You know the drill.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 January 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
Twitter reporting that Peggy Cummins of film noir classic Gun Crazy has died age 92.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 January 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
Rick Hall, of Muscle Shoals/Fame Studios
https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/rick-hall-father-of-muscle-shoals-music-dead-at-85-w514854
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
was thinking last night about how freaked out everyone was over the abundance of celebrity deaths in 2016, that definitely didn't carry over into 2017, and i was trying to think of other years that were like that... remembered that ingmar bergman and antonioni died on the same day in 2007, which is arguably crazier than the cavalcade in 2016 imo
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
Honestly, I think Bowie and Prince were just so shocking that it sort of readied us for virtually anybody kicking the bucket. When Tom Petty died, sad and untimely though it was, it just didn't feel as epochal as the passing of Bowie and Prince. There's going to be a steadily accelerating wave of notable deaths, given that youth culture and celebrity as we know it sort of kicked into gear in the 1950s and really only hit its stride in the '60s.
Anyway, RIP Rick Hall.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
I mean, the '50s died last yeat but Chuck, Fats and Jerry Lewis were ancient.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
^^And all had been known to be in declining health for years, which many of the big 2016'ERS had been able to keep under wraps to varying degrees.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
xpost Hah, I thought you meant Jerry Lee Lewis, who is, of course, still alive, though probably barely. And Little Richard is still around, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
I thought he meant Jerry Lee too, almost Googled to make sure.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
It’s been mentioned elsewhere, but 1977 took some pretty big names: Presley, Bolan, Nin, Nabokov, Callas, 2 x Marx brothers etc etc
― Madchen, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 08:33 (six years ago) link
So, will Mark E Smith make it through the year?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 08:40 (six years ago) link
Probably more chance of Tom Hanks winning the Booker Prize tbh
― calzino, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 09:18 (six years ago) link
fred bass, owner of new york bookstore the strand
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/obituaries/fred-bass-strand-bookstore-dies-at-89.html?_r=0
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
Fuck Jerry Lee Lewis. I hope he dies this year.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
Jerry Van Dyke
http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/jerry-van-dyke-coach-actor-dead-dies-1202655598/
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 6 January 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
Longest-serving U.S. astronaut John Young
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-010618a-astronaut-john-young-obituary.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Saturday, 6 January 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
I liked John Young; he was the Apollo astronaut notorious for cursing while on mike during his flight/moonwalk.
Poor Dick Van Dyke, losing his brother and two of his old castmates in the last year.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
Unbelievable that John Young flew the first Gemini and the first Shuttle mission. Oh and landed on the moon.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link
John Young hurts, considering my favorite present this year was the LEGO scale model of the Saturn V.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
any moonwalkers left besides Aldrin?
My dad took me to NYC to see the Apollo 16 astronauts get the Keys to the City from Mayor Lindsay.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 January 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
had an "is he/isn't he dead" moment with Buzz the other day
― flappy bird, Sunday, 7 January 2018 00:15 (six years ago) link
there are 5 left btw
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 January 2018 00:20 (six years ago) link
Recommend the book Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth, by Andrew Smith, to those who have not read.
― The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 January 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
Cinamon Hadley, the model for Death in Gaiman's The Sandman:
https://www.comicmix.com/2018/01/06/cinamon-hadley-the-girl-who-was-death-has-died/
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 January 2018 04:53 (six years ago) link
Peter Prestonhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/07/peter-preston-former-guardian-editor-dies-aged-79
― Alba, Sunday, 7 January 2018 08:51 (six years ago) link
France Gall, ye-ye star and singer of Gainsbourg's Poupee de Cire Poupee de Son.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/france-gall-dead-french-singer-eurovision-michel-berger-a8146276.html
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 7 January 2018 11:35 (six years ago) link
France Gall
http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2018/01/07/03004-20180107ARTFIG00037-mort-de-france-gall-une-chanteuse-qui-donnait-tout-pour-la-musique.php
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 7 January 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
Ray Thomas of the Moody Blueshttp://teamrock.com/news/2018-01-05/ray-thomas-r-i-p
― Alba, Sunday, 7 January 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
Geez, Jerry Van Dyke:
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/06/entertainment/jerry-van-dyke/index.html
Not sure if "stay safe" really applies to either Dick Van Dyke (92) or Carl Reiner (95).
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 January 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
Producer Chris Tsangarides. A huge loss to rock and metal in particular, but the dude worked on an unbelievable number of records.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 7 January 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
People I know who recorded with him said he was a really good guy, sad news.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Sunday, 7 January 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
Tony Calder, promoter and co-founder of Immediate records with Andrew Loog-Oldham.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/07/tony-calder-obituary
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
xpost -- yeah Tsangarides's death is a real loss, what a credit list. Remember being happy to see him turn up in Anvil! The Story of Anvil and he had some of the best moments! Would have been great to get a book from him at some point, probably would have been the hard rock/metal equivalent to something like Are We Still Rolling?.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
2018 is warming up now, the deaths are beginning to roll in.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
Jesse Crumb, artist and son of Robert
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2018/jan/8/jesse-crumb-eureka-resident-and-son-famed-cartooni/
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 January 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
aw man, that's sad.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 05:04 (six years ago) link
Mikio Fujioka, aka Ko-Gami of Babymetal's backing band, age 36.
“Kami Band member Mikio Fujioka has passed away at the age of 36. Mikio Fujioka fell from a high astronomical observation deck on December 30, and died on January 5, with his 2 daughters next to him.”
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
The “Little” Guitar Kami of #BABYMETAL ‘s #Kamiband has passed away in the METAL GALAXIES. We hope that he is now with his GUITAR MASTER A.Holdsworth and enjoying an epic guitar session with him. We are the oneTogetherWe're the only oneYou are the oneForever#RIP #THEONE pic.twitter.com/NMUg3mhmes— BABYMETAL (@BABYMETAL_JAPAN) January 9, 2018
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link
Jeff "Antennae Jimmy Semens" Cotton of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, 68.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cotton
Cotton died from complications of cancer on January 6, 2018.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
The Boogie Report email newsletter and folks on Facebook are reporting that Denise LaSalle, Mississippi born r’n’b/soul singer has died as a result of surgery complications. Her biggest hit was “Trapped by a Thing called Love.” This century she recorded some great Southern soul for labels like Malaco and Ecko.
https://www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/news-soul/denise-lasalle-r-i-p-r3749/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link
RIP. In the UK she's definitely best known for her cover of 'My Toot Toot', which was a top ten hit in 1985.
― Akdov Telmig (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link
that was a big morning-zoo hit in the '80s too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL3Wwo6RGyw
― maura, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
betty jane willis, who released a couple of singles in the '60s, including this leon russell-produced cover of buck owens' 'act naturally'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5NShyAiE1I
this is an in-depth obituary
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/01/04/betty-jane-willis-more-than-another-homeless-death-she-was-a-soul-singer/
― maura, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
Any source for the Jeff Cotton death other than wikipedia (which is no source at all)? He's been notoriously hard to find for decades.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
Only Gary Lucas's Facebook page, which is probably no source at all either. Hmm. Let's see if a proper statement comes out, apologies for jumping the gun if it turns out to be a false alarm.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
Sleuthing reveals his wife died early last year, but I can't find anything on his dying other than that Lucas post.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
Maura - thank you for that Betty Willis obit, very sad, but nice they spoke with her daughter, former coworker and Bill Medley to tell a little of her story.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
Starting to look like Jeff Cotton isn't true, but nothing more than FOAF reports either way. I do know his wife died of cancer last year -- that might be the source of the rumors.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
Neave Brown, architect of low-rise social housing in Camden, recently awarded RIBA medal for same. Lived until his death in north London’s Dunboyne Road flats, which he designed. Here’s an interview from October conducted by one of my best friends:
https://www.ribaj.com/culture/humanity-as-a-design-tool-riba-royal-medal-neave-brown
― kim jong deal (suzy), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
BREAKING: Edgar Ray Killen, convicted in 1964 'Mississippi Burning' slayings of 3 civil rights workers, dies in prison. https://t.co/dKu8bikhBC— The Associated Press (@AP) January 12, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
college football broadcaster keith 'whoa, nellie' jackson
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 January 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
First celebrity I ever saw opening something, Bella Emberg
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/bella-emberg-dead-blunder-woman-actress-russ-abott-show-costume-tributes-dies-died-tv-shows-a8157636.html
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 13 January 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
‘opening something’
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 13 January 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
25 years old, my god ;_;
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/13/model-killed-in-latest-london-stabbing
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 13 January 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
Doreen Tracey, Mousekateer who later worked with Frank Zappa.
http://beta.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-doreen-tracey-20180111-story.html
― nickn, Saturday, 13 January 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
Bloody hell, Bella Emberg, that's someone for the people you didn't realise were still alive except now they aren't thread
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 13 January 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
https://www.rte.ie/amp/933526/?__twitter_impression=true
Dolores O’Riordan.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 15 January 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
Gobsmacked and then some.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
46
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Monday, 15 January 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
I just found out that Chu Ishikawa died at the end of last year. He was 51 and apparently was battling a long illness. He did the soundtracks for most of Shinya Tsukamoto's films and must have been quite influential in industrial music but he could do quite a variety of styles. I did think he looked alarmingly thin at times but I knew nothing about his illness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_L6tVsg2o
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
Dr Mathilde Krim
http://www.newnownext.com/mathilde-krim-dead/01/2018/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
Edwin Hawkins, hitmaker of "Oh Happy Day"
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/16/578235211/gospel-star-edwin-hawkins-known-for-oh-happy-day-dies-at-74
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
as noted elsewhere, Joe Frank
https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/173192/joe-frank-influential-radio-monologuist-dies-at-79
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
Doug Harvey, the baseball umpire known as "God"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/obituaries/doug-harvey-dead-baseball-umpire.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
Jo Jo White
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22124169/jo-jo-white-boston-celtics-great-basketball-hall-famer-dies-71
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
Peter Wyngarde:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/18/actor-peter-wyngarde-department-s-dies
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 18 January 2018 09:38 (six years ago) link
Oh no! RIP Peter ;_; That's it I'm pulling out my copy of his album to listen to.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 January 2018 09:42 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_HiW9J5prc
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 January 2018 09:48 (six years ago) link
Mike Carroll, of Poison 13 and Lord High Fixers
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Thursday, 18 January 2018 10:35 (six years ago) link
Stansfield Turner, CIA chief 1977-81
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/adm-stansfield-turner-who-led-major-cia-overhaul-as-director-of-central-intelligence-dies-94/2018/01/18/eac46390-fc99-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 January 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
Artist Ed Moses, 91.
http://beta.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-me-ed-moses-dies-20180118-story.html#nt=oft12aH-2gp2
― nickn, Friday, 19 January 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
Bradford Dillman https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bradford-dillman-dead-actor-compulsion-way-we-were-was-87-1075818
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link
Peter Mayle
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/obituaries/peter-mayle-who-wrote-of-a-year-in-provence-is-dead-at-78.html
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
I did not know til a month ago that Dillman had been the first Edmund in Long Day's Journey.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 January 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
Dorothy Malone
http://variety.com/2018/film/people-news/dorothy-malone-dies-dead-peyton-place-1202670315/
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:00 (six years ago) link
RIP, Dot :(
― Curly Morlocks (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:37 (six years ago) link
:o
i'm sorry I reminded everyone she was alive yesterday.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 04:05 (six years ago) link
Legendary French chef Paul Bocuse
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 20 January 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
Jim Rodford.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/20/kinks-zombies-bassist-jim-rodford-has-died-aged-76/
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 21 January 2018 01:57 (six years ago) link
christian burchard of embryo died on jan. 17
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Sunday, 21 January 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
Bob Smith, first out gay comedian to appear on The Tonight Show, of ALS
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-smith-pioneering-gay-comedian-writer-dies-at-59-1076420
I took an improv class with Bob in 1985; he was sweet, acidic and very cute. I would've hit on him if I'd been gay then.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 January 2018 09:42 (six years ago) link
Oh, what a shame, they played in London recently - or maybe they're scheduled to play? Anyway, I have got some Embryo on my mp3 player, so can listen to them today - I'm at my mum's this weekend. RIP Christian.(xp)
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 January 2018 10:08 (six years ago) link
Steve Nisbett, Steel Pulse drummer
https://www.reggaeville.com/artist-details/steel-pulse/news/view/steve-grizzly-nisbett-passed-away-founding-member-of-steel-pulse/
― i am a skinematographer (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 January 2018 11:21 (six years ago) link
Bob Wakelin, creator of instantly recognisable art for a generation of Brits and designer of the Ocean software logo.
RIP Bob Wakelin - Any 80's gamers will be familiar with his iconic covers. pic.twitter.com/uOtlRWcv9l— Stu Wood (@DigitalWood) January 21, 2018
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 21 January 2018 12:55 (six years ago) link
"A couple of times the guys at Ocean said to me 'Look Bob, this game really isn't very good so we need an extra special cover.'
I suppose I should feel guilty for it."
― nashwan, Sunday, 21 January 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link
Howard Lew Lewis, best known as Elmo in Brush Strokes but also one of the main cast in Maid Marian and her Merry Men.
http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/54752/howard-lew-lewis-1941-2018
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Monday, 22 January 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
Aw :(
― Madchen, Monday, 22 January 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
Hugh Masekela
https://www.timeslive.co.za/tshisa-live/tshisa-live/2018-01-23-breaking-legendary-musician-hugh-masekela-has-died-report/
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 07:55 (six years ago) link
Oh man, RIP hugh
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 08:46 (six years ago) link
RIP, he was a legend and had an amazing life
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
simon “tinky winky” barneshttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/23/teletubbies-tinky-winky-actor-simon-barnes-dies-aged-52
― maura, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
Mary Lee Berners-Lee
― Madchen, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
Girl From the North Country
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
aw RIP Mary Lee Berners Lee and Bob Wakelin (only just seen that post)
as a child I studied the Rainbow Islands box art in great detail and decided that, since Taito was a Japanese company and the colourful big-eyed box art seemed vaguely like the Euro-Japanese coproduction cartoons imported to mid/late-80s CBBC for my daily viewing, the signed name "Wakelin" must clearly be Japanese, pronounced wa-ké-lin
it took many years to realise that this was quite a silly thought
https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Bob_Wakelin
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
I missed the France Gall post too :(
Catchiest German song about computer dating of the 1960s:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rtdb_zgqdQ
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
Ursula K Le Guin
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
oof, RIP
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
oh fuck what a shitty day this is for human culture
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link
fuuuuuck
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link
The worst of news. RIP.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
Just read earthsea this past few months. Lovely.
RIP
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
All the times I linked to her blog saying m/l "you won't believe who's still around and still blogging", and now I can't believe she isn't.
Thanks for all the books (still so many more I haven't read, too), new ways of thinking for teenage me about fantasy and SF and gender - and the blog posts and cat pics too...
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
yeah, what a hero. earthsea books, with the amazing Tehanu reprise, were formative for me. Left Hand of Darkness and Lathe of Heaven also, later on. RIP. wonderful writer.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
I’m so sad about this loss.
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:53 (six years ago) link
I really hoped she'd make it to 100. RIP and thanks for changing the world for the better.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link
damn, RIP
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
I only read this a few months ago (and only picked up Earthsea trilogy from a friend for a reread yesterday). RIP
https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/lit_crit/works/leguin/carrier-bag.htm
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link
Bob Dylan's Girl From the North Country
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 00:52 (six years ago) link
Careful when invoking his name in this thread.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 00:53 (six years ago) link
Nah, there will be a ton of ilx revives first.
This thread would be the last place it gets mentioned
― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 07:25 (six years ago) link
Lari White, country singer, 52.
https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/lari-white-now-i-know-country-singer-dead-at-52-w515694
― nickn, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 07:47 (six years ago) link
What would be a good starting place for Ursula?
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 08:33 (six years ago) link
the lathe of heaven
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 08:40 (six years ago) link
Jeremy Inkel from Left Spine Down and Front Line Assembly. Only 34.
http://www.post-punk.com/jeremy-inkel-of-frontline-assembly-has-passed-away/
― Chunky Backgammon (onimo), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 08:46 (six years ago) link
Thanks flappy
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 08:49 (six years ago) link
The other bumped thread worth reading through for recs stevie
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 09:25 (six years ago) link
Ah, thanks for the tip-off Dmac!
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 09:42 (six years ago) link
Author Jack Ketchum.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
Mark E Smith
The day I've been dreading. "It is with deep regret that we announce the passing of Mark E. Smith. He passed this morning at home.... 1/2— Fall news (@fallnews) January 24, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
Oh fucking noooooo
― faust apes (NickB), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
Fucking shit fucking shit fucking shit
:(
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
oh shit! that would explain the show cancellations over the past month. RIP.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
Ski filmmaker Warren Millerhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/obituaries/warren-miller-ski-bum-turned-filmmaker-is-dead-at-93.html
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 January 2018 08:22 (six years ago) link
Beetle Bailey cartoonist Mort Walker:
https://www.newsfromme.com/2018/01/27/mort-walker-r-i-p/
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 27 January 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
sorry to hear about ol' mort -- beetle bailey had a good run and could be quite funny back in the day. jeet heer on twitter just pointed out that he was the very last cartoonist personally hired by william randolph hearst.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 27 January 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42851668
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 28 January 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
"hang on a minute, oh ffs these are the wrong screws"
― calzino, Sunday, 28 January 2018 11:55 (six years ago) link
John Morris, composer of most Mel Brooks films
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-morris-blazing-saddles-and-young-frankenstein-composer-dies-at-91-1202679605/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7-wqGbamZc
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 January 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link
That track is one of my Halloween playlist favorites.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Monday, 29 January 2018 01:00 (six years ago) link
it's a lovely piece. as is this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_TKXPPjhRk
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 January 2018 01:19 (six years ago) link
i will cry such a river when/if mel brooks or carl reiner pass
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Monday, 29 January 2018 09:30 (six years ago) link
it is a better world just knowing that they're out there somewhere watching a bad action movie together in one of their houses
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Monday, 29 January 2018 09:31 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/pG26Qyd.jpg
polish footballer stan terlecki, who was the 1981-82 major indoor soccer league player of the year with the pittsburgh spirit and briefly played with the cosmos
http://www.nycosmos.com/news/2017/12/30/remembering-stan-terlecki
was also something of a dissident, which i did not know
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok%C4%99cie_Airport_incident
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 January 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
award-winning investigative journalist Robert Parry
Thank you to @samrob12 for writing an obituary of Robert Parry for the New York Times that treats Parry honestly and seriously https://t.co/1stZnZlJUZ— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) January 30, 2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
http://gerryanderson.co.uk/jeremy-wilkin-died/
Jeremy Wilkin, who voiced Virgil Tracy in Thunderbirds and Captains Ochre and Black in Captain Scarlet, and numerous TV credits including Blakes 7, UFO and Doctor Who.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
need to read more of parry's work -- everything i've seen has been v good
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
Mark Salling, former "Glee" star convicted of child porn possession, via apparent suicide.
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/mark-salling-glee-actor-dead-at-35-w516136
― omar little, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
oh no :(I read a couple of his books, dude was so great. Full of firey passion
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
Huh?
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
I mean. Like. Child porn.
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
That may have been a case of xpostitis imho
― StanM, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
yeah sorry my oh no was for Robert Parry
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 00:23 (six years ago) link
Roommate I've ordered two of the kiddyfiddlers books
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link
Uh....too late
I was confused for a while there myself.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
Porn star Jerry Butler, 58, supposedly of pancreatic cancer. He worked a lot in the 70s and early 80s, then wrote a book, Raw Talent, which pissed off a lot of people in the business, so work kinda dried up. Apparently, he moved back to the East Coast after that and became a bus driver in Brooklyn. He was married to Lisa Loring, who played Wednesday Addams on The Addams Family TV show.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
that's a life
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 1 February 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
Dennis Edwards of The Temptations, one day ahead of his 75th birthday (via Twitter).
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 2 February 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
:((((
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 2 February 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
Too soon. :(
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/obituaries/dennis-edwards-former-temptations-lead-singer-dies-at-74.html?action=click&module=In%20Other%20News&pgtype=Homepage&action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 3 February 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
Screenwriter David Sherwin (The Mick Travis Trilogy)
https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/02/david-sherwin
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 4 February 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
His daughter was a colleague of mine at Edgy Style Mag - very well-spoken but grew up skint.
― kim jong deal (suzy), Sunday, 4 February 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
oh hell, i have O Lucky Man out from the library. Perhaps that's my Super Bowl sorted, then.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 February 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
Drummer Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, who played with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, George Duke, Eddie Henderson, Santana, and many others, particularly in the 1970s.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 4 February 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
I was just reminded on Twitter that Chancler is the drummer on Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean."
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 4 February 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
That'll be how the press will be remembering him, then.
― Mark G, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
The first two of the Mick Travis trilogy are among my favourite films of all time. RIP.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:40 (six years ago) link
Louis Zorich, stage/TV actor ("Mad About You," Uncle Ben opp Dustin Hoffman in Death of a Salesman) and husband of Olympia Dukakis
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-louis-zorich-20180202-story.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
#BREAKING ‘Frasier' Star John Mahoney Dead at 77 via @TMZ https://t.co/QCZTiUj0oc pic.twitter.com/CrWTiSPuJ0— Anthony Dominic (@alloveranthony) February 5, 2018
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 February 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
Aw. He was a local staple here. Used to be seen around all the time.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
Oh no :-(
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 5 February 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
not confirmed yet but reading reports of experimental filmmaker Paul Clipson. His work with Grouper is amazing.
vimeo.com/109943175
― flappy bird, Monday, 5 February 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
fuck, nevermind https://www.gofundme.com/paul-clipson-family-memorial-fund
― flappy bird, Monday, 5 February 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
John Mahoney was also great as the Faulkner character in Barton Fink - “Where’s my honey?” - and as the out-of-tune dad singing along to “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” in Say Anything.
― Some Dusty in Here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link
I could have sworn Mahoney died years ago. I must be thinking of another similar-looking character actor.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 5 February 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonzBvi97qI
― Some Dusty in Here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
Paul Clipson - a criminally unsung luminary of the moving image - has died. His images, layers upon layers of light and energy and feeling has been an inspiration. Very sad news. pic.twitter.com/3721ZHdLUg— Scott Barley (@ScottBarleyFilm) February 5, 2018
― flappy bird, Monday, 5 February 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVTqeesKKmw
― Some Dusty in Here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2018 23:13 (six years ago) link
Bad day for TV dads/grampas. Dakin Mathews, get thee to a doctor pronto.
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 February 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
Actually meant to post the lead up to that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-8M7lSEJD4
― Some Dusty in Here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hi59dtP60k
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 February 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
Great comment about Mahoney
A great actor, gentle man and wonderfully private person in our celebrity-nutty world, telling me some 20 years ago, "I used to crave publicity. I now turn almost everything down. I would rather walk across broken glass." https://t.co/L9QkwwwNQf— Rick kogan (@rickkogan) February 5, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 February 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
Rest in peace, John Mahoney. So much I could say, but I think this captures so much of why I love him. Martin Crane's message for future generations: pic.twitter.com/lZlM665M6y— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) February 5, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
my heart sank when reading that
― infinity (∞), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 00:09 (six years ago) link
And had flat out forgotten he was General Rogard in The Iron Giant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l4m3S3k-pg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
Oh man, John Mahoney RIP!
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 00:20 (six years ago) link
I first saw him (I think) in his Tony-winning role in this John Guare revival, opposite Swoosie Kurtz and 20-y.o. Ben Stiller. Great production, you can probably find the TV version shown on PBS somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8mQJWEWCPw
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link
Paul Clipson was our beloved colleague and today was a truly surreal and horrible workday. Everyone is gutted.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 01:46 (six years ago) link
Even when I was a kid, I found Mahoney to be the most compelling of the three principal's in Say Anything. RIP.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link
xpost -- Damn sorry to hear that. I must have seen his work at numerous times over the years given how many musicians I know around here have been devastated by the loss.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 03:46 (six years ago) link
Paul was a dear person and a tremendous artist. He will be missed.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 07:38 (six years ago) link
That video of the advert for HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES is tremendous ! Old school Broadway corn.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 08:35 (six years ago) link
John Mahoney was between 52 and 63 when he was in 'Frasier'
Is this another one of those 'too young to play his dad' things?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 08:37 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO1AKAKGCvk
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 08:57 (six years ago) link
YES Ste!
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 09:50 (six years ago) link
Old school Broadway corn.
Ohhh, you'd never guess how that play ends...
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link
This is crazy.
― treeship 2, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 12:40 (six years ago) link
He was less than 15 years older than Kelsey Grammer.
Mahoney's character in THoBL was the world's worst songwriter, his wife (Kurtz) mentally ill, and his son planning to assassinate Pope Paul. So it was a "new theatre" black comedy, especially when the first production flopped in 1971.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 12:45 (six years ago) link
Estelle Getty was 62 when she started playing Sophia Petrillo. Bea Arthur was 63.
― maura, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2018/02/05/paul-clipson-visionary-filmmaker-and-projectionist-dies-at-53/
Proper obit for Paul.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link
John Perry Barlow
https://www.jambase.com/article/john-perry-barlow-grateful-dead-lyricist-died
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_o5-fMQoE&
RIP Thomas Denis (aka Qebrus).
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:18 (six years ago) link
wow end of an era wrt barlow
― maura, Thursday, 8 February 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
i forget what his well username was
Another obituary from the other side of his career: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 8 February 2018 08:35 (six years ago) link
Lovebug Starski, 57.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/02/09/584488179/lovebug-starski-rapper-and-dj-who-stood-at-the-vanguard-of-hip-hop-dead-at-57
This obit says he was first to rap the term hiphop
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 February 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
damn, Reg E. Cathey at age 59 per David Simon's twitter. He'll always be first and foremost one of the hosts of PBS's Square One TV to me, but had a great run in the 2000s between Pootie Tang, the Wire, House of Cards, Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter, etc.
― methanietanner, Friday, 9 February 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
wow, way too young.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
John Gavin
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-gavin-dead-dies-psycho-spartacus-1202694312/amp/
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link
Reg E. Cathey was also a guest star on the greatest SVU episode ever.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:22 (six years ago) link
He played a homeless guy on regular Law & Order, too. He was great.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
Liam Miller, former Irish international footballer and player with Utd and Celtic among others
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 09:45 (six years ago) link
... Celtic, Utd, among others.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:14 (six years ago) link
If you must
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:28 (six years ago) link
John Gavin was Reagan's ambassador to Mexico as well as a boring actor
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 February 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
Always got him and John Saxon mixed up.
― WilliamC, Saturday, 10 February 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
^^^^^
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 February 2018 13:58 (six years ago) link
Lol
― Psmith, Pharmacist (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 February 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
Johann Johannsson
https://deadline.com/2018/02/johann-johannsson-dies-obituary-the-theory-of-everything-composer-1202284591/
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 February 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
Wow
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 February 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
Really shocking. Reports indicate he was found in his Berlin apartment yesterday, and that there'll be an autopsy, cause of death unknown.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 February 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
RIP John Gavin - I read somewhere on Fbk that his passing now only leaves Vera Miles (aged 88) and Pat Hitchcock (89) still with us from the cast of Psycho.
