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McCabe, The Long Goodbye, Close Encounters, Images - all among my favorite films. I'd add Deliverance, Obsession and Blow Out to that list. What a body of work!

Lot of time for Peter Fonda's 'The Hired Hand' too.

I was interested to learn that he photographed many episodes of The Mindy Project.

I'll be leaving this avatar in place for a good while.

Michel Galabru, a much bigger name in his native France than in English-speaking countries, but I'll always treasure his world-weary police commissioner in Subway and his mad scientist in Kamikaze who invents a way of killing live TV presenters from the comfort of his armchair.

Music mogul and occasional film producer Robert Stigwood.

It looks like Riley Martin (of Howard Stern fame) has departed our dimension.

O Qua, Tangin Wann...

Aw man, two music greats - one giant of classical of music, and one great but lesser-known figure of modern jazz, and both made huge contributions to their respective fields in multiple roles, not just as, say, a composer or performer.

Boulez, for me, was heroic in his role as a champion of 20th century music in his conducting. The fact that he recorded so much of that music with major orchestras for major recording labels is just mind-boggling when you consider the state of the classical performance repertoire and classical recording today. I mean, just look at the lists of works on his retrospective box sets.

hearthesilence wrote:Otis Clay

Very sad. The old guns are no longer around.

Otis Clay performed at the US Pavilion at the Shanghai World Fair back in 2010.
Unfortunately, it was listed as a 6:PM show but was re-scheduled for 4:PM.
So when I showed up at 5:30, the show had ended a little before and band members were milling around the stage and the audience gone. Quite an abrupt -- and unannounced change -- since half price evening tickets didn't only allowed admittance after 5.

So I spotted Otis Clay and walked over and said I came that day just to hear him perform and was disappointed to miss the show. He was quite friendly, dug into his bag and gave me a free CD of his latest recording. Even gave me his email address. I think he liked that I asked him about Harold Burrage, his mentor, and a great semi-obscure performer who transitioned from great R&B in the 50's to leading the early Chicago soul scene in the 60's. Otis Clay said it was his band playing behind Harold Burrage on I Gotta Find A Way, which I wasn't aware of. Friendly guy.

For those who don't know, Otis Clay had his biggest taste of fame as a labelmate of Al Green at Hi Records, and working with Willie Mitchell et al. Trying to Live My Life Without You is probably his best known song. Also, I Die a Little Each Day is pretty representative Otis Clay. He also did a nice cover of Wild Horses.

Lemmy Caution wrote:For those who don't know, Otis Clay had his biggest taste of fame as a labelmate of Al Green at Hi Records, and working with Willie Mitchell et al. Trying to Live My Life Without You is probably his best known song. Also, I Die a Little Each Day is pretty representative Otis Clay. He also did a nice cover of Wild Horses.

You cannot pass That's How It Is (When You're in Love). Thanks for your memories, Lemmy.

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Richard Libertini, who could always be counted on to enliven stage, film and TV productions with one of his zany supporting characters. I'm grateful to have seen him in his last Broadway show (Relatively Speaking- 2011) in a true-to-form turn in Woody Allen's one-act Honeymoon Motel.

Ed Stewart, best remembered by Brits of a certain age as a DJ and as host of the long-running BBC children's show Crackerjack. I met him once, as I appeared on the latter thirty-nine years ago this month, aged twelve.

He has one acting role on the IMDB: as "disc jockey" in an episode of the 1973 BBC SF serial Moonbase 3 (which I watched at the time).

Alan Rickman.

This is not a good year.

It goes without saying, cancer blows.

I think we can skip 2016 altogether already and go directly to 2017.