Shame, RIP Neil.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
a great
― flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
Guess he just really wanted to outlive John McCain. Good for him.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
next spring Eric H and i will be starring in The Sunshine Boys at the Mankato Dinner Theater. Don't miss it!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 August 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
Neil Simon - gone! A loss 4 the entire entertainment industry. He could write a joke that would make you laugh, define the character, the situation, and even the world's problems. First time I met him he looked at me and said, "Where the hell did they find you?" What a gent.— Harvey Fierstein (@HarveyFierstein) August 26, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 August 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
I don't know if he ever did anything that interested me beyond The Heartbreak Kid and The Odd Couple, but that's enough right there.
― clemenza, Sunday, 26 August 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
Neil Simon's jokes and characters connected with Neil Simon's generation, which is a limited accomplishment, but making strangers laugh is always a difficult task and he succeeded at it.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 26 August 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
loved Barefoot In The Park, and California Suite when I was a kid (I find most of it unwatchable now, tho).
― canary christ (stevie), Sunday, 26 August 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
I acted in Plaza Suite Act One just two weeks ago. The longer I worked on it, the more I understood the brilliance of the script.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 27 August 2018 00:58 (five years ago) link
i don't think they used much of his dialogue in Heartbreak Kid
nice condescending bullshit there Aimless, yer on a roll today
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 02:56 (five years ago) link
earlier generations -- so STUPID, amirite
idk it's sort of a tricky thing with comedy, i think it's one of the hardest areas to put yourself in the shoes of another time. like for whatever reason i can watch, say, a universal horror picture and go "i know factually that this scared people in 1933, and while it doesn't scare me, i'm still digging it, and can count its former scariness towards my sense that i'm enjoying a good movie." with comedy, if it's not making me laugh (or worse, if it's making me cringe) it's really hard to make the same move. i watched california suite a few months back and was absolutely bored to tears when i wasn't cringing. it just didn't land; i believe simon's comedy landed for somebody else, at some point in time, but i left just thinking "wow that was a shitty movie."
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Monday, 27 August 2018 04:29 (five years ago) link
no one likes that one. Simon began to repeat himself around 1971-72, which seemed to last until he wrote that autobiographical trilogy of plays in the '80s (the first two of which launched Matthew Broderick's career).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
(repeating himself made him rich, however)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 04:34 (five years ago) link
and you accused me of condescending?
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 27 August 2018 05:30 (five years ago) link
mirka mora
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 27 August 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
Lucie Brock-Broido, back in March of this year but I just found out.
― mick signals, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
2 comics veterans' deaths reported today -- Marie Severin and Gary Friedrich.
― WmC, Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
RIP Marie, such a great lifetime of work
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
Good remembrance of Neil Simon:http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-neil-simon-appreciation-20180826-story.html
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
https://www.millsverse.com/johnarmstrongtribute/
John Armstrong, one of the most important names in British girls comics of the 70s. Best known probably for Moonchild in Misty.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 30 August 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
Ah, he was drawing for Bunty when I was reading for it - I remember the Secret Gymnast.
― Madchen, Thursday, 30 August 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Paul Taylor https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/obituaries/paul-taylor-prolific-modern-dance-choreographer-dies-at-88/2018/08/30/fd8c5fc4-ac60-11e8-8a0c-70b618c98d3c_story.html?noredirect=on
― MrDasher, Friday, 31 August 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
A former ILXor on them: https://alewing.tumblr.com/post/177563962975/reblogging-this-to-mark-the-passing-of-gary
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 31 August 2018 12:37 (five years ago) link
Paul Taylor had a good run.
― mick signals, Friday, 31 August 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
Vanessa Marquez from ER, shot by the police.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/31/vanessa-marquez-er-actor-shot-killed-police
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 1 September 2018 09:11 (five years ago) link
what the hell
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 1 September 2018 09:30 (five years ago) link
Award for the worst headline of the year: https://www.insideedition.com/former-er-actress-vanessa-marquez-who-once-criticized-george-clooney-shot-dead-cops-46423
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 1 September 2018 10:56 (five years ago) link
Jazz pianist Randy Weston, at 92.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 1 September 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
Oh no. RIP:(
― The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 September 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
Been seeing his face all week, think he was scheduled to play a gig soon
― The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 September 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
How did you find out?
― The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 September 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
Okay, I see it on Facebook
― The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 September 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
I was thinking about going to that upcoming show but once I realized what a giant pain in the ass it would be to get there (the venue was all the way at the end of the R line in Queens) I had already blown it off.
I know almost nothing about his work. Earlier today, though, I was listening to a solo album from 1974, Blues to Africa, that was really good.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 1 September 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
What venue was it, do you remember?Glad I got to see him I few times, both onstage and in the audience at another show. Incredible musician, bandleader and personality
― The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 September 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
It was the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, and it was back in July:
https://www.jcal.org/randyweston
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 2 September 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
RIP Randy, I've got an album of his somewhere. One of the things I remember about him is that he was really tall, like 6'7" or 6'8".
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 September 2018 00:26 (five years ago) link
Saw that Conway Savage may have passed?... it’s only on 1 site atm though (noise11) , seems somewhat premature & unverified
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 September 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link
Showing up all over now re Conway Savage. RIP music man.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 3 September 2018 04:54 (five years ago) link
;_;
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 September 2018 05:37 (five years ago) link
kenny shopsin of new york restaurant shopsins calvin trillin profiled him in 2002https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/04/15/dont-mention-it
― maura, Monday, 3 September 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
I know I ate there once, was OK. There's a documentary about him too.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 September 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
Jacqueline Pearce of Blake's 7 fame - love her sitar wig-out in Hammer's The Reptile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmR7bqVaNZE
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 3 September 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
:( RIP Jacqueline. Kind of a Cosey Fanni Tutti look going on in that clip.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Monday, 3 September 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
RIP Servalan.
― Madchen, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 07:08 (five years ago) link
http://extratv.com/2018/09/03/gloria-jean-30s-and-40s-singer-and-actress-dead-at-92/
Gloria Jean, costar to W.C. Fields and Groucho Marx, 92.
― Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
Rachael Bland (40), from 5Live https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45410652
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
Carole Shelley, Tony winner for The Elephant Man and Gwendolyn Pigeon in three incarnations of The Odd Couple
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/carole-shelley-dead-one-pigeon-sisters-odd-couple-was-79-1139227
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
Liz Frazer, actress probably best known for her Carry On work.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 6 September 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
Whoa, you really scared me there for a second.
― I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 September 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link