Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international film stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world” after the title of one her movies, died in Rome on Monday. She was 95
Lawrence Brooks, the oldest known surviving World War 2 veteran, passed away January 5th at the age of 112.
“Lawrence Nathaniel “Honey” Brooks, the oldest known US WWII veteran at age 112, was born on September 12, 1909, in Norwood, LA. He departed this earthly home surrounded by his family on Wednesday, January 5, 2022. He was a member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. Lawrence earned the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Presidential Unit Citation, and WWII Victory Medal. He was drafted into the US Army in 1940 and served in the 91st Engineer Battalion unit until he was discharged in 1945. He also served in Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines.”
Melinda Dillon, perhaps best known as Ralphie’s (awesome) Mom in A Christmas Story, passed away on January 9th, 2023. The news was apparently just released.
A note to my Mom, also departed; I know you were worried when Dad got us .22 rifles at about the same age, but I promise we never shot our (or anyone else’s) eye out. Or any other part.
@cinoclav
Commiserations. She was brilliant in this role, and worked so well with Darren McGavin… parts of it really felt like Christmas in the home I grew up in (albeit 30 years more ‘modern’)
Amazing:
“The character of Munch has appeared in a total of ten series on five networks since the character’s debut in 1993. Apart from Homicide and SVU, however, Belzer’s performances as Munch were guest appearances or crossovers rather than regular or recurring appearances. With Munch’s retirement in the character’s 22nd season on television, he was a regular character on U.S. television longer than Marshal Matt Dillon (Gunsmoke) and Frasier Crane (Cheers and Frasier), both of whom were on television for 20 seasons; he is only behind Mariska Hargitay’s character Olivia Benson. Munch’s return to help his friends in the SVU seventeenth-season episode “Fashionable Crimes” marks the 23rd season that the character has appeared on television in any capacity.” Per Wikipedia
How can there be Law, much less Order, without him?
@heartny And you now have insurance on your balloon dog collection? (For at least $40K?)
Two things struck me as notable in your posted article: Insurance company wants to examine the pieces, and “collectors” want to buy the pieces.
You suppose either is standing by with ceramics glue?
@phendrick I mostly buy my balloon dogs in Home Goods, so my insurance company would probably laugh at me if I wanted to insure my collection. Looking at the pieces in the photo, the head seems to be in rather good shape. I’d take that.
@heartny@Kyeh I have some green stoneware dishes I really like that have broken from drops and messed up my set. I’ve thought about trying that technique, but it would be pretty far down my To-Do List. Amazon seems to have a decent supply of cements. If it doesn’t work, not much lost.
If I were to get good at it, I might even consider it for my driveway, but not with Au (until after I win the lottery).
@yakkoTDI I was ignorant of his existence until reading the above post, so I looked him up (but still speak mostly from ignorance – which doesn’t stop many on these forums).
He had ongoing cardiac issues and that is a likely COD.
The group, going back to the late 1980’s, was cited as a positive role model for black youths.
They were also attributed as influences by many other musicians and performed (minus Trugoy) on the recent Grammy awards in the celebration of “Fifty Years of Hip Hop”.
That’s Plug One at the start of the video. Plug Two is in the striped shirt.
@yakkoTDI Note to artists/musicians:
The catalog of De La Soul was tied up in legal wranglings for MANY years, just now able to be re-released after negotiations and a lot of money changed hands. The issues were music samplings used in the performances and the rights thereto.
IF YOU ARE CREATING MUSIC or other art, do not embed or directly reference others’ works, without full rights for perpetuity and in writing, unless you wish to make many lawyers rich.
This has also been an issue with many old TV shows not being able to readily come back in syndication, because of theme songs and other music that were iconic to the shows.
@phendrick United States of Audio did a great “documentary” on their album 3 Feet High and Rising. I still consider it one of the greatest albums of all time and a fine example of how sampling can be use with great effect. It is also one of the reasons I think modern copyright law sucks ass.
United States of Audio - How High’s The Water Mama
@ircon96 Skynyrd played the Strawberry Festival last Sunday and did this tribute to Gary. Vocals aren’t great (whose are when we’ get old?) but I’ve seen the original Lynyrd Skynyrd 4 or 5 times and I sure wish I had gone to this one
My M-I-L passed away quietly at home in the company of her family at the age of 87 y/o in the early hours of 3/23/23 after a protracted illness.
Widely loved, she is survived by her Korean War era Marine veteran husband of 66 years and 4 children.
March 26th, Virginia Norwood, impressive MIT graduate.
Virginia Tower Norwood (January 8, 1927 – March 26, 2023) was an American physicist.[1] She was best known for her contribution to the Landsat program,[2] having designed the Multispectral Scanner[3][4] which was first used on Landsat 1. She has been called “The Mother of Landsat” for this work.
