DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[belfastboy]

Sir Stirling Moss, OBE, Formula 1 racing legend, has died after an amazing life, aged 90.

If you read his story, the dimuative driver (5' 4"), nearly killed more than once racing, forced to retire at only 31, he even fell down an elevator shaft working on his own house in his 80s, you realize what a life lived really means.

Link and photos when can, or if someone could oblige...

One of my heroes as a kid. I remember him talking about racing and being in the zone. When he was in that zone everything slowed down to a manageable pace. So that even driving the track at 200mph (or whatever max speed they had in the day) he could still see individual faces in the crowd.

 

[GHT]

Link and photos when can, or if someone could oblige...

Always a gentleman, never shut out fans, always willing to sign autographs and he had a great love for the MG marque.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

British comedian & actor, Tim Brooke-Taylor, has died from complications of COVID-19, aged 79.

For those lucky enough to have known, The Goodies.

 

[GHT]

British comedian & actor, Tim Brooke-Taylor, has died from complications of COVID-19, aged 79.

For those lucky enough to have known, The Goodies.

The Goodies was actually a TV repeat of a former radio show called, I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again. It had a host of future stars, many of whom went on to international fame, Marty Feldman and John Cleese among others. The radio show was born out of the Cambridge University Footlights revue known as, Cambridge Circus. Who said academia is dull?
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again was a BBC radio comedy programme that went out on Sundays evenings. The title of the show comes from a sentence commonly used by BBC newsreaders following an on-air mis-read: "I'm sorry, I'll read that again." Having the phrase used to recover from a mistake as the title of the show set the tone for the series as an irreverent and loosely produced comedy show. For my new wife and I back then, without a TV set, it was an unmissable part of our weekend. Rest in Peace Tim.

 

[MisterCairo]

British comedian & actor, Tim Brooke-Taylor, has died from complications of COVID-19, aged 79.

For those lucky enough to have known, The Goodies.

As a kid I loved watching The Goodies, it played on TV Ontario and PBS out of Buffalo NY as I recall. Truly sad.

 

[MisterCairo]

Two of my favourite Toronto Blue Jays players have died within two months of each other. Tony Fernandez died from kidney related issues, aged only 57:

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/tony-fernandez-dead-blue-jays-mlb-1.5465820

He made his major league debut with the Blue Jays in 1983.

In total, Fernandez spent 12 seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays and was part of the World Series-winning team in 1993.

He leads the team’s all-time in hits (1,583), singles (1,160), triples (72) and games played (1,450). He is also fifth in franchise history in batting average (.297), fourth in stolen bases (172) and fifth in runs scored (704).

Fernandez’s defence was a large part of his game. He was awarded four Gold Glove awards in (1986-1989) during his time with the Blue Jays.


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Damaso Garcia, part of an incredible Jays' infield in the 80s, just died, aged only 63, having suffered from brain tumours for nearly 30 years:

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/damaso-garcia-dead-blue-jays-mlb-1.5533138

Garcia played seven of his 11 major league seasons with the Blue Jays, helping the club transition from its rough expansion days into a force in the American League East.

He helped the Blue Jays to their first winning season, and first of 11 straight, in 1983. He was an integral part of Toronto's first AL East pennant in 1985.

Prior to being traded to Atlanta in February 1987, he was the first Blue Jay to register 1,000 hits and was the all-time club leader in hits (1,028), at-bats (3,572) and stolen bases (194). He compiled a .288 average with Toronto in 902 games, with 32 home runs and 296 runs batted in.

He played all but 130 games of his major-league career as a Blue Jay.

Defensively, Garcia formed a lethal double-play combination with Fernandez. The two were part of the Blue Jays' core of Latin American stars that included George Bell and Alfredo Griffin.

 

[belfastboy]

Two of my favourite Toronto Blue Jays players have died within two months of each other. Tony Fernandez died from kidney related issues, aged only 57:

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/tony-fernandez-dead-blue-jays-mlb-1.5465820

He made his major league debut with the Blue Jays in 1983.

In total, Fernandez spent 12 seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays and was part of the World Series-winning team in 1993.

