Darwyn Cooke, comic book writer and artist, passes away from cancer at 53.
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Darwyn Cooke, comic book writer and artist, passes away from cancer at 53.
A bit surprised no one's mentioned this yet, but, RIP to a man sometimes called the real-life Don Draper.
The original Buy-The-World-A-Coke hilltop ad came out the year before I was born, but I do recall seeing this Christmas version from the mid-to-late '70s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92h9cbAjAzg
Backer goes way beyond Draper, though. The Coke ad was just one in quite a line of notable ad campaigns from the '70s and '80s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0agZEMEpiVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRaGT-vQAwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqdt1fxVBss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oUBaCyXWNk
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minut...er-dies-at-84/
This just popped up on the Google News feed
Wow.Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
That dude was a staple of my early childhood.
60 Minutes may have done some fairly shady reporting here and there, but there was some quality journalism there too.
He was just a few days into retirement too.
I suspect he "retired" because he knew he was dying — his health has been deteriorating for awhile.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ackar
Oh, Wilburrrrrrrr :(
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...m_content=link
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/for...za-dies-at-51/
Nick Menza dies on stage, heart failure.
What a Mega Death.
:( Scrooge McDuck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
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Wow, it makes me feel old. I still think of Cato as being young. I loved those movies for personal reasons. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Merrick ap'Milandra
This isn't a dead celebrity, it's a dying celebrity. And it's someone most of you likely don't know. A few days ago, it was announced that the lead singer of the Tragically Hip, Gord Downie, has terminal brain cancer. This was a big thing to Canadians:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36399891
Our radio stations have Canadian content rules that mandate what percentage of songs played have to be "Canadian", as judged by specific criteria (so being by a Canadian singer may not be sufficient to qualify a song). Currently, for example, 35% of songs played between 6 am and 6 pm must be Canadian content. Now imagine this rule being enforced on stations that only broadcast certain types of music, like rock. There's not a huge number of Canadian artists in any given genre, so the ones that do exist get played in very heavy rotation to satisfy the CanCon rules. As a result, Canadians have heard a LOT of Tragically Hip. Their songs also tend to be about very Canadian subjects. My favourite three Hip songs:
Looking For A Place To Happen, 1992. Song about European settlement of Canada, which name-checks explorer Jacques Cartier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qF1-95nrI0
Nautical Disaster, 1994. Name another rock song about kicking people off a lifeboat after a disaster at sea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rROS_zOnJ6A
Fifty Mission Cap, 1992, my favourite Hip song. This is a song about Bill Barilko, whose story was always one of my favourite hockey stories when growing up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Mission_Cap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-t8W4X8Obo
The Hip announced that they're going on one last cross-Canada tour:
http://globalnews.ca/news/2718606/th...ne-poem-dates/
Good for them that they're going to do a final tour. As much as I love spending time with my family, there is nothing like being on the stage and making people dance. I can't imagine I wouldn't want to go out as similar.
My favorite song of theirs is still New Orleans Is Sinking, such a cool song. I do like a lot of their other songs as well, but that one just has such a sweet sound. Are you going to try and go to one of the last concerts? I think that would be a hell of a show.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
I don't think I'll be able to get tickets to the Vancouver show. Everyone wants to go.
Not sure if Stubhub is available in Canada, but I recently bought tickets to Paul McCartney here in Sacramento after his shows sold out in about an hour. I was pleasantly surprised at the price of the tickets as well, no gouging.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Tragically Hip is one of those bands that I wish I'd heard of sooner.
I heard a song of theirs for the first time the other day on our public radio music station when the final tour was announced.
Fantastic band. Kinda like R.E.M. meets Pearl Jam only better, which means they're right up my alley.
Yeah, the tickets on StubHub aren't exactly affordable....
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...-out-1.3607493
TL;DR version: scalpers snapped up all the tickets within minutes of them being available and reposted tickets that were $116 to $166 for $237 to $2799. This is prompting some areas that don't have vigorous anti-scalping laws to start thinking about them again:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...fans-1.3609133
The band has added four extra dates to deal with the demand, and it looks like the CBC is going to broadcast the last show of the tour:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/tragical...-cbc-1.3609414
If news reports are to be believed, this might happen quite soon. But there also have been a couple of false alarms with him in recent years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin
Down goes Ali...
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