I was part of a team that did some contract programming on Landsat and ERTS for NASA while I was a graduate student. I did not know her name at the time (or any other’s who was behind the program). But her resume is impressive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Norwood
Time to start a new list of those lost this year.
Drummer Fred White from Grammy-winning ensemble Earth, Wind & Fire, has died at the age of 67.
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/02/1146587565/fred-white-drummer-earth-wind-fire-dead
Pro Rally Driver and Hoonigan Founder Ken Block Killed in Snowmobile Accident
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a42381041/ken-block-dead/
@Ignorant Seriously the G.O.A.T. Hate to hear it.
This was the jump-off point for my appreciation of the incredible talent he had behind the wheel:
Maya, daughter of Pablo Picasso, dead at 87
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jan/03/maya-widmaier-picasso-obituary
Also, unlocked NYT obituary:
https://tinyurl.com/2p9azvvs
Adam Rich, child star of Eight is Enough, gone at 54. Loved that hair!
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/entertainment/adam-rich-dead/index.html
/image Eight is Enough
Jeff Beck has died of bacterial meningitis.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jeff-beck-dead-at-78-obit-1234659559/
{VMod edit: fixed the URL and merged the posts.}
Lisa Marie Presley, 54
https://apnews.com/article/health-lisa-marie-presley-priscilla-elvis-los-angeles-4cbc26cfe1a7bf0b41f21f0f0f6c677b
Official AP obituary:
https://apnews.com/article/lisa-marie-presley-dies-9fc02552f6f31e270647897a2e4104e9
Motorcycle daredevil Robbie Knievel, son of motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel, succumbs to pancreatic cancer.
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/robbie-knievel-daredevil-son-evel-knievel-dies-60-96424056
Robbie Bachman, drummer of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, dead at 69
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/entertainment/robbie-bachman-drummer-death-intl-scli/index.html
Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international film stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world” after the title of one her movies, died in Rome on Monday. She was 95
Lawrence Brooks, the oldest known surviving World War 2 veteran, passed away January 5th at the age of 112.
“Lawrence Nathaniel “Honey” Brooks, the oldest known US WWII veteran at age 112, was born on September 12, 1909, in Norwood, LA. He departed this earthly home surrounded by his family on Wednesday, January 5, 2022. He was a member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. Lawrence earned the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Presidential Unit Citation, and WWII Victory Medal. He was drafted into the US Army in 1940 and served in the 91st Engineer Battalion unit until he was discharged in 1945. He also served in Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines.”
We are diminished.
David Crosby, 81, iconoclastic singer-songwriter & guitarist, founding member of rock bands the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash (and later, Young).
https://variety.com/2023/music/news/david-crosby-dead-dies-byrds-crosby-stills-nash-1235495467/
Paul La Farge, 52, novelist, essayist & academic
https://locusmag.com/2023/01/paul-la-farge-1970-2023/
Lloyd Morrisett, 93, co-creator of Sesame Street
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/25/1151311680/sesame-street-lloyd-morrisett-dies-co-founder-education-civil-rights
Lance Kerwin, 62, actor, known for “Salem’s Lot” & “James at 15”
https://variety.com/2023/tv/obituaries-people-news/lance-kerwin-james-at-15-1235502420/
@ircon96 Oh god, not Lance Kerwin! Leif Garrett remains alive.
Tom Verlaine, 73, musician, founding member of Television
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Verlaine
He wrote this great song:
/youtube television marquee moon
Annie Wersching – an actress known for her roles in the TV shows 24, Star Trek: Picard, Timeless and Bosch – has died of cancer at the age of 45.
@chienfou so young
Lisa Loring, Wednesday in Original ‘Addams Family’ Series, Dies of a stroke at 64
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/lisa-loring-dead-wednesday-addams-family-1235506117/
@heartny She had such a hard life.
@heartny @mossygreen
Lisa Loring dances with Ted Casssidy as Wednesday Addams and the butler Lurch.
Actress Cindy Williams
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/laverne-shirley-actor-cindy-williams-dies-75-96777016
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/laverne-shirley-actor-cindy-williams-000505561.html
@Kyeh Aw. If there was a Laverne & Shirley tontine, Michael McKean just won it.
@Kyeh It’s sad, they all died relatively young, Michael McKean is the only surviving member now of the main cast.
Long live Lenny!
Father of Peeps’ marshmallow candies Bob Born dies at 98
www.npr.org/2023/01/31/1152833849/bob-born-dies-father-of-peeps-hot-tamales-just-born-quality-confections
@heartny
Cool obit. I love that he chose candy making over being a doctor!
