DMC Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 Just saw Stephen Sondheim dead at 91. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmanion Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Seeing lots of reports saying that Sir Frank Williams has passed away. Absolute legend of formula 1 RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 RIP Tor Eckhoff, better known to fans by his Youtube handle of Apetor. His videos were generally weird and off-kilter, a kind of Norwegian Mr. Bean who would do things like celebrate his birthday with an outdoor bath in ice cold water while making strange noises as he took swigs of vodka, or slightly-less-odd things like videos about trekking across ice in the winter (and then inevitably taking a swim in freezing cold lakes) or his skating on thin ice series. His last video was posted on the 22nd, marking his 57th birthday. Yesterday, Eckhoff went out on the ice and either fell through or deliberately went in only to be unable to pull himself out as he had done many times before. Norwegian police indicated there were signs he had intended to film a video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 On 11/26/2021 at 4:17 PM, DMC said: Just saw Stephen Sondheim dead at 91. And just before the new Spielberg film version of West Side Story is to be released. I hope Sondheim got to see that in a preview before he died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoodedCrow Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 Did D&D make it? It’s risky:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog-days Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 Anthony Sher has died. I'd heard earlier that his husband Greg Doran was taking leave from his job as Artistic Director at the RSC to care for him, so it's not completely out of the blue. He was 72 - a good age to earlier generations, but in the 21st century we can be forgiven for hoping that he could have lived and thrived for another decade or more. I saw Sher play Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, and Falstaff in the Henry IV plays, and he was excellent in both. I was particularly impressed by his Falstaff; at the point he took on the role, pop culture was starting on its downward trajectory into the swamps of a sort of neo-Dickensian sentimentality (see, for example, Star Trek Discovery and its endless hugging and people speaking in weird breathy voices). In the most recent TV version of the plays, Simon Russell Beale mined every line he could for sogginess, as if he wanted Falstaff to be a sort of Disney Father Christmas. I recall Sher retaining much more of the character's callousness and riotousness, and paradoxically giving the more disciplined performance. I wish I'd seen him in more. It's been a sad sort of pleasure looking through the galleries in The Guardian and the RSC and watching him change from role to role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 The last remaining member of the WW2 Easy Companies "Band of Brothers" has passed. Col. Edward Shames, the last surviving member of the World War II military unit portrayed in HBO’s “Band of Brothers,” died Friday at age 99. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Lina Wertmüller, the first woman film director nominated for an Academy Award, has died: https://www.npr.org/2021/12/09/521964618/lina-wertm-ller-first-woman-nominated-for-oscar-in-directing-has-died Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoodedCrow Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Yuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted December 10, 2021 Author Share Posted December 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Ormond said: Lina Wertmüller, the first woman film director nominated for an Academy Award, has died: https://www.npr.org/2021/12/09/521964618/lina-wertm-ller-first-woman-nominated-for-oscar-in-directing-has-died It's such a joke that in over 90 years only seven women have ever received the nomination, and that number is goosed from two being nominated last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 RIP Michael Nesmith. Micky Dolenz is the only original member of the Monkees left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GallowKnight Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 RIP Anne Rice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 The article said she had sold over 150 million copies globally of her works. Just amazing and so interesting creativity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martell Spy Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 10 hours ago, GallowKnight said: RIP Anne Rice That's really awful news. And right when the AMC show is launching, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inkdaub Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 There was a time when I would eagerly await an upcoming Anne Rice book release and purchase pretty much any book with her name on it. I was partial to the Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair Witches, naturally, but enjoyed others as well. I remember my first apartment in which I lived alone I had no furniture and no TV or anything really. So all I did was sit on the floor and read...a habit that lasted decades...and that is where I read Interview with a Vampire. I likely read the others there or partially there but Interview stands out as a memory of that time. Learning of her death is more affecting than I would have thought. RIP Anne Rice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 RIP Desmond Tutu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 10 minutes ago, A Horse Named Stranger said: RIP Desmond Tutu. Most God squad do my head in, but he seems like a proper churchman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Yeah, usually I am not that keen on religious figures either. Tutu just happens to be one of the very few people, who actually had the morale high ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsay B. Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 RIP Jean-Marc Valée. He was the director of Wild, Dallas Buyers Club, Sharp Objects and Big Little Lies, among others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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