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Guess who died in 2015

Benjamin Grimm Jan 01 2015 06:35 AM

Omar Karami, 80, former prime minister of Lebanon.

Edgy MD Jan 01 2015 01:45 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Always count on Grimm to find the first notable passing after midnight on the first.

themetfairy Jan 01 2015 06:07 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Former Governor Mario Cuomo, Age 82 Governor Cuomo spoke at my college graduation - the man knew how to get an audience's attention. RIP Mario

Benjamin Grimm Jan 01 2015 06:34 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

He spoke at my graduation too! NYU, 1985, in Washington Square Park.

Frayed Knot Jan 01 2015 07:59 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Interesting to hear this news just as I'm watching THE GODFATHER on cable - as Cuomo for years refused to see the flick for its supposed poor treatment of Italian-Americans. Indeed he went as far as claiming that even the existence of anything called the Mafia was a myth invented (he later back-walked that to merely exaggerated) as a way to demean Italians. I believe it was some 30 years after its release when he finally saw, and liked, the movie.

d'Kong76 Jan 01 2015 08:28 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

It was also believed by many that he couldn't run for president because of ties to organized crime. The state gasoline tax of his still looms crazily large compared to neighboring states like New Jersey. Governor Corleocuomo.

sharpie Jan 01 2015 09:26 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

The greatest political orator of our time. A giant.

d'Kong76 Jan 02 2015 07:10 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Not much has changed in thirty years... [youtube:3f58flml]kOdIqKsv624[/youtube:3f58flml]

Frayed Knot Jan 02 2015 07:19 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

d'Kong76 wrote: It was also believed by many that he couldn't run for president because of ties to organized crime. And it's likely that kind of charge -- that any accomplished man with an Italian name must have Mafia connections -- which led him to go too far the other way by denying that a so-called Mafia even existed, and then to conduct a silly three decade long boycott of a movie which he finally admitted was a classic. http://www.baseball-reference.com/minor ... omo-001mar He made various references during his career to the fact that he received a larger signing bonus than Mickey Mantle had just a few years earlier wondering which was the dumber scout, the one who underpaid Mantle or the one who overpaid him.

d'Kong76 Jan 02 2015 07:35 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Long but good article on the organized crime subject... http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... umors.html Note it's on web-site yesterday but reprinted from November 1987.

Edgy MD Jan 02 2015 07:35 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

sharpie wrote: The greatest political orator of our time. A giant. My brother said more or less the same. I wasn't so much feeling it back in the day.

G-Fafif Jan 02 2015 09:09 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

"To tell you the truth, I wouldn't have been able to make this team as a batboy." --Gov. Mario Cuomo, former Pittsburgh Pirate prospect, preparing to preside over Lower Manhattan's last truly transcendent celebration, October 28, 1986

Frayed Knot Jan 02 2015 09:11 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I'm not sure that I'm in that 'greatest orator of our time' camp either though he was certainly capable of giving, and did give, some great speeches. His short-lived, post-office radio show, on the other hand, was crashingly dull.

Edgy MD Jan 02 2015 09:21 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I heard rumors that David Wright has deep ties to a shadowy group called the Tidewater Region Baseball Mafia, that he was actually indoctrinated by his father (a cop!), and that the Mets signing Michael Cuddyer is just the last example in a pattern showing just how insidious this organization is.

G-Fafif Jan 02 2015 09:57 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Edgy MD wrote: I heard rumors that David Wright has deep ties to a shadowy group called the Tidewater Region Baseball Mafia, that he was actually indoctrinated by his father (a cop!), and that the Mets signing Michael Cuddyer is just the last example in a pattern showing just how insidious this organization is. A.k.a. Tony the Tongue.

themetfairy Jan 02 2015 12:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Donna Douglas a/k/a Elly May Clampett

G-Fafif Jan 02 2015 01:16 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

The cee-ment pond will never be the same.

d'Kong76 Jan 02 2015 02:03 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

[fimg=200:345wrv34]http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/David+Wright+MLB+Star+Game+Red+Carpet+Parade+o1H5AGwLpGZl.jpg[/fimg:345wrv34] a/k/a Chuckles Chapstick

Edgy MD Jan 02 2015 02:12 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Didn't Vic create some sort of showdown or ranking of sixties TV actresses?

d'Kong76 Jan 02 2015 02:27 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I kinda remember something along those lines.

Edgy MD Jan 02 2015 02:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Here we go. A selectively curated poll, taken by Agent 99. One vote for poor, dear, late Ellie May. OE: From Fman.

d'Kong76 Jan 02 2015 03:07 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Shocked I didn't chime in on that, I musta been on the rag that week. Maybe we should revisit that somewhere down the road. Wilbur's wife on Mister Ed was one of my favorites, but jeez, the b&w Barbara Eden episodes are really too too too hard to top.

Vic Sage Jan 02 2015 09:57 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

we could expand the poll to all tv hotties of the 60s-70s, including sitcoms and dramas. After we're done with the comic book babes, of course.

cooby Jan 03 2015 08:02 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Fun thread. (the embedded one, obviously, not this death one) Still think Tina Cole shoulda won! :) And Diana Stone's earrings always reminded me of those big round after dinner mints

Edgy MD Jan 03 2015 08:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Governor Cuomo consulting with two of his constituents, my parents, circa 1986. The reason we have this photo is because of the paparazzi who thought they were shooting the governor meeting Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro. Doesn't that cop look like central casting sent him?

G-Fafif Jan 04 2015 07:56 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Edward Brooke, first African-American senator elected after Reconstruction (like a century later), 95.

G-Fafif Jan 04 2015 07:57 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

ESPN anchor Stuart Scott, 49, cancer.

Fman99 Jan 04 2015 09:07 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Here we go. A selectively curated poll, taken by Agent 99. One vote for poor, dear, late Ellie May. OE: From Fman. I am at half mast today for her. In a literal sense.

MFS62 Jan 04 2015 09:21 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

G-Fafif wrote: ESPN anchor Stuart Scott, 49, cancer. I mean this with all due respect. Boo-ya! You were one of the few ESPN hosts who was actually likable. RIP, Stuart. Later

d'Kong76 Jan 04 2015 10:27 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

ESPN is so fucking clueless... follow up a tear-inducing tribute with an exclusive Jerry Jones interview and some Cowboy butt licking. Yuck.

Zvon Jan 04 2015 02:23 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

[youtube:1h7kcn6g]S7AUnwfQ7Lw[/youtube:1h7kcn6g]

cooby Jan 04 2015 05:00 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

That is a sweet tribute. I wish I could share that attitude about cancer. :/ Maybe someday. RIP to Stuart

Mets – Willets Point Jan 04 2015 08:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Yikes! This thread is well into page two, and it's only the fourth day of the year. Stay healthy, people!

Edgy MD Jan 04 2015 10:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Stuart Scott explains to Josh Hamilton why he's getting iced by Mister Met. [youtube:25880jjw]dBsjR5uTUeY[/youtube:25880jjw]

Centerfield Jan 05 2015 07:12 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Seemed like an all around terrific guy. I think I spent all of college eating pizza watching the late Sportscenter with Scott and Rich Eisen. ESPN is unwatchable now, but I'm thankful to have had such a talented team around when I was in my early 20's and into that sort of thing.

Edgy MD Jan 05 2015 07:20 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Kase is right, though, to cut from real-to-the-bone heartbroken statements from his colleagues back to the Biff Thunderpants Show seems awful work by ESPN.

sharpie Jan 05 2015 12:42 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Bess Myerson, 90, was announced today but she died December 14, 2014. The 2014 thread, however, is locked.

G-Fafif Jan 05 2015 09:42 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Allie Sherman, 91, the last Giants coach to lead the team to the playoffs for a very long time, which also meant he was the Giant coach held most responsible for their downfall -- thus the cries of "Goodbye Allie!" at MFYS I in the 1960s.

MFS62 Jan 06 2015 07:01 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Olevai Shalom, Bess and Allie. Later

G-Fafif Jan 08 2015 08:34 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

J.P. Parise, the Islander who beat the Rangers in their first playoff meeting 40 years ago this spring, and father of former Devils captain Zach Parise, 73, from lung cancer.

Edgy MD Jan 12 2015 07:38 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

And Taylor Negron, who was so bad he should be in detention, and was Jeff Spicoli's pizza connection. Basically, wherever Jennifer Jason-Leigh was tossing her curls, Taylor Negron couldn't be far behind. Order a pizza in tribute to Taylor.

MFS62 Jan 12 2015 08:05 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Two real Americans. Same age. Same day. You probably have never heard their names, but I salute them. http://news.yahoo.com/2-tuskegee-airmen ... 29878.html RIP Later

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 13 2015 12:17 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Gang-related death: Clifford Adams, trombone player of Kool + the Gang

G-Fafif Jan 21 2015 01:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Ray Lumpp, 91, member of the Knicks teams that battled the Minneapolis Lakers of George Mikan in the NBA finals in the early 1950s. His name always jumped out at me from the Knick yearbooks I had as a kid. How many Lumpps do you see? Had a pretty intriguing track & field life besides.

Benjamin Grimm Jan 25 2015 07:56 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Joe Franklin, 88.

TheOldMole Jan 25 2015 10:29 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Tommy Mason, first draftee of the Minnesota Vikings, and still a star for the team when I lived in Minnesota.

RealityChuck Jan 30 2015 12:59 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Suzette Haden Elgin, science fiction author and founder of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. She is also a linguist, one of the pioneers of constructing a science fiction language and author of The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense, a guide to identifying subtle verbal attacks.

G-Fafif Jan 31 2015 09:32 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Rod McKuen, poet, 81. His work included the Academy Award-nominated song "Jean" from the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and McKuen's music for the animated feature "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" was also nominated for an Oscar. The Los Angeles Times writes: Among McKuen's commercial success in the 1960s and '70s were his reworking of Jacques Brel's song "Le Moribond" for the English-language version of "Seasons in the Sun," which was later covered by the Kingston Trio and Terry Jacks. Frank Sinatra recorded an album of McKuen songs in 1969 called "A Man Alone," which included "Love's Been Good to Me."

Mets – Willets Point Feb 05 2015 08:33 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Song writer Rose Marie McCoy, 92. Hear her story here.

Frayed Knot Feb 08 2015 12:26 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

College hoops coach Dean Smith - 83

Edgy MD Feb 10 2015 09:09 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Ed Sabol, football filmmaker of note!

G-Fafif Feb 11 2015 10:20 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Joining the great Dean Smith at the Great Scorer's Table in the Sky, Jerry Tarkanian, 84.

G-Fafif Feb 11 2015 10:22 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

From last year, Dean Smith as the clocked ticked down, by Tommy Tomlinson. BILL GUTHRIDGE, his oldest friend, has the office next door. They've known each other 60-some years; in the early '50s, when Dean was a backup guard at Kansas, he briefly dated Guthridge's sister. Dean followed Guthridge's coaching career, and in 1967 he hired Guthridge from Kansas State. Over the years, Coach Gut had regular offers to be the head man somewhere else. He got on a plane once to take the job at Penn State, but changed his mind on the layover. He ended up spending 30 years in UNC's second chair. When Dean decided to quit in '97, he didn't announce it until October -- way too late for the athletic department to hire anybody but the man waiting there on the bench. Guthridge coached three years and took the Tar Heels to two Final Fours. Then he retired, too. He got his taste. What a gesture of friendship.

G-Fafif Feb 11 2015 10:24 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

And a brief reflection by Joe Posnanski on how Ed Sabol got his start. When Pete Rozelle asked Ed what experience he had filming football, Sabol replied: “I filmed the games of my 14-year-old son.” And while that undoubtedly sounded a bit flimsy to Rozelle, the truth is that those were good little movies, especially when you consider it was just one man with a camera. He had an eye for showbiz, probably left over from his time working with the Ritz Brothers and other vaudeville acts. Ed would film games by looking for unique angles and unusual scenes. Then he edited. And then he invited the team over to the house, parents too, and he would show not a jumbled home movie like most people, but an actual film with a story — he would slow the film down in places to give a sense of drama, he would play John Sousa marches in the background, and every now and again he would say something like, “The warrior Steve Sabol broke two tackles on his way to a four-yard gain.” “My father,” Steve Sabol told me once, “wanted to make the memories even better than the moments themselves.” Together, that’s what they did. Ed Sabol bought the rights to film the 1962 NFL championship game and made a movie that impressed the owners. Two years later, Sabol’s film company Blair Motion pictures — named after Ed’s daughter Blair — became NFL Films. And NFL Films changed everything in professional football. NFL Films gave pro football both a history and a mythology. That’s what baseball had — history and mythology. A game played in Green Bay, Wisconsin on ice became a Greek Epic through the lenses of Ed and Steve Sabol. A long pass from Terry Bradshaw became a 20-second poem as we all wondered if the spiraling football would ever fall out of the sky. Stirring music and tight angles and the deep voice of John Facenda or another narrator turned the Oakland Raiders into a band of pirates, Joe Montana into Clark Gable, Lawrence Taylor or Jack Lambert into Scarface.

