Rest In Peace

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[busterbunker]

Some of the British drummers of that era really knew how to swing. Their roots were in skiffle and jazz. Some of the obits I've been hearing are pretty sloppy, like one where they were playing "You Can't Always Get" in the background. That wasn't Charlie, it was their producer, Jimmy Miller, on the skins!

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more and more of our favs are going to be appearing in this thread.

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And Keith Richards lives on........................

[Dave from down under]

And Keith Richards lives on........................

Didn't Bram Stoker write about Keith in 1897?

[Gregg]

And Keith Richards lives on........................

Didn't Bram Stoker write about Keith in 1897?

He was just updating the story originally by a Celtic oral history from 733 BC.

[Dave from down under]

I’ve seen his name in Sanskrit..

[Estiveo]

Ed Asner, 91.

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/ed-asn ... txxvoPMo6M

[Phoenix520]

[Luke]

Nooooooo! Only Betty White is left. We revered these people, still have all the episodes on DVD and go back to watch the brilliant writing and acting.

Ed was also a great and important labor leader.








Episode One:








THR just published an interview a few days ago... Ed was still working. Great and funny interview.

You were not born with the name Ed, right?

Yes and no. My parents were Orthodox Jews. If you were religious, you were given a Hebrew name. My Hebrew name was Yitzhak, which is Isaac, and it was transliterated into Eddie.

What were you called at home and by friends?

Schmeckel. [Asner is joking — this is a Yiddish word for penis.]

[Volkonski]

RIP Mr. Grant.

[pipistrelle]

“I HATE SPUNK!”

I’ve been wanting to re-watch Lou Grant but haven’t seen it yet.

[AndyinPA]

RIP, Mr. Asner. My understanding is that he was a thoroughly nice man.

[tek]

Argh.. heartbreaking

great actor, great man..

some stuff from wikipedia about his activism:

Asner served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild, in which capacity during the 1980s he opposed US policy in Central America, working closely with the Alliance for Survival. He played a prominent role in the 1980 SAG strike.[40] He had also been active in a variety of other causes, such as the movement to free Mumia Abu-Jamal and the movement to establish California One Care, single-payer health care in California, for which he created a television advertisement. He endorsed Barack Obama during the 2008 United States presidential election. He was formerly a member of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC)[41] and was a member of DSOC's successor, the Democratic Socialists of America.[2]

From 2011 to 2015, Asner worked with filmmaker Nicole Zwiren on the feature-length documentary Behind the Fear which addresses HIV/AIDS denialism. The film was released in 2016 with Asner as the narrator.[43][44]

ETA: apparently he did get a little sucked into some 9/11 conspiracy theories

[PaulG]

Jamaican soul of reggae Lee 'Scratch' Perry dies aged 85

He died in hospital in Lucea, north-west Jamaica, local media reported.

Over ... seven decades Perry went on to work with a number of fellow music legends, including Bob Marley and the Beastie Boys.

He also won a Grammy in 2002, was nominated four other times - in 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2014 - and received a Jamaican national honour, the Order of Distinction.

In a 2010 interview with Rolling Stone, Keith Richards described Perry as "the Salvador Dali of music".

Also The Clash.


LEE PERRY/JUNIOR MURVIN - Police & Thieves (Arkology II)

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[Luke]

Richard Marx' mom passed at 85, great story about her:

Ruth Marx, who sang backup for son Richard Marx after Big Band, jingles career, dead at 85
You might know her voice from TV commercial jingles her husband Dick Marx wrote, like for Chicken of the Sea tuna: ‘Ask any mermaid you happen to see, what’s the best tuna?’
By Maureen O'Donnell Aug 30, 2021, 5:23pm CDT

Tom Hanks met singer Ruth Marx when he was having dinner with her and her musician son Richard Marx. He asked her to tell him about herself.

She began singing a TV commercial jingle that became an earworm for generations of consumers: “Ask any mermaid you happen to see, what’s the best tuna?” she sang.

Hanks jumped up and completed the line: “Chicken of the Sea!”

“He starts singing along with her, and he says, ‘Oh, my goodness, Ruth, you’re a goddess,’ ” her son said.

Mrs. Marx’s honeyed voice was heard on many of the TV commercial jingles her husband Dick Marx composed for products that also included Doublemint gum, Kellogg’s Raisin Bran, Peter Pan peanut butter, Ken-L Ration dog food and Virginia Slims cigarettes.

