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Christ, TMZ is callous about this shit. "Sherman Hemsley DEAD."

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Pretty sure that's TMZ's de facto headline whenever anyone expires. The DEAD part, not the Sherman Hemsley part.
 

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The DEAD part, not the Sherman Hemsley part.
 

 

If only.

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Guess Sherman moved on up at last. Say hey to Wheezy for us.

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Saw this somewhere else- two from the UK, interesting link is that both acted in Hammer films (in her case the excellent Hands of the Ripper, and for him Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed)

 

Angharad Rees

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18940018

 

Simon Ward

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18947130

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Geoffrey Hughes has died aged 68.

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known to millions as Coronation Street binman Eddie Yeats in the 1970s and 1980s and Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances AND He was the voice of Paul McCartney in the Beatles film Yellow Submarine! He died "peacefully in his sleep" on Friday night. It followed a "long courageous battle" with prostate cancer, his family said.

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I saw it reported a few days ago but finally I saw on a site I have more faith in... R.G. Armstrong passed away on Friday. He was 95.

 

Also on Friday, another character actor passed away. Norman Alden was 87. He was in a whole slew of stuff, like They Live, Back to the Future and on a site like this I have to mention he was the voice of Kranix in the Transformers animated movie. You'd probably recognize him if you saw him in a film.

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Chris Marker

 

Fuck. I'll always associate La Jetee with my first year of studying film at uni. An eye-opening film I was lucky enough to see during an eye-opening time. A true talent.

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One can only assume some sort of bitchy snit caused it. 

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I could have sworn that Vidal passed away 10 years ago.

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"No, Lisa--boys kiss girls."

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That's a true bummer. Loved his essays.

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One of the good guys.
 

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Shame about what a crank he became in his last years, though. Then again, he'd lost his partner, he'd lost his villa, he'd seen eight years of Dubya...like Vonnegut, he was ready to go.

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Yeah, I cut him some slack for the later-year craziness Hitchens and others nailed him for.  Vidal was old enough to see which way the country was going and had had enough.
 

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Here's an example of later day Vidal in fine form:

 

http://liveoncampus.com/wire/show/3390874

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If it hadn't opened and disappeared without a trace so long ago now, I would joke that Vidal saw the trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and said "Y'know what? Fuck this life. Peace out."

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He was a great interview, too. I remember one for Details magazine about 20 years ago. The interviewer asked Vidal if he'd ever dressed in drag. (Maybe this was related to a larger conversation about Myra Breckenridge, I can't recall.)

 

Vidal's response, still one of the best answers I've ever read: "I cannot get interested in this question."

 

To paraphrase his old rival, when Vidal pwned you, you stayed pwned.

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Courtesy of Joe. My. God.
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In 1968 douchebag columnist William F. Buckley called Vidal a "queer" and threatened to "sock you in your goddamn face" on national television. The next year Buckley and Vidal traded libel suits after exchanging a flurry of insults and accusations in the national press. Vidal's suit was dismissed, but Buckley won a large (for its time) settlement for his legal fees and a retraction from Esquire, who had published Vidal's claim that a youthful Buckley had burned a church in retaliation for its pastor selling a house to a Jewish family. Buckley successfully sued again in 2003 when Vidal republished the same essay in an anthology. Below is the clip from the above-mentioned talk show incident, which remains one of the most famous incidents in live television history.

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I know this might not mean much to many of you, but Tony Sly, frontman of No Use for a Name has passed away. This makes me sad.

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Jason Noble of Rodan, Rachel's, and Shipping News just died of cancer.  He was 40.  I can't even guess how many hours I spent listening to that Rodan album.  Damn shame.

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Noted composer Marvin Hamlisch died Monday after a brief illness.  He was 68.

 

His scores always brought to mind the 70s and 80s for me.  There was just something about the style and arrangements that instantly puts me back in 1981.