Frayed Knot Feb 11 2015 11:13 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Not a good week for college basketball coaches: Jerry Tarkanian, 84 I'm sure a week with the passing of both Dean Smith and Tark the Shark will get cast by many as a white-hat/black-hat situation, but the truth is far more nuanced than that. Whoops, didn't see Greg's earlier post

themetfairy Feb 11 2015 08:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Bob Simon, 60 Minutes Correspondent In a car crash on the West Side Highway.

MFS62 Feb 11 2015 10:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

G-Fafif wrote: Joining the great Dean Smith at the Great Scorer's Table in the Sky, Jerry Tarkanian, 84. If its true that things happen in threes, Lou Carnasecca must be getting nervous. Or is it just coaches who have won at least one NCAA Championship? Later

themetfairy Feb 12 2015 04:48 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Steve Strange, Lead Singer of Visage, Age 55

Edgy MD Feb 12 2015 05:55 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

This opening crane shot is pretty high budget for 1981. His voice kind of predicted Simon Lebon's whining-on-key thing. I'd've guessed he was older than 56, or that the this song had broken later. He would have been 21 or so. [youtube:1kwkwyy2]vMPR6Ujop4k[/youtube:1kwkwyy2]

Ashie62 Feb 12 2015 06:00 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

themetfairy wrote: Bob Simon, 60 Minutes Correspondent In a car crash on the West Side Highway. No seat belt. ugh.

G-Fafif Feb 12 2015 09:03 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

David Carr, soulful, funny, incisive NYT media critic, 58.

G-Fafif Feb 13 2015 05:14 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Gary Owens, 80, announcer for Laugh-In.

Edgy MD Feb 15 2015 01:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Jump naked in the Detroit River, in honor of Poet Laureate Philip Levine. Belle Isle, 1949 We stripped in the first warm spring night and ran down into the Detroit River to baptize ourselves in the brine of car parts, dead fish, stolen bicycles, melted snow. I remember going under hand in hand with a Polish highschool girl I'd never seen before, and the cries our breath made caught at the same time on the cold, and rising through the layers of darkness into the final moonless atmosphere that was this world, the girl breaking the surface after me and swimming out on the starless waters towards the lights of Jefferson Ave. and the stacks of the old stove factory unwinking. Turning at last to see no island at all but a perfect calm dark as far as there was sight, and then a light and another riding low out ahead to bring us home, ore boats maybe, or smokers walking alone. Back panting to the gray coarse beach we didn’t dare fall on, the damp piles of clothes, and dressing side by side in silence to go back where we came from.

MFS62 Feb 15 2015 02:18 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

G-Fafif wrote: Gary Owens, 80, announcer for Laugh-In. Morgul, the Friendly Drelb is sad. And so am I. RIP. Gary. LAter

MFS62 Feb 15 2015 06:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Louis Jourdan, always suave. https://www.yahoo.com/movies/louis-jour ... 54462.html RIP Later

sharpie Feb 16 2015 03:09 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Lesley Gore, 68.

G-Fafif Feb 16 2015 03:13 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

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cooby Feb 16 2015 03:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I love that song...

Edgy MD Feb 16 2015 04:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Marvin Hamlisch, but it's got Brian Wilson all over it. They must've used the Wrecking Crew.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 16 2015 05:06 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP. More than a little punk rock to that missus, no? Exhibit 1: This performance. [youtube:inmha20q]JDUjeR01wnU[/youtube:inmha20q]

Frayed Knot Feb 16 2015 05:24 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

And nobody goes with: 'It's her funeral and I'll cry if I want to'?

Zvon Feb 16 2015 05:53 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

cooby wrote: I love that song... Me too. That's a song that slipped my mind, haven't heard it in many many years. The opening scene on the vid is from the 66 Batman TV show. She was a henchwoman.

Edgy MD Feb 16 2015 06:44 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: RIP. More than a little punk rock to that missus, no? Exhibit 1: This performance. [youtube]JDUjeR01wnU[/youtube] What I like about that song is the fat lazy 6/8 R&B James Brown-ness of instrumental arrangement.

d'Kong76 Feb 20 2015 11:20 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Jerome Kersey, 52 http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/je ... story.html

A Boy Named Seo Feb 24 2015 03:48 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

On the way to say good-bye to my dad. They're keeping him on life support until we can't get there to be with him - me from CA, my brother & aunt from New Mexico, and my other brother from Germany. Such sad and terrible shit. Squeeze your loved ones extra tight tonight, friends.

Mets Guy in Michigan Feb 24 2015 04:02 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

A Boy Named Seo wrote: On the way to say good-bye to my dad. They're keeping him on life support until we can't get there to be with him - me from CA, my brother & aunt from New Mexico, and my other brother from Germany. Such sad and terrible shit. Squeeze your loved ones extra tight tonight, friends. Very, very sad to hear this, Seo. Keeping you and your family in our thoughts and prayers.

themetfairy Feb 24 2015 04:15 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I am so sorry, my friend. {{Hugs}}

cooby Feb 24 2015 04:54 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

So so sorry my friend. Our hearts are with you and please know we are thinking of you.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 24 2015 05:32 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 24 2015 06:42 PM

Been there. Stay strong... but try and do the other thing too, when you've got a moment.

G-Fafif Feb 24 2015 05:35 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

All the best to you, Seo. Think good thoughts, kindle great memories.

d'Kong76 Feb 24 2015 06:25 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Best to you and your family, seo-bro

Edgy MD Feb 24 2015 08:24 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Lucky to have a son such as you. Very sorry for your loss.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 24 2015 08:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

sorry to hear Jiggy. Hang in there.

MFS62 Feb 24 2015 09:15 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Our thoughts are with you. Later

Rockin' Doc Feb 24 2015 09:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I made the trip home to say goodbye to my father 2 years ago. I know how difficult a trip it can be. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family in these difficult times.

Zvon Feb 24 2015 10:16 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Awful news. My thoughts are with you and yours.

TransMonk Feb 25 2015 06:36 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Crushing news, Seo. My thoughts are with you.

themetfairy Feb 25 2015 05:52 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Former Umpire Ron Luciano, Age 57 So sad....

smg58 Feb 25 2015 06:27 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I'm very sorry to hear.

Edgy MD Feb 25 2015 06:48 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I think there's some sort of mistake. Ron Luciano died back in the nineties.

themetfairy Feb 25 2015 07:32 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Edgy MD wrote: I think there's some sort of mistake. Ron Luciano died back in the nineties. You're right. The NY Times article is dated January 20, 1995. I apologize for not checking it more closely; I saw this posted tonight and it didn't occur to me that it wasn't a current story.

Fman99 Feb 25 2015 07:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

A Boy Named Seo wrote: On the way to say good-bye to my dad. They're keeping him on life support until we can't get there to be with him - me from CA, my brother & aunt from New Mexico, and my other brother from Germany. Such sad and terrible shit. Squeeze your loved ones extra tight tonight, friends. Sorry brother. Thoughts and prayers from the Cuse.

themetfairy Feb 27 2015 10:19 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP to Leonard Nimoy He lived long and prospered.

d'Kong76 Feb 27 2015 10:27 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

themetfairy wrote: He lived long and prospered. Indeed. RIP

Edgy MD Feb 27 2015 10:29 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

He is, and always will be, my friend.

Edgy MD Feb 27 2015 11:14 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

A man who wrestled openly with his public persona, and wasn't above publishing books with contradictory theses:

Zvon Feb 27 2015 12:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Well, this sucks. But what a life, huh?

Frayed Knot Feb 27 2015 12:16 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

There is no joy in Nerdville, mighty Nimoy has checked out.

Edgy MD Feb 27 2015 12:28 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Before he caught the acting bug, he had a nice little career playing for the Dodgers under manager Fred Mertz.

smg58 Feb 27 2015 06:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I'm guessing that there are reasons why I've never heard of whatever movie that picture is from, but that's a great picture.

smg58 Feb 27 2015 06:46 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I can remember watching Star Trek on Saturday nights on channel 11 in the mid 70s. It was required watching in our house. And when In Search Of came out in 1976 (I was 6 at the time), I was super excited because my favorite actor was hosting it.

Edgy MD Feb 27 2015 07:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

It'll be noted over the next few days, but he was something of a success as an art photographer too. As many will do who deal mix religious and erotic subjects, he offended not a few.

MFS62 Feb 27 2015 08:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

When my daughters were little, I tried to explain things logically to them. So when I went too far, they'd call me "Spockie". RIP. Later

dgwphotography Feb 28 2015 07:26 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Anthony Mason, 48

d'Kong76 Feb 28 2015 08:18 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

That just sucks.

Frayed Knot Feb 28 2015 09:17 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

My first reaction, after hearing about his initial heart attack a few weeks back, was to wonder about steroids. Not sure if that angle's been brought up anywhere and it's not something one usually associates with basketball but, given not just his height but also his oversized build around that frame, past (or present) 'roid use was one of the first things that popped into my head.

Edgy MD Feb 28 2015 09:25 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Yeah, I didn't want to state as much. I lost interest in the pro basketball a while back, but he did have one of the great NBA physiques of his time.

d'Kong76 Feb 28 2015 09:27 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

He did look more like a WWF guy than an NBA guy for sure.

themetfairy Feb 28 2015 10:14 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

That didn't occur to me. Guys in their late 40's/early 50's who don't take care of themselves the way that they did in their prime are vulnerable to heart attacks. I'm not saying that roids couldn't have been a factor, but that was not my kneejerk reaction to the news.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 28 2015 11:43 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

themetfairy wrote: That didn't occur to me. Guys in their late 40's/early 50's who don't take care of themselves the way that they did in their prime are vulnerable to heart attacks. I'm not saying that roids couldn't have been a factor, but that was not my kneejerk reaction to the news. I saw it exactly the way you saw it. In fact, I saw him a few years ago and he looked very much out of shape ... like a sedentary man in his 40s whose diet of way too many Bacon Cheeseburgers with extra bacon had caught up to him. "Mase" was my favorite Knick from that era. He got more out of his natural talents than one would've expected and carved out an All-Star NBA career that seemed improbable when he was drafted in the third round from a small college. I also thought he was one of his team's smartest players ... terrific court sense of not only himself but in relation to the rest of the team and whatever play or scheme the Knicks were running ... probably the Phil Jackson of his era. His smarts were confirmed to me when he started to openly bitch about how often the ball was going into Patrick Ewing's hands. I thought Ewing was the black hole of that offense, an offense that, granted, was limited, especially when that overreaching team contended and competed with the game's elite teams for the championship crown. Anyways, I'm digressing now. Don't get me started on Patrick Ewing the Knick. If I'm remembering correctly, and I might not be, Michael Jordan really dug Mase, and openly campaigned for his Bulls to acquire him.

d'Kong76 Feb 28 2015 12:28 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Sad, but yeah he clearly let his body go...

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 28 2015 12:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

batmagadanleadoff wrote: themetfairy wrote: That didn't occur to me. Guys in their late 40's/early 50's who don't take care of themselves the way that they did in their prime are vulnerable to heart attacks. I'm not saying that roids couldn't have been a factor, but that was not my kneejerk reaction to the news. I saw it exactly the way you saw it. In fact, I saw him a few years ago and he looked very much out of shape ... like a sedentary man in his 40s whose diet of way too many Bacon Cheeseburgers with extra bacon had caught up to him. "Mase" was my favorite Knick from that era. He got more out of his natural talents than one would've expected and carved out an All-Star NBA career that seemed improbable when he was drafted in the third round from a small college. I also thought he was one of his team's smartest players ... terrific court sense of not only himself but in relation to the rest of the team and whatever play or scheme the Knicks were running ... probably the Phil Jackson of his era. His smarts were confirmed to me when he started to openly bitch about how often the ball was going into Patrick Ewing's hands. I thought Ewing was the black hole of that offense, an offense that, granted, was limited, especially when that overreaching team contended and competed with the game's elite teams for the championship crown. Anyways, I'm digressing now. Don't get me started on Patrick Ewing the Knick. If I'm remembering correctly, and I might not be, Michael Jordan really dug Mase, and openly campaigned for his Bulls to acquire him. A thousand times this. Mase would play great-- GREAT-- positional defense and call out offensive plays the other team was running, and yet, every national-TV game, you'd get Doug Collins talking about 'enforcing' and 'physicality' and the like.

