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Barbara Orbison, widow of Roy and owner of Taylor Swift's publishing company

http://news.yahoo.com/barbara-orbison-widow-roy-orbison-dies-la-041706874.html

Tumblr Whites Off Earth Now!! (Sandbox Grisso-McCain), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link

Harry Morgan aka Col. Sherman T. Potter, RIP @ 96

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link

Aw, RIP. I liked him as Bill Gannon in the few Dragnet (revival) episodes I've seen.

William (C), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link

"In July 1997, Morgan was charged with abusing his wife the previous year, after a beating left her with injuries to her eye, foot, and arm.[7] Prosecutors dropped the charges after the 82-year-old actor completed a six-month domestic violence counseling program."

This completely baffled me at the time

M. White, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link

Yow, I'd forgotten all about that happening.

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link

Comic Book artist Jerry Robinson passes at 89. RIP, Jerry.

EZ Snappin, Thursday, 8 December 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link

Author and critic Gilbert Adair
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/dec/09/gilbert-adair-dies

los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 9 December 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link

Translator of Georges Perec's 'A Void' too

los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Friday, 9 December 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link

Pink Floyd roadie Alan Styles... the Alan in "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" and the guy on the left of Ummagumma's back cover

http://www.minilps.net/images/stories/shop_image/product/pink-floyd-ummagumma-back-cover.jpg

http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/pink-floyd-roadie-alan-styles-passes-away.html

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 9 December 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

^^RIP. He ruled.

Tumblr Whites Off Earth Now!! (Sandbox Grisso-McCain), Friday, 9 December 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link

Gilbert Adair, film writer/novelist

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2011/12/gilbert-adair-1944-2011.html

Dr Morbius, Sunday, 11 December 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link

was mentioned on Friday but thanks for the link

wang dang google doodle (James Redd), Monday, 12 December 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link

Bill Tapia, the Duke of Uke, at 103

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/06/local/la-me-bill-tapia-20111206

Brad C., Tuesday, 13 December 2011 01:38 (twelve years ago) link

Deserves his own thread, but maybe it should wait until ILX returns...

RIP Russell Hoban

los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link

yeah RIP Russell. can't think of any other author who wrote great books for both 5-year old me and 35-year old me

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link

RIP Bert Schneider

Tumblr Whites Off Earth Now!! (Sandbox Grisso-McCain), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link

TCM "Remembers" reel for 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=C1ZOlXXwhe0

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 15 December 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link

Maybe this one embeds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ZOlXXwhe0

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 15 December 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link

For Easy Rider, The Last Picture Show, and Five Easy Pieces, Bert Schneider was pretty important.

clemenza, Thursday, 15 December 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link

Don Sharp, director of cult schlock-horror classic 'Psychomania', and 'The Face of Fu Manchu' amongst other Hammer Horrors.

Billy Dods, Monday, 19 December 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link

Sundazed shared this on FB earlier today...

We're brokenhearted to report that our good friend Sean Bonniwell (The Music Machine) has passed. I was beyond fortunate to have spent time in the studio with Sean, working on Music Machine material, asking a zillion questions, and just hanging out... Rest assured that his talent was no fluke - Sean was a brilliant musician, a kind man, possessed an impossibly-sharp sense of humor, and was intuitive to the point of leaving you wide-eyed. We remained good pals throughout the years. We'll miss you, Sean. And we'll see you again.

Tumblr Whites Off Earth Now!! (Sandbox Grisso-McCain), Monday, 26 December 2011 08:59 (twelve years ago) link

Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood of The Mothers of Invention.

Tumblr Whites Off Earth Now!! (Sandbox Grisso-McCain), Monday, 26 December 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link

Already mentioned on the jazzy sandbox thread, but multi-instrumentalist/composer Sam Rivers:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/music/os-sam-rivers-dead-122711-20111227,0,7009901.story

Tarfumes the Escape Goat, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link

i didn't know who he was before this, but former SNL and Kids-In-The-Hall writer joe bodolai took his own life yesterday. the notes he left, leading up to his suicide, are heartbreaking.

Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link

Lynn Samuels will probably only mean anything to New Yorkers of a certain age; a call-in mainstay on WBAI and then WABC. Her voice could clean an oven, and I called her a few dozen times from the '80s on WBAL til her WABC stint ended about ten years ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/nyregion/lynn-samuels-radio-talk-show-host-dies-at-69.html

(Unmentioned by the Times is that she did sound for awhile at the old Folk City bar in the Village.)

Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 07:23 (twelve years ago) link

aw

mookieproof, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 07:56 (twelve years ago) link

RIP cheetah:

PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah the chimpanzee from the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s has died at age 80.

The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor announced that Cheetah died Dec. 24 of kidney failure.
Sanctuary outreach director Debbie Cobb on Wednesday told The Tampa Tribune (http://bit.ly/rRuTeJ ) that Cheetah was outgoing, loved finger painting and liked to see people laugh. She says he seemed to be tuned into human feelings.

Cheetah was the comic relief in the Tarzan series starring American Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller. Cobb says Cheetah came to the sanctuary from Weissmuller's estate sometime around 1960.
Cobb says Cheetah wasn't a troublemaker. Still, sanctuary volunteer Ron Priest says that when the chimp didn't like what was going on, he would throw feces.

omar (son), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 08:28 (twelve years ago) link

omg i'm "of a certain age"

trudy campbell, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 11:29 (twelve years ago) link

I periodically listened to Samuels on satellite radio during the 2008 campaign. Pretty sure it was her--gravelly voice, swore a lot? She was stridently pro-Hillary at the time.

clemenza, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 12:01 (twelve years ago) link

I never heard her Sirius show, but judging by a couple podcast links they've put on her website, yeah, she embraced the lack of censorship:

http://lynnsamuels.com/

She was anathema at both NY stations... called both Bushes fascists or morons on WABC, and said she believed abortion was murder on Pacifica.

She also mailed me her copy of Moby's "Play" bcz she hated it.

Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link

Well, that was nice of her.

Too Many Headphones (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link

I really enjoyed Cheetah's "autobiography," Me, Cheetah. RIP.

zat you, wrinklepaws? (James Redd), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link

how well did Tarzan REALLY know the jungle, calling a chimp Cheetah?

Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 December 2011 04:32 (twelve years ago) link


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