2014 02:38 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBRb0nhaMdc

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 September 2014 02:57 (ten years ago)

Awww. RIP, my fave Bond villain.

― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Thursday, 11 September 2014 03:58 (ten years ago)

Ex-Primal Scream guitarist Throb. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/sep/11/primal-scream-death-guitarist-robert-young

― ineverenjoyyourcontributions (stevie), Thursday, 11 September 2014 16:55 (ten years ago)

Bob Crewe

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 11 September 2014 21:42 (ten years ago)

Bad day for legendary producers/engineers then

http://www.wwltv.com/story/entertainment/arts/2014/09/11/cosimo-matassa-dies-t-88/15466137/

― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 11 September 2014 22:07 (ten years ago)

Obit for Bob Crewe

http://www.broadway.com/buzz/177434/hit-making-jersey-boy-bob-crewe-dead-at-82/

― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 11 September 2014 22:11 (ten years ago)

Wha? RIP Both of those guys.

― Santiniketan Go Straight To The Ghat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 September 2014 22:15 (ten years ago)

Didn't know Bob Crewe co-wrote “Lady Marmalade”

― and in his absence, she (Lee626), Thursday, 11 September 2014 22:53 (ten years ago)

Ian Paisley.

― Alba, Friday, 12 September 2014 11:36 (ten years ago)

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-29177705

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 September 2014 11:45 (ten years ago)

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii :D :D :D

― fedora, wherever it may find her (darraghmac), Friday, 12 September 2014 12:27 (ten years ago)

Wow, the prospect of Scottish independence must have killed the old bastard off.

― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Friday, 12 September 2014 12:30 (ten years ago)

"Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust."

"No surrender. We will never bend the knee" - a regular cry aimed at those he believed were ready to "betray" Ulster.

props to whoever at RTE's website compiled all the classic IP quotes and put these two side by side

― for sale: Bebe's boots, never worn (DJ Mencap), Friday, 12 September 2014 12:38 (ten years ago)

One of those rare human beings with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Friday, 12 September 2014 12:41 (ten years ago)

p much

― fedora, wherever it may find her (darraghmac), Friday, 12 September 2014 12:47 (ten years ago)

He did say that line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching, which is OTM.

― Alba, Friday, 12 September 2014 12:56 (ten years ago)

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond says: "Ian Paisley was a major figure in the politics of these islands who I first got to know at Westminster as a warm, personable fellow MP, despite the obvious differences in our political outlook." He adds: "His passing will be mourned across Northern Ireland, as it will be in Scotland and further afield."

... shut it, Salmond. Now.

― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Friday, 12 September 2014 14:35 (ten years ago)

Ugh, do yourself a favour and don't bother reading any of the tributes from contemporary politicians to this "giant of a man".

― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Friday, 12 September 2014 14:38 (ten years ago)

John Bardon, who played Jim Branning in EastEnders

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/12/eastenders-john-bardon-dies-jim-branning

― ailsa, Friday, 12 September 2014 17:25 (ten years ago)

And Donald Sinden:

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/sep/12/sir-donald-sinden-dies-aged-90

― ailsa, Friday, 12 September 2014 17:46 (ten years ago)

sad abt sinden
pleased abt paisley

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 12 September 2014 19:17 (ten years ago)

Douglas E. Smith, creator of ubiquitous platformer Lode Runner
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/225543/Obituary_Lode_Runner_creator_Douglas_E_Smith.php

― Nhex, Saturday, 13 September 2014 22:38 (ten years ago)

A tall dog

― xelab hate good times cmon (wins), Saturday, 13 September 2014 22:39 (ten years ago)

Theodore J Flicker, whose mind brought forth The President's Analyst and Barney Miller

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/theodore-j-flicker-creator-tvs-732688

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 September 2014 02:24 (ten years ago)

http://www.offthetracks.co.nz/r-i-p-peter-gutteridge/

New Zealand rocker who was in the Clean and other groups and solo. Ned posted this on ILM

― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 September 2014 13:56 (ten years ago)

Shughie McFee :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-29210866

― Daphnis Celesta, Monday, 15 September 2014 21:40 (ten years ago)

Jazz trumpeter Kenny Wheeler

http://www.londonjazznews.com/2014/09/rip-kenny-wheeler-1930-2014.html

― めんどくさい (Matt #2), Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:43 (ten years ago)

Just heard about that; very sad. Playing the Spontaneous Music Ensemble's Karyobin right now.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:11 (ten years ago)

sad news indeed

― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 19 September 2014 07:26 (ten years ago)

he made some beautiful music RIP

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 19 September 2014 07:27 (ten years ago)

:-(

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 19 September 2014 08:47 (ten years ago)

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/tributes-merseyside-musician-john-gustafson-7800684

age 72. Played bass for Roxy Music for a bit

― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 September 2014 16:27 (ten years ago)

Sheldon Patinkin at age 79, who trained and directed many SNL folks from the 1970s onward. Amazing stage director and coach. Never wanted to make the leap to NYC or Hollywood, or he would've been a peer to Reitman and 70s-SNL and the rest. Also mentored and worked closely with the new crop of great directors out of Chicago, Anna Shapiro and David Cromer and the rest.

― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Sunday, 21 September 2014 17:39 (ten years ago)

filmmaker/cinema historian Peter von Bagh

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-peter-von-bagh-1943-2014

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 September 2014 15:29 (ten years ago)

Polly Bergen

― peace, joy, pancake (doo dah), Monday, 22 September 2014 16:19 (ten years ago)

Oof. She was one of the highlights of the entire Sopranos.

― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Monday, 22 September 2014 16:26 (ten years ago)

I saw her in that Follies revival

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 September 2014 16:27 (ten years ago)

George Sluizer, director of The Vanishing

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/22/the-vanishing-director-george-sluizer-dies-aged-82

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 September 2014 19:06 (ten years ago)

http://www.elheraldo.co/cultura/dia-triste-en-la-salsa-fallecio-el-conguero-milton-cardona-167150

Percussionist Milton Cardona

http://www.drummagazine.com/hand-drum/post/milton-cardona-spirit-of-tumba-soul-of-nyc/

He’s played conga and bata – and vocalized – with a gamut of artists that runs from David Byrne, Don Byron, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon, Reinhard Flatischler (Mega Drums), and Jack Bruce to Tito Puente, Papo Vasquez, and Dave Valentin. Cardona also has recorded well over 200 albums.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 04:44 (ten years ago)

Audrey Long, noir actress of Born to Kill and Desperate

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/audrey-long-dead-film-noir-734885

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:15 (ten years ago)

Deborah, last of the Mitfords

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12126300

― woof, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:07 (ten years ago)

Early music conductor Christopher Hogwood

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/sep/24/conductor-christopher-hogwood-dies-aged-73

― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 26 September 2014 09:11 (ten years ago)

Mandolinist U Srinivas, eight days ago at age 45. Liver failure.

http://youtu.be/Qb-XCszJTjM

― it's taco science, but it works like taco magic (WilliamC), Saturday, 27 September 2014 17:32 (ten years ago)

Former Representative James Traficant. A tractor fell on him.

― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 28 September 2014 02:51 (ten years ago)

he was a corrupt, thieving sumbitch, so actual lol

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/27/james-traficant-died_n_5893372.html

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 September 2014 03:33 (ten years ago)

Baby Doc Duvalier

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29492262

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 October 2014 12:34 (ten years ago)

Geoffrey Holder
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/arts/geoffrey-holder-dancer-choreographer-and-man-of-flair-dies-at-84.html

― MrDasher, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:02 (ten years ago)

noooooo :(

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 01:12 (ten years ago)

Marian Seldes

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 02:54 (ten years ago)

wow, a couple Broadway lifers there

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 04:18 (ten years ago)

Lou Whitney, of The Morells, Skeletons and Symptoms. In my 20s it seemed weird that he was "middle-aged" - probably in his 40s - and banging it out in these wonderful roots rock bar bands, and I'm significantly older than that now.

http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2014/10/07/musician-lou-whitney-dies-springfield-home/16859351/

― Dick Clownload (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 21:57 (ten years ago)

http://www.dw.de/german-author-siegfried-lenz-dies-aged-88/a-17980434

― nostormo, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 22:25 (ten years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/us/ebola-us-thomas-eric-duncan.html?_r=0

DALLAS — Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, the patient with the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States and the Liberian man at the center of a widening public health scare, died in isolation at a hospital here on Wednesday, hospital authorities said.

....Mr. Duncan had been a driver at a cargo company in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, living alone in a small room he rented from the parents of Marthalene Williams, 19. A simple act of kindness probably exposed him to the virus that has killed more than 3,000 people in West Africa. In Monrovia, neighbors and Ms. Williams’s parents said Mr. Duncan helped the family take Ms. Williams to and from a hospital on Sept. 15, shortly before she died of Ebola. Some of the men and women who had direct contact with Ms. Williams, and who were also in contact with Mr. Duncan, have also died, including Ms. Williams’s brother, Sonny Boy Williams, 21.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:54 (ten years ago)

jan hooks

― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 October 2014 21:53 (ten years ago)

aw man

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 9 October 2014 21:57 (ten years ago)

http://m.tmz.com/#Article/2014/10/09/jan-hooks-dead-dies-snl

― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:02 (ten years ago)

ugh, so gutted. the sweeney sisters were my rock.

― syro gyra (get bent), Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:03 (ten years ago)

i always thought she was pretty great but then again i really think the era she was on SNL was the total peak of the show

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:06 (ten years ago)

Same here.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:07 (ten years ago)

same

― syro gyra (get bent), Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:10 (ten years ago)

Her and Phil, man. This skit'll never be the same. It already wasn't.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1777471750167

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:24 (ten years ago)

She told a funny Phil story in the Shales about this skit where they played a teenaged couple who were making out. After it was over they broke for their respective dressing areas for the next sketch. Phil stopped her looking very sheepish as he confessed he got a little too into what they'd been doing and he'd be heading into wardrobe with an obvious boner.

― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:41 (ten years ago)

Had a crush on her.

― clemenza, Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:41 (ten years ago)

She improvised this entire scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYfjq3ZYZbA

"Well, buenos dias!"

"Buenos dias!"

― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:48 (ten years ago)

aw, sad.

― Nhex, Friday, 10 October 2014 00:39 (ten years ago)

http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2014/10/10/trigz-tattoo-icon-murdered-in-north-hollywood

― StanM, Saturday, 11 October 2014 19:46 (ten years ago)

David Greenglass! Who knew that SOB was still alive?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/us/david-greenglass-spy-who-helped-seal-the-rosenbergs-doom-dies-at-92.html

― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 19:39 (ten years ago)

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/10/jack-whites-keyboardist-isaiah-ikey-owens-found-dead-in-mexico/

― Ass Tchotchke! (jjjusten), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 19:51 (ten years ago)

oh shit, that's awful news...

― Terrific ribbon, Moe (stevie), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:41 (ten years ago)

amazing keyboard player. his work with the mars volta was just stunning.

― Terrific ribbon, Moe (stevie), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:43 (ten years ago)

Scottish writer Agnes Owens:

https://overland.org.au/2014/10/vale-agnes-owens/

― etc, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 08:40 (ten years ago)

aw, i like her.

― estela, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:50 (ten years ago)

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

^some of this lot had better watch it

― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:55 (ten years ago)

French New Wave actress Marie Dubois, from complications of MS. She was 77. No English reports yet.

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 18:41 (ten years ago)

Original Dr Who director Michael Hayes:

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/oct/14/michael-hayes?CMP=twt_gu

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:01 (ten years ago)

Sorry, that should probably say 'original series'

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:01 (ten years ago)

Elizabeth Peña, at just 55.

http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/elizabeth-pena-who-appeared-in-modern-family-la-bamba-dies-at-55-1201331285/

― Alba, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 23:40 (ten years ago)

omg

I barely recall La Bamba, but she's good in Lone Star. Always wanted to see El Super.

― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 October 2014 00:07 (ten years ago)

Liked her a lot in Jacob's Ladder. RIP, Liz.

― Bobby Ono Bland (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 October 2014 00:24 (ten years ago)

Had a huge crush on her when I was a kid. rip

― polyphonic, Thursday, 16 October 2014 00:32 (ten years ago)

^^^^ on that

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 16 October 2014 02:27 (ten years ago)

oh man she seemed to be in everything I watched for some reason and she was a really exceptional presence.

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 16 October 2014 02:28 (ten years ago)

I first saw her in I Married Dora, which is also the first place I ever saw Juliette Lewis. Since then I've not seen everything she's done, but when I did she always stole the scenes.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 16 October 2014 02:40 (ten years ago)

I bumped this thread - > In praise of "Lone Star."

