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Post by foxley on Feb 18, 2022 23:37:02 GMT -5
Unfortunately, the only work of Tom Veitch's that I can ever remember is the batsh*t crazy Elseworlds Superman: At Earth's End which involved a crazy hobo Superman wielding a gun bigger than he was to fight twin clones of Hitler, and was somehow supposed to be an anti-gun message.
I also never realised until now that Tom was Rick Veitch's brother.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 19, 2022 0:55:33 GMT -5
Unfortunately, the only work of Ton Veitch's that I can ever remember is the batsh*t crazy Elseworlds Superman: At Earth's End which involved a crazy hobo Superman wielding a gun bigger than he was to fight twin clones of Hitler, and was somehow supposed to be an anti-gun message. I also never realised until now that Tom was Rick Veitch's brother. DC stressed it when they put out The Nazz, which was why I probably thought it would be more like The One and Brat Pack than trippy hippy stuff. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2022 1:54:37 GMT -5
RIP to Mark Lanegan, grunge pioneer, and lead singer of the Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age. He was only 57. -M |
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Post by Calidore on Feb 24, 2022 10:29:49 GMT -5
RIP George Olshevsky.
Obit by Jackie Estrada via Facebook and the Grand Comics Database chat mailing list.
Jackie Estrada
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George Olshevsky (1946–2021)
I am heartbroken to learn that my dear friend George Olshevsky passed away in December. He had been dealing with complications from diabetes and heart problems and apparently passed away in the hospital, where he had contracted Covid.
I first met George back I the mid-1970s, when he was doing typesetting for Comic-Con, and I worked with him to produce the Program Book and other publications. In 1979 he and Jim Valentino produced the SDCC Program Book, unique that year for being in a newspaper format.
George, a graduate of MIT with a degree in mathematics and of the University of Toronto with a master's in computer sciences, was raised in Buffalo, NY but moved to San Diego because he liked to ride his motorcycle year-round. His two main interests were comics and dinosaurs. In comics, he produced the Marvel Indexes in the 1970s and 1980s, for which catalogued all the Marvel comics going back to 1961—all of which he had bought off the newsstand. He then started a newsletter and wrote books about dinosaurs and became known as an expert in the field (his handle became “DinoGeorge”). With his math background, he also had a hobby of creating “polytopes” (geometric figures in multiple dimensions). He could often be seen tooling around
San Diego on his Harley, looking like a Hell's Angel, but he was a gentle fellow who wouldn't harm a fly.
In 1980 I invited George to a party at my house, where he met my friend Andrea, who had been a student in one of my copyediting classes. She, too, was originally from Buffalo, and they hit it off. They were married and started a business doing book indexing for a variety of publishers. In my role as a freelance textbook editor, I sent several projects their way.
George and Andrea were a regular part of my life for decades; they often stopped by my house on special occasions to drop off art objects that Andrea and/or George created, and they usually had their dog with
them to romp around in the yard. The last time they came was in January 2019 to see Batton while he was in his final days. Andrea has health problems of her own and is now being looked after by a caregiver. I send my heart out to her at having lost her beloved
life partner. RIP, DinoGeorge.
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 24, 2022 11:56:24 GMT -5
I corresponded with George Olshevsky back when I first got serious about writing about comic book history. He was friendly and encouraging, though he wasn't able to offer much substantive help with the subject I was researching (which I no longer recall). I told him how much his Marvel Indexes meant to me as a young fan in the '70s, for which he thanked me. I wish we'd continued to interact. RIP, Mr. O.
Cei-U!
I summon the sorrowful news!
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 24, 2022 14:11:08 GMT -5
George was a major presence on some of the mailing lists I was on a few years back. His arguments with Will Murray were epic.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2022 22:58:51 GMT -5
RIP to Sally Kellerman, probably best known for her role ar Hot Lips in the original M*A*S*H film. She was 84.
