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Post by Finntrovertigo on Jan 29, 2017 1:30:11 GMT
And a fond farewell to Miguel Ferrer. I have a feeling this clip is on infinite replay in the Dick Cheney household.
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Post by peggs on Jan 30, 2017 0:54:09 GMT
Miguel was a very good character actor from a talented family. His last role in the television series NCIS Los Angeles was getting difficult to watch as his health failed. RIP.
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Post by peggs on Feb 19, 2017 17:53:19 GMT
I read this morning that Clyde Stubblefield, drummer extraordinaire for James Brown, has died. He was 73 and had experienced poor health for a number of years. The Funky Drummer was well known in Wisconsin as a staple of the Madison music scene and as a member of the house band for the radio show, Whad'Ya Know.
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Post by miles on Feb 19, 2017 18:12:04 GMT
Miguel was a very good character actor from a talented family. His last role in the television series NCIS Los Angeles was getting difficult to watch as his health failed. RIP. Little known fact: Miguel was in a band with Billy Mumy (Lost In Space) and comic book artist Steve Leialoha, back in the 80s or so. They even put out a album, titled The Golden Age. I can't remember the band's name.
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Post by peggs on Feb 26, 2017 21:05:47 GMT
It always comes as a bit of a shock, to me at least, when a well regarded public figure dies at a relatively early age.
Today it is Bill Paxton, aged 61. A respectable and respected character actor who found fame in a variety of genres and mediums.
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Post by peggs on Feb 26, 2017 21:12:18 GMT
Also passing today, Joseph Wapner, the judge from one of the original reality TV shows, The People's Court. He was 97 - a good long life by any standard. Just thinking about his name brings the sound of Dustin Hoffman's ('Rain Man') voice to my head.
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Post by Nonsuch Ned on Mar 5, 2017 5:40:04 GMT
Miguel was a very good character actor from a talented family. His last role in the television series NCIS Los Angeles was getting difficult to watch as his health failed. RIP. Little known fact: Miguel was in a band with Billy Mumy (Lost In Space) and comic book artist Steve Leialoha, back in the 80s or so. They even put out a album, titled The Golden Age. I can't remember the band's name. It always comes as a bit of a shock, to me at least, when a well regarded public figure dies at a relatively early age. Today it is Bill Paxton, aged 61. A respectable and respected character actor who found fame in a variety of genres and mediums. Six degrees of Bill Mumy... also, of course, a member of Barnes and Barnes... whose most famous video was directed, starred in, and almost single-handedly created by Paxton
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Post by peggs on Mar 6, 2017 0:24:31 GMT
OMG! This is too weird. Great find, Ned.
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Post by peggs on Mar 6, 2017 14:25:52 GMT
I learned over the weekend that a hometown music legend, who enjoyed his 15 minutes of fame in the 1970s, passed away, age 90. Wally Pikal was a well known and regarded musician and band leader and, during my formative years, owner of the local music store. His fame came from appearances on Johnny Carson (the Tonight Show), Mike Douglas Show, and other national broadcasts. His schtick? Playing two trumpets while bouncing on a Pogo Stick. A local TV news story from 1976, with Wally doing his thing, can be seen here. You can also see Wally do his thing at the :15 second mark in the J. Geils Band, Love Stinks video: RIP Wally.
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Post by miles on Mar 20, 2017 20:31:27 GMT
Illustrator and comic book legend Berni Wrightson has died after a long battle with brain cancer at age 68. He was one of the all time great artists in the horror field, his illustrations for "Frankenstein" were probably his crowning achievement. He was one of the artists that got me to try to draw comics (unsuccessfully), along with the other Studio artists, Jeffery Jones, Michael Kaluta and Barry Smith. RIP Berni www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-wrightson-dead_us_58cf5ee8e4b0be71dcf5b448
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Mar 20, 2017 23:35:02 GMT
Farewell to Chuck Berry. He may have had some odd scatological tendencies, but he was still a great rock and roll artist. And farewell to Berni Wrightson. I enjoyed the drawings he did for Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf.
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Post by miles on Mar 21, 2017 16:58:04 GMT
Farewell to Chuck Berry. He may have had some odd scatological tendencies, but he was still a great rock and roll artist. And farewell to Berni Wrightson. I enjoyed the drawings he did for Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf. Yes Chuck was the true king, forget that Elvis fellow. That he may have been less than a stellar human in personal aspects is the same, classic contradiction. Like Picasso and so many others, you don't have to be a good person to be a great artist.
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Post by cicadashell on Mar 22, 2017 12:31:53 GMT
yes, farewell to chuck berry. his rock 'n' roll lyrics had a unique flair; i'm thinking of couplets like "riding along in my calaboose, still trying to get her belt a-loose". or his exhortation to dancers to "move on up just a trifle further", but also using the rural elision "fu'ther" to conveniently rhyme with "one another". he made it look easy.
i have two superstitions, or perhaps rituals, for any air travel. one of which is, just after takeoff, i say aloud (very softly) "bye bye, new jersey", and then i think to myself the rest of the line ("i've become airborne", for those of you unfamiliar with the song "you can't catch me").
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Post by Dr Hugbine on May 12, 2017 8:55:55 GMT
Cheerio, then, Catweazle. "Touch Not the Wogle Stone."
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Post by Dr Hugbine on May 12, 2017 8:58:01 GMT
PS Though Nick Robinson interviewed him yesterday morning.
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