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Post by Celebith on Sept 9, 2024 20:22:53 GMT -5
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Post by Dellarigg on Sept 10, 2024 11:09:27 GMT -5
James Earl Jones, 93. Probably best known for voicing Darth Vader, I’ll be remembering him as one of the pilots in Dr Strangelove. Good pointless vaguerism, Dellarigg. Dismiss Star Wars and claim a minor character in a Kubrick as the sum total of his career. Here, off the top of my head, The Lion King, Field of Dreams, Matewan, Bingo Long, Sneakers...wtf is vaguerism lol |
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Sept 10, 2024 19:30:57 GMT -5
Good pointless vaguerism, Dellarigg. Dismiss Star Wars and claim a minor character in a Kubrick as the sum total of his career. Here, off the top of my head, The Lion King, Field of Dreams, Matewan, Bingo Long, Sneakers...wtf is vaguerism lol They tried to arrest me for vagurerism once, but fortunately I had like sixteen dollars and a Mickey D's coupon in my pockets. |
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Post by songstarliner on Sept 11, 2024 15:09:59 GMT -5
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Post by moimoi on Sept 11, 2024 21:09:03 GMT -5
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Post by Celebith on Sept 18, 2024 7:10:45 GMT -5
J. D. Souther, collaborator with half of the sweet '70s Laurel Canyon sound scene.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 19, 2024 15:18:45 GMT -5
Justin Yoder was not famous, but he was the inspiration for a Disney made-for-TV movie that starred Frankie Muniz. Our parents were friends and I spent some time with him when we were teenagers. He was 37 and died in a car accident Sunday. May his memory be a blessing. www.yoderculpfuneralhome.com/obituary/justin-yoder |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Sept 27, 2024 9:03:29 GMT -5
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Sept 27, 2024 9:19:00 GMT -5
NOT THE MOTHER SUPERIOR!
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Post by repulsionist on Sept 29, 2024 19:09:41 GMT -5
Kris Kristofferson, dead at 88. Finally met up with that big Convoy in the sky.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Sept 29, 2024 20:18:41 GMT -5
Kris Kristofferson, dead at 88. Finally met up with that big Convoy in the sky. Guess he finally found Bobby McGee again. Gonna miss this guy. He was an original. |
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Post by repulsionist on Sept 30, 2024 18:44:25 GMT -5
Dikembe Mutombo, 58. Incredible defensive monstah of basketball.
Pete Rose, 83. He stole the Pearly Gates and bet against St. Peter but made it through in the end.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Oct 15, 2024 9:45:28 GMT -5
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Post by Prole Hole on Oct 17, 2024 3:18:48 GMT -5
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Post by repulsionist on Oct 17, 2024 19:24:15 GMT -5
Keizo Murase, tailor of the kaiju stars. Dead at 89.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Oct 17, 2024 19:40:31 GMT -5
Liam Payne, formerly of 1 Direction, 31 - fell from a balcony in Buenos Aires.
Mitzi Gaynor, actress and star of South Pacific, 93.
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Post by repulsionist on Oct 21, 2024 22:13:27 GMT -5
Paul Di'Anno, finds "Sanctuary" aged 66.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Oct 23, 2024 6:56:29 GMT -5
Former Dodgers pitcher, and Cy Young award winner Fernando Valenzuela.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Oct 24, 2024 14:26:25 GMT -5
Former Dodgers pitcher, and Cy Young award winner Fernando Valenzuela.
Very sad. He was such a fun, engaging guy. And a great pitcher. My family lived in Los Angeles when he debuted. My father fondly remembered Fernandomania, and talked about how excited he'd been to go watch him pitch at Dodger Stadium.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Oct 25, 2024 16:43:49 GMT -5
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Post by songstarliner on Oct 25, 2024 23:37:35 GMT -5
RIP, bud - you were great. Tell Jerry I said hi.
