Passages

[MichaelB]

Chikage Awashima

Already noted.

[Brian C]

When someone dies of cancer, they don't say it was from natural causes...

"Natural causes" is used all the time when the actual cause of death is not disclosed or is otherwise unavailable to reporters but not the result of foul play or accident.

[Antares]

When someone dies of cancer, they don't say it was from natural causes, they say it was from cancer.

Not true, they tend to say that the person died after a long or protracted illness. My mother died of cancer, and this was how it was written in her obituary. It was also written this way for an old girl friend who died from breast cancer and for an uncle who died from colon cancer.

[Mr Sausage]

Sounds like someone at your local paper isn't a big fan of the c-word.

[tarpilot]

Sounds like someone at your local paper isn't a big fan of the c-word.

It's a typo!

[Brian C]

Sounds like someone at your local paper isn't a big fan of the c-word.

Come on, man, just google the phrase "death by natural causes" and be done with it. It's completely routine usage.

[Mr Sausage]

Sounds like someone at your local paper isn't a big fan of the c-word.

Come on, man, just google the phrase "death by natural causes" and be done with it. It's completely routine usage.

And actually start taking this seriously? Just when I'm starting to get personal anecdotes and replies laced with frustration? Not on your life, son.

[Brian C]

That's sure a funny way of saying "You're right, I don't know what I was thinking."

[Mr Sausage]

That's sure a funny way of saying "You're right, I don't know what I was thinking."

BANNED!

[Brian C]

And in the obit thread, too. How convenient!

[jbeall]

Michael Davis, bassist for the MC5.

[Feego]

Pola Illéry, star of Under the Roofs of Paris

[Perkins Cobb]

Pola Illéry, star of Under the Roofs of Paris

And lived in Scranton, PA for half a century. Astounding.

[colinr0380]

I suppose that only a clip from René Clair's wonderful Under The Roofs of Paris will do!

[kinjitsu]

Musician Billy Strange

Pioneering Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset

[MichaelB]

Jesus Franco's muse Lina Romay - no obits yet, so the link is to her Wikipedia page.

Confirmed by Tim Lucas from Spanish sources.

[Polybius]

Pioneering Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset

A long, accomplished and fun life.

I'm guessing I'm not the only person here with a bunch of Grove paperbacks on their shelf.

[spocker]

Erland Josephson

[domino harvey]

One of the greats

[John Edmond]

Gutted, just watched The Sacrifice yesterday.

[colinr0380]

Very sad news. While his Bergman films and the Tarkovsky are the giant pillars of his career, I also want to point out his great performances in Dusan Makavejev's Montenegro, Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books and in István Szabó's Hanussen, along with his work with Liv Ullmann, particularly in the excellent framing scenes in Faithless.

[j99]

A great actor.

[tavernier]

Critic (and Stardust Memories actor) Howard Kissel

[antnield]

Bruce Surtees.

[Minkin]

Jan Berenstain