The music industry's brutal year continues:
Keith Emerson, from Emerson, Lake & Palmer, passed away.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...m_content=link
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The music industry's brutal year continues:
Keith Emerson, from Emerson, Lake & Palmer, passed away.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...m_content=link
Dupe sorry.
Now I have this going through my head along with images of the arcade classic Spy Hunter:Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v8VvJjM65I
I had *no idea* that they did that song.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
I played spy hunter for YEARS.
welll.... technically, they didn't write it. Mancini composed it ages ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merrick ap'Milandra
Yeah, they just did a very well-known cover, but others have covered it too -- I'm not sure which version is used for Spy Hunter.
The Art of Noise did a really good cover as well, but pretty sure it wasn't that one in Spy Hunter.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
My favorite cover of that song will always be the Blues Brothers version.
Toronto's former mayor, Rob Ford, dead at age 46 to cancer:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/us/rob...ies/index.html
The family had just announced yesterday (or I had just read) that he was receiving "palliative care" in the Chemo Ward he was undergoing treatment.
Andy Grove, former Intel CEO.
Dang, we just lost Phife Dawg :(
Legitimate skills, one of the few rappers I could stomach. And at 45 too.
Diabeetus sucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grindel
Dude was far from obese, too, so it wasn't like he wasn't taking care of himself on the weight front.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GyUDX45U4QQuote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Most U.S. sports fans won't be familiar with this guy, but he's a world sports icon:
Johan Cruyff dies at 68
If a football player the caliber of, say, Johnny Unitas or Otto Graham had gone on to become Tom Landry or Bill Walsh, then you'd have the NFL's version of Cruyff.
Yep. My decidedly Euro-focused facebook feed is a pile of "Holy crap, Cruyff died!" right now. I'm not into soccer at all, but growing up with it as a national sport, it's impossible not to be familiar with the icons of the sport.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
And he was indeed an icon. RIP.
Legend indeed. Greatest European football player ever.
Garry Shandling, didnt see that coming, only 66
Article for Shandling: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/24/entert...eat/index.html
I used to love the Larry Sanders Show. He'll be missed.
That's awful. I just listened to an interview with him about a month and a half ago, and he seemed in great health.
This year sucks.
Hail Hydra [emoji45]Quote:
Originally Posted by Shatter
Proof that someone is a Marvel fanboy beyond redemption: They remember an actor for a couple of superhero-movie cameos that lasted less than two minutes instead of the groundbreaking show in which he starred for years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grindel
Which just goes to show how well he pulled off that role. He is one of the more memorable villains of the Marvel Universe and he has about 5 minutes of total screen time. Of course, it doesn't take much to be a more memorable Marvel villain. There's not a whole lot of competition. There's Loki, Wilson Fisk, Hargrave was a whiney douche, but he was supposed to be that way.....and that's about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Still, most of my respect for him does originate from the Larry Sanders show.
Wow. Great ones falling.
Or maybe he (like I) never saw the show in which he starred for years.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
What war have celebrities gone off to fight? It's a war zone casualty rate for celebrities this year.
I'd expect a lot of prominent deaths for the next several years, until the boomers are largely gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daxil Solshok
It's not all I know him from, it's the last thing I know him from. I don't WANT to be redeemed anyhow, so nyah.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Is this year over yet... what? Still March? Fuck!
Boomers go boom, like Ppatty said. That's about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khieran
Rob ford march 22. Did we all miss this one?
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/t...rned-1.3513802
Never mind, found it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gidizlo
Attachment 4578Quote:
Originally Posted by Ackar
Another one bites the dust.
What's that covering his body?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ackar
It's a tarp!
My daughter texted that news to me last night. She was great on Everybody Loves Raymond, what she will most likely be remembered for, but she had so many other great roles.Quote:
Originally Posted by anon
I never watched ELR but I recognized her immediately. I think she was the secretary on Remington Steele?
Yes, she was. That's where I know her from, as I never watched ELR either. She was a great lady.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grindel
IMDB says you are correct. She was also in Christmas Vacation.