He leads the team’s all-time in hits (1,583), singles (1,160), triples (72) and games played (1,450). He is also fifth in franchise history in batting average (.297), fourth in stolen bases (172) and fifth in runs scored (704).

Fernandez’s defence was a large part of his game. He was awarded four Gold Glove awards in (1986-1989) during his time with the Blue Jays.


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Damaso Garcia, part of an incredible Jays' infield in the 80s, just died, aged only 63, having suffered from brain tumours for nearly 30 years:

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/damaso-garcia-dead-blue-jays-mlb-1.5533138



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Garcia played seven of his 11 major league seasons with the Blue Jays, helping the club transition from its rough expansion days into a force in the American League East.

He helped the Blue Jays to their first winning season, and first of 11 straight, in 1983. He was an integral part of Toronto's first AL East pennant in 1985.

Prior to being traded to Atlanta in February 1987, he was the first Blue Jay to register 1,000 hits and was the all-time club leader in hits (1,028), at-bats (3,572) and stolen bases (194). He compiled a .288 average with Toronto in 902 games, with 32 home runs and 296 runs batted in.

He played all but 130 games of his major-league career as a Blue Jay.

Defensively, Garcia formed a lethal double-play combination with Fernandez. The two were part of the Blue Jays' core of Latin American stars that included George Bell and Alfredo Griffin.

Damn, I loved watching Damaso play. One of my all time fave BlueJays. My favourite anecdote was relating the time he set his uniform on fire in the clubhouse. I think he was disgusted with his slump or with the team's slump....cannot recall the details.

 

[Trenchfriend]

R.I.P,. Lee Konitz.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Noted actor Brian Dennehy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/movies/brian-dennehy-dead.html

 

[Trenchfriend]

Noted actor Brian Dennehy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/movies/brian-dennehy-dead.html

OH MY!!

R.I.P., Sheriff Teasle!

Say, what you want. He was an outstanding actor.

 

[MisterCairo]

I was just saying to my wife how wonderful it would be if Brian Dennehy would return to the Stratford (Ontario) stage. We saw him in Stratford's production of Twelfth Night in 2011. I remember it like yesterday. He also appeared here in 2008 and 2013. He was a major presence on the stage, something many who know him from First Blood may not be aware of.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-brian-dennehy-1.5534605

 

[MisterCairo]

He is almost unrecognizable in the musical Twelfth Night:

 

[MisterCairo]

Damn, I loved watching Damaso play. One of my all time fave BlueJays. My favourite anecdote was relating the time he set his uniform on fire in the clubhouse. I think he was disgusted with his slump or with the team's slump....cannot recall the details.

His slump as I recall.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

" Goodbye Cobb."

 

[Lean'n'mean]

One of the greats, French singer, songwriter & composer, Christophe, died yesterday aged 74. He suffered from emphysema & taken into intensive care on the 26th march. Cause of death is vague but probably resulting from complications of COVID-19.

 

[Nobert]

Gene Deitch, 95,
cartoonist and animator, who worked at U.P.A and Terrytoons, he created an animated version of Jules Feiffer's Munro, and probably the eeriest Tom and Jerry short ever, Dicky Moe.

Deitch was also a jazz fan and drew for music mag The Record Changer, in an appropriately be-boppy, Jim Flora style.

He was the father of underground cartoonist Kim Deitch, whose comics were among my inspirations for getting into all this retro/old-timey/vintage stuff.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I remember being baffled when Deitch's "Tom and Jerry" shorts came up on the local kiddie cartoon carnival shows -- they were so *not* the usual slick MGM style, with kind of an odd Eastern European flavor. Turns out Deitch had emigrated to Czechoslovakia in the late fifties, and those shorts were made there using local animation talent.

He also made some Popeyes, which I've never seen, and which must be even more peculiar.

 

[Doctor Strange]

I don't think anyone has mentioned master cinematographer Allen Daviau, who did outstanding work with Spielberg, etc.:

http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2020/4/16/beauty-break-the-work-of-allen-daviau-1942-2020.html

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

RIP Ian Whitcomb (1941-2020)
I used to listen to his radio show on KCRW and later KPCC in the LA area. He greatly influenced my love for the music of the Era.

 

[Trenchfriend]

R.I.P., Norbert Blüm.