Tinkerbell
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Rest in peace Robert Altman.
Rest in peace Robert Altman.
The Rest In Peace & Remembrance Thread
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I just copied this from the news section on IMDB.
'Cinema Paradiso' Actor Philippe Noiret Dies at 76
French actor Philippe Noiret died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. He was 76. The Cinema Paradiso star appeared in more than 125 films and also took to the stage in a string of plays. Noiret started his career in 1956 in Agnes Varda's film La Pointe Courte. He won two Cesar Awards (the French Oscars) for Best Actor for his roles in Robert Enrico's 1976 film Le Vieux Fusil and Bertrand Tavernier's 1990 production La Vie Et Rien D'Autre. French Prime Minister Dominique De Villepin paid tribute to Noiret, saying, "Through his voice, his allure, his panache, Philippe Noiret knew how to seize and express something within the French soul. The silhouette and the voice, so tender and familiar, will be missed by all."
I just copied this from the news section on IMDB.
'Cinema Paradiso' Actor Philippe Noiret Dies at 76
French actor Philippe Noiret died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. He was 76. The Cinema Paradiso star appeared in more than 125 films and also took to the stage in a string of plays. Noiret started his career in 1956 in Agnes Varda's film La Pointe Courte. He won two Cesar Awards (the French Oscars) for Best Actor for his roles in Robert Enrico's 1976 film Le Vieux Fusil and Bertrand Tavernier's 1990 production La Vie Et Rien D'Autre. French Prime Minister Dominique De Villepin paid tribute to Noiret, saying, "Through his voice, his allure, his panache, Philippe Noiret knew how to seize and express something within the French soul. The silhouette and the voice, so tender and familiar, will be missed by all."
Dynamo1
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Here are a couple more just in...
Renowned Jazz Singer Anita O'Day Dies
Nov 23, 8:26 PM (ET)
By ALLISON HOFFMAN
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Anita O'Day, whose sassy renditions of "Honeysuckle Rose,""Sweet Georgia Brown" and other song standards that made her one of the most respected jazz vocalists of the 1940s and '50s, has died. She was 87.
O'Day died in her sleep early Thursday morning at a convalescent hospital in Los Angeles where she was recovering from a bout with pneumonia, said her manager Robbie Cavolina.
"On Tuesday night, she said to me, get me out of here," Cavolina said. "But it didn't happen."
Once known as the "Jezebel of Jazz" for her reckless, drug-induced lifestyle, O'Day lived to sing and she did so from her teen years until this year when she released "Indestructible!"
"All I ever wanted to do is perform," she said in a June 1999 interview with The Associated Press. "When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life."
Cavolina recently completed a feature film about O'Day and accompanied her to shows and on tours.
"She got to see how many people really loved her at the shows we did, in New York, in London," Cavolina said. "She had come back after all of this time. She really lived a very full and exciting life."
O'Day was born in Chicago, Ill. She left home at age 12 and often bragged about being "self-made" and never having a singing lesson.
She began her career in her teens and later recorded hits with Stan Kenton and Gene Krupa. Her highly stylized performance of songs like "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine,""Let Me Off Uptown,""Honeysuckle Rose" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" made her famous the world over.
In her prime, O'Day was described as a scat singer and a natural improviser whose unique interpretations energized the most familiar songs. She inspired many singers, including June Christy and Chris Connor.
Her fame came at a price.
She suffered from a 16-year heroin addiction and an even longer alcohol problem. Wild, drug-related behavior and occasional stints in jail on drug charges earned her the nickname "Jezebel of Jazz," a term she hated.
"I tried everything," she once said. "Curiosity will make you go your own way."
She overdosed many times and on one occasion in the late 1940s, it was almost fatal.
The experience shocked her into giving up drugs, but she continued to drink.
Her 1981 memoir "High Times Hard Times" tells of her long struggle with drug addiction and her romance with drummer John Poole.
In late 1996, O'Day fell down the stairs of her Hemet, Calif., home after a drinking binge. She was admitted to a hospital with a broken arm but ended up with severe food poisoning and pneumonia.
She survived the ordeal but her recovery - both physical and emotional - was painful. She left the hospital in a wheelchair and didn't walk for nearly a year. Her right hand was paralyzed but worst of all, she said, she had lost her singing voice.