Melinda Dillon, perhaps best known as Ralphie’s (awesome) Mom in A Christmas Story, passed away on January 9th, 2023. The news was apparently just released.
A note to my Mom, also departed; I know you were worried when Dad got us .22 rifles at about the same age, but I promise we never shot our (or anyone else’s) eye out. Or any other part.
@duodec This just makes me hurt inside. I feel like a little piece of me died too.
@cinoclav
Commiserations. She was brilliant in this role, and worked so well with Darren McGavin… parts of it really felt like Christmas in the home I grew up in (albeit 30 years more ‘modern’)
@duodec omg, this is terrible, I will think of it every year as that is my bday.
Charles Kimbrough, 86, actor, best known as news anchor Jim Dial on “Murphy Brown”
https://variety.com/2023/tv/obituaries-people-news/charles-kimbrough-dead-murphy-brown-hunchback-notre-dame-1235513329/
@ircon96 Sad. But what an odd URL…
@ircon96 @macromeh
yeah, they picked some weird roles to link him to for sure. Could have at least used his Tony award role…
@chienfou @macromeh I’m guessing Variety’s target audience is primarily cartoon watchers…?
Pervez Musharraf former president of Pakistan dead at 79 of a protracted illness.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/asia/pervez-musharraf-former-pakistan-president-dies-intl-hnk/index.html
Burt Bacharach, writer of such classic pop hits as ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,’ dies at 94
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/02/09/entertainment/burt-bacharach-death/index.html
@heartny So many great songs.
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/561555285/burt-bacharach-obituary
Actress Raquel Welch, gone at 82
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/raquel-welch-one-million-years-200425372.html
/image Raquel Welch
@katbyter
Thus in the end pass the idle dreams of youth.
Rest in Peace, Raquel. You were an amazing woman.
@duodec @katbyter
She was actually a serious and intelligent person, and a reputable actress.
But she was so good looking it was hard for her to get serious roles.
“The Poster”, before Farrah Fawcett did one of her own.
@duodec @f00l The guards simply didn’t notice. Neither did I.
Richard Belzer, who played against type as a tough New York cop on Law and Order SVU after a long career in comedy, has died at 78.
@macromeh Are you sure that’s not just a conspiracy theory?
@macromeh I guess his run as Munch is now over.
Amazing:
“The character of Munch has appeared in a total of ten series on five networks since the character’s debut in 1993. Apart from Homicide and SVU, however, Belzer’s performances as Munch were guest appearances or crossovers rather than regular or recurring appearances. With Munch’s retirement in the character’s 22nd season on television, he was a regular character on U.S. television longer than Marshal Matt Dillon (Gunsmoke) and Frasier Crane (Cheers and Frasier), both of whom were on television for 20 seasons; he is only behind Mariska Hargitay’s character Olivia Benson. Munch’s return to help his friends in the SVU seventeenth-season episode “Fashionable Crimes” marks the 23rd season that the character has appeared on television in any capacity.” Per Wikipedia
How can there be Law, much less Order, without him?
Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons ‘balloon dog’ sculpture at Art Wynwood
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/jeff-koons-balloon-dog-broken-miami/index.html
@heartny Why am i not surprised this happened in Florida?
@heartny Is this “RIP” for the sculpture or the curator who displayed it without making sure it was completely stable in its exhibition?
@phendrick This RIP is for the sculpture. As a collector of balloon dog figures, I am sad that it met its untimely demise.
@heartny And you now have insurance on your balloon dog collection? (For at least $40K?)
Two things struck me as notable in your posted article: Insurance company wants to examine the pieces, and “collectors” want to buy the pieces.
You suppose either is standing by with ceramics glue?
@phendrick I mostly buy my balloon dogs in Home Goods, so my insurance company would probably laugh at me if I wanted to insure my collection. Looking at the pieces in the photo, the head seems to be in rather good shape. I’d take that.
@heartny I think it would be really cool if someone repaired it using the kintsugi technique:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi
@heartny @Kyeh I have some green stoneware dishes I really like that have broken from drops and messed up my set. I’ve thought about trying that technique, but it would be pretty far down my To-Do List. Amazon seems to have a decent supply of cements. If it doesn’t work, not much lost.
If I were to get good at it, I might even consider it for my driveway, but not with Au (until after I win the lottery).
@heartny @phendrick Yes, you should try it and show us how it turns out.
David Jude Jolicoeur - Trugoy the Dove (aka Plug Two) one of the 3 founding members of De La Soul.
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/13/1156614127/remembering-de-la-souls-trugoy-the-dove-has-died-at-54
@yakkoTDI I was ignorant of his existence until reading the above post, so I looked him up (but still speak mostly from ignorance – which doesn’t stop many on these forums).
That’s Plug One at the start of the video. Plug Two is in the striped shirt.
