Geoffrey Wheeler, on Dec 30th. Another fixture of childhood gone.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/10546095/Geoffrey-Wheeler-obituary.html
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 January 2014 09:43 (ten years ago) link
Juanita Moore, dead at 99.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 January 2014 13:10 (ten years ago) link
This is the year where we do not read the immediately preceding posts
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
Guys, Juanita Moore died.
― Lip-Smackin', Finger-Lickin', Ooey-Gooey Goodness (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 January 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
This is the year we do not read the immediately preceding posts
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
Sad news, but 99 is a hell of an innings http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/02/juanita-moore-imitation-of-life-dies
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
I heard a rumour Juanita Moore died.
― Madchen, Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
uncle phil from fresh prince aka james avery
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Is anyone even reading the preceeding posts? I swear...
― Lip-Smackin', Finger-Lickin', Ooey-Gooey Goodness (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
I get the joke, but really?
― badgers moved the goalposts (dowd), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
It's been a boring year.
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
ugh this is terrible: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/02/259110857/juanita-moore-groundbreaking-actress-dies
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
You know when you used to get a brand new diary, all nice and clean for the new year, and then you'd make a mistake writing your address in the front?
― Madchen, Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
All too familiar: which is why all my diaries/journals are blank.
― badgers moved the goalposts (dowd), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
I hope they get someone almost as good as Mahalia Jackson to sing at Juanita's funeral.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
Juanita who?
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
moore, moore, moore, how da ya like it
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
You know that Mahalia Jackson sang at her funeral? In the movie, that is
― Can One Hear the Shape of a Ron Decline Bottle? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 January 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
http://lordheath.com/web_images/oliver_hardy___they_go_boom_.jpg
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
Oh man, did Lou Costello die, too?
― Lip-Smackin', Finger-Lickin', Ooey-Gooey Goodness (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 January 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
And her daughter is the mother of those American Pie guys? Daughter in the movie, that is.
― Can One Hear the Shape of a Ron Decline Bottle? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 January 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
bob grant, roasting for sure in hell if there is one
http://t.co/5WG7ffUr2q
― k3vin k., Friday, 3 January 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link
^^^^^^
(you Tom Schapling fans may not know "Get off my phone" was a Grant trademark)
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2014 14:05 (ten years ago) link
Tom's been pretty keen on giving credit where credit is due.
― Lip-Smackin', Finger-Lickin', Ooey-Gooey Goodness (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 January 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
Mike Vraney, founder of the Something Weird video label:
http://dailygrindhouse.com/thewire/memory-something-weird-founder-mike-vraney-1957-2014/
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 3 January 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/5862239/the-everly-brothers-phil-everly-dead-at-74
Phil Everly at 74
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/oscar-winning-producer-saul-zaentz-dies-at-92-1201025366/
Saul Zaentz at 92*
*Get Fogerty on the phone for remarks, plz!
― Cereal. Killed it. No spoon. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 4 January 2014 03:41 (ten years ago) link
Oh man mike vraney news is a huge bummer
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Saturday, 4 January 2014 04:18 (ten years ago) link
Elizabeth Jane Howard:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16051546
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Saturday, 4 January 2014 08:26 (ten years ago) link
Astronomer and radical cosmologist Halton Arp
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2014/01/astronomer-halton-arp-dieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_Arp
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 5 January 2014 06:02 (ten years ago) link
Damn, Eusebio has died:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/05/eusebio-portugal-football-hero-dies-71
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Sunday, 5 January 2014 09:07 (ten years ago) link
footage of the '66 portugal - north korea match on the bbc site http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25611509
― ogmor, Sunday, 5 January 2014 12:35 (ten years ago) link
The obit in the LA Times today said that Fogarty posted a link to his song (now called Vanz Cant Danz) but "no comment" otherwise.
― nickn, Sunday, 5 January 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/nyregion/donald-h-forst-feisty-newspaper-editor-dies-at-81.html?ref=nyregion&_r=2&
Donald H. Forst, the feisty former top editor of New York Newsday, The Village Voice and The Boston Herald, died on Saturday in Albany. He was 81.
Was with the Voice from 96 to 2005.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 January 2014 02:17 (ten years ago) link
rip, phil everly.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 6 January 2014 02:51 (ten years ago) link
Simon Hoggart of the Observer and Guardian
― sktsh, Monday, 6 January 2014 09:28 (ten years ago) link
oh jeez :(
― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Monday, 6 January 2014 09:58 (ten years ago) link
rip.
didn't realise he was Richard Hoggart's son.
― woof, Monday, 6 January 2014 10:01 (ten years ago) link
rip
Knew he was Richard Hoggart's son, but had to check if RH was still alive - and he is, 95 years old!
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 6 January 2014 10:30 (ten years ago) link
Run Run Shaw, Chinese movie/TV producer. 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Five Venoms, many more. 106 years old.