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 16 October 2014 06:40 (ten years ago)

RIP. Great presence in all the films mentioned.

― Nhex, Thursday, 16 October 2014 06:53 (ten years ago)

RIP. watched down & out in bev hills again a while back and she was great, and so very crush worthy

― Terrific ribbon, Moe (stevie), Thursday, 16 October 2014 08:33 (ten years ago)

Actress Misty Upham: http://variety.com/2014/film/news/august-osage-county-actress-misty-upham-confirmed-dead-at-32-1201332431/

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 October 2014 16:55 (ten years ago)

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/style-scott-rip

Saw this over on ilm. Someone murdered this great Jamaican reggae drummer.

― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 October 2014 19:13 (ten years ago)

Lynda Bellingham

― ailsa, Monday, 20 October 2014 09:26 (ten years ago)

John Holt http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/20/reggae-singer-john-holt-dies-aged-69-veteran

― Terrific ribbon, Moe (stevie), Monday, 20 October 2014 09:42 (ten years ago)

ah man.

― Fizzles, Monday, 20 October 2014 09:45 (ten years ago)

RIP, he had a lovely voice.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 October 2014 14:03 (ten years ago)

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/raphael-ravenscroft-sax-player-on-gerry-rafferty-s-baker-street-dies-at-60.1413816600

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 20 October 2014 17:21 (ten years ago)

Oscar de la Renta

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 02:14 (ten years ago)

no shit? :(

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 02:14 (ten years ago)

Gerard Parkes of lots of stuff including "Fraggle Rock" http://news-briefs.ew.com/2014/10/20/gerard-parkes-obit/

― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:21 (ten years ago)

LM "Kit" Carson: http://popcultureblog.dallasnews.com/2014/10/filmmaker-actor-and-usa-film-festival-founder-l-m-kit-carson-one-of-the-greats-is-dead-at-73.html/

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 16:46 (ten years ago)

Tim Hauser of Manhattan Transfer
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/passage-manhattan-transfers-tim-hauser/

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 17:59 (ten years ago)

So was Raphael Ravenscroft related to John Peel?

― Thus We Frustrate Kid Charlemagne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 10:58 (ten years ago)

Guess not, Ravenscroft not uncommon name.

― Thus We Frustrate Kid Charlemagne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 11:01 (ten years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/business/media/ben-bradlee-editor-who-directed-watergate-coverage-dies-at-93.html?_r=0

― NYC if you didn't know was taken over by skeleton hipsters in the past (stevie), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 11:09 (ten years ago)

RIP Alvin Stardust

― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 23 October 2014 10:26 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiKQO6BVzyA

― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Thursday, 23 October 2014 12:24 (ten years ago)

Elizabeth Peña, at just 55.
http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/elizabeth-pena-who-appeared-in-modern-family-la-bamba-dies-at-55-1201331285/
― Alba, Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:40 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Cirrhosis. Damn.

― how's life, Thursday, 23 October 2014 14:33 (ten years ago)

Frank Mankiewicz, adviser to RFK and McGovern, a president of NPR

(yes he was from the Hollywood family)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/frank-mankiewicz-political-and-media-insider-dies-at-90/2014/10/23/7ce2d5d4-47e6-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html

― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 25 October 2014 04:51 (ten years ago)

Jack Bruce

(from http://www.jackbruce.com)

It is with great sadness that we, Jack’s family, announce the passing of our beloved Jack: husband, father, granddad, and all round legend. The world of music will be a poorer place without him, but he lives on in his music and forever in our hearts.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 25 October 2014 14:21 (ten years ago)

Merl Saunders

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Star-keyboardist-Merl-Saunders-dies-3264217.php

― nickn, Saturday, 25 October 2014 17:22 (ten years ago)

...in 2008.

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 October 2014 17:53 (ten years ago)

Or he had a stroke in 2008, but just died now?

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 October 2014 17:55 (ten years ago)

"Published 4:00 am, Saturday, October 25, 2008"

― StanM, Saturday, 25 October 2014 18:05 (ten years ago)

Yeah, goddamn. I usually check facebook posts.

― nickn, Saturday, 25 October 2014 18:08 (ten years ago)

He's still dead though, so you're not wrong.

― StanM, Saturday, 25 October 2014 18:12 (ten years ago)

Know exactly how that happens

― Zings for a Tailor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 October 2014 18:13 (ten years ago)

http://deadline.com/2014/10/marcia-strassman-dead-welcome-back-kotter-honey-i-shrunk-the-kids-861946/

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 26 October 2014 23:28 (ten years ago)

Galway Kinnell, 87:

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-poet-galway-kinnell-dies-20141029-story.html

― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:31 (ten years ago)

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/static-x-frontman-wayne-static-dead-at-48/

― StanM, Sunday, 2 November 2014 07:01 (ten years ago)

jeez

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 November 2014 07:09 (ten years ago)

Damn. I never heard them, but I will never forget his hair.

― how's life, Sunday, 2 November 2014 12:04 (ten years ago)

i saw them live a couple of times abt 15 years ago, they were good fun

& otm re impressive hair

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 November 2014 15:34 (ten years ago)

Acker Bilk. R-diddly-I-diddly-P

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29874053

― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Sunday, 2 November 2014 19:31 (ten years ago)

aw i didn't even know he was still alive, wow

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 November 2014 19:49 (ten years ago)

From Richard Lester's It's Trad, Dad!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqajhsA3wYA

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 November 2014 21:42 (ten years ago)

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/357428287/tom-magliozzi-popular-co-host-of-nprs-car-talk-dies-at-77

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 3 November 2014 19:48 (ten years ago)

Oh damn. R.I.P.

― how's life, Monday, 3 November 2014 19:51 (ten years ago)

yeah i just saw that. NPR's best imo, hands down. so sad. RIP.

― caucasity and the sundance kid (goole), Monday, 3 November 2014 19:52 (ten years ago)

RIP ;_;

― dan m, Monday, 3 November 2014 19:52 (ten years ago)

77! Hell of a life. Off to Car Talk Plaza in the sky.

― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Monday, 3 November 2014 19:55 (ten years ago)

This is hitting me hard

I have a bunch of not-yet-listened to Car Talk shows on my iphone still ;_;

― 龜, Monday, 3 November 2014 19:56 (ten years ago)

will they stop the reruns now? please?

