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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2016 13:37:01 GMT -5
RIP John Saunders long time ESPN host and broadcaster
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2016 15:49:59 GMT -5
RIP John Saunders long time ESPN host and broadcaster -M mrp, I'm a big ESPN fan and he's a legend in my book and a true pioneer in Sports Entertainment. I loved his comments and one of the best there is. |
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Post by Gene on Aug 13, 2016 11:41:10 GMT -5
RIP Kenny Baker, age 83.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2016 11:46:42 GMT -5
My favorite character in Star Wars  R.I.P. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2016 12:23:55 GMT -5
R.I.P. to the man under the dome.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2016 14:31:17 GMT -5
Just saw this in my newsfeed. RIP Mister Baker, you will be missed but the memories you helped create will live on.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 25, 2016 14:31:01 GMT -5
With an assist from Metafilter:
"Toots" Thielemans died in his sleep in Brussels on Monday, August 22, 2016. He was 94.
"I can say without hesitation that Toots is one of the greatest musicians of our time ... He goes for the heart and makes you cry. We have worked together more times than I can count and he always keeps me coming back for more...” -- Quincy Jones, from the liner notes to Q's Juke Joint
Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor "Toots" Thielemans, also known as Baron Thielemans of Belgium, survived the Nazi occupation of his native country to launch a career as a jazz guitarist and harmonicist in the 1940s.
Thielemans bought his first harmonica while he was a teenager in Brussels after watching an American movie in which a prisoner was playing the harmonica while awaiting the electric chair. 'That’s nice,' he remembered thinking, according to a 2011 interview with a Smithsonian jazz project. 'I’m going to buy one.'
Thielemans played with the Shearing Quintet, and went on to perform with a murderer's row of musicians including Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker &c., Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Stevie Wonder, Bill Evans, Quincy Jones, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Diana Krall, and Paul Simon. He wrote and performed the jazz standard "Bluesette."
He recorded jingles for a number of commercials including the whistled Old Spice jingle, and played on the soundtracks to many movies including Midnight Cowboy and The Sugarland Express, as well as on the theme song to Sesame Street.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 26, 2016 11:41:56 GMT -5
And another from the jazz world: Rudy Van Gelder (November 2, 1924 – August 25, 2016) was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz. Regarded as the most important recording engineer of jazz by some observers, Van Gelder recorded several thousand jazz sessions, including many recognized as classics, in a career which spanned more than half a century. Van Gelder recorded many of the great names in the genre, including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, and Horace Silver, among many others. He worked with many record companies, but he was most closely associated with Blue Note Records en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Van_Gelder . |
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Post by The Captain on Aug 29, 2016 15:26:53 GMT -5
Gene Wilder, star of iconic movies such as "The Producers", "Young Frankenstein", "Blazing Saddles" and "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" passed today at the age of 83 Gene Wilder Passes at 83 . |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 29, 2016 15:51:17 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 29, 2016 15:52:37 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 29, 2016 15:56:53 GMT -5
{Spoiler: Click to show}
Naughty Words |
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Post by Mormel on Aug 29, 2016 17:05:04 GMT -5
Aww, RIP Gene! You made me smile and laugh a hundred times or more. My mother and I were big fans.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2016 17:15:15 GMT -5
Abby Normal
Your Comic Genius has no bounds in Young Frankenstein and I consider this one of your crowning glory! ... R.I.P. Wilder.
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Post by Gene on Sept 25, 2016 9:34:06 GMT -5
RIP Bill Nunn, best known for the role of "Radio Raheem" in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. Comics fans will also remember him from the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films in which he played Joe "Robbie" Robertson.
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