@yakkoTDI Note to artists/musicians:
The catalog of De La Soul was tied up in legal wranglings for MANY years, just now able to be re-released after negotiations and a lot of money changed hands. The issues were music samplings used in the performances and the rights thereto.
IF YOU ARE CREATING MUSIC or other art, do not embed or directly reference others’ works, without full rights for perpetuity and in writing, unless you wish to make many lawyers rich.
This has also been an issue with many old TV shows not being able to readily come back in syndication, because of theme songs and other music that were iconic to the shows.
@phendrick United States of Audio did a great “documentary” on their album 3 Feet High and Rising. I still consider it one of the greatest albums of all time and a fine example of how sampling can be use with great effect. It is also one of the reasons I think modern copyright law sucks ass.
United States of Audio - How High’s The Water Mama
Former All-Star baseball catcher and later TV commentator Tim McCarver, who died of heart failure in Memphis on February 16, 2023, at age 81.
@phendrick
I can remember watching him play for the St Louis Cardinals when I was growing up. He always seemed like a really class act.
Tom Sizemore, 61, actor, known for “Saving Private Ryan” and “Black Hawk Down”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/entertainment/tom-sizemore-dies/index.html
@ircon96
I’m hearing that he led “the life” … AND … he kept journals/diaries/notes.
And that more than one Hollywood big name would really like those journals to never see the light of the rumor mill, let alone be published.
At least he had some good times along the way.
Wayne Shorter, jazz saxophone great
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/02/wayne-shorter-icon-of-jazz-saxophone-dies-aged-89
Gary Rossington, 71, Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist & last original member
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/05/entertainment/lynyrd-skynyrd-guitarist-gary-rossington-dies/index.html
@ircon96 Skynyrd played the Strawberry Festival last Sunday and did this tribute to Gary. Vocals aren’t great (whose are when we’ get old?) but I’ve seen the original Lynyrd Skynyrd 4 or 5 times and I sure wish I had gone to this one
@llangley Wow, that’s cool that you got to see the original lineup so many times! Thanks for posting the video, it’s a nice addition.
David Lindley, ‘Musician’s Musician’ to the Rock Elite, Dies at 78
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/arts/music/david-lindley-musicians-musician-to-the-rock-elite-dies-at-78.html
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/david-lindley-tribute-remembrance-interview-1234690862/
This video that’s in the NYT article has him playing the most incredibly beautiful accompaniment to a Jackson Brown song in concert.
@Kyeh one of my favorite concerts was an all-acoustic Jackson Browne with David Lindley. Blew me away.
RIP buddy…thanks for the music. And the memories
@llangley Oh, wow - so cool you got to see that concert, I bet it was beautiful.
Chaim Topol … Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof movie & stage lead. And Bond Good Guy!
Orbituary
/youtube D1TC1n9lhXU
@MarkDaSpark Not Dr. Zarkov!
/image topol flash Gordon
/youtube topol flash gordon
‘Baretta’ Actor Robert Blake Has Died At Age 89
https://doyouremember.com/184756/robert-blake-dead
@heartny
Former U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, a pioneer for women’s and family rights in Congress, March 13th at 82.
/image Pat Schroeder
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/14/1163292453/former-rep-pat-schroeder-a-pioneer-for-womens-rights-dies-at-82
@katbyter
Bobby Caldwell, 71, singer/songwriter, best known for “What You Won’t Do For Love”
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/16/1163833615/bobby-caldwell-singer-of-what-you-wont-do-for-love-dies-at-71
Lance Reddick, 60, actor, known for “The Wire” & “John Wick”
https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/lance-reddick-dead-the-wire-john-wick-1235557886/
@ircon96
@tinamarie1974 Yep, he sure was a great actor, it’s quite the loss.
@ircon96 @tinamarie1974
I didn’t know he was in “Lost”, but remember him from Fringe. He was perfect in the Wick films.
Gordon Moore the name behind Moore’s Law in computing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore
My M-I-L passed away quietly at home in the company of her family at the age of 87 y/o in the early hours of 3/23/23 after a protracted illness.
Widely loved, she is survived by her Korean War era Marine veteran husband of 66 years and 4 children.
New post started for 2nd Quarter of 2023 (April-June)
March 30th
Mark Russell (1932–2023), comedian and political satirist
Dead at 90 of prostate cancer
@chienfou Oh, he was great!
@chienfou If you are from Buffalo, you have to have a sense of humor.
March 26th, Virginia Norwood, impressive MIT graduate.
I was part of a team that did some contract programming on Landsat and ERTS for NASA while I was a graduate student. I did not know her name at the time (or any other’s who was behind the program). But her resume is impressive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Norwood
@phendrick
very cool!