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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Mar 24, 2020 17:23:35 GMT -5
Terrence McNally, the writer of Ragtime and Kiss of the Spider Woman, has died from COVID-19.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2020 11:05:21 GMT -5
Filmmaker Stuart Gordon, Lovecraft's best cinematic interpreter to date. Obits will be talking about Re-Animator (classic fun) and From Beyond (closer to Lovecraft's spirit) but I'll also recommend (if you're not squeamish about depictions of body trauma) his last theatrical release, Stuck, starring the always-welcome Stephen Rea. |
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Post by Celebith on Mar 25, 2020 22:02:57 GMT -5
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Mar 25, 2020 23:52:43 GMT -5
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Mar 26, 2020 16:09:35 GMT -5
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Mar 29, 2020 11:22:24 GMT -5
Prole Hole -- I'm afraid COVID-19 has taken out one of your countrymen, Hamish Wilson, who played Jamie McCrimmon in two episodes of "The Mind Robber".
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Mar 30, 2020 14:18:04 GMT -5
Another Corona casualty, Alan Merrill, best known for writing “I Love Rock n” Roll” and one presumes other songs as well.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Mar 30, 2020 19:39:05 GMT -5
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Post by Prole Hole on Mar 31, 2020 2:37:52 GMT -5
Another Corona casualty, Alan Merrill, best known for writing “I Love Rock n” Roll” and one presumes other songs as well. The Joan Jett version of that song is just so fucking good. Still blows my socks off and rocks to this day. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Apr 1, 2020 18:46:39 GMT -5
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Post by Post-St. Patty's Day Bloat on Apr 1, 2020 19:19:59 GMT -5
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Post by Nudeviking on Apr 1, 2020 19:21:23 GMT -5
Man that sucks. I saw yesterday morning that he had the coronavirus and figured he'd be like Tom Hanks or Daniel Dae Kim and return to health a few weeks later and give an interview about how bad that shit sucked. Glad I did not make the joke about him staying away from Stacy's Mom due to the fact that she's gotta be in her 60s or 70s at this point. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Apr 1, 2020 19:22:13 GMT -5
Man that sucks. I saw yesterday morning that he had the coronavirus and figured he'd be like Tom Hanks or Daniel Dae Kim and return to health a few weeks later and give an interview about how bad that shit sucked. I know! Ugghh he was so damn talented |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Apr 1, 2020 21:03:03 GMT -5
He did a lot of songwriting on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and was nominated in all the EGOT vategories, winning in a couple of them. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Apr 2, 2020 10:39:34 GMT -5
*pours one out for Adam Schlesinger*
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Apr 3, 2020 9:22:53 GMT -5
Bill Withers, dead at eighty-one.
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Apr 4, 2020 0:10:49 GMT -5
Bill Withers, dead at eighty-one. Who the hell are we going to "Lean On", now? |
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Apr 6, 2020 11:37:44 GMT -5
Well, fuck... Honor Blackman's died. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2020 12:51:09 GMT -5
Well, fuck... Honor Blackman's died. I've seen Jason and the Argonauts about 300 times as it was a childhood favorite and I love it into adulthood. Honor Blackman as Hera delivers a nice plot pivot to Zeus' male stupidity. |
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Post by songstarliner on Apr 7, 2020 21:08:41 GMT -5
Sigh. Goodbye John Prine - enjoy your cocktail and your 9-mile cigarette.
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Post by Nudeviking on Apr 7, 2020 23:10:05 GMT -5
Sigh. Goodbye John Prine - enjoy your cocktail and your 9-mile cigarette.
John Prine wasn't a dude I'd really even thought about in years but he was in heavy rotation in my dad's car or on the Hi-Fi when Mom was out of town back I was a child. Lots of memories of driving to and from hardware stores with my dad and or my dad cooking food that my mom disliked are soundtracked by this cat so thanks for that John Prine. Rest in power buddy! I have a feeling there's going to be a lot more of these in the weeks to come ("Oh man singer from the 70s that my parents weren't about!" "Shit, beloved character actor from the 1980s!") and that bums me out. |
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Apr 8, 2020 7:24:45 GMT -5
I distinctly remember the first time I ever heard a John Prine song There was a fiddle group busking in the downtown area of my home town (not unusual, on a given Thursday through Saturday night you can find people with donation cans playing anything from a cello to some weird Slavic stringed instrument I don't know the name of). It's the kind of thing I normally enjoy for a second or two and then tune out as I walk by, but the song sounded so good I actually stopped to listen to it and later looked it up when I got home (I just dropped it into the Out of Context Lyric thread despite the fact that there technically is context). Sad to read he's gone.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Apr 9, 2020 14:37:36 GMT -5
Mort Drucker, Mad Magazine great. 91 years old. His movie parodies were some of my favorites as a kid.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2020 20:57:53 GMT -5
I haven't listened to John Prine in 30 years, but the last time I did was really fun, listening to him with my Dad. Happy Enchilada and you think you're gonna drown, and so on. Then I read up on him some more and realized he was a brilliant songwriter with beautiful commentary on the war and military and life in general. I've been really sad for a couple of days.
And Mort Drucker was SUPER talented. His caricatures were so spot-on, I loved reading the TV and movie parodies in MAD.
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Apr 12, 2020 7:19:51 GMT -5
R.I.P., Tim Brooke-Taylor. |
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Post by Prole Hole on Apr 13, 2020 6:17:22 GMT -5
Yeah Tim is a sad one, away at 79 from Coronavirus. Loved and listened to I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue since around 1990 or so and watched The Goodies growing up. A fantastically talented man who understood the importance of underplaying in comedy, and by all accounts a thoroughly lovely guy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52268441 |
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Apr 13, 2020 23:18:28 GMT -5
R.I.P., Danny Goldman, who voiced Brainy Smurf and played the annoying medical student at the start of Young Frankenstein. |
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Apr 15, 2020 9:44:31 GMT -5
RIP John Horton Conway, British mathematician who created the Game of Life.  |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Apr 15, 2020 19:34:21 GMT -5
RIP John Horton Conway, British mathematician who created the Game of Life. I like XKCD's tribute. |
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