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 10 February 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
sad that johannsson's obit has the theory of everything as his most famous work
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 10 February 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
horrible
― maura, Saturday, 10 February 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
Ghanian singer Ebony Reigns
https://www.fashionghana.com/site/ghana-mourns-death-of-dancehall-afrobeats-artiste-ebony-and-two-others/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI1caSAjTgk
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 10 February 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link
http://www.wideopencountry.com/daryle-singletary-dies/
Oof, only 46.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 12 February 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
Per Damon Krukowski on Twitter, Pearls Before Swine's Tom Rapp.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 February 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
Vic Damone
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8099139/vic-damone-dies-89
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 February 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
People you thought were.... RIP Vic.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
Tom Rapp, according to his daughter-in-law, on Twitter
― too notch (stevie), Monday, 12 February 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
(oh, missed your post there Ned)
― too notch (stevie), Monday, 12 February 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
Just heard about Reg Cathey yesterday--excellent in House of Cards, especially the big episode involving his son.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 00:38 (six years ago) link
Marty Allen--some other world, one I remember.
http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/marty-allen-died-dies-comedian-daytime-tv-favorite-1202696418/
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
goodbye dere, Marty
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
BREAKING: #Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai dies in South Africa - MDC https://t.co/V2aCbYleFh pic.twitter.com/Mfb0etGKQ8— Reuters Africa (@ReutersAfrica) February 14, 2018
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
Kenneth Haigh, who played Jimmy Porter in the original Look Back in Anger production, and told George Harrison "You can be replaced, chickie baby" in A Hard Day's Night.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/feb/13/kenneth-haigh-obituary
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 February 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
Peggy Cooper Cafritz, DC-area patroness of the arts.
https://wtop.com/dc/2018/02/peggy-cooper-cafritz-influential-education-and-arts-patron-dies-at-70/
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Monday, 19 February 2018 00:50 (six years ago) link
As the obit notes, she fought against racism as a young student at George Washington university in the 60s and then later co-founded the Duke Ellington School for the Arts. For those 2 things alone she deserves kudos.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 February 2018 06:34 (six years ago) link
Norm Rogers, drummer for the Cows, the Jayhawks and more besides
http://www.startribune.com/former-jayhawks-and-cows-drummer-norm-rogers-dies-of-cancer/474613843/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
Boyd Jarvis, House music producer. https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=41107
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
Billy Grahamhttp://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/billy-graham-dead_us_566e7e34e4b011b83a6bb479
and no link available yet, but Detective Chief Inspector Peter Jay, who arrested Muswell Hill Murderer, Dennis Nilsen.
― Madchen, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link
Nanette Fabray
http://deadline.com/2018/02/nanette-fabray-dies-stage-tv-comic-actress-was-97-1202301558/
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 February 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
Eddy Amoo
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-band-real-thing-star-14330919
Anybody who says You To Me Are Everything hasn't touched them is a liar.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 24 February 2018 01:38 (six years ago) link
rip eddy my man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEDboC4mBYk
― alien lames (NickB), Saturday, 24 February 2018 11:29 (six years ago) link
I see on the Stern’s music store & label blog that singer Medoune Diallo has died. He was in the great West African groups Orchestra Baobab and Africando.
http://sternsmusic.blogspot.com/2018/02/medoune-diallo-11021949-10022017-rip.html?m=1
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 February 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
Emma Chambers, from Vicar of Disley, 53
― Mark G, Saturday, 24 February 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
Was just coming here to post that http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43183354
― ailsa, Saturday, 24 February 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43171117
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-crystals-singer-barbara-ann-alston-dead-at-74-w517091
She sang lead on early songs including “Uptown “ & “He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss)”
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 February 2018 22:53 (six years ago) link
“He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss)”jesus christ
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:22 (six years ago) link
oh shit :( Barbara was the living end, i love the Crystals so much rip lady <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link
like Ronnie was THE voice but Barbara had such a sweet sincerity, I really love her early songs
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/gkpeUDbVAlE
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 February 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
Would never have guessed the lead singer of the Crystals was still alive. Close call between them and the Ronettes--they're even tied in the iconic-Scorsese-shots department.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCYwcObxl78
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 February 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link
ronnie? i meant darlene ugh ugh
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
also xposts to AA: the girls all HATED the song. written by Goffin & King
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 00:04 (six years ago) link
I was a little confused too..."sang lead on early songs"--so it's Darlene Love on "Then He Kissed Me"?
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 February 2018 00:04 (six years ago) link
No, that's LaLa Brooks.
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 February 2018 00:35 (six years ago) link
The Crystals started out as a quintet with Barbara in lead til 62Spector pulled a switcheroo & recorded Love’s group The Blossoms AS the Crystals doing He’s A Rebel while the real Crystals were on the road touring. Suuuuuuper dick moveThen the real Crystals were back on deck with LaLa in 63 and she sang Then He Kissed Me and Da Doo Ron Ronit’s sad tho bcz I always forget it’s LaLa and not Darlene on those 2!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link
> Would never have guessed the lead singer of the Crystals was still alive.
They were all terribly young at the time though, all born in the '40s. Darlene is still alive and kicking up a storm at 76
― koogs, Sunday, 25 February 2018 04:36 (six years ago) link
also xposts to AA: the girls all HATED the song.oh thank god
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 February 2018 10:08 (six years ago) link
Harriet Fier, Rolling Stone editor.
I still have a few of those issues--a friend gave some of his brother's, the first time I'd really read the magazine (I knew about it). The reviews section was fantastic during those three years: Paul Nelson was editor, and Marcus, Bangs, Marsh, and a bunch of other people--the Stranded writers, basically, minus Christgau--were all in there at the same time.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 February 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
x-post- Carole King soon came to hate the song too. Goffin said the lyrics were based on something Little Eva told him about her boyfriend
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 February 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
Lewis Gilbert, aged 97
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lewis-gilbert-dead-alfie-james-bond-director-dies-at-97-1088811
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
Ah man. My gran was best friends at school with Lewis Gilbert. As a child it felt like a secret connection to Roger Moore.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
Aw RIP Lewis. What an innings tho! 97! He had the cutest Elmer Fudd speech impediment
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo
http://variety.com/2018/film/global/idrissa-ouedraogo-dies-dead-tilai-1202704129/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
Peter Miles, British actor you'll mainly recognise from 70s TV (and especially as Nyder in Genesis of the Daleks) but also a jazz singer and guitarist who was a close friend of Dusty. He played guitar on the first record The Springfields made and appeared on other Dusty recordings like this one:
https://youtu.be/yLMrMMSFviU
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
Jackson Galaxy's main cat, Veloouria, at the fairly unbelievable age of 26.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b3/a2/fd/b3a2fd00c29cf16de87146bf55434b47.jpg
very distinguished looking cat, rip veloouria
― soref, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
cynthia heimelhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/obituaries/cynthia-heimel-irreverent-writer-about-sex-dies-at-70.html
― maura, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 11:27 (six years ago) link
:-(( RIP improver of my 1980s.
― kim jong deal (suzy), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 11:29 (six years ago) link
comedian/activist Barry Crimmins
https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-barry-crimmins-comedian-and-activist-1823430381
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
RIP <3Anyone who hasn't seen "Call Me Lucky" definitely should
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link
Guardian columnist Michele Hanson.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/03/michele-hanson-warm-witty-much-loved-columnist-dies-guardian
It's a bit unnerving that her Twitter account is retweeting tributes to her without anyone announcing that they are in control of it and that she's not tweeting from beyond the grave!
https://twitter.com/michelerhanson
― Alba, Saturday, 3 March 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
David Ogden Stiers
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/david-ogden-stiers-emmy-nominee-005402748.html
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 4 March 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
he was so great on MASH <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:09 (six years ago) link
I like how he pronounced "cretins"
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
Harvey Schmidt, composer of The Fantasticks
http://www.playbill.com/article/harvey-schmidt-fantasticks-composer-dies-at-88
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
MASH was good at replacing people
winchester, hunnicutt and potter were all better than burns, trapper and blake
― mookieproof, Sunday, 4 March 2018 03:19 (six years ago) link
The first one maybe, the second definitely not, flip a coin on the third.
― Whiney On The Moog (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 March 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link
DOS was good in everything I watched him in. i remember him being particularly outstanding in the very good, totally slept on mid-'90s thriller Bad Company w/Laurence Fishburne, Ellen Barkin, Frank Langella, etc...
― omar little, Sunday, 4 March 2018 04:13 (six years ago) link
Fun Fact: DOS went to high school w/Roger Ebert.
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 4 March 2018 04:16 (six years ago) link
Davide Astori, the Fiorentina captain, dies last night at 31.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 4 March 2018 11:46 (six years ago) link
*died
Roger Bannister too.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 4 March 2018 11:50 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lKcSIKkI2A
― scott seward, Sunday, 4 March 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind-up radio: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/05/trevor-baylis-inventor-wind-up-radio-dies-aged-80
― brain (krakow), Monday, 5 March 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
re Sir Rog
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/05/590792079/roger-bannister-first-runner-to-break-4-minute-mile-dies-at-88
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 March 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
russ solomon, founder of tower records (also rip)http://amp.sacbee.com/latest-news/article203542104.html
― maura, Monday, 5 March 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
"Ironically, he was giving his opinion of what someone was wearing that he thought was ugly, then asked (his wife) Patti to to refill his whisky," Solomon said. When she returned, he had died.
― maura, Monday, 5 March 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
Much worse ways to bow out, really.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 March 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
xp"Either that outfit goes or I do!"
― nickn, Monday, 5 March 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
I just watched that Tower Records doc a week or so ago. He seemed like a dude!
― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Monday, 5 March 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
Historian Hayden White. One of very few people that I read as an undergraduate who - cliché alert - really changed the way I viewed history.
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
André S Labarthe. Film critic and filmmaker behind the great "Cinéastes de notre temps" series of filmmaker docus ( snippets often appear nowadays on Criterion releases).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivWNpDngpYs
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
The Volkswagen Beetle (again)https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-geneva-motor-show/volkswagen-confirms-beetle-wont-be-replaced
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 10 March 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
my mom had this type/color when i was small. not as clean and shiny tho
https://i.imgur.com/qpwW6Xk.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 March 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
saw one of those on the street the other day... on a tow truck
― flappy bird, Saturday, 10 March 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
the print NME
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 March 2018 03:15 (six years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43367267
Ken Dodd
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link
Gary Burden
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-album-cover-artist-gary-burden-dead-at-84-w517736
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 March 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
Didn't recognize the name, but Gold Rush and On the Beach are brilliant album covers.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 March 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link
Ken Dodd was terrifying.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 12 March 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
XP There's a good doc about Burden and Henry Diltz called "Under the Covers - A Magical Journey: Rock N Roll in L.A. in the 60's - 70's" that used to run on PBS as a pledge programmer 10-15 years ago. IIRC, it only touches on Neil through CSNY, but Crosby is interviewed (among others), and he's in rare form (even for him).
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 March 2018 02:16 (six years ago) link
Ken Dodd managed to spend a very long career surrounded by young kids without getting yewtreed, sad that this is in any way notable of course. My mum's cousin was a diddyman and as far as I'm aware he was fine.His single "Tears' was also the third best selling single of the 60s in the UK, he was hugely popular in his time and still doing ridiculously long shows to packed houses aged 90.With the death of my last great aunt in Liverpool late last year, this really feels like the end of the WW2 generation (on a personal level, I know)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 12 March 2018 07:40 (six years ago) link
RIP Ken
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Monday, 12 March 2018 08:30 (six years ago) link
He lived in the same house he was born in for 89 of his 90 years apparently.
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 09:02 (six years ago) link
Carol Vorderman was a former Diddyman btw.
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 09:03 (six years ago) link
Tory indoctrination club?
― Alba, Monday, 12 March 2018 09:26 (six years ago) link
Diddymen were non-union labour iirc
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:27 (six years ago) link
living in the same house you were born into all your life is sometimes a very bad option for some people!
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 09:31 (six years ago) link
yeah it didn't work out so great for the Fritzls
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:39 (six years ago) link
I wish Ken has made funnies like that!
― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 09:41 (six years ago) link
had
Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead and now so is Ken, RIP Doddy.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:49 (six years ago) link
nv in with the fritzl gag right after 9 on a monday, gonna be a belter of a week of ilxor dot com for sure
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:52 (six years ago) link
apparently ken dodd singles charted 19 times in the uk, maybe we should have an in-memoriam poll thread
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:54 (six years ago) link
Ahem, can I point you in the direction of the opening track of this ILX Compilation:
https://soundcloud.com/nedraggett/tom-d-happiness-in-spite-of-the-death-of-his-fathers-dog?in=nedraggett/sets/ilx-precovers-the-pet-shop-boys-super
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:58 (six years ago) link
Kate Wilhelm died yesterday, never knew she wrote crime fiction as well as great SF.
https://boingboing.net/2018/03/11/the-sweet-birds-sang.html
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 11:10 (six years ago) link
Hubert de Givenchy, 91
https://fashionista.com/.amp/2018/03/hubert-de-givenchy-death?__twitter_impression=true
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
Craig Mack. I liked his debut album but can't recall anything else he did.
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 08:15 (six years ago) link
some of these effusive RIP legend/icon comments seem to be laying it on a bit thick, he dropped one mixtape that disappeared without a trace in the last 20 years.
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 08:38 (six years ago) link
Nokie Edwards, the Ventures' Lead Guitarist, Dead at 82.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/nokie-edwards-the-ventures-lead-guitarist-dead-at-82-w517837
― nickn, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
Stephen Hawking. daaamn.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
oh no
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 03:54 (six years ago) link
eaten by wolves
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 03:54 (six years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-matt-dike-obituary-20180313-story.html
Collaborator and co-producer of Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique album, Delicious Vinyl label co-owner ( Tone Loc), club Dj for Ice-T, and more , dead from cancer at 56.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 03:56 (six years ago) link
Oh damn that's awful
― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 08:58 (six years ago) link
Jim Bowen, who I would genuinely have sworn was dead for a decade or so.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43403178
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link
RIP Jim. that Bully had 20m viewers at it's peak is quiet staggering.
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
Imagine the conversation between him and Stephen Hawking.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link
Same here. RIP Jim tho.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
jim bowen is he dead
About 1,380,000 results (0.29 seconds)
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYPqrZhXkAAFnUD.jpghuge amounts of predictably abelist crap about Hawking is popping up in multiple obits. Dr Francis Ryan has a huge dedicated thread of them.
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
Bullseye is a staple of the "Challenge" TV channel, on a nightly basis. They show three or four shows a night, then when they've played them all, they start over again!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link
I can remember a friend's dad back in the 80's whose Sunday afternoon routine was "a bit of Bully" then off to evening mass, like clockwork. Interrupt him at church if you like, but not when he was watching Bullseye!
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link
Old episodes of Bullseye make for pretty compelling time-capsules
So, I'm still watching Bullseye from 1981. And everyone is unemployed. But when they tell Jim this, he doesn't mock them or chide them; he offers his support and asks how bad it is wherever they're from. Like it's a war. Which it was - and they're on the same side.— David Hill (@davidWhill14) February 3, 2018
― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link
My grandparents were Bullseye obsessives.
― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link
it's completely righteous + bang on in a good way is that tweet.
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link
tube celebs never heard of outside the UK crowding out ol' Hawking
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link
hawking had an amazing career and all but he never gave anyone a speedboat iirc
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
i was just gonna post that tweet!
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
did hawking share the screen with a darts-playing anthropomorphic bull for an audience of tens of millions every weekend?
did he fuck
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
Jim Bowen one of those people who seems to have always looked old. If he was 80 now he'd've been in his 40s in those 80s Bullseye episodes, which seems impossible.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
here's jim on his wedding day, aged er anywhere between 23 and 58?
https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article770371.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Bullseye%20presenter%20and%20stroke%20victim%20Jim%20Bowen%20with%20his%20new%20wife%20Phyllis
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
liam o'flynn, planxty founder member
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
John Humphreys asking Brian Cox if Hawking was ever 'cut any slack' because of his disability...— Chris Coombs (@ChrisCoombs88) March 14, 2018
this senile cunt needs putting out to pasture.
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
I really just heard some knobhead on BBC WS saying without flinching that "despite having his tremendous physical disabilities, Hawking always remained psychologically very normal"
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
Liam O'Flynn? He was my favorite piper :(
― neutral yogurt (doo dah), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
thats because he was the greatest
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
RIPed him on the Planxty thread, lads.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
Thanks for that tweet, Stevie.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
It would have been pretty o_O if he had mocked and chided unemployed contestants though.
― Alba, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
couple of years later it would've been compulsory
also Sunday tea - crabstick sandwiches - Bullseye was my entire early teens
― as the crows around me grows (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
These days unemployed Bullseye contestants would be getting U/C sanctioned for not declaring the speedboat.
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
That picture - it's the life that Morrissey would have had!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link
Did Brian Cox say to John Humphries "No, if he even thought of getting out of that chair, he'd have been on a "Fit to work" cert and down to the sewing machine factory as soon as!"
Then his only chance would have been winning a speedboat on "Bullseye"
Where am i?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, March 14, 2018 3:18 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i must admit i filched it from dorian, formerly of this parish
hawking had an amazing career and all but he never gave anyone who lived in the landlocked midlands a speedboat iirc
apparently contestants often took the cash equivalent instead of the speedboat
― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
Charlie Quintana, drummer for just about everybody. He started out in the Plugz, who were secretly one of the best L.A. punk bands, then played with Bob Dylan, John Doe, Cracker, Mike Ness and Social Distortion, Izzy Stradlin, and a million other bands.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 15 March 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
Quintana stuck around w/ Zim after this, wish the other Plugz had too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ycpYslCn6c
― motorpsycho nightmare winningham (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 15 March 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
Wow, Quintana. He looked like a guy that could and would kick an ass.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 March 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
louise slaughter
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/rep-louise-slaughter-liberal-democrat-who-championed-womens-rights-dies-at-88/2018/03/16/7b7f7c3e-2865-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 March 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
bento the keyboard cat ;_;
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/bento-keyboard-cat-youtube-dies
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link
(pvmic obv)
pffft not even the original keyboard cat
― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kak-channthy-cambodian-space-project-frontwoman-killed-crash-38-updated
Hit by a car. AKA Srey Thy
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
don't understand how Deliveroo can exploit their employees so much and still be more expensive than getting a taxi to the takeaway and back
― as the crows around me grows (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
lol wrong thread soz
― as the crows around me grows (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
A proper candidate for the "people who you thought were dead but weren't" thread until now, where she belongs in this thread. RIP Katie Boyle.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12525627
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
Weird, she was the answer to a picture question on a Bullseye repeat last week and we had no idea who she was. Who else will fall to the Bullseye curse?
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
Deficits are ok now
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/obituaries/peter-g-peterson-dies-power-from-wall-st-to-washington.html
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
i miss shakey too and i appreciate the effort but it's just not the same when someone else does it ;_;
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
This is getting a bit spooky now. Katie Boyle was just mentioned in this One Foot In The Grave repeat we're watching now. I'd never heard of her until last week now she's everywhere.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
Somewhat bizarrely, my dad used to fancy her, but she was like the daughter of an Italian count so she was a bit out of his league. He was very taken with Annie Lennox too.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link
Benny Hill used to drag up to spoof K Boyle's ads in the '70s, I seem to recall. Clingfilm? Also flexed her linguistic skills presenting Eurovision.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 10:57 (six years ago) link
I read her TV Times agony aunt column avidly as a boy. Scarcity of media and all that.
― Alba, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 11:16 (six years ago) link
She used to win the TV Times awards' "Female Personality of the year" with an ubiquity like "Ant and Dec" had. It seemed very strange that the BBC news 'tribute' consisted of a couple of snips from Blankety Blank w/ Wogan, a few pics from Eurovision, and a matter of fact 'un yeah, she died OK?" (not an actual quote)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 11:31 (six years ago) link
Les Payne, pioneering journalist of Long Island (NY) Newsday
https://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/newsday-les-payne-dies-1.17534552
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
aw man
― maura, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
If Ozymandias had lived: Toys "R" Us founder Charles Lazarus dies at 94
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/22/toys-r-us-founder-charles-lazarus-dies-at-94-as-toy-empire-liquidates.html
― Alba, Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
Oh he'll be back
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
another interesting fun fact I didn't know is that Frida from Abba was an OG Norwegian "Lebensborn-child" - Norwegian mother + Nazi officer father. I can't remember one that mentioned in the 1982 Look-In annual ABBA interview!
― calzino, Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
rong thread!
Oh he'll be backa really cold part of me is dreading arnold schwarzenegger dying because every subeditor and ~twitterati~ on the planet will spew “he’ll be back” like it was their own special genius idea
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
Unless he's killed like Bennett in Commando, then they'll all be saying "let off some steam, Arnie"
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
Louise Latham
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/louise-latham-dead-tippi-hedrens-mother-hitchcocks-marnie-was-95-1096599?__twitter_impression=true
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 March 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
"unpredictable" Zell Miller, frequently a jerk
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/zell-miller-georgia-governor-and-senator-with-unpredictable-streak-dies-at-86/2018/03/23/9bc8a858-2eaf-11e8-b0b0-f706877db618_story.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 March 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
frequently a jerk
There were times when he wasn't, in your mind?
Never mind; I don't want to know. I'll just assume he said something shitty about Hillary.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 23 March 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
wow, Zell Miller is a blast from the past
― flappy bird, Friday, 23 March 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
Bassist Buell Niedlinger has died. Played with Cecil Taylor, with Anthony Braxton, did sessions with Dolly Parton, the Eagles, the Village People. https://jazztimes.com/news/buell-neidlinger-dies-at-82/
― eddhurt, Friday, 23 March 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
Philip Kerr, author of the Bernie Gunther detective series dead from cancer
― jbn, Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
Oh man that's terrible
― omar little, Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
the Bernie Gunther detective series is great. The next and perhaps final one is out April 3 in the U.S.
― omar little, Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link
Nice celebration of the books from last year:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/the-third-reichs-good-cop
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2018 05:31 (six years ago) link
And I gotta say, an anthology called The Penguin Book of Fights, Feuds and Heartfelt Hatreds is right up my street.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2018 05:33 (six years ago) link
French actress Stéphane Audran
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
;_;
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 12:58 (six years ago) link
also
Barbara Stone, producer, distributor and founder of London’s Gate Cinema
Andy Lewis, who, along with his brother Dave, wrote the screenplay for Alan J. Pakula’s Klute
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5502-the-daily-remembering-stephane-audran-barbara-stone-and-more
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
the actor Bill Maynard
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20716037
― soref, Friday, 30 March 2018 12:20 (five years ago) link
the gaffer!
― calzino, Friday, 30 March 2018 12:39 (five years ago) link
I always remember the bit from the titles where he pulls a parking ticket off the windscreen of his car, gets in, and then chucks it on the back seat on top of hundreds of other tickets.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Friday, 30 March 2018 12:43 (five years ago) link
Oh No, not Selwyn Froggitt!
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link
^ that has to be a headline somewhere
http://img.sharetv.com/shows/standard/oh_no_its_selwyn_froggitt_uk.jpg
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
Bill Maynard was often very good and of course Alan Plater is an all time great but ONISF! really has not aged well at all
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
ONISF! is still good imo, it's a pity it doesn't get repeated more.
the pilot episode (by Roy Clarke) is interesting, it's a bit less broad than the series, emphasises the bleakness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q2HK10cvMQ
― soref, Friday, 30 March 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
you Brits are really losing a lot of domestic celebs, so for our part, Rusty Staub
https://www.amazinavenue.com/2018/3/29/17175710/mets-rusty-staub-death-new-york
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 March 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
Bill Maynard a definite candidate for "people you thought died years ago".
― ailsa, Friday, 30 March 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
Alias, the anticon guy
There’s no proper way to say this or deal with this, but so I want to put this out there and then step away for a while. Our great friend and longtime collaborator Brendon Whitney (@AliasAnticon) passed away of a heart attack yesterday. No one was nicer. No one. We love you, Bren pic.twitter.com/4TxOCPJo2z— Sage Francis (@SageFrancis) March 31, 2018
― scotti pruitti (wins), Sunday, 1 April 2018 08:39 (five years ago) link
damn, he can't have been very old at all. Loads of ppl in their 40's dying of heart attacks recently, well not all of them famous, but it seems to be a thing I've noticed a lot recently - including an old school pal.
― calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 08:42 (five years ago) link
Aw, Selwyn. The ubiquitous and emphatically not-Northern David Lodge playing his brother in that pilot. A little verklempt at the boom-in-shot around 3min. And applause from the studio audience over the titles! Another time.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 1 April 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link
Revived his own separate thread, but Steven Bochco:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-bochco-dead-hill-street-blues-la-law-nypd-blue-creator-741199
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 April 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
rip my tv watching in high school & college :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
never locked into any of his shows cept Hill Street, but that was certainly a landmark
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 April 2018 01:51 (five years ago) link
Winnie Mandela
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Monday, 2 April 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/03/janka-nabay-bubu-music-sierra-leone
The 54 year-old Nabay was back in his homeland of Sierra Leone when he became ill and died. He had been living in recent years in Philadelphia, Brooklyn and DC .
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
oh shit, he played here just a couple of months ago. man had some jams, rip janka
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
Ray Wilkins
It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we have learnt that former England midfielder Ray Wilkins has passed away, aged 61.The thoughts and condolences of everyone at the PFA are with his family and friends. pic.twitter.com/pr0JBahJgQ— PFA (@PFA) April 4, 2018
― Alba, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 13:14 (five years ago) link
I'll go for the "if you haven't got anything good about the departed, then stfu" post!
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
Isao Takahata, director of Graveyard of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, Tale of Princess Kaguya etc etchttps://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20180406-00000503-sanspo-ent
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
Eric Bristow!
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
that's big!
― calzino, Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
only 60 wtf? thought he was much older than that
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
also i'm surely not the first person to think that he's gone out on a single and double top
180 was never on. RIP Eric nonetheless.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
pianist - composer Cecil Taylor, one of the most important and influential figures in western music.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
shit
― omar little, Friday, 6 April 2018 00:42 (five years ago) link
wtf no
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 6 April 2018 01:10 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 April 2018 01:59 (five years ago) link
It's weird - Cecil is the third major avant-jazz figure, after Bill Dixon and Ornette Coleman, who seems to have given his last big interview to me (all for The Wire). I've always wanted to interview Anthony Braxton and Pharoah Sanders, but in a way I kinda...don't?
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 6 April 2018 02:15 (five years ago) link
yeah man, steer clear!
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 6 April 2018 02:27 (five years ago) link
Omg no...gutted
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 6 April 2018 02:31 (five years ago) link
Speaking of Sanders, has anyone seen him play recently? Is he still bringin' it? He's scheduled for a local festival in June, and that might make me go.
xp sorry be be a little crass.
― nickn, Friday, 6 April 2018 02:33 (five years ago) link
He's playing here NYC in about two weeks. I've heard he's still good, if obviously slightly mellowed with age, so I might check it out.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 6 April 2018 02:38 (five years ago) link
Saw him maybe seven years ago and he was great. Last time I saw him two-three years ago he hardly overblew, maybe not at all, was too inside for my taste.
― Rudy’s Mood For Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 April 2018 03:27 (five years ago) link
Last time I saw Sanders he was barely there, really disappointing. But I don't want him to die!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 April 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link
Jeez, RIP Cecil
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 6 April 2018 04:15 (five years ago) link
Soul songwriter and Holland-Dozier-Holland collaborator who also worked with George Clinton Ron Dunbar, died April 4 at 77. https://www.soultracks.com/story-ron-dunbar-dies
― eddhurt, Friday, 6 April 2018 05:30 (five years ago) link
Susan Anspach
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/susan-anspach-dead-five-easy-pieces-blume-love-actress-was-75-1100288
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 April 2018 05:41 (five years ago) link
oh shit not cecil
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Friday, 6 April 2018 06:10 (five years ago) link
So sad about Cecil. RIP.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 6 April 2018 06:18 (five years ago) link
RIP Cecil. I had a bad feeling that thread revive would be a shit one :(
― calzino, Friday, 6 April 2018 06:21 (five years ago) link
Aw, Isao Takahata. Our son has had Totoro, Ponyo and Kiki on rotation since we bought some Ghibli DVDs last month.