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Loved his disco-Bond score for THE SPY WHO LOVED ME.
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For THE CHORUS LINE alone, they'll be dimming the lights on Broadway this week.  That thing was a monster, monster hit.  

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Film critic Judith Crist, dead at 90.

 

I remember reading her reviews in TV Guide.  Back when there was a TV Guide.  Didn't realize she was as significant as that Times piece makes her out to be.

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Hamlisch co-wrote my all time favorite Bond theme: Nobody Does It Better

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Marvin Hamlisch.

 

Nobody did it better.

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Makes me feel sad for the rest.

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Why did he have to be so good?

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Mel Stuart, who orchestrated many of our childhood nightmares.

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Mel Stuart, who orchestrated many of our childhood nightmares.

 

Pour out some Fizzy-Lifting Drink in his honor.

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The man who designed E.T. (and worked on a host of other great effects laden films, like Close Encounters, ALIEN, and Dune), Carlo Rambaldi has passed on.                                                                       :( http://instagram.com/p/OJ4IMaScW6/

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I wonder if he'll release all his secret formulas now. Supposedly his creations looked insanely lifelike in person.

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The man who designed E.T. (and worked on a host of other great effects laden films, like Close Encounters, ALIEN, and Dune), Carlo Rambaldi has passed on.                                                                       :( http://instagram.com/p/OJ4IMaScW6/

 

 

Wasn't his secret work and prophecies that made Alias a tedious show in the latter seasons?

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Rambaldi was one of the undisputed masters of practical puppet-work. A sad, and incredibly poignantly-timed, loss. I just hope he passed those secrets on to someone, because the animatronics/puppetry revival is well overdue.

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His full-size Kong in the 1976 movie was laughable.

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tho the arms/hands were quite nice

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When I look back on his work I think 'smooth & slow movement'..the snake in Conan, the Sandworms, ET, the Kong hands, Close Encounter aliens.

Gotta say I'm not a huge fan. His work never seemed 'alive' to me, just mechanical.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/books/david-rakoff-award-winning-humorist-dies-at-47.html

 

www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2012/08/our-friend-david-rakoff

 

I have listened to This American Life for years, and David Rakoff's stories were always the stories I loved more than David Sedaris. His storytelling voice was right up my alley, and I can hear in my head right now his story about the office Christmas party gone bad. Ira Glass's moment of silence on TAL today was heartbreaking.

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His full-size Kong in the 1976 movie was laughable.

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When I look back on his work I think 'smooth & slow movement'..the snake in Conan, the Sandworms, ET, the Kong hands, Close Encounter aliens.

Gotta say I'm not a huge fan. His work never seemed 'alive' to me, just mechanical.

 

Smack talking the recently deceased! Poor form, poor form!

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/books/david-rakoff-award-winning-humorist-dies-at-47.html

 

www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2012/08/our-friend-david-rakoff

 

I have listened to This American Life for years, and David Rakoff's stories were always the stories I loved more than David Sedaris. His storytelling voice was right up my alley, and I can hear in my head right now his story about the office Christmas party gone bad. Ira Glass's moment of silence on TAL today was heartbreaking.


Ah, that's horrible.  He will be missed.

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Smack talking the recently deceased! Poor form, poor form!

 

Yeah, who does he think he is, Jeffrey Wells?

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This won't mean anything to 95% of you, but the man was a British Institution.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/darts/9470534/Sid-Waddell-darts-broadcasting-great-dies-aged-72.html

 

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Sad, a true legend, and he was still going at it (at 85)!

 

He leaves a great legacy, specially with his two sons being great comic book artists.

 

Whatever happened to his art school?

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Enemy Ace is still one of my favorite comics ever.

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Whatever happened to his art school?

I actually pondered going years ago, and took a tour and scoped the place out pretty thoroughly. I ultimately decided I simply wouldn't be able to handle the workload. But yeah, to answer your question, it's still around. I imagine more graduates go into related design fields(storyboarding is a big one, I bet) nowadays, but that place has all the bases covered.

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