Ashie62 Feb 28 2015 03:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: themetfairy wrote: That didn't occur to me. Guys in their late 40's/early 50's who don't take care of themselves the way that they did in their prime are vulnerable to heart attacks. I'm not saying that roids couldn't have been a factor, but that was not my kneejerk reaction to the news. I saw it exactly the way you saw it. In fact, I saw him a few years ago and he looked very much out of shape ... like a sedentary man in his 40s whose diet of way too many Bacon Cheeseburgers with extra bacon had caught up to him. "Mase" was my favorite Knick from that era. He got more out of his natural talents than one would've expected and carved out an All-Star NBA career that seemed improbable when he was drafted in the third round from a small college. I also thought he was one of his team's smartest players ... terrific court sense of not only himself but in relation to the rest of the team and whatever play or scheme the Knicks were running ... probably the Phil Jackson of his era. His smarts were confirmed to me when he started to openly bitch about how often the ball was going into Patrick Ewing's hands. I thought Ewing was the black hole of that offense, an offense that, granted, was limited, especially when that overreaching team contended and competed with the game's elite teams for the championship crown. Anyways, I'm digressing now. Don't get me started on Patrick Ewing the Knick. If I'm remembering correctly, and I might not be, Michael Jordan really dug Mase, and openly campaigned for his Bulls to acquire him. A thousand times this. Mase would play great-- GREAT-- positional defense and call out offensive plays the other team was running, and yet, every national-TV game, you'd get Doug Collins talking about 'enforcing' and 'physicality' and the like. R.I.P.

G-Fafif Feb 28 2015 04:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Thought of this column by Harvey Araton this morning. Really, I think of it whenever I think of what we shall refer to as the Anthony Mason Knicks. I was on the LIRR, reading a piece by Steve Jacobson, bemoaning how these Knicks, on the verge of playing Game Seven against the Rockets, were, in essence, never quite going to be those Knicks, the ones that put the only championship banners in the rafters at the Garden. I nodded along vigorously as a fan who had loved those Knicks of 1969-1973 and could never quite rekindle the fire I had for the franchise once the principals from the glory days began leaving the scene. Ewing left me cold and, save for a little spike of genuine enthusiasm during the Pitino-Stu Jackson era, I never got the sensation back. I was caught up in the Knicks trying to win the '94 title, but really the whole idea of Pat Riley as Knicks coach galled me and the brand of basketball they played was a turnoff. The Harvey Araton article was almost a rebuttal to Jacobson and me. In essence, it was, yeah, those were great Knicks back in the day, but these Knicks are special in their own way and have an appeal every bit as legit. Clearly, Mason was at the heart of that and I always appreciated him and them a little more after that. Nevertheless, once they lost to Houston, I shrugged that the better team probably won, switched to the Mets and faded further and further from the Knicks to the point they do zero for me in this century. No matter the team or the style of basketball, of course, a true shame to lose a person this solid this young. June 22, 1994 N.B.A. FINALS: ON PRO BASKETBALL New Knicks Serve Up Some Populist Hoops With Sharp Elbows By Harvey Araton HOUSTON— With all due respect, enough about the Old Knicks. Enough about how superior their brand of playoff basketball was, how these unskilled and uncharismatic Knicks don't measure up. They don't have to. They are competing against Hakeem Olajuwon and Kenny Smith, not Walt Frazier and Willis Reed. Let it rest. Give the New Knicks their night of comparative independence. If they can break the 19-game, decade-old Game 7 road team losing streak by defeating the Houston Rockets tonight, they will give New York a different kind of championship from what it received from the Knicks of 1970 and 1973. Offensively speaking, Red Holzman's Knicks played chess. Pat Riley's Knicks play checkers. That's all right. There are more people in Greater New York who play checkers than there are who play chess. The Old Knicks were a Manhattan kind of team, with a flamboyant guard who drove a Rolls-Royce, a Rhodes scholar destined for the Senate and a smart, stylish shooting guard who later in life would be addressed as Dr. Barnett. The New Knicks are a boroughs kind of team that features a proud but quiet Jamaican immigrant, and a rowdy street kid from Queens who snaps to attention at the command of his mom, and a power forward who invested his riches in an inner-city laundry and car wash. Is there room in New York City's rich sports historical landscape for working-class sensibility and achievement, for a team with no self-aggrandizing superstars, for clock-punching predictability and effort? Why shouldn't there be? Why must New York's teams of reference always have to be about beautiful people, about Clyde and Reggie and Broadway Joe? Why can't one team mirror the other end of the subway lines, the New York of modest row homes, apartment buildings without doormen and indistinguishable housing projects? Why can't one team reflect life in the city that is a painful struggle we hope somehow works itself out? These Knicks are not creating brilliant art, we know that, and it's not even a very good national television sell, and who in his or her right mind would want to watch these Knicks bludgeon the opposition, 83-79, season after 107-game season? That's not the point. This Knick team wasn't assembled for dynastic purposes. The dream of dominance that was born on the day the Knicks won the Patrick Ewing lottery back in 1985, when Dave DeBusschere pounded his fist against the table, expired a long time ago. The best coach money could buy was lured to New York for the quickest possible fix, to salvage one championship from Ewing's career before his knees or his resolve wore out. Draft picks have been squandered, the future compromised, for the run the Knicks have made to a place appropriately called the Summit, to Game 7 of the National Basketball Association finals here tonight. This is it. "They've paid their dues and it seems like so many people are still cynical about them," said Walt Frazier, the man in the Rolls. "It's unfortunate that whatever they do, there's always a but." First Michael Jordan retired, which supposedly created an asterisk season. Then there was the Hue Hollins call at the end of Game 5 of the second-rounder against the Bulls. Now there is a scrum of a championship series against a team that people suddenly have discovered isn't as good as they thought it was. When all of these "buts" are exhausted, there are always the Old Knicks to dust off and hold up as an example of what the New Knicks are not. If Jordan stays out, exactly what year does the N.B.A. title become legitimate again? And one more time: Scottie Pippen, all-league defensive star, made a dumb play, trying to block a shot in the open court, trying to be a hero when all he needed to be was a presence. Regarding the Rockets, they've made it here, too, no matter how bad their backcourt is. Frazier made another good point. Today's kids don't remember a thing about the Old Knicks. These New Knicks have an opportunity to someday be their Old Knicks. "The kids ask you questions that make it sound like they're not sure if real basketball was even being played back then," he said. "But the older people keep saying to me, 'Clyde, they're nothing like you guys.' I guess for them, every Knick team will be held up to us, and that's not really fair." There is no excusing the brutish behavior of Pat Riley's players, from time to time. Here at the finals, some of them act like they're doing the news media a favor by saying a few words. Those two renegade ambassadors, John Starks and Anthony Mason, had to be fined $10,000 apiece by the league for ignoring yesterday's journalist pow-wow. No mistaking it, the Knicks do not enhance the game the way the N.B.A. thinks that its finalists, much less its champions, ought to. The Knicks are who they are, borough warriors, pushing their way through the subway on the way to work. They are more Stallone than Simon, more movie crowd than theater. That's all right. That New York exists, too. It could also use a sports team to champion its cause.

G-Fafif Feb 28 2015 04:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Say what you will about the guy, but Lupica really knows how to deliver one of these. In those days, what now seem as much like glory days for the New York Knicks as the ones with Clyde and Willis Reed, with Earl the Pearl and DeBusschere and Bradley, the two guys from nowhere, Anthony Mason and John Starks, would get up off Pat Riley’s bench at the same time, at the end of the first quarter. And there would be the same kind of energy in Madison Square Garden that there would soon be on the court. “Everybody in the crowd,” Dave Checketts, who ran the Knicks in the 90s, said on Saturday morning, “would know there was about to be a jolt of defense.” There would be bad behavior sometimes, too, and sometimes a lot of it, and hard fouls, because there was a time when Riley’s Knicks were the home office for all of that; because the philosophy was simple if you were trying to get to the basket in those years, even if you were Michael Jordan. No easy shots. Maybe it was because nothing in basketball ever came easy for such as Anthony Mason, out of Springfield Gardens, dead now, too soon, before he even makes it to 50 because his heart gives out once and for all. The 1990s at the Garden were Riley and Patrick Ewing, of course. But those Knicks will be remembered as much for Mason of Springfield Gardens, and Starks, and Charles Oakley, who always believed the perimeter of the court at the Garden included the first two rows of the stands. It was a team of clubfighters, one hated by the rest of the league and loved only here, as they were making the Knicks matter again, and giving you a decade when a Knicks ticket was the hottest in town. There have been so many basketball stories off the streets of New York City and its playgrounds, and even its myths and legends and romance and tragedies. But Mason became one of the very best, because he was a wingman to Ewing in those days, even as he was trying to drive Pat Riley crazy half the time. No easy shots, nothing easy, for Anthony Mason. He was as much a handful for his own coach as he was for the other team. [...] There were other more elegant Knicks, and ones who had a lot more game on offense, and it didn’t take long for the league to know you didn’t want to cross him. There have been other New York basketball stories. His was still a great one. Kid from the corner, an off the streetcorner. Mase: Dead at 48. That was some heart that finally gave out.

A Boy Named Seo Feb 28 2015 09:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Hey, just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the kind words and support. I was surprised at how much comfort I got reading those messages after dad died. Thanks again, yall.

themetfairy Feb 28 2015 10:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Know that we're here for you. So sorry for your loss. {{More Hugs}}

dgwphotography Mar 01 2015 04:36 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I am so sorry for your loss, Seo.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 03 2015 09:42 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

[fimg=222]https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/espn-grantland/img/grantland-logo@2x.png[/fimg] Remembering the Man Who Made New York Love the Knicks Again: Anthony Mason, 1966–2015 March 3, 2015 by Jason Concepcion From New York to Istanbul, every fan base likes to imagine that its team embodies its city’s authentic spirit. Fans can look at their disparate collection of millionaires in matching uniforms and say, “This is who we are.” Supporters of FC Barcelona refer to their team as “Més que un club” (“More than a club”), a physical incarnation of Catalonian aspirations. The Showtime Lakers symbolized the Hollywood glam of the ’80s like a hot spotlight refracting off the hood of a sports car, while their archrivals, the Boston Celtics, looked like a bunch of no-frills, blue-collar grinders who’d just clocked out at some factory on the city’s outskirts. Mostly, this conceit is just narcissism. How many times have we heard some variation of such-and-such team “representing the hardworking spirit” of wherever? Who doesn’t want to be considered hardworking? I always wonder if there’s some town where people have no work ethic and absolutely zero grit, and that’s why they can’t have a team. This imagined connection between team and place is part of the magic of sports, an illusion that turns multibillion-dollar businesses run by the most un-blue-collar people on earth, many of whom made their money by simply being born, into scrappy underdogs whose success somehow flows from your own labors and whose successes you therefore deserve. It’s bullshit, basically. Except, then I think about Anthony Mason, who died over the weekend at the age of 48, and I’m not so sure. [youtube]pde8Q2GNr1E[/youtube] For Knicks fans, the ’90s iteration of the team seemed like an inextricable ingredient of the city’s atmospheric brew. The main reason: Anthony Mason, live and direct from Springfield Gardens, Queens. Despite hailing from a city that is anything but, Knicks fans invariably see themselves and their team as underdogs. It’s that mixture of started-at-the-bottom insecurity and overbearing “Mecca of Basketball” braggadocio that forms the team’s core personality. So with innate talents that evoked the city’s legendary basketball history, along with a melting pot of a résumé that included stints in Turkey, Tulsa, Long Island, New Jersey, Portland, and Venezuela, Mason fit right in. “In Turkey, I learned the physical game. In Venezuela, I learned the finesse game,” Mason told New York Magazine in a 1993 feature about the team’s championship aspirations. In the same interview, he unconsciously evoked the city’s historic appeal: “Once you get a chance on a team like the Knicks — a team that don’t care where you went to school or what you did in your past — you’d really love to stick. So, I did whatever it took.” At 6-foot-7 with a carved-obsidian NFL physique and a scowl reminiscent of the actor Bill Duke, Mason appeared, at a glance, to be a hardwood intimidator right out of NBA central casting. Certainly, unapologetic pugnaciousness was an important facet of his game, one that comported nicely with Pat Riley’s Schenectady heel-turn philosophy for the Knicks to be “the hardest-working, best-defending, most-disliked team in the NBA.” After all, Mase broke into the team as a camp invitee in 1991 by fighting with Xavier McDaniel — the Knicks’ marquee offseason trade acquisition, he of Singles and strangling Wes Matthews’s dad fame — five minutes into the team’s first practice. Yet, if brawn, forearm shivers, and six fouls were all there was to Mase’s game, he might be well remembered within the franchise, but he wouldn’t be the revered figure he is today. Mase’s obvious physical presence was tempered by speed, by a soft touch around the basket, deft footwork that gave him the appearance of a pro wrestler practicing ballroom dancing, and what was most extraordinary: his ballhandling skills. More than any other part of his game, those handles linked him to New York City’s basketball culture, where the currency of respect on every wind-whipped, all-season open-air basketball court is, and always will be, a player’s ability to get the cup. Years before the positional revolution had overrun the ramparts of tradition, Mase, who Riley often allowed to bring the ball upcourt like some kind of escaped low-post marauder, was a harbinger of things to come. That the punishingly dictatorial Riley gave Mase the freedom to create was surprising. Less so was that Mason chafed under the constraints of his coach’s boot-camp culture. Riley disciplined Mase numerous times because he trash-talked too much,1 complained about the Patrick Ewing–centric offense, or claimed Riley didn’t properly value his abilities. After Mase publicly objected to Riley’s assertion that Charles Smith was the team’s best offensive forward, Riles had him kicked off the team “indefinitely” down the stretch of the 1993-94 season. A man of the people in word and deed, Mason responded by showing up at New York’s next home game against the Sixers as an attendee, sitting in the upper-deck blue seats. Soon after, he tried to go to practice, as Mark Jacobson, in a 1994 New York profile of Mason, describes: Hearing of Mason’s presence, the famously unflappable Riley got him on the phone and started screaming, “Don’t you get it? You’re banned! You’re barred! You’re not part of the organization!” The Knicks went to the Finals that season. On the way, Mase defended Derrick Coleman, Scottie Pippen, Horace Grant, Indiana’s Davis brothers, and eventually Hakeem Olajuwon, to whose Rockets the Knicks lost in seven. Riley left after the next season, giving way to Don Nelson, whose love of point forwards freed up Mason to average then-career highs in points (14.6), rebounds (9.3), and assists (4.4). But Nelson never won over the team and left after one year. Jeff Van Gundy took over, and Mason was soon traded to Charlotte for Larry Johnson. Ten days later, the new Hornet was arrested for fighting 10 Manhattan cops. Although he wasn’t technically employed by the franchise, Mason stayed close to the city and the Knicks after retiring, attending games and team functions as a kind of unofficial ambassador. He was there when J.R. Smith got his Sixth Man of the Year Award in 2013, the same award Mase won in 1995. Still, the moment I’ll remember most about Mason came during the raucous ending to Game 7 of the 1994 Eastern Conference semifinals against the Chicago Bulls: The game’s coming to a close, and Mase is dribbling out the clock with his trademark flair — like a bulldozer doing needlepoint. When the buzzer sounds on the phantasmagoric win, a victory the team had been chasing for years like Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner, it almost doesn’t seem real. As Ewing strides around the court, arms held high, calling for the adulation the fans had so often withheld from him, there’s Mase, standing at half court and spiking the ball so hard that it should’ve exploded. It bounced up toward the Madison Square Garden ceiling, and I’m still not sure it ever came down. http://grantland.com/the-triangle/antho ... 1966-2015/

