damn, RIP Nancy
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 December 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
shit i just heard about ricky jay.
i got to see him at brown university in 1995 or so. it was billed as a "lecture" but it was basically his stage show at the time, framed around a history of sleight of hand. he did the watermelon thing.
the documentary about him is great. "deceptive practice" i think it's called? there's a story about a block of ice that literally makes me cry. there's another story from his karate instructor that probably ranks up there with the very best wtf how-did-he-do-that ricky jay stories.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 15 December 2018 11:01 (five years ago) link
Wrecking Crew bassist Joe Osborn.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 December 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
:(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 December 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
Colin Kroll, co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, dead at 34 of drug overdose.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/colin-kroll-co-founder-hq-trivia-vine-dead-769924/?fbclid=IwAR3KaKjGCOAy5LuhinJcrDZtKObFJN3iBOdYQcbzN3oAsyfkjaPwn3uUW0w
― nickn, Sunday, 16 December 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
TCM's annual obit compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ewT7_NrGwM
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
― nickn, Sunday, December 16, 2018 3:33 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I've considered starting a rolling prominent person fentanyl overdose death because there seems to be at least one a month
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
Galt MacDermot, sampletastic composer of Hair.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/galt-macdermot-dead-hair-composer-dies-at-89-1170163
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
Penny Marshall ;_;
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
I had a friend who worked with Penny Marshall, and he would be... discreetly silent
RIP Myrna Turner
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
Yes, RIP this last
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
noooooo Penny, i loved herher book is so good. such a rad lady.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
So in the past few days two people associated with “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)” have passed away. Not to be macabre, but according to the well known rule of three...
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
Is there a list of examples of the rule of threes actually playing out? Seems like it either stalls at 2 or goes 2016 insane
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
Marilyn McCoo, get thee to a physician.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
Evelyn Berezin, creator of the first word processor and designer of United Airlines’ 1960s online booking system.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/19/evelyn-berezin-obituary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
― Madchen, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
Cool career! May her memory be a blessing.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
RIP. Pretty sure United still uses that system
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
Donald Moffat, a perennial of stage, film, and TV
https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-theater/news/donald-moffat-dies-at-87_87380.html
I saw him play Larry Slade opposite Robards in The Iceman Cometh.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
File under "did not know he was still alive." I forgot he was on that Logan's Run TV series in the 70s. Yeesh.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
So, will Mark E Smith make it through the year?
― Mark G, Wednesday, January 3, 2018
― sleeve, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
Yeah, sigh. Probably the most picked in this year's deadpool..
― Mark G, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
RIP Donald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbubW7IxNG8
― omar little, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
Peter Masterson, theatre/film guy who directed Geraldine Page's Oscar role in The Trip to Bountiful
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/peter-masterson-playwright-actor-and-filmmaker-dies-at-84/2018/12/20/77bff1bc-04a3-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
Paddy Ashdown.
― Alba, Saturday, 22 December 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
Simcha "Kazik" Rotem. Last survivor of the Warsaw uprising.
― calzino, Saturday, 22 December 2018 23:35 (five years ago) link
improv pioneer David Shepherd
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-ent-david-shepherd-second-city-1219-story.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 December 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
(Peter Masterson = dad of Mary Stuart Masterson)
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 23 December 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
Sister Wendy Beckett
https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/1226/1019145-sister-wendy-dead/
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
Honey Lantree of the Honeycombs
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 28 December 2018 02:32 (five years ago) link
RIP, Honey, even if I wasn’t aware that you were still with us until recently
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 December 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
It's been 5 (five) yeras, but I would like to take this time to celebrate/eulogize acclaimed writer Maya Angelou, who died five (5) years ago. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.[3] Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.
We take this moment on ILXOR to remember Maya.
― del griffith, Friday, 28 December 2018 03:20 (five years ago) link
also, Honey Laneytree.
― del griffith, Friday, 28 December 2018 03:21 (five years ago) link
Excuse me, Lantree.
was Maya Angelou an original member of the Bobbettes and/or the session guitarist who played the wah-wah bits in Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On"? if not, I'm afraid she doesn't meet the notability requirements for this thread
― v. s. rupaul (unregistered), Friday, 28 December 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link
Israeli novelist Amos Oz: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/28/amos-oz-dead-israeli-novelist-writer-dies
― pomenitul, Friday, 28 December 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
Bre Payton, staff writer at The Federalist, at 26.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 29 December 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
David Cavanagh, editor of Select in the 90s and author of some great, great books. (His Creation Records history also functions as a hell of a portrait of the UK indie scene as such in the 80s and 90s, and was the best source of a history of Postcard Records for a long while as well.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 December 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
Ringo Lam, director of (most notably) City On Fire.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 29 December 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
that is a loss for sure, though for me Full Contact is the go-to Ringo Lam picture.
― omar little, Saturday, 29 December 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
the shadow he cast was a bit larger than his filmography might indicate; he doesn't have nearly the number of films (nor quality films) to his name as someone like Johnnie To, nor the same number of outsized classics as someone like John Woo, nor the industry-wide domination of someone like Tsui Hark. Nor the arthouse bonafides of Wong Kar-Wai and others. He faded after awhile, and after he made a pair of well-received films in the late nineties w/Victim and Full Alert, he moved into making a lot of Van Damme films and the Dennis Rodman action flick Simon Sez. But City on Fire, Prison on Fire, and Full Contact are absolutely astonishing movies, the latter is probably one of the most awe-inspiring low-grade action films of all time, if not THE most.
― omar little, Saturday, 29 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
Been meaning to see Burning Paradise but I might bump Full Contact ahead.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
Yeah Full Contact is a hell of a thing. Should bust out my copy.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
was disappointed to find how little of Lam, Woo, To, et al's filmography is available on streaming services.
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
Johnny To’s stuff sometimes pops up on Mubi but yeah
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
like, I can't even find the Killer or Hard Boiled
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
John Woo's got several up on Amazon/Netflix: Red Cliff (which is fantastic in its complete version, however this is the truncated version), Manhunt (his most recent one, mixed reviews abound), and his Dolph Lundgren flick Blackjack. The best Johnnie To available on streaming that I've seen is Breaking News, which is mid-tier To but pretty interesting as a police standoff thriller with *ideas*.
― omar little, Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
lots of the available To is from the '90s, before he hit his stride and he was at that point making pretty interesting but not very gripping films.
― omar little, Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
June Whitfield according to twitter, but haven't seen a legit source yet.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 29 December 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link