The Rest In Peace & Remembrance Thread #2

Blues legend Eddie Kirkland dies in Fla. wreck
Feb 28, 8:38 AM (ET)

CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) - An 88-year-old blues legend known as the "Gypsy of the Blues" was killed in Florida when his car turned into the path of a Greyhound bus.

Eddie Kirkland was traveling southeast on U.S. Highway 98 in Crystal River, north of Tampa, about 8:30 a.m. Sunday when he tried to make a U-turn in front of the bus, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The bus, which was traveling northwest, pushed Kirkland's Ford Taurus about 200 yards before the vehicles stopped.

Kirkland was flown to Tampa General Hospital, where he later died.

Thirteen passengers were on the bus, which was being driven by 67-year-old James Smith of Tallahassee, the Highway Patrol said. No one on the bus was injured.

The Highway Patrol continued to investigate the accident Monday.

According to his website, Kirkland, who lived in Macon, Ga., performed Saturday night at the Dunedin Brewery in Dunedin, the final stop in a four-city swing through Florida in February. His tour was to pick up April 8 in Pensacola.

Born in Jamaica, and raised in Alabama, Kirkland eventually moved to Indiana before he settled in Detroit. He polished his blues sound and toured for 7 1/2 years with John Lee Hooker. He moved to Georgia, became a bandleader for Otis Redding and performed with a variety of artists, including Little Richard, Ben King, Ruth Brown and Little Johnnie Taylor.


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Frank Buckles, Last U.S. WWI vet dies at 110

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — He was repeatedly rejected by military recruiters and got into uniform at 16 after lying about his age. But would later become the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I.

Buckles, who also survived being a civilian POW in the Philippines in World War II, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in Charles Town, biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge said in a statement. He was 110.
Buckles had been advocating for a national memorial honoring veterans of the Great War in the nation's capital.

When asked in February 2008 how it felt to be the last of his kind, he said simply, "I realized that somebody had to be, and it was me." And he told The Associated Press he would have done it all over again, "without a doubt."

On Nov. 11, 2008, the 90th anniversary of the end of the war, Buckles attended a ceremony at the grave of World War I Gen. John Pershing in Arlington National Cemetery.

He was back in Washington a year later to endorse a proposal to rededicate the existing World War I memorial on the National Mall as the official National World War I Memorial. He told a Senate panel it was "an excellent idea." The memorial was originally built to honor District of Columbia's war dead.


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Duke Snider, dead at 84.

(AP) Duke Snider, the Hall of Fame center fielder for the charmed "Boys of Summer" who helped the Dodgers bring their elusive and only World Series crown to Brooklyn, died early Sunday of what his family called natural causes. He was 84.

Snider died at the Valle Vista Convalescent Hospital in Escondido, Calif., according to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, which announced the death on behalf of the family.

"The Duke of Flatbush" hit .295 with 407 career home runs, played in the World Series six times and won two titles. But the eight-time All-Star was defined by much more than his stats — he was, after all, part of the love affair between the borough of Brooklyn and "Dem Bums" who lived in the local neighborhoods.
 
Hollywood star Jane Russell dies at 89
March 1, 2011 Last updated at 00:54 ET Former

Hollywood actress and sex symbol Jane Russell has died at the age of 89.
The brunette was discovered by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, who cast her in his 1943 Western The Outlaw.

Some of her most memorable films include the The Paleface (1948) with Bob Hope, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) with Marilyn Monroe.

She died on Monday at her home in California of a respiratory-related illness, her daughter-in-law confirmed


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Gary Winick, Director of "Letters to Juliet" and "13 Going on 30," Dies at 49

E!ONLINE - As Hollywood celebrated yesterday, one of its independent voices quietly slipped away.

Gary Winick, director of Letters to Juliet, Bride Wars and 13 Going on 30, died at age 49 following a long fight with brain cancer.

Though most filmgoers probably know his work directing actress-friendly films starring Amanda Seyfried, Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson and Jennifer Garner, the director was also a force in independent film.

As founder of InDigEnt, Winick produced 19 independent films over the last decade, including Ethan Hawke's Chelsea Walls, the Katie Holmes vehicle Pieces of April, Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity and his own Sundance hit, Tadpole.


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Dylan Cover Girl, Girlfriend, Song Inspiration Passes Away At 67

Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan's longtime girlfriend during his fledgling days as a Greenwich Village folk singer and the woman who appears alongside him on the famous cover of "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," passed away this weekend at her home in Manhattan following a long illness, Rolling Stone reports. Rotolo was 67.

