Rest in Peace

neonzx · **Joined:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:27 am **Posts:** 4216

R.I.P.

I guess we can't really celebrate Sherman's career without revisiting All in the Family.

kimba · **Joined:** Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:24 pm **Posts:** 6634

Chad Everett. Dr Gannon, Medical Center. Dreamy.

MaineSkeptic · **Joined:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:48 pm **Posts:** 5295

neonzx wrote:

R.I.P.

I guess we can't really celebrate Sherman's career without revisiting All in the Family.

I had the good fortune to see him on Broadway in Purlie. Enjoyed him then -- and loved him as George. I used to have to drag Mrs. Skeptic kicking and screaming to watch it with me.

mimi · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:27 am

Writer Gore Vidal, 86, has died

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Vidal died Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills of complications of pneumonia, said nephew Burr Steers.

Vidal was a literary juggernaut who wrote 25 novels, including historical works such as “Lincoln” and “Burr” and satires such as “Myra Breckinridge” and “Duluth.” He was also a prolific essayist whose pieces on politics, sexuality, religion and literature -- once described as “elegantly sustained demolition derbies” -- both delighted and inflamed and in 1993 earned him a National Book Award for his massive “United States Essays, 1952-1992.”

Threaded throughout his pieces are anecdotes about his famous friends and foes, who included Anais Nin, Tennessee Williams, Christopher Isherwood, Orson Welles, Truman Capote, Frank Sinatra, Jack Kerouac, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Eleanor Roosevelt and a variety of Kennedys. He counted Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Al Gore among his relatives.

more:
http://www.latimes.com/features/books/j ... 8239.story

Estiveo · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 2:19 am

Leave us not forget one of my favorite writers and humorists, Maeve Binchy who passed yesterday. (it's still, barely, the 31st where I am) She was a wry and gentle smart-ass with a keen eye to the heart of human relations. I never met her, but I know I'd have liked her.

Rather than an obituary I gives you her Wikipedia article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeve_Binchy

Chilidog · **Joined:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:36 pm **Posts:** 1969

Do you think that Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley have finally made up?

A Legal Lohengrin · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:56 pm **Posts:** 9385

Chilidog wrote:

Do you think that Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley have finally made up?

That might depend on whether they both ended up in the same place. :twisted:

borealis · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:34 pm

A Legal Lohengrin wrote:

Chilidog wrote:

Do you think that Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley have finally made up?

That might depend on whether they both ended up in the same place. :twisted:

Chris Buckley's New Republic article discusses the famous "crypto-nazi, queer" argument.

http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/105655/christopher-buckley-his-fathers-old-nemesis-gore-vidal

Chilidog · **Joined:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:36 pm **Posts:** 1969

today was the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death

What was Barack Obama doing on that day? Hmmmmmm?

kate520 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:29 pm

Toddler Obama knew Marilyn Monroe?
That would totally explain the binky mark on her left breast!

MaineSkeptic · **Joined:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:48 pm **Posts:** 5295

kate520 wrote:

:shock:

Toddler Obama knew Marilyn Monroe?
That would totally explain the binky mark on her left breast!

And the grin on his face.

DaveMuckey · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:59 pm

Chilidog wrote:

today was the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death

What was Barack Obama doing on that day? Hmmmmmm?

Oddly, this is one of those days that I can vividly remember where I was when I heard the news; 12 years old and in a Jr. Lifesaving class at Orange Coast College.

ObjectiveDoubter · **Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:53 pm

DaveMuckey wrote:

Chilidog wrote:

today was the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death

What was Barack Obama doing on that day? Hmmmmmm?

Oddly, this is one of those days that I can vividly remember where I was when I heard the news; 12 years old and in a Jr. Lifesaving class at Orange Coast College.

I remember, too. I was 13 and on my first driving trip outside of California, in a lime green Corvair, driving down Route 66 somewhere in New Mexico I think, when it was announced on the radio.

There's a Marilyn Monroe tribute tonight in Palm Springs, I'm going before heading back to L.A.:
http://www.pe.com/iguide/movies-and-tv/movies-tv-headlines/20120803-palm-springs-elton-john-tribute-artist-serenades-26-foot-marilyn.ece

The 25-foot Marilyn is already an icon here. I saw 7-Year Itch, nestled in front of Marilyn's ankle, Friday night.

mimi · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:50 am

Marvin Hamlisch, Composer of A Chorus Line, Dies at 68

By Robert Simonson
07 Aug 2012

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He was already famous as an all-around wunderkind when he began work on A Chorus Line. A child prodigy, he was accepted into Juilliard before he was seven. Before he was 30, he had received Oscars for his score and song to "The Way We Were" and his adaptations of Scott Joplin ragtime tunes in "The Sting," which helped usher in a Joplin revival.

