Les Payne, pioneering journalist of Long Island (NY) Newsday
https://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/newsday-les-payne-dies-1.17534552
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
aw man
― maura, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
If Ozymandias had lived: Toys "R" Us founder Charles Lazarus dies at 94
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/22/toys-r-us-founder-charles-lazarus-dies-at-94-as-toy-empire-liquidates.html
― Alba, Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
Oh he'll be back
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
another interesting fun fact I didn't know is that Frida from Abba was an OG Norwegian "Lebensborn-child" - Norwegian mother + Nazi officer father. I can't remember one that mentioned in the 1982 Look-In annual ABBA interview!
― calzino, Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
rong thread!
Oh he'll be backa really cold part of me is dreading arnold schwarzenegger dying because every subeditor and ~twitterati~ on the planet will spew “he’ll be back” like it was their own special genius idea
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
Unless he's killed like Bennett in Commando, then they'll all be saying "let off some steam, Arnie"
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
Louise Latham
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/louise-latham-dead-tippi-hedrens-mother-hitchcocks-marnie-was-95-1096599?__twitter_impression=true
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 March 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
"unpredictable" Zell Miller, frequently a jerk
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/zell-miller-georgia-governor-and-senator-with-unpredictable-streak-dies-at-86/2018/03/23/9bc8a858-2eaf-11e8-b0b0-f706877db618_story.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 March 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
frequently a jerk
There were times when he wasn't, in your mind?
Never mind; I don't want to know. I'll just assume he said something shitty about Hillary.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 23 March 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
wow, Zell Miller is a blast from the past
― flappy bird, Friday, 23 March 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
Bassist Buell Niedlinger has died. Played with Cecil Taylor, with Anthony Braxton, did sessions with Dolly Parton, the Eagles, the Village People. https://jazztimes.com/news/buell-neidlinger-dies-at-82/
― eddhurt, Friday, 23 March 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
Philip Kerr, author of the Bernie Gunther detective series dead from cancer
― jbn, Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
Oh man that's terrible
― omar little, Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
the Bernie Gunther detective series is great. The next and perhaps final one is out April 3 in the U.S.
― omar little, Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link
Nice celebration of the books from last year:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/the-third-reichs-good-cop
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2018 05:31 (six years ago) link
And I gotta say, an anthology called The Penguin Book of Fights, Feuds and Heartfelt Hatreds is right up my street.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2018 05:33 (six years ago) link
French actress Stéphane Audran
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
;_;
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 12:58 (six years ago) link
also
Barbara Stone, producer, distributor and founder of London’s Gate Cinema
Andy Lewis, who, along with his brother Dave, wrote the screenplay for Alan J. Pakula’s Klute
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5502-the-daily-remembering-stephane-audran-barbara-stone-and-more
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
the actor Bill Maynard
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20716037
― soref, Friday, 30 March 2018 12:20 (five years ago) link
the gaffer!
― calzino, Friday, 30 March 2018 12:39 (five years ago) link
I always remember the bit from the titles where he pulls a parking ticket off the windscreen of his car, gets in, and then chucks it on the back seat on top of hundreds of other tickets.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Friday, 30 March 2018 12:43 (five years ago) link
Oh No, not Selwyn Froggitt!
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link
^ that has to be a headline somewhere
http://img.sharetv.com/shows/standard/oh_no_its_selwyn_froggitt_uk.jpg
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
Bill Maynard was often very good and of course Alan Plater is an all time great but ONISF! really has not aged well at all
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
ONISF! is still good imo, it's a pity it doesn't get repeated more.
the pilot episode (by Roy Clarke) is interesting, it's a bit less broad than the series, emphasises the bleakness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q2HK10cvMQ
― soref, Friday, 30 March 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
you Brits are really losing a lot of domestic celebs, so for our part, Rusty Staub
https://www.amazinavenue.com/2018/3/29/17175710/mets-rusty-staub-death-new-york
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 March 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
Bill Maynard a definite candidate for "people you thought died years ago".
― ailsa, Friday, 30 March 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
Alias, the anticon guy
There’s no proper way to say this or deal with this, but so I want to put this out there and then step away for a while. Our great friend and longtime collaborator Brendon Whitney (@AliasAnticon) passed away of a heart attack yesterday. No one was nicer. No one. We love you, Bren pic.twitter.com/4TxOCPJo2z— Sage Francis (@SageFrancis) March 31, 2018
― scotti pruitti (wins), Sunday, 1 April 2018 08:39 (five years ago) link
damn, he can't have been very old at all. Loads of ppl in their 40's dying of heart attacks recently, well not all of them famous, but it seems to be a thing I've noticed a lot recently - including an old school pal.
― calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 08:42 (five years ago) link
Aw, Selwyn. The ubiquitous and emphatically not-Northern David Lodge playing his brother in that pilot. A little verklempt at the boom-in-shot around 3min. And applause from the studio audience over the titles! Another time.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 1 April 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link
Revived his own separate thread, but Steven Bochco:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-bochco-dead-hill-street-blues-la-law-nypd-blue-creator-741199
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 April 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
rip my tv watching in high school & college :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
never locked into any of his shows cept Hill Street, but that was certainly a landmark
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 April 2018 01:51 (five years ago) link
Winnie Mandela
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Monday, 2 April 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/03/janka-nabay-bubu-music-sierra-leone
The 54 year-old Nabay was back in his homeland of Sierra Leone when he became ill and died. He had been living in recent years in Philadelphia, Brooklyn and DC .
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
oh shit, he played here just a couple of months ago. man had some jams, rip janka
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
Ray Wilkins
It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we have learnt that former England midfielder Ray Wilkins has passed away, aged 61.The thoughts and condolences of everyone at the PFA are with his family and friends. pic.twitter.com/pr0JBahJgQ— PFA (@PFA) April 4, 2018
― Alba, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 13:14 (five years ago) link
I'll go for the "if you haven't got anything good about the departed, then stfu" post!
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
Isao Takahata, director of Graveyard of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, Tale of Princess Kaguya etc etchttps://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20180406-00000503-sanspo-ent
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
Eric Bristow!
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
that's big!
― calzino, Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
only 60 wtf? thought he was much older than that
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
also i'm surely not the first person to think that he's gone out on a single and double top
180 was never on. RIP Eric nonetheless.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
pianist - composer Cecil Taylor, one of the most important and influential figures in western music.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
shit
― omar little, Friday, 6 April 2018 00:42 (five years ago) link
wtf no
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 6 April 2018 01:10 (five years ago) link