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
some of his primo material:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/times-the-reagan-white-house-press-briefing-erupted-with
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 January 2014 02:57 (ten years ago) link
Ariel Sharon
― Mule, Saturday, 11 January 2014 12:46 (ten years ago) link
... hot off the presses?
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 January 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
What a surprise
― nostormo, Saturday, 11 January 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
baruch dayan emet
― Mordy , Saturday, 11 January 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
Alexandra Bastedo:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/alexandra-bastedo-actress-best-known-for-her-role-in-the-1960s-television-scifi-series-the-champions-dies-9054808.html
― ailsa, Monday, 13 January 2014 00:00 (ten years ago) link
Bobby Collins, who played for lots of teams I like, and Leeds.
http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/90m4jnapb79f1ajeq55lar4a4/title/bobby-collins
― cis het boy (onimo), Monday, 13 January 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
Detroit-based psychedelic concert poster artist Gary Grimshaw
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 13 January 2014 23:34 (ten years ago) link
Roger Lloyd Pack :-(
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006
― ailsa, Thursday, 16 January 2014 12:20 (ten years ago) link
Oh no, RIP Roger
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 13:26 (ten years ago) link
^ v. good as David Irving in the TV version of Selling Hitler
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 16 January 2014 14:00 (ten years ago) link
Briefly misread this as Bootsy and was bummed.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
Russell Johnson of "This Gilligan's Island Earth"
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/gilligans-island-star-russell-johnson-dies-kidney-failure/story?id=21561740
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
RIP, we are never gonna get off the island now
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
remember that Twilight Zone where he failed to save Lincoln?
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link
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― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 13:26 (8 hours ago) Bookmark
i used to work in a bookshop and he used to come in to sell tapes of him reading keats and other romantic poets. they never sold anything. always wanted to say to him if he sold them as keats read in the manner of trigger he'd've had a bestseller.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/16/dave-madden-dead-partridge-family-reuben-kincaid/
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link
Didn't know The Prof. & Mr. Kincaid were still around. RIP guys.
Also from TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/16/playboy-playmate-cassandra-lynn-hensley-dead-overdose-od/?adid=hero3
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
jeez, terrible day for my childhood sitcom foils, be they straight men or slow burners
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/duneland/chesterton/final-female-oz-munchkin-ruth-duccini-dead-at/article_ff6f20f6-0367-5697-a512-3ff806d3086d.html
There's one left.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:45 (ten 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