Mr. Hamlisch is one of only 11 people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award. On top of this, he also won the Pulitzer Prize for A Chorus Line.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/16 ... Dies-at-68

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Hamlisch's career included composing, conducting and arranging music from Broadway to Hollywood. His movies included The Way We Were and Sophie's Choice. He won three Academy Awards, four Emmys and a Tony.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... t-age-68/1

ObjectiveDoubter · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:38 am

mimi wrote:

Marvin Hamlisch, Composer of A Chorus Line, Dies at 68

By Robert Simonson
07 Aug 2012

Quote:

He was already famous as an all-around wunderkind when he began work on A Chorus Line. A child prodigy, he was accepted into Juilliard before he was seven. Before he was 30, he had received Oscars for his score and song to "The Way We Were" and his adaptations of Scott Joplin ragtime tunes in "The Sting," which helped usher in a Joplin revival.

Mr. Hamlisch is one of only 11 people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award. On top of this, he also won the Pulitzer Prize for A Chorus Line.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/16 ... Dies-at-68

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Hamlisch's career included composing, conducting and arranging music from Broadway to Hollywood. His movies included The Way We Were and Sophie's Choice. He won three Academy Awards, four Emmys and a Tony.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... t-age-68/1

Wow. I had some work associates from Europe staying at the smallish Amarano Hotel on Pass Av in Burbank, last week. I think last Tuesday, they said that they saw Marvin Hamlisch carried out on a stretcher. I thought that they wouldn't know what he looked like for sure, so dismissed it.

Piffle · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:06 pm

Sad. I'm suprised by his tender age -- only 68 or gulp! two years older than I.

Offtopic :

I saw Chorus Line in 1977 during a vacation trip to the UK. It was my first time attending a London theater performance.

It was a particularly memorable evening in that setting because it drove home the Churchillian quip about how Yanks and Brits are separated by a common language. There were times when I, my then-wife and a friend who joined us found ourselves laughing at nuances of American political and cultural humor that went clean over the heads of the rest of the audience. Yet at other times, the rest of the audience laughed at what I can only imagine were perceived as Americanisms...or something of that ilk.

But what I found most amusing were the attempts by the British cast at affecting New York accents. To my New Jersey-raised ear, it was hillarious. Not even close. And ever since, when I hear an American actor trying to talk like a Brit, this has been my frame of reference: It must sound perfectly dreadful to a speaker of British English.

MaineSkeptic · **Joined:** Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:48 pm **Posts:** 5295

Piffle wrote:

I saw Chorus Line in 1977 during a vacation trip to the UK. It was my first time attending a London theater performance.

I saw the original Broadway production many times, as I lived about a block from the Shubert and was dating a member of the cast who used to let me in through the stage door. I would stand in the back, and was there so frequently that Michael Bennett would greet me as a friend although we had never met.

I thought Hamlisch's Chorus Line score was masterful, and it allowed me to overcome the resentment I felt toward him when he was (IMO) given much too much credit in some circles for the music for The Sting.

A Legal Lohengrin · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:56 pm **Posts:** 9385

mimi wrote:

Mr. Hamlisch is one of only 11 people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award. On top of this, he also won the Pulitzer Prize for A Chorus Line.

That list.

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To date, eleven artists have won all four awards in competitive categories. They are: actors John Gielgud, Helen Hayes, Audrey Hepburn, Rita Moreno, Whoopi Goldberg; composers Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Rodgers, and Jonathan Tunick; director/screenwriter Mel Brooks; director Mike Nichols; and producer Scott Rudin.

Maru · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:06 pm

Estiveo wrote:

Leave us not forget one of my favorite writers and humorists, Maeve Binchy who passed yesterday. (it's still, barely, the 31st where I am) She was a wry and gentle smart-ass with a keen eye to the heart of human relations. I never met her, but I know I'd have liked her.

Rather than an obituary I gives you her Wikipedia article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeve_Binchy

She sounds like a truly lovely woman. Gonna go download something onto my kindle.

MN-Skeptic · **Joined:** Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:36 pm **Posts:** 186

I saw Marvin Hamlisch in concert at Minneapolis' Orchestra Hall probably more than 10 years ago. He was an excellent entertainer. I remember it as one of my favorite concerts, but I can't tell you why now, just that the whole evening was extremely enjoyable.

He will be missed!

Adelante · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:59 pm

DeAndre McCullough (1977-2012)

TollandRCR · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:25 pm

Adelante wrote:

DeAndre McCullough (1977-2012)

That is one of the rawest, most truthful, most painful eulogies that I have ever read.

Adelante · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:14 pm

From the comments, David Simon seems to have earned a lot of respect in that circle. I don't think that happens too often. It was a tearful read.

DaveMuckey · **Posted:** Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:31 pm

Helen Gurley Brown

neonzx · **Joined:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:27 am **Posts:** 4216

Gay Actor Ron "Horshack" Palillo Dies

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Openly gay actor Ron Palillo died of a heart attack today at the age of 63. Some of you will remember him as Horshack on the hit 70s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. TMZ has the story:

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We're told Palillo was found by his partner of many years Joseph Gramm around 4:00 AM. Gramm called an ambulance and Palillo was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. We're told the heart attack was very unexpected. Palillo was 63. According to one of Palillo's colleagues at G-Star School of the Arts, Palillo had appeared to be in good health ... but was a heavy smoker. We're told he had been suffering from a bad cough and had even scheduled a doctor's appointment for today.

Falsehoods unchallenged only fester and grow.

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