Although she blamed the complications on poor hospital care, the near-death experience convinced O'Day to give up alcohol.
It took nearly a year to get her voice back and start singing again. But once she did, she was right back on stage.
She received a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1997.
For the last years of her life, O'Day performed at various Los Angeles night spots.
O'Day had no children and no immediate family, Cavolina said.
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Broadway Lyricist Betty Comden Dies
Nov 23, 10:57 PM (ET)
By MICHAEL KUCHWARA
NEW YORK (AP) - Betty Comden, whose more than 60-year collaboration with Adolph Green produced the classic New York stage musical "On the Town," as well as "Singin' in the Rain," has died. She was 89.
Comden had been ill for a few months and died Thursday of heart failure at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia, said her longtime attorney and executor Ronald Konecky.
"She was, in all respects, a very beautiful and legendary person," Konecky said. "She was a dynamic figure in the arts, theater and film."
On Broadway, Comden and Green (the billing was always alphabetical) worked most successfully with composers Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne and Cy Coleman. The duo wrote lyrics and often the books for more than a dozen shows, many of them built around such stars as Rosalind Russell, Judy Holliday, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett and Lauren Bacall.
They won five Tony Awards, with three of their shows - "Wonderful Town,""Hallelujah, Baby!" and "Applause" - winning the top prize for best musical. The duo received the Kennedy Center honors in 1991.
The two were never married to each other, although many thought they were, considering the longevity of their working relationship.
"It's a kind of radar," Comden once said of her partnership with Green. "We don't divide the work up, taking different scenes. We sit in the same room always. I used to write things down in shorthand. I now sit at the typewriter. Adolph paces more. A lot of people don't believe this, but at the end of the day we usually don't remember who thought up what."
Green died in October 2002 at age 87. At a memorial for him a few weeks later, Comden recalled their early days as collaborators and then halted before saying: "It's lonely up here. It was always more fun with Adolph."
The best Comden and Green lyrics were brash and buoyant, full of quick wit, best exemplified by "New York, New York," an exuberant and forthright hymn to their favorite city. Yet even the songwriters' biggest pop hits - "The Party's Over,""Just in Time" and "Make Someone Happy" - were simple, direct and heartfelt.
It was "On the Town," a musical comedy expansion of Jerome Robbins' ballet "Fancy Free," that introduced Comden and Green to Broadway in 1944. The story of three sailors on a 24-hour leave in wartime New York was tailor-made for the time.
The music was by Bernstein, an old friend of Green's. Comden and Green wrote the book and lyrics, including two plum roles for themselves.
The partners had performed their own material before. Green, struggling to become an actor, met Comden through mutual friends in 1938 while she was studying at New York University.
They formed a troupe called the Revuers, which performed in the Village Vanguard, a club in Greenwich Village. Out of necessity, Comden and Green began writing their own material. Among the members of the company was a young comedian named Judy Tuvin, who changed her name to Judy Holliday when she got to Hollywood.
Comden and Green's next two musicals, "Billion Dollar Baby" (1945) and "Bonanza Bound" (1947) were not successful. In fact, "Bonanza Bound" died in Philadelphia en route to New York. Discouraged, they left for California where they found a home at MGM.
There, they wrote screenplays for "Good News," starring June Allyson and Peter Lawford, and the film version of "On the Town," which scrapped most of Bernstein's melodies, replacing them with music by Roger Edens. It even sanitized the lyrics to "New York, New York." Yet the movie, starring Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, was a huge hit.
At MGM, Comden and Green also scored their biggest critical success, writing the screenplay for "Singin' in the Rain" (1952). The film placed No. 10 on the list of 100 best American movie of the century, compiled in 1998 by the American Film Institute.
In 1953, they had another film hit with "The Band Wagon," starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. In his memoir, "Steps in Time," Astaire said Comden and Green were "noted for their brilliant readings" when introducing scripts to cast members. He recalled the time he and a co-star, at one session, "flipped with delight and said we'd have a hard time following them in the parts."
Also in 1953, Comden and Green reunited with Bernstein on Broadway for "Wonderful Town," a musical version of "My Sister Eileen."
