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Post by foxley on May 25, 2020 18:23:16 GMT -5
Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb has died of lung cancer in New York at the age of 91. He was the last surviving member Miles Davis's First Great Sextet, who recorded the biggest selling jazz album of all time: Kind of Blue. R.I.P. Jimmy Cobb
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 26, 2020 16:36:11 GMT -5
Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb has died of lung cancer in New York at the age of 91. He was the last surviving member Miles Davis's First Great Sextet, who recorded the biggest selling jazz album of all time: Kind of Blue. R.I.P. Jimmy Cobb I saw this last night and then got involved in other stuff. Cobb provided some of the most important rhythm work ever working with Davis. R.I.P.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2020 13:15:22 GMT -5
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Post by beccabear67 on May 28, 2020 19:32:21 GMT -5
I've been trying to figure out where Larry Kramer did something to be controversial or hated. I heard about him back when there was an effort to raise awareness and money for research on AIDS. Seems like he wrote something that wasn't politically correct with some folks is all I came up with... compared to the good he did do that doesn't seem like any kind of close contest.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 28, 2020 19:56:39 GMT -5
Here is NPR's obituary, which highlights some of the controversies.Controversy is in the eye of the beholder. His activism was necessary and understandable, but not everyone agreed with his methods. I agree that the end result was far greater than problems caused by how he carried out his message. Having lived through the 80s and 90s, as a heterosexual, it soon became obvious that there was a problem of human suffering going on, with the AIDS Epidemic. It didn't matter what someone's sexual orientation was when they are dying and the myth was it was only one group of people, when the reality was it was far more; but, this community was hit very hard and no one wanted to help them because of prejudices, ignorance and fear. However, there were plenty in power who refused to acknowledge it was a crisis, no matter what and act upon it. Some of those people are still in positions of power. I applaud anyone who has the courage to speak out against the masses, when the masses turn a blind eye to human suffering. The more the voice cries out, the more it gets heard and new voices join it, until it is a roar that cannot be ignored.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2020 20:01:07 GMT -5
I've been trying to figure out where Larry Kramer did something to be controversial or hated. I heard about him back when there was an effort to raise awareness and money for research on AIDS. Seems like he wrote something that wasn't politically correct with some folks is all I came up with... compared to the good he did do that doesn't seem like any kind of close contest. Becca.. it was his personality.
he was very, in-your-face and abrasive.
absolutely NOT making a judgement call on that . . in the times he was in, and those he was fighting for? that's what he thought was sorely needed. (and as I noted, I'll forever be thankful to him for that. . I really do believe that *many* gay folks are still here because of the pressure he put on people).
here's a fantastic example of Kramer, in this NSFW clip (language).
it's one I used to memorialize him on my FB wall.
Larry comes in about 40 seconds into this clip.
he was on the board of ACT UP, and he felt that the organization had started focusing on the wrong things.
and yes, there are some notable people in these crowd shots of this documentary, and this clip. I'm 99% certain that's Dan Savage there in the crowd (arms crossed) before Larry starts talking. and almost as positive that we see artist Keith Haring (blue baseball cap) in a shot as well.
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Post by beccabear67 on May 28, 2020 20:08:28 GMT -5
Yeah, I guess he was either very hot or very cold if he felt he had to leave Act Up. No mister inbetween, but sometimes that's a good thing and very needed. I still remember how Rock Hudson was treated in terms of getting him back home from Europe, it was astonishing, and that was someone that was a huge movie star once, he was treated inhumanly.
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Post by brutalis on May 29, 2020 8:01:16 GMT -5
See that nobody has posted yet that character actor Richard Herd died at age 87 on Tuesday. You would know him immediately once you see his picture. Been on tons of television shows, most notably: Supreme Commander John on the V mini-series, in Star Trek the Next Generation, Star Trek Voyager, Seaquest 2032, Seinfeld, T.J. Hooker, Quantam Leap, Desperate Housewives, MASH, Starsky and Hutch, The A-Team. Instantly recognizable and a splendid actor.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 29, 2020 20:06:31 GMT -5
Great character actor. Trivia: One of his first movie roles was as a tv presenter, in Hercules in New York, starring Arnold Strong, aka Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 30, 2020 4:46:12 GMT -5
Hm, yeah. RIP Admiral Paris... A few days ago, May 26, another prolific character actor, Anthony James, passed away at the age of 77. You probably don't recognize the name, but the face is unmistakable: He almost always played some kind of bad guy in many movies (including In the Heat of the Night, as well as an amusing brief appearance in Naked Gun 2.5) and too many TV shows to count.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 31, 2020 17:09:43 GMT -5
Hm, yeah. RIP Admiral Paris... A few days ago, May 26, another prolific character actor, Anthony James, passed away at the age of 77. You probably don't recognize the name, but the face is unmistakable: He almost always played some kind of bad guy in many movies (including In the Heat of the Night, as well as an amusing brief appearance in Naked Gun 2.5) and too many TV shows to count. I always remember him from Gunsmoke, as Elbert Moses and as the scarred man in the Buck Rogers two-parter, "The Plot to Kill a City." Of course, he's also the saloon owner in Unforgiven and just about every tv show of the late 60s and 70s.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 31, 2020 18:00:01 GMT -5
Love how the Anthony James obit refers to his death in Unforgiven as coming at the hands of "Bill" Munny.
Of course the Eastwood character's name is Will (or William) Munny. He's never referred to as Bill. Bad enough they got it wrong, but at first glance I thought it said Billy Mumy.
Maybe the writer was thinking of the Gene Hackman character, Little Bill.
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Post by brutalis on May 31, 2020 19:11:31 GMT -5
See internet is reporting rock guitar man Bob Kulick has passed away. No details at this time as to cause from family. The man has played with many great groups on some legendary albums. This is one rough and busy year for losing great and little ones!
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Post by brianf on Jun 1, 2020 11:34:24 GMT -5
I'm not really familiar with her work & I don't know all the details but RIP Seattle catoonist Noel Franklinher web site can be found here
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Post by brianf on Jun 4, 2020 20:35:40 GMT -5
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