― Madchen, Friday, 6 April 2018 12:17 (five years ago) link
I'm sad about that one too. It reminded me that I should watch Grave of the Fireflies at some point if I can take it.
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 6 April 2018 13:34 (five years ago) link
Yeah, same here.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 6 April 2018 13:35 (five years ago) link
I lasted 25 minutes. If you’re a parent the thing is an emotional shotgun.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 6 April 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
Takahata and Taylor in one day. This world is hurting.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 6 April 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
Only Yesterday got a new English release in 2016 and is excellent.
― jmm, Friday, 6 April 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
I'd heard of Cecil Taylor for long time but never really checked him out until we decided to name our son Cecil, and he was adopted from a woman named Taylor. She was the only person we told the name to before he was born.
I mentioned him to her after we told her the name we'd chosen and she, a 20 year old in a very chaotic period of her life, gave me most amazing "what the fuck kind of old man music nerd shit about 'free jazz' are you telling me right now?" look which still makes me laugh whenever I think about this.
― joygoat, Friday, 6 April 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
never knew Anspach had a child with Nicholson.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 April 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
I missed Susan Anspach. Have mentioned her many times on this board. She sure left a lasting impression based on the four films she did between '70 and '73. (Actually, it's been a while since I saw The Landlord, so I can't remember how big her role is.)
― clemenza, Friday, 6 April 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
French singer/songwriter Jacques Higelin: http://en.rfi.fr/20180406-jacques-higelin-obit
― pomenitul, Friday, 6 April 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
Sad about Ron Dunbar (x-post above) who co-wrote Freda Payne’s “Band of Gold” plus P-Funk songs
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 7 April 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
RIP-Funk Ron :(
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 April 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
Yvonne Staples
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 13:51 (five years ago) link
Mitzi Shore, owner of The Comedy Store
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
...and mother of Pauly!
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
yes
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
Oh wow. I don't know anything about her first-hand, but she was a constant non diegetic presence in Maron's podcast.
― how's life, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
J.D. McClatchy, poet and partner to book designer / novelist Chip Kidd.
J.D. McClatchy's martini recipe is as... particular as J.D. McClatchy was, may he rest in lemon-spritzed, Lucky Pierre peace pic.twitter.com/AHh3TXYBgL— Matthew Schneier (@MatthewSchneier) April 11, 2018
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
x-post-- aww RIP Yvonne Staples. She was comfortable singing in the background.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 April 2018 03:27 (five years ago) link
Art Bell. No other details atm
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 14 April 2018 06:11 (five years ago) link
Mr Veg said “He didnt die. (Solemnly) They came and got him.”Some of my best road trip memories from my first visits here were the late nights listening to Coast To Coast with Mr Veg. A true piece of Americana imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 April 2018 06:18 (five years ago) link
aw damn RIP
― flappy bird, Saturday, 14 April 2018 06:19 (five years ago) link
Miloš Forman.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 14 April 2018 06:44 (five years ago) link
Wtf no
― flappy bird, Saturday, 14 April 2018 07:07 (five years ago) link
Nooooooooo!
― suzy, Saturday, 14 April 2018 07:41 (five years ago) link
he was old
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 April 2018 07:47 (five years ago) link
Sorry to see him go, but he did have a respectable run.
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Saturday, 14 April 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
And, before that, a more interesting and cutting-edge one.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Saturday, 14 April 2018 12:47 (five years ago) link
(Tho tbh, I love Amadeus as much as Soto, so.)
THEY finally silenced Art Bell. (And by "THEY," I mean old age.)
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Saturday, 14 April 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/nyregion/david-buckel-dead-fire.htmlDavid Buckel via self immolation.
― Jeff, Sunday, 15 April 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
Vittorio Taviani of the Taviani Brothers (directors of The Night of the Shooting Stars and Padre Padrone.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Monday, 16 April 2018 00:28 (five years ago) link
Also, R. Lee Ermey, though I don't have a source for that one.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Monday, 16 April 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link
Ermey's passing was confirmed via his Facebook/Twitter accounts. 72 years old, pneumonia -- unfortunate and by all accounts totally unexpected, but a hell of a run.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2018 00:36 (five years ago) link
ah damn i was a fan of his reality show Mail Call on the history channel (the other ones not so much)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 April 2018 00:55 (five years ago) link
Sadly remembering how he will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you.
― clemenza, Monday, 16 April 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
Also unscrew your head and shit down your neck
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 16 April 2018 01:21 (five years ago) link
FIVE FOOT NINE? I DIDNT KNOW THEY STACKED SHIT THAT HIGH!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 April 2018 01:57 (five years ago) link
giving a reacharound in his honor
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 April 2018 02:28 (five years ago) link
lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 April 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
ronald chesney
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 16 April 2018 11:17 (five years ago) link
Mostly for local Cleveland interest, but if you saw the documentary you know him: Maurice Reedus Jr., Cleveland's "Sax Man"
https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2018/04/16/the-sax-man-maurice-reedus-jr-has-passed-away
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Monday, 16 April 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
Ah man, Harry Anderson:
http://www.wspa.com/news/night-court-actor-harry-anderson-dies-in-asheville/1126241637
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
Wow, we never did have a Night Court thread.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
I don't think night court got screened much in the UK but i always loved his cameos in cheers
― Lou Grant, the Iranian cinema of late '70s TV (stevie), Monday, 16 April 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
Well... NIGHT CORUT
Probably not the time, huh.
― Dethloaf LLC (Old Lunch), Monday, 16 April 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
Still works!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
Never watched NC, but I remember Anderson doing magic tricks on SNL.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 01:32 (five years ago) link
;_; i loved night court, one of the random reruns we got in AustraliaRIP Harry. He was a delight. Also grownup Richie Tozier in the It miniseries. Beep beep :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 01:42 (five years ago) link
I love it.
When Harry Anderson used to shop at Zanadu Comics' university district store location in Seattle, he liked to attempt the same cash pranks that his "Harry the Hat" used on CHEERS. He did it often enough that the owner warned all his cashiers! Truly a character, on and off stage.— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) April 17, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 01:48 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
The social media reactions of his Night Court colleagues are unusually raw and heartfelt. They loved this guy.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 07:49 (five years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/528656453/npr-newscaster-carl-kasell-dies-at-84-after-a-lifelong-career-on-air
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
;_;crosses “Karl Cassell voicemail message” off my bucket list
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
Barbara Bush
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
Willow https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/17/queen-devastated-loss-last-remaining-corgi/amp/
― StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
Where does this fascination with British royal family come from, Stan?
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
I know that the queen, like many other people, loves her dogs, but fucked if I know why anyone else would care about them.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
I don't actually know - maybe it's because some belgian newspapers and magazines want the number of visitors and controversial/stupid commenters that the daily mail has (because of the clicks), so they shamelessly steal a lot of those stories. There's a disproportionately large number of meghan and harry stories in there as well, for instance, even though even less people care about them over here than in the uk.
― StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
Relieved that the above, contrary to my initial reaction, was not in fact a flip notice of Warwick Davis's premature demise.
― Across the You Never Her (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
The British care about their royalty so that the French can continue making fun of them.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
And to piss off Quebec.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
Who says we care? Anyway, Stan is from Belgium!
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
Oh, nm. They have royalty of their own, though. Do Danes and Swedes and Spaniards care as well?
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
I've no idea, it was little inside joke on StanM's previous posting history, but, as you say, nm.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
Ah, I see. Thanks for filling me in.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
characterising Brits as ppl that care about royalty is as false as saying all French ppl sleep with their high-school teachers:p
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
More like they care more than they'd like to admit or they would've gotten rid of them long ago.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
To be fair, that's less ridiculous than English Canadians' inexplicable attachment to the British crown (only 4/10 support severing ties after the queen's death).
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
hail, north american fred
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Wednesday, April 18, 2018 11:54 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the royalty is very popular in britain tbh.
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
there is a weekly rag called Hello Canada that has a royal on the cover of every issue.
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
Do they run through all 2,000 people in the line of succession and then loop around or what
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
I don't think YouGov would ever publish a poll with data from regions of the country where a reasonably large chunk of the population loathe them, or want them abolished. That wouldn't be of any use to them.
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
That's why no-one gives a flying fuck about Harry's forthcoming wedding I suppose|?
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
wtf Dale Winton
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/dale-winton-dead-supermarket-sweep-12388152
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
what the hell
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
Randy Scruggs
https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/randy-scruggs-musician-and-songwriter-dead-at-64-w519271
― nickn, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
oh shit not dale, jesus fuck
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
Dale Winton has given a few interviews over the past few years talking about his mental health and depression, his mother taking her own life, the way that nobody wanted to date him. He's barely been on anything in recent years.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
― calzino, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 12:29 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
any data I've ever seen that breaks things down regionally shows that the area in england with lowest enthusiasm for the royals is by a long distance london.
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
sad about Dale Winton. RIP.
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
I feel strongly that if there were a royal referendum they would win, but it would be a much closer result than polling data suggests. Why do think SS uniform boy wants to depoliticise his wedding? Anyway I'll stop RIP derail!
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
I used to skip morning classes at sixth form to watch supermarket sweep. It was such an odd game show, so ultra stylised, Dale was obviously perfect for it. Can't say I've been a fan of anything since (christ his radio shows were not great) but still very sad news.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
i love the mundane fantasy of loading up your cart with everything being free. it feels more powerful than someone winning a car, say. i would like to see a survivor-style remake of supermarket sweep where they had a few minutes to gather enough to feed themselves for a week.
― adam the (abanana), Thursday, 19 April 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
Bruno Sammartino
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bruno-sammartino-wrestling-s-original-good-guy-hero-dies-82-n867321
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2018 08:17 (five years ago) link
When I worked at a big central London record shop, just round the corner from the Beeb, Dale Winton was a regular customer. He was very, very good with any members of the public who approached him - polite, engaged, interested.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 19 April 2018 08:44 (five years ago) link
and another TV hero of the '60s, Chuck McCann
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chuck-mccann-dead-comic-actor-kids-tv-host-was-83-1024097
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfZzz_QABws
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2018 08:58 (five years ago) link
I don't know if I've told this story here before but my mother and sister, at one point, thought I was Dale Winton's boyfriend and phoned me up to ask me about it. What had happened was that my mother was getting her hair done and was flicking through the latest issue of Hello, or whatever, and there was a paparazzi style feature on Dale Winton's latest love interest, with a snap of him sitting outside a cafe in Primrose Hill with a pale, shaven headed man in a long coat, not at all his type you might think. My mother was so convinced it was me, sharing a cappuccino with Dale, she bought a copy of the magazine and showed my sister and then they phoned me to ask me if I had anything to tell them. Also Primrose Hill is in North London and anywhere in North London is near to where I live, as far as my mother is concerned. Anyway, having convinced them I wasn't Dale Winton's boyfriend, I went down to a newsagent to see if I could find a copy of this incriminating magazine and, sure enough, the guy did look very like me and was even dressed like me. Nonetheless I have never been Dale Winton's boyfriend.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:04 (five years ago) link
i’m sorry for your loss tom
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:09 (five years ago) link
possibly inappropriate lol!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:10 (five years ago) link
I lol'ed too. Laughter through the tears.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:12 (five years ago) link
aw, he seemed a nice type :(
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:15 (five years ago) link
I think you may have found one or two things to disagree with him on politically, Calz. But out of respect for Tom's grief here's probably not the place to go into them.
― Tim, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:27 (five years ago) link
I didn't really plan to tbh. Quite an unnecessary post Tim, really ffs!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:30 (five years ago) link
I meant for me to go into them rather than you. But please accept my heartfelt apologies anyway.
― Tim, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:35 (five years ago) link
soz it thought it was a passive-aggressive dig, Tim!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:37 (five years ago) link
hey it's been a rough day for us all
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:45 (five years ago) link
Finding out H Asperger cooperated with the T2 program has been like an RIP for my partner today, she's even taken down his quote from her wall.
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:50 (five years ago) link
T4 program, even, different terminators.
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:51 (five years ago) link
I've just been made aware of this article Dale Winton wrote about Trump during the 2016 and it really is something. https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/dale-winton-donald-trump-is-he-hero-or-villain/"> https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/dale-winton-donald-trump-is-he-hero-or-villain/
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 19 April 2018 10:54 (five years ago) link
lol! what a dick!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:00 (five years ago) link
oh dale! ;_;
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:04 (five years ago) link
he is now dead to me
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:05 (five years ago) link
As a tribute to the great man I'm going to shop-lift some expensive brand maple syrup in Asda later.
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:07 (five years ago) link
Lol! I genuinely thought Tom was crying earlier. I think I have a bit off an Aspergic humour bypass at times!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:11 (five years ago) link
can't believe Dale Winton liked an orange bloke with funny hair
― you're my luger not my rifle (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:42 (five years ago) link
Do you mind, I'm not orange.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:04 (five years ago) link
sorry i don't follow Hello!
― you're my luger not my rifle (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:07 (five years ago) link
wouldn't have thought ian paisley was his type tbh
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link
bruno sammartino
a sad loss for the city of pittsburgh
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
i'm glad someone saw that through the obscure Brit figures that are clogging this thread now
i'm posting more Chuck McCann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5g4YW-6HsA
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
Yes, there's never any obscure Yank figures on this thread. ^^^^
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
ours are better
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
At dying?
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
Sometime in early 2000 I stayed overnight in a cheap hotel in Central London. It had been a pretty grim day for me and I was feeling miserable. I sat down on the bed and switched on the TV, and it happened to be some Dale Winton (possibly Lottery related) programme. Not my kind of thing but for some reason it cheered me up a bit.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Thursday, 19 April 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
^^^on the tombstone
― imago, Thursday, 19 April 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
That obit from some newspaper above had a Euro millions advert in the middle of it...
― koogs, Thursday, 19 April 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
you've gotta be in it to win it!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
just reading Dale's wikipedia earlier. His father died on the day of his bar mitzvah and his mother died from suicide after suffering depression when he was 21 :(
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 19 April 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
his mother was an actress and i think the last film she was in was eric sykes' 'rhubarb'
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
this was good: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/4/17/17248358/harry-anderson-obituary-night-court-magic
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 April 2018 00:12 (five years ago) link
here's a harry anderson magic special from 1986.https://youtu.be/JlthbJTv39U
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 20 April 2018 03:01 (five years ago) link
Avicii. 28 years old.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
what?!?
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
Link.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
jeez, poor guy
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
wtf
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
Oh no.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
Fuck. to get pancreatitis from drinking too much in your mid-20s seems insane to me. Really sad
― flappy bird, Friday, 20 April 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
I've not seen it, but Netflix had a new documentary about him out a couple of weeks ago? I saw the press release at the time, and it said something about how those close to him sometimes feared he'd be a member of the "club of 27" (dying at 27 like Joplin, Cobain etc).
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
So then the doc has a happy ending.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 20 April 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
jeez louise eric 😳
― flappy bird, Friday, 20 April 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
This will add an undeserved poignancy to 'I Took A Pill In Ibiza'
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 April 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
I follow some Swedish news Twitter accounts because I'm studying the language, and there are comments coming out from the Swedish prime minister and the crown prince and princess and people like that - this is like a full-on national tragedy, it seems.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 20 April 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
rip aviici
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Friday, 20 April 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
I'm like 7 months older than he was, it's almost unfathomable to me that in the same time I've been alive, someone else managed to become an incredibly successful performing artist, retire, and (apparently) drink themselves to death. I don't have that much energy.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 20 April 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
I have known quite a few people with a boundless energy for the drink and without the distraction of a successful career, who didn't manage to die from it until late 30's/early 40's.
― calzino, Friday, 20 April 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
Bix Beiderbecke also managed to drink himself to death at the age of 28, so it's not a unique case
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 April 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
definitely not unique and sometimes other underlying health issues could be a factor.
― calzino, Friday, 20 April 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
Considering my own state, I'm in awe at how Avicii managed to die of drinking at 28 tbh. Not in bad faith this, counting every new year as a gift.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 20 April 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
a guy from my high school drank himself to death at age 20. it's not impressive.
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 20 April 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
Seek Brobituary
― mick signals, Saturday, 21 April 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
http://www.tmz.com/2018/04/21/verne-troyer-dead-at-49/
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 21 April 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
First Ermey, and now Troyer: Bad Week for Guys I Met At Car Shows.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 April 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
never heard of Avicii, but that's very sad
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 April 2018 07:16 (five years ago) link
one should also take in account that Avicii probably didn't sleep much, if he did 800 dj gigs a year at some point. (i mean this combined with excessive alcohol use)
― Ludo, Sunday, 22 April 2018 11:07 (five years ago) link
Pamela Gidley, who played Teresa Banks in twin peaks: fire walk with me
― The Rachel Supremacy (wins), Monday, 23 April 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
oh whoa. RIP
― flappy bird, Monday, 23 April 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
― omar little, Monday, 23 April 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
i am extremely saddened by that. i kind of knew her briefly, though we hadn't talked in an extremely long time. probably since 2005 or something. RIP Pamela...you were a very decent person.
― omar little, Monday, 23 April 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
Bob Dorough:
https://www.thewrap.com/bob-dorough-schoolhouse-rock-dies/
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
Oh :(
― Madchen, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 10:21 (five years ago) link
I'd never heard of Bob Dorough until I (tried to) read John French's book about his time with Captain Beefheart where he says Beefheart was a fan of his and used to play his records to the band
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 10:22 (five years ago) link
Norwegian pop art artist Terje Brofos, aka Hariton Pushwagner.
I can't find an article in English as yet, but here's one in Norwegian https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/3jgGBM/Pushwagner-er-dod
https://morgenbladet.no/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/legacy_images/MO200610102240041AR.jpg?itok=bUlu2Rqd
― Øystein, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
It nearly always registers a bit when these notable people younger than me die, but looking up Verne Troyer at Wikipedia caused an extra level of memento mori, in that he was apparently born on the exact same day as me.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
Rick Dickison, who designed the ZX Spectrum keyboard for Sinclair
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/tech/industrial-designer-rick-dickinson-passes-away/1/
― Alba, Thursday, 26 April 2018 12:13 (five years ago) link
Dickinson, rather.
Charles Neville passed away today at age 79. Charles was the second oldest of the four brothers who formed the core of the Neville Brothers. #RestInPeace https://t.co/ulqwsNaBI9— NOLA Jazz Museum (@nolajazzmuseum) April 26, 2018
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 April 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
Nelson Pereira dos Santos, a key figure in Brazil’s Cinema Novo of the 1960s and 70s, has passed away at the age of eighty-nine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/obituaries/nelson-pereira-dos-santos-89-dies-lifted-brazilian-film.html
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 April 2018 10:14 (five years ago) link
‘The Frenchman was tasty’ or whatever it was called, I remember liking. Not sure if I’ve seen anything else.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 28 April 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
Believe it is usually translated as How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman, but yeah
― Dub (Webster’s Dictionary) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 April 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
I don't remember that one very well, but I liked his debut Rio 40 Degrees (or 100 if you're Fahrenheit).
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 April 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
Shah Marai, the chief photographer here for Agence France-Presse, and seven journalists from local TV and radio stations. Six others were among the wounded.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/suicide-bombings-in-kabul-kill-seven-including-a-journalist-rushing-to-the-scene/2018/04/30/88ae0af2-4c31-11e8-b725-92c89fe3ca4c_story.html?utm_term=.89f361ab74fa
KABUL — Just after 8 a.m. Monday, a familiar boom filled the air and rattled windows across the Afghan capital. Local news photographers, reporters and cameramen grabbed their gear and rushed to the scene of the latest suicide bombing in a long and bloody conflict. Though such incidents were never without risk, the journalists were used to covering them — and rather competitive about getting there first.
But about 20 minutes later, when the journalists were gathered watching emergency workers at the bomb site in a high-security official zone, another explosion erupted in their midst. A second suicide bomber, on foot and carrying a press pass and camera, had joined and targeted the very group of people tasked with covering such violence.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 April 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/slain-photojournalist-shah-marai-n870146
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 April 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
Michael Anderson, director of The Dam Busters, Around the World in 80 Days, Logan's Run
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-michael-anderson-obituary-20180428-story.html
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 12:52 (five years ago) link
So by proxy he directed the last 20 minutes of Star Wars.
Logan's Run is sooooo bad but I love to watch it. The carousel/renewal sequence scared the absolute shit out of me when I was 11.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
The martial arts community, in the Washington region and beyond, is mourning the loss of grandmaster Jhoon Rhee. Affectionately known as the "Father of American Taekwondo,” Rhee died Monday morning at age 86.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7PEMGuA6tw
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
i've never seen The Dam Busters but that will be remedied soon
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
dj still, who was dj for noise-rap group dalek during the "from filthy tongues..."/"absence" era
https://www.facebook.com/dalekmusic/posts/10156365040039521
― na (NA), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
Drummer Jabo Starks. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/james-brown-drummer-john-jabo-starks-dead-at-79-w519743
― eddhurt, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 04:10 (five years ago) link
:(((((((((((
― Lou Grant, the Iranian cinema of late '70s TV (stevie), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 06:57 (five years ago) link
Tony Kinman of The Dils, Rank And File, Blackbirdhttp://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-tony-kinman-dils-rank-file-obituary-20180503-story.html
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 4 May 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
critic-filmmaker-Cannes scout Pierre Rissient
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5624-pierre-rissient-man-of-cinema-dies-at-eighty-one
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link
Italian Director Ermanno Olmi
http://variety.com/2018/film/global/ermanno-olmi-dead-dies-tree-of-wooden-clogs-1202800882/amp/
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 03:01 (five years ago) link
Il Posto is one of my favourite films ever.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 03:03 (five years ago) link
George Deukmejian, former California governor (1983-1991)
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
A strange nonentity from this distance. Governor in my high school into undergrad years, not as overtly hateful as Wilson was later, at least.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
He became governor when I was like 5 so he is burned on my brain as like "the first governor".
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
Ha, mine was Jerry Brown...so nothing changes!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
Anne V Coates
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/09/anne-v-coates-obituary
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
Wow. A true wiz.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
John W Robinson. SoCal hiking guide author - "Trails of the Angeles: 100 Hikes in the San Gabriels,” published in 1971 and now in its ninth edition.
https://www.sgvtribune.com/2018/05/09/john-w-robinson-legendary-author-of-hiking-guides-histories-of-southern-california-mountains-dies-at-88/
― nickn, Thursday, 10 May 2018 05:09 (five years ago) link
Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey:
http://deadline.com/2018/05/adam-parfrey-dies-feral-house-publisher-author-and-editor-of-forbidden-knowledge-was-61-1202388142/
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 11 May 2018 08:52 (five years ago) link
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna873286
― maura, Friday, 11 May 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link
frightened rabbit leader scott hutchison, 36
― maura, Friday, 11 May 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/newmusicgathering/posts/1731245630263000
Matt Marks, one of the musicians in Alarm Will Sound, passed away yesterday. I don't really listen to that type of music much so am not really sure what the best rolling thread to post this to would be.
― how's life, Saturday, 12 May 2018 12:45 (five years ago) link
Dennis Nilsen
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/12/serial-killer-dennis-nilsen-dies-in-prison-aged-72
― soref, Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
*gulp* Not expecting too many RIPs to be flying around there.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
Never liked him
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
Aye, you say that now...
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
"his father was a Norwegian soldier who had travelled to Scotland in 1940 as part of the Free Norwegian Forces, following the Nazi occupation of Norway"
I blame Hitler myself!
― calzino, Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
He was mentioned on the serial killer thread, with the fact the the wiki entry on him was well-written, and damned if I didn't read the entire thing at work.
― nickn, Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
Gérard Hourbette, founder and leader of Art Zoyd.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
Seems we missed Abraham "Abi" Ofarim
― Mark G, Saturday, 12 May 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link
dennis nilsen, indulging in necrophilia in heaven tonight
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
Can's former manager.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 May 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
Last month, but also missed, Sergio Pitol:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/16/farewell-sergio-pitol/
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Saturday, 12 May 2018 23:18 (five years ago) link
RIP, guy I’ve been very interested in reading for the past few years but so far haven’t gotten round to yet./pvmic
― The Great Atomic Cat Power (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 May 2018 23:58 (five years ago) link
Dennis Nilsen outlived his arresting officer by 2.5 months (see upthread).
― Madchen, Sunday, 13 May 2018 05:29 (five years ago) link
Tessa Jowell. RIP.
― suzy, Sunday, 13 May 2018 07:01 (five years ago) link
Will Alsop, architect.
― suzy, Sunday, 13 May 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
For the massive window and amazing view from the children’s section of Peckham library, I thank you, Will.
― Madchen, Sunday, 13 May 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
Al Fritz, designer of the Schwinn Sting-Ray bicyclehttps://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/business/al-fritz-inventor-of-the-sting-ray-bike-dies-at-88.html
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 13 May 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
Believe I had me one of those. RIP
― The Great Atomic Cat Power (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 May 2018 00:50 (five years ago) link
Margot kidder
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 14 May 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
Totally great.
RIP Margot Kidder pic.twitter.com/0F1R6aWoZv— Paranoid Bush (@paranoidliotta) May 14, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 May 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
karen allen still lives
― mookieproof, Monday, 14 May 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
Poor Margot. RIP :(
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 14 May 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
I was at a Toronto comic-con in the 00s and they had Kidder and Erica Durance (the Smallville Lois) next to each other for autographs, and all the guys were queuing for Durance instead of Kidder, and that’s when I realised nerds were dead to me now
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 14 May 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
Everyone knows Reeve = Superman but it’s just as true for Kidder
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 14 May 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
argh rip margot, you and christopher reeve were the great screwball comedians that made those movies work.
― Lou Grant, the Iranian cinema of late '70s TV (stevie), Monday, 14 May 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
A Margot Kidder RIP poll.
― incel elgort (cryptosicko), Monday, 14 May 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
Ah man, Glenn Branca
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8455922/glenn-branca-dead
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 May 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Fuck that
― flappy bird, Monday, 14 May 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
Whoa!
― Mark G, Monday, 14 May 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Monday, 14 May 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
Oh fuck. Rest in noise Glenn
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Monday, 14 May 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
RIP. :(
― calzino, Monday, 14 May 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
blasting The Spectacular Commodity right now, in awe as always
― flappy bird, Monday, 14 May 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 May 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
oh no, that's a big one (sorry Kidder).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 May 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
Wow! Godspeed guitar man. He did some amazing work. And his presence here will be missed.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 14 May 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
Tucking cancer again!!
Auto correct don't like the F bomb
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 14 May 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
I was listening to Theoretical Girls for maybe the first time in five years yesterday. Spooky..rip
― I'm Finn thanks, don't mention it (fionnland), Monday, 14 May 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
What! RIP Glenn ;_;
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Monday, 14 May 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
he always seemed so likeable in interviews :(
― calzino, Monday, 14 May 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
Jlloyd Samuel, premier league footballer for a good portion of the 00's
― gneb farts (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
Also a Trinidad international and one of the few U.K.-based footballers ever to play in the Iranian league. Very sad news.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
Tom Wolfe
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
saw him on the street in the white suit once
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
rip big man, the right stuff is an amazing piece of reportage
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
RIP. Was very into him in college, read everything I could get my hands on. Right Stuff is brilliant.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
Joseph Campanella, "that guy" character actor
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/joseph-campanella-dead-character-actor-909457
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 May 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
Huh. For a "that guy" I don't think I've seen anything he was in. I guess he played a bartender in "The Producers" and "man on street" in "Seconds?" Dunno if I would recognize him from those. Morbs, what do you know him from?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 May 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
at least a couple dozen TV guest shots in the '70s
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 May 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link
(MTM, Rockford Files, Quincy)
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 May 2018 03:47 (five years ago) link
Golden Girls
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Saturday, 19 May 2018 05:55 (five years ago) link
JiC, you are citing the credits of FRANK Campanella, Joe's brother.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 May 2018 08:56 (five years ago) link
dissident Romanian filmmaker Lucian Pintilie
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/director-lucian-pintilie-dubbed-godfather-romanian-new-wave-dies-at-84-1112852
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 May 2018 09:09 (five years ago) link
xpost That's right! Just looked though and I've seen even less of Joe's stuff. Maybe only ... Ben? Know of but never saw any of those TV shows he and his brother were in.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 May 2018 13:44 (five years ago) link
my posts are primarily aimed at the olds, and lovers of Romanian cinema
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 May 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
My first exposure to Joe Campanella was as the narrator on the Canadian science TV show "What Will They Think Of Next?"