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 November 2014 20:01 (ten years ago)

My wife likes to leave the radio on in the background during the show just for Tom's laugh. Their shtick went the way of all shticks, but they were a classic kind of radio entertainment.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 3 November 2014 20:13 (ten years ago)

http://youtu.be/hLtksqAz5Fs

taking a call from leonard bernstein's son, dunno the date

― caucasity and the sundance kid (goole), Monday, 3 November 2014 20:20 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn3Sqa4nRtA

Supercut of Car Talk laughs.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 3 November 2014 20:24 (ten years ago)

Dick Schaal, Second City comedy vet who guested frequently on MTM sitcoms

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/richard-schaal-dead-mary-tyler-747002

(played Chuckles the Clown once! so I wonder if Mary will attend the funeral...)

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 November 2014 15:56 (ten years ago)

Definitely one of those Those Guys from 70s sitcoms. His daughter, Wendy, did a bunch of TV before becoming a Joe Dante cast favorite and currently enjoys voice-work fame on "American Dad."

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 November 2014 16:01 (ten years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29937355

Manitas de Plata

Back when I first started playin guitar, the only lessons available were Classical, with a view to Flamenco, around our way anyway. I fancied becoming "Manitas de Placca (little hands of plastic)" but.

I think Elvis Costello's "Little hands of concrete" was a nod in his direction also.

― Mark G, Thursday, 6 November 2014 16:23 (ten years ago)

http://www.stereogum.com/1717972/r-i-p-sugarhill-gangs-big-bank-hank/obit/

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 00:06 (ten years ago)

Actress who did the voice for Howard's mother on the Big Bang Theory. She is currently featured in a plot line.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/carol-ann-susi-dead-big-748433

― nickn, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 04:11 (ten years ago)

"Susi grew up in Brooklyn and moved to Los Angeles in the 1970s. Shortly after, she earned a spot as Kolchak’s secretary, Monique Marmelstein, on ABC's The Night Stalker. Other credits include guest appearances on Cheers, Doogie Howser, M.D., Mad About You, Just Shoot Me, Seinfeld and Six Feet Under.
On the 1992 Seinfeld episode "The Boyfriend" (which famously features a guest-starring stint by New York Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez), Susi’s character, the daughter of an unemployment officer, goes out on a horrible date with George (Jason Alexander)."

― nickn, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 04:13 (ten years ago)

Warren Clarke

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/nov/12/warren-clarke-dies-dalziel-pascoe-clockwork-orange

― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 12:54 (ten years ago)

Awwww. RIP Warren.

― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 13:32 (ten years ago)

http://michaelmurray.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Dim-Warren-Clarke-Alex-DeLarge-Malcolm-McDowell-Georgie-James-Marcus-in-the-Korova-Milkbar-A-Clockwork-Orange-Film-1971.jpg

― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 17:51 (ten years ago)

him and acker bilk swapping bowlers in heaven as we speak

― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 17:55 (ten years ago)

goodbye droogie

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 17:56 (ten years ago)

John Doar, badass Justice Dept lawyer of the civil rights era, and House Watergate counsel

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/john-doar-civil-rights-struggle

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/11/363409539/john-doar-remembered-as-a-civil-rights-pioneer

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 21:05 (ten years ago)

Bluesman Little Joe Washington: http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2014/11/heres_to_you_little_joe_washin.php

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 November 2014 00:12 (ten years ago)

re: Doar, am reading the last volume of taylor branch's MLK biogs at the moment, and he figures prominently

― you fuck one chud... (stevie), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:40 (ten years ago)

yeah, kind of a historical disconnect with our idea of "Republican lawyer at the Justice Dept"

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:51 (ten years ago)

Johnny Elichaoff, aka Johnny Toobad from Robert Fripp's 1980 group The League of Gentlemen.

― Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Friday, 14 November 2014 16:11 (ten years ago)

Former mayor of Chicago Jane Byrne:
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Former-Chicago-Mayor-Jane-Byrne-Dies-at-80-282720631.html

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 14 November 2014 18:50 (ten years ago)

Glen A Larson

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/glen-a-larson-dead-battlestar-748879

― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Saturday, 15 November 2014 16:48 (ten years ago)

RIP 70's tv

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 November 2014 17:59 (ten years ago)

R.A. Montgomery, creator of Choose Your Own Adventure
http://www.cyoa.com/pages/r-a-montgomery-1936-2014

― Nhex, Monday, 17 November 2014 05:18 (ten years ago)

Johnny Elichaoff; member of Robert Fripp's League of Gentlemen, manager of Tears For Fears and Fairground Attraction, ex-husband of Trinny Woodall, curio and antique collection on Channel 4's Four Rooms.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/johnny-elichaoff-dies/

― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 17 November 2014 08:37 (ten years ago)

Yeah, I posted about Johnny Toobad a few days ago.

― Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Monday, 17 November 2014 12:50 (ten years ago)

So you did, sorry. NOTE TO SELF - READ THREAD BEFORE POSTING

― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 17 November 2014 12:59 (ten years ago)

That's destined for "ILX quotes out of context", no doubt.

― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 17 November 2014 12:59 (ten years ago)

Charles Champlin, longtime LA Times arts editor, film critic and columnist

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-me-charles-champlin-20141118-story.html

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 15:10 (ten years ago)

Ken Takakura, veteran actor of both Japanese and Hollywood movies (The Yellow Handkerchief, The Yakuza, Black Rain)

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/japanese-actor-ken-takakura-dies-at-83-1201358969/

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 15:17 (ten years ago)

Geez: I looked at that Johnny Elichaoff obit on UltimateClassicRock link, and underneath it there's "10 other stars that went in off the deep end" and a pic of Justin Bieber. Not a good one, in other words...

― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 15:33 (ten years ago)

Charles Champlin has a good cameo in The Player--Burt Reynolds is complaining to him about something or other. Bought this book years ago, but never opened it. I think he existed somewhere between Gene Shalit and Ebert.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41zRaqgouuL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 20:32 (ten years ago)

ken takakura was really good. i didn't see him in much but i remember him being really great in 'black rain', a nice performance next to everybody showboating around him. actually the best things about that film were him and the cinematography work. osaka looked incredible.

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 20:50 (ten years ago)

michael douglas was at peak ridiculousness in that movie.