d'Kong76 Mar 03 2015 12:59 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

http://entertainthis.usatoday.com/2015/ ... -mr-spock/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2 ... /24128371/

Frayed Knot Mar 05 2015 02:05 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Cardinal Egan - 82

MFS62 Mar 05 2015 06:16 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Harrison Ford is still alive. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/harris ... id=DELLDHP Later

sharpie Mar 06 2015 01:35 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Albert Maysles, documentary filmmaker, Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens, many more. Sat next to him and his assistant on a subway once and listened in on him talking about how people confuse his films with the films of D.A. Pennebaker (Monterey Pop, Dont Look Back.

Edgy MD Mar 09 2015 01:43 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Bid sayonara to Sam 'Sayonara' Simon, comedy writer and producer, part of the original Simpsons creators, and establisher of the swankiest dog shelter around.

themetfairy Mar 11 2015 08:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Richard Glatzer, Writer/Director of Still Alice An incredible movie, that really haunts me. Every time I can't think of a word I'm reminded of the film.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 11 2015 11:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Eugene Kappock, 87, photographer who shot the world for the Daily News from Ike's two-term presidency through Big Bubba Clinton's. [fimg=533:1bq2l7wr]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2146383.1426123603!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/kappock7n-1-web.jpg?enlarged[/fimg:1bq2l7wr] [fimg=533:1bq2l7wr]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2146372.1426123587!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/kappock7n-12-web.jpg?enlarged[/fimg:1bq2l7wr] [fimg=533:1bq2l7wr]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2146378.1426123598!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/kappock7n-6-web.jpg?enlarged[/fimg:1bq2l7wr] [fimg=555:1bq2l7wr]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2146379.1426123599!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/kappock7n-5-web.jpg?enlarged[/fimg:1bq2l7wr] [fimg=555:1bq2l7wr]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2146381.1426123600!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/kappock7n-3-web.jpg?enlarged[/fimg:1bq2l7wr]

Mets – Willets Point Mar 12 2015 07:13 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Poor placement of "Zingo! It's fun."

Edgy MD Mar 12 2015 07:54 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

What does it do to you when your assignment is explicitly to get a shot of the grieving, devastated widow, who absolutely doesn't want to be shot at the worst time of her life, while she's sneaking out some auxiliary exit. To get that shot because you had the wherewithal to stalk that exit while you're colleagues were getting bupkis at the main exit. "YEAH! I got it! I'm the best at what I do! She thought she could elude the others but not me! ... I HATE myself... where's the liquor?"

RealityChuck Mar 12 2015 09:32 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

According to his Facebook page, Sir Terry Pratchett has died. Pratchett was known as a writer of humorous fantasy, especially the Discworld series (which grew to be more than just funny fantasy and managed to remain at a high level for 40 novels*). Before J. K. Rowling came along, he was the UK's most popular author. I've been reading him almost from the beginning, starting with The Colour of Magic and he's up high on my list of favorite authors. Pratchett created so many memorable characters: Rincewind, the Librarian, Death, Granny Weatherwax, Captain Carrot, Sam Vimes, Cue-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, Vetinary, Nobby Nobbs, Dame Sibyl, and so many more. Probably his best known work is his collaboration with Neal Gaiman, Bad Omens, which is back in print due to Gaiman's superstardom.** Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimers in 2007, when he was only 59. He still continued to write -- I'm sure there's a book or two in the pipeline -- and it seemed that he was managing the disease. The announcement was a terrible shock to everyone in the sf/fantasy world. *While the books are interconnected, with repeating characters and locations, they are independent stories and don't have to be read in any order (except for the first two), though there is a guide to recommended reading order. **Both authors have created characters that were anthropomorphic versions of Death; the one in Good Omens is Pterry's.

Ceetar Mar 12 2015 09:57 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Shucks. I don't think it's a disease you can 'manage' so much. His site seems overloaded at the moment. He'd been writing/wrote The Long Earth series with Stephen Baxter. I read the first one and really enjoyed it. Need to get to the others. Perhaps this was a way he could lend his artistry without the demands of actually writing them? Wikipedia lists at least one, The Shepherd's Crown, as still coming from the Discworld universe. I've only read I'd say 40% of them, but they're really good, especially after he got going.

sharpie Mar 12 2015 11:34 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Author Terry Pratchett, 66. http://gawker.com/terry-pratchett-legen ... 1691058588

Frayed Knot Mar 12 2015 11:41 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Author Terry Pratchett, 66. http://gawker.com/terry-pratchett-legen ... 1691058588 Look north two posts. Also Jimmy Greenspoon (no, really, that was his name) keyboardist and one of the trio of vocalists for 'Three Dog Night' - 67

dgwphotography Mar 12 2015 03:23 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Eugene Kappock, 87, photographer who shot the world for the Daily News from Ike's two-term presidency through Big Bubba Clinton's. [fimg=533]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2146383.1426123603!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/kappock7n-1-web.jpg?enlarged[/fimg] [fimg=555]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2146381.1426123600!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/kappock7n-3-web.jpg?enlarged[/fimg] Seaver even wore the uniform better than everyone else... [fimg=555]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2146370.1426123584!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/greatest-hits-sports-1970s.jpg[/fimg] Roller Derby at Shea...

themetfairy Mar 13 2015 06:01 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Architect/Designer Michael Graves FWIW, there is currently an exhibition of his work on display at the Grounds for Sculpture.

dgwphotography Mar 13 2015 06:23 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Eugene Sidney Patton, 82. Who, you ask? Why it's Gene Gene, The Dancing Machine! [youtube:2jandfov]xuJHKVQ2kLA[/youtube:2jandfov]

Frayed Knot Mar 14 2015 07:42 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

'DONDI' cartoonist Irwin Hasen - 96

G-Fafif Mar 14 2015 08:17 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Frayed Knot wrote: 'DONDI' cartoonist Irwin Hasen - 96

Edgy MD Mar 14 2015 08:28 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Came up recently here as the creator of CPF WotS participant Wildcat. [fimg=500:2omf1akg]http://scua.library.umass.edu/images/findingaids/mums744-i001-001.jpg[/fimg:2omf1akg] Wildcat has been making occasional appearances in Arrow through this season. That's a creation with legs, Irwin. Good for you.

RealityChuck Mar 14 2015 07:32 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Al Rosen, AL MVP of 1953.

MFS62 Mar 15 2015 07:46 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RealityChuck wrote: Al Rosen, AL MVP of 1953. He followed Hank Greenberg and preceded Sandy Koufax as a hero. They made us proud. RIP Later

G-Fafif Mar 15 2015 07:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Mike Porcaro, bassist for Toto, 59, ALS. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... 9-20150315

Edgy MD Mar 15 2015 07:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Oh, man, that's two of the three Poracaros. Steve Porcaro lives on, like Brian Wilson and Barry Gibb, as the last living brother of a three-brother act.

Mets – Willets Point Mar 16 2015 08:09 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

And Marky Ramone.

Edgy MD Mar 16 2015 08:33 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Sorta, yeah.

G-Fafif Mar 17 2015 04:57 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Andy Fraser, bassist from Free, 62, a victim of both cancer and AIDS. Andy had the foresight to co-author the David Wright home run tribute song you don't hear as much as you did in, say, 2007. [youtube]siMFORx8uO8[/youtube] Free, Toto, Three Dog Night...tough week for classic rockers.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 17 2015 05:28 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

G-Fafif wrote: Free, Toto, Three Dog Night...tough week for classic rockers. Those guys, plus drummer Bruce Crump of Molly Hatchet (age 57). He is the third of the original MH quintet (or sextet) to have died already. Them Wild Eyed Southern Boys.

G-Fafif Mar 17 2015 06:30 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP Bruce Crump, but aren't .38 Special the Wild Eyed Southern Boys? (A few things from four years in Tampa stick with a person.)

Rockin' Doc Mar 17 2015 09:37 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Free, Toto, Three Dog Night...tough week for classic rockers. Those guys, plus drummer Bruce Crump of Molly Hatchet (age 57). He is the third of the original MH quintet (or sextet) to have died already. Them Wild Eyed Southern Boys. Bad shit happens when you're Flirtin' with Disaster.

sharpie Mar 18 2015 07:21 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Since we're mourning music guys, Daevid Allen of prog rock band Gong and an original member of the Soft Machine (tho' left before they recorded), 77 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/arts/ ... aries&_r=0

G-Fafif Mar 20 2015 11:41 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

The band gets bigger, still, as A.J. Pero of Twisted Sister, 55, is literally not gonna take it anymore. http://ultimateclassicrock.com/aj-pero-dies/

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 20 2015 11:56 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

G-Fafif wrote: The band gets bigger, still, as A.J. Pero of Twisted Sister, 55, is literally not gonna take it anymore. http://ultimateclassicrock.com/aj-pero-dies/ You're an S-M-F! LOLing. RIP to AJ of TS. I just picked up Dee Snider's biography for laffs, but haven't cracked it open yet.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 20 2015 11:59 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

BTW the same site reports ketboardist Michael Brown of the Left Banke, who co-wrote 'Walk Away Renee', also died this week at 65.

Edgy MD Mar 20 2015 12:20 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

That's a great song. One of the truly great Beach Boys songs that's not actually a Beach Boys song.

Edgy MD Mar 21 2015 09:51 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

My friend Rusty remembers Chuck Bednarik: Goodbye to Chuck Bednarik, son of Bethlehem, PA's steel mills, 30-mission tail gunner in WWII, 3-time All-American at Penn and multiple All-Pro selection as both an offensive center and linebacker, the last of the NFL's true 60-minute men playing both ways. A member of the Eagles' last two championship teams ('49 and '60) who played 58 minutes of the 1960 championship game, making the final tackle that sealed Vince Lombardi's only playoff defeat as a head coach. When the NFL named its top 100 players several years ago, Bednarik came in at 35. He deserved better. Called "Concrete Charlie" not only for the way he played but because he sold cement in the off season for 20 years. Crotchety, opinionated, stubborn (a real son of Northeast, PA), tough and unforgiving, he will never be forgotten in Philly. The aftermath of his most famous play, from the 1960 season, is pictured below: a brutal tackle causing a fumble that secured the Eagles' passage into the playoffs and knocked the Giants' Frank Gifford out cold and forced him to miss the entirety of the following season (the deeply concussed Gifford returned only after an 18-month break... and the incident should still resonate in today's NFL).