A succession of collaborations with Styne followed, including the 1954 Mary Martin "Peter Pan," in which they were brought in to augment an already existing score; "Bells Are Ringing" (1956), written specifically for Holliday, and "Do Re Mi" (1960), a raucous look at the jukebox industry that featured Silvers and comedian Nancy Walker.
One of their biggest Broadway successes was "Applause" (1970), a show for which they wrote the book but not the lyrics. The two did an expert job tailoring the film "All About Eve" to Bacall's talents.
Comden and Green had their share of stage flops, too, most famously "A Doll's Life" (1982). It was a misguided attempt to figure out what Nora did after she slammed the door and walked out on her husband in Ibsen's "A Doll's House." The musical ran five performances.
Yet their longest running show, "The Will Rogers Follies," opened in 1991, a Ziegfeld-styled retelling of the life of the famous humorist. Keith Carradine played Rogers in this lavish production, which was directed by Tommy Tune and had music by Cy Coleman.
Comden and Green participated in the unsuccessful Broadway revival of "On the Town" in 1998, and also streamlined the book for a new version of "Die Fledermaus" for the Metropolitan Opera that same year.
Throughout their partnership, Comden and Green performed together on stage, most notably in their two-person show "A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green," which was first done on Broadway in 1958 and periodically revived over the years.
Comden told her story in her 1995 memoir, "Off Stage."
Comden was born in Brooklyn in 1917, Konecky said, the daughter of Leo and Rebecca Comden. Her father was a lawyer, her mother a schoolteacher. She graduated from New York University in 1938.
Comden married accessories designer Steven Kyle in 1942. He died in 1979. They had two children, Susanna and Alan; her son died in 1990.
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Renowned Jazz Singer Anita O'Day Dies
Nov 23, 8:26 PM (ET)
By ALLISON HOFFMAN
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Anita O'Day, whose sassy renditions of "Honeysuckle Rose,""Sweet Georgia Brown" and other song standards that made her one of the most respected jazz vocalists of the 1940s and '50s, has died. She was 87.
O'Day died in her sleep early Thursday morning at a convalescent hospital in Los Angeles where she was recovering from a bout with pneumonia, said her manager Robbie Cavolina.
"On Tuesday night, she said to me, get me out of here," Cavolina said. "But it didn't happen."
Once known as the "Jezebel of Jazz" for her reckless, drug-induced lifestyle, O'Day lived to sing and she did so from her teen years until this year when she released "Indestructible!"
"All I ever wanted to do is perform," she said in a June 1999 interview with The Associated Press. "When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life."
Cavolina recently completed a feature film about O'Day and accompanied her to shows and on tours.
"She got to see how many people really loved her at the shows we did, in New York, in London," Cavolina said. "She had come back after all of this time. She really lived a very full and exciting life."
O'Day was born in Chicago, Ill. She left home at age 12 and often bragged about being "self-made" and never having a singing lesson.
She began her career in her teens and later recorded hits with Stan Kenton and Gene Krupa. Her highly stylized performance of songs like "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine,""Let Me Off Uptown,""Honeysuckle Rose" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" made her famous the world over.
In her prime, O'Day was described as a scat singer and a natural improviser whose unique interpretations energized the most familiar songs. She inspired many singers, including June Christy and Chris Connor.
Her fame came at a price.
She suffered from a 16-year heroin addiction and an even longer alcohol problem. Wild, drug-related behavior and occasional stints in jail on drug charges earned her the nickname "Jezebel of Jazz," a term she hated.
"I tried everything," she once said. "Curiosity will make you go your own way."
She overdosed many times and on one occasion in the late 1940s, it was almost fatal.
The experience shocked her into giving up drugs, but she continued to drink.
Her 1981 memoir "High Times Hard Times" tells of her long struggle with drug addiction and her romance with drummer John Poole.
In late 1996, O'Day fell down the stairs of her Hemet, Calif., home after a drinking binge. She was admitted to a hospital with a broken arm but ended up with severe food poisoning and pneumonia.
She survived the ordeal but her recovery - both physical and emotional - was painful. She left the hospital in a wheelchair and didn't walk for nearly a year. Her right hand was paralyzed but worst of all, she said, she had lost her singing voice.
