Gareth Thomas who played Blake in Blake's 7
http://www.blakes7online.com/news.php
― ailsa, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link
Anne Jackson, veteran stage/screen actress (and spouse of Eli Wallach) no doubt best known to most of you from The Shining
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/anne-jackson-dead-eli-wallach-883838
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 April 2016 04:48 (eight years ago) link
xp just found outRIP
― an opportunity thick enough to taste (snoball), Thursday, 14 April 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
London Underground's 'mind the gap' man Phil Sayer dieshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-36052363
― Madchen, Friday, 15 April 2016 20:58 (eight years ago) link
James Redd mentioned this over on ilm
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/salsa-great-ismael-quintana-dies-at-78-116041800074_1.html
He sang with Eddie Palmieri's La Perfecta band in the '60s and with others
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 April 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
doris roberts, grandma from grandma's boy and bunny from the honeymoon killers, dead at 90
― balls, Monday, 18 April 2016 23:29 (eight years ago) link
^ v chilling in A New Leaf
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 April 2016 23:37 (eight years ago) link
Made some pretty prominent films in the early '70s too: Little Murders, A New Leaf, Such Good Friends, The Heartbreak Kid, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Hester Street. (She plays Charles Grodin's mother in The Heartbreak Kid...don't remember her at all in that.)
― clemenza, Monday, 18 April 2016 23:39 (eight years ago) link
also unintentionally chilling in that fucking Raymond sitcom
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 April 2016 23:47 (eight years ago) link
Oh, so that's who she is.
― Romeo Daltrey (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 00:12 (eight years ago) link
Victoria Wood
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/20/victoria-wood-dies-aged-62-comedian
― soref, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link
Oof.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:31 (eight years ago) link
can't remember the last time I felt this gutted by a celebrity's death. RIP
― soref, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
that's v sad. great/underrated eye& ear for Real England (non-grotty wing)
totally missed that Jock Scot had died too, wack
― reader, if you love him so much why don't you marry him? (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
she was a proper genius, as both writer and performer.
― Jerry Lee Lewis: The Total Film-Maker (stevie), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:52 (eight years ago) link
What?!?!?
― Romeo Daltrey (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 15:06 (eight years ago) link
dwayne 'pearl' washington
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link
Joanie "Chyna" Laurer
http://ktla.com/2016/04/20/wwe-legend-chyna-found-dead-in-her-home-at-age-45/
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 April 2016 05:05 (eight years ago) link
Ronit Elkabetz, actress and co-director of Gett
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ronit-elkabetz-israeli-actress-dead-885465
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2016 05:14 (eight years ago) link
Guy Hamilton
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/21/james-bond-director-guy-hamilton-dies-aged-93
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 April 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
"No Mr Hamilton, i expect you to DIE!"
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2016 15:49 (eight years ago) link
TMZ reporting Prince...
https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/723192305587490819
― ailsa, Thursday, 21 April 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link
My god! No one is gonna make it outta this year alive, are they?
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 21 April 2016 16:57 (eight years ago) link
No matter how we struggle and strive
― Freakshow At The Barn Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
What the fuck. What the absolute fucking fuck.
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
no one but TMZ and Daily Mail as yet... let's see...
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link
Yup:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/21/entertainment/prince-estate-death/index.html
'Police investigating death in singer Prince's estateUpdated 12:57 PM ET, Thu April 21, 2016(CNN)Police are investigating a death at the estate of superstar Prince in Carver County, Minnesota, according to Carver County Sheriff spokesman Jason Kamerud.
"We are not releasing any information regarding the identity of the person who died until next of kin is notified," Kamerud said.'
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link
I literally feel like someone just punched me in the solar plexus.
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
Rolling Stone and CNN are reporting it now.
― nickn, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
And in other news Richard Lyons of Negative has died, also at 57, from cancer.
― nickn, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link
Lonnie Mack
http://blogs.post-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/pop-noise/46490-rip-blues-guitar-great-lonnie-mack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ta5T8cg3c0
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 April 2016 05:32 (eight years ago) link
:( RIP
― Freakshow At The Barn Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 April 2016 09:34 (eight years ago) link
Can't we impose a moratorium on dying in May and June of 2016 or something?
― StanM, Friday, 22 April 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
Patton Oswalt's wife, writer Michelle McNamara:
http://www.startribune.com/michelle-mcnamara-writer-and-wife-of-patton-oswald-dies/376795131/
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 23 April 2016 00:31 (eight years ago) link
jeez
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 April 2016 02:10 (eight years ago) link
My god. That's awful.
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Saturday, 23 April 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
Feeling all kinds of terrible for both Patton and their 7-year-old daughter right now.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Saturday, 23 April 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
damn.
― how's life, Saturday, 23 April 2016 23:59 (eight years ago) link
Papa Wemba died on stage: http://www.apanews.net/news/fr/article.php?id=851616
I didn't know about the "high and low times" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Wemba
― StanM, Sunday, 24 April 2016 10:37 (eight years ago) link
He had some great records and was impressive live. He also influenced fashion as part of the sapeur thing. 66 years old
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 April 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
http://hyperallergic.com/292105/remembering-malick-sidibe-the-photographer-who-captured-modern-malian-life/
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 April 2016 15:51 (eight years ago) link
Terry Nutkins, TV wildlife bloke
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19520824
― Mark G, Sunday, 24 April 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link
again?
― Half-baked profundities. Self-referential smirkiness (Bob Six), Sunday, 24 April 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
He was only hibernating last time.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Sunday, 24 April 2016 22:31 (eight years ago) link
http://www.soultracks.com/story-billy-paul-dies
This is a shitty occasion to go digging into his catalogue beyond Me and Mrs. Jones, and I should've done it a long time ago, but thank you Billy Paul. This shit is rad.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 24 April 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link
yeah i think andy k3llman did the liners maybe for the reissues that came out a few years back and that is someone who's taste i defer to so i checked out those first few albums, great stuff
― balls, Monday, 25 April 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
I somehow lived my whole life up to now without knowing that the "whammy bar" on a guitar was named for the Lonnie Mack song
― Lee626, Monday, 25 April 2016 05:10 (eight years ago) link
original polvo drummer eddie watkins
― mookieproof, Monday, 25 April 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
billy paul so underrated! rip.
― -_- (jim in glasgow), Monday, 25 April 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
Madeleine Sherwood, who played the mother superior on The Flying Nun. Did not remember her being in Night of the Iguana.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/arts/madeleine-sherwood-93-actress-on-the-flying-nun-stage-and-screen-dies.html
― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 11:18 (eight years ago) link