In addition to forever being captured on the Don Hunstein-photographed "Freewheelin' " cover, Rotolo's three-year relationship with Dylan, from 1961 to 1964, also inspired him to write three of his early love songs, "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," "Tomorrow is a Long Time," and "Boots of Spanish Leather." (Dylan's breakup with Rotolo also influenced one of his most vitriolic tunes, "Ballad in Plain D," a song Dylan later regretted recording.)

Rotolo is also acknowledged for pushing Dylan toward the political awareness that flavored his Greenwich Village work.
 
Singer of hit 'Running Bear' dead at 71
The Associated Press
Posted: 03/04/2011 03:55:16 PM MST

BEAUMONT, Texas—Pop singer Johnny Preston, who in 1960 had the chart-topping hit "Running Bear," has died. He was 71.

His son Scott Preston said the singer died Friday afternoon at Baptist Beaumont Hospital. He had bypass surgery late last year and suffered from lingering health problems.

He was born Johnny Preston Courville and spent most of his life in Port Arthur. He first performed in the Lamar University group The Shades in 1957 and was brought to the attention of Mercury Records by disc jockey/singer J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson.

Richardson wrote and produced "Running Bear," which became a million-seller for Preston the year after Richardson died in the same plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. Preston followed up with another hit, "Cradle of Love."


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Frank Chirkinian, 84, Father of Televised Golf
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Published: March 5, 2011

Frank Chirkinian, who defined televised golf as the innovative executive producer and director for CBS’s coverage of the Masters tournament for 38 consecutive years, died Friday at his home in North Palm Beach, Fla. He was 84.

The cause was cancer, CBS Sports said on its Web site.

When Mr. Chirkinian first oversaw CBS’s coverage of the Masters at Augusta National in 1959, televised golf was a black-and-white affair with bulky stationary cameras.

Mr. Chirkinian transformed it into an imaginative spectacle, using more than two dozen mobile cameras as well as a camera in a blimp along with split screens showing two golfers putting at the same time. He cut briskly from hole to hole. He showed his audience where the leaders stood in relation to par as play progressed, not simply their total score, and he placed microphones on the greens to pick up chatter between the golfers and their caddies.

He was a commanding presence, known as the Ayatollah for his often brusque orders to his production crew and to the CBS announcers on the course.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Jane, and their son, Frank Jr., The Palm Beach Post said.
 
'Celebrity Rehab's' Mike Starr Found Dead In Salt Lake City':

Former "Celebrity Rehab" Season 3 patient Mike Starr has died.
Authorities found the body of the former Alice in Chains bassist in a Salt Lake City home on Tuesday, TMZ reported.

Starr, 44, was arrested last month on felony possession of a controlled substance, according to the website.

Dr. Drew Pinsky, who treats the patients on "Celebrity Rehab," Tweeted his condolences over the news.

"Devastating to hear of Mike Starr succumbing to his illness. So very sad. Our prayers are with his family," Dr. Drew wrote.

Starr had said on the show he did not want to end up like his former bandmate, Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley, who died of a heroin overdose in 2002.

Starr played bass for the grunge band between 1987 and 1993, playing on the band's breakthrough album, "Dirt." He was eventually replaced by Mike Inez in 1993.

Starr was on the 2010 edition of "Celebrity Rehab" alongside Tom Sizemore, Heidi Fleiss, Mackenzie Phillips, Dennis Rodman, Mindy McCready and Kari Ann Peniche. He later appeared on VH1's "Sober House."
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Ronnie Hammond, ARS lead singer, dead at 60
http://www.macon.com/2011/03/15/1487812/heart-failure-claims-life-of-ronnie.html
Joe Kovac, Jr., Macon Telegraph


Ronnie Hammond, the former lead singer of the Atlanta Rhythm Section, died Monday (March 15) in Forsyth, Ga. He was 60.

The Macon, Ga. native died of heart failure about 11 a.m., said his brother, Jimmy Hammond.

Hammond, whose powerful, balladeer’s voice helped vault ARS to prominence, joined the band in 1972 after lead vocalist Rodney Justo left the group. ARS had several hits during the 1970s, including “Doraville,” “Jukin,” “Champagne Jam,” “Imaginary Lover,” “So Into You,” “I’m Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight,” and a remake of the Classics IV hit “Spooky.”

Hammond left ARS in the early 1980s before rejoining the group in 1987. During his years off the road, he continued to write music, with songwriting partner and producer Buddy Buie. Hammond, who was also a carpenter, built houses around Macon, including his own near Lake Tobesofkee.


