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Walter "Junie" Morrison, funk legend of Ohio Players and Parliament-Funkadelic fame

Ivan Koloff, professional Wrestler. The article reveals that George "The Animal" Steele also passed. Two wrestlers I grew up watching back in the day when the WWE was called the WWWF.

FrauBlucher wrote:Ivan Koloff, professional Wrestler. The article reveals that George "The Animal" Steele also passed. Two wrestlers I grew up watching back in the day when the WWE was called the WWWF.

The passing of Ivan is pretty sad for me as I knew him. He lived like 10 minutes away from my house and he was an incredible sweet guy, very different from the persona he played in the wrestling business. I'm sad too that WWE didn't induct him into their Hall of Fame while he was alive.

I had seen that Ivan was ill recently, so this isn't a surprise.

I had read about his WWWF career (and his beating Sammartino) but I knew him more from his time in the NWA in the mid to late '70's. He really did have a great act, playing up the Lenin look and toting around the hammer and sickle flag.

Ugh...Clyde Stubblefield.

I've seen him a few times in the 90s, and he was always charming. With Al Jarreau, it's been a tough few days. Two childhood favorites.

Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" in the "Roe v Wade" case.

Maestro jazz guitarist Larry Coryell....

Leah Adler, mother of Steven Spielberg

I remember liking his Eastwood biography in high school

Seijun Suzuki

Where?

Seijun Suzuki is dead and the Taisho trilogy still needs a restored blu ray edition, arrow criterion eureka do it please, it's a real shame since the one from kino (out of print) is awful

Japanese director Seijun Suzuki died on Feb. 13 at a Tokyo hospital after a battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Edit: was just beaten to it. But i'll leave the source here.

Nikos Koundouros, director of Young Aphrodites.

Giulio wrote:Seijun Suzuki is dead and the Taisho trilogy still needs a restored blu ray edition, arrow criterion eureka do it please, it's a real shame since the one from kino (out of print) is awful

I think the Japanese Blu-Rays are "restored" -- albeit not English subbed.

antnield wrote:Nikos Koundouros, director of Young Aphrodites.

Sad news. I've been hoping that the Film Foundation or one of the labels would rescue and restore The Ogre of Athens