RIP, <famous person>!

Former wrestleman, Shad Gaspard, who went missing on Sunday after getting caught in a riptide while swimming with his son and telling lifeguards to save his kid first. His body was found today. Simultaneously a horrifying way to go and also a moment one can look at and be like, "Goddamn there was a good dad."

Christo, Fearless Maker of Massive Public Artworks, Has Died at 84

An artist I probably appreciated more than I liked, but still, its good to have artists who push the boundaries of what art is.

Larry Kramer passed away last week.

RIP Mary Pat Gleason, age 70. Character actor from a lot of things.

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Rupert Hine, who wrote, produced and / or performed with Rush, The Fixx, Tina Turner and seemingly half the new wave artists of the '80s, along with writing and performing half the soundtrack for Better Off Dead, perhaps the only good thing Dan Schneider was involved in, and John Cusak's best movie, despite  his disavowal of it.

Bonnie Pointer of The Pointer Sister.

The legendary Denny O'Neil has died.

It was so sudden!

Said this in the Shoutbox but it's crazy how big of a mark he makes as Bilbo when he's really only in the first hour of a 10 or 12 hour series. Perfect casting, perfect performance. RIP.

And Falling Down.

It's a movie about Trump voters made in the early 90s. It's incredibly prescient.

I thought "Tigerland" was pretty good, too.     

I literally just added Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid to my queue right before I saw this. R.I.P. Carl.

EDIT: There was a mildly interesting oral history of The Jerk with Reiner, Carl Gottlieb, and others earlier this year. The best part was where they talk about the mansion Navin buys:

ELIAS: I was involved in location scouting. I remember the first time we went to the Sheik’s house [the mansion Navin lives in], because that was unbelievable. That’s the way it really looked. That house was just the way it was. It was owned by a Saudi prince’s son, and his son was going to UCLA and lived in this house, so, of course, the house was designed by a college freshman with 40 billion dollars to spend.

GOTTLIEB: I remember walking through it, looking at the billiard room and the clamshell bathtub and all the features. I said to the prop man, “Where did you find this stuff?” And the guy would keep saying, “It was here.”

ELIAS: The guy put up nude statues that hung out by the fence outside and he painted them. And the neighbors, this is in the middle of Beverly Hills, were going bat shit, man. They couldn’t stand it. They burnt it down a few years later. And I think the kid was recalled by his father back to Saudi Arabia for embarrassing the family.