Catch-all R.I.P. thrad

[Ⓐaron]

Soul singer Bobby Womack dead at 70

Here's the opening of Tarantino's Jackie Brown, which uses Womack's "Across 110th Street".

 

[Ⓐaron]

David Legeno, a.k.a. Fenrir Greyback in the Harry Potter films, age 50.

Rosemary Murphy, a.k.a Maudie Atkinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, age 89.

R.I.P. to both of them

 

[Ⓐaron]

Jazz bassist Charlie Haden, dead at 76.

Haden revolutionised bass technique in his day and additionally used his music to advocate forcefully for a variety of political causes, through the formation of the Liberation Music Orchestra. They recorded albums during several periods of political crisis, such as Vietnam, Reagan's wars in Latin America, the waning years of Apartheid, and the run-up to the Second Iraq War.

Three Spanish Civil War Songs - LMO

Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika - LMO

Adagio by Samuel Barber - LMO


Also Tommy Ramone, drummer/producer of the Ramones and the last member of the classic lineup still alive. They all died young too

RIP Tommy Ramone: your band captured the sound in my head | Music | theguardian.com

 

[Ⓐaron]

Blues guitarist Johnny Winter, age 70.

Also James Garner, age 86, TV's Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford and a number of other well-known roles.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

RIP to Robin Williams, age 63 whose performance in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen I just watched last night.




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[Ⓐaron]

Lauren Bacall, legendary actress, dies at 89 - LA Times

I'll tell you the truth, I had no idea she was even still alive. Still, R.I.P. That's a long list of classic movies she was in.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Sorry for the double-post, but this bit from the Guardian's obit of Bacall is worth reprinting here:

Lauren Bacall, smoky-voiced Hollywood legend, dies at 89 | Film | theguardian.com

In old age, she raged against what she saw as the mediocrity of contemporary Hollywood, as represented by everything from the career of Tom Cruise to the Twilight movies that her granddaughter dragged her to see. “She said it was the greatest vampire film ever made,” Bacall recalled. “After the film was over, I wanted to smack her across the head with my shoe.”

Instead, Bacall bought the child a DVD of FW Murnau’s 1922 classic Nosferatu. “Now that’s a vampire film,” she told her sternly.

 

[Carlie]

^Massive cool old lady points.

 

[Ⓐaron]

British actor and director Richard Attenborough, who won several Academy Awards for Gandhi, has died at age 89. He was just a few days shy of reaching his 90th birthday.

 

[jazzflower92]

British actor and director Richard Attenborough, who won several Academy Awards for Gandhi, has died at age 89. He was just a few days shy of reaching his 90th birthday.

I will always think of him as John Hammond from Jurassic Park. May He Rest In Peace.

I wonder if they will dedicate the movie, Jurassic World, in his memory.

 

[Telcontar]

He was just a few days shy of reaching his 90th birthday.

Lots of high profile deaths lately. =(

 

[Interslicery]

 

[X-SOLDIER]

I will always think of him as John Hammond from Jurassic Park. May He Rest In Peace.

I wonder if they will dedicate the movie, Jurassic World, in his memory.

Wonder no more.

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[SoulReaper]

Glenn Cornick, bass player from Jethro Tull during 1968-1970, has passed away.

I loved his playing on the Stand Up album, which is one of my favorite Tull albums....

 

[Ami]

Thought she was going to outlive us all, too! RIP Joan Rivers.

 

[Ⓐaron]

I have mixed feelings about Joan Rivers. I didn't see a piece that summed up why adequately until here.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Richard Kiel, James Bond villain Jaws actor, dies at 74 | BBC

He also had a well-known role in Happy Gilmore.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Two more:

BBC News - Sir Donald Sinden: Legendary actor dies aged 90

The Day of the Jackal may have been his best-known film in the States (although his part in that was rather small), but he was a Shakespearean actor with an astounding amount of range.

BBC News - Ian Paisley, 88, has died

Paisley's decision to enter into a power-sharing agreement with Sinn Féin is generally credited with helping to end the violence in Northern Ireland.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, best known as the former keyboardist for the Mars Volta, age 38. The cause of death has yet to be determined and remains under investigation.

38 is way too damn young.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Oh, also, former SNL star Jan Hooks, age 57. She also had recurring roles on Designing Women and 3rd Rock from the Sun among other shows.

 

[Ghost X]

57 is also way too young .

 

[Ⓐaron]

True. It's not as bad as 38 though.

 

[Ghost X]

RIP Gough Whitlam, former Australian PM, 98 years of age. Perhaps our most progressive PM ever. Gave us universal healthcare, free education (which no longer exists), got us out of Vietnam, paved the way for indigenous rights, and had good environmental policies too. All that and many more in just 3 years of government. Soon after he was disposed with a double dissolution, neoliberalism took over our political culture and the rest is history. How far we have fallen. He pulled us out of the Victorian era, and Abbott seems hell bent on returning us there.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Ben Bradlee, who directed the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Watergate, has died. He was 93. R.I.P.

 

[Ⓐaron]

R.I.P. to Cream bassist/vocalist/songwriter Jack Bruce, age 71.

Clapton gets all the credit, of course, but I've always felt Bruce was just as important to Cream's sound, if not more so. I mean, he sang nearly all the songs, obviously, and he wrote most of them. But there's just a cohesiveness to the Cream material that you rarely find in a lot of Clapton's later solo work. Clapton was never as good a songwriter; he rarely wrote anything as evocative as "Deserted Cities of the Heart" or "White Room" or "Sunshine of Your Love" (admittedly Clapton co-wrote the last of these) or the list goes on. And Bruce's bass playing is sorely underrated these days; he frequently gets overlooked in the focus on Clapton and Ginger Baker's admittedly virtuoso drumming.

He will be missed.