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 20:52 (ten years ago)

motown's jimmy ruffin

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:11 (ten years ago)

:(((((((

― 龜, Thursday, 20 November 2014 00:36 (ten years ago)

One of my favourite reviews ever was Frank Kogan's of Paul Young's quite pointless cover of "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted": "They write for fanzines, that's what."

― clemenza, Thursday, 20 November 2014 01:46 (ten years ago)

Mike Nichols

― peace, joy, pancake (doo dah), Thursday, 20 November 2014 12:18 (ten years ago)

That's huge. For a brief interlude between the last films of Sarris's pantheon and the '70s films of Kael's--'66 and '67, at least--the key American director. I know The Graduate had detractors right from the start, but a big influence on me.

― clemenza, Thursday, 20 November 2014 12:25 (ten years ago)

In busting up weddings?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyM7AJiC0Nk

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 November 2014 13:25 (ten years ago)

I always forget that he's the Nichols in Nichols and May.

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 20 November 2014 13:46 (ten years ago)

Coincidentally I watched Heartburn this weekend, and it was terrible. But The Graduate will always be one of my very favourite movies ever. I really want to see Carnal Knowledge, also.

― you fuck one chud... (stevie), Thursday, 20 November 2014 14:07 (ten years ago)

Saw Carnal Knowledge not that long ago, its sexual politics are pretty horribly dated imho (Little Murders, also from a Jules Fieffer script, has stood the test of time much better).

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 20 November 2014 14:14 (ten years ago)

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

― you fuck one chud... (stevie), Thursday, 20 November 2014 14:18 (ten years ago)

Carnal Knowledge... its sexual politics are pretty horribly dated imho

probably best discussed in the Nichols thread, but i'm curious why you think so? the film surely views the Nicholson character as a cretin.

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 November 2014 16:18 (ten years ago)

Aww damn, RIP.

Agreed that Carnal Knowledge views Nicholson's character as loathsome. The film doesn't feel dated at all to me; saw it for the first time maybe ten years ago and was startled by how fresh it was.

― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Thursday, 20 November 2014 16:53 (ten years ago)

I don't feel it's dated either. A little telegraphed, maybe, but Nicholson's extremely unpleasant archetype never goes away.

― clemenza, Thursday, 20 November 2014 21:13 (ten years ago)

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/23/us/marion-barry-death/index.html

Marion Barry, dead at age 78

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 23 November 2014 07:59 (ten years ago)

More story: http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/dc/2014/11/23/marion-barry-dies-78-years-old/19437553/

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 23 November 2014 08:01 (ten years ago)

Nobody in the pacific northwest ever understands why it's so funny they actually have Marion berries.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 November 2014 16:22 (ten years ago)

Pat Quinn, famous coach NHL defenseman/coach.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/pat-quinn-dead-at-71-1.2846984

Haven't been a hockey fan for ages, but I still remember him leveling Bobby Orr with a body-check when Orr was rushing up the ice with his head down. You weren't supposed to do that to Orr.

― clemenza, Monday, 24 November 2014 19:10 (ten years ago)

Take one of those "coach"s out.

― clemenza, Monday, 24 November 2014 19:10 (ten years ago)

Pat Quinn went to a Boston bar after knocking out Bobby Orr in a game . . .

― mookieproof, Monday, 24 November 2014 19:12 (ten years ago)

Amazing to look at the clip again--in my mind, Orr was rushing the opposite way. As always, Cherry's something else--in one breath pointing out that Quinn's got his elbow out, in the next gushing "beauty hit."

― clemenza, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:24 (ten years ago)

"Mad" Frankie Fraser, I thought this cunt died years ago tbh

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/26/mad-frankie-fraser-dies-90-leg-surgery

― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:39 (ten years ago)

At the height of his violent criminality, Fraser worked as an enforcer for the Richardson gang and gained a fearsome reputation for his brutality, which was said to include pulling out his victims’ teeth with a pair of pliers.

Feted by every Brit gangland thriller filmmaker twat in the 90s iirc

― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:40 (ten years ago)

Fraser’s son Dave, told the Mirror: “We’re just glad he’s not in pain and isn’t suffering any more. He had a good innings and fought until the end but it was just too much for him.”

― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:41 (ten years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P31E70S8L._SY300_.jpg

― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:56 (ten years ago)

legernd!

― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:56 (ten years ago)

A friend of mine was working as a photographer about the time that Frankie Fraser was "being feted by every Brit gangland thriller filmmaker twat", and had to do a photoshoot with him (probably for some shit lads mag). He said he had to be all friendliness itself to the horrible old bastard even though it turned his stomach to do so but that when he offered to make Fraser a cup of tea he spat in his tea (not in front of him, he valued his teeth too much).

― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:57 (ten years ago)

http://legacymedia.localworld.co.uk/275786/Article/images/15534496/3632352.png

xp haha!

― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:58 (ten years ago)

xp - They say these days that flag was photoshopped - it weren't, 'E used to carry it everywhere, gawdblessim.

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 18:58 (ten years ago)

Ring this number to hear what mad Frankie Fraser has to say: 0911 102 7143

― soref, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:08 (ten years ago)

that woman looks like a possible prior recipient of plier assisted dentistry

― disconnected externalized and unrecognizable signifying structure (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:15 (ten years ago)

so much realness to be found in a gis for "an evening with"

― disconnected externalized and unrecognizable signifying structure (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:15 (ten years ago)

Really looking forward to 2050 when Anders Behring Breivik will be a 9/11 Era Legend telling mesmerising stories, followed by exotic dancers & full buffet.

― Øystein, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:16 (ten years ago)

75 yr criminal career from his first conviction to his last asbo

― نكبة (nakhchivan), Thursday, 27 November 2014 00:54 (ten years ago)

Disaster for Scotland! Arthur Montford RIP.

― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 November 2014 10:41 (ten years ago)

PD James

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/27/pd-james-detective-fiction-dies-aged-94-detective-adam-dalgliesh

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 November 2014 14:32 (ten years ago)

PD James once complained to me abt the music I was playing in a bookshop (tbf, it was prob Merzbow or similar.)

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 27 November 2014 14:44 (ten years ago)

You were playing Merzbow in a bookshop? I'm kinda impressed.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:07 (ten years ago)

This was part of the Music and Video Exchange 'empire' in Notting Hill Gate, and the barmy owner insisted we play music at all times so... Merzbow (PD James was Baroness James of Holland Park, which is just down the road from NHG).

