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36 is way too young! RIP
Here's the Howard Stern interview mfunk mentioned. It's in 5 parts.

Dadapass wrote:36 is way too young! RIP
Here's the Howard Stern interview mfunk mentioned. It's in 5 parts.

Thanks for this. I just listened to it and can rep for its value. Cronin seemed like a friendly and sweet guy and––like Stern posits––still hung up on JLH a little. The Pearlman stories are just straight-up insane. I never knew anything about the guy (not being an LFO devotee), but the details of his life and death are pretty heartbreaking.

It happened a week ago, but...David Dortort, created Bonanza

F Gwynplaine MacIntyre - I knew him as "that guy on imdb who posted reviews of lost silent films," ut apparently there was more to him than that.

(His imdb posting history is at http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1609079/comments; you'll have to look elsewhere for his publications.)

Today's not going well. He's still the standard by which I judge paranoia.

Chabrol... Kevin McCarthy... damn, who's next? WHOOO'S NEXT??!!

knives wrote:Today's not going well. He's still the standard by which I judge paranoia.

Goodbye Walter Jameson

knives wrote:Today's not going well. He's still the standard by which I judge paranoia.

Goodbye Biff Loman

lady wakasa wrote:F Gwynplaine MacIntyre - I knew him as "that guy on imdb who posted reviews of lost silent films," ut apparently there was more to him than that.

(His imdb posting history is at http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1609079/comments; you'll have to look elsewhere for his publications.)

Absolutely fascinating. A pity about his work, but a fascinating story. I have to read those imdb reviews now.

Fascinating but also a selfish prick of a jerk (!). If you're going to kill yourself have the decency to do it where you're not going to hurt other people. This guy started a fire in an apartment full of flammable papers for God's sake. Forget for a moment he didn't think enough of his written works to kill himself somewhere else so those papers would be preserved (had he totally succeeded there wouldn't have been a scrap left for anyone to read), he didn't care about the well-being of others (or their belongings) if this fire would have gotten out of control and burned the entire building, the building next door or if it had spread a couple of blocks in either direction. I pity the bastard, but as a person he was selfish in the extreme when he didn't think that burning his place (and himself with it) could have endangered those around him.

Prolific SF writer E.C. Tubb, active as such from the 1950s. He has an IMDB entry due to some TV adaptations of his work.

Harold Gould.

Billie Mae Richards, the voice of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Edwin Newman has went and died.

dad1153 wrote:Harold Gould.

Sad. Coincidentally, I just rewatched Love and Death this past Sunday. Gould kicks so much ass in it.

Keiju Kobayashi (1923-2010)

Obituary : http://www.aarongerow.com/news/kobayashi-keiju.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Addenda -- he was a regular in Naruse's post-war films -- often appearing in key supporting roles and occasionally as a lead. He also showed up in some films of Ozu, Kurosawa and Ichikawa. Finally, he provided the memorable voice of the antique store owner (and grandfather of the young lead) in Takahata's Only Yesterday. A sad loss.

Irving Ravetch (1920-2010), Oscar-nominated screenwriter ( Norma Rae, Hud, and Minnelli's Home from the Hill).

Composer Geoffrey Burgon.

Jazz & studio musician Buddy Collette. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/ ... 2077.story.

Actress Jackie Burroughs, best remembered from the Canadian series "Road to Avonlea."

Eddie Fisher.

I didn't realize until today that Eddie Fisher was the singer of Wish You Were Here, one of the songs so effectively used in The Last Picture Show. Probably self evident to the older generations, but not so much for those who weren't around during his heyday.