Risë Stevens, star mezzo-soprano of the '40s and ’50s
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/rise-stevens-dead-mezzo-soprano-star-dies-at-99_n_2927143.html
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 March 2013 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
Rest in peace, Chinua Achebe:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/22/novelist-chinua-achebe-dies
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 22 March 2013 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2013/03/22/175080694/bebo-vald-s-giant-of-cuban-music-is-dead
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 March 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
Ray Williams : (
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/sports/basketball/ray-williams-and-micheal-ray-richardson-shined-together.html
― buzza, Saturday, 23 March 2013 04:43 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Peter Scott, king of the cat burglars:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9949054/Peter-Scott.html
You may have died broke but you left us a fun obituary.
― woof, Saturday, 23 March 2013 10:35 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't aware of him, but this quote in the obituary is fantastic: “The people I burgled got rich by greed and skulduggery. They indulged in the mechanics of ostentation — they deserved me and I deserved them. If I rob Ivana Trump, it is just a meeting of two different kinds of degeneracy on a dark rooftop.”
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Saturday, 23 March 2013 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I'd never heard of him before but I thought the whole thing was great.
this country needs more criminals like him - a charmer, an entertainer, a man of principle.
― woof, Saturday, 23 March 2013 11:02 (eleven years ago) link
A man who breaks policemen's noses.
― Madchen, Saturday, 23 March 2013 11:09 (eleven years ago) link
A man who breaks into policemen's noses.
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 March 2013 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
Joe Weider, the 'father of bodybuilding'
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/sports/joe-weider-founder-of-a-bodybuilding-empire-dies-at-93.html
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 March 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
Anthony Lewis, longtime NY Times columnist/Supreme Court reporter
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-anthony-lewis-20130326,0,1080917.story
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 04:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/entertainment/20130326/US--Obit-Richards/
Motown songwriter-producer Deke Richards has died at a Bellingham, Wash., hospice at age 68.
Peace Health St. Joseph Medical Center spokeswoman Amy Cloud confirms that Richards, whose real name was Dennis Lussier, died Sunday at the Whatcom Hospice House.
A statement from Universal Music said Richards had been battling esophageal cancer.
Universal Music says that as leader of the Motown songwriting, arranging and producing team known as The Corporation, Richards was involved in writing and producing many Jackson 5 hits. Those songs included the Jackson 5's first three No. 1 hits - "I Want You Back," ''ABC," and "The Love You Save."
He also co-wrote "Love Child" for Diana Ross & The Supremes, as well Ross' solo "I'm Still Waiting."
Associated Press
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
NOT the singer. But probably someone more important:
http://www.gollancz.co.uk/2013/03/in-memory-of-paul-williams/
In the wider realm of popular culture, you should honour him as the founding father of rock journalism. The magazine he founded as a 17-year-old college student in 1966, Crawdaddy!, was the first publication to focus on serious writing about the then-new music. It launched the career of writers such as Jon Landau (who went on to become Bruce Springsteen’s manager), Sandy Pearlman, and Richard Meltzer. It was the inspiration for subsequent magazines, notably Rolling Stone. Paul wrote many books about music, and particularly about Bob Dylan.As an sf reader, which I assume you probably are, you should honour him as one of the two principal figures who kept the name of Philip K. Dick alive in the decades following his death. Paul was a close friend of Dick’s, and his 1975 Rolling Stone article “The True Stories of Philip K. Dick” was the most significant piece of writing about him published during his lifetime. (It later formed the basis of a book, Only Apparently Real, which was in turn the first book about Dick.) When Dick died in 1982, Paul was named his Literary Executor, and he worked tirelessly in conjunction with Dick’s long-time literary agent Russ Galen (the other hero of this story) to keep his name alive. Paul founded and ran the Philip K. Dick Society, which attracted hundreds of members in scores of countries. The small publishing company he ran together with David Hartwell published Dick’s novel Confessions of a Crap Artist – the first time any of Dick’s non-sf novels from the 1950s saw the light of day.
As an sf reader, which I assume you probably are, you should honour him as one of the two principal figures who kept the name of Philip K. Dick alive in the decades following his death. Paul was a close friend of Dick’s, and his 1975 Rolling Stone article “The True Stories of Philip K. Dick” was the most significant piece of writing about him published during his lifetime. (It later formed the basis of a book, Only Apparently Real, which was in turn the first book about Dick.) When Dick died in 1982, Paul was named his Literary Executor, and he worked tirelessly in conjunction with Dick’s long-time literary agent Russ Galen (the other hero of this story) to keep his name alive. Paul founded and ran the Philip K. Dick Society, which attracted hundreds of members in scores of countries. The small publishing company he ran together with David Hartwell published Dick’s novel Confessions of a Crap Artist – the first time any of Dick’s non-sf novels from the 1950s saw the light of day.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 March 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Uncle Monty
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 29 March 2013 10:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21973505
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 29 March 2013 10:46 (eleven years ago) link
only 65 :-(
― Neil S, Friday, 29 March 2013 11:15 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Monty, you terrible cunt. I always thought he was about 65 in Withnail, tbh!