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:39 (ten years ago)

never really got on with her books. ponderous tv stuff. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman great title and my mum assures me still her best (and first iirc).

might give her another go - bookcases when I was growing up were stuffed to the gills with her.

― Fizzles, Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:56 (ten years ago)

and yes, good effort Ward.

― Fizzles, Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:56 (ten years ago)

Right wing 'historian' Paul Johnson was another regular customer. He would always browse the art book shelves, on top of which perched one of our fairly sizeable speakers. I wld deliberately crank up the most horrible noise whenever Johnson stood under this speaker...but I never got so much as a murmur out of the fucker.

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 27 November 2014 19:52 (ten years ago)

This was part of the Music and Video Exchange 'empire' in Notting Hill Gate, and the barmy owner insisted we play music at all times so... Merzbow (PD James was Baroness James of Holland Park, which is just down the road from NHG).
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:39 (4 hours ago) Permalink

Last cpl of times I've been to the NH Book exchange it was Marque Moon and some Nick Cave so Merzbow sounds better already.

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 27 November 2014 19:57 (ten years ago)

I used to crank Funhouse by the Stooges whenever you walked in :-)

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 27 November 2014 20:08 (ten years ago)

haha appreciated as always!

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 27 November 2014 20:23 (ten years ago)

Frank Yablans

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/frank-yablans-former-paramount-president-dies-at-79-1201366148/

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 28 November 2014 01:21 (ten years ago)

Photographer Lewis Baltz

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-lewis-baltz-20141127-story.html

Lewis Baltz images

― nickn, Friday, 28 November 2014 05:08 (ten years ago)

Iconic Kennedy Space Center countdown clock removed

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 November 2014 23:40 (ten years ago)

Man. RIP. If only Ballard were still around to comment on this.

― ILB Traven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 November 2014 23:44 (ten years ago)

Bunny Briggs, the elegant and versatile tap virtuoso whose career bridged dance eras, from Bill (Bojangles) Robinson's to Savion Glover's, died on Nov. 15 in Las Vegas. He was 92.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/arts/dance/bunny-briggs-tap-dancing-virtuoso-dies-at-92-.html?ref=obituaries

― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 December 2014 14:00 (ten years ago)

Bobby Keys died at his home in Nashville this morning from cirrhosis. He was 70.

Very very sad.

― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:25 (ten years ago)

He had to sit out the most recent leg of the Stones tour due to illness. His stories about romancing Natalie Delon during the Exile sessions (told in Keef's book) are quite something.

http://m.nashvillescene.com/nashvillecream/archives/2014/12/02/rolling-stones-saxophonist-bobby-keys-dead-at-70

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:52 (ten years ago)

noooo :(

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:25 (ten years ago)

― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:28 (ten years ago)

Mark Strand as well, a few days ago.

― forbodingly titled It's True! It's True! (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:30 (ten years ago)

Iconic Kennedy Space Center countdown clock removed
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, November 28, 2014 6:40 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Man. RIP. If only Ballard were still around to comment on this.
― ILB Traven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, November 28, 2014 6:44 PM (4 days ago)

eerie, I just started reading Memories of the Space Age this week.

― GYBE ALFOTHAD download from mediafire - Type: .rar Size: 53.25 MB (unregistered), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 01:27 (ten years ago)

The Canadian Joe DiMaggio, basically:

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/jean-b%C3%A9liveau-remembered-as-true-gentleman-1.2858446

― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:05 (ten years ago)

Should have looked at the story first--I hate that that's just a bunch of Tweets. A little better:

http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/2014/12/03/montreal_canadiens_legend_jean_bliveau_dead_at_83.html

― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:08 (ten years ago)

Some sites are reporting Ian McLagan. In Austin (where he lives) at age 69.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2014-12-03/ian-mclagan-1945-2014/

― nickn, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 21:57 (ten years ago)

Bob Montgomery, sideman of Buddy Holly, and more:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30343325

― Mark G, Friday, 5 December 2014 16:31 (ten years ago)

Herman Badillo, first congressman born in Puerto Rico (who turned reactionary in his dotage)

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/5/pioneering_politician_herman_badillo_the_first

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 December 2014 02:55 (ten years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/06/nyregion/arthur-leipzig-a-photographer-inspired-by-everyday-life-in-new-york-dies-at-96.html?ref=arts&_r=0

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 7 December 2014 21:13 (ten years ago)

Ralph Baer, inventor of Simon and the first video game console the Magnavox Odyssey
http://www.wired.com/2014/12/ralph-baer-obituary/

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 8 December 2014 12:49 (ten years ago)

RIP

― Nhex, Monday, 8 December 2014 14:34 (ten years ago)

Ken Weatherwax - Pugsley on the Addams Family
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-ken-weatherwax-dies-20141208-story.html

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 03:57 (ten years ago)

rip :(

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 03:58 (ten years ago)

Nathaniel Branden, lover and "intellectual heir" (what a gyp) of Ayn Rand

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-nathaniel-branden-20141209-story.html

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:26 (ten years ago)

At an Objectivist lecture in the 1960s, someone asked if such heroes as Rand portrayed could exist in the real world. Yes, she replied, there were two in the room at that moment: She indicated Nathaniel Branden and herself. She had identified Branden as her "intellectual heir," authorized to speak on her behalf regarding all matters. By 1967, the Nathaniel Branden Institute was installed in the Empire State Building, where it occupied eight thousand square feet and had a long lease. And then, in the summer of 1968--at a moment in American history when radicalism, individualism, and cultural critique were undergoing many strange permutations--it all imploded.

