DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[Tomasso]

Has anybody mentioned that Sir Jimmy Saville OBE passed away a few weeks ago.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/show...ast-Respects&p=1338981&viewfull=1#post1338981

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/show...ast-Respects&p=1338981&viewfull=1#post1338981

AH, Yes, I must of missed that entry. Rgds.

 

[HadleyH]

Judy Lewis, the daughter of Loretta Young and Clark Gable died. She was 76

RIP Judy Lewis.

 

[dhermann1]

Alan Sues, of 1960's Laugh-In fame, age 85 (85!?).
[video=youtube;FZiplrd-ooE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZiplrd-ooE&feature=share[/video]

 

[PADDY]

Robin at ThriftyVintageChic posted a lovely tribute to Diane
http://thriftyvintagechic.com/2011/09/27/heres-looking-at-you-kid/#more-4293

Every so often, in the natural course of events in life, one of our Members passes away, but it is particularly sad when someone so young and talented such as Diane, is taken away well before her time.

Many of you will remember Diane 'here' as the member, "clubwitsend" who through her love for vintage, was instrumental in starting a 1920's inspired 'Night Club' in NYC (Wit's End) with her Fiance, Don. She also launched around the same time, a vintage magazine called ZELDA.

This lovely, young lady will be sorely missed by all the people she touched in her positive & enthusiastic way, but her legacy will live on within those she touched...

 

[Mrs Chaddsley_Corbett]

I will always treasure my editions of "Zelda"

 

[dhermann1]

Diane was an absolute doll. We all miss her very much here in New York. It was she who instigated the Lounge get togerther at Fedora's Restaurant in Greenwich Village a couple of years ago, which resulted in one of the all time coolest photos ever posted here in the Lounge.

 

[Mario]

Already on November 23 the great Catalan soprano Montserrat Figueras died after a long battle with cancer, aged 69. Most of you may not know the name but she was the wife of viol player Jordi Savall and a great interpreter of early music. The two of them (sometimes with daughter Arianna and son Ferran) recorded many outstanding albums for the Alia Vox label which they founded together. Her death came as a real surprise as she had kept her illness concealed from the public.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...c-dies-at-69/2011/11/29/gIQAAv9yDO_story.html

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[Doctor Strange]

Actor Harry Morgan, best known as Colonel Potter on M*A*S*H, but he was in a zillion other films and shows.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/a...sh-and-dragnet-actor-dies-at-96.html?ref=arts

 

[rue]

I didn't realize he was that old!

May he rest in peace.....

 

[LizzieMaine]

One of my favorite TV curmudgeons. He also worked as a radio announcer for a brief time in the mid-forties -- if you ever heard the "Mystery in The Air" series with Peter Lorre from 1947, that's Morgan rasping out the Camel cigarette commercials in that unmistakable voice.

 

[dhermann1]

He had so many great roles both on TV and in the movies. He was a regular on a 50's sitcom called December Bride, with Spring Byington, which led to one of the first TV spin offs, Pete and Gladys.
But I think I got the biggest charge out of recognizing him as the psychotic killer in the 1948 Ray Milland thriller, "The Big Clock".
RIP, Col. Potter. (Final salute.)

 

[Connery]

R.I.P. Harry Morgan

 

[Doctor Strange]

Jerry Robinson - one of the key architects of the Batman mythos!

http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-jerry-robinson-creator-of-the-joker,66257/

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2011_12_09.html#021787

 

[Doctor Strange]

Another titan of comics, whose creations, like Jerry Robinson's, loom larger than ever over the cultural landscape: Captain America co-creator and longtime partner to Jack Kirby, Joe Simon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/books/joe-simon-a-creator-of-captain-america-is-dead-at-98.html

I met him once, back around 1980. He was living in obscurity and working out of his apartment as a commercial artist; I was working in a type house/print shop, and I delivered some mechanicals to him. He was thrilled that I was a comics fan and knew who he was: he gave me a large-format b/w portfolio reprint of splash panels from the "Bullseye" western series that he and Kirby had done in the fifties. (A wonderfully typical Kirby image from it is framed on my wall: terrified desperados fleeing in the foreground run from Bullseye's thrown knives, one of which in mid-flight sits hugely at the forefront center, a la Thor's hammer a decade later!) He was a really sweet guy!

Mark Evanier's thoughts on Joe Simon:

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2011_12_15.html#021811

 

[dhermann1]

Christopher Hitchens, controversial social critic and outspoken atheist just passed away from cancer at age 62. I'm sure he's giving God a piece of his mind right now.

 

[davidraphael]

I'm gutted by the loss of Christopher Hitchens. He was a polymath, erudite, viciously witty, and a trusty guard-dog against the paltriness of irrational thought and the pernicious encroachment of religion on political and social life. He will be sorely missed, as will his Hitch-slaps.

 

[Mario]

Amen!

 

[Bluebird Marsha]

I wouldn't say I'm paying respects on this one, but there's one more dead dictator in the world today. May North Korea actually come out better- but I'm not willing to bet on it.

Kim Jong-il, North Korean Leader, Dies
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/world/asia/kim-jong-il-is-dead.html?_r=1&hp

 

[rue]

I'm glad, but I know like you do that it doesn't mean it'll get better.