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Post by Prole Hole on Oct 26, 2024 3:03:05 GMT -5
Jeri Taylor, writer and co-creator of Star Trek: Voyager at 86, which isn't a bad outing. Whatever you might think of the series, Taylor was a fiercely strong individual, seemingly a very kind and considerate individual, wrote some classic television (including TNG's The Drumhead) and was very much a stood-up-for-what-she-believed-in sort of person. trekmovie.com/2024/10/25/star-trek-voyager-co-creator-jeri-taylor-has-passed-away/ |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Oct 26, 2024 16:02:27 GMT -5
Wow, sadly, I had not heard about this until Zachary Levi said some extremely dumb things about this and many Broadway actors I follow slammed him for it.
But, wow, Broadway star and Tony winner Gavin Creel died Sept 30th. He was 48. He had been diagnosed with a rare cancer in July. So, let's all give a hearty FUCK CANCER!
Gavin was a delightful stage performer who was often the best part of any show he was in. You can watch his performance in "She Loves Me" on BroadwayHD. And there are many bootlegs of his performances on YouTube.
Also on YouTube, you can watch him give an adored performance at MCC's annual MisCast fundraiser. This fundraiser invites Broadway stars to perform numbers they would not otherwise get an opportunity to perform. Usually due to gender. So, it can occasionally produce some wonderful gender-bent renditions of Broadway songs.
In 2016, Gavin Creel teamed up with Aaron Tveit to produce one of the most memorable MCC MisCast performances ever, taking an already gay number from "Rent" and making it somehow even more gay, prompting numerous calls from Broadway fans to see a completely gender-bent production of "Rent". Hey, even that above NYT obituary links to this, because it is so fun:
Edited to add: Creel later said he had only one regret about that performance, and that is that he wished he had actually kissed Tveit at the end. RIP to a great performer.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Oct 26, 2024 16:50:40 GMT -5
And I'll post a more serious video of Gavin Creel, since that one is so wonderfully funny.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Oct 26, 2024 18:42:52 GMT -5
Aw, here is Gavin Creel in April performing at MisCast. Singing an Abba medley from the Abba jukebox musical "Mamma Mia!" This is such a bummer. Creel was such a fun performer.
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Post by repulsionist on Oct 28, 2024 22:14:22 GMT -5
Paul Morrissey, aged 86. Perhaps the heavier talent of The Factory.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Oct 29, 2024 12:46:33 GMT -5
Teri Garr, 79. Inga in Young Frankenstein is one of the funniest performances ever. Roll in ze hay...
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Post by Powerthirteen on Oct 29, 2024 12:54:36 GMT -5
Teri Garr, 79. Inga in Young Frankenstein is one of the funniest performances ever. Roll in ze hay... We told her for years that she should get that hairy scar checked out by a dermatologist. If only she'd listened. |
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Post by Dellarigg on Oct 29, 2024 13:54:19 GMT -5
Paul Morrissey, aged 86. Perhaps the heavier talent of The Factory. One of my first interactions on the AVC was asking the hive mind about a version of Dracula I vaguely remembered from childhood. A very seedy video store owner pressed it on 11 year old me/me mam when she asked him to recommend a horror film; imagine our dismay when it turned out to be more soft porn than horror. (I was just too young to be enamoured of sex scenes.) I was allowed to fast forward it to the end, though, in expectation of some bloodshed, which did happen, so all was not lost. Anyway, the gang answered me promptly and accurately: it was the Paul Morrissey one with Udo Kier. I rewatched it a few years ago, as research for something I was working on, and I didn’t like it any more than I did first time round. Still, RIP I guess. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Oct 29, 2024 17:46:25 GMT -5
Jeri Taylor, who (among other credits) helped transition Star Trek: The Next Generation from a more high-concept, character secondary series to a more character-driven one. Although the show still generally relied on “mystery of the week” type plots they were often more closely integrated with the characters’ emotional arcs of the episode. She then went on to co-create Star Trek: Voyager, being maybe the key personality establishing the concepts behind it and then righting the show’s direction after the rocky (generously described) first couple of seasons.
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