Although she blamed the complications on poor hospital care, the near-death experience convinced O'Day to give up alcohol.
It took nearly a year to get her voice back and start singing again. But once she did, she was right back on stage.
She received a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1997.
For the last years of her life, O'Day performed at various Los Angeles night spots.
O'Day had no children and no immediate family, Cavolina said.
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Broadway Lyricist Betty Comden Dies
Nov 23, 10:57 PM (ET)
By MICHAEL KUCHWARA
NEW YORK (AP) - Betty Comden, whose more than 60-year collaboration with Adolph Green produced the classic New York stage musical "On the Town," as well as "Singin' in the Rain," has died. She was 89.
Comden had been ill for a few months and died Thursday of heart failure at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia, said her longtime attorney and executor Ronald Konecky.
"She was, in all respects, a very beautiful and legendary person," Konecky said. "She was a dynamic figure in the arts, theater and film."
On Broadway, Comden and Green (the billing was always alphabetical) worked most successfully with composers Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne and Cy Coleman. The duo wrote lyrics and often the books for more than a dozen shows, many of them built around such stars as Rosalind Russell, Judy Holliday, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett and Lauren Bacall.
They won five Tony Awards, with three of their shows - "Wonderful Town,""Hallelujah, Baby!" and "Applause" - winning the top prize for best musical. The duo received the Kennedy Center honors in 1991.
The two were never married to each other, although many thought they were, considering the longevity of their working relationship.
"It's a kind of radar," Comden once said of her partnership with Green. "We don't divide the work up, taking different scenes. We sit in the same room always. I used to write things down in shorthand. I now sit at the typewriter. Adolph paces more. A lot of people don't believe this, but at the end of the day we usually don't remember who thought up what."
Green died in October 2002 at age 87. At a memorial for him a few weeks later, Comden recalled their early days as collaborators and then halted before saying: "It's lonely up here. It was always more fun with Adolph."
The best Comden and Green lyrics were brash and buoyant, full of quick wit, best exemplified by "New York, New York," an exuberant and forthright hymn to their favorite city. Yet even the songwriters' biggest pop hits - "The Party's Over,""Just in Time" and "Make Someone Happy" - were simple, direct and heartfelt.
It was "On the Town," a musical comedy expansion of Jerome Robbins' ballet "Fancy Free," that introduced Comden and Green to Broadway in 1944. The story of three sailors on a 24-hour leave in wartime New York was tailor-made for the time.
The music was by Bernstein, an old friend of Green's. Comden and Green wrote the book and lyrics, including two plum roles for themselves.
The partners had performed their own material before. Green, struggling to become an actor, met Comden through mutual friends in 1938 while she was studying at New York University.
They formed a troupe called the Revuers, which performed in the Village Vanguard, a club in Greenwich Village. Out of necessity, Comden and Green began writing their own material. Among the members of the company was a young comedian named Judy Tuvin, who changed her name to Judy Holliday when she got to Hollywood.
Comden and Green's next two musicals, "Billion Dollar Baby" (1945) and "Bonanza Bound" (1947) were not successful. In fact, "Bonanza Bound" died in Philadelphia en route to New York. Discouraged, they left for California where they found a home at MGM.
There, they wrote screenplays for "Good News," starring June Allyson and Peter Lawford, and the film version of "On the Town," which scrapped most of Bernstein's melodies, replacing them with music by Roger Edens. It even sanitized the lyrics to "New York, New York." Yet the movie, starring Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, was a huge hit.
At MGM, Comden and Green also scored their biggest critical success, writing the screenplay for "Singin' in the Rain" (1952). The film placed No. 10 on the list of 100 best American movie of the century, compiled in 1998 by the American Film Institute.
In 1953, they had another film hit with "The Band Wagon," starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. In his memoir, "Steps in Time," Astaire said Comden and Green were "noted for their brilliant readings" when introducing scripts to cast members. He recalled the time he and a co-star, at one session, "flipped with delight and said we'd have a hard time following them in the parts."
Also in 1953, Comden and Green reunited with Bernstein on Broadway for "Wonderful Town," a musical version of "My Sister Eileen."