― emil.y, Friday, 29 March 2013 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't recognize the character name having only seen W&I once. Richard Griffiths is very funny in A Private Function, tho I don't remember him in Gorky Park (or Chariots of Fire).
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 March 2013 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
He was great, twice, in that Naked Gun sequel he's in.
― The @glennbeck have raisin b-lls and rice crispy d-ck (stevie), Friday, 29 March 2013 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
Like I needed another excuse to watch Venus. RIP.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Friday, 29 March 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Uncle Monty :( (and fuck the BBC for referring to him constantly as 'Harry Potter actor, Richard Griffiths')
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Friday, 29 March 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
Eh, the Harry Potter films were quite successful, you know.
― emil.y, Friday, 29 March 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
He himself said on Desert Island Discs that's the role he's most recognised for. News broadcasters look for the opposite of a Pointless answer innit.
― Madchen, Friday, 29 March 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
RIP, Reid Flair, Ric Flair's 24 year old son:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-reid-flair-dies-20130329,0,704880.story
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 29 March 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
Former Alberta premier/asshole Ralph Klein:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2013/03/29/ralph-klein.html
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Friday, 29 March 2013 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
Producer Phil Ramone
― The Complete Afterbirth of the Cool (WilliamC), Saturday, 30 March 2013 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus/Jess Franco
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
wow, RIP you crazy auteur-pervert
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
Milo O'Shea, beetlebrowed actor from Romeo and Juliet to The Butcher Boy and "Frasier"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9969003/Actor-Milo-OShea-dies-aged-86.html
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
:-(
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
Had no idea he was still alive, what's he been doing for the past 40 years?
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
I saw him play Friar Lawrence in a NY staging of R&J in the '80s... have never seen the Zeffirelli film.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
also, apparently he was on "Frasier"
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
he was great in the butcher boy as well iirc
― My Chemical Romance did 9/11 (jjjusten), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
ruth prawer jhabvala, screenwriter for merchant/ivory
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22015002
― steaklife (donna rouge), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
Carmine Infantino, comic book everything extraordinaire:
http://comicsbeat.com/rip-carmine-infantino/
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 4 April 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
Missed Milo O'Shea. He's the best kind of hammy in The Verdict: "You go see the Monsignor--he'll punch your ticket" (winks).
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 April 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
Milo O'Shea was, of course, the original Duran(d) Duran(d).
― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Thursday, 4 April 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/roger-ebert-dead-cancer-article-1.1307967
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 April 2013 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
on achebe http://africasacountry.com/2013/04/05/chinua-achebe-a-poet-of-global-encounters/
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Friday, 5 April 2013 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
Documentary filmmaker Les Blank.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/movies/les-blank-documentary-filmmaker-dies-at-77.html
― The Complete Afterbirth of the Cool (WilliamC), Sunday, 7 April 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Lilly Pulitzer
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 7 April 2013 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Andy Johns http://www.americanbluesscene.com/2013/04/legendary-jimi-hendrix-led-zeppelin-rolling-stones-engineer-dies/
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Monday, 8 April 2013 06:45 (eleven years ago) link
Robert Zildjian, who split from the family business in the early 80s to start the Sabian cymbal company.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/04/local/la-me-robert-zildjian-20130405
― nickn, Monday, 8 April 2013 07:10 (eleven years ago) link
Bigas Luna, director of 'Jamon Jamon'
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Monday, 8 April 2013 07:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.writingforums.com/attachments/writers-lounge/2185d1312450036-how-why-did-chose-your-avatar-picture-spitting-image-thatcher.jpg
― mister borges (darraghmac), Monday, 8 April 2013 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
Annette Funicello
― What fresh Hel is this? (doo dah), Monday, 8 April 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
I had to check to see if I had an album of hers, and I do--a Rhino compilation put out in 1984. I don't remember a single song, not even "Tall Paul," her biggest hit. (There actually is a Frankie Avalon song I used to like called "A boy Without a Girl.")
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 04:18 (eleven years ago) link
Need to re-watch Back to the Beach in her honour when I don't have so much end of the semester crap going on.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
Gus Triandos
http://davidsimon.com/gus-triandos-1930-2013/
― abanana, Thursday, 11 April 2013 06:14 (eleven years ago) link