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Big Jack Johnson, Mississippi bluesman, dead at 70
http://communityvoices.sites.post-g...66-mississippi-bluesman-big-jack-johnson-dies
Jim White, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


Mississippi bluesman Big Jack Johnson, 70, has died. Johnson was one of the last of the deep-blues musicians out of the Clarksdale area of Mississippi. He's probably most widely know for being a part of the Jelly Roll Kings, a Mississippi trio made of of Johnson, Sam Carr and Frank Frost. But he also had a local reputation as a tough, hard-working singer and guitarist in the best of the deep blues tradition, and didn't really tour much beyond the Clarksdale, Miss., area until the mid-'90s or so.

He also played bass and blues mandolin, and was nicknamed the "Oil Man" because his day job for years was driving an oil truck.

Johnson was the sole survivor of the major blues artists featured in the 1992 movie, "Deep Blues," based on the fine blues book by Robert Palmer. He also performed and wrote "Jack's Blues" and performed "Catfish Medley" with Samuel L. Jackson on the Black Snake Moan film soundtrack.


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Todd Cerney, country songwriter, dead at 57
Zanesville, OH native penned country hits "I'll Still Be Loving You," "Good Morning Beautiful"
http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/...ngwriter-and-musician-todd-cerney-dies-at-57/
Peter Cooper, The Tennessean


Nashville songwriter and musician Todd Cerney, whose compositions have been recorded by Aretha Franklin, Cheap Trick, Etta James, Levon Helm, Restless Heart and others, died of cancer Monday (March 15) at age 57. He was diagnosed after a brain seizure in November and had been in hospice care.

“He was so well-rounded, and such a consummate musician,” said Pam Rose, who with Mr. Cerney, Mary Ann Kennedy and Pat Bunch wrote the Restless Heart ballad “I’ll Still Be Loving You,” which was nominated for a Grammy in 1987 for best country song and which won the 1988 ASCAP country song of the year award. “Todd was gracious and talented and so musical.”

Mr. Cerney was born in Detroit and raised in Zanesville, Ohio. He moved to Nashville in 1974, finding work as a singer, songwriter and audio engineer. He sang harmony vocals on recordings by Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton and many others, and he played with the Nashville Mandolin Ensemble, but Mr. Cerney built a career on his ability to craft words and melodies into emotional songs.

One of those was 2001’s “Good Morning, Beautiful,” a five-week Billboard No. 1 country single for Steve Holy that was performed on the Feb. 24, 2011 edition of American Idol. The show aired a week before Mr. Cerney’s health necessitated a move from his Middle Tennessee home to Alive Hospice.

A multi-instrumentalist, Mr. Cerney performed often on Nashville stages and co-wrote with notables including Jon Bon Jovi, Brian May of Queen and Nashville songwriters Rivers Rutherford, Bill Lloyd and Buzz Cason.
 
‘Batman’ Actor Michael Gough Dies at 94By DavidOnda
Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:15:24 GMT


The actor who starred as trusted butler Alfred Pennyworth in Tim Burton’s “Batman” films (and the other two by Joel Schumacher) has died.

British actor Michael Gough’s career spanned six decades and includes more than 100 films. Gough is best known in the United States for his role as Alfred, as well as his roles in Burton’s “Sleepy Hollow,” “Corpse Bride” and “Alice in Wonderland,” but earned a cult following in the U.K. through frequent appearances in Hammer horror films and guest spots on popular Brit television series “The Avengers” and “Doctor Who.”

Other notable credits include “Out of Africa,” “A Christmas Carol” (1985), “The Boys from Brazil” and “Julius Caeser.”

http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/reelnews/7191854/batmanactormichaelgoughdiesat94/
 
RIP Dame Liz. A true icon and one of the last Hollywood Greats. What an exceptionally beautiful and talented woman.
 
:(This brought me to tears, a great beauty and one of the great actresses ever. All her movies were sensational, because of her presence. "Cleopatra" such outrageous, fantastic special effects. "A Place In The Sun" so intense. She won two Oscars, and was nominated for many others. I knew she'd been in ill health for many years, but figured she get better. Four children and 10 grandchildren. A great loss, so sad, may she certainly RIP, and is with the angels~
 
There are numerous articles about Liz Taylor all over the net. For anyone interested in her movies, I found this:

Turner Classic Movies announced a tribute to Elizabeth Taylor that will include 24 hours of movies from the late star’s career.
The tribute will begin Sunday, April 10 and will include Taylor’s Oscar-winning performances in Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), as well as screenings of Father of the Bride (1950), Father’s Little Dividend (1951), Ivanhoe (1952), Giant (1956), Raintree County (1957) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). Full schedule below.
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The schedule also includes Lassie Come Home and National Velvet. :)

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/03/23/elizabeth-taylor/
 
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Thank's jtd that's awesome, I'll will catch some of these for sure. Does any one remember "The Sandpiper" with Richard? also good. "A Place In The Sun" will bring one to tears. so intense, so romantic, such a horrible ending :(
 
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