Edgy MD Mar 26 2015 07:29 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

A beautiful tribute to Mr. Seo, who never played for the Eagles but sure sounds like he flew with them. [fimg=400]https://growlercustomcycles.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/dad-me.jpg?w=948&h=948[/fimg]

dgwphotography Mar 26 2015 08:28 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Edgy MD wrote: A beautiful tribute to Mr. Seo, who never played for the Eagles but sure sounds like he flew with them. Wow. Very well done.

A Boy Named Seo Mar 26 2015 02:55 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Thanks, guys. I'm still having some hard days through this one.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 26 2015 02:56 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

You're a regular Jax Teller. Hang in there!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 26 2015 04:35 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Just keep telling those stories. I know I've found some comfort there w/r to my Moms.

dgwphotography Mar 26 2015 06:32 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Thanks, guys. I'm still having some hard days through this one. Seo, it will get easier. I still have hard days regarding my dad, and he passed a little over a year ago.

Edgy MD Mar 26 2015 09:36 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Just keep telling those stories. I know I've found some comfort there w/r to my Moms. Agreed about this. It's the healthiest stuff. And it draws into the narrative the younger generation who didn't get to know him as well.

Ashie62 Mar 27 2015 08:43 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Rod "Hot Rod" Hundley, 80 NBA legend and broadcaster. WVU Hall of Fame, 1957 NCAA number one overall Pistons draft pick and longtime Jazz announcer. I remember him as a kid doing the college hoops ECAC game of the week before many conferences existed.

themetfairy Apr 01 2015 06:53 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP Cynthia Lennon

sharpie Apr 02 2015 08:14 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Cynthia joins Maureen Starkey and Linda McCartney in the club of Beatle first wives no longer being with us. Patti Boyd Harrison is getting nervous.

Edgy MD Apr 02 2015 08:21 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I did not know Maureen was gone.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 02 2015 09:06 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

sharpie wrote: Cynthia joins Maureen Starkey and Linda McCartney in the club of Beatle first wives no longer being with us. Patti Boyd Harrison is getting nervous. These things happen in threes, so Patti is likely to never die.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 02 2015 04:23 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Misao Okawa, 117, the oldest person in the world. Was born in Osaka, Japan on March 5, 1898. Now the oldest person is Gertrude Weaver of Arkansas, 116. It won't be long before we close the books on the 19th Century.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 06 2015 08:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Oh no! Now Gertrude is dead! Nobody seems to hold the "world's oldest person" title for very long!

Edgy MD Apr 07 2015 11:51 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

The title of sheriff of Hazzard County is also open, as James Best passes on, a survivor of more wrecks than any lawman known to history, having slammed his unit into innumerable swamps, hay bales, chicken coops, and outhouses. Survived by his sister, Lulu Hogg, his deputy, Enos, and his long suffering basset hound, Flash.

cooby Apr 07 2015 06:15 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Thanks, guys. I'm still having some hard days through this one. Love you Jake.

Frayed Knot Apr 08 2015 06:56 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Stan Freberg - 88 Back in the days when comedy recordings were a sizable part of the record business, not many were bigger than Freberg's dry wit and biting satire of music, advertising, politics, and just pop culture in general.

MFS62 Apr 08 2015 07:33 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Frayed Knot wrote: Stan Freberg - 88 Back in the days when comedy recordings were a sizable part of the record business, not many were bigger than Freberg's dry wit and biting satire of music, advertising, politics, and just pop culture in general. That makes me sad. One of my favorite albums of all time is "Stan Freeberg Presents the United States of America". I have the vinyl and recently had it transferred to CD. If you don't remember him or his tv show, he was the voice of he Chun-King Dragon on their ads. RIP. Later

Edgy MD Apr 13 2015 05:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Shoot something besides a selfie in honor of retired Daily News photographer Dan Farrell, who passes at 84. He took this shot: [fimg=450]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1504376!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/jfk-anniversary.jpg[/fimg] And this one: And this one: That first shot was nominated for a Pulitzer, but he lost out to Bob Jackson, the photographer who captured this moment: [fimg=550]https://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/1384_jackson_300-jpg.jpeg[/fimg] Tough year, in more ways than one.

Ashie62 Apr 14 2015 11:28 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Percy Sledge 74 #When a man Loves a Woman."

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 14 2015 11:58 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

a classik

Edgy MD Apr 14 2015 01:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I'm just going to stop by here and drop off this picture of King Curtis, Percy Sledge, Cornell Dupree and Jimi Hendrix:

Mets – Willets Point Apr 16 2015 08:47 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Eduardo Galeano, 74, a Uruguayan writer known for his poetic descriptions of soccer, including the classic book Soccer in Sun and Shadow. He was kind of the Roger Angell of the beautiful game.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 16 2015 10:06 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

A really skilled writer. Sun and Shadow is like an exhaustive history of soccer distilled in a series of short poems. Just blows me away.

dgwphotography Apr 20 2015 09:17 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Edgy MD wrote: Shoot something besides a selfie in honor of retired Daily News photographer Dan Farrell, who passes at 84. A Remembrance of Dan Farrell as only Joe McNally could write.

themetfairy Apr 27 2015 06:00 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP Jayne Meadows

Edgy MD Apr 28 2015 12:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

My favorite tambourine player.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 28 2015 01:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP Tracy. All of her older siblings and mother outlived her and one of them is Danny Bona-Douche

cooby Apr 28 2015 04:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I always thought Tracy was a cutey (but not as cute as Danny!!!) but god what a bad actress. Did you see her in "Dawn, Portrait of a Teenage Runaway"? Yeah, yeah I know that was (my favorite) Eve Plumb but Suzanne had a bit part.

Edgy MD Apr 28 2015 04:54 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Eve Plumb wasn't half the tambourine player Suzanne Crough was.

cooby Apr 28 2015 04:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Maybe not, but she, at least her animated self, could play that keyboard! Whoo!

Edgy MD Apr 28 2015 05:05 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

The Brady Kids isn't canonical! [youtube]UU-r1MEu_vY[/youtube]

cooby Apr 28 2015 05:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I knew this was coming! Sorry, Suzanne, you deserve some respect. But I know you liked the Brady Bunch too :)

Edgy MD Apr 29 2015 06:10 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

The Washington Post is stealing my headlines.

themetfairy Apr 29 2015 09:50 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Jean Nidetch, Founder of Weight Watchers I owe that woman a huge debt of gratitude; Weight Watchers has improved my life tremendously. RIP Jean

MFS62 Apr 30 2015 06:07 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Calvin Peete - 71 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/sport ... .html?_r=0 Later

themetfairy May 01 2015 08:43 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP Ben E. King

Edgy MD May 01 2015 09:19 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Legal problems ruined everything, but rarely in the history of vocal groups has there been such a great combination of ensemble (The Drifters), songs (Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman, and Lieber & Stoller), arrangements (Stan Applebaum), and frontman (King). Though, lot of those elements made it over to the dawn of King's career ("Stand by Me" and certainly "Spanish Harlem"), it couldn't last, but many of those elements became the springboard for Phil Spector's factory. "There Goes My Baby" was supposedly the first successful rock 'n' roll record with a full orchestral arrangement, and what an arrangement. I like the post-King Drifters (led by Rudy Lewis), but they were more earthbound.

G-Fafif May 01 2015 12:28 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

[youtube:jhfy8ybw]dh3FmghHXKM[/youtube:jhfy8ybw]

Fman99 May 01 2015 07:40 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

G-Fafif wrote: [youtube]dh3FmghHXKM[/youtube] My favorite Ben E jam.

themetfairy May 03 2015 08:30 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP Grace Lee Whitney a/k/a Yeoman Rand

TransMonk May 05 2015 10:16 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Ellen Albertini Dow, Rapping Granny From 'The Wedding Singer,' Dead At 101

TheOldMole May 07 2015 07:27 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Susan Cowsill, the original for Tracy Partridge, will be playing Opus 40 next weekend.

TheOldMole May 07 2015 07:28 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP Ralph Sharon, Tony Bennett's longtime accompanist.

themetfairy May 07 2015 07:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

TheOldMole wrote: Susan Cowsill, the original for Tracy Partridge, will be playing Opus 40 next weekend. Mole - if Susan is playing at Opus 40 next weekend then she shouldn't be in this thread (unless you have the best Ouija board ever!).

Edgy MD May 07 2015 09:14 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I like Susan's solo sound. Austin country folk rock thing she has.

TheOldMole May 08 2015 02:23 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Sharon - just mentioning her in connection with Tracy Partridge, who did come up in this thread.

themetfairy May 08 2015 06:57 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Gotcha!

Edgy MD May 08 2015 08:00 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Barry Cowsill belongs in this thread. Poor guy drowned during Katrina. Hey clowns, that's Susan Cowsill! Put down your stupid canapés, shut up, and listen! [youtube:1btwcti5]PXa4t557SD0[/youtube:1btwcti5]

Mets – Willets Point May 08 2015 11:07 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Edgy MD wrote: Austin country folk rock thing she has. I've been staring at the screen too long because I read that as "Austrian country folk rock" which would be something else entirely. Time to go to lunch.

cooby May 14 2015 04:45 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I stopped to visit my dad today (and plant some thyme) and noticed that on a nearby grave, someone had left a bag of potato chips. Different.

d'Kong76 May 15 2015 04:58 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP, B.B. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/arts/ ... .html?_r=0

Edgy MD May 15 2015 07:24 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

[youtube:31gphf3l]dO-AkORggyY[/youtube:31gphf3l]

MFS62 May 15 2015 08:21 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

He used to play at the local Candlewood Playhouse every year (before the place was torn down). RIP Later

Benjamin Grimm May 15 2015 08:47 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

So I assume he stopped playing there after it was torn down?

MFS62 May 15 2015 08:58 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

There's a job waiting for you in the FBI. You have a keen analytical mind. Later

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 15 2015 12:08 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Saw BB in 1998 at NJPAC. He was performing with Bobby Blue Bland, and they literally pulled Ruth Brown out of the audience to join them. Some of the most raucous, heartfelt, vulgar, ear-blistering stuff on a stage I've ever seen ensued. So, so good.

Edgy MD May 15 2015 12:11 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

That's an impressive trio of Killer B's.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 15 2015 12:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I'd only just heard of Brown, and didn't know Bobby Bland, so I only really realized how special that was after the fact. But, hoo boy, was it.

Ashie62 May 16 2015 09:34 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Garo Yepremian 70 goes to Miami Dolphin heaven. Most known for his gaffe in Super Bowl VII. His failed pass on a botched kick brought him TV commercial celebrity, "I kick"

MFS62 May 16 2015 07:16 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Ashie62 wrote: Garo Yepremian 70 goes to Miami Dolphin heaven. Most known for his gaffe in Super Bowl VII. His failed pass on a botched kick brought him TV commercial celebrity, "I kick" That was the worst looking pass in NFL history (well, except for Tim Tebow's throws). Later

dgwphotography May 23 2015 02:24 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Marcus Haynes, 89

MFS62 May 23 2015 06:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

dgwphotography wrote: Marcus Haynes, 89 Lots of playground pals I knew wanted to be able to dribble like Marcus. Then they realized no matter how much they practiced, they would never be able to do it. So they switched to other positions ( like shooting guard) or other sports. RIP Later

themetfairy May 24 2015 08:46 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP John and Alicia Nash

Benjamin Grimm May 24 2015 02:36 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Anne Meara, 85.

MFS62 May 24 2015 05:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Stiller and Meara picked up where Burns and Allen left off. Many viewers of the Ed Sullivan show enjoyed their routines. RIP Later

Frayed Knot May 30 2015 09:51 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Joseph R. 'Beau' Biden III, son of the Vice President - 46 of brain cancer. Beau was one of the two survivors of the car crash that killed VP Biden's first wife and infant daughter. Beau and brother Hunter were seriously injured but survived. Hunter - 45, survives as does a 34 y/o daughter from his 2nd marriage to current wife Jill.

themetfairy May 30 2015 10:05 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

That's so sad. No matter what one's politics are, I think that we all have to agree that losing a child (of any age) is something that no parent should have to endure.

MFS62 May 31 2015 07:31 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP, Beau. Later

Benjamin Grimm Jun 05 2015 02:43 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Saddam Hussein's crony, Tariq Aziz, 79.

Edgy MD Jun 07 2015 05:34 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

A very controversial figure, Aziz. A lot of folks thought he went down just for guilt by association.

