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Antares
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#3703 Post by Feego » Sat Nov 24, 2012 12:44 am

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Larry Hagman
How I loved watching reruns of "I Dream of Jeannie" as a kid on 90s Nick at Nite. In tribute, let's all remember the one and only Scream King of television.

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#3705 Post by Robert de la Cheyniest » Sat Nov 24, 2012 1:47 pm

Jazz Pianist Austin Peralta who was only 22 years old.

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#3706 Post by MichaelB » Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:19 am

Dinah Sheridan, best known for a brief period of stardom in British films in the 1950s (most famously Genevieve), after which her career had two major hiatuses for personal reasons and never fully recovered: her last big-screen appearance was in The Railway Children (1970). But 92 is a good innings by any yardstick.

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#3707 Post by colinr0380 » Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:30 am

She was also in one of the more overlooked David Lean films, The Sound Barrier (or Breaking The Sound Barrier as it was called in the US)


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Gregory
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#3709 Post by Gregory » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:09 pm

I just got the news that Spain Rodriguez died this morning. He'd been battling colon cancer for a while. He's well known as part of the '60s Underground Comix upsurge but he'd more recently done a lot of historical works such as the Che bio and some shorter stories just brought back into print in the new Anarchy Comics Collection, collecting all four issues of an anthology comic he was closely involved with.

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#3710 Post by JPJ » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:40 pm

One of the greats,(session)guitarist Mickey Baker died couple of days ago.He was probably best known for Mickey and Sylvia's hit "Love is strange".

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Donald Brown
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#3711 Post by Donald Brown » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:49 pm

Gregory wrote:I just got the news that Spain Rodriguez died this morning. He'd been battling colon cancer for a while. He's well known as part of the '60s Underground Comix upsurge but he'd more recently done a lot of historical works such as the Che bio and some shorter stories just brought back into print in the new Anarchy Comics Collection, collecting all four issues of an anthology comic he was closely involved with.
Damn. He was a great cartoonist. His autobiographical work was up there with Pekar's stuff.

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#3712 Post by antnield » Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:33 pm

British director Bob Kellett.

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#3713 Post by antnield » Tue Dec 04, 2012 6:00 pm

Animator Fyodor Khitruk, best known for the Russian Winnie the Pooh (Vinni-Pukh) shorts.

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knives
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#3714 Post by knives » Tue Dec 04, 2012 6:05 pm

That's horrible. He's one of my favorite animators with his underrated Man in the Frame being one of the most hilariously hostile take down of Soviet politics and life ever.

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#3715 Post by Perkins Cobb » Wed Dec 05, 2012 11:09 am

Jose Luis Borau, director of the excellent Furtivos (Poachers). I'd love to see more of his films.

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#3716 Post by dadaistnun » Wed Dec 05, 2012 1:03 pm


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#3717 Post by jbeall » Wed Dec 05, 2012 1:31 pm

dadaistnun wrote:Dave Brubeck
Oh, man is that depressing. One of the greats.

EDIT: This video seems oddly appropriate for marking his passing. If I believed in heaven, it'd be comforting to think that the Dave Brubeck Quartet is the house band.
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#3718 Post by reaky » Wed Dec 05, 2012 1:46 pm

To quote Donald Fagen on New Frontier, "He's an artist, a pioneer." Brubeck wore his intelligence lightly, and despite what certain sniffy critics would have you believe, swung too.

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#3719 Post by triodelover » Wed Dec 05, 2012 1:54 pm

The Brubeck Quartet played at the Atlanta International Pop Festival in 1969. They took the stage after Grand Funk Railroad which was surreal enough. While they played (it was late afternoon), the Reverend Billy Graham circulated through the crowd in a rather garish gold sport jacket, attempting to do his thing. He was largely ignored in favor of Brubeck's transcendent improvisations. Which is as it should be.

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#3720 Post by Ashirg » Wed Dec 05, 2012 5:04 pm

antnield wrote:Animator Fyodor Khitruk, best known for the Russian Winnie the Pooh (Vinni-Pukh) shorts.
One of his funniest shorts - Film, Film Film (Part 1, Part 2)

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#3721 Post by MichaelB » Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:18 pm

French cult-porn auteur José Bénazéraf.

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#3722 Post by manicsounds » Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:45 pm


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#3723 Post by Perkins Cobb » Fri Dec 07, 2012 8:58 pm

Reinhold Weege, creator of Night Court.

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GaryC
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#3724 Post by GaryC » Sat Dec 08, 2012 6:57 am

Two centenarians -

Oscar Niemeyer, architect with one production-designer credit on the IMDB, ten days short of his 105th birthday.

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, philanthropist and mother of Rupert, aged 103.

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Lemmy Caution
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Mickey "Guitar" Baker

#3725 Post by Lemmy Caution » Sat Dec 08, 2012 10:36 am

JPJ wrote:One of the greats,(session)guitarist Mickey Baker died couple of days ago.He was probably best known for Mickey and Sylvia's hit "Love is Strange".
Mickey Guitar Baker, one of the greats and a pioneer R&B/rock guitarist.
He was on a ton of important R&B records.
Give a listen to Little Willie John's Need Your Love So Bad with a great and sensitive intro by Baker, followed by exquisite comping. (The song is also worth listening to because it's basically the template James Brown used in all of his ballads for decades).

Mickey and Sylvia did backup vocals on Ike & Tina's It's Gonna Work Out Fine, which makes the link between the duos explicit. Ike & Tina often imitated the spoken banter of Love Is Strange. Mickey also played guitar on Titus Turner's classic All Around the World.

Mickey's Guitar bakes on Big Joe Turner's Shake Rattle and Roll; Big Maybelle's original Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On; The Drifters' Money Honey, and a few other of the greatest 50's tunes.

Lowman Pauling of the Five Royales was another similar unsung guitar hero, responsible for songs you know but probably don't know the original versions of -- Dedicated to The One I Love; Tell The Truth; Think. Also worth listening to The Slummer the Slum and most of their great output. Early Ike Turner, once he switched to guitar, is fairly similar to Mickey Baker. And Bo Diddley -- usually credited with writing Love Is Strange -- was the breakthrough R&B guitar artist. Buddy Holly was influenced strongly by Mickey Baker's playing especially on Love Is Strange, when he wasn't cadging licks from Bo Diddley ....

Btw, Sylvia Robinson nee Vanderpool aka Little Sylvia and the other half of Mickey & ___ died just last year, age 75. She had been one of Mickey Baker's guitar students he brought to fame. She had a pretty interesting career, including writing and producing songs for Grandmaster Flash.
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