DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[vintageTink]

He will be missed. I saw Blue Oyster Cult at the Long Beach Area in a double header concert with Richie Blackmore's Rainbow. They put on a great show and their live rendition of "Godzilla" gave me goosebumps.

Needs more cowbell.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

lollollollol

 

[jlee562]

Cinematographer Gilbert Taylor, most well known for Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and the original Star Wars: A New Hope, has died, age 99.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23808854

 

[BigFitz]

RIP Mr. Gilbert Taylor.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Distinguished actress Julie Harris:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/a...ctress-of-range-and-intensity-dies-at-87.html

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Distinguished actress Julie Harris:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/a...ctress-of-range-and-intensity-dies-at-87.html

A great actress. What a life she led..!!

 

[HadleyH]

I loved her work on "East of Eden". RIP Julie Harris.


with James Dean

 

[Doctor Strange]

Agreed, she's wonderful as Abra.

I also love her performance in The Haunting.

 

[1961MJS]

That "wonderful woman" was a raging anti-Semite and a nasty piece of work.
And that's all I have to say about that.

She was always a reporter telling what we should think about the news. Won't miss her in the least.

Later

 

[Miss Golightly]

Seamus Heaney - Poet & Nobel Laureate has died aged 74:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0830/471228-seamus-heaney/

I don't care for poetry as a rule (there are a few exceptions) but I remember this poem from when I was in Primary School as it really stood out & stayed with me all these years:


Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney

I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close.
At two o'clock our neighbors drove me home.

In the porch I met my father crying--
He had always taken funerals in his stride--
And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.

The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram
When I came in, and I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand

And tell me they were "sorry for my trouble,"
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand

In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.
At ten o'clock the ambulance arrived
With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.

Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops
And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him
For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,

Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,
He lay in the four foot box as in his cot.
No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.

A four foot box, a foot for every year.

 

[W-D Forties]

I'm ashamed to say that I knew next to nothing about Seamus Heaney, as he wasn't on the English curriculum when I was at school, but my, that's a beautiful and sad piece of poetry. Made me cry.

 

[Miss Golightly]

I'm ashamed to say that I knew next to nothing about Seamus Heaney, as he wasn't on the English curriculum when I was at school, but my, that's a beautiful and sad piece of poetry. Made me cry.

Isn't it a magnificent poem? What I love about it is that you can see the events unfolding - it's not opaque or wordy - the last couple of lines just floor me.

He has another poem about drowning kittens but I don't want to ruin your Sunday!!!!!!

 

[Tomasso]

He has another poem about drowning kittens but I don't want to ruin your Sunday!!!!!!

lol

 

[HoosierDaddy]

David Frost 74 years old is dead.

 

[dhermann1]

David Frost, 1963. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h56_IbHqTIo

 

[RBH]

A.C. Lyles dies Friday.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...ran-hollywood-producer-ac-lyles-dies/2898169/

 

[RBH]

The late AC Lyles with his Golden Spur Award. [for Red Tomahawk 1967]
With Howard Keel, Joan Caulfield, Scott Brady and Brodwick Crawford

 

[Bruce Wayne]

RIP Tom Clancy

 

[Black Dahlia]

RIP Janet Leigh. Died on this day, Oct. 3, 2004.
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[HoosierDaddy]

RIP Tom Clancy

Great great author and good man. RIP
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