ramon (not fidel, not raul) castro, 91
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 03:49 (eight years ago) link
The Jeb Bush of the Castros.
― nickn, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 05:48 (eight years ago) link
slocombe also did polanski's dance of the vampires. he had an impressive career that i never knew about.
― remove butt (abanana), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 12:51 (eight years ago) link
Word
― The Kidd With The Erasable Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
Bye, Dr. Nick
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 February 2016 04:16 (eight years ago) link
Frank Kelly, aka Fr Jack Hackett (and a long career before and since)
http://www.thejournal.ie/frank-kelly-rip-father-jack-2630816-Feb2016/
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 28 February 2016 13:04 (eight years ago) link
RIP
― bored at work (snoball), Sunday, 28 February 2016 13:53 (eight years ago) link
Really lovely man. I used to go to Father Ted tapings and he was always charming and softly-spoken (and reminded me of my own grandfather, who had the genes but not the accent).
― jedi slimane (suzy), Sunday, 28 February 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
http://worldmusiccentral.org/2016/02/25/cuban-musician-reinaldo-hierrezuelo-rey-caney-dies-at-89/
Cuban vocalist, songwriter and tres player Reinaldo Hierrezuelo, better known as Rey Caney, died on Tuesday, February 23rd in Havana. Rey Caney was a highly influential figure in Cuban music.
Reinaldo Hierrezuelo, was born December 30, 1926 in Santiago de Cuba. In 1930 Rey Caney founded the seminal Cuban band Cuarteto Patria along with his cousin Francisco (Pancho) Cobas, Emilia Gracia and Rigoberto “Maduro” Echevarría. They performed traditional trova, boleros and música guajira (Cuban country music).
In 1952, Rey Caney formed the popular duo Los Compadres together with his brother Lorenzo. They accompanied celebrated singer-songwriter María Teresa Vera and Compay Segundo throughout the world.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 February 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/22/entertainment/sonny-james-obit-feat/
From 1960 to 1979, he spent 57 weeks at the top of the charts, according to Billboard and the Country Music Hall of Fame. James was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 February 2016 16:02 (eight years ago) link
george kennedy
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 February 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
best in Cool Hand Luke and Modern Romance; eff off "Naked Gun star"
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/george-kennedy-dies-dead-airport-cool-hand-luke-1201718567/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 February 2016 21:59 (eight years ago) link
can't believe you left out the eiger sanction
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 February 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link
I haven't seen any of those Eastwood films he did! Not even Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 February 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link
Who's calling him "Naked Gun star?" Both of the obits went with Airport in their headlines.
Liked him best in CHL and, yes, The Naked Gun flicks. Why can't I remember him in Modern Romance?
RIP.
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Monday, 29 February 2016 22:06 (eight years ago) link
it was a TMZ headline... He's the ship captain in the cheap scifi film Brooks is working on.
i will admit "Earthquakes bring out the worst in some people" is the funniest line in any disaster film.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 February 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
Oh man, how could I forget the film (within a film) that inspired the line "uh, space floor?"
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Monday, 29 February 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
"I belive I know the code, sir"
"You know nothing!"
― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 29 February 2016 22:13 (eight years ago) link
He's pretty scary in that.
― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Monday, 29 February 2016 22:19 (eight years ago) link
i guess it's just those 2 films, actually
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 February 2016 22:28 (eight years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/156654781
― ulysses, Monday, 29 February 2016 22:47 (eight years ago) link
Film editor and director Jim Clark
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/jim-clark-dead-dies-killing-fields-editor-1201719806/
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 07:25 (eight years ago) link
William Schaap, radical lawyer, author, publisher (co-founded Lies of Our Times)
wondered if he was the late sportswriter/critic Dick Schaap's brother -- yes
http://mondoweiss.net/2016/03/william-h-schaap-radical-lawyer-and-publisher-dies-at-age-75/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 March 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/04/bernie-baby-the-adorable-4-month-old-sanders-lookalike-has-died-unexpectedly-from-sids/
― StanM, Friday, 4 March 2016 16:21 (eight years ago) link
tennis commentator bud collins
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 March 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
Delmer Berg, last known survivor of the antifascist Lincoln Brigade dies at 100
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/2/headlines/last_surviving_veteran_of_abraham_lincoln_brigade_dies_at_100
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
Gayle McCormick, singer of Tarentino faves Smith (My parents saw ZZ Top open for them in 1970)
http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/columns/joe-holleman/gayle-mccormick-lead-singer-of-smith-dies-of-cancer/article_2e05d308-f9ca-584f-9637-68dbbf3bc40f.html
John Thomas of Budgie
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-budgie-guitarist-john-thomas-dies/
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 March 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
novelist Pat Conroy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/pat-conroy-best-selling-author-of-great-santini-and-prince-of-tides-dies-at-70/2016/03/04/9390e9a4-e288-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 5 March 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link
― Jesperson, I think we're lost (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 March 2016 15:03 (eight years ago) link
the ones who did the cover of "the weight" on the easy rider soundtrack? sad.
― diana krallice (rushomancy), Saturday, 5 March 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
Nancy Reagan.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 March 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link
Farewell, uptight cold lady in Galliano gowns for whom we owe some debt for turning Ronnie into a peacenik.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 March 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link
Famous People You Forgot Were Still Alive.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 March 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
Good riddance
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 6 March 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
First Angie Bowie's husband now this
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 March 2016 17:44 (eight years ago) link
my mom just asked me yesterday if nancy was still alive
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 6 March 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
Don Regan cackling in hell
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 March 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
callous Hollywood trollop
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 March 2016 03:55 (eight years ago) link
Yes, but remember when she ended America's drug problem with that Very Special episode of Diff'rent Strokes?
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 7 March 2016 03:57 (eight years ago) link
An attempt at balance.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 March 2016 04:06 (eight years ago) link
One of those somebody-must-have-invented it guys:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/ray-tomlinson-email-inventor-and-selector-of-symbol-dies-aged-74
― clemenza, Monday, 7 March 2016 12:25 (eight years ago) link
^^^ I worked with him for 3 years and was just about to post his obit; he was a fantastic guy and someone I regretted falling out of touch with
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Monday, 7 March 2016 19:54 (eight years ago) link
That's amazing.
― clemenza, Monday, 7 March 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
Concur re: that's amazing
I am really saddened by every early Internet person who passes because even though my field isn't really Fundamentals Of Internet I do feel like a lot of the people who invented what I do are getting closer all the time and nobody, as far as I know, is trying to do even a cursory oral history of how this business started and who did what, like handling "the posse" in the early 90s or any of the series of other similarly nasty internet worms that followed Morris
― Sith Dog (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 01:19 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/6/11168718/ray-tomlinson-dead-inventor-of-email-obituary
as he liked to say, "It's the only preposition on the keyboard."
― Sith Dog (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 01:23 (eight years ago) link
I read this a few years ago and learned lots:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Qk3dIqeNL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
Will take a look to see if Tomlinson's in there.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link
So why was the @-sign on keyboards before email? What was it used for?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 07:46 (eight years ago) link
price
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 07:47 (eight years ago) link
as in "i bought 3 slices of pizza @ $2.00 each"
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 07:49 (eight years ago) link
Okay, thanks for the info!
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 08:15 (eight years ago) link