A succession of collaborations with Styne followed, including the 1954 Mary Martin "Peter Pan," in which they were brought in to augment an already existing score; "Bells Are Ringing" (1956), written specifically for Holliday, and "Do Re Mi" (1960), a raucous look at the jukebox industry that featured Silvers and comedian Nancy Walker.
One of their biggest Broadway successes was "Applause" (1970), a show for which they wrote the book but not the lyrics. The two did an expert job tailoring the film "All About Eve" to Bacall's talents.
Comden and Green had their share of stage flops, too, most famously "A Doll's Life" (1982). It was a misguided attempt to figure out what Nora did after she slammed the door and walked out on her husband in Ibsen's "A Doll's House." The musical ran five performances.
Yet their longest running show, "The Will Rogers Follies," opened in 1991, a Ziegfeld-styled retelling of the life of the famous humorist. Keith Carradine played Rogers in this lavish production, which was directed by Tommy Tune and had music by Cy Coleman.
Comden and Green participated in the unsuccessful Broadway revival of "On the Town" in 1998, and also streamlined the book for a new version of "Die Fledermaus" for the Metropolitan Opera that same year.
Throughout their partnership, Comden and Green performed together on stage, most notably in their two-person show "A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green," which was first done on Broadway in 1958 and periodically revived over the years.
Comden told her story in her 1995 memoir, "Off Stage."
Comden was born in Brooklyn in 1917, Konecky said, the daughter of Leo and Rebecca Comden. Her father was a lawyer, her mother a schoolteacher. She graduated from New York University in 1938.
Comden married accessories designer Steven Kyle in 1942. He died in 1979. They had two children, Susanna and Alan; her son died in 1990.
Re: The Rest In Peace & Remembrance Thread
Famous Finnish singer, Juice Leskinen died last night
He music was so great, criticts towards society, about feelings of the Finns and everything. The best in the country
Makes me so sad. Loved (and still do) his music
Famous Finnish singer, Juice Leskinen died last night
He music was so great, criticts towards society, about feelings of the Finns and everything. The best in the country
Makes me so sad. Loved (and still do) his music
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OMG no! I always thought it was weird to keep a pig as a pet, but I liked it. Poor George
OMG no! I always thought it was weird to keep a pig as a pet, but I liked it. Poor George
PrettyEyes
Pathologist
Re: The Rest In Peace & Remembrance Thread
Poor George once said that Max was the longest relationship of his life.
Poor George once said that Max was the longest relationship of his life.
Tinkerbell
Head of the Swing Shift
Re: The Rest In Peace & Remembrance Thread
Oh, that's really sad. Poor George.
May you rest in peace Max.
Oh, that's really sad. Poor George.
May you rest in peace Max.
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ROTFLMAO, Dynamo1! :lol: We know you, you're not that evil
His pig was 18 when passed away? I don't think I've ever seen such an old pig. --> and I never thought I'd say this sentence in my life :lol:
ROTFLMAO, Dynamo1! :lol: We know you, you're not that evil
His pig was 18 when passed away? I don't think I've ever seen such an old pig. --> and I never thought I'd say this sentence in my life :lol:
quoth_the_raven
Corpse
Re: The Rest In Peace & Remembrance Thread
December 9 was the 26 anniversary of John Lennon's tragic death.
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living in peace
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed nor hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v457/7Raven7/Other/lennon.jpg
December 9 was the 26 anniversary of John Lennon's tragic death.
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living in peace
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed nor hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v457/7Raven7/Other/lennon.jpg
Tinkerbell
Head of the Swing Shift
Re: The Rest In Peace & Remembrance Thread
quoth_the_raven, unfortunately your image was a little over 400 pixels, so I've amended the image to a link.
It's a lovely picture of John Lennon, I can't believe it's been 26 years. It’s incredibly sad that he was taken away like that.
quoth_the_raven, unfortunately your image was a little over 400 pixels, so I've amended the image to a link.
It's a lovely picture of John Lennon, I can't believe it's been 26 years. It’s incredibly sad that he was taken away like that.
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Yeah... too bad Even though I never was a fan of The Beatles, he should be still alive.
Yeah... too bad
Even though I never was a fan of The Beatles, he should be still alive.- Status