Passages

[hearthesilence]

[mfunk9786]

Is this a real photo from Tel Aviv?

[GaryC]

The only source so far is Facebook, but Australian production manager/supervisor Lynn Gailey died on 4 January aged 74. She worked from 1973 to 1993, on such films as Newsfront, Long Weekend, Heatwave and the 1981 miniseries of A Town Like Alice.

[dadaistnun]

T.K. Carter

[beamish14]

T.K. Carter

I was thinking about him not too long ago. I wonder what caused his acting career to seemingly end about 20+ years ago

[MichaelB]

His filmography has eight post-2006 entries, mostly TV work, the last being in 2023.

[beamish14]

His filmography has eight post-2006 entries, mostly TV work, the last being in 2023.

Huh. For some reason I had thought that he was mostly out of the business. Being found dead during a welfare check (like the recently deceased Nicky Katt) is just such a sad way to go

[domino harvey]

A perennial face for many a 90s kid (My mind immediately went to Good Morning, Miss Bliss, the precursor to Saved by the Bell), RIP

[swo17]

Perennial?

[domino harvey]

*Perennial for millennials

[zedz]

Let’s call the whole thing off.

[flyonthewall2983]

Bob Weir

[therewillbeblus]

Well shit, he seemed so healthy too

[nowhereisaplace]

T.K. Carter

He was great in The Corner.

[Michael Kerpan]

Bob Weir

I feel very very sad. First Phil Lesh, now Bobby Weir. We still have a few remnants of that era/scene -- like Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady (who perform together now and then -- and look their age but sound great).

[hearthesilence]

I liked Weir a lot as a person as well as a vital part of the band, so this is incredibly sad. Only the drummers are left from the original line-up.

I’m not the biggest Grateful Dead fan but that says more about the insane levels of devotion they’ve attracted as well as the ridiculous amount of music they’ve made over the years. Live/Dead, Workingman’s Dead, American Beauty and a homemade two-disc collection of studio highlights (up to “Touch of Grey”) is mostly what I listen to, and even as a tiny fraction of their recordings, it still feels substantial. Amir Bar-Lev‘s 2017 film on them is highly recommended for casual fans (as I pretty much was when I saw it). The filmmaking is right out of PBS’s American Masters but it’s an excellent primer.

Besides the film, it helped that David Murray, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello and Wilco (all of whom I listened to often) were big Dead fans, and that was enough to keep me receptive over the years. I’m no expert of their live legacy - it’s just too overwhelming to sift through at this point - but more knowledgeable fans never fail to dig up gems. This one in particular is a great way to remember Weir.

(Avoid the live album they made with Dylan though, that’s just the pits.)

[soundchaser]

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert and (more recently) noted right-wing internet troll.

[Brian C]

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert and (more recently) noted right-wing internet troll.

Neither here nor there, probably, but I think calling Adam’s a “troll” misses the mark. It is true that our political discourse has been overtaken by trolls and grifters, but Adams is a guy who took ivermectin to treat his cancer … whatever else you can say about him, he put his money where his mouth was.

He came across to me as probably sincere, more or less. That’s way different than being “honest,” of course, but my impression was that he was a guy who was profoundly overcome by his own resentment. He stuck to his guns even when it was financially disastrous, even when it made him look utterly ridiculous (which he seemed self-aware to recognize, even if he was unwilling to do anything about it), even when his life was on the line.

It’s a damnable thing, even more than being a troll, I think. But it’s different!

[soundchaser]

Fair - "provocateur" might be a better word. Either way, I agree about his being a true believer.

[beamish14]

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert and (more recently) noted right-wing internet troll.

Neither here nor there, probably, but I think calling Adam’s a “troll” misses the mark. It is true that our political discourse has been overtaken by trolls and grifters, but Adams is a guy who took ivermectin to treat his cancer … whatever else you can say about him, he put his money where his mouth was.

He came across to me as probably sincere, more or less. That’s way different than being “honest,” of course, but my impression was that he was a guy who was profoundly overcome by his own resentment. He stuck to his guns even when it was financially disastrous, even when it made him look utterly ridiculous (which he seemed self-aware to recognize, even if he was unwilling to do anything about it), even when his life was on the line.

It’s a damnable thing, even more than being a troll, I think. But it’s different!

He kind of reminded me of Graham Linehan; he just became consumed by his own hatred and allowed it to destroy his relationships and career

[domino harvey]

Imagine dying and still live streaming right up to the end about politicians instead of, I don’t know, spending time with loved ones

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

Imagine dying and still live streaming right up to the end about politicians instead of, I don’t know, spending time with loved ones

This assumes he had loved ones. He at least had plenty of subscribers!

[hearthesilence]

A fucking sad end to a guy who seemed like a nerdy office guy who would've been doomed to waste away in a cubicle if he hadn't made a popular comic strip about it, but he was very open about how venal he was from the very start, and that wasn't just self-deprecation. He became enormously wealthy but there was no end to his resentment and he just mutated into this insanely toxic asshole. Compare him to, say, Gary Larson and Bill Watterson, the two cartoonists he aimed to displace in terms of drawing the most lucrative comic strip (a goal he accomplished when they both retired) and the worldview couldn't be more different. Larson and Watterson seem content in their retirements and more than happy with what they've done, sticking to high ideals that "cost" them millions because why wouldn't they, they already made enough money doing what they genuinely loved. Then there's Adams who was basically a Trumpian Jim Davis. But I wasn't exactly following whatever he was doing now and Brian points out he stuck to crazy beliefs that were very harmful to him, not just in health but financially too, and it just sounds like whatever insanity got a hold of him only got worse.

[JamesF]

British actor Marcus Gilbert, whose credits included Doctor Who (“Battlefield”), Rambo III and Army of Darkness (as Lord Arthur).

[MichaelB]

And reputedly—if briefly—considered as Roger Moore’s successor as James Bond, before the part ultimately went to Timothy Dalton.