DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[MisterCairo]

Seven out of ten people who grew up in the seventies thought he'd already died recently:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/chuck-barris-tv-pioneer-obit-1.4035579

Canada's The Unknown Comic will be wearing his best mourning bag for the funeral...

 

[MisterCairo]

Canadians over 40 will remember Betty Kennedy, the long-time CBC host from radio and tv. Probably best known in later years for her part on Front Page Challenge:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/betty-kennedy-obit-1.4034660

 

[MisterCairo]

A few months ago I bought a collection of his greatest hits along with Little Richards as well. This is what I wrote in my review of that collection:

"The look he's givin' you on the cover says it all. Chuck is the ringmaster, the baddest man alive, THE Devil's Son in Law. Slick, fast, urbane, profane and truly the poet laureate of RocknRoll. He didn't invent it but his claim is as good as anyone else's. His records were the lexicon, the bible, this is the teat they all sucked from, black, white, brown, yellow, English, American, Ukrainian... Martian. If you wanted to learn how to rock it HE was the one you learned from, the Sith Lord you followed. And Lord could he play that f****n' guitar! He's still around, heaven won't have em and the devils skurd he'll kick him out. Black snake basterd! All hail the true King of Rock and Roll!"

Worf

Sorry all but I HATE "My Ding a Ling" - My faves are "Almost Grown" and "Roll Over Beethoven". Who else would have the balls to tell Beethoven to roll over and tell Tchaikovsky the news...

Watch till the end...

 

[LizzieMaine]

Seven out of ten people who grew up in the seventies thought he'd already died recently:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/chuck-barris-tv-pioneer-obit-1.4035579

Canada's The Unknown Comic will be wearing his best mourning bag for the funeral...

Reunited at last with "Gene, Gene The Dancing Machine."

To say nothing of "Milton DeLugg and the Band With A Thug."

 

[HudsonHawk]

Longtime baseball man Dallas Green died yesterday at age 82. Green was a true baseball "lifer", spending 62 years in the game as a player, manager and front office executive. He managed the 1980 Phillies to the World Series title, and was the driving force behind getting lights installed at Wrigley Field. Green was also in the news in 2011 when his granddaughter was killed in the Tucson, AZ supermarket shooting that targeted Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I used to listen to Phillies broadcasts fairly often back during his tenure as a manager, and was always impressed with what he got out of a pitching staff that was basically Carlton, McGraw, and a bunch of guys.

 

[Harp]

Longtime baseball man Dallas Green died yesterday at age 82. ..

Dallas was the quintessential manager with a larger-than-life persona and the guts to lead his own way.

 

[MisterCairo]

Sib Hashian, original drummer for the group Boston, has died, aged 67:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/hashian-boston-obit-the-rock-1.4039113

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is in a relationship with his daughter, Lauren, and called him his second dad...

 

[LizzieMaine]

Actress/writer/activist Jean Rouverol has died at the age of 100. She'll be best remembered by movie fans as W. C. Fields's oblivious daughter in the unforgettable comedy classic "It's A Gift" (1934), but it was in radio that she made her most enduring mark as a performer, appearing thruout the 1940s in the ongoing family drama "One Man's Family." At the same time she branched out into writing, turning out both screenplays and magazine stories until she was forced out of the United States because of her radical political beliefs in 1951.

She and her husband spent the entire decade of the 1950s living in exile in Mexico, but Jean continued to work incognito, having her work published and produced under the names of "fronts" until her return to the US in the mid-1960s. She then began a long and successful career as a television writer, primarily in soap operas, and was deeply involved in the affairs of the Writers Guild of America. Later she taught screenwriting at USC, and became a popular guest at "Old Time Radio" and nostalgia conventions well into the 2000s. Her book "Refugees From Hollywood" is well worth reading for an inside look at the blacklist era.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Influential comics artist Bernie Wrightson:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/arts/design/bernie-wrightson-dead-comic-book-artist.html

 

[Touchofevil]

Influential comics artist Bernie Wrightson:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/arts/design/bernie-wrightson-dead-comic-book-artist.html

Thank you for the link. He had been around so long, I thought he would have been older. He was everywhere in comics when I was a youngster.

 

[seres]

Actress/writer/activist Jean Rouverol has died at the age of 100....

She sounds like a remarkable woman. Thanks for posting.

 

[Worf]

Influential comics artist Bernie Wrightson:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/arts/design/bernie-wrightson-dead-comic-book-artist.html

Wow... this one hurts... a LOT! Loved his work for Warren....

Worf

 

[Zombie_61]

Influential comics artist Bernie Wrightson...

I was fortunate enough to meet Mr. Wrightson at a convention many years ago. Humble doesn't even begin to describe him, as his demeanor and body language made it very clear he was uncomfortable talking about himself and/or his work. Once the subject changed to anything else he was more at ease, quite chatty, and a wealth of knowledge about the art world in general.

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

Actress/writer/activist Jean Rouverol has died at the age of 100. She'll be best remembered by movie fans as W. C. Fields's oblivious daughter in the unforgettable comedy classic "It's A Gift" (1934), but it was in radio that she made her most enduring mark as a performer, appearing thruout the 1940s in the ongoing family drama "One Man's Family." At the same time she branched out into writing, turning out both screenplays and magazine stories until she was forced out of the United States because of her radical political beliefs in 1951.

She and her husband spent the entire decade of the 1950s living in exile in Mexico, but Jean continued to work incognito, having her work published and produced under the names of "fronts" until her return to the US in the mid-1960s. She then began a long and successful career as a television writer, primarily in soap operas, and was deeply involved in the affairs of the Writers Guild of America. Later she taught screenwriting at USC, and became a popular guest at "Old Time Radio" and nostalgia conventions well into the 2000s. Her book "Refugees From Hollywood" is well worth reading for an inside look at the blacklist era.

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Daughter of Aurania Rouveral, whose play Skidding introduced the characters that eventually became the Hardy family series

 

[LizzieMaine]

Yep. She came from a very creative family, and showed that gene thruout her life.

Her autobiography is fascinating -- she got her first movie contract with Paramount when she was seventeen, and ended up having what they used to call a "nervous breakdown" from the stress of moviemaking. Her main memory of working with Fields was that he carried a thesaurus around with him as a way of helping to concoct ad-libs -- and that he really *didn't* like children.

She and her husband raised four kids, under constant FBI surveillance, and managed not to be bitter over what had happened to them. She even found a bit of humor in the fact that when she finall got a copy of her 800-page FBI file, pretty much everything in it was "redacted." She's one of my favorite personal role models.

 

[MisterCairo]

Blues legend Lonnie Brooks has died, aged 83:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/lonnie-brooks-blues-musician-obit-1.4052330

 

[MisterCairo]

If you don't like 80s synth music, you'll be happy to learn that the guy who created Roland electronic instruments has died:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/kakehashi-roland-music-obit-1.4052353

 

[Stearmen]

If you don't like 80s synth music, you'll be happy to learn that the guy who created Roland electronic instruments has died:

For better or worse, I think Robert Moog was the true father of synthesized music.

 

[MisterCairo]

For better or worse, I think Robert Moog was the true father of synthesized music

I didn't say this guy invented it. I will say that Roland and 80s go together like Moog and 60s go together.