― THERE IS NO PHIL D. THERE IS ONLY LIZ (Phil D.), Saturday, 19 May 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
Campanella seems less for the Romanian cinema set and more for the "Mannix" set.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 May 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
Reggie Lucas:
⚫️ #RIP Reggie Lucas, Legendary Guitarist who played for Miles Davis, produced the majority of the first Madonna album and founded the Quantum Sound recording studio where Jodeci, Jeff Buckley and Pet Shop Boys recorded 🙏 https://t.co/mwX9Z89Ab9— Vinnie Crocker (@Vinnie_Crocker_) May 19, 2018
...and wrote "Borderline" for Madonna too.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 19 May 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
xpost
Reggie Lucas, producer of most of Madonna's first album, but more importantly (to me anyhow) the rhythm guitarist in Miles Davis's band from 1972-75. He's on Agharta, Pangaea, Dark Magus, Live at Philharmonic Hall, Get Up With It and some posthumous live compilations and the Complete On The Corner Sessions box.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 19 May 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
Knew him from Pangaea-era Miles, didn't realize he did all that other stuff too. RIP
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 19 May 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
Wow. So slot him in with Narada Michael Walden and Quincy Jones as legit jazz dudes who turned out to be super adept at '80s pop.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 May 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
been listening to this https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/behind-the-boards-reggie-lucas-mtume/pl.521eed682f3749009a02b4bbec86ef9d
― maura, Saturday, 19 May 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
it's always jarring to me when someone else posts about the death of, e.g., the gaffer on spartacus, before you
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
"Borderline" (and "Lucky Star") are Madonna's zenith for me. RIP Reggie.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 20 May 2018 08:20 (five years ago) link
Just as an aside, three of Joseph Campenella sons have/had bands in the LA scene for years. Rob C. has been in the Brian Jonestown Massacre for over a decade and also plays in the Quarter After with his brother Dominick. Andy C had a band called Captain Planet (I think that was their name?) and has played drums in a couple others. Anyway, Joseph Campenella would occasionally be at one of the big parties at Rob's house - he loved listening to the music and he was amazing to talk to - total gentleman. In addition to The Invaders, Mannix, Ironside, One Day At A Time, and Dallas, he also has a credit for whistling on a BJM record.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 21 May 2018 07:25 (five years ago) link
Bill Gold
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/20/obituaries/bill-gold-dead-movie-posters.html
― Number None, Monday, 21 May 2018 13:05 (five years ago) link
had no idea, Elvis!
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 May 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
xpost -- Good grief, never heard of Gold before. Total legend, I now realize.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 May 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
Patricia Morison, 103, original Broadway star of Kiss Me Kate
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/20/patricia-morison-star-broadway-hollywood-dies-103
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 May 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYw86-TM91Y
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 May 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
middle east historian/neocon tool bernard lewis
― mookieproof, Monday, 21 May 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
richard goodwin, JFK/LBJ/RFK speechwriter + spouse of doris kearns:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/21/613062729/richard-goodwin-crafter-of-johnsons-famous-we-shall-overcome-speech-dies
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 21 May 2018 23:09 (five years ago) link
Robert Indiana, whom you may know from the
LOVE
sculptures
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
Alas, the heroic pop art generation dwindles further.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
Philip Roth
https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/philip-roth-in-the-new-yorker
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 03:23 (five years ago) link
Wow, a big one. Last of the big ones? One of the last.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
6'6'' western star Clint Walker (Cheyenne, None But the Brave, The Dirty Dozen)
― Josefa, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
Glenn Snoddy, the guy who invented the fuzz pedal.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8457662/glenn-snoddy-nashville-engineer-inventor-fuzz-pedal-dies-96
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 May 2018 02:03 (five years ago) link
Fucking Rest in Fuzz brother
― flappy bird, Thursday, 24 May 2018 05:15 (five years ago) link
RIP, where was the Nobel Prize for this guy?
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 May 2018 07:52 (five years ago) link
if they'd have found a way to use his fuzz pedal for committing genocide, he'd have been a major contender #trenchant
― calzino, Thursday, 24 May 2018 08:12 (five years ago) link
Pretty sure My Bloody Valentine weaponised it.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Thursday, 24 May 2018 09:01 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK4DpIenJiU
― Lou Grant, the Iranian cinema of late '70s TV (stevie), Thursday, 24 May 2018 09:30 (five years ago) link
where was the Nobel Prize for this guy?
http://www.vintageguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/DALLAS-FUZZ-FACE-01.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 May 2018 11:25 (five years ago) link
gaming youtuber and noted gamergate cretin john bain, aka totalbiscuit, dead at 33 from cancer
it's sad, he was interested in ethics in gaming journalism
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 May 2018 13:12 (five years ago) link
heaven needed another asshole
― maura, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
heaven needed an asshole, so it gave john bain bowel cancer because death sometimes has a sense of humour
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 May 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link
pitch black lols
― I really like the acting, dialogue and especially the scenes (Old Lunch), Friday, 25 May 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
I’ve never heard of him before today but part of me wonders if one of his final regrets was that he was an adult human male known to most of those who knew him at all as “totalbiscuit”.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 25 May 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
Zero Man Total Biscuit
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 25 May 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
You've never met Colonel Poo.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Friday, 25 May 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
His Wikipedia article sure glosses over the Gamergate shit.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 25 May 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean ;_;https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/family-release-regarding-the-passing-of-apollo-skylab-astronaut-alan-bean
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 May 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
All the feels “Alan and I have been best friends for 55 years — ever since the day we became astronauts,” said Walt Cunningham, who flew on Apollo 7. “When I became head of the Skylab Branch of the Astronaut Office, we worked together and Alan eventually commanded the second Skylab mission.”“We have never lived more than a couple of miles apart, even after we left NASA. And for years, Alan and I never missed a month where we did not have a cheeseburger together at Miller’s Café in Houston. We are accustomed to losing friends in our business but this is a tough one,” said Cunningham.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 May 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
Ted Dabney, Atari co-founder and engineer of Pong and Computer Spacehttps://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-05-26-atari-co-founder-ted-dabney-dies-aged-80
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 26 May 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
"Conrad, Gordon and BeanForgot their washing machineSo they scrubbed on their nose and they scrubbed on their toesAnd that's the end of Conrad, Gordon and Bean"
© Some schoolkids in Windsor, 1968 or thereabouts
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 May 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
Begs pardon, 1969.
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 May 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
Were you one those kids?
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 May 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
. Mmm hmmm
Line three was mine
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 May 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
And he's still writing songs to this day.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 May 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
Some things never change
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 May 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
You've never met Colonel Poo
Ouch.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 26 May 2018 22:51 (five years ago) link
Stewart Lupton of Jonathan Fire Eater? seeing some tweets but no news yet
― na (NA), Monday, 28 May 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/1998342/jonathan-fireeaters-stewart-lupton-dead-at-43/obit/
― na (NA), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 00:47 (five years ago) link
Ouch. Hard living.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 02:31 (five years ago) link
Read the bio and did not realize/retain the fact that the other three members started the Walkmen. Makes their story 3/4's less depressing.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
http://www.metalinjection.net/this-is-just-a-tribute/anal-cnt-guitarist-josh-martin-dies-after-falling-off-an-escalator/amp
You fell off an escalator and diedYou were always a little clumsyOr maybe just drunkAnd now you're dead so it doesn't even matterPoseur idiot loserYou suckYou suckYou suckYou shop at the mallNot anymore
― kinder, gentler (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 06:35 (five years ago) link
Broadway-TV-film actress Allyn Ann McLerie, who I remember from a handful of Sydney Pollack films, All the President's Men and "The Tony Randall Show." She'd been around long enough to have played Ray Bolger's girlfriend in Charley's Aunt. Didn't know she'd been married to Adolph Green and George Gaynes.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/allyn-ann-mclerie-dead-wheres-charley-they-shoot-horses-dont-they-actress-dies-at-91-1115247
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 June 2018 06:19 (five years ago) link
Doors Biographer Jerry Hopkins Dead at 82
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/doors-biographer-jerry-hopkins-dead-at-82-w521066
― nickn, Monday, 4 June 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
kate spade :(
― 龜, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
i just heard that! :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
Apparent suicide says the beeb.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44374844
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
Metal guitarist Ralph Santolla (Death, Obituary, Deicide, Iced Earth, others) isn't dead yet, but he's been in a coma since last week and has been taken off life support.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
Haven't seen anyone else mention Glynn Edwards, British TV actor (although of course he was in Zulu and played a policeman in a couple of Confessions films).
(Sorry about the paywall, only online obit I can find.)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/06/05/glynn-edwards-played-dave-barman-minder-obituary/
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
Frank Carlucci, NSA/CIA/DoD "operator" (asshole buddy of Cap Weinberger)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/frank-carlucci-defense-secretary-and-tamer-of-federal-bureaucracies-dies-at-87/2018/06/04/1e34535a-67f9-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
Malcolm Morley, painter.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44371397
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 07:59 (five years ago) link
Jerry Maren, last adult actor who played a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz, 98.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/06/jerry-maren-munchkin-wizard-of-oz-obit
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
Misread that and wondered how many other Munchkins could've possibly detoured into adult films.
― Buttholt Brecht (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
Mary Wilson, wife of Harold of Milnsbridge - only 102. that's no age at all these days, fuck this year etc!
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
peter stringfellol
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 June 2018 06:53 (five years ago) link
about time!
― calzino, Thursday, 7 June 2018 07:12 (five years ago) link
RIP... Mary.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 June 2018 08:10 (five years ago) link
rip big man, heaven needed a perma-speedoed mahogany creep
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 June 2018 09:06 (five years ago) link
he might be out of luck if heaven has had a me-too moratorium on bloated Tory sex-offenders!
― calzino, Thursday, 7 June 2018 09:56 (five years ago) link
Dull story - One time (1990 or thereabouts) we had our works' Christmas do in Stringfellows (me neither), it was alright but at one point I decided to go up to the DJ box and request some Stone Roses (I know, I know), dude said "yeah, OK" and about 10-15 mins later he played "Fools Gold". It wasn't until I looked again I realised it was the man himself.
So, why would he be running the DJ decks during a fairly nondescript corporate booking, being fairly low-key himself? I guess he enjoyed the work.
There you go, finished now, wake up..
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
did you have to tuck a fiver into his speedo?
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
can only presume he was hoping to emulate savile
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:28 (five years ago) link
pretty sure it was rod hull that was into emulating
― William Thinkpiece Hackery (NickB), Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:31 (five years ago) link
also eurgh
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:36 (five years ago) link
Fool's Gold = Stringo's brand of fake tan
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:50 (five years ago) link
vg+
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:52 (five years ago) link
i am both glad that this thraed might be an introduction to the glamorous world of peter stringfellow for non-britisher ilxors but saddened that they will not get an opportunity to experience it while he still walked among us
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 June 2018 11:04 (five years ago) link
peter wadsworth stringfellow
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link
still reeling from the introduction to ken dodd tbh
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
you diddynt
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
He lives on, in the fact that being compared to Stringfellows is an obvious claim of misogyyny.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 7 June 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html
― StanM, Friday, 8 June 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link
:-(((((
― suzy, Friday, 8 June 2018 11:42 (five years ago) link
Fuck. There has been way too much suicide on this thread this year.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 8 June 2018 11:47 (five years ago) link
What the fuck, I'm completely shocked, horrible news
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 8 June 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
danny kirwan, apparently
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 June 2018 04:31 (five years ago) link
Robert Mandan of "Soap"
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-mandan-dead-actor-who-played-chester-tate-soap-was-86-1116697
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 June 2018 04:49 (five years ago) link
awwwwww :( he was such a great weasel on Soap
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2018 06:04 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Danny Kirwan
― Mark G, Saturday, 9 June 2018 11:14 (five years ago) link
mick fleetwood posted https://m.facebook.com/home.php#!/story.php?story_fbid=1754215541267665&id=680798011942762
― maura, Saturday, 9 June 2018 11:24 (five years ago) link
Lorraine Gordon, owner of the Village Vanguard. Her husband Max opened the place in 1935; she took it over after his death in 1989. Max Gordon was her second husband; before that, she was married to Alfred Lion, co-founder of Blue Note Records.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 9 June 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
Wow. RIP. What a character she was.
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 June 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
RIP Sylvia ;_;https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/obituaries/eunice-gayson-dead-bond.html
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 June 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
Sun Studios on FB is reporting that DJ Fontana has passed.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 June 2018 07:24 (five years ago) link
RIP :(
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 June 2018 08:32 (five years ago) link
Does that make Elvis's Sun band one of the few groups along with the Ramones and Jimi Hendrix Experience where every member is now dead?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 June 2018 12:19 (five years ago) link
most bands are now all dead taken as a whole id imagine
― tired culché (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 June 2018 12:20 (five years ago) link
The "classic" lineup of Motörhead (Lemmy, Fast Eddie Clarke, Philthy Animal Taylor) are all dead.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 14 June 2018 12:58 (five years ago) link
There's a thread for this iirc.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 14 June 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link
Bands in which all of the main members are deadBands formed in the 60s or later, with every single member dead
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 14 June 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/14/619932066/elvis-presleys-longtime-drummer-d-j-fontana-has-died
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 June 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
Leslie Grantham
― Stanley Therapy (stevie), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link
civil rights leader Dorothy Cotton
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/dorothy-cotton-civil-rights-leader-and-confidante-to-martin-luther-king-jr-dies-at-88/2018/06/12/0f3e402c-6e4d-11e8-bf86-a2351b5ece99_story.html
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 June 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
Dot Cotton and Leslie Grantham on the same day!
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 15 June 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
Sorry Morbs, that'll mean nothing to you.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 15 June 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
June Brown still alive, don’t DO that!
― suzy, Friday, 15 June 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
Seeing Nick Knox, drummer for the Cramps and Electric Eels.
― nickn, Friday, 15 June 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
Yup, seeing that too. Damn shame, what a drummer and a performer.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 June 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
Matt "Guitar" Murphy
https://deadline.com/2018/06/matt-guitar-murphy-dies-blues-brothers-guitarist-and-noted-sideman-was-88-1202411826/
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 June 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 June 2018 03:28 (five years ago) link
aw damn
― Stanley Therapy (stevie), Saturday, 16 June 2018 07:39 (five years ago) link
remember him this wayhttps://www.music-graffiti.com/thumbnails/tn_215BLUES_BROTHERS-159.jpg
― Stanley Therapy (stevie), Saturday, 16 June 2018 07:40 (five years ago) link
and this wayhttps://youtu.be/rT8D_L2bBGQ
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 June 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
that's excellent
― Stanley Therapy (stevie), Saturday, 16 June 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
Thank you for posting that, VG.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 16 June 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
That's some absolutely masterful riffing
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 16 June 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
damn that dude could play
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 16 June 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
I could be wrong, but didn't Murphy play w/Sonny Boy Williamson II on "Bring It On Home" and "Help Me"?
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 June 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
I'd think Lorraine Gordon and Matt Murphy could tell you some stories. Those are a couple of people that were first hand witnesses and participants in a whole lot of good music.
For those NYC ILXORs, have you been to the Village Vanguard and what is it like today? It seems that it is still a pretty key jazz club in that music scene even today.
― earlnash, Sunday, 17 June 2018 06:36 (five years ago) link
Beautiful, re Nick Knox: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155280445832016&set=a.236094977015.147373.560312015&type=3
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 17 June 2018 10:19 (five years ago) link
Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor noted for his advocacy of Dmitri Shostakovich, Alfred Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina, among others:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/17/gennady-rozhdestvensky-obituary
― pomenitul, Sunday, 17 June 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
xpost Went a few times in the mid 2000s when a good friend's band had a mini residency there. Iconic, subterranean and you could literally hear a pin drop in between tunes ( after applause). I was in awe of the place. Also very small.
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 17 June 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I've been there a half dozen times or so over the last 20 years (first show: Cecil Taylor, 1997). It's exactly the same room it was in the 1930s, 40s, 50s...they've upgraded the sound system, I guess, and probably bought new furniture a time or two, but that's pretty much it. It's a small triangular room, one flight down from the street, with almost no good sight lines unless you're directly in front of the stage. It's not very tourist-friendly, so the people that are there are usually attentive listeners rather than folks on dinner dates. You can hear the sound of the subway mixing with the band sometimes. I think they're pretty testy about people taking pictures during the show, too; I rarely see any on social media, though I see lots of pictures from places like the Jazz Standard, Smalls, the Jazz Gallery, etc.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 17 June 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
XXXTentacion, according to Stereogum.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 18 June 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
Apparently confirmed. Damn - shot.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 18 June 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
(confirmed by the sheriff's office, that is:
#BreakingNews The adult male that was taken to the hospital has been pronounced dead.— Broward Sheriff (@browardsheriff) June 18, 2018
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 18 June 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
It is.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 June 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
https://www.voanews.com/a/leo-sarkisian-voa-music-time-in-africa-program-dies/4432645.html
97 year-old ethnomusicologist, I saw him give a talk at age 77. Smart, nice guy who had traveled the mid-east and Africa, played music himself and spoke numerous languages. His radio program was popular throughout Africa from the 1960s onward.
Sarkisian arrived in Africa as a soldier in the U.S. Army. In 1961, a fateful encounter changed the course of his life. Edward R. Murrow, newly minted as the director of the U.S. Information Agency, came to Sarkisian's apartment in Conakry, Guinea, and asked if he'd like to join The Voice of America. Four years later, he went on the air with "Music Time in Africa."
He spent the next 47 years traveling the continent with his wife, Mary, whom he married in 1949. Together, they met thousands of local musicians and gave their art a global stage.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link
Stanley Cavell
― woof, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
RIP. He was a hero.
― jmm, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
Very cool thinker, RIP
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
Koko the sign-language gorilla
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 21 June 2018 10:36 (five years ago) link
nooooooo :(
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 21 June 2018 10:47 (five years ago) link
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 June 2018 10:56 (five years ago) link
Volunteer: Where do gorillas go when they die?
Koko: Comfortable hole bye.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link
Aww. I was recently pleasantly surprised to learn that Koko was still alive.
― Rep. Bob Excellentfrappuccino (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:04 (five years ago) link
So many articles with headlines saying that Koko "learned sign language" or "mastered sign language" - really reflects how generally poor reporting on science is. Koko did not learn or master sign language, Koko learned a limited set of signs, Koko never demonstrated any understanding of grammar, without which there is no language.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
can't believe you're maggie thatcher-ing koko
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 June 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
Whatever criticisms you may have about the quality of the reportage, the one thing you have to admit is that Koko sure knew her sign language.
― Rep. Bob Excellentfrappuccino (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 June 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
This tweet is amazing. (And BTW, if you can lie, you understand a language.)
Koko the gorilla once ripped a sink out of the wall and, when her keepers confronted her about it, she blamed her kitten, signing "cat did it." That HAD been my favorite Koko story, until I saw this:RIP to an absolute legend pic.twitter.com/sH6mGQVVZ3— Red Durkin (@RedIsDead) June 21, 2018
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 21 June 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
Nothing against this perfectly nice gorilla, who absolutely did not "master" any kind of language.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
The tweet is bullshit
She may have signed 'cat' but there is no evidence she ever stitched together a sentence in ASL.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
Yeah, yeah, intelligence on the wrong end of the telescope and all that, but to the lay readers of press about Koko, “language” means “being able to communicate in a human like medium” and she certainly did that. Two year olds have little grammar at first but their parents don’t stand back and say “well it’s not actually language.” The value of Koko is to publicise the notion that other species may have cognition and understanding. Which is demonstrably true.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
I am beginning to suspect a gorilla used sign language to lure mfktz into an alley for unsavory purposes. Thus, pity not scorn is the correct response here.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
― tired culché (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
A forty year experiment to see if gorillas can acquire language had the same overwhelming result that every other experiment of its sort has had, that animals cannot acquire language, but nobody wants to accept this, it's too appealing to imagine they can. Nobody is talking about whether gorillas have "cognition" - not sure there is even a good working definition of what that means. How about we don't judge animals by our own standards, they aren't any worse than humans for not having language. "Language" does have a very specific meaning, and it's ridiculous how people who respect science in other areas seem to think they intuitively understand linguistics when they apparently know nothing about it.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
would you be mine, could you be mine? wuhhhhf wuhhhhf
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
There is a huge body of evidence on language acquisition and most two year olds already know word order, something gorillas never pick up simply because their brains are not wired that way.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
stop shit talking Koko
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
Just do a mental replace of “sign language” with “a limited number of signs for common nouns and verbs” and calm down. Nobody’s suggesting we redefine the term “language”, that’s just what most people understand by the term, it’s not the springboard for an academic discourse. Imagine how it feels to be a neuroscientist and read daily about “your amazing brain - and you only use 10%!” (Albert Einstein / Bob Marley)
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
She learned signs and took care of All Ball and communicated in some way which is amazing regardless of whether or not she mastered anything.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
x-post - lol! Seriously though, exactly what MatthewK said.
koko har dan arts degree tbf but
― tired culché (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
my langwage also real godd
― tired culché (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, June 21, 2018 9:39 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
How about you imagine you're a neuroscientist and not only is “your amazing brain - and you only use 10%!” the only coverage you ever get about your discipline in any media, but when you complain about this to apparently intelligent, educated people you get told to "calm down" and "that's just what most people understand by the term 'brain'"
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
let's just agree Koko could've been in the current Cabinet
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
she wasn’t mean enough
― maura, Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
and possibly too smart
rather, been the shining star of same xxp
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
If I were a neuroscientist I would never expect the general public to have the level of knowledge that I did about my chosen area of expertise and I certainly wouldn't get bent out of shape over it in the wake of a beloved animal's death.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
also maura otm x2
hmm after weighing all the perspectives here i'm going to say that koko definitely understood languages and could talk in complete sentences that communicated complex thoughts
― na (NA), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
Obituary thread took a weird turn.
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
was gonna say
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
this should be a new tradition, we should assess each dead celebrity's capacity for language
― na (NA), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
hahaha
― a shomin-geki poster with some horror elements (WilliamC), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
feel like trump's RIP thread is going to be a tough one to sort out on that front
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
t/s: koko vs harambe
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
no
― maura, Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
It's kind of a blessing that Koko went to her grave unable to understand the prescriptivists smugly signing at her about how shitty her grasp of ASL was.
― Rep. Bob Excellentfrappuccino (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link
CaAL otm tho
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
its winehouse all over again you vold hearted bastards
― tired culché (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
fuck this phone tho
Some Vold-hearted Snapes up itt.
― Rep. Bob Excellentfrappuccino (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
Does that mean meanies who are dead inside because if so then otm.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 21 June 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
Idk I think great apes are cool regardless.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 21 June 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
https://media.signbsl.com/videos/bsl/corpusngt/mp4/vlc-record-2015-04-08-14h24m56s-BSL_CN_lex_b.mpg-.mp4
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 21 June 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
They are very cool!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 21 June 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
I'm going to make sure to buy a little extra column space for my obit on the offchance that anyone feels the need to 'well, actually' any of the claims made about me.
― Rep. Bob Excellentfrappuccino (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 June 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
Some sad news: Charles Krauthammer has died. Our obit is coming soon.— Paul Farhi (@farhip) June 21, 2018
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 June 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
Sad for whom?
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 21 June 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
couldn't even sign in gorilla the cunt
― tired culché (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 June 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
RIP Charles Krauthammer. You looked like you gave missions in GTA IV and died just now— Dan O'Sullivan (@Bro_Pair) June 21, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 22 June 2018 00:50 (five years ago) link
Farewell to a subtle mind, inquisitive spirit, and boundless imagination.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 June 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
exclusive ILX footage of CK's last moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_WEvWcVoFw
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 June 2018 01:57 (five years ago) link
True, Koko learned to play the recorder, but she never learned *not* to play the recorder.— Waldo Jaquith (@waldojaquith) June 22, 2018
― flappy bird, Friday, 22 June 2018 05:09 (five years ago) link
RIP Koko.
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Friday, 22 June 2018 10:03 (five years ago) link
you wouldn't have used that eulogy for a human if you'd have seen them throwing a turd at someone, double standards for these apes you see!
― calzino, Friday, 22 June 2018 10:14 (five years ago) link
I think the eulogy was for Charles Krauthammer, whoever he is, but point taken.
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Friday, 22 June 2018 10:27 (five years ago) link
koko's columns would have had a way better effect on public policy than krauthammer's.
― maura, Friday, 22 June 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
Whether or not Koko used language is by no means a straightforward question. I’m perfectly happy with them defaulting to say they did.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 22 June 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
I agree with mfktz -- there is a strict definition of language and Koko clearly did not use language. It has nothing to do with prescription/description either.
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 22 June 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
If y'all hustle, it may not be too late to get 'DISCLAIMER: DID NOT ACUTALLY KNOW SIGN LANGUAGE' engraved on Koko's tombstone.
― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 June 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
is there a word for what Koko did? because people are just going to keep calling it language unless a better term is found
― silverfish, Friday, 22 June 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
You mean besides 'jack shit'? I guess that's two words.
― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
is there a strict definition of 'jack shit' and did Koko clearly do it?
― silverfish, Friday, 22 June 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
I swore to myself to leave this thread alone, but for the record anyone calling themself a 'prescriptivist' or telling people off for their 'poor grammar' knows nothing about how language works. Also while I'm here, I have nothing for respect for Koko, but anthropomorphising her is imo a shitty way to appreciate an intelligent animal.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
that's how I feel about furries
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
no shade tho
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
wait was Koko a prescriptivist?
― Kostic negotiator (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
Obituary thread still delivering.
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
I don't know - if she said 'block' (intending for someone to give her a block) and someone gave her a block Wittgenstein would consider that using language, no?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
Wittgenstein was a philosopher, not a linguist. Apologies for not having a sense of humour about people being proud of being ignorant about my field, I won't bother arguing any more.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
your field sucks
― i want to get cancer (map), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
maybe think about going into something else
sorry if my joke about krauthammer’s ruinous ideology offended
― maura, Friday, 22 June 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
http://assets.rebelcircus.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/fine_villoresi_001.jpg
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
i stand by my belief that the world would be a better place if the marty peretz era new republic’s entire staff was made up of anyone else though
― maura, Friday, 22 June 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
I don't know if this has been mentioned but ASL, BSL etc aren't syntactically the same as spoken English btw
― Kostic negotiator (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
including gorillas xp
its a pity yr field is defined by what ppl on a msg board think about a dead gorilla
but thats not really our problem like
― tired culché (darraghmac), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
I can't speak for everyone else, but my clowning itt has been less (read: not at all) about the argument over whether or not Koko was actually able to use language and more (read: entirely) about not waiting until her body was cold to start pooh-poohing any sentimental eulogizing about her grasp of ASL.
― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
field appropriation omg
'AHEM, I think you will find that the decedent was actually little more than a CO-writer alongside his partner, Lowell Ganz. I hate to make such a stink before the body has been interred but, on behalf of the Shitty Explicitly-Solo Screenwriters of America, I feel that I must.'
― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
I did my dissertation many moons ago on attempts to teach apes language. I realise most people are winding him up but I just thought I'd stick up for mfktz. Back then, the Koko project felt a bit of a dead end. There was some optimism around Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and her bonobos but not sure how different it ended up being.