― zanarkand bozo (abanana), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 03:41 (ten years ago) link
Wow, that's too bad. I didn't know he was still alive. I've enjoyed lots of Shaw Brothers.
― jmm, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 03:53 (ten years ago) link
106? damn! shaw bros. responsible for a major chunk of my childhood
― Nhex, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 04:15 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nola.com/music/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2014/01/tabby_thomas_founder_of_tabbys.html
Soulful bluesman and Louisiana club owner
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Also father of singer/actor Chris Thomas King
Amiri Baraka.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link
Trumpeter/composer Roy Campbell, Jr.
(no obit online yet; saw the news posted by his friends and collaborators in my fb feed)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
wow amiri baraka.
― Mordy , Friday, 10 January 2014 00:29 (ten years ago) link
sportswriter bill conlin -- really weird feeling that it at least fleetingly occurred to me to list him in dead pool picks (which i posted today) but didnt - seems like there should be a german word for this feeling
― johnny crunch, Friday, 10 January 2014 04:17 (ten years ago) link
:(( amiri baraka
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Friday, 10 January 2014 07:37 (ten years ago) link
Reagan press mouthpiece Larry Speakes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/reagan-spokesman-larry-speakes-dies-at-74/2014/01/10/2e113276-7a4f-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 January 2014 02:56 (ten years ago) link
Peter Vaughan? Played Grouty in Porridge? Best friends with Donald Pleasance?
Hmmmm...
― Mark G, Monday, 22 December 2014 09:06 (nine years ago) link
:-( first saw whitelaw in leo the last long before i knew of the beckett connection. also had no idea she was in her eighties (or married to peter vaughan!)
― no lime tangier, Monday, 22 December 2014 09:29 (nine years ago) link
Joe Cocker
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30582761
― ailsa, Monday, 22 December 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
RIP Billie Whitelaw. The fact that she was married to Peter Vaughan, and that Vaughan's best friend Donald Pleasance lived with them for a time, always makes me think - house sinister!
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler)
Weird! reviewing The Babadook last week, I noted how much Essie Davis reminded me of her.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 December 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
Right hold on here. Billie Whitelaw AND Joe Cocker?!?!?!
― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Monday, 22 December 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
Who will be the third?
― I Am The Cosmos Factory (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 December 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
Someone else from Yorkshire no doubt.
― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Monday, 22 December 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
― I Am The Cosmos Factory (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 December 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Come to think of it, with Bobby Keys recent passing, anybody remaining from that tour ought to watch their back.
― I Am The Cosmos Factory (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 December 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
A bit more obscure
http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/81889
Soul singer Wendy Rene has died at the age of 67.
The singer suffered a stroke last week (December 16) and passed away in her home town of Memphis, reports Billboard.
Born Mary Frierson, the artist was given her stage name by fellow singer Otis Redding. She signed to Stax in Memphis in 1963 alongside her group The Drapels and also embarked on a solo career, with songs such as 'After Laughter, Comes Tears', which was later covered by Lykke Li.
She had planned to retire from the music industry in 1967 to focus on family life, but was set to play one last show, with Redding and his band the Bar-Kays. However, she changed her mind at the last minute and Redding and his band perished in a plane crash on the way to the gig.
'After Laughter, Comes Tears' later went on to be sampled by the Wu Tang-Clan on their track 'Tearz' on their 1993 album 'Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)'. In recent years Rene experienced something of a resurgence, playing live in New Orleans in 2010, while her music was re-released on the Light In The Attic label, which also put out music by Rodriguez, with the 2012 compilation 'After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volt Singles, Rarities, 1964-1965'.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 December 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
aw shit. that compilation is really good, too.
― Funky as hell even on the lap. (stevie), Monday, 22 December 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
I keep two of her songs on my hard drive: "Gone for Good" and "Crying All By Myself."
― clemenza, Monday, 22 December 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
Jeremy Lloyd ('Allo 'Allo and Are Your Being Served co-creator)
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30591740
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
Joseph Sargent, director of lotsa TV and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-joseph-sargent-20141224-story.html
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 December 2014 01:43 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/us/in-marion-little-joe-washingtons-death-houston-loses-a-link-to-the-blues.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 December 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
Meant to post this a few days ago: Edward Greenspan, sort of the Canadian F. Lee Bailey. His clients included Conrad Black, Garth Drabinsky, and an author who wrote a book on Paul Bernardo.
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/12/28/edward_greenspan_fought_well_against_unjust_laws.html
― clemenza, Monday, 29 December 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
To round off the year (and finish this massive, pointless project I set myself for some long-forgotten reason), 2220 people who died in 2014:
http://haonowshaokao.com/2014/12/30/obituary-for-2014/
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 09:50 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30631088
Luise Rainer, 104.
