RIPs

[GrayMouser]

Rather than put up a new thread every time...

Elizabeth Taylor, March 23 2011, age 79

She was in a lot of trash, but the good ones are good:

National Velvet
Giant
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf

And she deserves plaudits for her work on AIDS awareness when most in Hollywood were terrified of being associated with 'the gay plague'.

Not my taste in beauty, but those eyes....

[Gwaimir Windgem]

She and Richard Burton were mind-numbingly good in VW. I've been dropping Martha quotes ever since I heard about her passing!

[GrayMouser]

Amy Winehouse 1983-2011

A new member of the 27 Club

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club

[mithrand1r]

Nicholas Courtney (16DEC1929-22FEB2011)
Best known as "Lethbridge-Stewart" from DW series.

http://www.lordshaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/tumblr_lh1sxcobpg1qdtfqfo1_500.jpg


Elisabeth Sladen (1FEB1946–19APR2011)
Known as "Sarah Jane Smith" in "The Sarah Jane Adventures" & DW series.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13137674

[Draken]

Group Captain Billy Drake (20 December 1917 – 28 August 2011)

RAF fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of France and Battle of Britain, then served on tours of Africa and the Middle East. Having read a good deal about him in "The Fighter Boys" while on holiday this year it was a bit of a shock to hear about his death just a few days later.

The Few keeping getting fewer.

[GrayMouser]

A few days back, but,

Davey Jones of the Monkees

"I wanna be free,
Like the warm September wind, babe..."

My older sister was a big fan-by the time I was into music I was already too hard-core for the teeny-bopper stuff, but now i can actually listen to some of their songs.

[mithrand1r]

The Monkeys were fun to listen to on the radio. The TV show was a bit on the goofy side. I remember Davy Jones on Scooby Doo.

A few days back, but,

Davey Jones of the Monkees

"I wanna be free,
Like the warm September wind, babe..."

My older sister was a big fan-by the time I was into music I was already too hard-core for the teeny-bopper stuff, but now i can actually listen to some of their songs.

[The Gaffer]

I loved the prog as a kid. Me and my chums used to do the walk thing going down the street.

IMO their music has proved much more durable than their many critics would have expected.

Last Train to Clarksville, I'm a Believer, Daydream Believer, these are great pop tunes.

Gerry Rafferty was another recent RIP. Some great songs: Baker Street, Stuck in the Middle with You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohRa9lsx0Q&feature=related)

[Draken]

The Monkees were one of those kids TV things that I really wish were repeated but would be scared to find they're not how I remember them. The list includes The Double Deckers, The Banana Splits and Belle & Sebastian.

I think the idea of forming a band just for a TV show (which was itself seen as a rip-off of the Beatles films) meant the Monkees were never going to be taken very seriously. Whereas now, of course, you pretty much HAVE to be a manufactured band to get anywhere in the charts.

Anywell, farewell Davey Jones, without you my Singstar version of Daydream Believer would never have happened.

It was a burial at sea, I assume?

[GrayMouser]

Doc Watson, joining the recently departed Earl Scruggs.

If there's a blue-grass heaven, the band just got a hell of a lot better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DUzVUNJKiDc

[Lotesse]

Ray Bradbury.

Here's a great interview he did recently with the Paris Review:

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6012/the-art-of-fiction-no-203-ray-bradbury

[GrayMouser]

Ray Bradbury.

Here's a great interview he did recently with the Paris Review:

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6012/the-art-of-fiction-no-203-ray-bradbury

Yeah- actually my least favorite of the Big Four: Bradbury, Heinlein, Clarke and Asimov.
I was pretty "hard" SF at that young age, but some of his stuff is still great, especially "The Martian Chronicles" and "The Illustrated Man".

[Earniel]

Not to mention Fahrenheit 451.

[Lotesse]

Yeah- actually my least favorite of the Big Four: Bradbury, Heinlein, Clarke and Asimov.


Ooooo, I used to LOVE Heinlein when I was growing up! The Cat Who Walks Through Walls was one of my favourite books.

[Draken]

Of the 'big 4' Bradbury was the least prolific (certainly in terms of novels) but I'd say he was the best writer - certainly way ahead of Asimov and Heinlein. I like how some of his short stories have an unsettling edge to them that give them a horror feel, like Dark They Were And Golden-Eyed or The October Country.

[Earniel]

RIP Lonesome George. Died far too young. Goodbye to a conservation icon and last representative of a whole species in one go.

[GrayMouser]

Andy Griffith.

Those of us of a (ahem) certain age will remember "The Andy Griffith Show" (hey, I watched it in reuns!) but he also had some pretty fine acting chops earlier in his career.

Also supposed to be a genuinely nice guy.

[Draken]

Mary Tamm. An absolutely stunning actress who played the original Romana in Doctor Who.

[Lotesse]

Gore Vidal. Bye, baby! 86 is a decent number of years of life to have had on this earth.