Page 360 of 535
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 7:23 am
by Jonathan S
Michael Cox, best-known as the producer and main driving force of Granada's
Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 1:18 pm
by ando
Gregory Sierra (January 25, 1937 – January 4, 2021)
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 8:18 pm
by hearthesilence
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 8:42 pm
by hearthesilence
James Purify, also from COVID-19.
I LOVE "I'm Your Puppet," great 'oldie' that never seems to get played. I discovered it by reading something Dave Marsh wrote about it, and the only time I've ever heard it in public was from a busker at the MTA station across the street from MoMA.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 9:06 pm
by Saturnome
I very often heard a
french version growing up (my parents were big on stuff that was often older than themselves, not much different than me) but hearing this for the first time this sound better.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 10:15 pm
by kuzine
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 10:56 pm
by mizo
Man, I was just listening to
Diasporas yesterday. RIP
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 10:59 pm
by kuzine
mizo wrote: Fri Feb 12, 2021 10:56 pm
Man, I was just listening to
Diasporas yesterday. RIP
That's a good one! Great performer too (or especially). Saw him live twice, once with Reines d'Angleterre, and once in the trio with Corsano and Tyfus that's mentioned in the linked article; both memorable shows.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 12:34 am
by dadaistnun
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 2:41 pm
by MichaelB
Casting director
Lynn Stalmaster.
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 6:36 pm
by brundlefly
Fania co-founder
Johnny Pacheco.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:02 am
by lzx
Narusawa Masashige, filmmaker who wrote many of Mizoguchi's late films, at age 96 (source in Japanese)
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:01 pm
by NABOB OF NOWHERE
That is just so sad. I am moving house and strangely I had just carefully wrapped my Tazartes collection and put its bubble wrapped greatness to rest in a carton when I read this.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:35 pm
by domino harvey
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 3:07 am
by Dylan
John C. Hora, the cinematographer on many of Joe Dante's films including
The Howling, the
It's a Good Life segment from
Twilight Zone: The Movie,
Gremlins,
Explorers,
Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and
Matinee.
Dante wrote this about Hora
on Twitter: "Not only one of the most talented and amusing Directors of Photography I ever worked with, but a truly unique and eccentric character who knew more about lenses than I know about my own life. A real loss in a world of losses."
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:13 am
by colinr0380
He was also the director of photography of the "Foreverware" episode of Eerie, Indiana and for the speakeasy set
Smooth Criminal segment of Michael Jackson's Moonwalker.
As well as being as a member of the American Society of Cinematography's "Education Committee" at the time that the
Visions of Light film was produced in 1992 and noted in the credits.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:28 am
by okcmaxk
Hopping onto this, he also played the scientist at the beginning of
Innerspace that injects Dennis Quaid into Martin Short
(
at the suggestion of Steven Spielberg).
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:11 pm
by hearthesilence
U-Roy the legendary dancehall innovator and reggae toaster.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:34 pm
by hearthesilence
hearthesilence wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:11 pm
U-Roy the legendary dancehall innovator and reggae toaster.
Loved this tribute from Jon Langford of the Mekons (if you're a fan, check out the documentary on the Mekons too - came out like six years ago):
Jon Langford wrote:Mekons played the beautiful Sines Festival in a Castle in Portugal in 2010. Took the boys down to breakfast and met U-Roy my total hero and he graciously invited us to sit with him. I was doing the Eclectic Company show for WXRT at the time and ran back upstairs to get my mini-recorder with Tommy running behind me yelling "Everyone U-Roy is here! U-Roy is here!".
They knew exactly who he was from those long drives to school with me cranking his tunes. We did a little interview in the hotel breakfast room. To my horror Tommy's hand reached out and started stroking U-Roy's dreadlocks. "It's cool" said U-Roy "He can touch them." He did a station ID "This is U-Roy and you are listening to Jon Langford on the The Electric (sic) Company on WXRT, Chicago's finest RAAAAHHK!.... your son told me to say that". Well done James. Later he came out by the pool and waved to all the Mekons and we waved back...
I pinched a bunch of his records from the VIRGIN press office in Vernon Yard back in 1979 and I still treasure them. They've been played so much down the years its amazing they still work, but they do, that incredible authoritative voice burned deep into the grooves forever! Thank you U-Roy - so glad my boys got to meet you - another terrible loss in 2021
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:51 am
by therewillbeblus
Miles Seaton, from Akron/Family, at 41
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2021 5:11 am
by senseabove
Damn... That's awful. Akron/Family's first album was very likely my most-played album in college, and they're still the band I've seen live the most times. Their shows were some of the most refreshing, energizing shows I've ever seen—they felt like a revival meeting. Even when their albums got less interesting and more jam-bandy, they were just as electrifying in person, and Seaton was a huge part of that, just so unreservedly, enthusiastically into the music and the spontaneous community of a concert from the first note.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2021 5:22 am
by therewillbeblus
I never saw them live but that first album was played constantly in my apt senior year of college, specifically Running, Returning on repeat, which I still return to quite often. I actually find myself throwing on River a fair amount, despite a lot of early warning signs common in the kind of song I find hokey, it really grows into something cathartic
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:26 am
by hearthesilence
Pianist Gene Taylor of the Blasters,
as seen here in their prime
EDIT: The story on Facebook from LA writer Chris Morris behind Taylor's death is fucking horrible. He was living in Austin and had been without water or power for FIVE days. A family member says it may have been a heart attack brought on by hypothermia.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 4:17 pm
by knives
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 5:48 pm
by hearthesilence
At least they're technically still alive. Presumably.
If they weren't, that would be a hell of a way to announce their deaths.