Edgy MD Jun 11 2015 07:30 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

[fimg=400]http://www.joblo.com/face_off_img/4356c4c8-7c59-057e..jpg[/fimg] The bats have left the bell tower The victims have been bled Red velvet lines the black box Christopher Lee is dead

dgwphotography Jun 11 2015 07:31 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Christopher Lee, 93

Edgy MD Jun 11 2015 08:07 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

You know, I've appeared in over 130 motion pictures, and not ALL of them begin at 3 AM on Channel 9. — Christopher Lee, in his opening monologue from Saturday Night Live in [crossout]2008[/crossout] 1978 I loved that crack back then. I was 11, but I turned to my brother (who, at 13, was far more worldly than me), asking if "channel 9" meant the same thing in every TV market, some sort of code-word for the bottom-feeding local, unaffiliated station that aired the same, cheap, otherwise out-of-circulation fare that WOR did in New York.

sharpie Jun 11 2015 09:50 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Channel 9 is or at least was the PBS affiliate in San Francisco, so no.

dgwphotography Jun 11 2015 10:09 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Edgy MD wrote: You know, I've appeared in over 130 motion pictures, and not ALL of them begin at 3 AM on Channel 9. — Christopher Lee, in his opening monologue from Saturday Night Live in 2008 I loved that crack back then. I was 11, but I turned to my brother (who, at 13, was far more worldly than me, asking if "channel 9" meant the same thing in every TV market, some sort of code-word for the bottom-feeding local, unaffiliated station that aired the same, cheap, otherwise out-of-circulation fare that WOR did in New York. Um.. Wouldn't that be 1978?

Mets – Willets Point Jun 11 2015 10:15 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Jazz musician Ornette Coleman, 85.

Frayed Knot Jun 11 2015 10:17 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Also singer Ronnie Gilbert - 88, the female voice in THE WEAVERS singing/activist group of the 1950s

cooby Jun 11 2015 10:44 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

dgwphotography wrote: Edgy MD wrote: You know, I've appeared in over 130 motion pictures, and not ALL of them begin at 3 AM on Channel 9. — Christopher Lee, in his opening monologue from Saturday Night Live in 2008 I loved that crack back then. I was 11, but I turned to my brother (who, at 13, was far more worldly than me, asking if "channel 9" meant the same thing in every TV market, some sort of code-word for the bottom-feeding local, unaffiliated station that aired the same, cheap, otherwise out-of-circulation fare that WOR did in New York. Um.. Wouldn't that be 1978? Edgys mom and dad must have signed a disclaimer to let him join the CPF

Edgy MD Jun 11 2015 11:03 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

dgwphotography wrote: Um.. Wouldn't that be 1978? No idea why I wrote it as such. Sleepy.

Edgy MD Jun 11 2015 11:08 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

sharpie wrote: Channel 9 is or at least was the PBS affiliate in San Francisco, so no. Well, 37 years later, I've figured out the answer. You know, no more stories for you assbags.

sharpie Jun 11 2015 11:14 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Jazz musician Ornette Coleman, 85. This is a loss. A year ago, at Celebrate Brooklyn, there was a tribute concert to him for his 85th birthday. Lots of jazz greats there plus others such as Flea, Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith, Thurston Moore and Nels Cline. Ornette came on stage for a few songs, sitting on a chair with his sax and occasionally joining in. Started off with a jazz combo and then Patti Smith came on. I felt like Ornette was thinking: what the hell am I doing up here with her? Anyway, was a great evening and he made a lot of great music. RIP.

Mets – Willets Point Jun 11 2015 11:25 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Sounds like a great experience. I always regret not going to a jazz festival near where I lived which ended up being one of Ella Fitzgerald's last performances before she died.

MFS62 Jun 11 2015 11:57 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Frayed Knot wrote: Also singer Ronnie Gilbert - 88, the female voice in THE WEAVERS singing/activist group of the 1950s She and Pete Seeger can now sing great duets forever. RIP Later

Edgy MD Jun 11 2015 12:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Christopher Lee, one of six non-Wings to appear on the cover of Band on the Run.

TransMonk Jun 11 2015 12:32 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Edgy MD wrote: Christopher Lee, one of six non-Wings to appear on the cover of Band on the Run. I can add that to the "did not know" file.

Frayed Knot Jun 11 2015 12:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

MFS62 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Also singer Ronnie Gilbert - 88, the female voice in THE WEAVERS singing/activist group of the 1950s She and Pete Seeger can now sing great duets forever. RIP Later Along with Lee Hayes, who died many moons back, taking the Baritone parts. Only Fred Kellerman (88) of the original four survives - although there were some fill-in members here and there at various times.

dgwphotography Jun 11 2015 12:34 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Edgy MD wrote: Christopher Lee, one of six non-Wings to appear on the cover of Band on the Run. Cool - I didn't notice that. Is that James Colburn next to him?

themetfairy Jun 11 2015 01:06 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP Virgil Runnels a/k/a Dusty Rhodes

sharpie Jun 11 2015 01:16 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Also, Ron Moody of "Oliver" fame. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/theat ... .html?_r=0

Edgy MD Jun 11 2015 09:03 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

The album cover photograph was taken at Osterley Park, west London, on 28 October 1973 by photographer Clive Arrowsmith. Ed: I'm going to guess that guy is British. It depicts Paul, Linda and Denny plus six other well-known people dressed as convicts caught in the spotlight of a prison searchlight. They are Michael Parkinson, chat-show host and journalist; Kenny Lynch, actor, comedian and singer; James Coburn, actor; Clement Freud, columnist, gourmet and raconteur; Christopher Lee, actor; and John Conteh, a boxer who later became World Light-Heavyweight champion.

dgwphotography Jun 12 2015 08:13 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Five years later, Rue McClanahan is still dead

Edgy MD Jun 13 2015 09:12 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

This list of 22 incredible facts about Christopher Lee more than lives up to it's title. INCREDIBLE!

MFS62 Jun 14 2015 07:03 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Edgy MD wrote: This list of 22 incredible facts about Christopher Lee more than lives up to it's title. INCREDIBLE! I had to look twice to make sure that wasn't a story in The Onion when I read, "He was made a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire". That sounds like something right out of Monty Python. What a life! RIP. Later

G-Fafif Jun 23 2015 09:54 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Dick Van Patten, Eight Is Enough star, 86.

Frayed Knot Jun 23 2015 09:55 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

So, apparently, 86 was enough for him.

Edgy MD Jun 23 2015 02:37 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

And James Horner, who achieved fine things in the art of film scoring (see Heaven Help Us, The Name of the Rose, and the trilogy of Star Trek II-IV, and lots of eighties awesomeness) but will long be remembered for Titanic, has died in a private plane crash.

Edgy MD Jun 25 2015 02:51 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Having fulfilled his life-long goal of outliving Christopher Lee, Patrick McNee tips his bowler and checks out at 93.

Edgy MD Jun 28 2015 10:35 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Classick rockers everywhere are taking the weekend off out of respect for the passing of Yes bassist and co-founder Chris Squire. The band may have splintered, broken up, re-merged and sued each other prolifically, but no lineup that I know of failed to include Squire (at least until he took a leave of absence a few months ago following a leukemia diagnosis. The only thing as constant as Squire was his trademark Rickenbacker 4001. Chris's bassing stands out on many Yessongs, but perhaps none so much as "Heart of the Sunrise": [youtube]7WDkdZ6QvXY[/youtube]

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 28 2015 11:24 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

a giant of the genre!

TransMonk Jun 28 2015 07:05 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

One of my all time faves on bass. RIP

Ashie62 Jul 09 2015 06:36 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Iconic Raiders QB Ken Stabler 69

Edgy MD Jul 09 2015 06:45 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Stabler was a talented but crazy badass nut. Like the Ty Cobb of of 1970s football. Got tough young growing up in a family of alcohol-fueled insanity. Never played bass in YES, but probably could've if he had to.

Mets – Willets Point Jul 09 2015 09:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Are you saying that Stabler was ... unstable?

Edgy MD Jul 09 2015 09:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Stabler was stabler than he had any right to be. Supposedly came home as a 16 year old to find his dad — a garage mechanic built like Noah Syndergaard — drunk and holding the rest of the family at bay with a shotgun, threatening to kill them all and himself, and he went blow for blow the drunken dad until he disarmed him. Some days it's good to be a lefty. The NFL is crazy and insane, and such stories deserve a better ending than getting your head beaten in and your body kneecapped for America's entertainment, but I understand how it's been historically a place for people from crazy backgrounds like that to make their way. It's just... largely an illusion that any of them are actually making their way forward.

dgwphotography Jul 10 2015 08:05 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Omar Sharif - 83 http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33483877

Frayed Knot Jul 10 2015 08:30 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I would have guessed a bit older but it turns out that he and Peter O'Toole were the same age, both being 29 at the release of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA Sherif Ali in that film was Sharif's first English-speaking role.

dgwphotography Jul 10 2015 09:22 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Strangely, I thought he had died already. When one of my coworkers told me, I thought he was being trolled with an old obit.

themetfairy Jul 19 2015 12:26 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP Alex Rocco

MFS62 Jul 19 2015 06:07 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

themetfairy wrote: RIP Alex Rocco "No other information available." Was he shot in the eye? RIP, Moe, er, Alex. Later

Fman99 Jul 20 2015 07:04 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I like to play this game in my head, this kind of mental gymnastics, where I take his best line from the Godfather and substitute someone else's name into the line in place of 'Moe Greene.' And try to think of the most absurd name to put into that spot. This is the scene in particular. [youtube]89aQ1EfPJ-Y[/youtube] My favorite one is: "Do you know who I am? I'm Mother Teresa. I made my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders!"

themetfairy Jul 21 2015 02:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP Theodore Bikel

Frayed Knot Jul 21 2015 08:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Author E.L. Doctorow - 84

MFS62 Jul 21 2015 09:18 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

themetfairy wrote: RIP Theodore Bikel Olevai Shalom. Later

themetfairy Jul 30 2015 11:59 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Sherman Hemsley RIP George Jefferson

Frayed Knot Jul 30 2015 12:14 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

themetfairy wrote: Sherman Hemsley RIP George Jefferson Again?

themetfairy Jul 30 2015 12:16 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Dammit - I didn't check the date. Sorry about that.

seawolf17 Jul 30 2015 12:39 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Sherman Hemsley RIP George Jefferson Again? Wadsworth: Well, he's certainly dead now. Why would anyone want to kill him twice? Miss Scarlet: It seems so unnecessary. Colonel Mustard: Well, it's what we call "overkill." Professor Plum: It's what we call "psychotic."

Frayed Knot Jul 31 2015 08:43 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Roderick George Toombs -- aka: Rowdy Roddy Piper - 61, heart attack. Or, as they call 61 in wrestling circles, old age.

Edgy MD Jul 31 2015 09:02 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

An entry in the great book of short conversations: "So what kind of music do you think we should have for Roddy's funeral?"

G-Fafif Jul 31 2015 10:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Country singer Lynn Anderson, 67, who crossed over with the major pop hit, "Rose Garden," in 1970.

Frayed Knot Aug 01 2015 06:09 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Ah yes the cross-over hit, from that bygone era before someone decided that all songs needed their own dedicated stations and sub-markets, back when country-ish songs could be played next to soul/R&B hits which could then be followed by a straight ahead R&R tune or by some softer stuff and no one thought it weird and declared that this sort of mixing was evil and needed to be halted.

d'Kong76 Aug 01 2015 10:44 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Frayed Knot wrote: Roderick George Toombs -- aka: Rowdy Roddy Piper - 61, heart attack. RIP, Hot Rod... one of my favorites!

Edgy MD Aug 01 2015 10:50 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

You go, Lynn. [youtube:2jo51fcl]WO4wcNVbYOQ[/youtube:2jo51fcl]

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 01 2015 11:43 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

d'Kong76 wrote: Roderick George Toombs -- aka: Rowdy Roddy Piper - 61, heart attack. RIP, Hot Rod... one of my favorites! One of the best wrestling villians ever, I'm sure he was all kinds of coked up when he performed but damn sure pulled off the act. Not the wrestling itself, necessarily, but the character. To be honest I can't remember how he performed in the ring. That's how great he was on the microphone!

Edgy MD Aug 01 2015 11:53 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Supposedly was one of the great road warriors. Would go months at a time without a day off, often playing multiple shows in a day. Yeah, I believe cocaine and 'roids were involved.

cooby Aug 03 2015 07:12 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Edgy MD wrote: You go, Lynn. [youtube]WO4wcNVbYOQ[/youtube] I liked this song. It's weird how this thread is Lynn/Roddy/Lynn/Roddy. Talk about two different types.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 03 2015 10:49 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Roderick George Toombs -- aka: Rowdy Roddy Piper - 61, heart attack. RIP, Hot Rod... one of my favorites! One of the best wrestling villians ever, I'm sure he was all kinds of coked up when he performed but damn sure pulled off the act. Not the wrestling itself, necessarily, but the character. To be honest I can't remember how he performed in the ring. That's how great he was on the microphone! Oh, the charisma on this guy. (Aptly captured by "Masked Man" David Shoemaker's eulogy here.) When my cousins and I pretended to be pro wrestlers, I usually went for Roddy Piper, because he was so much more fun than the good guys.

themetfairy Aug 09 2015 01:14 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP Frank Gifford

Ashie62 Aug 09 2015 04:44 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I remember Gifford most for being with Cosell on MNF announcing the death of John Lennon.

