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I saw Bobby Womack at the Beacon Theater circa 1987. Special guest Sly Stone who was out on furlough from alcohol rehab in Florida. Womack really had the crowd in the palm of his hand.

I always liked Baby, You Ought to Think it Over and Baby I Can't Stand It.
And of course that early Valentinos stuff: It's All Over Now, Looking For a Love, I Found a Love, I'm Going to Forget About You, etc.
His songs often had a bit of an odd structure, so they seemed natural but hard to recreate in your head once they stopped playing.

I always thought that Womack and Don Covay were underappreciated soul musicians.

I don't think this was mentioned yet - Gerry Conlon, a member of the Guildford Four wrongly convicted of an IRA pub bombing. He was played by Daniel Day-Lewis in the film In The Name of the Father, based on Conlon's autobiographical book Proved Innocent.

I didn't even realize he was in his late 60s! For a not especially famous character actor, he sure was in a lot of the things I watched as a child-- Designing Women, Dave's World, the Mannequin movies-- and I remember being quite pleased to see him pop up in Mamet's House of Games. So, I'll miss him

One that hasn't been noted here, and seems to have been missed by most media sources: UK actor Neal Arden, on 4 June 2014 at the age of 104.

We also missed him off this forum's Centenarian List.

Writer Frank M. Robinson, at the age of 87. His novel The Power was filmed in 1968 and The Glass Inferno (cowritten with Thomas N. Scortia) was one of the sources for The Towering Inferno. He was also Harvey Milk's speechwriter, and appeared as himself in Milk.

According to Michael Lennick via Tim Lucas in a Facebook post, Gary Zeller has died, the special effects technician who gets a lot of time in the Scanners Way programme in the recent Criterion edition of Scanners talking about how the exploding head was produced and the gel developed on the production (Zel Gel) that allowed stuntpeople to be set on fire without burning themselves.

Paul Apted, sound editor for The Fault in Our Stars and Friday the 13th casting director Barry Moss both have passed away.

Dickie Jones, the voice of Disney's Pinocchio

Zohra Segal, at the fine old age of 102.

At the risk of sounding callous, I never thought that The Ramones reunion would occur before The Golden Girls did.

bamwc2 wrote:At the risk of sounding callous, I never thought that The Ramones reunion would occur before The Golden Girls did.

You mean this is happening somewhere right now?

Nadine Gordimer - obviously more famous as a Nobel and Booker-winning novelist, but she made a small contribution to film too.

I love teaching her "Once Upon a Time," one of the many gristly short stories I always throw at my students to break them of bad English class habits

That contribution particularly including the 1962 film Dilemma about apartheid Johannesburg co-written and directed by the recently deceased great Danish director Henning Carlsen.

flyonthewall2983 wrote:Johnny Winter

I had the opportunity to interview him about thirty years ago; he struck me as a modest, affable gentleman who simply loved the music he played.

Oscar-winning editor Tom Rolf (Taxi Driver, The Right Stuff, Heat).

Elaine Stritch.