― Whitney Di-Ennial (I M Losted), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link
That's amazing that she was still alive--had no idea. I've never seen The Great Ziegfeld or The Good Earth. I bought a little pocketbook on the Academy Awards as a teenager, so her back-to-back awards were imprinted on my mind at an early age.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
wow.
Of course, no one watches those two movies anymore, including me. I don't think I ever saw Ziegfeld.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
she did a Frank Borzage film with Tracy, THAT I'd see.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
http://www.eonline.com/news/610111/christine-cavanaugh-voice-of-chuckie-on-rugrats-dies-at-age-51
She retired several years ago, and apparently died of a sleep apnea related cause.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
Aww. Loved her voice on a ton of cartoons in the 90s.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
saw The Good Earth my freshman year of high school -- it made no impression other than how pious it was.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
For some reason I remembered her turn as the son on The Critic as much as the others (Gosalyn from Darkwing Duck, Dexter from Dexter's Laboatory). Too bad that article doesn't explain how she died at only 51!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
huh, i just saw her on "I Know That Voice" on Netflix Instant. RIP
― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
Rainer is well-known to people who participate in dead pools. Good for her for proving them wrong.
― Whitney Di-Ennial (I M Losted), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
I watched Ziegfeld around a year ago in an attempt to watch all the Best Picture winners. It's not a good movie, but I made it through. (I did not make it through Cavalcade.) Rainer plays the person who Z hyped up as always bathing in milk. Her acting is extreme emoting that happens to be in-character.
― poxy fülvous (abanana), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 03:00 (nine years ago) link
Last time she was mentioned in these parts prior to today was here, I think: I saw Mickey Rooney "perform" tonight at the Cinegrill in Hollywood
― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 03:11 (nine years ago) link
Edward Herrmann :-(
http://www.tmz.com/2014/12/31/edward-herrmann-dead-gilmore-girls/
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
i'll always remember him from 'the lost boys'
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
I really loved him as The Hay's Code rep in The Aviator...and of course Gilmore Girls and his Dodge commercials...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRugI7SMXLk
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
I've seen him in a lot of movies, but I had to check his IMDB page to remember which ones. The two things I most associate him with: The Paper Chase, and playing Nelson Rockefeller in Nixon.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
https://33.media.tumblr.com/53d9eb7aa7a9cc5f923430adfb8ea906/tumblr_mmaq7bkQLJ1rbgu1so2_250.gif
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
To those of us of a certain age, he was FDR in a couple '70s miniseries (opp Jane Alexander as Eleanor). And in the John Huston film of Annie, which I've never seen.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 January 2015 10:03 (nine years ago) link
First thing I thought of was this:http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/rip-edward-herrmann-1943-2014-a-john-cheever-memory-20141231aa
― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2015 13:48 (nine years ago) link
Probably time for somebody to roll thread.
― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
Sorry that link had some extra junk on the end. Repostinghttp://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/rip-edward-herrmann-1943-2014-a-john-cheever-memory-20141231
― Pigbag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 January 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
there will be spillover deaths for a few days yet
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 January 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
― Whitney Di-Ennial (I M Losted)
by dying
― local eire man (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 January 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mario-cuomo-new-york-governor-dead-82-article-1.2063258
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Friday, 2 January 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link
I thought the late WBAI/WABC radio iconoclast Lynn Samuels summed up Mario's liberal bona fides rather well: "Makes pretty speeches."
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 January 2015 05:32 (nine years ago) link
(more than the son manages, God knows)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 January 2015 05:36 (nine years ago) link
Forgot this was presented as a New Year's commercial...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z4JDBgVWKs
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 January 2015 06:15 (nine years ago) link
http://artsfuse.org/120300/fuse-remembrance-bishop-lee-mitchell-an-appreciation/
excerpt:
A beloved figure to both the local gospel community and deep southern soul collectors, Bishop Lee Mitchell has passed following a long illness, according to social media reports from his friends and family. Mitchell was 75.
One of the leading deep soul websites called the Alabama-born Mitchell “one of the great unknowns who never made a bad disc” because of the staggering secular 45s he released in the ’60s and ’70s.
After moving to Boston in 1958, Mitchell replaced the renowned Bill Moss in the Bibletones. In 1967 he cut a record for Sure Shot, a label owned by the infamous Texas wheeler and dealer Don Robey. The discs he made in the ’70s weren’t big hits, but in recent years they’ve been spun by the legendary British DJ John Peel and fetched upwards of $350 on eBay. According to one story, Mitchell was offered “Let’s Stay Together” before Al Green cut it but turned it down. Sessions for the great Alabama producer Neal Hemphill resulted in a few 45s, but the full album has still never seen the light of day.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 January 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
Recent years?
Never mind..
― Mark G, Friday, 2 January 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link