G-Fafif Aug 09 2015 06:45 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

About as comprehensive a late-life interview as you could ask for with Gifford here, from Mark Weinstein of Bluenatic. MW: As a broadcaster, you were in the booth when Howard Cosell announced, during a 1980 Monday Night Football telecast, that The Beatles’ John Lennon had been assassinated. Can you tell me a little bit about what that experience was like? FG: We were in the really early stages of the popularity of pro football, because we were the first to go prime time. And it was amazing how many things happened on Mondays. The John Lennon thing was really shocking to me, because I was a Beatles fan, as were my kids. And I just could not believe it. Howard wanted to go with it as soon as the news reached us, but I wouldn’t let him do it for quite a while. I knew we’d have to break it—we couldn’t sit on it any longer—so we finally did. But I made him hold it up until we called New York and got the news people on the line, and they confirmed that it indeed had happened. So nationally, we broke the story. Or rather Howard did, and, as he did in many situations, I thought he handled it beautifully.

Ashie62 Aug 09 2015 06:57 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I believe Frank Gifford helped scrape Evel Knievel off the Astrodome tarmac on the Wide World of Sports in the seventies.

Frayed Knot Aug 09 2015 07:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Gifford to me was more timing than talent -- even though there'll be a ton of weepy sports anchors giving Giff the "soundtrack of my youth" treatment over the next few days -- but he always had real good timing. He was the good-looking southern Cal boy back when college football was still considered the superior to the pro game. He then moved to the NFL just as the it was in its ascendency and rode that wave for all it was worth. And his retirement was at the perfect time again, just as the marriage of football and TV (all sports really but particularly football) was mushrooming. Ex-jocks were rarely very smooth but Frank was so he combined his looks, prior popularity, and that smooth (if somewhat bland IMO) delivery and it was a generation or so until they started producing younger and better talent.

MFS62 Aug 10 2015 06:52 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

My friends and I noticed that after the Bednarik hit, he didn't want to risk any damage to his pretty-boy looks. So he moved from running back to wide receiver, so he wouldn't have to run where the big guys were. And, as a wide receiver, he ran down-and-out patters, so he could get out of bounds before getting hit by a defensive player. Or, as we called them, "Gifford chicken routes". He kept his looks and, as they say, the rest is History. The one thing I remember from his announcing days is that he ALWAYS called Washington DC "The Nation's Capitol". He never called the city by its name. RIP, Frank. Nobody's going to hit you any more. Later

Mets – Willets Point Aug 16 2015 12:37 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Civil rights activist Julian Bond, 1940-2015.

Edgy MD Aug 16 2015 06:00 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Julian Bond was a Morehouse man. He was briefly there at the same time as Donn Clendenon before his work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee led to him withdrawing. His SNCC took him all across the deep South when it was a dangerous thing to be a young activist. He returned at the end of the decade to complete his degree, graduated in 1971 and became the founder and first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, absolute champions who stood taller than any in the struggle against judicial miscarriages. He went on to a long and distinguished political career — despite the lines of the district he represented being continually redrawn — and was just a handsome man. He was even briefly nominated to be the Democratic candidate for president during the crazy 1968 convention in Chicago! First black man ever to make a major party ballot (before he withdrew his name)!

themetfairy Aug 19 2015 12:03 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Yvonne Craig RIP Batgirl

Frayed Knot Aug 19 2015 06:32 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Mets – Willets Point wrote: Civil rights activist Julian Bond, 1940-2015. And now without a sense of humor about it all. [youtube]N8QEIaATPis[/youtube] Remember when non pop princesses or those without a current movie release could host SNL?

RealityChuck Aug 19 2015 02:04 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

themetfairy wrote: Yvonne Craig RIP Batgirl Here's a wonderful tribute to her (read to the end).

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 19 2015 02:17 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Terrific!

Zvon Aug 19 2015 03:31 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

That's funny. My brother Emailed me last night about Craig's passing and I responded saying :she may have been my first crush. But I was 8 or 9 years old so there was no pud pulling involved.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 20 2015 05:51 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Thanks for the clarification!

Frayed Knot Aug 27 2015 01:34 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

NBA'er Daryl Dawkins, aka: Chocolate Thunder -- 58 I wonder if the funeral will be held on Planet Lovetron?

d'Kong76 Aug 27 2015 01:59 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Chocolate Thunder was cool! rip

Edgy MD Aug 27 2015 02:18 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

The only man in history to ever to successfully throw down a Chocolate-Thunder-Flying, Robinzine-Crying, Teeth-Shaking, Glass-Breaking, Rump-Roasting, Bun-Toasting, Wham-Bam, Glass-Breaker-I-Am-Jam.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 27 2015 02:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

All of Planet Lovetron is in mourning.

MFS62 Aug 27 2015 06:59 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I am sad. So is everyone else who ever enjoyed watching him play. RIP Later

Frayed Knot Aug 28 2015 11:04 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Al Arbour - 82

Frayed Knot Aug 29 2015 03:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Yvonne Craig RIP Batgirl Bad week for teen boy fantasy TV stars as Melody Patterson -- aka Wrangler Jane of F-Troop -- dies at just age 66 "after a lengthy illness". oe: Wait a minute, that makes her just 16 when F-Troop started, something she apparently hid from the show's producers.

MFS62 Aug 30 2015 02:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

oe: Wait a minute, that makes her just 16 when F-Troop started, something she apparently hid from the show's producers. The reported ages of actors and actress are like the ages of Latin American baseball players used to be - not always what they tell us. Later

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 30 2015 03:27 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Neurologist/author/generous-humored explainer of brain strangeness and the human condition Oliver Sacks, 82.

Edgy MD Aug 30 2015 03:41 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

He will mistaken for a hat no longer.

themetfairy Aug 30 2015 08:23 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP Wes Craven

MFS62 Aug 31 2015 07:33 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

themetfairy wrote: RIP Wes Craven Are we sure he's really dead? RIP. Later

Mets Guy in Michigan Sep 03 2015 11:13 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Dean Jones, star of the classic "That Darn Cat" and a million of the Disney movies of my youth!

cooby Sep 03 2015 11:53 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

"For crying out loud!"

G-Fafif Sep 07 2015 09:15 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Judy Carne, 76, Laugh-In.

G-Fafif Sep 07 2015 09:18 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Frayed Knot wrote: Al Arbour - 82 All the richly deserved tributes made me realize Arbour had the coaching career long-term that Gil Hodges had all too briefly.

G-Fafif Sep 07 2015 01:36 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

One Adam-12: Martin Milner, 83.

Frayed Knot Sep 07 2015 02:13 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

[u:1xthjt9p]ADAM 12[/u:1xthjt9p] was a NYT Crossword answer just yesterday.

Mets – Willets Point Sep 07 2015 07:16 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

MFS62 wrote: themetfairy wrote: RIP Wes Craven Are we sure he's really dead? RIP. Later Heard a retrospective collection of Fresh Air interviews with Wes Craven and it seems like he was an interesting person, with different goals for his work than I'd ever imagined.

soupcan Sep 08 2015 08:05 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

'One Adam 12, One Adam 12, see the man...'

Edgy MD Sep 08 2015 08:20 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Martin Milner brought it everyday. Route 66, Adam 12, Swiss Family Robinson. Knowing there was a Martin Milner out there made it easier to sleep at night. Here he is talking David Cassady down from a bad trip: [youtube:wd7n7rq4]m24F9J9bnMk[/youtube:wd7n7rq4]

themetfairy Sep 08 2015 06:10 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

New York Football Giant Tyler Sash, 27.

d'Kong76 Sep 08 2015 06:22 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Handle code three. **********

Frayed Knot Sep 13 2015 11:09 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Not a good month for ex-NBA big men: Moses Malone - 60

Edgy MD Sep 13 2015 02:24 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Damn it. Replaced Darryl Dawkins in the pivot for the Sixers, and now replaces him in the morgue. Got to be one of the top five centers ever. No one compared on the offensive glass.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 14 2015 07:16 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Kurt Loder here with sad breaking bulletin: REO Speedwagon's diminutive axe-man Gary Richrath is dead at age 65. If every song sounded like this they should have been called REO Shredwagon. [youtube]5Jr4R_xheeE[/youtube] Richrath and REO singer Kevin Cronin had stormy breakup but KC was very gracious in his remembrance on facebook. We'll have more on this breaking news later, now back to you, Nina Blackwood.

Edgy MD Sep 14 2015 07:54 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Man, they'd do those 80s piano ballads and there's Gary in the corner with his awesome 70s hair, tearing at his Les Paul, buried in the mix, and wondering what happened. What's a better 80s name than Richrath, though?

seawolf17 Sep 14 2015 09:55 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Edgy MD wrote: What's a better 80s name than Richrath, though? "Ahem."

Edgy MD Sep 15 2015 06:53 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Bleh. Anybody in any decade can be Rikki Rocket. Meanwhile, plant something in honor of legendary Lower East Side gardener Adam Purple, who died yesterday crossing the Williamsburg Bridge.

Rockin' Doc Sep 15 2015 08:04 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Saw REO Speedwagon at the Charleston (WV) Civic Center in the spring of 1981. Their album, "Hi Infidelity" was the top album on the Billboard charts and earlier that day they had learned that the power ballad "Keep On Lovin' You" had become the #1 single on the charts. The band, particularly Gary Richrath, were in great form that night. Richrath got to strut his stuff on such songs as Roll With the Changes, 157 Riverside Avenue, Take It on the Run, Ridin' the Storm Out, and of course, Flying Turkey Trot/Gary's Guitar Solo. Unfortunately, it was the beginning of the end for REO Speedwagon, but you could never have convinced me (and the future Mrs.) on that night, of REO's impending fall from the heights. RIP Gary Richrath and thank you for helping fill the soundtrack of my youth with some memorable riffs.

Frayed Knot Oct 08 2015 06:58 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Been a slow couple of weeks for celebrity deaths. Until now. Chef Paul Prudhomme - 75

Edgy MD Oct 09 2015 09:49 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Not so slow if you're if you're dramatic colossus Brian Friel. ...It drifts in from somewhere far away - a mirage of sound - a dream music that is both heard and imagined; that seems to be both itself and its own echo; a sound so alluring and so mesmeric that the afternoon is bewitched, maybe haunted, by it. And, what is so strange about that memory is that everybody seems to be floating on those sweet sounds , moving rhythmically, languorously, in complete isolation; responding more to the mood of the music than to its beat. When I remember it, I think of it as dancing. Dancing with eyes half closed because to open them would break the spell. Dancing as if language had surrendered to movement - as if this ritual, this wordless ceremony, was now the way to speak, to whisper private and sacred things, to be in touch with some otherness. dancing as if the very heart of life and all its hopes might be found in those assuaging notes and those hushed rhythms and in those silent and hypnotic movements. Dancing as if language no longer existed because words were no longer necessary...” Sent home to the soil of Donegal in a wicker casket. You can read more about him in the words of Stephen Rea and Meryl Streep, but the true testimony is in the plays, which hit my simple mind as among the greatest ever written, pre-modern and post-modern at the same time, and simultaneously deeply authentic and farcically fraudulent like a Dylan song. [fimg=600]http://www.shropshirestar.com/wpmvc/wp/wp-content/uploads/xmlImages/PA/2015/10/P-c9a1ece9-4b11-45ca-816a-5df2545ff33f.jpg[/fimg]

themetfairy Oct 24 2015 11:38 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP Maureen O'Hara

Edgy MD Oct 24 2015 04:52 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

themetfairy wrote: RIP Maureen O'Hara I invite each and every one of you to join me in honor Ms. O'Hara's legacy by getting in a fight with your brothers-in law... a fight that wrecks the whole damn town.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 25 2015 06:53 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Three Dog Night's soulful tenor Cory Wells. Age 74. [youtube:1sdcc4nk]xnyh6i9NvmE[/youtube:1sdcc4nk]

Edgy MD Oct 26 2015 05:28 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Wells went out with pride, as "Shambala" won this hotly contested poll over his bandmate's contributions, in a thread that spun off into the musical merits of the seventies and the educational merits of "Convoy."

themetfairy Oct 31 2015 07:51 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 31 2015 09:04 AM

RIP Big Al/Murray the Cop Al Molinaro Dies at Age 96

seawolf17 Oct 31 2015 07:56 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

"Not so good, Al."

Benjamin Grimm Oct 31 2015 08:01 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

To me he'll always be Murray the cop.

