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Maggie Peterson (aka) Charlene Darling passed away May 15th. She was a very sweet person, whom I very much enjoyed meeting. R I P Charlene. Jun 19 22 02:05 pm Link Rhea Monson wrote: OMG!!! Jun 19 22 07:02 pm Link Jul 07 22 11:39 am Link Tony Sirico at 79 Paulie Walnuts from the Sapranos Jul 09 22 11:04 am Link Hunter GWPB wrote: Worked with him twice. A certain tension/intensity when he was on set. Nice guy. Funny guy. RIP James Caan. Jul 09 22 12:13 pm Link Larry Storch died July 8th, at age 99 according to recent reports. R I P Corporal Agarn.. Jul 10 22 12:43 pm Link L Q Jones died July 9th, at age 94. He appeared on about every known western t v series ever made at one time or another. From cattle puncher, to cattle baron, lawman to outlaw, gun fighter, or news paper man. whatever the part, he did it very well. Thanks for the entertainment L Q. R I P. Jul 16 22 12:15 pm Link Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood when she played communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original “Star Trek” television series, has died at the age of 89. https://apnews.com/article/nichelle-nic … e=Connatix Jul 31 22 01:32 pm Link Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell died today at age 88. Jul 31 22 02:20 pm Link Clu Gulager, actor & director, died at the age of 93, on August 5th, 2022. He was a fairly prolific actor, having a long career, but the only thing I remember him from, is playing the character Burt Wilson, in 'Return of the Living Dead', in 1986. Incidentally it's one of the better horror-comedies out there, and a cult classic in a lot of ways. https://collider.com/clu-gulager-dead-at-93/ Aug 07 22 02:50 am Link Unfortunately, Olivia Newton-John, the Grammy Award-winning singer and actress, has died at 73. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertai … 269873002/ Aug 08 22 01:54 pm Link LightDreams wrote: Very sad. Worked with her 40 years ago. A very nice, sweet, funny, happy person. RIP, Olivia. Aug 08 22 03:38 pm Link Aug 08 22 07:41 pm Link Actress Anne Heche https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/entertai … index.html Aug 15 22 02:33 am Link Tim Page, storied Vietnam War photographer, dies at 78 By Matt Schudel Updated August 24, 2022 at 8:34 a.m. EDT Published August 24, 2022 at 8:04 a.m. EDT ---- https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituari … page-dies/ “I’d heard about him even before I came to Vietnam (‘Look him up. If he’s still alive’),” the journalist Michael Herr wrote in “Dispatches,” his powerful 1977 book about the Vietnam War. “I’d heard so much about him that I might have felt that I knew him if so many people hadn’t warned me, ‘There’s just no way to describe him for you. Really, no way.’ ” Herr was writing about Tim Page, a renegade British photojournalist who was known for getting so close to the action that he was wounded four times. Once, after a U.S. patrol boat he was aboard was attacked — by U.S. planes and by South Vietnamese soldiers and the North Vietnamese-allied Viet Cong guerrillas — Mr. Page was evacuated to a hospital, where more than 300 pieces of shrapnel were removed from his body. [...] Mr. Page, who published his photographs and recollections in several books and sought to keep alive the legacy of colleagues who never came back, died Aug. 24 at his home in Fernmount, New South Wales, Australia. He was 78, and the cause was liver and pancreatic cancer, said his friend Mark Dodd. [...] In recent years, Mr. Page taught at Australia’s Griffith University and often led photography seminars in Southeast Asia. His archives contained at least 750,000 images he had shot through the years, including in Vietnam and during conflicts in the Middle East, the Balkans and Afghanistan. In the end, he told the British newspaper the Observer in 2001, war is “about the wastage of the human race. … Sure, you can make it look like a movie — you can make a tableau vivant out of it — but then you turn your camera, no matter how many degrees, and all you see is pure suffering. Who are the victims? Everybody who’s in a war is a victim.” Aug 24 22 07:30 am Link Mel Sokolsky, iconic fashion, commercial photographer for half a century. https://www.holdenluntz.com/artists/melvin-sokolsky/ Aug 31 22 12:35 pm Link Country music singer Luke Bell was found dead in Arizona, police confirmed Wednesday. https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/c … ink-block1 Sep 03 22 03:16 am Link Sep 08 22 02:31 pm Link Jean-Luc Godard, Daring Director Who Shaped the French New Wave, Dies at 91 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/obit … 0005b7e187 Sep 13 22 11:13 am Link One of the most influential people in the entertainment industry died this morning. He was extremely influential here in Las Vegas. The news hasn't hit the American media yet but Franco Dragone was 69. He was the director of several Cirque du Soleil shows, La Reve, and Celine Dion among others. Many of my friends and associates including several people displayed in my portfolio made show biz their career because of him. https://www.grenzecho.net/80096/artikel … -gestorben Sep 30 22 12:20 pm Link ahhh "Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90." https://apnews.com/article/loretta-lynn … osition_04 Oct 04 22 09:13 am Link Douglas Kirkland, 88 (if ya don't know who he is ya probably shouldn't be on MM) https://www.dpreview.com/news/619413118 … dies-at-88 Oct 04 22 04:16 pm Link Oct 04 22 06:11 pm Link "Angela Lansbury, a formidable actress who captivated Hollywood in her youth, became a Broadway musical sensation in middle age and then drew millions of fans as a widowed mystery writer on the long-running television series “Murder, She Wrote,” died on Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 96. " https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/arts … -dead.html Oct 11 22 03:25 pm Link Danny Kirwan, guitarist for Fleetwood Mac. I think they have his age incorrect since he would be older now if he was 18 when he joined Fleetwood Mac in 1968. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/ … n-obituary Oct 11 22 09:57 pm Link Jerry Lee Lewis / "Great Balls of Fire", passed away at 87. A "controversial and flamboyant pioneer of rock". I seem to recall, from my music business days, that I still have an LP somewhere of the Sun recording session of Jerry Lee Lewis singing it with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash. Damn if I can remember if it's an original (was it even released at the time?) or a bootleg, but it was interesting stuff. I tended to collect pieces like that (like David Bowie singing with Bing Crosby, etc). I'll have to try and dig it out to see exactly what it is, although I have nothing to play it on. Until this news, I had completely forgotten all about it... Oct 28 22 11:21 am Link One of the truly great voices in music, Christine McVie, of Fleetwood Mac, has died at the age of 79. Nov 30 22 01:13 pm Link JohnTozziPhotography wrote: Just four days before Christine McVie, we lost Irene Cara at age 63. Nov 30 22 02:18 pm Link Patrick Walberg wrote: True, I forgot about that. The movie Fame had such an impact on me as a teenager. I ended up studying theatre in college largely because that movie inspired me. Nov 30 22 04:55 pm Link Kirstie Alley Had Colon Cancer Before Her Death at Age 71, Star's Rep Reveals https://people.com/tv/kirstie-alley-die … p-reveals/ Dec 06 22 02:22 pm Link Dec 10 22 12:54 pm Link Frank Lewis Photography wrote: I heard a few interviews with him on the radio a few times in the past few decades, neat stuff. Dec 10 22 05:26 pm Link Franco Harris, 72, Steelers https://apnews.com/article/pittsburgh-s … osition_06 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHIXFKrrUhA The play Harris, whose heads-up thinking authored the most iconic play in NFL history, has died. He was 72. Harris’ son, Dok, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his father died overnight. No cause of death was given. His death comes two days before the 50th anniversary of the play that provided the jolt that helped transform the Steelers from also-rans into the NFL’s elite, and three days before Pittsburgh is scheduled to retire his No. 32 during a ceremony at halftime of its game against the Las Vegas Raiders. Harris had been busy in the run-up to the celebration, doing media interviews Monday to talk about a moment to which he is forever linked. Dec 21 22 05:23 pm Link Cinematographer Owen Roizman, ASC. Oscar-nominated five times, for “The French Connection,” “The Exorcist,” “Network,” “Tootsie” and 1994 Western “Wyatt Earp. Had the honor of working with Owen on several films. He will be missed. Rest In Peace, Owen. Jan 07 23 04:07 pm Link Robbie Knievel died from Pancreatic cancer. He was 60. ----------------- I worked as the ground production crew helping to plan and set up the Robbie Knievel Grand Canyon Death Jump back in the late 1990's. We were responsible for everything from ordering things like grandstands, shuttle busses, tickets, and even planning the layout for the path that Robbies motorcycle was going to take to get the jump. My favorite thing to do was lead the media tours. At the snap of my finger I'd jump on a Helicopter and bring the news media to the bottom of the canyon where we'd go on a Pontoon Boat ride up and down the river. We started setting up the event long before the original scheduled air date. The temperatures were in the 80's during the February days that we were completing the layout, but there was a huge snowstorm the night before the original scheduled jump. About 2' of snow was on the hood of our rented RV within a couple of hours. The orginal jump date was still broadcast live on TV but was postponed until a later date because the ground and wood was still wet from the melted snow. By that time I was so tired of taking all the trips back and forth that I didn't go to the second attempt (when Robbie successfully jumped). It was still a great experience. Some of the photos that I shot were later used in printed materials (brochures, ads, postcards, posters) for the helicopter company... which is a sore subject with me. Jan 13 23 12:55 pm Link Lisa Marie died of cardiac issues. I know she's also had drug problems, which may have also played a factor. But when your father and your paternal grandmother both die of heart attacks in their 40's, it doesn't look good for you. It also didn't help that she recently lost a child. Add all of that up, and wow.... Jan 13 23 01:27 pm Link David Crosby, a big part of the voice of the 60's and 70's has died at 81 Jan 19 23 04:29 pm Link '24,′ and ‘Runaways’ actor Annie Wersching has died at age 45, after a battle with cancer https://apnews.com/article/technology-c … 79a683e73c Jan 29 23 03:17 pm Link With respect and sorrow, I will mention Jeff Beck. I saw him play live once. Jeff was a unique musician with prodigious technique, nobody else sounded like him. Rest in Peace Jeff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMryWoRRqUc Jan 29 23 07:03 pm Link Cindy Williams, who was among the most recognizable stars in America in the 1970s and 80s for her role as Shirley opposite Penny Marshall’s Laverne on the beloved sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” has died, her family said Monday. Williams died in Los Angeles at age 75 on Wednesday after a brief illness, her children, Zak and Emily Hudson, said in a statement released through family spokeswoman Liza Cranis. https://apnews.com/article/television-t … osition_03 Jan 30 23 06:12 pm Link |
