Yes, great book. Somehow had no idea he did the screenplay for Threads - too busy hiding behind the sofa to read the credits I suppose.
RIP.
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 20 March 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
Hopefully will be reading soon.
― The Very Low Funk Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 March 2016 20:47 (eight years ago) link
One of the actors who worked with BH on Threads is a frequent contributor to another message-board I frequent. He says says in luvvie speak that he was a beautiful person, but you can tell he means it.
― calzino, Monday, 21 March 2016 00:05 (eight years ago) link
Czech New Wave director Jan Němec
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-jan-nemec-1936-2016
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 March 2016 05:28 (eight years ago) link
RIP. Really like The Party and the Guests, and Diamonds in the Night. Seems like a tough year for Eastern European cinema.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Monday, 21 March 2016 06:56 (eight years ago) link
Barry Hines' brother Richard was interviewed by Jarvis Cocker on 6Music a few weeks ago; it was Richard who trained the kestrel - he published his memoir recently, No Way But Gentlenesse. Barry got into grammar school, but Richard was the secondary modern kid. It was such an odd, faltering, downbeat bit of radio, but all the better for it.
Barry H's The Price Of Coal (also directed by Loach) is worth seeing too.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 21 March 2016 13:29 (eight years ago) link
Richard was on radio4 last week too (i heard the trailer, not that actual show)
MidWeek Wed 16 Mar 2016http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0738hlr
― koogs, Monday, 21 March 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lee-andrews-doo-wop-singer-and-questloves-father-dead-at-79-20160317
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 March 2016 23:28 (eight years ago) link
Adrienne Rich RIP
― Mordy, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
Rob Ford
― mutually aquatinted (doo dah), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
Andy Grove - early Silicon Valley guy:http://fortune.com/2016/03/22/andy-grove-engineer-rest-in-peace/
Adrienne Rich, that's terrible.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 15:51 (eight years ago) link
Adrienne Rich died in 2012.
― sacral intercourse conducive to vegetal luxuriance (askance johnson), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
whoops! blame my stupid fb friends.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
i really need to make it a rule to double check the date of every article that gets posted on facebook
― Mordy, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link
Got a facebook post about the death of Leo Fender and how disgusting it is that the mainstream media ignored it but still fawns over Kanye's latest attrocity. Fender died on March 21, 1991.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
To be fair, Polaris High School 9th graders did find him pretty odious.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 06:55 (eight years ago) link
Phife Dawg, of A Tribe Called Quest.
http://allhiphop.com/2016/03/23/phife-dawg-of-a-tribe-called-quest-dead-at-45/
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 10:02 (eight years ago) link
:( ok, feelin that one
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 11:31 (eight years ago) link
That's terrible. Didn't he just have a transplant?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 11:42 (eight years ago) link
a few years ago acc to that obit
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 11:44 (eight years ago) link
Bet it was cancer from the immunosuppressants.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 13:27 (eight years ago) link
joe garagiola
ken 'the white shadow' howard
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:37 (eight years ago) link
I watched the almost the whole White Shadow series when it was on Hulu and it was free a couple of years ago. Was great to see again.
― timellison, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
oof I feel like I am at an odd cultural nexus where losing Phife and the White Shadow coach in one day feels especially acute.
Watched White Shadow a lot as a kid (in retrospect primarily because my dad liked it, being a school b-ball coach himself), distinctly remember it as my first real exposure to a certain strain of late 70s/early 80s black culture; like that was the first time I saw a "realistic" (as opposed to sitcom) depiction of black teenagers.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 22:01 (eight years ago) link
Joe Garagiola was an American TV icon who p much doesn't mean shit to anyone under 50... the ultimate jock turned ubiquitous bald TV guy.
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/joe-garagiola-dead-dies-cardinals-baseball-broadcaster-1201737655/
never saw a full ep of The White Shadow, know him mostly as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 and one of those kinda crappy "swingin" Otto Preminger films i just saw, Such Good Friends.
http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnsqdcYOEx1qfrw84o1_500.jpg
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 March 2016 02:09 (eight years ago) link
btw Fred Willard based his Best in Show announcer on Garagiola
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 March 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link
Under-50 here--do know Garagiola, but as a Today show personality mainly.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 March 2016 03:48 (eight years ago) link
i had no idea he came back to Today for two years in the '90s -- didnt think they hired anyone in Willard Scott's generation. He'd been on it in his '70s heyday.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 March 2016 03:58 (eight years ago) link
It was also in that period that I learned he had Topps make his business cards.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8BVcGoREYwc/TCq1k_XPJyI/AAAAAAAAGf0/E-HxiNvPuZ8/s400/garagiola+front+cleaned+up.jpg
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 March 2016 05:44 (eight years ago) link
Johan Cruyff :(
(if anyone can do a Cruyff-turn emoji, this would be the time... Maybe I'll settle for a gif)
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 24 March 2016 12:40 (eight years ago) link
RIP
http://45.media.tumblr.com/d0be1772d8f2c84cfaa08d9ea3df233e/tumblr_n4k5pl1czK1tp5565o1_400.gif
― onimo, Thursday, 24 March 2016 13:07 (eight years ago) link
^that and a drop of the shoulder were all your needed to be a tricky winger in my day. CR7 & Co incorporating backflips and elbow drops has killed that off.
― onimo, Thursday, 24 March 2016 13:11 (eight years ago) link
"I played 18 years in top football and seventeen times for Sweden but that moment against Cruyff was the proudest moment of my career. I thought I'd win the ball for sure, but he tricked me. I was not humiliated. I had no chance. Cruyff was a genius."
—Sweden defender Jan Olsson, victim of the Cruyff Turn at the 1974 FIFA World Cup
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 March 2016 13:12 (eight years ago) link
RIP Johan ;_;
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 March 2016 13:14 (eight years ago) link
From a friend of mine on Facebook:
Met him once in Barcelona, I said "You're Johan Cruyff" he said "I know ".
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 March 2016 13:26 (eight years ago) link
The very first MLB game I ever attended was the July 24, 1976 game between the Indians and the Tigers at Cleveland Stadium, which was also an NBC Game of the Week. (Mark Fidrych was pitching, and had a rare bad appearance, but the Tigers still won 5-4.) I very vividly remember my dad catching a view of the broadcast booth from our seats and saying, "Hey, look! It's Joe Garagiola!"
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 March 2016 13:26 (eight years ago) link
rip Johan
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 March 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link
I only know Garagiola from Peanuts
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 March 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
in the early to mid '70s, when he was on Today and hosting a game show, he was very well known to people who didn't know he was a baseball player-broadcaster.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 March 2016 18:14 (eight years ago) link
Rita Gam, '50s glamor girl
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rita-gam-dead-glamorous-actress-877486
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 March 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
good memories as a boy learning cruyff's footwork
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 24 March 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
Garry Shandling
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
WTF?!
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
Yup
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/garry-shandling-dead-larry-sanders-show-show-1201738601/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiWiJW_nsw8
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:28 (eight years ago) link
No. Man.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link
What?!?!
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
This is getting stupid now
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 March 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link
yow, that's another tough one. i grew up watching him, same as the rest of you. RIP
― ulysses, Thursday, 24 March 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
his show was the greatest takedown of Letterman ever
― Tay, an artificially intelligent software chatbot (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 24 March 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link