In August, after a lengthy hiatus in their sexual relationship, Rand learned that Nathaniel had fallen in love with an Objectivist student (who later became an actress). Rand heard the news from Barbara, whose own relationship with Nathaniel, always shaky, had finally come undone. At a meeting in New York City five days later, Nathaniel announced that he had committed an unspecified but enormous transgression against Objectivism.

http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9909/rand.html

― poxy fülvous (abanana), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 19:18 (ten years ago)

Pugsley Addams - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30392859

― koogs, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 19:49 (ten years ago)

noted above

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 19:51 (ten years ago)

reposted for uk readers 8)

― koogs, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 20:09 (ten years ago)

Mian Mohammed Tayyab, founder of tge awesome Tayyab's restaurant in London (noted at the end of this review). http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/07/maliks-tandoori-restaurant-review

― Madchen, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 06:05 (ten years ago)

:(((((

― Nixon head is essential. (stevie), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 07:45 (ten years ago)

Illinois Comptroller Judy Bar Topinka

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-illinois-comptroller-judy-baar-topinka-dies-at-age-70-20141210-story.html

― Jeff, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:18 (ten years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/nyregion/juan-flores-a-scholar-of-puerto-rican-culture-in-new-york-dies-at-71.html?_r=0

Professor Flores was writing a biography of Eddie Palmieri, the Puerto Rican pianist and bandleader

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:56 (ten years ago)

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin-notas/6397824/juan-flores-scholar-nuyorican-music-dies

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:57 (ten years ago)

From the Ardent Studios FB page:

It is with deep sadness and regret that we announce the loss of our beloved John Hampton. Ardent's very own mad scientist, Hampton joined the Ardent family in 1977 and quickly made a home for himself here. We all will forever be touched by his talent and the music he helped create. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-hampton-mn0000183072/credits

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 December 2014 04:59 (ten years ago)

Sy Berger, of Topps Trading Cards

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/15/sports/baseball/sy-berger-91-dies-created-the-modern-baseball-trading-card.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0&referrer=

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 14 December 2014 22:00 (ten years ago)

Former Miss America, Elvis co-star and Match Game panelist Mary Ann Mobley
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/former-miss-america-actress-mary-ann-mobley-dies-at-75-1201375470/

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 15 December 2014 23:38 (ten years ago)

Chespirito:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/29/chespirito-comedian-dies-simpsons-mexico-bumblebee-man

― Murdstone From The Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 17:14 (ten years ago)

'60s cinema sort-of-icon Virna Lisi

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-virna-lisi-1936-2014

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:17 (ten years ago)

Can we be shown weirdos + Darlene Love?

― I Am Not Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:21 (ten years ago)

Oops. wrong thread.

― I Am Not Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:22 (ten years ago)

Indeed, RIP Virna!!!

― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:25 (ten years ago)

Ardent Studios founder/Big Star producer John Fry. A sweetheart. He will be missed.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 December 2014 22:10 (ten years ago)

Mandy Rice-Davies (70) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30547066

― Mark G, Friday, 19 December 2014 13:09 (ten years ago)

Jane Bown

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/dec/21/observer-photographer-jane-bown-dies-age-89

― sktsh, Sunday, 21 December 2014 17:33 (ten years ago)

Oh, she was so great ;(

― Madchen, Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:00 (ten years ago)

I didn't mean that sadface to be winky obv.

― Madchen, Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:00 (ten years ago)

https://medium.com/cuepoint/the-triumphs-and-tragedies-of-larry-smith-ca3f259eec70

Producer of early Run DMC and Whodinirecords

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 December 2014 21:44 (ten years ago)

Billie Whitelaw

― Mark G, Sunday, 21 December 2014 21:49 (ten years ago)

an English actress. She worked in close collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and was regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:13 (ten years ago)

saw her do Rockaby in '84 in NY

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 December 2014 03:58 (ten years ago)

Austrian singer-songwriter-legend Udo Jürgens.

― Three Word Username, Monday, 22 December 2014 08:40 (ten years ago)

RIP Billie Whitelaw. The fact that she was married to Peter Vaughan, and that Vaughan's best friend Donald Pleasance lived with them for a time, always makes me think - house sinister!

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 22 December 2014 09:00 (ten years ago)

Peter Vaughan? Played Grouty in Porridge? Best friends with Donald Pleasance?

Hmmmm...

― Mark G, Monday, 22 December 2014 09:06 (ten years ago)

:-( first saw whitelaw in leo the last long before i knew of the beckett connection. also had no idea she was in her eighties (or married to peter vaughan!)

― no lime tangier, Monday, 22 December 2014 09:29 (ten years ago)

Joe Cocker

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30582761

― ailsa, Monday, 22 December 2014 18:21 (ten years ago)

RIP Billie Whitelaw. The fact that she was married to Peter Vaughan, and that Vaughan's best friend Donald Pleasance lived with them for a time, always makes me think - house sinister!

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler)

Weird! reviewing The Babadook last week, I noted how much Essie Davis reminded me of her.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 December 2014 18:25 (ten years ago)

Right hold on here. Billie Whitelaw AND Joe Cocker?!?!?!

― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Monday, 22 December 2014 18:33 (ten years ago)

Who will be the third?

― I Am The Cosmos Factory (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 December 2014 18:45 (ten years ago)

Someone else from Yorkshire no doubt.

― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Monday, 22 December 2014 18:49 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

― I Am The Cosmos Factory (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 December 2014 18:51 (ten years ago)

Come to think of it, with Bobby Keys recent passing, anybody remaining from that tour ought to watch their back.

― I Am The Cosmos Factory (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 December 2014 18:57 (ten years ago)

A bit more obscure

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/81889

Soul singer Wendy Rene has died at the age of 67.

The singer suffered a stroke last week (December 16) and passed away in her home town of Memphis, reports Billboard.

Born Mary Frierson, the artist was given her stage name by fellow singer Otis Redding. She signed to Stax in Memphis in 1963 alongside her group The Drapels and also embarked on a solo career, with songs such as 'After Laughter, Comes Tears', which was later covered by Lykke Li.

She had planned to retire from the music industry in 1967 to focus on family life, but was set to play one last show, with Redding and his band the Bar-Kays. However, she changed her mind at the last minute and Redding and his band perished in a plane crash on the way to the gig.

'After Laughter, Comes Tears' later went on to be sampled by the Wu Tang-Clan on their track 'Tearz' on their 1993 album 'Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)'. In recent years Rene experienced something of a resurgence, playing live in New Orleans in 2010, while her music was re-released on the Light In The Attic label, which also put out music by Rodriguez, with the 2012 compilation 'After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volt Singles, Rarities, 1964-1965'.

― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 December 2014 20:14 (ten years ago)

aw shit. that compilation is really good, too.

― Funky as hell even on the lap. (stevie), Monday, 22 December 2014 20:42 (ten years ago)

I keep two of her songs on my hard drive: "Gone for Good" and "Crying All By Myself."

