“There is no bitterness, only great respect and affection between Sinatra and his first wife,” Gay Talese wrote in 1966. “And he has long been welcome in her home and has even been known to wander in at odd hours, stoke the fire, lie on the sofa, and fall asleep.”
― calzino, Saturday, 14 July 2018 09:42 (five years ago) link
Just got out of an imdb clickhole, and found that screenwriter & 70s game show stalwart (and husband of the late Patti Deutsch) Donald Ross died last month.
http://gr8erdays.com/2018/06/06/writer-donald-ross-widower-of-patti-deutsch-dies-75/
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 15 July 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
RIP. Probably deserves a mention on Old time actors and directors that you were surprised to find out were married to each other once upon a time
― Pwn Goal Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
Not because of surprise, but because of the Match Game/Tattletales subtheme tie-in
― Isora Clubland (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 July 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
cmon cmon havent all day
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Friday, 20 July 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
Shinobu Hashimoto, co-screenwriter of Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Rashomon, The Hidden Fortress and some other movies you may have heard of, exactly 3 months after his 100th birthday.
― Eliza D., Friday, 20 July 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
fuck me, that is some classic stuff he has had a hand on there. RIP.
― calzino, Friday, 20 July 2018 13:38 (five years ago) link
in b4 official announcement of prince phillip, dead from racism poisoning at 146 years old
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 July 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
Not convinced, looks quite like a couple of other hoaxes so far. But guess we'll see at 5.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
maybe he's going to be a dad again and someone misheard
― StanM, Friday, 20 July 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
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― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
He's just dead, dead racist.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
Think it's a slightly old-fashioned midlands thing to use 'dead' as a general intensifier, do other parts of the country / world do that? It's a feature in Mandarin too.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
the scots think it's pure dead brilliant too
― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
Every time someone starts a rumour about Prince Philip being dead, it adds another five years to his life. Please gossip responsibly.— Hannah Erskine (@hanabizzle) July 20, 2018
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
Def an Edinburgh thing at least. Dead keen. Deid annoying. Dead tired.
― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
'Dead wrong' is probably nationwide.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
Shinobu Hashimoto, writer of many Japanese film classics
https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/shinobu-hashimoto-scriptwriter-akira-kurosawa-dies-dead-at-100-1202879323/
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
― omar little, Friday, 20 July 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link
for the next 25 minutes it's Schrödinger's Prince
― StanM, Friday, 20 July 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
goodnight racist prince
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
Adrian Cronauer, whose stint as a Vietnam DJ very loosely inspired a Robin Williams/Barry Levinson hit
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44897634
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
RIP. It must be odd to have outlive the person who played you in your biopic.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Friday, 20 July 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
so the royal bucket's status remains unkicked?
― StanM, Friday, 20 July 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
Keep the Prince alive.
― Chase Knobbe? Have you Courtney Cox? (Tom D.), Friday, 20 July 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
jonathan gold
― na (NA), Sunday, 22 July 2018 01:19 (five years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-fo-jonathan-gold-obit-20180721-story.html
― na (NA), Sunday, 22 July 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
Oh shit.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 22 July 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
Goddammit.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 July 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link
This is totally fucked....
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 22 July 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link
cancer grrrr
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 July 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
Is there a JGold appreciation thread?
I posted here...things Billy Corgan said to Kim Thayil in Australia in 1994 poll
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 23 July 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
Bill Loud, patriarch of the Loud family, pioneers in reality TV (An American Family). Was 97.
― Josefa, Saturday, 28 July 2018 04:27 (five years ago) link
Lucy Birley - model and former wife of Bryan Ferry.
The Vogue obituary is the one to read https://www.vogue.com/article/lucy-birley-obituary
The Times obituary today is unexepectedly bad and exploitative.
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 28 July 2018 09:45 (five years ago) link
wow yeah that Vogue obit is beautiful <3rip Lucy ;_;
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 July 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
Ron Dellums, 13-term liberal leader in the House (was called a "Watusi from Berkeley" by that ass Ed Koch)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ronald-dellums-who-entered-congress-a-firebrand-and-left-a-statesman-dies-at-82/2018/07/30/cbc41d76-941c-11e8-810c-5fa705927d54_story.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 July 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
I used to like his son Erik as an actor - he played a drug dealer on Homicide: Life on the Street and a medical examiner on The Wire.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 30 July 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
Bernard Heptonhttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/30/bernard-hepton-obituary
― Alba, Monday, 30 July 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
Awww, so good in TTSS.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 30 July 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
Tomasz Stańko, Polish jazz trumpeter
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 30 July 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
Sam Mehran, musician, 30.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 04:28 (five years ago) link
*31
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 04:29 (five years ago) link
Joseph Maus, 30.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
Last month, Esther Judith Singer, “Chichita,” translator and wife of Italo Calvino. http://www.lastampa.it/2018/06/23/cultura/e-morta-esther-judith-singer-la-moglie-di-italo-calvino-B6liQFz7YJRdR3PwAFldRM/pagina.html
― 3-Way Tie (For James Last) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
Actress Mary Carlisle: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mary-carlisle-dead-bing-crosby-star-delightful-musicals-was-104-1085748
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Thursday, 2 August 2018 01:06 (five years ago) link
Fakir Musafar, body modifier who came to international prominence following his inclusion in Modern Primitives by Re/Search books.
(Can't find an actual obit but being discussed on twitter and confirmed)
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 2 August 2018 05:27 (five years ago) link
Zombie Boy
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
The kid who said “I like turtles”!?
― devops mom (silby), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
I thought Mustafar had died in the late '90s or early 2000s. I guess I was confusing him with Bob Flanagan (who died in 1996).
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
Sometimes it feels like a run of deaths has a theme.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 3 August 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link