― Alba, Friday, 22 June 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
There was some optimism around Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and her bonobos
I remember it well, there was a giddy and excitable spirit abroad in the nation that some likened to the VE Day and its aftermath, and which few were immune to, no matter how cynical.
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Friday, 22 June 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
I both have mad respect for Camaraderie's profession (considered going that route myself) and am aware of at least some of the controversies surrounding Koko's communicative abilities. But a valid point can also be an ill-timed point, is the thing.
― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 June 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
i was trying to work "ape has never killed ape" into this but that was not true in that last Roddy McDowall movie, or the reboot
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 June 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
Also chimps are cannibal psychos iirc
― Kostic negotiator (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 June 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link
Ape has never killed Koko, she died of natural causes.
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Friday, 22 June 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
YOU ARE THE APE
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 22 June 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
https://libraopen.lib.virginia.edu/downloads/pc289j08t
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 June 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
This Koko tangent is incredible
― flappy bird, Saturday, 23 June 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
Keep going
Koko the gorilla once ripped a sink out of the wall and, when her keepers confronted her about it, she blamed her kitten, signing "cat did it."
keeper: <signs furiously> "koko, what would you like engraved on your tombstone?"
koko: <signs furiously> "cat did it"
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 23 June 2018 01:25 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT7M-7Q5XM8
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 June 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link
*crosses fingers* that “Oh Koko!” places high in The Beatles Solo Tracks poll
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 June 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link
Vinnie Paul died.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 23 June 2018 04:05 (five years ago) link
Vinnie Paul, Legendary Drummer for Pantera & Damageplan, Dead at 54
― flappy bird, Saturday, 23 June 2018 04:22 (five years ago) link
Aw man. RIP Vinnie \m/By all accounts a genuine kindhearted dude it seemed like. And can I just say god bless him for never talking to or making peace with Phil Anselmo.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 June 2018 04:54 (five years ago) link
What would be an appropriate length of time to wait to make that point? This will be forgotten about by next week
― Number None, Saturday, 23 June 2018 07:51 (five years ago) link
Temperature of the corpse seems to be a sticking point so maybe like 2 days
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Saturday, 23 June 2018 07:56 (five years ago) link
Think of Koko's friends and family, I beseech you.
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 June 2018 09:49 (five years ago) link
I can't in good conscience RIP a dangerous animal, that in desperate times would chomp on a baby's head like it was a satsuma, and then try and blame someone else in sign language.
― calzino, Saturday, 23 June 2018 10:00 (five years ago) link
That baby was Robin Williams.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 23 June 2018 11:45 (five years ago) link
I saw Pantera on their first national tour in the US, opening for Exodus and headliners Suicidal Tendencies in 1990. Saw them again in 1997 with Neurosis and Clutch as their openers. Anselmo's a dickhead, but they were a good band at times. Reinventing The Steel is their best album.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 23 June 2018 11:47 (five years ago) link
Sorry, guys, I guess my grief caused me to forget that Koko's inability to communicate in sign was a thing that regularly came up in conversation during her lifetime. People were always like, 'hey, while this gorilla is still alive and in the public eye, we really should discuss the media's skewed perception of her ASL skills.' I honestly don't think more than a week would go by without someone making that very germane point in attempt to maximize awareness of the controversy. And so, yes, of course this point would once again arise naturally upon the occasion of Koko's passing. I was unfair in treating this as an isolated and unfortunately-timed incident. And as the days go by, I find it increasingly difficult to remember who Koko was and what those constant conversations were about. I fear that by the time a week has passed, I will have no recollection of the situation whatsoever and, if prompted, will reply with a sad and simple, 'who's Koko?' I blame the Walkmen and the Gameboys for so tragically shortening our attention spans that we could ever fail to remember this magnificent...I want to say horse. Was it a horse? Anyway, once again: RIP Cocoa.
― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Saturday, 23 June 2018 12:39 (five years ago) link
When the bit isn’t working but you press send
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Saturday, 23 June 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
I hope I'm able to experience that just once before it's my time to be featured itt.
― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Saturday, 23 June 2018 12:56 (five years ago) link
Someone else died, Koko discussion over
― flappy bird, Saturday, 23 June 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
yeah guys maybe make a koko thread
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 June 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
Koko thread post joke bad banana banana
― Kostic negotiator (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
People discuss Koko's understanding of language (of lack of) a surprising amount. As a vegan people bring up her inability to use language quite often - even though none of my beliefs rest on the claim that she did.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 23 June 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
Wait were ppl seriously arguing to you that since gorillas can’t acquire language, therefore being vegan is unreasonable?
― valorous wokelord (silby), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
Yeah - when you try to argue about sentience/consciousness/capacity to feel pain, people tend to blur the concepts together. So, people argue that because animals aren't 'intelligent', because they don't use 'language', they're not moral subjects.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
(I am delighted and amazed this is still going on.)
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
Remember when Farrah Fawcett died on the same day as Michael Jackson and no one talked about her? That happened to Charles Krauthammer with a gorilla.— Joe McAdam (@joemcadam) June 21, 2018
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
Wait Farrah Fawcet died?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
huh. Proves that post right, I guess.
Aldous Huxley died the same day JFK got shot. Gotta plan these things, try to die on a slow news day.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
Lol that Tweet
― Kostic negotiator (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
There's a doc about Koko on BBC4 in a minute but fuck watching that big phoney
― Kostic negotiator (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
Can we start a dead people thread and leave this one to the dead animals.
― Jeff, Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
There was a dead crow outside my work this morning
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
I saw a pigeon fly into a window and probably die yesterday morning
― Kostic negotiator (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
Crows, now they are intelligent animals, not sure what their language skills are like though tbf.
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
I know next to nothing about Fawcett but could people have talked at good length about her?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
Without repetition or hesitation?
― Kostic negotiator (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
People and apes.
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
Fawcett was in Logan's Run, one of the finest sci-fi films of all time.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
NV - hopefully without resorting to the word "iconic" repeatedly.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
iconic nipple
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
What would Koko say if she saw us arguing like this? (trick question, she could not say anything, she did not understand language)
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
Aldous Huxley died the same day JFK got shot. Gotta plan these things, try to die on a slow news day.― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:53 (one hour ago)
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:53 (one hour ago)
CS Lewis died that day as well.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
Lewis and Huxley canceled each other out I guess
― valorous wokelord (silby), Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
Yeah! I remember reading that! x-post. Don't know why I remember AH but not CSL who is arguably more famous.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
y'see you only use 10% of your brain, right?
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 23 June 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
well that explains dowd's comment on Logan's Run
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 24 June 2018 06:28 (five years ago) link
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 24 June 2018 08:59 (five years ago) link
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/06/25/pawn-stars-richard-harrison-old-man-death/730665002/
― StanM, Monday, 25 June 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
https://wcbs880.radio.com/articles/new-york-radio-legend-dan-ingram-dead-83
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link
Donald Hall, one of the last of the late-1920s-born big American poets.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/06/24/donald-hall-former-poet-laureate/hGJudegZ2p6DkzIshiWvpO/story.html
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
daaaan IN-gram
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 03:44 (five years ago) link
damn
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 10:15 (five years ago) link
Jackson family patriarch Joe
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
Steve Soto, bass player for the Adolescents, etc. at 54.
https://www.ocweekly.com/steve-soto-of-the-adolescents-and-manic-hispanic-dead-at-54/
― nickn, Thursday, 28 June 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
Susan Ellison has asked me to announce the passing of writer Harlan Ellison, in his sleep, earlier today. “For a brief time I was here, and for a brief time, I mattered.”—HE, 1934-2018. Arrangements for a celebration of his life are pending.— Christine Valada (@mcvalada) June 28, 2018
Harlan Ellison, 1934-2018.
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
Kind of disappointed Ellison didn't go down mid-rant.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
lol yeah going out peacefully seems v un-Harlan Ellison
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
I suppose he's worthy of an RIP, he had some good stuff
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
Even just for making sure Octavia E Butler got the boost she needed, he's a legend.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
But, as Elvis T has noted, a heavily flawed one beyond the usual kvetching:
https://www.adweek.com/galleycat/at-long-last-harlan-have-youleft-no-sense-of-decency/3778
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
rip harlan you cantankerous bastard
― Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
(also eurgh at that adweek story :( )
― Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44674652 Peter Firmin, creator of the Clangers, Bagpuss, Basil Brush, Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog...
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 1 July 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
Noooooooo
― Jeff W, Sunday, 1 July 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
Boom boom :(
― A Box of After Dinner Comics Shipped to Your House Each Month (seandalai), Sunday, 1 July 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 July 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Sunday, 1 July 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
RIP Roy Carrhttps://www.clashmusic.com/news/music-writer-roy-carr-has-died
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Sunday, 1 July 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
Alan Longmuir, Bay City Rollers
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/bay-city-rollers-star-alan-longmuir-dies-aged-70-two-weeks-after-being-flown-home-to-uk-when-he-contracted-a-mystery-virus-while-on-holiday-in-mexico-with-his-wife/ar-AAzsFXY?ocid=ientp
― Mark G, Monday, 2 July 2018 09:12 (five years ago) link
Wow, RIP Alan, first of the gang to die?
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Monday, 2 July 2018 09:30 (five years ago) link
I thought one of them had already rolled off, the hardcore pisshead one.
― calzino, Monday, 2 July 2018 09:42 (five years ago) link
at last a Brit celeb i've heard of
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 July 2018 12:19 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 04:56 (five years ago) link
Richard Swift, and I'm actually pretty angry about this (not at him, just at fate). The world sucks so often.
https://pitchfork.com/news/richard-swift-dead-at-41/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
ugh
― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
A deep, terrible, irreplaceable and wholly unnecessary loss. He was my friend, and I'll miss him.
― Davey D, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
Very sorry to hear that, and my condolences.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
Retired AP photographer Alan Diaz dies at 71. His iconic image of a terrified 6-year-old Cuban boy named Elian Gonzalez earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. https://t.co/ynVIo8qaSN— The Associated Press (@AP) July 3, 2018
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/robby-muller-death-cinematographer-master-of-light-paris-texas-a8431026.html
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
fuck :(
― Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
Müller was also well known for work with Jarmusch, their first collaboration, Down By The Lawn, being nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for best cinematography
― Øystein, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
― Ross, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
"Also filmed Report Man, Until the End of the Drive and To Live and Lunch in Encino."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
greatest Dutch cinema-createur in history. RIP Robbie.
― Ludo, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
RIP.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
Xpost pretty good, but "Down by the lawn" is awes.
A bit like when Q magazine (maybe) quoted Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame expressing his appreciation for Bunuel's surrealist masterpiece "Large Door"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
harry m miller
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 23:09 (five years ago) link
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-lanzmann/french-filmmaker-claude-lanzmann-creator-of-shoah-dies-at-92-idUSKBN1JV1FR
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Thursday, 5 July 2018 12:11 (five years ago) link
RIP Claude, was just re-watching his absolutely essential doc about The Sobibor Rebellion last month.
― calzino, Thursday, 5 July 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
Woah, RIP.
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 July 2018 12:35 (five years ago) link
I was just thinking last month: the star of Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. is actually a year younger than Lanzmann and still was apparently still alive last time I g-search checked.
― calzino, Thursday, 5 July 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link
some of his interviews and monologues are just .. unforgettable. He did such very important work.
― calzino, Thursday, 5 July 2018 12:46 (five years ago) link
I never realized his brother was Jacques Lanzmann until a few years ago.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 5 July 2018 13:35 (five years ago) link
Former MSNBC host (and more recently Russia Today host) Ed Schultz.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 5 July 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
New Orleans jazz, r'n'b, and blues pianist Henry Butler at 69 from cancer
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/03/625632851/new-orleans-pianist-henry-butler-dead-at-69
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/obituaries/henry-butler-dead.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 July 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
7 Aum Shinrikyo members executed in Japan.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gy3xex/what-is-aum-shinrikyo-sarin-attack?utm_source=dmfb
― nickn, Friday, 6 July 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
Steve Ditko
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/steve-ditko-dead-spider-man-creator-was-90-1125489
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 July 2018 00:15 (five years ago) link
Spurs legend Alan Gilzean.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44757890
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 8 July 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
:( Old Spurs fan I worked with was forever singing his praises. RIP Alan.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 July 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
22 Scottish caps in 8 years. LOL SFA.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 July 2018 13:12 (five years ago) link
Tab Hunterhttps://www.google.com/amp/www.vulture.com/amp/2018/07/gay-hollywood-heartthrob-tab-hunter-dead-at-86.html
― MrDasher, Monday, 9 July 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
I swear I thought he died in the 90s.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 9 July 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
Yr probably thinking of Troy Donahue, who we'll probably see a lot of mistakenly posted pictures of in the next few days
― Josefa, Monday, 9 July 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
Lord Carrington, 99
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
Famously resigned on the grounds that he'd failed at his job, a rare occurrence in politics.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link
Still have no idea why his name gained the extra "R" when he became ennobled.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
It's like Haringey and Harringay all over again.
― Madchen, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
As long ago as April, but I only just now became aware: RIP F'Murrr, creator of probably my favourite comic of all time, <i>Le Génie des alpages</i>.
http://bdm.typepad.com/legeniedesalpages/images/parapluie4.jpg
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
Alan Johnson, award-winning choreographer who did "Springtime for Hitler" and other Mel Brooks musical numbers
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/obituaries/alan-johnson-81-springtime-for-hitler-choreographer-dies.html
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 July 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
Clive King, author of Stig of the Dump
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44823636
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 13 July 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
Sinatra's first wife Nancy, at 101
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 July 2018 09:36 (five years ago) link
clearly a mob hit :(
― look, you’re just gonna get gravy on the baby sometimes 🤷♂️ (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 14 July 2018 09:39 (five years ago) link
“There is no bitterness, only great respect and affection between Sinatra and his first wife,” Gay Talese wrote in 1966. “And he has long been welcome in her home and has even been known to wander in at odd hours, stoke the fire, lie on the sofa, and fall asleep.”
― calzino, Saturday, 14 July 2018 09:42 (five years ago) link
Just got out of an imdb clickhole, and found that screenwriter & 70s game show stalwart (and husband of the late Patti Deutsch) Donald Ross died last month.
http://gr8erdays.com/2018/06/06/writer-donald-ross-widower-of-patti-deutsch-dies-75/
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 15 July 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
RIP. Probably deserves a mention on Old time actors and directors that you were surprised to find out were married to each other once upon a time
― Pwn Goal Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
Not because of surprise, but because of the Match Game/Tattletales subtheme tie-in
― Isora Clubland (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 July 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
cmon cmon havent all day
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Friday, 20 July 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
Shinobu Hashimoto, co-screenwriter of Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Rashomon, The Hidden Fortress and some other movies you may have heard of, exactly 3 months after his 100th birthday.
― Eliza D., Friday, 20 July 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
fuck me, that is some classic stuff he has had a hand on there. RIP.
― calzino, Friday, 20 July 2018 13:38 (five years ago) link
in b4 official announcement of prince phillip, dead from racism poisoning at 146 years old
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 July 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
Not convinced, looks quite like a couple of other hoaxes so far. But guess we'll see at 5.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
maybe he's going to be a dad again and someone misheard
― StanM, Friday, 20 July 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
iwanttobelieve.png
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
He's just dead, dead racist.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
Think it's a slightly old-fashioned midlands thing to use 'dead' as a general intensifier, do other parts of the country / world do that? It's a feature in Mandarin too.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
the scots think it's pure dead brilliant too
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
Every time someone starts a rumour about Prince Philip being dead, it adds another five years to his life. Please gossip responsibly.— Hannah Erskine (@hanabizzle) July 20, 2018
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
Def an Edinburgh thing at least. Dead keen. Deid annoying. Dead tired.
― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
'Dead wrong' is probably nationwide.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
Shinobu Hashimoto, writer of many Japanese film classics
https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/shinobu-hashimoto-scriptwriter-akira-kurosawa-dies-dead-at-100-1202879323/
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
― omar little, Friday, 20 July 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link
for the next 25 minutes it's Schrödinger's Prince
― StanM, Friday, 20 July 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
goodnight racist prince
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
Adrian Cronauer, whose stint as a Vietnam DJ very loosely inspired a Robin Williams/Barry Levinson hit
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44897634
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
RIP. It must be odd to have outlive the person who played you in your biopic.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Friday, 20 July 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
so the royal bucket's status remains unkicked?
― StanM, Friday, 20 July 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
Keep the Prince alive.
― Chase Knobbe? Have you Courtney Cox? (Tom D.), Friday, 20 July 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
jonathan gold
― na (NA), Sunday, 22 July 2018 01:19 (five years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-fo-jonathan-gold-obit-20180721-story.html
― na (NA), Sunday, 22 July 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
Oh shit.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 22 July 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
Goddammit.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 July 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link
This is totally fucked....
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 22 July 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link
cancer grrrr
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 July 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
Is there a JGold appreciation thread?
I posted here...things Billy Corgan said to Kim Thayil in Australia in 1994 poll
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 23 July 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
Bill Loud, patriarch of the Loud family, pioneers in reality TV (An American Family). Was 97.
― Josefa, Saturday, 28 July 2018 04:27 (five years ago) link
Lucy Birley - model and former wife of Bryan Ferry.
The Vogue obituary is the one to read https://www.vogue.com/article/lucy-birley-obituary
The Times obituary today is unexepectedly bad and exploitative.
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 28 July 2018 09:45 (five years ago) link
wow yeah that Vogue obit is beautiful <3rip Lucy ;_;
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 July 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
Ron Dellums, 13-term liberal leader in the House (was called a "Watusi from Berkeley" by that ass Ed Koch)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ronald-dellums-who-entered-congress-a-firebrand-and-left-a-statesman-dies-at-82/2018/07/30/cbc41d76-941c-11e8-810c-5fa705927d54_story.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 July 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
I used to like his son Erik as an actor - he played a drug dealer on Homicide: Life on the Street and a medical examiner on The Wire.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 30 July 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
Bernard Heptonhttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/30/bernard-hepton-obituary
― Alba, Monday, 30 July 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
Awww, so good in TTSS.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 30 July 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
Tomasz Stańko, Polish jazz trumpeter
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 30 July 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
Sam Mehran, musician, 30.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 04:28 (five years ago) link
*31
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 04:29 (five years ago) link
Joseph Maus, 30.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
Last month, Esther Judith Singer, “Chichita,” translator and wife of Italo Calvino. http://www.lastampa.it/2018/06/23/cultura/e-morta-esther-judith-singer-la-moglie-di-italo-calvino-B6liQFz7YJRdR3PwAFldRM/pagina.html
― 3-Way Tie (For James Last) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
Actress Mary Carlisle: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mary-carlisle-dead-bing-crosby-star-delightful-musicals-was-104-1085748
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Thursday, 2 August 2018 01:06 (five years ago) link
Fakir Musafar, body modifier who came to international prominence following his inclusion in Modern Primitives by Re/Search books.
(Can't find an actual obit but being discussed on twitter and confirmed)
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 2 August 2018 05:27 (five years ago) link
Zombie Boy
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
The kid who said “I like turtles”!?
― devops mom (silby), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
I thought Mustafar had died in the late '90s or early 2000s. I guess I was confusing him with Bob Flanagan (who died in 1996).
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
Sometimes it feels like a run of deaths has a theme.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 3 August 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
Barry Chucklehttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/05/barry-chuckle-comedy-duo-the-chuckle-brothers-dies
― Madchen, Sunday, 5 August 2018 07:53 (five years ago) link
the end of an era...
― calzino, Sunday, 5 August 2018 07:58 (five years ago) link
The funeral will be hilarious
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 August 2018 08:09 (five years ago) link
Yes, I’m not sure whether it would be inappropriate for the pallbearers to do ‘to me, to you’ or inappropriate for them not to.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 5 August 2018 08:17 (five years ago) link
So the character on The Mary Tyler Moore Show was based on this guy?
― Suspicious Hiveminds (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 August 2018 08:18 (five years ago) link
RIP Barry
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Sunday, 5 August 2018 10:43 (five years ago) link
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 August 2018 11:23 (five years ago) link
at least if one of Cannon or Ball dies, then they can hook up with t'other Chuckle Brother now!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 August 2018 11:40 (five years ago) link
It would have to be Tommy, I can't see a Bobby & Barry pairing working tbh.
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 August 2018 11:44 (five years ago) link
New catchprase: "Rock on, to me"
― StanM, Sunday, 5 August 2018 13:34 (five years ago) link
Aw, that makes me kind of sad. Although watching the chuckle brothers as an adult was terrible: but I liked it in the day.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 5 August 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link
Charlotte Rae at 92.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Monday, 6 August 2018 05:50 (five years ago) link
the day news broke about a facts of life reboot
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 6 August 2018 08:14 (five years ago) link
Okay this hit me a little hard.
RIP IN PEACE ALL OF MY CAST MATES. I MISS YOU ALL. pic.twitter.com/tS52TfryKo— Todd Bridges (@ToddBridges) August 6, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 August 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
Joel Robuchon, world's most Michelin starred chef.
― calzino, Monday, 6 August 2018 13:51 (five years ago) link
oh wow
― maura, Monday, 6 August 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
Oh man, a friend and I were wondering just last week whether Mrs. Garrett was still alive. I just assumed she couldn't possibly be.
― My Name is Pants and I Fit Snugly (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 August 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
She had a small role in Jonathan Demme's last film (the Streep rocker).
She also had a dancing moment in the film of Hair, played Woody Allen's mother in Bananas, Al Lewis's wife on "Car 54, Where Are You?", and was in this Broadway cast of The Threepenny Opera in 1954 (Lotte Lenya, Bea Arthur, John Astin, Paul Dooley):
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/threepenny-opera-13509
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 August 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
her sexy oil heat commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzB6_h-Iw2g
― a shomin-geki poster with some horror elements (WilliamC), Monday, 6 August 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
She was on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast in 2016.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Monday, 6 August 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
peter richens
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 6 August 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
Irish luthier Chris Larkin.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 10:47 (five years ago) link
WHOOSH
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/doug-grindstaff-dead-star-trek-sound-effects-maestro-was-87-1130648
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 11:58 (five years ago) link
Rockabilly guitarist/singer Lorrie Collins.
― Ρεμπετολογια, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
hall of fame hockey player stan mikita
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
And additionally immortalized in Wayne's World.
http://sportsmockery.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_5533.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link
<3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
Paul Laxalt, Nevada sen/guv and Reagan's 3-time prez campaign manager, at 96 (only the good die y'know)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/paul-d-laxalt-nevada-governor-and-influential-reagan-adviser-dies/2018/08/06/1d4ec0de-99e4-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
Legit "People who you thought were dead already"
WP and NYT obits don't mention Howard Hughes at all - what garbage.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
yeah for real i thought he popped his clogs 20 years ago
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 August 2018 02:39 (five years ago) link
Funniest possible things to say during moment of climax.
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 August 2018 02:42 (five years ago) link
V S Naipaul
https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/v-s-naipaul-dies-at-age-85-the-legacy-of-the-trinidadian-nobel-prize-winner.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 August 2018 02:24 (five years ago) link
Beckett's publisher John Calder, barely two months after I posted about him in the "people you were surprised to discover were still alive" thread.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
RIP. Despite the numerous howling errors in so much of the Beckett stuff he published.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
RIP. He is now with Grove Press's Barney Rossett, who passed away six years ago, and Les Editions de Minuit's Jérôme Lindon, who died in 2001.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
I've read most of the Beckett prose works on Calder and I don't recall seeing a single typo.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
They're famously full of textual and editing errors if not actual typos.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
the errors in his editions have been criticized in reviews etc. e.g. the collection "as the story was told" and the collection of poems from 1930-1989
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
To be fair, even as (or because) he was obsessed with le mot juste, Beckett reworked his plays repeatedly, to such an extent that what he would later deem 'an error' is not always as obvious as it appears. Other instances are rather egregious, though, and both Calder and Rossett are variously responsible for them.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
Morgana King, jazz singer and Mama Corleone
only 87! about 9 years younger than Pacino
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:47 (five years ago) link
ummm i meant older
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:49 (five years ago) link
Aretha Franklin
https://news.sky.com/story/queen-of-soul-aretha-franklin-dies-at-76-11474096
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 16 August 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
awww, morgana king sang my favorite take on "tomorrow never knows".
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Thursday, 16 August 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
Strangely, she died in March, but it was only just announced.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45194833
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
RIP Doodzieke
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Thursday, 16 August 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
RIP Rampage from DOA
― Ross, Thursday, 16 August 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
Huntress singer Jill Janus, suicide.
I saw them perform two or three times, and met her once. She seemed nice, and mildly nuts, but in a theater-girl sort of way, not a manic/suicidal sort of way. And I liked their music; they weren't great, but they improved on each of their three albums.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Kofi Annan
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45232892
― Number None, Saturday, 18 August 2018 09:45 (five years ago) link
knee deep in corruption, did fuck all to prevent 2 major genocides - classic nobel peace prize winner!
― calzino, Saturday, 18 August 2018 10:21 (five years ago) link
RIP Morgan Freeman
― calzino, Saturday, 18 August 2018 10:30 (five years ago) link
In commemoration today I'm having coffee and a nan for breakfast
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 18 August 2018 11:44 (five years ago) link
*throws fruit* booo get off the stage
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTfcWd8Ygg8
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
That is almost certainly where I got it from, so it wasn't even original
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
I assumed you were referring to that!
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
charles blackman
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 20 August 2018 03:19 (five years ago) link
oh no :( i was just thinking about him yesterday. we had a school trip to one of his exhibitions in early high school & i became a huge fan of his workgood innings though
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 August 2018 03:37 (five years ago) link
Motown session guitarist Eddie Willis:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eddie-willis-guitarist-for-motowns-funk-brothers-dead-at-82-713708/
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
― The Vermilion Sand Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
Barbra Harris (Nashville, A Thousand Clowns, Peggy Sue Got Married etc)
https://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/barbara-harris-dies_86195.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=21aug2018
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
BARBARA Harris
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
Oh no, always loved her RIP ;_;
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
Had forgotten she was Jodie Foster's mom in the original Freaky Friday.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
RIP Barbara Harris. As Joseph McBride pointed out on Facebook, she was in the last shot of Hitchcock's last film.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
She was great in Freaky Friday.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
I always remember her and the son playing baseball in flairs...
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
great quote in here about how she preferred rehearsing to the show
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/barbara-harris-dies-second-city-actress-freaky-friday-nashville/
Also she asked her hospice nurse "am I supposed to lay here til I die?"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
Yeah, unfortunately :(
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BYyDusJYJo
― na (NA), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
I just watched Nashville this past weekend. :'(
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0OhE6O-c0k
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
she was the Broadway star of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, you know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TQxWrrzL-Y
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
per that sun-times article, she apparently also came from an improv background and was part of the first second city performance!
― na (NA), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
That's how she met up with Mike Nichols (who directed her on Broadway), Alan Alda, etc.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
Apparently she wound up with terrible stage fright and quit the theatre (but kept teaching acting).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
She was great in everything I ever saw her in. Funny. And Sexy. *loosens collar*
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
I used to have (might still have) a Second City coffee table book which had this great story about Harris calling in sick right before showtime one night. The audience was already being seated as the staff was called for an emergency meeting back stage to debate whether or not to go on with that night's performance (it was a semi-scripted show in which Harris did a lot of singing and acting). One of the waitresses spoke up and said she could cover for her, because even though she hadn't done much prior performing, she'd been studying Harris from the audience every night and knew the whole show. A chance was taken and the waitress brought the house down, soon becoming an official member of the troupe.
That waitress was Melinda Dillon (Close Encounters..., Slap Shot, A Christmas Story etc.).