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Yep, she was Ellen's mom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merkus
Grandma from grandma's boy
Former WWE wrestler Chyna, age 45: http://dlisted.com/2016/04/20/chyna-has-died/
She did more than wrestling...Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...er-dead-at-45/
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Henry Ford might be famous for saying, “We live many lives,” but former professional wrestler, pornographic actress and ESL teacher Joanie “Chyna” Laurer, who was found dead Wednesday at 45, truly embodied it.
Chyna, who the Associated Press reports was found dead in her apartment in Redondo Beach, Calif., would break the glass ceiling for women in professional wrestling in the 1990s before becoming a pornographic film actress after a private sex tape was leaked. Wanting to escape from the adult film world, she moved to Japan to teach English and center herself before returning to the U.S. last year.
No cause of death has yet been determined. KTLA reported that police were called to her apartment after receiving a 911 call from a friend who dropped by to check on her after not hearing from her for several days.
I always thought she was pretty darn sexy.
Purple rain.... Purple rain....
Yeah, just read an article that confirmed Prince is dead. Freaking crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tinthalas Tigris
http://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/...e73083897.html
I wonder if he still loved vanity and died from a broken heart.
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Is kind of strange that they died a few months apart. Soul mates? I think famous musicians in particular have a death wish. The data is in and it extends far beyond 2016. What better way to immortalize yourself? The most brilliant stars are the ones that go out in supernova fashion. At least I think that's the mentality.
I'm expecting an Onion article any day now about how famous singers are now going into hiding.
My FB post earlier:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dramadon
This is a red alert, this is not a test. Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger please report to your emergency shelters.
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A couple of British comedians have passed recently - not sure how well they were known/if it was reported on the other side of the pond:
Victoria Wood passes after battle with cancer at the age of 62
Ronnie Corbett dies at age 85
It's not just perception: 2016 has been a bad year for celeb deaths: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36108133
Wölli, former drummer of german punk band Die Toten Hosen joined the gig. Couldn't find a good english link from mobile but that's going to be one hell of a band they are building.
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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Very soon. Muhammad Ali, dead at 74.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/03/us/muh...ali/index.html
The greatest of all time :(
Edit: My dad knew Ali in his younger days, in the mid-70s when the Champ was looking to get into other ventures. Literally four days ago he was just telling my son about playing pickup basketball with Ali's bodyguard, who was slightly smaller than a Mack truck. The other thing he remembers vividly is the size of Ali's hands. Dad's got some mitts himself, but the way he put it Ali basically engulfed his hand when they shook hands. The earliest fight I can remember was back when Norton broke his jaw and I must have been like three at the time; he's been ingrained in my head one way or another ever since then.
Greatest boxer? Not many boxing purists would say so. But greatest, most iconic figure to emerge from any sport ever? Yeah, probably.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grindel
This. You can't ignore his cultural impact.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
If there is an afterlife, he and Howard Cosell are having a wonderful reunion.
A moment of silence for the man who gave us Equus and Amadeus:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/ar...d-amadeus.html
And, of course, a requiem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOtHzsm6eow
And while we're at it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjlYvI7Q-bA
The movies don't reach the level of the plays on which they were based, but still.
That final paragraph and what he said about himself ... powerful and evocative! I saw Anthony Perkins performance of Equus and the movie. You're right Ppatty ...
Another combat sports legend has died. Well, "legend". Kimbo Slice, dead at 42:
http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/6/6/...dead-at-age-42
His fight against Dada 5000 will likely go down as one of the worst matches in MMA history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2mQdchEAgs
So Dada 5000 suffered cardiac arrest in that fight and Kimbo apparently was not only in bad shape, but also not that far from death himself. Nice vetting of fighters, Bellator. Unfortunate to see him go, though, he did bring a lot of attention to the sport (for the wrong reasons, but still) and he didn't seem like a bad guy overall.
Couple things. Ali almost finished dead last in his class in high school. Shows you how razer thin the difference between world renowned iconic figure and a likely difficult life can be.
Second, man the black community has taken some hits in the last 6 years or so. Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Prince, Ali. Those are people that transcend their profession for sure.