-M
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 24, 2022 23:13:34 GMT -5
RIP to Sally Kellerman, probably best known for her role ar Hot Lips in the original M*A*S*H film. She was 84. -M And, the second pilot for Star Trek! I have to say, on of my favorite roles for her was as the improbable love interest of Rodney Dangerfield, in Back to School. Her obit at NPR said she had been suffering from dementia. Hate to see anyone having to face that. |
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Post by foxley on Feb 26, 2022 0:14:54 GMT -5
Australian middle distance runner John Landy has died at the age of 91. Landy is most famous as the second man to break the four-minute mile barrier (after his longtime rival Roger Bannister) in the mile run and held the world records for the 1500-metre run and the mile race. He was also the 26th Governor of Victoria from 2001 to 2006. At the 1956 Australian National Championships prior to the Melbourne Olympic Games, in the final of the mile race, Landy stopped and doubled back to check on fellow runner Ron Clarke after another runner clipped Clarke's heel, causing him to fall early in the third lap of the race. Landy, who was close behind, leaped to clear his body but scraped his spikes on Clarke's shoulder. Clarke, the then-junior mile world record holder, who had been leading the race, got back to his feet and started running again; Landy followed. In the final two laps Landy made up the deficit to win the race. This was voted the Finest Sporting Moment of the century by the Sports Australia Hall of Fame at a Gala Dinner in 1999.  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 28, 2022 18:20:28 GMT -5
R. I. P. Veronica Carlson. Probably best known for her roles in Hammer horror films such as Dracula Has Risen From the Grave and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed.  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 2, 2022 14:48:48 GMT -5
R. I. P. Alan Ladd, Jr. Ladd was, of course, the son of film star Alan Ladd. But as a studio executive and producer he carved out an incredibly important career. As a Fox executive he's frequently credited with saving Star Wars. Later his independent production company, The Ladd Company, produced Blade Runner.  |
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Post by foxley on Mar 4, 2022 3:57:18 GMT -5
Rod Marsh, the wicket keeper for the Australian Test cricket team for all of the 70s and much of the 80s, has died at the age of 74; a week after suffering a heart attack while attending a charity event. He is certainly Australia's most famous wicket keeper, and was probably the most famous in the world during his long playing career. After retiring from cricket, he remained involved in the sport as a coach and then member of the Australian Board of Selectors.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 4, 2022 23:30:04 GMT -5
RIP to actor Mitchell Ryan, who you might recall from Lethal Weapon (as the top villain), Dharma & Greg (as Edward Montgomery, Greg's wealthy father) and even Dark Shadows.  Great character actor and life member of The Actor's Studio. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 4, 2022 23:34:51 GMT -5
Also lost Tim Consadine, who played Spin, in Spin & Marty and Frank hardy, in the Hardy Boys, on the Mickey Mouse Club; and, Mike Douglas, on My Three Sons.  (I had a huge crush on Meredith MacRae, when I was a kid!) His father was John Consadine Jr, who was a producer and nominated for an Oscar, for Boy's Town, and his mother came from a Greek theater family. He was also once married to Charlotte Stewart, who played school teacher Miss Beadle, on Little House on the Prairie. He also appeared in Disney's The Swamp Fox and the movie, The Shaggy Dog, with Fred MacMurray. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 4, 2022 23:47:07 GMT -5
And RIP to Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist, with a capital J, Walter Mears. Mears won the Pulitzer for his coverage of the 1976 Presidential Campaign and was one of the subjects of the book, The Boys on the Bus, in 1973 (the book covers the reporting on the 1972 campaign, between Nixon and McGovern).
He maintained that journalists needed to remain neutral, in reporting politics and that fact checking was key. He was a critic of modern media reporting, especially in light of 24 hour news and even more with digital. He made an interesting comparison, in 2016, between Donald Trump and Huey Long, in terms of the rhetoric and how they responded to reporters. Interesting comparison that I never thought about, before.
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