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLfeRy080kE
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:34 (five years ago) link
^A candidate for her greatest scene on film.
and not many years after that break, Melinda Dillon played Honey in the original staging of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
that Melinda Dillon story is amazing
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
Brian Murray, lauded stage actor/director (I saw him in the first Broadway production of Noises Off, you may have seen him in "30 Rock")
http://www.playbill.com/article/three-time-tony-award-nominee-brian-murray-dies-at-80
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
(oh, and i saw him do Claudius opposite Kevin Kline's Hamlet)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
Lazy Lester, Louisiana blues artist ("I'm a Lover Not a Fighter", "Sugar Coated Love", "I Hear You Knocking") and inspiration for the Ponderosa Stomp festival in NOLA.
― Ρεμπετολογια, Thursday, 23 August 2018 04:20 (five years ago) link
Stefan Karl Stefansson of Lazytown. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45264994
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 23 August 2018 08:11 (five years ago) link
Spencer P Jones of Beasts of Bourbon
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 23 August 2018 12:43 (five years ago) link
oh shit :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
I'm glum about Stefan Karl Stefansson. Used to watch Lazytown with my daughter all the time when she was a toddler.
― incarcerated moonfaces (how's life), Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
my son loved it as well, he still watches sinister - chopped and screwed - horror versions of Lazytown on youtube. So I sort of feel like I have a long association with the departed gent, in my house.
― calzino, Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
There was a big online campaign to help him with his medical costs a few years ago, which my son followed closely as he was also a fan of the YouTube madness. It seemed like he was on the mend for a while, so very sad and surprised that he passed.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
Ed King of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Strawberry Alarm Clock
― Brad C., Thursday, 23 August 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
https://t.co/hVi50DGOAK
I'm so sad to share the passing of my friend, musical partner and hero Mako Sakamoto. Mako succumbed to illness on Tuesday. I don't know what I'm going to do without him. Please play his spirit loud with this piece .... He was the greatest. 😢 https://t.co/hVi50DGOAK— Bernard Butler (@Bernard_Butler) August 23, 2018
― nate woolls, Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
I messed that up, sorry about that
― nate woolls, Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
RIP dude but what the hell is Bernard Butler doing at the start of that clip?
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
Stefan Karl Stefansson of Lazytown. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45264994― Three Word Username, Thursday, 23 August 2018 09:11 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 23 August 2018 09:11 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I told my son Robbie Rotten died and he said "Is that the Sex Pistols guy?"
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 24 August 2018 11:36 (five years ago) link
#BREAKING: Robin Leach, host of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," dies at 76 https://t.co/rPtg1voWDz— KTLA (@KTLA) August 24, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 August 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
Russ Heath, Silver Age comic book artist who probably never got enough credit in the day - especially from those he commonly filled in for or did largely uncredited collaborative work with like Bob Kanigher, Will Elder and Harvey Kurtzman. Probably best known to the general public as being the source of Roy Lichtenstein's wealth.
https://www.newsarama.com/41535-russ-heath-passes-away.html
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Friday, 24 August 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
I really like Heath. You could make a great compilation of his work for Marvel or Warren but probably wont happen.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 24 August 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
Lindsay Kemp
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Saturday, 25 August 2018 09:56 (five years ago) link
RIP Lindsay.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 August 2018 12:06 (five years ago) link
John McCain
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 26 August 2018 00:22 (five years ago) link
Finally some good news for Trump!
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 26 August 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
Indeed - the Sunday shows this week will be 60 straight minutes of "respected" Washington "journalists" fellating a corpse.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 26 August 2018 00:39 (five years ago) link
Neil Simon.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
Aw, damn.
― canary christ (stevie), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
"If this room was on fire, you wouldn't be hot!"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
Shame, RIP Neil.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
a great
― flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
Guess he just really wanted to outlive John McCain. Good for him.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
next spring Eric H and i will be starring in The Sunshine Boys at the Mankato Dinner Theater. Don't miss it!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 August 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
Neil Simon - gone! A loss 4 the entire entertainment industry. He could write a joke that would make you laugh, define the character, the situation, and even the world's problems. First time I met him he looked at me and said, "Where the hell did they find you?" What a gent.— Harvey Fierstein (@HarveyFierstein) August 26, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 August 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
I don't know if he ever did anything that interested me beyond The Heartbreak Kid and The Odd Couple, but that's enough right there.
― clemenza, Sunday, 26 August 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
Neil Simon's jokes and characters connected with Neil Simon's generation, which is a limited accomplishment, but making strangers laugh is always a difficult task and he succeeded at it.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 26 August 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
loved Barefoot In The Park, and California Suite when I was a kid (I find most of it unwatchable now, tho).
― canary christ (stevie), Sunday, 26 August 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
I acted in Plaza Suite Act One just two weeks ago. The longer I worked on it, the more I understood the brilliance of the script.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 27 August 2018 00:58 (five years ago) link
i don't think they used much of his dialogue in Heartbreak Kid
nice condescending bullshit there Aimless, yer on a roll today
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 02:56 (five years ago) link
earlier generations -- so STUPID, amirite
idk it's sort of a tricky thing with comedy, i think it's one of the hardest areas to put yourself in the shoes of another time. like for whatever reason i can watch, say, a universal horror picture and go "i know factually that this scared people in 1933, and while it doesn't scare me, i'm still digging it, and can count its former scariness towards my sense that i'm enjoying a good movie." with comedy, if it's not making me laugh (or worse, if it's making me cringe) it's really hard to make the same move. i watched california suite a few months back and was absolutely bored to tears when i wasn't cringing. it just didn't land; i believe simon's comedy landed for somebody else, at some point in time, but i left just thinking "wow that was a shitty movie."
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Monday, 27 August 2018 04:29 (five years ago) link
no one likes that one. Simon began to repeat himself around 1971-72, which seemed to last until he wrote that autobiographical trilogy of plays in the '80s (the first two of which launched Matthew Broderick's career).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
(repeating himself made him rich, however)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 04:34 (five years ago) link
and you accused me of condescending?
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 27 August 2018 05:30 (five years ago) link
mirka mora
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 27 August 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
Lucie Brock-Broido, back in March of this year but I just found out.
― mick signals, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
2 comics veterans' deaths reported today -- Marie Severin and Gary Friedrich.
― WmC, Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
RIP Marie, such a great lifetime of work
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
Good remembrance of Neil Simon:http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-neil-simon-appreciation-20180826-story.html
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
https://www.millsverse.com/johnarmstrongtribute/
John Armstrong, one of the most important names in British girls comics of the 70s. Best known probably for Moonchild in Misty.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 30 August 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
Ah, he was drawing for Bunty when I was reading for it - I remember the Secret Gymnast.
― Madchen, Thursday, 30 August 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Paul Taylor https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/obituaries/paul-taylor-prolific-modern-dance-choreographer-dies-at-88/2018/08/30/fd8c5fc4-ac60-11e8-8a0c-70b618c98d3c_story.html?noredirect=on
― MrDasher, Friday, 31 August 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
A former ILXor on them: https://alewing.tumblr.com/post/177563962975/reblogging-this-to-mark-the-passing-of-gary
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 31 August 2018 12:37 (five years ago) link
Paul Taylor had a good run.
― mick signals, Friday, 31 August 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
Vanessa Marquez from ER, shot by the police.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/31/vanessa-marquez-er-actor-shot-killed-police
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 1 September 2018 09:11 (five years ago) link
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 1 September 2018 09:30 (five years ago) link
Award for the worst headline of the year: https://www.insideedition.com/former-er-actress-vanessa-marquez-who-once-criticized-george-clooney-shot-dead-cops-46423
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 1 September 2018 10:56 (five years ago) link
Jazz pianist Randy Weston, at 92.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 1 September 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
Oh no. RIP:(
― The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 September 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
Been seeing his face all week, think he was scheduled to play a gig soon
― The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 September 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
How did you find out?
― The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 September 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
Okay, I see it on Facebook
― The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 September 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
I was thinking about going to that upcoming show but once I realized what a giant pain in the ass it would be to get there (the venue was all the way at the end of the R line in Queens) I had already blown it off.
I know almost nothing about his work. Earlier today, though, I was listening to a solo album from 1974, Blues to Africa, that was really good.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 1 September 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
What venue was it, do you remember?Glad I got to see him I few times, both onstage and in the audience at another show. Incredible musician, bandleader and personality
― The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 September 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
It was the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, and it was back in July:
https://www.jcal.org/randyweston
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 2 September 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
RIP Randy, I've got an album of his somewhere. One of the things I remember about him is that he was really tall, like 6'7" or 6'8".
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 September 2018 00:26 (five years ago) link
Saw that Conway Savage may have passed?... it’s only on 1 site atm though (noise11) , seems somewhat premature & unverified
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 September 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link
Showing up all over now re Conway Savage. RIP music man.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 3 September 2018 04:54 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 September 2018 05:37 (five years ago) link
kenny shopsin of new york restaurant shopsins calvin trillin profiled him in 2002https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/04/15/dont-mention-it
― maura, Monday, 3 September 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
I know I ate there once, was OK. There's a documentary about him too.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 September 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
Jacqueline Pearce of Blake's 7 fame - love her sitar wig-out in Hammer's The Reptile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmR7bqVaNZE
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 3 September 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
:( RIP Jacqueline. Kind of a Cosey Fanni Tutti look going on in that clip.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Monday, 3 September 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
RIP Servalan.
― Madchen, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 07:08 (five years ago) link
http://extratv.com/2018/09/03/gloria-jean-30s-and-40s-singer-and-actress-dead-at-92/
Gloria Jean, costar to W.C. Fields and Groucho Marx, 92.
― Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
Rachael Bland (40), from 5Live https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45410652
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
Carole Shelley, Tony winner for The Elephant Man and Gwendolyn Pigeon in three incarnations of The Odd Couple
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/carole-shelley-dead-one-pigeon-sisters-odd-couple-was-79-1139227
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
Liz Frazer, actress probably best known for her Carry On work.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 6 September 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
Whoa, you really scared me there for a second.
― I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 September 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
RIP the original Liz Frazer.
― Scottish Country Tweerking (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 September 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
burt reynolds
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 September 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
damn...I'm not surprised, he's looked pretty frail for a few years now.
I think he was pretty damn underrated, back in the early days when he was committed to being more "serious" onscreen he really seemed like a major star presence, and I think his more lightweight mustache era work kind of undermined his legacy a bit. But he was good.
― omar little, Thursday, 6 September 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
aw mani loved Burt :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 September 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
Not the Liz Fraser I care about
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
Thank you for that contribution. RIP Burt.
― Scottish Country Tweerking (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 September 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
I had a big cardboard cutout of Burt Reynolds (taken from spec savers, I think?) from the end of school through university. Not entirely sure why...
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 6 September 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
The Man Who Loved Women will forever resonate int me soul
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
The NY library actually has a copy of that on *VHS*. The idea of a Blake Edwards remake of a Truffaut film is still bizarre.
Burt voted for Trump, so no wonder he was dumb enough to turn down the Nicholson role in Terms of Endearment.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 September 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
Mac Miller
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 September 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
http://www.tmz.com/2018/09/07/mac-miller-dead-dies/
Jesus
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 7 September 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
Damn!
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 September 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
Bill Daily
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bill-daily-major-healey-dream-025534854.html
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 8 September 2018 06:18 (five years ago) link
RIP Howard Borden
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 September 2018 09:43 (five years ago) link
seriously, wtf is wrong with showbiz obit writers these days? who the motherfuck values Jeannie over Bob Newhart?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 September 2018 09:45 (five years ago) link
RIP. Loved that guy. Can’t quite remember his appearance on MTM.
― Cruel Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 September 2018 10:49 (five years ago) link
Ah, seemed it was a proposed spinoff for Jim
― Cruel Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 September 2018 10:51 (five years ago) link
Joseph Schindelman - original illustrator for the Charlie & The Chocolate Factory bookshttps://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=190145327https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/i-still-enjoy-what-a-line-can-do
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 September 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
Adam Clymer, NY Times correspondent 1977-2003; (called "major-league asshole" by GWB)
― Josefa, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
Gary John Bassett aka Johnny Strike of Crime.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
Fenella Fielding
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
I loved Fenella Fielding, such a unique character, I feel like she never found a vehicle big enough for her.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
Gary John Bassett aka Johnny Strike of Crime
Ah man. Now there's a band.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
Is that the Crime who did Murder By Guitar?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
Piss On Your Dog is sort of classic!
― calzino, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
I mean the gutter-punk song by Crime, of course.
― calzino, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
As opposed to no you don't understand its the name of, urrr
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
apparently the song was originally called Prisoner Dog but they changed it because someone misheard the lyrics and they liked the misheard version better
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
RIP Fenella
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6e/ce/33/6ece33078efd9ca8739535f9e49bfdbf.jpg
― Scottish Country Tweerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
Rachid Taha.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 12:58 (five years ago) link
What?! Aw, man.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
Only 59. https://m.france24.com/en/20180912-french-based-algerian-singer-rachid-taha-dies-59
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
Beloved theatre veteran and three-time Tony nominee Marin Mazzie has passed away at 57 https://t.co/kCKouXuy0W pic.twitter.com/p3HwwzPmbo— Playbill (@playbill) September 13, 2018
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 September 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
I saw Marin Mazzie in Kiss Me, Kate in '99; an immense talent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yiKD64iqh8
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 September 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
Dudley Sutton (actor who appeared in The Leather Boys, The Devils and lots of other stuff)
― soref, Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
absolute classic character actor
― every day there's a whining choad (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 15 September 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
;_; RIP Dudley
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 September 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
He was brilliant in The Beiderbecke Affair, so many lines I repeat to this day. I made soup in a cooking contest in China and told a local journalist it was "lurking vegetable soup" and she actually printed it in the paper. RIP Dudley.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 September 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
RIP Zienia Merton
https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5524/10731396224_82865de63e_b.jpg
https://mindreels.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/doctor-who-e28093-marco-polo-charming.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 15 September 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5524/10731396224_82865de63e_b.jpghttps://mindreels.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/doctor-who-e28093-marco-polo-charming.jpg
(dumb script mixup)
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 15 September 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
NOOOOOO I have been on a huge Space: 1999 jag lately and she is my favourite! 72 is far too young, how unfair.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 15 September 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
RIP Dudley
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Sunday, 16 September 2018 07:31 (five years ago) link
Wrecking Crew bassist Max Bennett, at 90. Accompanied Peggy Lee, Joni Mitchell and countless others:https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/330291-rip-max-bennett/https://www.talkbass.com/threads/another-bass-giant-has-passed-rip-max-bennett.1363977/https://www.talkbass.com/threads/farewell-max-bennett.1363947/https://observer.com/2016/04/the-unbelievable-true-story-of-the-wrecking-crews-max-bennett/
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 September 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
According to Ted Gioia on Twitter, saxophonist Big Jay McNeely has died at 91. I had no idea he was still alive. You can figure out everything you need to know about his style from this immortal photo:
https://marmosetmusic-com.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/artist/photo/1050/homepage_large_a65d9fe5-2bd0-4e86-9e0e-3fad2be96326.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 16 September 2018 23:31 (five years ago) link
Damn. RIP
― flappy bird, Monday, 17 September 2018 01:37 (five years ago) link
RIP Dudley Sutton, I love you forever as Tinker from Lovejoy (which Zienia Merton was also in an episode of, so double RIP)
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 17 September 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link
We saw Big Jay at Viva Cantina in 2013 - what a show! He was 85 but one of those pure charisma folks who lived to play. RIP
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 17 September 2018 07:30 (five years ago) link
Almost a week late with this but RIP Fenella Fielding, you scared the shit out of young me as Voice of the House in Dougal & The Blue Cat.
― Category: Animist Rock (Matt #2), Monday, 17 September 2018 08:49 (five years ago) link
RIP but what a career/life. Even gets a credit on Blue Lines for an L.A.Express sample. Pity he didn't get round to writing the book mentioned in the last of those interviews.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 17 September 2018 12:04 (five years ago) link
Great interview with Big Jay McNeely:
http://www.jazzwax.com/2018/09/big-jay-mcneely-1927-2018.html
Can't believe he's not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 17 September 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link
Freddie Oversteegen: picked up occupying Nazis at the bar; shot them in the head.https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/freddie-oversteegen-dutch-resistance-fighter-who-killed-nazis-through-seduction-dies-at-92/2018/09/16/7876eade-b9b7-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html
― faculty w1fe (silby), Monday, 17 September 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
Alan Abel, America's greatest hoaxer til 2016
(this is his second NY Times obit; the first came 38 years before his death)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/obituaries/alan-abel-dies.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link
yes, that is Buck Henry as the face of SINA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fopTx_qNb4Q
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
critic Annette Michelson
http://www.artnews.com/2018/09/17/annette-michelson-pioneering-film-critic-cofounder-october-dies-96/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
Dennis Norden. RIP.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45569460
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 03:57 (five years ago) link
people you thought were etc etc
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 07:40 (five years ago) link
it didn't quite end up alright on the night etc..
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 07:44 (five years ago) link
Paul Virilio.
― suzy, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 07:53 (five years ago) link
dunno, getting to 96 seems pretty alright to me
― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 08:13 (five years ago) link
that all depends on how broken your body has become, for some 96 might be a living hell!
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 08:16 (five years ago) link
He was a regular on there. RIP Dennis.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 09:01 (five years ago) link
Denis, Denis.
― Alba, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 09:21 (five years ago) link
I thought it was Denis but someone else put Dennis so I changed it.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 09:33 (five years ago) link
Marceline Loridan-Ivens, 90
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
RIP Denis. Back in the early 2000s I worked in Central London and walked to work in Clerkenwell along Oxford Street. Often walking in the opposite direction was Denis Norden. Very tall, even taller than you might imagine, and very pale. More or less dressed exactly as he appeared on TV in later years: dark blue blazer, light brown trousers, white shirt, cravat, all at quarter to eight in the morning.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
Arthur Mitchellhttps://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-45583244
― MrDasher, Thursday, 20 September 2018 03:47 (five years ago) link
Kirin Kiki, so good in so many Kore-eda movies
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/09/16/films/veteran-japanese-actress-kirin-kiki-dies-75/
― geoffreyess, Thursday, 20 September 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
Robert Venturi (1925-2018), whose early writings and buildings defined an aesthetic of "complexity and contradiction" that would later be taken - especially after his collaborative work with Denise Scott Brown opened up new frontiers in the theory of the Pop landscape - as one of the first signposts of "postmodernism," though he did not originate or use the term.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 September 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
Wow I just bought Learning from Las Vegas at the MIT Press Bookstore last week. Can’t wait to read it.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 20 September 2018 04:10 (five years ago) link
I've loved Kirin Kiki in everything I've ever seen her in. She was still married to Yuya Uchida despite separating from him in 1975! Their daughter Yayako and Kirin recently played younger and older versions of the same character in a film.She was so great in Still Walking and After the Storm - apparently-sweet-old-lady characters with subtle depth and complexity, she was a true master. Damn.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 20 September 2018 04:49 (five years ago) link
Hearing on FB that Hardy Fox of Residents fame has died.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 22 September 2018 06:10 (five years ago) link
Man, not another. i would've guessed, from appearances, that he was healthiest of the bunch. I swear this never-ending rolecall of dying/dead u-ground peeps of importance in my life totally fucking SUCKS!!
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Saturday, 22 September 2018 06:36 (five years ago) link
Still here, but not for very long :( https://www.residents.com/news/?article=20180921-0732
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 September 2018 06:56 (five years ago) link
Chas from Chas and Dave.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 22 September 2018 12:10 (five years ago) link
Thanks Tom. I was going by the mentioned dates on his website. Still sucks etc. What an amazing body of work though. Not perfect of course, nothing is. But definitely amazing.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Saturday, 22 September 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
Some think Chas never really wanted Gor to blimey him. It was just the way he talked probably.
― calzino, Saturday, 22 September 2018 12:25 (five years ago) link
hearing his dying wish was for Spurs to play out an error-strewn 2-1 defeat to Brighton this evening
― still wackford after all these squeers (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 22 September 2018 13:26 (five years ago) link
apparently he had the best medical ppl on it but unforch twas eric dier tasked with handing them the implements and well
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Saturday, 22 September 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
lettuce pray that Spurs shit defence will struggle to cope with a 34 year old carthorse and deliver this last wish to Chas!
― calzino, Saturday, 22 September 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link
NYers: Anne Russ Federman, 97, the last surviving daughter of Russ & Daughters appetizing store. She started working at the store at age 14, which means c. 1935. She died one day after Yom Kippur, one of the rare days in the year Russ & Daughters is closed.
― Josefa, Saturday, 22 September 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
Ok, I just heard about Chas Hodges and had a genuine 'Oh No' reaction. RIP.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 September 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
RIP Russ daughter. I recently mail ordered my wife some smoked fish from there as a birthday gift.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 September 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
i wonder whether dave will pull a sam and dave and replace chas with another chas?
― koogs, Saturday, 22 September 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
hes hooking up with the other krankie and the last beegee
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Saturday, 22 September 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
Former Lucasfilm producer Gary Kurtz
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 24 September 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
(xp) just realized deems has got his Chuckle Brothers and Krankies mixed up, not on, frankly.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Monday, 24 September 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
the other krankie
both krankies are still alive and well u heathen
― CRABCORE’S NOT DEAD (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 24 September 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
tom d and me, united in our kneejerk defence of scottish light entertainers
― CRABCORE’S NOT DEAD (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 24 September 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
two krankies right here anyway
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Monday, 24 September 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
Kurtz gone, dang. Hell of a life and legacy, though.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 September 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
Mistah Kurtz, he dead
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 24 September 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
Al Matthews, cigar-chomping Sgt. Apone in 'Aliens,' dies at 75 https://t.co/vmjMQJ7YhV pic.twitter.com/0KCaDJjGB6— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 24, 2018
― mookieproof, Monday, 24 September 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
Holy moly, this interview with Al Matthews is worth reading in full: http://www.elegantastronaut.com/2012/08/al-matthews-real-life-marine-in-aliens.html
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 05:37 (five years ago) link
Apparently Norm Breyfogle, probably most famous for his Batman art of the early 90s. He had a stroke a couple of years ago, I know.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
Dale Barclay (The Amazing Snakeheads, And Yet It Moves) at 32 from brain cancer :(
I supported the latter band a year or two back and he was lovely despite downing more Bucky than I would have thought humanly possible prior to getting up on stage and killing it.
― Ctrl+Alt+Del in Poughkeepsie (fionnland), Thursday, 27 September 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
Creator of Postman Pat dies: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-45666642
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 27 September 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 27 September 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 September 2018 02:06 (five years ago) link
Marty Balin, at 76.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jefferson-airplane-guitarist-marty-balin-dead-76-730912/
― nickn, Friday, 28 September 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
CBeebies currently airing the episode of Postman Pat with a guest appearance by Professor Brian Cox.
― Madchen, Saturday, 29 September 2018 06:11 (five years ago) link
too soon for such a damning indictment of his legacy.
― calzino, Saturday, 29 September 2018 06:29 (five years ago) link
Seeing posts on FB about Otis Rush passing.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 29 September 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
Yeah. I had no idea he was still alive, but apparently he was mostly inactive since having a stroke in 2003. This is such an amazing song (he re-recorded it in the early 70s, but the original just kills):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCD83igIShM
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 29 September 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
Yeah, those Cobra sides are all killer.I saw Otis once, in 1987, opening for Los Lobos. To this day, he’s the only opening act I’ve seen where the audience demanded an encore.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 29 September 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
https://www.yahoo.com/news/otis-rush-seminal-chicago-blues-215821929.html
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 29 September 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
https://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/local/ken-professor-philmore-has-died/article_3c5cbb0a-c4bb-11e8-b76d-9fb680ecc4d4.html
Trinidadian steel band pan player Ken Professor Philmore died at 58 after a car accident
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 October 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
Geoffrey from Rainbow
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/oct/01/rainbow-host-geoffrey-hayes-dies-aged-76
― Alba, Monday, 1 October 2018 11:32 (five years ago) link
Aw, RIP. Loved that smutty routine they did, never intended for broadcast.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 1 October 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link
Charles Aznavour
http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2018/10/01/03004-20181001ARTFIG00151-mort-de-charles-aznavour-apres-une-longue-et-belle-vie-de-boheme.php
― Alba, Monday, 1 October 2018 12:05 (five years ago) link
ahh bon soir
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 October 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link
RIP. Saw him on Broadway a few decades ago, around the time I saw The Capeman.
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 October 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link
1998. Same theatre too, The Marquis.
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 October 2018 12:39 (five years ago) link
Carlos Ezquerra, arguably the definitive Judge Dredd artist and co-creator of Strontium Dog.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Monday, 1 October 2018 12:47 (five years ago) link
Oh damn, RIP. According to the 2000AD documentary, Ezquerra did the initial designs for Judge Dredd and Mega City One, even though Mike McMahon was the one who drew the first strips because of some internal disputes. So it would be fair to call him the co-creator of Dredd too.
― Tuomas, Monday, 1 October 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
It would, yes.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Monday, 1 October 2018 12:56 (five years ago) link
aw man, one of the greats :(
― shrek and han solo kinda dress the same (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 1 October 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
An enormous influence on my childhood.
http://thegeeksverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/JudgeDredd_Complete_Ezquerra_v1-pr_004-005.jpg
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 1 October 2018 13:14 (five years ago) link
RIP Charles Aznavour, 94!
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Monday, 1 October 2018 13:18 (five years ago) link
oh Carlos. i remember his appearance on The Big Breakfast when the Stallone film was released, much to everyone's bemusement.
― koogs, Monday, 1 October 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo)
ah, shit, breyfogle's batman was my batman. i met him at a con once. he was cool.
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Monday, 1 October 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link
by which i mean he was polite to me while i bitched at him about how i don't fuck with DC any more because of rape culture. can't ask for any more than that.
actually, it was worse than that - i don't always enunciate terribly well and he said "i'm sorry, what culture?", so I wound up screaming "RAPE!" into his face. it was a little awkward, but i guess when you work cons you have to deal with some awkward shit.
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Monday, 1 October 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
fuck, i missed that norm breyfogle news the first time around - his batman was my batman too :(
― shrek and han solo kinda dress the same (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 1 October 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
2000ad the only comic I still read. RIP
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 1 October 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
Stelvio Cipriani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G86A7FhaO0w
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 1 October 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
Same here. Loved everything he drew. RIP Carlos.
― visiting, Monday, 1 October 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/8477603/jerry-gonzalez-dies-trumpeter-dead
Latin jazz trumpeter Jerry González has reportedly died at age 69, according to The Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE) and local reports.
González reportedly died after a fire blazed through his first-floor home in Madrid around midnight on Monday (Oct. 1...González, who was of Puerto Rican parentage, was born in East Harlem and grew up in The Bronx. He was a member of Eddie Palmieri’s band early in his career, then joined Manny Oquendo’s Conjunto Libre with his brother, bassist Andy González. Andy was also by his side in The Fort Apache Band, which he formed in 1979.
After appearing in Spanish director Fernando Trueba’s 2000 Latin jazz documentary Calle 54, Jerry González moved to Madrid. There, he formed a quartet, El Comando de la Clave, and recorded and performed with both jazz and flamenco musicians
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 October 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
RIP:(
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 October 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
well today is certainly a busy one
― flappy bird, Monday, 1 October 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
Not much up in the way of clips, but one of my favourite portrayals of melancholy ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pJoOvhitCU
― clemenza, Monday, 1 October 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
:( What a day. Posting this to cheer myself up.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJsaujSs7Fw
― Jeff W, Monday, 1 October 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
Geoff Emerick
https://variety.com/2018/music/news/geoff-emerick-beatles-engineer-dead-1202966681/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 03:38 (five years ago) link
Damn! RIP
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link
Seeing on FB that Joop Roelofs guitarist of Q65 has passed away.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
About a month ago: actor Peter Benson, whom I first noticed as an astonishingly meek Henry VI in the BBC Shakespeare DVD set.
https://i2.wp.com/www.loways.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/heartbeat-and-blackadder-actor-peter-benson-dies.jpg
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 4 October 2018 10:27 (five years ago) link
And of course he was Henry VII in Blackadder in between those and reprising the role in Richard III.