I know plenty of people on both ends of the "IQ Spectrum" who nearly failed out of school. I myself was taken to a child psychologist because I was so utterly and completely BORED with what they were teaching me that I was building log cabins with my crayons instead of paying attention because figuring out how to construct a roof that would stay put was more fun in first grade than "see spot run".Quote:
Originally Posted by Daxil Solshok
It's not hard to suck out loud at school.
What takes strength of character is succeeding in spite of that, and Ali certainly had it.
Ok, so try throwing on some dark skin, and growing up in segregated Kentucky without an outlet like boxing. Your life would be difficult. You would not be an iconic figure. I didn't throw those points in because I assumed most people knew them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merrick ap'Milandra
He had a liver mass and was being put on the list for a heart transplant.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/6/7/...t-before-death
Speaking of MMA (and derailing a bit from Death Parade 2016): PPatty, what do you think of the whole UFC - Ariel Helwani credential lifting thing? Just the usual "UFC wants to control everything, even things they shouldn't control" thing, or more?
Pretty much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
UFC's brass believe the media should be "partners" with them; their feeling is that if you want to go their own way, then don't expect us to help you out by credentialing you or working with you in any way whatsoever. There's a history of it going back several years -- Sherdog, Josh Gross and Loretta Hunt can tell you all about it.
Ariel happens to be the one reporter seen as a rock star among MMA fans, at least partly because Dana White himself used to single out Ariel as his favorite MMA journalist at one time. (Dana also has called Megan Olivi the best MMA journalist around, but I refuse to use the term on her; she's just a UFC mouthpiece, in more ways than one, if you know what I mean). Ariel's popularity caused a backlash that probably played a big role in convincing UFC to back down the other day. And certainly Esther Lin and Casey Leydon, who are top-notch pros, were just collateral damage; it's good to see that they can continue, as well.
The only organization whose reporters don't tiptoe around UFC is ESPN, which just shows that if someone tries to bully you, it helps to have a bigger bully on your side. That said, even ESPN's main MMA reporter, Brett Okamoto, doesn't do anything that might piss off UFC; when ESPN does a story that it knows will annoy Dana White and/or the Fertittas (such as the piece on salaries from a few years back) it assigns someone else to do it so that Okamoto can keep covering the fights themselves.
how much control do the major sports leagues have over media? NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL? Just wondering if the UFC is thinking they can have NFL like control.
The NHL has squat in the way of leverage over the media - or, rather, if they do have it, they never use it. Reporters enjoy very good access to players, the players get dumped on if they don't fulfill media obligations, and even reporters that are despised by a team (Tony Gallagher until recently here in Vancouver, that guy who had the running feud with Tortorella in New York) are never threatened with removal of credentials. League officials even do interviews that you can tell they hate doing (I love watching Bettman's facial expressions when Ron MacLean starts grilling him). The only restriction the league has is "no interviews with referees", and I'm fairly sure there's no league that allows refs to be interviewed, at least not while active. Does baseball allow it? When Jim Joyce cost Armando Galarraga a perfect game his comments were publicized, including things that happened in the umpire locker room:
http://espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=300602106
Or did he just tell reporters what happened when he went to apologize?
Dana White sounds like Trump. Little thin skinned.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
As much as they want. However, U.S. professional sports leagues generally don't de-credential people just because they don't like what they write.Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
Major colleges sometimes are a little more thin-skinned. Steve Spurrier once refused to hold a news conference because a columnist he didn't like was sitting among the reporters. British football clubs apparently get irritable, as well.
Calling Dana White "thin skinned" is like calling Salma Hayek "hot" when she was in her prime. But Dana, say what you will about him, has established himself in a position where he can be thin skinned and it doesn't matter; the only ones who can overrule him are government regulators and the Fertittas. The fighters have no ability to challenge him. The journalists are all too nervous about getting de-credentialed and losing their dream jobs; Ariel certainly wasn't a saint of journalism, he stayed quiet along with everyone else with a press pass when Dana shit all over Gross and Hunt. But Ariel has benefited from a double standard because people like him more than they liked Josh and Loretta.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daxil Solshok
Tough week for sports: Gordie Howe has died.
I have a feeling that this is going to be a personal one for our Hockey-crazed poster(s).
For some reason, I thought Gordie Howe would live forever. Still the toughest mofo that team sports has ever seen, though.