Almost a week late with this but RIP Fenella Fielding, you scared the shit out of young me as Voice of the House in Dougal & The Blue Cat.
― Category: Animist Rock (Matt #2), Monday, 17 September 2018 08:49 (five years ago) link
Wrecking Crew bassist Max Bennett, at 90. Accompanied Peggy Lee, Joni Mitchell and countless others:https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/330291-rip-max-bennett/https://www.talkbass.com/threads/another-bass-giant-has-passed-rip-max-bennett.1363977/https://www.talkbass.com/threads/farewell-max-bennett.1363947/https://observer.com/2016/04/the-unbelievable-true-story-of-the-wrecking-crews-max-bennett/
RIP but what a career/life. Even gets a credit on Blue Lines for an L.A.Express sample. Pity he didn't get round to writing the book mentioned in the last of those interviews.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 17 September 2018 12:04 (five years ago) link
Great interview with Big Jay McNeely:
http://www.jazzwax.com/2018/09/big-jay-mcneely-1927-2018.html
Can't believe he's not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 17 September 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link
Freddie Oversteegen: picked up occupying Nazis at the bar; shot them in the head.https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/freddie-oversteegen-dutch-resistance-fighter-who-killed-nazis-through-seduction-dies-at-92/2018/09/16/7876eade-b9b7-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html
― faculty w1fe (silby), Monday, 17 September 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
Alan Abel, America's greatest hoaxer til 2016
(this is his second NY Times obit; the first came 38 years before his death)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/obituaries/alan-abel-dies.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link
yes, that is Buck Henry as the face of SINA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fopTx_qNb4Q
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
critic Annette Michelson
http://www.artnews.com/2018/09/17/annette-michelson-pioneering-film-critic-cofounder-october-dies-96/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
Dennis Norden. RIP.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45569460
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 03:57 (five years ago) link
people you thought were etc etc
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 07:40 (five years ago) link
it didn't quite end up alright on the night etc..
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 07:44 (five years ago) link
Paul Virilio.
― suzy, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 07:53 (five years ago) link
dunno, getting to 96 seems pretty alright to me
― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 08:13 (five years ago) link
that all depends on how broken your body has become, for some 96 might be a living hell!
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 08:16 (five years ago) link
He was a regular on there. RIP Dennis.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 09:01 (five years ago) link
Denis, Denis.
― Alba, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 09:21 (five years ago) link
I thought it was Denis but someone else put Dennis so I changed it.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 09:33 (five years ago) link
Marceline Loridan-Ivens, 90
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
RIP Denis. Back in the early 2000s I worked in Central London and walked to work in Clerkenwell along Oxford Street. Often walking in the opposite direction was Denis Norden. Very tall, even taller than you might imagine, and very pale. More or less dressed exactly as he appeared on TV in later years: dark blue blazer, light brown trousers, white shirt, cravat, all at quarter to eight in the morning.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
Arthur Mitchellhttps://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-45583244
― MrDasher, Thursday, 20 September 2018 03:47 (five years ago) link
Kirin Kiki, so good in so many Kore-eda movies
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/09/16/films/veteran-japanese-actress-kirin-kiki-dies-75/
― geoffreyess, Thursday, 20 September 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
Robert Venturi (1925-2018), whose early writings and buildings defined an aesthetic of "complexity and contradiction" that would later be taken - especially after his collaborative work with Denise Scott Brown opened up new frontiers in the theory of the Pop landscape - as one of the first signposts of "postmodernism," though he did not originate or use the term.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 September 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
Wow I just bought Learning from Las Vegas at the MIT Press Bookstore last week. Can’t wait to read it.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 20 September 2018 04:10 (five years ago) link
I've loved Kirin Kiki in everything I've ever seen her in. She was still married to Yuya Uchida despite separating from him in 1975! Their daughter Yayako and Kirin recently played younger and older versions of the same character in a film.She was so great in Still Walking and After the Storm - apparently-sweet-old-lady characters with subtle depth and complexity, she was a true master. Damn.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 20 September 2018 04:49 (five years ago) link
Hearing on FB that Hardy Fox of Residents fame has died.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 22 September 2018 06:10 (five years ago) link
Man, not another. i would've guessed, from appearances, that he was healthiest of the bunch. I swear this never-ending rolecall of dying/dead u-ground peeps of importance in my life totally fucking SUCKS!!