I'll remember him as Bor, the most confused of the Vanir in the Doctor Who serial Terminus.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 4 October 2018 10:57 (five years ago) link
Juan Romero, the young man who was working as a busboy at the Ambassador Hotel when RFK was shot and held him after he fell (as seen in the photo in the story.)
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/654282422/juan-romero-busboy-who-cradled-dying-rfk-dies-at-68
― omar little, Thursday, 4 October 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
Baritone saxophonist and founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet (along with Julius Hemphill, David Murray, and Oliver Lake) Hamiet Bluiett.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3T-MdIoo8Y
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 4 October 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
Animator Will Vinton (California Raisins, The PJs), 70
― WmC, Friday, 5 October 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
Bluiett :( when I think of Bari sax I think of him.
― Ctrl+Alt+Del in Poughkeepsie (fionnland), Friday, 5 October 2018 07:34 (five years ago) link
My girlfriend’s a big fan, we played some cuts of WSQ in his honor before we headed out tonight.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 October 2018 07:41 (five years ago) link
https://stljazznotes.blogspot.com/2018/10/hamiet-bluiett-1940-2018.html
rip Hamiet.
― calzino, Friday, 5 October 2018 08:17 (five years ago) link
Steptoe and Son creator Ray Galton, 88:https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/oct/06/ray-galton-co-creator-of-steptoe-and-son-dies-aged-88
― GG Allin: The Musical (Matt #2), Saturday, 6 October 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
The great Montserrat Caballé, who for some reason I thought had died a few years ago.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 6 October 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
I always remember her from the Freddie Mercury hit, what a voice!
― calzino, Saturday, 6 October 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
RIP Ray (xxp)
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 October 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
awww, man, hamiet did some fantastic duo gigs with don pullen back in the day
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 6 October 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
The great Montserrat Caballé, who for some reason I thought had died a few years ago.You may have been thinking of Montserrat Figueras, another Spanish classical singer, who died in 2011.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 6 October 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
Scott Wilson
https://comicbook.com/thewalkingdead/2018/10/07/the-walking-dead-scott-wilson-dead-age-hershel/
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 7 October 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link
I'm seeing John Wicks of The Records, but no link.
― nickn, Monday, 8 October 2018 04:01 (five years ago) link
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2018/10/07/john-wicks-the-records-dead/
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 October 2018 04:37 (five years ago) link
RIP Scott. Magnificent in The Ninth Configuration which will be getting a rewatch tonight.
― Ctrl+Alt+Del in Poughkeepsie (fionnland), Monday, 8 October 2018 06:31 (five years ago) link
Pascale Casanova, French literary critic, author of The World Republic of Letters. RIP.
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 October 2018 08:01 (five years ago) link
I always got Scott Wilson confused with Clu Gulager.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 8 October 2018 12:31 (five years ago) link
Actress Celeste Yarnall.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/celeste-yarnall-dead-star-trek-885728
― nickn, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
Japanese composer Takehisa Kosugi (of Taj Mahal Travellers and the solo album Catch-Wave, a minimalist drone classic)
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 12 October 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Stafford
Greg Stafford, creator of the fantasy world Golorantha and the setting for seminal RPG Runequest.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
Betty Grissom, widow of astronaut Gus Grissom, who sued North American Rockwell over the Apollo 1 fire in which he died
https://apnews.com/d90d71139414422e94774fb83ec167ec
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
aw Betty <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
talk about a flamekeeper.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
i agree but uh that might not have been the first word i would have chosen :/
― himalayan mountain hole (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
ugh fuck yr rightlet’s just say the definition of steadfast
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 October 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
done
― himalayan mountain hole (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 October 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
Paul Spudis, regarded as one of the most important lunar scientists ever. https://spacenews.com/lunar-scientist-and-exploration-advocate-paul-spudis-passes-away/
― Chelvis, Saturday, 13 October 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
Peter Brackley, the voice of 90s Italian football.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 14 October 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
William Coors, right-wing beer mogul, at 102
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 October 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
Coors brewery workers struck in 1977 over many issues, including the use of lie-detector tests to ferret out employees who were gay or whose politics were considered radical.
lovely guy, hope he took some time to drink some of that fine stuff!
― calzino, Monday, 15 October 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
Paul Allen
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 October 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/technology/wp/2018/10/15/paul-allen-microsoft-co-founder-and-billionaire-investor-dies-at-65-2/
I'm seeing Kat Arthur, singer of Legal Weapon. No link.
― nickn, Monday, 15 October 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
Wow Paul allen dying is kind of nuts considering his real estate company has been a big part of the construction boom out here. Wonder what’s gonna turn out to be in his will.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 15 October 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
Maybe $1 billion to me
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 15 October 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
I hope it all goes to the Allen Brain Institute, that group has been doing some fine work and making their data freely accessible.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 01:01 (five years ago) link
Allen is kind of a mythical figure to me - I worked at WSU, where he dropped out of after two years in the 70s and there were always rumors that he was on one of the private jets that would show up on home football game days.
And I don't know if it was amazing trolling or just weird timing, but Bill Gates gave the school $25 million for a animal health research building, and a year later Allen gave $26 and they ended up naming it after him.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 02:32 (five years ago) link
One of the bad things Paul Allen did (long-ish, but mentioned at the end):
https://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/lost-hollywood-the-enchanted-hill-of-fred-thomson-and-frances-marion/
― nickn, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link
based on the rotation of costumes exhibited at Cinerama, he also owns…most Hollywood memorabilia. Like possibly most of it that exists.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 03:13 (five years ago) link
Wouldn't anything in the property rooms of any Hollywood studio have been in one or more movies? So, it might just be memorabilia of some forgettable short feature from 1936, but it would still be "Hollywood memorabilia".
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 03:28 (five years ago) link
$26?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 08:25 (five years ago) link
rip paul allen, who will play shreddin' blues licks on your obscenely giant yacht now
― himalayan mountain hole (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 08:54 (five years ago) link
iirc he was a respectable guitarist!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 11:28 (five years ago) link
Favorite comment on video of Allen shredding: "Warren Buffett is better than Steve Vai any day."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 11:29 (five years ago) link
Arto Paasilinna. Finnish writer, best known for The Year of the Hare. RIP.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link
Dennis Hof, owner of the Nevada brothel the Bunny Ranch. I met him once, for work.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
“Less than 24 hours ago, Hof celebrated his birthday along with pornographic actor Ron Jeremy, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist.”how can hell top that. i ask you
― maura, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
lol, I just made the same joke on the US politics thread. I suppose hell for this guy would be more like being trapped in a library
― rob, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
I would be happy to be that librarian.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
his first question: do you have any books w boobs in them
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
I would take my time in responding.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
*hands over the complete Mencken*
― rob, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
In Spanish.
― nickn, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link
Milena Dravić, of WR: Mysteries of The Organism fame.
https://criticsroundup.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/wr-mysteries-of-the-organism-still-526x295.jpg
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
xposts: He grossed me out in the Cathouse tv show. Yuk
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
xp aw RIP
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
NSFW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf0QQ1LzqiM
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
Walter Huddleston, Kentucky Democrat who lost his Senate seat in '84 to Mitch McVader
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/former-senator-walter-huddleston-dies-92
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 October 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
Rashod Ollison, a truly great music writer and presenter of his own work. His appearances at the Pop Conference were wonderful.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 October 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
translator anthea bell
― mookieproof, Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
I wish ppl posting in the rolling obituary thread would link to obituaries for these interesting sounding people
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
i wish ppl reading the rolling obituary thread knew how to use a search engine
― mookieproof, Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/18/anthea-bell-obituary
The term translator seems insufficient in this case. A great
― Number None, Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
thanks that's a good one, what a career. I want to read that Tomcat book
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
Arkansas raised, Virginia -based music critic and author Rashod Ollison, mentioned above, died from cancer at 41. His writing about Aretha, Chaka Khan, and more was special.
https://pilotonline.com/news/local/article_9ea7895e-d31e-11e8-a7e0-bb75fff0a8b1.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 October 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
today's been busy
― flappy bird, Friday, 19 October 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link
Danny Leiner, director of Dude, Where's My Car? and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-danny-leiner-director-of-harold-and-kumar-and-d-1829886429
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 October 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
RIP. great movies, the former is one of my favorites
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 October 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
pretty much the only stoner comedy films i've ever liked
(haven't sat thru Cheech & Chong)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 October 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
bad movies
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 22 October 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
actually i don't remember dude where's my car well enough but harold and kumar is bad.
his other credits are pretty stellar though. i just watched the sopranos episode "luxury lounge" on saturday
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 22 October 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
nah both DWMC and H&KGTWC are great, and this guy was no slouch on the tv credits either. A real loss imo. Great, consistent comedy directors are rare!
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 October 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
harold & kumar was great! - i dont really remember Dude Wheres My Car except for the “and then?” bitrip
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 October 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
the continuum transfunctioner is a very mysterious and powerful device and its mystery is exceeded only by its power
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 October 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
one of the more honest bromance comedy scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghDDdQxgXRw
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 October 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
yesss
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 October 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
there is something very boyish and homoerotic about DWMC, much more so than Harold & Kumar. it's dreamlike, a fantasy movie in a way, & I don't mean the obvious alien stuff. like there's no reference at all to these guys being in/having gone to college, they work at a pizza place and can somehow rent that house (with the dude that lives in the closet), they've been dating the twins for a year and they still haven't had sex, and iirc are virgins? it's a bizarre movie
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 October 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
a friend of mine pointed out a significant plot hole recently though: no tailor would be open that late at night
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 October 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
Wim Kok, the last Dutch Labour politician (to date) to become prime minister, personification of the polder model and adherent of the Third Way:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-kok/former-dutch-prime-minister-wim-kok-dies-at-80-idUSKCN1MU0Q7
― breastcrawl, Monday, 22 October 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
comics artist Steve Dillon (Preacher, Hellblazer): https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/arts/steve-dillon-comic-artist-who-helped-create-preacher-dies-at-54.html
― rob, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
Damn, a ruptured appendix? Good lord. I had appendicitis when I was a teenager and knew something was seriously wrong within an hour, and mine didn't rupture. But I have an extremely low tolerance for pain. My dad had it a few years ago and also thought it was food poisoning, for three days - thank god he got to a doctor and had an operation in time. Was a big fan of Preacher when I was kid, was pretty o_O next to The Amazing Spider-Man and even The Punisher. RIP
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
Steve Dillon died two years ago
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
Yeah, when I read that post, for a minute I was like, did I dream of him dying a while ago?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
arguably the thread title only implies that this is 2018's thread for posting obituaries, not the thread for posting 2018 obituaries
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
ok lol at me. someone tweeted that and I didn't notice the date
― rob, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
via NYC's Film Forum:
Veteran Broadway, television and film actor James Karen, a frequent guest at Film Forum, died last night at his home in Los Angeles at age 94. Known for his roles in Poltergeist, Mulholland Drive, Wall Street, The China Syndrome, Return of the Living Dead, and many other movies, Jim was featured in a Vanity Fair article on Hollywood’s greatest character actors. To New Yorkers, he was familiar as “The Pathmark Man” on local television for over 25 years.
He's the director of Betty's screen test in MD, and was also a close late-life friend of Buster Keaton's. (see the recent documentary about Beckett's Film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKM8zdG1a9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPSAgc5-uiI
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
that's arguably the best scene in Mulholland Drive. RIP
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
I could have sworn he died in the 90s.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
RIP James Karen. He and Don Calfa are both deliciously funny in Return of the Living Dead.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
Career-summing 2015 interview on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast: https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/james-karen/
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
quintessential that guy
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
just been looking at his filmography and he's in everything!
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
how is it possible that he was never on murder, she wrote *or* diagnosis murder
at least he hit matlock
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
the pathmark man!!!
― maura, Thursday, 25 October 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
seconding gilbert gottfried's james karen interview cryptosicko mentioned, it's great
― la bébé du nom-nom (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 October 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
tony joe white
https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/10/25/tony-joe-white-dead-obituary-rainy-night-georgia/1764875002
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 October 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
oh shit! he played Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival just last year
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 25 October 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
Polk Salad Annie is a killer
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 25 October 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
Seconded. I put it number one on my Elvis ballot. Also really like “I’ve Got a Thing About You, Baby.” RIP.
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 October 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
James Karen bought up the town at the end of Little House on the Prairie, and Pathmark got hate mail.
from his NYT obit:
When George Clooney accepted the American Film Institute’s lifetime achievement award this year, he tried to convey what the ceremony felt like to him by recalling that several years ago Mr. Karen, a friend, had asked him to write his obituary because he was near death. Weeks and then months went by; no death. Finally Mr. Clooney called Mr. Karen’s wife.
“Yeah, Jimmy’s doing fine,” Mr. Clooney said she told him. “He just wanted to know what everybody thought about him while he was still around. He got a bunch of people to do it.”
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 October 2018 04:15 (five years ago) link
Now that’s a move
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 26 October 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
he really was on every fucking tv show for 30 years
in the Gilbert podcast he does a great bit of Arnold Stang squawking about losing billing to Schwarzenegger (then Arnold Strong) in Hercules in New York
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 October 2018 04:54 (five years ago) link
Well, he was used to being Top Cat.
― Mark G, Friday, 26 October 2018 07:04 (five years ago) link
RIP Tony Joe ;_;
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Friday, 26 October 2018 11:15 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dqdq1sSXcAEZu3h.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 October 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
Just in time for this to come out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riIPhs80ARk
Lots of competition in the "ashamed to be British" stakes, but this might take the dog biscuit
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 October 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
surely the imperialism was worse
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 26 October 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
You can't blame the corgis for that.
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Friday, 26 October 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
Think the context of the worst horrors of the country in the past and in the present are the best way to view this abomination. This is what it's all come to. Well done, Britain, well done.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 October 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
it looks like the director is from Belgium. It might be good one to screen next to Prince Harry: Frontline Afghanistan and hope for a different ending this time as to render it more on-topic!
― calzino, Friday, 26 October 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
Tyrone Gayle, Spokesman for Senators and Hillary Clinton.
Colon cancer at age 30.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/obituaries/tyrone-gayle-cancer-kamala-harris.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR3WhIvycmQBgPQBegXVAnCm1G-dTpaSbpllIEAF-R5rUgGFFcYG3kPBHho
― nickn, Saturday, 27 October 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
Ntozake Shange http://www.startribune.com/obituary-ntozake-shange-pioneering-playwright-poet-and-novelist/498795391/
― MrDasher, Saturday, 27 October 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
Damn - Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo is one of my favourite novels
― Defund Phil Collins (stevie), Sunday, 28 October 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link
Three today: Shange, saxophonist Sonny Fortune (played with McCoy Tyner and Miles Davis, among others), and guitarist Todd Youth, who somehow managed to be a member of Agnostic Front, Warzone, Murphy's Law, D Generation, Danzig, and (very briefly) Motörhead. The dude got around. He was 47.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 28 October 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
Wow at that resume! Damn
― flappy bird, Sunday, 28 October 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
Pedal steel legend Herbie Remington, 91. He played with Bob Wills among others. And country singer Freddie Hart, also 91 (1971's "Easy Loving" is his best-known song.
― Ρεμπετολογια, Sunday, 28 October 2018 04:48 (five years ago) link
http://m.doctorwhonews.net/2018/10/derrick-sherwin-1936-2018.html
Derrick Sherwin, Doctor Who writer and producer of The War Games and Spearhead From Space. Came up with the idea that the Third Doctor should be stranded on Earth, and created UNIT while writing The Invasion as a seed plot.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 08:41 (five years ago) link
Whitey Bulger killed in a WV prison the day after being transferred there, it sounds like...
https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/union-official-prisoner-slain-at-hazelton-west-virginia-prison-soon/article_7c8443ca-ea29-5bf6-9036-8a7f32ba6121.html
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
RIP Sonny Fortune. I met him in a Toronto bar in '91 while he was playing with Elvin Jones and he was really approachable (though he didn't give me a spontaneous unsolicited hug, as Elvin did)
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
https://www.theonion.com/inmates-scrambling-to-replace-whitey-bulger-in-prison-p-1830113508
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 12:05 (five years ago) link
baseball Hall of Famer Willie McCovey
https://www.mlb.com/news/hall-of-famer-willie-mccovey-dies/c-300075672
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 November 2018 11:44 (five years ago) link
RIP, Willie. pic.twitter.com/74rWxrtnvg— Jack Womack (@jwomack) November 1, 2018
― koogs, Friday, 2 November 2018 12:26 (five years ago) link
(i have no idea what that's about but it came up in my twitter feed)
― koogs, Friday, 2 November 2018 12:27 (five years ago) link
Just over seven years later, McCovey stood at the plate, one of the game’s biggest and most beloved stars, in San Francisco in Game 7 of the World Series—two out, the go-ahead run Willie Mays standing at second. With the fate of the Giants’ championship hopes now resting in his hands, he rocketed a ball towards right field—only to have it snagged by Yankees second baseman Bobby Richardson. The game was over, the final score still 1-0. The Yankees won the Series. The Giants made only one other postseason appearance during McCovey’s career. He never got that ring. Giants fans would have to spend the decades wondering, as Charlie Brown said in a Peanuts strip on December 22, 1962: “Why couldn’t McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?”
― You (bleeping) need me. You can't Finn without me (fionnland), Friday, 2 November 2018 12:44 (five years ago) link
Mario Segale, namesake of Nintendo's Mario
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/11/mario-segale-namesake-for-nintendos-mascot-dies-at-84/
― silverfish, Friday, 2 November 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
Legendary Ohio guitarist Glen Schwartz (James Gang, Pacific Gas and Electric, The Arcs), 78.
― Ρεμπετολογια, Saturday, 3 November 2018 05:35 (five years ago) link
Trumpeter Roy Hargrove, cardiac arrest at 49. In addition to his jazz albums, he worked a lot with D'Angelo and Erykah Badu - he's on Voodoo, Black Messiah, Mama's Gun, Worldwide Underground, and New Amerykah Vol. 1.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 3 November 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 November 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link
oh no :(. RIP
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 November 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
aw damn :((((
― Jacob Lohl (stevie), Sunday, 4 November 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
The literary critic Christopher Lehmann-Haupt has died at 84. He wrote some 4,000 reviews and analyses for The New York Times over three decades. https://t.co/Plpn7arJtp— New York Times Books (@nytimesbooks) November 8, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 November 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
Forgot about him. RIP
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 November 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link
Glen Schwartz shoulda been a household name, but an early encounter with a Christian cult derailed him and his career. Was infamous for gigs in which he would scream weird hateful evangelical stuff and then burn everyone down with brilliant guitar playing -- his work with the All-Saved Freak Band is worth checking out, as is Jeff Stevenson's book about him and the cult, Fortney Road.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 9 November 2018 08:05 (five years ago) link
Glen Schwartz shoulda been a household name, but an early encounter with a Christian cult derailed him and his career.
same
― unproven (darraghmac), Friday, 9 November 2018 09:05 (five years ago) link
you are a household name though
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 9 November 2018 09:08 (five years ago) link
ah but am i happy
― unproven (darraghmac), Friday, 9 November 2018 09:47 (five years ago) link
Francis Lai, film composer of "A Man and a Woman" and "Love Story"
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-francis-lai-20181109-story.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 November 2018 03:07 (five years ago) link
Douglas Rain, Stratford Festival actor and voice of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, dies at 90
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/douglas-rain-stratford-festival-actor-and-voice-of-hal-in-2001-a-space-odyssey-dies-at-90-1.4172564
― I hear you've been having trouble with pigs and ponies. (WmC), Monday, 12 November 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
"Stop... I'm afraid"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 November 2018 02:49 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 November 2018 05:23 (five years ago) link
Marvel's Stan Lee
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
'Nuff said.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
STAN LEE IS DEAD, ALL HAIL CGI STAN LEE!
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
excelsior
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 November 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
RRRRRRIP!
― unproven (darraghmac), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
Even though I have zero interest in comic books, comic book culture, superhero movies etc etc, I've still got to shout it, RIP STAN THE MAN!
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
He was a triv question just now on Tipping point, the contestant got the answer wrong but hey.
I got to thinking it was quite cool that the creator of Spiderman was still around.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 November 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
He still is!</controvery>
― Always noble, with stunning good looks and genious IQ (Old Lunch), Monday, 12 November 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
It's kind of hilarious that comic book guys seem to hate him when he's the only comic book guy non-comic book guys have ever heard of.
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Monday, 12 November 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
He still is!</controvery>― Always noble, with stunning good looks and genious IQ (Old Lunch)
― Always noble, with stunning good looks and genious IQ (Old Lunch)
Ditto died in June.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Monday, 12 November 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
xp
it's like non-music guys and the Beatles
― two Barongs don't make a Wight (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 November 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
Well, same as.
"You like rock music wow? You must like Ozzy"
― Mark G, Monday, 12 November 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
*Ditko*
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Monday, 12 November 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
Not really, because the Beatles are unfortunately popular with music guys too.
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Monday, 12 November 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
Dude, it's me
― two Barongs don't make a Wight (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 November 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
Fuck stan lee btw
― Οὖτις, Monday, 12 November 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
(xp) lol
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Monday, 12 November 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
Forgot about Ditko dying! Please stop dying, comics people!
As I alluded to in another thread, there are plenty of legit reasons to criticize Stan, but he seemed like a pretty amiable dude and, if nothing else, he was a solid cheerleader for that little corner of the comics world to the broader world beyond.
― Always noble, with stunning good looks and genious IQ (Old Lunch), Monday, 12 November 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
I'm cool with people in their 90s dying. #challopcelsior
― I hear you've been having trouble with pigs and ponies. (WmC), Monday, 12 November 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
Local Cleveland writer and journalist Nikki Delamotte. Not someone well-known, obviously, but she was a casual friend of mine (I just saw her right before Halloween) and was a much-beloved booster of the Cleveland music, arts, food and culture scenes. She was shot and killed over the weekend, apparently while visiting family in Toledo. Details are still somewhat sketchy. She was just the nicest, sweetest person, a terrific writer and a wonderful chronicler of Northeast Ohio. As it happens she once rounded up a bunch of her own favorite pieces at
This year, I had the chance to tell stories about so many Clevelanders that make me really proud to live here. A few of my favorites in this thread.— nikki delamotte (@nikkidelamotte) December 31, 2017
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 12 November 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
thanks for sharing, Eliza, I will def check those pieces out. RIP
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 12 November 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I just saw a guy I know - a former editor at Cleveland-based Alternative Press - tweet about Delamotte. Sucks.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 12 November 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
Apparently her uncle killed her then himself.https://www.cleveland.com/news/2018/11/woman-man-found-dead-at-wood-county-trailer-park-where-clevelandcom-reporter-nikki-delamotte-reported-missing.html
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 12 November 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
Jesus, that's awful
― Jacob Lohl (stevie), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 09:59 (five years ago) link
David Pearson, second only to Richard Petty in NASCAR wins.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/obituaries/david-pearson-nascar-dead.html
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
RIP. Pearson was my fave of the old school NASCAR drivers
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
“Herbert London, a self-described ‘New York liberal mugged by reality’ who was transformed into an eloquent and consistently conservative academic, social critic and political candidate, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 79. The cause was complications of heart failure, his wife, Vicki London said. A 6-foot-5 former scholastic basketball star and incipient pop singer, Dr. London later was a founding dean of the innovative Gallatin School for Individualized Study at New York University and a prolific voice for scholarly think tanks. He interrupted his career to seek elective office in New York State. In 1989, Dr. London briefly sought the Republican mayoral nomination in New York City." - Sam Roberts, NYT
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 02:44 (five years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46209959
Babs Beverley, leaving only one surviving Sister.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
― two Barongs don't make a Wight (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 14:56 (five years ago) link
I just got word that Katherine MacGregor passed away yesterday.This woman taught me so much... about acting... vintage jewelry...life.She was outspoken and hilariously funny. A… https://t.co/I4F9XA1Fa4— Melissa Gilbert (@MEGBusfield) November 14, 2018
R.I.P. Mrs. Oleson
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
aw ;_;
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 November 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
Roy Clark
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/country-star-roy-clark-has-died-at-age-85-according-to-his-publicist/2018/11/15/724c5d7a-e8fa-11e8-8449-1ff263609a31_story.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
Good lord could the man cook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrcNtH5pu8
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
Used to live in my tiny town; was always friendly at the post office. RIP Roy.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
a+ guitar face
― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
rip roy ;(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
Another Mick Fleetwood School of Concentration graduate.
― nickn, Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
Hee-Haw was, without doubt, part of my childhood--more than even Laugh-In, in that it lasted longer.
― clemenza, Thursday, 15 November 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
Same thing with Jerry Reed when he died, I knew them as sort of comic relief on Hee Haw and Cannonball Run and didn’t realize how fucking good they were at playing the guitar
― joygoat, Friday, 16 November 2018 03:38 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/16/butch-cassidy-and-princess-bride-scriptwriter-william-goldman-dies-aged-87
― Jacob Lohl (stevie), Friday, 16 November 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
aww :(
― the Stanley Kubrick of testicular torsion (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 November 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
His (first?) two books about his time in Hollywood (Adventures in the Screen Trade and Which Lie Did I Tell?) are absolutely great, full of gossip and stories and a view of how things actually work. Plus, he wrote the Princess Bride.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 16 November 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
RIP William G
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Friday, 16 November 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
Is it safe?
― clemenza, Friday, 16 November 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
Richard Baker
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Saturday, 17 November 2018 13:48 (five years ago) link
... people you thought were already dead.
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 November 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-46248990
Al James, founding member of Showaddywaddy.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 17 November 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/54/9e/27/549e27fb78eb8e150bbda60daac496a0.jpg
Never forget one of the greatest live bills of all time.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 17 November 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
John Bluthal. Though the BBC hasn't got round to mentioning it yet.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/john-bluthal-dead-vicar-dibleys-13605877
Goodnight and expenses.
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 November 2018 13:25 (five years ago) link
They just did a wee tribute to him on the BBC news there.
― ailsa, Sunday, 18 November 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
Frances Davis, an actress, dancer, and Miles Davis's first wife. There was actually some controversy in the 1950s when he insisted on putting her on the cover of Someday My Prince Will Come:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TvSQ25yJL.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 18 November 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
belated RIP to Greenwich Village folkie Vince Martin, who died in July
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/vince-martin-cindy-oh-cindy-singer-early-folk-rock-pioneer-dead-at-81-696767/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUmfmPMBzOY
― ghood ghravie (unregistered), Sunday, 18 November 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
oh i missed that one too. i have the record he did with fred neil which is pretty good
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Sunday, 18 November 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link
Patrick Mathé founder of New Rose Records.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 03:36 (five years ago) link
British comics artist Mike Noble:
https://www.gerryanderson.co.uk/tv21-comic-artist-mike-noble-has-died/
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 10:11 (five years ago) link
British folk singer Bill Caddick
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 09:46 (five years ago) link
Cyril Pahinui, Hawaiian slack key guitar great, dies at 68.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/20/669530870/cyril-pahinui-crown-prince-of-hawaiian-slack-key-guitar-dies-at-68?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2049&fbclid=IwAR27ineq0F0eyFBtSqU79aVfLn-7GX5k0m23sp3m-1nunstaTjHS2a6N2s8
― nickn, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
Nicolas Roeg
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Saturday, 24 November 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 November 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
I always forget that he did the 1990 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches, which would make it the first Roeg film I ever saw. Need to revisit that one someday soon.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Saturday, 24 November 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
It’s good!
