RIP 2021

[raznomore]

@bovidae I spent a good amount of time watching the love boat as a kid. Didn't realise he was still around. He was obviously in a lots of different things but I remember him Peter Sellers "the party". A horribly racist movie that's fantastically funny and still has the house I aspire to own one day.

[dogmeat]

For all you country music fans out there Grammy Hall of Famer BJ Thomas (Raindrops Keep Falling On My head - Hooked on a Feeling) Big in the 70's has died of lung cancer.

[JC]

Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove and many others, has died at 84. RIP

[MiketheSnow]

@jc said in RIP 2021:

Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove and many others, has died at 84. RIP

Legend

Mar 31, 2021  /  Books

Larry McMurtry obituary

American novelist who wrote Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove and the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain

[Crucial]

Northern Soul legend Dean Parrish aged 78. Also known (real name) as Phil Anastasia.
A native New Yorker, he was apparently unaware of his cult status in the UK with songs like this

Also worked as a session muso with Hendrix, Santana and Bob Marley in the early 70s.
Was recording still right up to last year for Acid Jazz

[MN5]

He’ll be squealing like a pig in heaven.

RIP

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57467111?fbclid=IwAR2APj4_SVGJO8XAjPhrmVIuMvLB7Nz7iD96nmtKdwWw1hRR1NJ50pOT0UI

[MiketheSnow]

@mn5 said in RIP 2021:

He’ll be squealing like a pig in heaven.

RIP

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57467111?fbclid=IwAR2APj4_SVGJO8XAjPhrmVIuMvLB7Nz7iD96nmtKdwWw1hRR1NJ50pOT0UI

Legend

[JC]

Fane Flaws has died. He was in Blerta, Spats and The Crocodiles as well as being a talented artist and a genuinely lovely bloke. RIP.

Edit: He also did this video for the Muttonbirds, which i just love.

[nostrildamus]

@jc sorry to reply to an older post but yes

AK03:As good as the bloody original - NZ Herald

I think it is also easy to forget how little comedy/political satire there was in those days..

[nostrildamus]

@mn5 said in RIP 2021:

@godder said in RIP 2021:

@siam said in RIP 2021:

John Clarke is/was the best you motherf....s!!

He was no Billy T...

Holy Shit no, he was a real one trick pony compared to BTJ

Clarke had a truly distinctive singing voice.

[MN5]

@nostrildamus said in RIP 2021:

@mn5 said in RIP 2021:

@godder said in RIP 2021:

@siam said in RIP 2021:

John Clarke is/was the best you motherf....s!!

He was no Billy T...

Holy Shit no, he was a real one trick pony compared to BTJ

Clarke had a truly distinctive singing voice.

I’ve forgotten who we were talking about sorry.

[nostrildamus]

@mn5 John Morrison Clarke//Fred Dagg..

[antipodean]

John McAfee

Jun 23, 2021  /  technology

John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison

The McAfee antivirus software creator, 75, was found dead in a prison cell in Barcelona hours after a court had authorised his extradition to the US.

[Nepia]

@antipodean said in RIP 2021:

John McAfee

Jun 23, 2021  /  technology

John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison

The McAfee antivirus software creator, 75, was found dead in a prison cell in Barcelona hours after a court had authorised his extradition to the US.

WTF!!! I had completely forgotten he was on the run.

[JC]

@antipodean Hmmm... I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

[Machpants]

Superman, Lethal Weapon, The Omen, etc Director Richard Donner

Jul 5, 2021  /  Film

Richard Donner, master of macho blockbusters with a human touch

Superman, Lethal Weapon, The Omen, Scrooged – the movie director’s CV tracked Hollywood’s most bankable genres from the 80s onwards

[Virgil]

@machpants

Loved The Goonies, golden era of going to the movies as a kid in the 80's (Return of the Jedi, Back to the Future, Gremlins and Goonies)
He did some good movies, The Omen as well. Thats a decent creepy horror.

[Bovidae]

It might be time for a rewatch of Lethal Weapon.

Ladyhawke has always been a guilty pleasure of mine.

[MN5]

Wow, I always thought Stephen Spielberg directed the Goonies.

Nevertheless that’s a pretty solid body of work, as @Virgil says it was an absolutely Golden era and he was a huge part of that.

[Virgil]

@mn5 said in RIP 2021:

Wow, I always thought Stephen Spielberg directed the Goonies.

Nevertheless that’s a pretty solid body of work, as @Virgil says it was an absolutely Golden era and he was a huge part of that.

Speilberg was often Executive Producer, pretty much he either directed or was EP with alot of the better movies in the 80's.
They had his style, Gremlins was another.