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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 6, 2024 21:10:41 GMT -5
I don't think anybody has mentioned it yet, but Pierre Christin, writer of Valerian and Laureline (as well as manny other works) passed away in early October, aged 86. Ravian is still one of my favourite series of all time. I have read relatively little of his other works though, I read The Hunt and Pigalle, 1950. So time to correct that. Longer article, in dutch (so probably use auto-translate for most here): www.stripspeciaalzaak.be/stripnieuws/pierre-christin-86-overledenAwww no... His scripts always felt so adult. In the proper sense of the word. His collaborations with Enki Bilal alone would be seen as a satisfying body of work but he gave us so much more. |
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Post by Calidore on Nov 8, 2024 8:28:38 GMT -5
You've probably never seen him, but you've heard him: Elwood Edwards, who recorded AOL's "You've got mail" alert (on a cassette recorder in his kitchen), has died at 74.
I, too, have had a cassette recorder and a kitchen at the same time, yet fame has eluded me.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 8, 2024 22:17:39 GMT -5
You've probably never seen him, but you've heard him: Elwood Edwards, who recorded AOL's "You've got mail" alert (on a cassette recorder in his kitchen), has died at 74.
I, too, have had a cassette recorder and a kitchen at the same time, yet fame has eluded me.
I hoped to find an example on-line, but failed. My favorite reference to that alert was a Foxtrot comic strip, where Roger is learning to use the family computer and gets the alert, goes out to the mailbox and finds it empty, then stands before the computer and calls it a liar. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Nov 8, 2024 23:51:34 GMT -5
RIP to actor Tony Todd, best known for his rolls in The Candy Man, Final Destination, Platoon and others. He was 69.  -M |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 9, 2024 5:28:04 GMT -5
Yeah, just saw the sad news about Todd. And there are those of us who quite fondly recall him as Worf's kid brother, Kurn...  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 9, 2024 7:52:07 GMT -5
I remember him in a smallville episode. He was memorable any time you saw him.
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Post by Calidore on Nov 9, 2024 23:56:17 GMT -5
For auto racing fans, NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobby Allison has died at 86.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 10, 2024 13:44:54 GMT -5
For auto racing fans, NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobby Allison has died at 86. Not a racing fan, but, we were faithful watchers of ABC's Wide World of Sports, which often included Indy Car and NASCAR and Bobby was of that generation of drivers, along with AJ Foyt, Cale Yarborough, Al Unser and a few others whose names escape my memory. It's funny how many sports figures I knew, through osmosis, from Wide World of Sports or The Superstars/Super Teams, rather than actively following the sport. Same with baseball and football players. I knew more athletes then than now and watch the same amount of games now, as then, which is zero. The power of Roone Arledge! |
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Post by shaxper on Nov 10, 2024 14:04:55 GMT -5
Yeah, just saw the sad news about Todd. And there are those of us who quite fondly recall him as Worf's kid brother, Kurn... We DS9 fans remember him even better as adult Jake Sisko in arguably the finest Trek episode ever made.  |
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Post by Calidore on Nov 10, 2024 16:44:23 GMT -5
For auto racing fans, NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobby Allison has died at 86. Not a racing fan, but, we were faithful watchers of ABC's Wide World of Sports, which often included Indy Car and NASCAR and Bobby was of that generation of drivers, along with AJ Foyt, Cale Yarborough, Al Unser and a few others whose names escape my memory. It's funny how many sports figures I knew, through osmosis, from Wide World of Sports or The Superstars/Super Teams, rather than actively following the sport. Same with baseball and football players. I knew more athletes then than now and watch the same amount of games now, as then, which is zero. The power of Roone Arledge! Wide World of Sports was awesome. Has there been any comparable sports anthology show since, that showed such a mixture of the "traditional" and unusual? There are so many sports in the world, you'd think a show like that could find support. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 10, 2024 17:06:50 GMT -5
Not a racing fan, but, we were faithful watchers of ABC's Wide World of Sports, which often included Indy Car and NASCAR and Bobby was of that generation of drivers, along with AJ Foyt, Cale Yarborough, Al Unser and a few others whose names escape my memory. It's funny how many sports figures I knew, through osmosis, from Wide World of Sports or The Superstars/Super Teams, rather than actively following the sport. Same with baseball and football players. I knew more athletes then than now and watch the same amount of games now, as then, which is zero. The power of Roone Arledge! Wide World of Sports was awesome. Has there been any comparable sports anthology show since, that showed such a mixture of the "traditional" and unusual? There are so many sports in the world, you'd think a show like that could find support. No, since sports are so watered down between broadcast platforms. One if its strengths was that it only had to compete with two other networks, for sports coverage and ABC had Roone Arledge, who knew how to present sports to people who weren't die hard fans, like me. I played kids games and organized basketball, in junior high; but I was not a jock. I was average at most things, sucked at hitting, in baseball, which might have been related to vision, though I sucked long before I had glasses. Once they started up ESPN and completely watered down what had made Wide World of Sports (and related shows, like The American Sportsman and the Superstars) great, it was doomed. NBC may have tried something like that but they never had the same level of expertise and talent. They ended up supplanting ABC, for the Olympics; but, I never cared for their coverage. It was too much "Rah, Rah, USA, USA" and they ignored sports where the US wasn't as competitive. ABC had a better focus on the athletes, from all nations, as individuals, which made watching the sports where the US wasn't dominant more interesting, as you got to know other athletes in those sports. When I was a kid, we cheered Vasili Alekseyev, the Soviet weightlifter, when he went for records, because ABC made him a real person and showed a pretty likeable guy. I mean, it's the Cold War (although it was the period of Detente) and American kids are cheering a Soviet athlete, because ABC presented him as a human being and not some evil representation of a repressive state. |
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Post by Calidore on Nov 11, 2024 10:39:40 GMT -5
Local legend Ella Jenkins, a.k.a. "first lady of children's music", has passed away at 100.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 11, 2024 21:20:15 GMT -5
Also from the arts world, dancer and artistic director of The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater company, Judith Jamison has passed away. Jamison joined the Theater in 1965 and was one of the principal stars. Alvin Ailey especially choreographed the signature piece, Cry, with her in mind and she danced it in its debut, in 1971, dedicated to "all Black women everywhere-especially our mothers."
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 12, 2024 13:19:34 GMT -5
R. I. P. alto sax great Lou Donaldson. Donaldson put out dozens of excellent albums as a leader. And he was a sideman on a number of classic albums by the likes of Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Smith and Art Blakey. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 12, 2024 15:28:53 GMT -5
RIP to "Sweet Poppa" Lou.
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