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Saturday, 22 September 2018 06:36 (five years ago) link
Still here, but not for very long :( https://www.residents.com/news/?article=20180921-0732
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 September 2018 06:56 (five years ago) link
Chas from Chas and Dave.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 22 September 2018 12:10 (five years ago) link
Thanks Tom. I was going by the mentioned dates on his website. Still sucks etc. What an amazing body of work though. Not perfect of course, nothing is. But definitely amazing.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Saturday, 22 September 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
Some think Chas never really wanted Gor to blimey him. It was just the way he talked probably.
― calzino, Saturday, 22 September 2018 12:25 (five years ago) link
hearing his dying wish was for Spurs to play out an error-strewn 2-1 defeat to Brighton this evening
― still wackford after all these squeers (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 22 September 2018 13:26 (five years ago) link
apparently he had the best medical ppl on it but unforch twas eric dier tasked with handing them the implements and well
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Saturday, 22 September 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
lettuce pray that Spurs shit defence will struggle to cope with a 34 year old carthorse and deliver this last wish to Chas!
― calzino, Saturday, 22 September 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link
NYers: Anne Russ Federman, 97, the last surviving daughter of Russ & Daughters appetizing store. She started working at the store at age 14, which means c. 1935. She died one day after Yom Kippur, one of the rare days in the year Russ & Daughters is closed.
― Josefa, Saturday, 22 September 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
Ok, I just heard about Chas Hodges and had a genuine 'Oh No' reaction. RIP.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 September 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
RIP Russ daughter. I recently mail ordered my wife some smoked fish from there as a birthday gift.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 September 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
i wonder whether dave will pull a sam and dave and replace chas with another chas?
― koogs, Saturday, 22 September 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
hes hooking up with the other krankie and the last beegee
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Saturday, 22 September 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
Former Lucasfilm producer Gary Kurtz
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 24 September 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
(xp) just realized deems has got his Chuckle Brothers and Krankies mixed up, not on, frankly.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Monday, 24 September 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
the other krankie
both krankies are still alive and well u heathen
― CRABCORE’S NOT DEAD (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 24 September 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
tom d and me, united in our kneejerk defence of scottish light entertainers
― CRABCORE’S NOT DEAD (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 24 September 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
two krankies right here anyway
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Monday, 24 September 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
Kurtz gone, dang. Hell of a life and legacy, though.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 September 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
Mistah Kurtz, he dead
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 24 September 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
Al Matthews, cigar-chomping Sgt. Apone in 'Aliens,' dies at 75 https://t.co/vmjMQJ7YhV pic.twitter.com/0KCaDJjGB6— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 24, 2018
― mookieproof, Monday, 24 September 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
Holy moly, this interview with Al Matthews is worth reading in full: http://www.elegantastronaut.com/2012/08/al-matthews-real-life-marine-in-aliens.html
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 05:37 (five years ago) link
Apparently Norm Breyfogle, probably most famous for his Batman art of the early 90s. He had a stroke a couple of years ago, I know.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
Dale Barclay (The Amazing Snakeheads, And Yet It Moves) at 32 from brain cancer :(
I supported the latter band a year or two back and he was lovely despite downing more Bucky than I would have thought humanly possible prior to getting up on stage and killing it.
― Ctrl+Alt+Del in Poughkeepsie (fionnland), Thursday, 27 September 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
Creator of Postman Pat dies: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-45666642
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 27 September 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
:(
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 27 September 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link