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 24 November 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
Saw his thread revived and wondered :(
His best films are great
― Mama Weer All Tankee Now (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 November 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
George A Cooper, British character actor playing old men since the mid-60s, at 93.
Probably best known as Mr Griffiths, the caretaker in Grange Hill for the first seven years
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 24 November 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
Oh wow, I remember him!
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 November 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
Played Billy's dad in "Billy Liar" when he was only 12 years older than Tom Courtenay.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 November 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
... no, hold on, no he didn't that was Wilfred Pickles, he played him on TV.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 November 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
RIPLast time I watched Billy Liar, the film, I noticed Tom Courtenay seemed to be doing a brief Brando imitation at the breakfast table.
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 November 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
At the breakfast table with Wilfred Pickles, not with George A. Cooper, mea culpa.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 November 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
Ricky Jay...
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 25 November 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
An amazing performer; one of my few real heroes. I was lucky enough to see a revival of Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants years ago in NYC. His books are great, too. I have a couple of them.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
no! he was remarkable, as a magician and historian and all around intellectual.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 November 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link
awesome in Deadwood as well.
― calzino, Sunday, 25 November 2018 01:55 (five years ago) link
is he getting paid on commission now?https://historyofourworld.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ingmar-bergman-the-seventh-seal-1957.jpg
― flappy bird, Sunday, 25 November 2018 01:59 (five years ago) link
I got to interview him once, years ago. One of a kind.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 November 2018 02:11 (five years ago) link
Ricky Jay totally could have beat the grim reaper at chess.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 November 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
Wow, I'm genuinely envious. I always wanted to talk to him. I really admired him for having what looked from the outside like exactly the life he wanted. And at the same time exemplifying how you could make a niche for yourself in the world by working really, really fucking hard at something (because imagine how much practice it takes to be a master of cards the way he was, and then to also learn as much as he did about the history of magic, gambling, obscure vaudeville performers, and cons).
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 25 November 2018 02:20 (five years ago) link
I want to say there was a really good if predictably cagey documentary about him? There certainly was a great New Yorker profile from about 25 years ago.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 November 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
RIP. I got a copy of Cards As Weapons in '78 or so, ruined a bunch of decks of cards practicing.
― WmC, Sunday, 25 November 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
From my interview:
Have you ever used your magic powers for evil?RJ: Can't think of a day when I haven't. (Laughs.)
RJ: Can't think of a day when I haven't. (Laughs.)
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 November 2018 02:36 (five years ago) link
Ricky Jay - I heard this story from more than one person who was there and I just want it to be true.Ricky Jay was invited to a fancy party in Long Island. The hostess had these fancy bottles of wine, that she was bragging about.She did not know Ricky Jay but insisted— John Lurie (@lurie_john) November 25, 2018
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 25 November 2018 02:38 (five years ago) link
Ray Hill, Legendary Houston-area Activist & Radio Personality
https://m.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Ray-Hill-a-Houston-icon-and-civil-rights-13418968.php
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 November 2018 03:13 (five years ago) link
Ricky Jay's book Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women is one of my favorites.
― adam the (abanana), Sunday, 25 November 2018 03:24 (five years ago) link
Hah I was about to post the link that Josh mentioned, and is in the John Lurie tweet - but what the hell, here it is anyway, from 25 years ago:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/04/05/secrets-of-the-magus
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 25 November 2018 10:15 (five years ago) link
that was great, thanks for sharing
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 November 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
Malcom Young of AC/DC.https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/malcolm-young-ac-dc-guitarist-and-co-founder-dead-at-64-123387/?fbclid=IwAR1wMqLnNIM8gn7Salfb3i5MBx-L3UhbaMVng5QcTYyWMHnIROyqY2-wGoE
― nickn, Sunday, 25 November 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
He died a year ago.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 November 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
Dammit, I checked the date on the article but not closely enough. Was surprised it hadn't been reported here yet (which should have made me check it again).
― nickn, Sunday, 25 November 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
Still, RIP Malcolm nonetheless.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 November 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
Bernardo Bertolucci
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/26/bernardo-bertolucci-last-tango-in-paris-director-dies-aged-77
― Alba, Monday, 26 November 2018 09:13 (five years ago) link
Crikey, RIP BB.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Monday, 26 November 2018 10:17 (five years ago) link
Him and Roeg, I guess I forgot they were still around.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 November 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
BB made some amazing films, and also 1900.
― omar little, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
have only seen The Conformist and Last Tango, great films, RIP!
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
I've only seen 1900 it sucked RIP!
― Bênoit Balls (stevie), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
― old yeller-at-clouds (darraghmac), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
Credit where it's due: although many have tried, only Bertolucci was able to capture on film an instance of Gerard Depardieu touching Robert De Niro's dinkus.
― Fantasy Eyelid (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
1900 sucked yeah
it has like a total of maybe 30 to 40 minutes of good scenes but it's like 4-5 hours long
dreamers was lol
he's generally silly euro gar-baaash
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
I think I was 10 when The Dreamers came out and really wanting to see it because it was NC-17. Was that the last major NC-17 release? I actually think Steve McQueen's Shame was NC-17, seems rare still.
Dude is great based on The Conformist and Last Tango alone
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 November 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
Brando is amazing in LT (lotta improv), what surrounds him not so hot.
The way I remember 1900 is Stefania Sandrelli (?) holding the deNiro and Depardieu members simultaneously. And of course Sutherland bashing the kitty's brains in.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
I'm not a huge Last Tango fan but Il Conformista is a masterpiece, and I'm pretty sure Spider's Stratagem is very good.
― Bound 4 da Remoan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
i can't really get past the homophobia in Conformist
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
berto still had that mussolini vibe running through his veins
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
1900 is titled that because that's the running time in minutes iirc
― omar little, Monday, 26 November 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
A little late here, but I had never heard of Ricky Jay til his obit here. And once again, thank you ILXors for hopping me to him, he was cool as shit. I spent a good 3 hours on YouTube last night watching various things pertaining to him, and was glued to my IPad. I know it's a phrase that gets used a lot in these situations but we won't be seeing the likes of him anymore. A total one off and I get the distinct impression that he was a man of great appetites who lived his life to the fullest. And a seriously great entertainer. RIP Mr. Magic Man
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 26 November 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
there's a good Ricky Jay documentary on Amazon Prime right now, plus he was a welcome presence in a lot of films. He even cameos via a sample on a Saint Etienne album.
― omar little, Monday, 26 November 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
HIPping me to him. Damn spell check thingy.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 26 November 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
always a welcome bit player in just about anything, and (obviously) an incredible sleight of hand artist and raconteur. I'd like to check out one of his books at some point.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
in other words:
Ricky Jay was the coolest. Somehow, a magician was cool.— Ryland Walker Knight (@rylandwk) November 25, 2018
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
Saw one doc on Ricky Jay that was called something like Tricksters, Fraudsters, Conmen and Ricky Jay. And 'twas very good indeed. Also an old CBS tv special loosely based on his book called Erudite Pigs and Fireproof Women (that first word,pre-pig is something else but I can't remember actual name. And also Doug Henning is a ponce!
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 26 November 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
Was wondering when he would be contrasted and compared with Doug Henning.
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
And yes, Ryland Walker Knight you are absolutely right. Ricky Jay WAS the coolest. I said just those words myself last night, out loud with no one but my cat to hear me. But I was so impressed and enthralled I couldn't help myself!
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 26 November 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
wut does yr cat hav 2 say about all o this
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
He was cool because he cared about some things a lot, being really good at and knowledgeable about what he did, but not about other things, like certain kinds of attention and social interaction?
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
Okay, cameo was on “Etienne Gonna Die.” Thanks, omar little.
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
Henning may be a fine magician but his persona is nauseating. As for Teenys (the cat) opinion, she was non-plussed by the entertainment but happy that I was enjoying myself. As a happy cat daddy makes for a good night for us both. i.e. Bonus treats and more petting etc.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 26 November 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
And of course Sutherland bashing the kitty's brains in.
i think this is what did it for me
― Bênoit Balls (stevie), Monday, 26 November 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
1900 is kind of fascinating for being such an ugly and unpleasant film and i think that was the intent, there's no glamor or sexiness to the fascism, even though wealth and sex come into play. i actually like that aspect but i mean holy christ it goes on for a million years.
― omar little, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
Baroness Trumpington, 96.
― suzy, Monday, 26 November 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
Had seen Ricky Jay on stuff like Deadwood and Boogie Nights, but didn't know much beyond that. I've also been bingeing on YouTubes, dude was cool as hell.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 26 November 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
With Baroness Trumpington dead Lady Camberwick Green and the Duchess of Chigley will be looking over their shoulders
― Bound 4 da Remoan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 November 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
According to Wikipedia Lloyd George really did know Baroness Trumpington's father.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
Trumpington did not tolerate homosexual men at parties, but she was already interested in Republican politics.
(Slightly curiously worded) detail in a wikipedia article.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:58 (five years ago) link
Baroness Trumpington, then Jean Barker, was my old headmaster's wife, so I got to witness the famous incident when she jumped - fully clothed and in front of the whole school - into the swimming pool, to mark her final prize-giving. That happened in 1975. It was finally reported in the main Radio 4 news bulletin this morning. Some stories take longer to break than others.
I had to laugh when she chose her absurd title, as it was entirely typical of her humour. I also have my suspicions about the title of her autobiography. Coming Up Trumps, indeed!
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 11:42 (five years ago) link
(her full title being Baroness Trumpington of Sandwich)
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
The whole article is odd!
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
trumpington wiki bio is horrific
― old yeller-at-clouds (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
Stephen Hillenburg, creator Spongebob Squarepants, 57
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
just seen. extremely :(
― Bound 4 da Remoan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
gosh :(
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/spongebob-squarepants-creator-dead-dies-stephen-hillenburg-1203037362/
I am pretty positive watched that May 1, 1999 premiere of SpongeBob SquarePants, which followed the Kids' Choice Awards. Nickelodeon's PR says "Steve imbued ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ with a unique sense of humor and innocence that has brought joy to generations of kids and families everywhere" and that "generations" is now accurate.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
oh no that is devastating news ;_;I didn’t know he had ALS
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
i couldn’t work for the first 3 months after I moved to the US so I would hang out at my inlaws while Mr Veg was working & every afternoon my 5 yo niece and I would watch Spongebob together - to this day one of my best memories. I became a huge fan & to this day I’ll still watch it whenever I’m scrolling through & I see it’s on tv. It’s such a brilliant, joyful cartoon.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
Harry Leslie Smith, 95.
His son just shared the news, time of death 3.39 Ontario time.
― suzy, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 08:53 (five years ago) link
RIP Harry.
I can recall someone from the Tory twattersphere trying to insinuate he was a sock account because you can't have a war vet saying nice things about Corbyn and constantly criticising austerity.
― calzino, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 09:05 (five years ago) link
There were arch-centrists casting similar aspersions on him, too. In recent times their silence on the matter was welcome and long may it continue.
― suzy, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 09:21 (five years ago) link
bit weird having his death live tweeted tbh but rip harry smith
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 10:17 (five years ago) link
The aspersions are especially odd considering elderly Christian women were (are) a big contingent of demos (esp during the Iraq war protests)
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 12:31 (five years ago) link
His son said that it was his dad's wish to have an online vigil, so he complied. Nice mention/eulogy on PMQs just now.
― suzy, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 12:35 (five years ago) link
Bleecker Bob
― Bênoit Balls (stevie), Thursday, 29 November 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
just an hour ago I passed the sushi place or whatever that used to be his shop, would've left a flower if I'd known
― mick signals, Thursday, 29 November 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
I miss all those record stores on Bleecker so much
― Bênoit Balls (stevie), Friday, 30 November 2018 10:34 (five years ago) link
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 November 2018 10:39 (five years ago) link
I won't speak ill of the dead
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 November 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
speaking ill of the dead are usually the best posts on here!
― calzino, Friday, 30 November 2018 12:41 (five years ago) link
Gloria Katz
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gloria-katz-dead-american-graffiti-writer-star-wars-script-doctor-was-76-1164737
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 November 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
yeah, stay in your lane!
― Οὖτις, Friday, 30 November 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
Think there might be a whole thread about Bleecker Bob’s behavior, or at least a good part of one.
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 November 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
my friend apparently heard him say racist stuff and wd only shoplift after that
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 November 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
V principled
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 30 November 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
Robert Morris. Minimalist artist
https://www.artforum.com/news/robert-morris-1931-2018-77802
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 30 November 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
George H.W. Bush, 94
― flappy bird, Saturday, 1 December 2018 05:01 (five years ago) link
Alone and unloved we can only hope
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 1 December 2018 05:29 (five years ago) link
Steered Nation Through Turbulent Era
― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 December 2018 06:19 (five years ago) link
41 PASSES AT 94...'Kinder, Gentler Nation'...World events shaped presidency...War, oil, politics...Man with golden resume...THE POLITICAL DYNASTY...LIFE IN PHOTOS...
― flappy bird, Saturday, 1 December 2018 06:27 (five years ago) link
Was he the pretzel guy or what that his son?
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 December 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
the one that already looked like an embalmed corpse for the last 3 decades.
― calzino, Saturday, 1 December 2018 10:32 (five years ago) link
Threw up on a Japanese Prime Minister, got you now.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 December 2018 10:52 (five years ago) link
rest in piece georgia bush, u will be mist
https://media.giphy.com/media/l3vRm5in3u3MJhgE8/giphy.gif
― all lite up and very romatic (Old Lunch), Saturday, 1 December 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
Ken Berry
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ken-berry-dead-f-troop-mamas-family-star-was-85-999739
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 December 2018 06:04 (five years ago) link
who remains of the song-and-dance-men
― mookieproof, Sunday, 2 December 2018 06:08 (five years ago) link
Seeing on Facebook--Memphis Jazz and r'n'b guitarist Calvin Newborn passed away today.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 December 2018 06:10 (five years ago) link
As is becoming my routine on this thread, here's Gilbert Gottfried's recent-ish (2015) interview with Berry:
https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/ken-berry/
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 2 December 2018 06:25 (five years ago) link
RIP. Do his appearances on The Carol Burnett Show get a mention in the obits?
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 11:53 (five years ago) link
And RIP Calvin Newborn as well
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 11:56 (five years ago) link
Sorry, don’t think I watched too many of the 130 episodes of Mama’s Family, maybe none to completion. Impressed with the long list of guest star appearances on myriad non-Carol Burnett related shows.
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 12:05 (five years ago) link
Could just about barely take Mama & Co. at non-lethal sketch length.
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 12:10 (five years ago) link
So it’s mentioned that Mayberry R.F.D. was cancelled by CBS as part of the “rural purge.” I wonder how often Ken Berry and Roy Clark crossed paths.
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 12:17 (five years ago) link
This article is full of interesting detail: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge?wprov=sfti1
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 12:20 (five years ago) link
this is an interesting contrast to the moonves-led regular bro and hot corpse uprising of the 90s
― maura, Sunday, 2 December 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
Kevin Grisham's The Rural Perjuror.
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 December 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
Rural juror?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
oh wait I see
Funny, I never really thought about any sort of rural purge, but yeah, I remember all those hillbilly shows. Dukes of Hazzard, too, I suppose.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
Right made that Rural Juror joke myself. Think Dukes of Hazzard was later, when those shows started coming back, The New Wave of Rural Ruckus
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Dukes was post-Smokey, pure Carter Country.
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
Dukes might have been part of the Prime Time Stunt Man Pension Plan, along with A-Team and The Fall Guy.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
Larry Storch lives
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 December 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
Exactly
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
DJ Paul ‘Trouble’ Anderson.
― suzy, Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
Cycling commentator and former pro rider Paul Sherwen, aged 62
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Sunday, 2 December 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
no way. link?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 December 2018 00:58 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/02/paul-sherwen-broadcaster-cyclist-dies-aged-62"> https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/02/paul-sherwen-broadcaster-cyclist-dies-aged-6233 years covering the Tour and 7 riding. Has always felt like he and Liggett would go forever.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 3 December 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link
yeah 33 years of commentary is nothing to sneeze at. He drove me bananas but I will miss him :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 December 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
NZ film director Geoff Murphy (Goodbye Pork Pie, The Quiet Earth)https://variety.com/2018/film/obituaries-people-news/obituary-geoff-murphy-dies-dead-new-zealand-1203079148/
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
Hearing unconfirmed reports via a usually reliable friend that Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks has passed away.
― ailsa, Thursday, 6 December 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
Yep http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46476369
― Alba, Thursday, 6 December 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
Damn, RIP.
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
RIP Pete. What a brilliant, brilliant artist.
― Bênoit Balls (stevie), Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
And a really friendly guy, the couple of times I spoke to him.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
RIP, one of the greats
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
fuck, rip pete :(
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
David Mossman, ex taxi driver and Vortex Club founder passed away on Friday night.
― calzino, Sunday, 9 December 2018 09:28 (five years ago) link
Chicago blues guitarist Jody Williams RIP at 83 . He played on famed sides like Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love" and "I’m Bad," Howlin’ Wolf’s "Evil" and "Forty Four" and Sonny Boy Williamson’s "Don’t Start Me Talking."... He began performing at clubs at the age of 17, and within a few years became the house guitarist at Chess Records, a role he served in until he was called into the army in 1958.
Though he had backed a varied list of artists including Jimmy Witherspoon, Floyd Dixon, Dale Hawkins and Bobby Charles during his time at Chess, Williams left the music industry after returning to Chicago in 1960. He would only return in 2000
https://www.guitarworld.com/news/jody-williams-famed-chicago-blues-guitarist-dead-at-83
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 December 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
33-year-old singer Jackson Aluta Kazimoto, known as Dogo Jackie or Jackie Simela, of great Tanzanian band Jagwa Music died in a car accident
https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/tanzania-jagwa-music-frontman-dies
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 December 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
Potential heir to Howard Hughes Melvin Dummarhttps://www.deseretnews.com/article/900045831/utahn-melvin-dummar-who-claimed-to-be-a-howard-hughes-heir-dies.html
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
Sondra Locke
http://extratv.com/2018/12/13/clint-eastwoods-ex-girlfriend-oscar-nominee-sondra-locke-dead-at-74/
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
^^In November, but just publicized now.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
someone needs to show The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
RIP Sondra
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
you'd think they could at least put 'clint's ex-girlfriend' *after* 'oscar nominee'
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 December 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
Nancy Wilson
https://apnews.com/2250c35bca12466a9f7a96523b0ff1fa?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 December 2018 05:16 (five years ago) link
Better Sondra Locke obit:
https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-sondra-locke-oscar-nominated-star-of-the-heart-1831088914
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 14 December 2018 06:51 (five years ago) link
Melvin Dummar--would not have guessed in a million years he had still been alive.
― clemenza, Friday, 14 December 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link
Of local/regional interest only, Cleveland TV legend, weatherman Don Webster: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2018/12/don-webster-one-of-clevelands-most-popular-tv-personalities-has-died-at-79.html
I actually had occasion to interact with Don on several occasions. I was on my high school's "Academic Challenge" team when he was host of the long-running TV show; and when I was a button-pusher at WKNR 1220 AM, he provided the station's local weather forecasts, so I had to take phone calls from him a few times a day and record the weather onto a cart. Super nice guy.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Friday, 14 December 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
damn, RIP Nancy
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 December 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
shit i just heard about ricky jay.
i got to see him at brown university in 1995 or so. it was billed as a "lecture" but it was basically his stage show at the time, framed around a history of sleight of hand. he did the watermelon thing.
the documentary about him is great. "deceptive practice" i think it's called? there's a story about a block of ice that literally makes me cry. there's another story from his karate instructor that probably ranks up there with the very best wtf how-did-he-do-that ricky jay stories.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 15 December 2018 11:01 (five years ago) link
Wrecking Crew bassist Joe Osborn.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 December 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 December 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
Colin Kroll, co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, dead at 34 of drug overdose.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/colin-kroll-co-founder-hq-trivia-vine-dead-769924/?fbclid=IwAR3KaKjGCOAy5LuhinJcrDZtKObFJN3iBOdYQcbzN3oAsyfkjaPwn3uUW0w
― nickn, Sunday, 16 December 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
TCM's annual obit compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ewT7_NrGwM
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
― nickn, Sunday, December 16, 2018 3:33 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I've considered starting a rolling prominent person fentanyl overdose death because there seems to be at least one a month
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
Galt MacDermot, sampletastic composer of Hair.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/galt-macdermot-dead-hair-composer-dies-at-89-1170163
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
Penny Marshall ;_;
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
I had a friend who worked with Penny Marshall, and he would be... discreetly silent
RIP Myrna Turner
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
Yes, RIP this last
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
noooooo Penny, i loved herher book is so good. such a rad lady.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
So in the past few days two people associated with “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)” have passed away. Not to be macabre, but according to the well known rule of three...
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
Is there a list of examples of the rule of threes actually playing out? Seems like it either stalls at 2 or goes 2016 insane
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
Marilyn McCoo, get thee to a physician.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
Evelyn Berezin, creator of the first word processor and designer of United Airlines’ 1960s online booking system.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/19/evelyn-berezin-obituary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
― Madchen, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
Cool career! May her memory be a blessing.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
RIP. Pretty sure United still uses that system
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
Donald Moffat, a perennial of stage, film, and TV
https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-theater/news/donald-moffat-dies-at-87_87380.html
I saw him play Larry Slade opposite Robards in The Iceman Cometh.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
File under "did not know he was still alive." I forgot he was on that Logan's Run TV series in the 70s. Yeesh.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
― Mark G, Wednesday, January 3, 2018
― sleeve, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
Yeah, sigh. Probably the most picked in this year's deadpool..
― Mark G, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
RIP Donald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbubW7IxNG8
― omar little, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
Peter Masterson, theatre/film guy who directed Geraldine Page's Oscar role in The Trip to Bountiful
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/peter-masterson-playwright-actor-and-filmmaker-dies-at-84/2018/12/20/77bff1bc-04a3-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
Paddy Ashdown.
― Alba, Saturday, 22 December 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
Simcha "Kazik" Rotem. Last survivor of the Warsaw uprising.
― calzino, Saturday, 22 December 2018 23:35 (five years ago) link
improv pioneer David Shepherd
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-ent-david-shepherd-second-city-1219-story.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 December 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
(Peter Masterson = dad of Mary Stuart Masterson)
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 23 December 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
Sister Wendy Beckett
https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/1226/1019145-sister-wendy-dead/
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
Honey Lantree of the Honeycombs
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 28 December 2018 02:32 (five years ago) link
RIP, Honey, even if I wasn’t aware that you were still with us until recently
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 December 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
It's been 5 (five) yeras, but I would like to take this time to celebrate/eulogize acclaimed writer Maya Angelou, who died five (5) years ago. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.[3] Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.
We take this moment on ILXOR to remember Maya.
― del griffith, Friday, 28 December 2018 03:20 (five years ago) link
also, Honey Laneytree.
― del griffith, Friday, 28 December 2018 03:21 (five years ago) link
Excuse me, Lantree.
was Maya Angelou an original member of the Bobbettes and/or the session guitarist who played the wah-wah bits in Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On"? if not, I'm afraid she doesn't meet the notability requirements for this thread
― v. s. rupaul (unregistered), Friday, 28 December 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link
Israeli novelist Amos Oz: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/28/amos-oz-dead-israeli-novelist-writer-dies
― pomenitul, Friday, 28 December 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
Bre Payton, staff writer at The Federalist, at 26.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 29 December 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
David Cavanagh, editor of Select in the 90s and author of some great, great books. (His Creation Records history also functions as a hell of a portrait of the UK indie scene as such in the 80s and 90s, and was the best source of a history of Postcard Records for a long while as well.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 December 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
Ringo Lam, director of (most notably) City On Fire.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 29 December 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
that is a loss for sure, though for me Full Contact is the go-to Ringo Lam picture.
― omar little, Saturday, 29 December 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
the shadow he cast was a bit larger than his filmography might indicate; he doesn't have nearly the number of films (nor quality films) to his name as someone like Johnnie To, nor the same number of outsized classics as someone like John Woo, nor the industry-wide domination of someone like Tsui Hark. Nor the arthouse bonafides of Wong Kar-Wai and others. He faded after awhile, and after he made a pair of well-received films in the late nineties w/Victim and Full Alert, he moved into making a lot of Van Damme films and the Dennis Rodman action flick Simon Sez. But City on Fire, Prison on Fire, and Full Contact are absolutely astonishing movies, the latter is probably one of the most awe-inspiring low-grade action films of all time, if not THE most.
― omar little, Saturday, 29 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
Been meaning to see Burning Paradise but I might bump Full Contact ahead.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
Yeah Full Contact is a hell of a thing. Should bust out my copy.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
was disappointed to find how little of Lam, Woo, To, et al's filmography is available on streaming services.
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
Johnny To’s stuff sometimes pops up on Mubi but yeah
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
like, I can't even find the Killer or Hard Boiled
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
John Woo's got several up on Amazon/Netflix: Red Cliff (which is fantastic in its complete version, however this is the truncated version), Manhunt (his most recent one, mixed reviews abound), and his Dolph Lundgren flick Blackjack. The best Johnnie To available on streaming that I've seen is Breaking News, which is mid-tier To but pretty interesting as a police standoff thriller with *ideas*.
― omar little, Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
lots of the available To is from the '90s, before he hit his stride and he was at that point making pretty interesting but not very gripping films.
― omar little, Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
June Whitfield according to twitter, but haven't seen a legit source yet.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
Agent has confirmed, according to PA.
― suzy, Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
Ab Fab's Dame June Whitfield dies aged 93
― the battering ram's rolling (snoball), Saturday, 29 December 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Man, that sucks.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 December 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46706705
Norman Gimbel, film and TV lyricist.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 29 December 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey (Chris Isaak, The Avengers) Dead At 61
http://stereoembersmagazine.com/chris-isaak-guitarist-james-calivn-wilsey-dead-at-61/?fbclid=IwAR09UBr-7Hpo-V_C3ESXICqNVgypOBxw0_PbEQm8wYRm0Eyq01OpgMzMZEI
― nickn, Sunday, 30 December 2018 00:08 (five years ago) link
☠️ is really cramming them in before the end of the year
― flappy bird, Sunday, 30 December 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
like, what is that today? 6?
― flappy bird, Sunday, 30 December 2018 00:17 (five years ago) link
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 December 2018 00:18 (five years ago) link
Randomly enough I just searched for Johnnie To movies on Netflix the other day and they have a pretty good set right now. None of the more famous Johnnie films but still pretty cool ... they used to only have Three (which I didn't like much).
Netflix has Loving You (1996), Lifeline (1997), Justice My Foot (1992), Mad Monk (1993), The Barefooted Kid (1993), Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011), Blind Detective (2013), Three (2016)
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 30 December 2018 00:27 (five years ago) link
Norman Gimbel, film and TV lyricist
Whenever you hear a bossa nova classic sung in English it's about even odds the lyrics are his.
(Sometimes they're from Ray Gilbert or Gene Lees, who are also no longer with us).
― Josefa, Sunday, 30 December 2018 01:48 (five years ago) link
RIght. Or every once in a while Tom Jobim even wrote them himself. Not a big fan of the Gimble or Gilbert bossa lyrics tbh.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 December 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
Okay, I guess I like some of his lyrics more than I thought. "How Insensitive" for bossa, "Sway" and "Bluesette" in other styles.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 December 2018 01:56 (five years ago) link
Ray Sawyer.
http://www.wkrg.com/news/mobile-county/dr-hook-s-ray-sawyer-chickasaw-native-dead-at-81/1681232151
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ux3-a9RE1Q
"Oh, that's beautiful."
― clemenza, Monday, 31 December 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
Oh noooooooo. Will be watching this epic triumph / trainwreck in tribute:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4c3W-XoNXM
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:48 (five years ago) link
aw shithttps://youtu.be/7LXpnNKNxJI
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 01:29 (five years ago) link