Edgy MD Oct 31 2015 09:04 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Tony Randall (Felix), 1920–2004 Jack Klugman (Oscar), 1922–2012 Al Molinaro (Murray), 1919–2015 Garry Walberg (Speed), 1921–2012 It's down to Larry Gelman (Vinnie) and Ryan McDonald (Roy) for all the chips.

El Segundo Escupidor Oct 31 2015 10:29 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Lotsa folks on a Russian flight in Egypt. http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/middleeas ... index.html

Frayed Knot Nov 01 2015 10:44 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Former Senator from Tennessee and part-time actor (Law & Order, 'In the Line of Fire') Fred Thompson - 73

cooby Nov 04 2015 03:18 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Leaving for a funeral in a few minutes...it's my daughter in law's aunt, who was younger than my daughter in law. I don't think that is very common.

themetfairy Nov 04 2015 03:36 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Please give your DIL my condolences coobs - she must have been very young!

cooby Nov 05 2015 04:31 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Thanks MF. She was just 24. My DIL is 25. A very emotional night. We had actually never met her (that I recall) but still wanted to show some support.

TransMonk Nov 05 2015 07:50 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Melissa Mathison, Oscar-Nominated 'E.T.' Screenwriter, Dead At 65

Edgy MD Nov 05 2015 08:20 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

[list]E.T.: Come. Elliott: Stay. E.T.: Ouch. Elliott: Ouch.[/list:u] And the whole lousy world responded, "Ouch." That's some wonderfully economical writing.

Batty31 Nov 05 2015 05:21 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

George Barris, Batmobile creator http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-v ... tor-837553

Benjamin Grimm Nov 19 2015 07:49 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Henri Arnold, of Jumble fame, 97 years old. He also did "Mr. Lucky" a one-panel cartoon that was always buried among the horse racing results in the back pages of the Daily News. I thought he also did "Ching Chow" but maybe that was someone else.

Edgy MD Dec 04 2015 05:18 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Scott Weiland, Pilot of the Stone Temple variety, has died in his sleep at 48. Interesting career in that his baritone growl was utterly characteristic of grunge, but his managed to stay popular after the grunge moment had passed.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 04 2015 07:08 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Edgy MD wrote: Scott Weiland, Pilot of the Stone Temple variety, has died in his sleep at 48. Interesting career in that his baritone growl was utterly characteristic of grunge, but his managed to stay popular after the grunge moment had passed. "FINALLY." [Click on 15-year-old Weiland.doc file; publish] -Obit editors

dgwphotography Dec 04 2015 07:17 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Edgy MD wrote: Scott Weiland, Pilot of the Stone Temple variety, has died in his sleep at 48. Interesting career in that his baritone growl was utterly characteristic of grunge, but his managed to stay popular after the grunge moment had passed. Now for something completely different... [youtube]EojN6r2VSR4[/youtube]

d'Kong76 Dec 04 2015 09:35 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Not being funny or disrespectful, but I thought he was dead already. I'll have to think on it and see if I can remember who I'm conflating him with.

soupcan Dec 04 2015 09:40 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

d'Kong76 wrote: Not being funny or disrespectful, but I thought he was dead already. I'll have to think on it and see if I can remember who I'm conflating him with. Bradley Nowell from Sublime?

Benjamin Grimm Dec 04 2015 09:44 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Or maybe Vivian Vance? She's dead too.

seawolf17 Dec 04 2015 09:46 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Or maybe Vivian Vance? She's dead too. Hang on, quick check: http://isabevigodadead.com/ Nope, we're good.

Edgy MD Dec 04 2015 09:53 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

soupcan wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: Not being funny or disrespectful, but I thought he was dead already. I'll have to think on it and see if I can remember who I'm conflating him with. Bradley Nowell from Sublime? Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon?

d'Kong76 Dec 04 2015 09:57 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

If Abe ever dies, it's gonna be big! Big, I tell you.

TransMonk Dec 04 2015 10:00 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Layne Staley from Alice in Chains?

d'Kong76 Dec 04 2015 10:02 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

TransMonk wrote: Layne Staley from Alice in Chains? Yes, exactly! Thank you, that was driving me nuts.

Mets – Willets Point Dec 04 2015 01:33 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

All the squares go home! Cynthia Robinson, 71.

MFS62 Dec 05 2015 05:27 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Robert Loggia - 85 http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wir ... 5-35589491 RIP. Later

Zvon Dec 05 2015 12:57 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

re: Loggia. Who remembers T.H.E. Cat? I remember very little. 1960s? He was a cat burglar. T.H.E. Cat was his name. Anyone remember what his full name was? (without peeking anywhere-I think I remember it, not sure)

Edgy MD Dec 05 2015 08:14 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Kurt Cobain, lead vocalist of a top nineties grunge band, used illicit drugs, self-destructed, died young, 1994. Shannon Hoon, lead vocalist of a top nineties grunge band, used illicit drugs, self-destructed, died young, 1995. Bradley Nowell, lead vocalist of a top nineties grunge band, used illicit drugs, self-destructed, died young, 1996. Layne Staley, lead vocalist of a top nineties grunge band, used illicit drugs, self-destructed, died young, 2002. Mark Linkous, lead vocalist of a top nineties grunge band, used illicit drugs, self-destructed, died young, 2010. Scott Weiland, lead vocalist of a top nineties grunge band, used illicit drugs, self-destructed, died young, 2015. That's, of course, just the singers. There's another litany of sidemen. Women, too. I was in a bar tonight and I heard Eddie Vedder singing "I'm still alive!" and it suddenly had a strange new unintentional poignancy. OE: I forgot Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone. He died earlier and younger than them all.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 06 2015 05:09 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Edgy MD wrote: OE: I forgot Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone. He died earlier and younger than them all. Oddly enough, without HIS death, there is no Pearl Jam, and Vedder is singing "Alive" to himself to pass the hours at his graveyard-shift gas station job.

themetfairy Dec 14 2015 06:08 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP Phil Pepe of the Daily News

MFS62 Dec 14 2015 07:44 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

themetfairy wrote: RIP Phil Pepe of the Daily News Good writer. I remember reading his stuff in the old World Telegram and Sun. RIP Later

d'Kong76 Dec 14 2015 12:30 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Ravi Shankar, 92

TransMonk Dec 14 2015 12:46 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Ravi Shankar, 92 3 years ago...:) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Shankar

d'Kong76 Dec 14 2015 12:54 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RealityChuck Dec 15 2015 10:11 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

re: Loggia. Who remembers T.H.E. Cat? I remember very little. 1960s? He was a cat burglar. T.H.E. Cat was his name. Anyone remember what his full name was? (without peeking anywhere-I think I remember it, not sure) Thomas Hewitt Edward. I loved that show.

Frayed Knot Dec 20 2015 09:13 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Jeremy Carter - 28 y/o grandson of Prez Jimmy, apparently in his sleep though details are light at this point. President Carter, now 91 and claiming he is cancer-free following a recent bout, had all of his siblings [Billy: 51; Ruth: 54; Gloria: 64;] and his father [James Earl Sr - 59] die relatively young, and now his grandson (although his mother lived to age 85)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 27 2015 02:46 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Easybeats singer Stevie Wright, 68. How much does this sound like AC/DC? [youtube:iwhw8fds]cNiY0siZY3Y[/youtube:iwhw8fds]

Edgy MD Dec 27 2015 04:17 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

When INXS covered that song, I assumed that their guest vocalist Jimmy Barnes must have been Brian Johnson.

Frayed Knot Dec 28 2015 06:08 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Meadowlark Lemon has ceased trotting the globe after 84 years.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 28 2015 06:10 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

MFS62 Dec 28 2015 07:43 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Frayed Knot wrote: Meadowlark Lemon has ceased trotting the globe after 84 years. He made millions of people happy. RIP. Later

Edgy MD Dec 28 2015 09:08 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

He had a mid-life break with the Globetrotters. I'm not sure why, but I imagine money was likely involved. The title of "Clown Prince of Basketball" passed from him to Geese Ausbie. He started his own touring basketball show team called "Meadowlark Lemon's Bucketeers." They had a point guard who performed in Native American garb who they called the "Little Big Man" who gave war whoops after scoring. Not sure this would fly today. Actual name: Meadow Lemon III.

d'Kong76 Dec 28 2015 10:06 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Used to love when The Globetrotters were on Sat afternoons. RIP, big guy... [youtube:2guyi3so]zq79iVVwJ1A[/youtube:2guyi3so]

Edgy MD Dec 28 2015 10:31 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Voiced by Scatman Carruthers on the Saturday morning cartoon. I'd be a little concerned that kids were hearing a cartoon version of me that sounded a lot like Hong Kong Phooey.

d'Kong76 Dec 28 2015 10:49 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I don't remember being into the cartoon so much. I was thinking more of ABC's Wide World of Sports and such. A couple of those appearances were kind of a big deal, one from Attica Prison of all places.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 28 2015 05:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

So, so weird. We saw the Globe Trotters at the Garden this afternoon-- when I hadn't yet heard about Meadowlark-- and they made no mention of his passing.

Edgy MD Dec 28 2015 06:07 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Did they mention anything about Lemmy?

Frayed Knot Dec 28 2015 06:11 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Apparently Meadowlark wasn't always so popular with his teammates. The NY Times obit talked about how he was the highest paid GT-er which often separated him from the rest to the point where they looked at him more like management than player, something which got emphasized when the players called a strike and he didn't join them. You'd think that would all be in the past, especially since it's not like any of the current crew would have been his mates anyway, but maybe some resentment still lingers. The obit also mentioned that his background was more than a bit hazy with questions lingering about his actual birthdate, birth place (which town and even which Carolina), and given name. The name Edgy cited is apparently one of several versions depending on which story you want to believe.

d'Kong76 Dec 28 2015 07:29 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP to another one-of-a-kind... Lemmy

cooby Dec 29 2015 09:36 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

He learned he had cancer on Dec 26??? I hope if I ever get it, I go that fast!

TransMonk Dec 29 2015 09:42 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

No disrespect to the dead, but if Vegas was taking wagers on Lemmy living to 70, I'd have taken the under. Well lived, Lemmy. RIP

Edgy MD Dec 29 2015 10:12 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

He was the central figure in an excellent Atlantic Monthly article just last month about the "second prime" of an aging rocker. There is a second prime, we are discovering, in the life cycle of a rock-and-roller, a madder and more precarious second heyday. The potency of early manhood passes, and its beauty is a memory. Barely a blip now travels around the once-blazing circuit of your inspiration. Your bones ache, your voice is shot, and the rags of age are upon you. But you keep going. You keep playing. And gradually this becomes the thing about you: You’re still there. You endure, you defy, and the older and gnarlier you get, the more magnificent the rebellion is. Creaking recklessly, in swaggering infirmity, you sally forth; you hit the road again and again (and again) and you give the people what they want. And now, check it out, they don’t just worship you. Now they love you.

d'Kong76 Dec 29 2015 10:57 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

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Ashie62 Jan 01 2016 12:13 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

My wife Lisann, Ashie one passed 12/31 from complications of lymphoma and kidney failure. Good night princess, see you soon. Love Teddy.

dgwphotography Jan 01 2016 05:35 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Ashie, I am so sorry. My condolences for your loss.

Benjamin Grimm Jan 01 2016 05:37 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

My condolences too. Such sad news...

Edgy MD Jan 01 2016 06:05 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Deepest sympathies, Ashie. At your service if you need anything.

MFS62 Jan 01 2016 06:56 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Our hearts and thoughts are with you and your family. Later

SteveJRogers Jan 01 2016 07:31 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

RIP :(

themetfairy Jan 01 2016 08:06 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

I'm so sorry Ashie - I know how much you loved her.

d'Kong76 Jan 01 2016 08:17 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Sorry to hear, just terrible news. Condolences, Ashie.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 01 2016 09:26 AM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Dammit. So sorry, man.

Rockin' Doc Jan 01 2016 01:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

So sorry to hear of the passing of your wife. My prayers are with you and her loved ones that are left to grieve her passing.

Zvon Jan 01 2016 01:38 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Extremely sad news Ashie. I am so sorry for your loss.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 01 2016 02:19 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Terrible news. Sorry for your loss. My condolences.

themetfairy Jan 01 2016 02:24 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Ashie - please check in with us. I'm worried about you.

Ashie62 Jan 01 2016 05:25 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Thanks MF and all. Just quiet and reflective. Looking for a hopeful New Year for all.

themetfairy Jan 01 2016 05:47 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Yes - let it be a good one for everybody!

Mets Guy in Michigan Jan 01 2016 10:04 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Just seeing this. Ashie, so very sorry to hear about your loss. Keeping you and your family in our prayers.

TransMonk Jan 02 2016 01:14 PM Re: Guess who died in 2015

Sorry for your loss, Ashie. You are in my thoughts.