Richard Marx said she died Aug. 24 of lung cancer at his California home. She was 85.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/8/30/ ... ny-mermaid

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Mikis Theodorakis, composer of Zorba the Greek, dies aged 96

Mikis Theodorakis, the celebrated composer best known for the music from the 1964 film Zorba the Greek, has died in Athens aged 96.

Theodorakis was in the resistance to the Nazi occupation of Greece in World War Two and later served as an MP.

He was also a leading figure opposing military rule in Greece from 1967-1974.

Zorba the Greek told the story of an English writer in Crete whose life is transformed when he meets Alexis Zorba, a gregarious peasant.

The scene when Zorba dances barefoot on the beach became a popular image of Greek culture. The theme from the film, which won three Oscars, remains probably the most famous piece of Greek music more than half a century later.

"Today we lost a part of the soul of Greece," Culture Minister Lina Mendoni wrote on Twitter, calling him "the one who made all Greeks sing poetry".


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58419832

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[Estiveo]

It'll be that much harder for Orly to file a writ of certaki at the Supreme Court of Bundogs.

[AndyinPA]

That video is sad. My grandfather is buried in a cemetery that fell into disrepair for many years. He died years before I was born, 1939, I think. But my grandmother didn't die until 1987. She was unable to be buried with him as the cemetery was in such bad shape, probably even closed down. But it is owned by the Lutheran Church, so eventually they went in and cleaned it up. They are rebuilding the cemetery records, but at the time we went looking for his grave, there was no record. I found it by remembering that my mother said it was near the fence by a school. It still took awhile; my brother had tried earlier and failed. We cleaned his grave up. I also have other relatives buried there, one that I knew, but most I only recognized the names of. There's an area of the cemetery where many of the graves are of Hungarians, as the Hungarian church I grew up in was apparently using that cemetery regularly. I think they quit using it, from what I can tell, early in the 1960s, or that's when it was closed down. It's really sad for the families when that happens.

[Estiveo]

[Luke]

We're going to watch Zobra tonight in his honor, it's been forever since we saw it (I'm part Greek).


Willard was the original Ronald McDonald (how creepy is this ad):





Willard got a kiss from Barbara Bush:

[chancery]

Carolyn Shoemaker, Hunter of Comets and Asteroids, Dies at 92
After her children left for college, she unexpectedly became astronomy’s record-setting spotter of unidentified objects hurtling through the cosmos.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/scie ... -dead.html

Carolyn Shoemaker and her husband, Eugene Shoemaker, who was one of the founders of the field of planetary science, have been heroes of mine since I first became aware of their work a couple of decades ago.

[Luke]

We watched Zorba The Greek, it really reflects a different time of filmmaking. Anthony Quinn is wonderful and so is Lila Kedrova as Madame Hortense. Here's the final scene with the music and the dance. Put it in spoiler though it's really not, all of the plot is wrapped up. Cheers to the music by Mikis Theodorakis.

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Jean-Paul Belmondo, Magnetic Star of the French New Wave, Dies at 88
He was compared to Marlon Brando and James Dean for his acclaimed portrayals of tough, alienated characters, most memorably in Godard’s “Breathless.”

By Rick Lyman
Sept. 6, 2021 Updated 2:43 p.m. ET

Jean-Paul Belmondo, the rugged actor whose disdainful eyes, boxer’s nose, sensual lips and cynical outlook made him the idolized personification of youthful alienation in the French New Wave, most notably in his classic performance as an existential killer in Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless,” died on Monday at his home in Paris. He was 88.

His death was confirmed by the office of his lawyer, Michel Godest. No cause was given.

Like Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando and James Dean — three American actors to whom he was frequently compared — Mr. Belmondo established his reputation playing tough, unsentimental, even antisocial characters who were cut adrift from bourgeois society. Later, as one of France’s leading stars, he took more crowd-pleasing roles, but without entirely surrendering his magnetic brashness.

Like Bogart, Mr. Belmondo brought craggy features and sometimes seething anger to the screen, a realistic counterpoint to more conventionally handsome romantic stars. Like Dean, he became one of the most widely imitated pop culture figures of his era. And like Brando, he was often dismissive of pretentiousness and self-importance among filmmakers.

“No actor since James Dean has inspired quite such intense identification,” Eugene Archer wrote in The New York Times in 1965. “Dean evoked the rebellious adolescent impulse, as fierce as it was gratuitous, a violent outgrowth of the frustrations of the modern world. Belmondo is a later manifestation of youthful rejection — and more disturbing. His disengagement from a society his parents made is total. He accepts corruption with a cynical smile, not even bothering to struggle. He is out entirely for himself, to get whatever he can, while he can. The Belmondo type is capable of anything.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/movi ... -dead.html