― clemenza, Monday, 22 December 2014 20:46 (ten years ago)

Jeremy Lloyd ('Allo 'Allo and Are Your Being Served co-creator)

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30591740

― StanM, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 18:13 (ten years ago)

Joseph Sargent, director of lotsa TV and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-joseph-sargent-20141224-story.html

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 December 2014 01:43 (ten years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/us/in-marion-little-joe-washingtons-death-houston-loses-a-link-to-the-blues.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 December 2014 22:05 (ten years ago)

Meant to post this a few days ago: Edward Greenspan, sort of the Canadian F. Lee Bailey. His clients included Conrad Black, Garth Drabinsky, and an author who wrote a book on Paul Bernardo.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/12/28/edward_greenspan_fought_well_against_unjust_laws.html

― clemenza, Monday, 29 December 2014 23:14 (ten years ago)

To round off the year (and finish this massive, pointless project I set myself for some long-forgotten reason), 2220 people who died in 2014:

http://haonowshaokao.com/2014/12/30/obituary-for-2014/

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 09:50 (ten years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30631088

Luise Rainer, 104.

― Whitney Di-Ennial (I M Losted), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 13:00 (ten years ago)

That's amazing that she was still alive--had no idea. I've never seen The Great Ziegfeld or The Good Earth. I bought a little pocketbook on the Academy Awards as a teenager, so her back-to-back awards were imprinted on my mind at an early age.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 15:30 (ten years ago)

wow.

Of course, no one watches those two movies anymore, including me. I don't think I ever saw Ziegfeld.

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 16:30 (ten years ago)

she did a Frank Borzage film with Tracy, THAT I'd see.

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 16:53 (ten years ago)

http://www.eonline.com/news/610111/christine-cavanaugh-voice-of-chuckie-on-rugrats-dies-at-age-51

She retired several years ago, and apparently died of a sleep apnea related cause.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 19:51 (ten years ago)

Aww. Loved her voice on a ton of cartoons in the 90s.

― Nhex, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 19:52 (ten years ago)

saw The Good Earth my freshman year of high school -- it made no impression other than how pious it was.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 19:54 (ten years ago)

For some reason I remembered her turn as the son on The Critic as much as the others (Gosalyn from Darkwing Duck, Dexter from Dexter's Laboatory). Too bad that article doesn't explain how she died at only 51!

― Nhex, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 19:56 (ten years ago)

huh, i just saw her on "I Know That Voice" on Netflix Instant. RIP

― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 20:00 (ten years ago)

Rainer is well-known to people who participate in dead pools. Good for her for proving them wrong.

― Whitney Di-Ennial (I M Losted), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 21:40 (ten years ago)

I watched Ziegfeld around a year ago in an attempt to watch all the Best Picture winners. It's not a good movie, but I made it through. (I did not make it through Cavalcade.) Rainer plays the person who Z hyped up as always bathing in milk. Her acting is extreme emoting that happens to be in-character.

― poxy fülvous (abanana), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 03:00 (ten years ago)

Last time she was mentioned in these parts prior to today was here, I think: I saw Mickey Rooney "perform" tonight at the Cinegrill in Hollywood

― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 03:11 (ten years ago)

Edward Herrmann :-(

http://www.tmz.com/2014/12/31/edward-herrmann-dead-gilmore-girls/

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 20:17 (ten years ago)

i'll always remember him from 'the lost boys'

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 20:18 (ten years ago)

I really loved him as The Hay's Code rep in The Aviator...and of course Gilmore Girls and his Dodge commercials...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRugI7SMXLk

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 20:22 (ten years ago)

I've seen him in a lot of movies, but I had to check his IMDB page to remember which ones. The two things I most associate him with: The Paper Chase, and playing Nelson Rockefeller in Nixon.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 20:25 (ten years ago)

https://33.media.tumblr.com/53d9eb7aa7a9cc5f923430adfb8ea906/tumblr_mmaq7bkQLJ1rbgu1so2_250.gif

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 20:30 (ten years ago)

To those of us of a certain age, he was FDR in a couple '70s miniseries (opp Jane Alexander as Eleanor). And in the John Huston film of Annie, which I've never seen.

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 January 2015 10:03 (ten years ago)

First thing I thought of was this:http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/rip-edward-herrmann-1943-2014-a-john-cheever-memory-20141231aa

― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2015 13:48 (ten years ago)

Probably time for somebody to roll thread.

― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2015 15:45 (ten years ago)

Sorry that link had some extra junk on the end. Reposting
http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/rip-edward-herrmann-1943-2014-a-john-cheever-memory-20141231

― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2015 15:46 (ten years ago)

there will be spillover deaths for a few days yet

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 January 2015 17:22 (ten years ago)

Rainer is well-known to people who participate in dead pools. Good for her for proving them wrong.

― Whitney Di-Ennial (I M Losted)

by dying

― local eire man (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 January 2015 17:26 (ten years ago)

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mario-cuomo-new-york-governor-dead-82-article-1.2063258

― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Friday, 2 January 2015 01:30 (ten years ago)

I thought the late WBAI/WABC radio iconoclast Lynn Samuels summed up Mario's liberal bona fides rather well: "Makes pretty speeches."

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 January 2015 05:32 (ten years ago)

(more than the son manages, God knows)

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 January 2015 05:36 (ten years ago)

Forgot this was presented as a New Year's commercial...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z4JDBgVWKs

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 January 2015 06:15 (ten years ago)

http://artsfuse.org/120300/fuse-remembrance-bishop-lee-mitchell-an-appreciation/

excerpt:

A beloved figure to both the local gospel community and deep southern soul collectors, Bishop Lee Mitchell has passed following a long illness, according to social media reports from his friends and family. Mitchell was 75.

One of the leading deep soul websites called the Alabama-born Mitchell “one of the great unknowns who never made a bad disc” because of the staggering secular 45s he released in the ’60s and ’70s.

After moving to Boston in 1958, Mitchell replaced the renowned Bill Moss in the Bibletones. In 1967 he cut a record for Sure Shot, a label owned by the infamous Texas wheeler and dealer Don Robey. The discs he made in the ’70s weren’t big hits, but in recent years they’ve been spun by the legendary British DJ John Peel and fetched upwards of $350 on eBay. According to one story, Mitchell was offered “Let’s Stay Together” before Al Green cut it but turned it down. Sessions for the great Alabama producer Neal Hemphill resulted in a few 45s, but the full album has still never seen the light of day.

― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 January 2015 16:37 (ten years ago)

Recent years?

Never mind..

― Mark G, Friday, 2 January 2015 18:01 (ten years ago)

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