R.I.P. – Legendary Actor Dennis Hopper Dies at age 74
May 29th, 2010 Filed under: R.I.P. by admin
(Source – CBC.ca)
Actor Dennis Hopper, the Hollywood elder statesman who appeared in such classic movies as Easy Rider and Apocalypse Now, has died.
A Reuters report says the 74-year-old performer died Saturday at his home in Venice, Calif. He had been suffering from prostate cancer. Actor Dennis Hopper, honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was also a major collector of art.
Hopper appeared extremely frail and bone-thin in recent months.
The celebrated actor, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and noted visual artist rose to fame in mid-century Hollywood as a co-star and friend to rebel icon James Dean.
For decades Hopper’s career was erratic due to his unpredictable and defiant behaviour, struggles with substance abuse and reputation as a hellion. However, he eventually settled down and earned a raft of kudos for both his film work as well as for his photos, paintings and sculptures.
His prolific movie credits ranged from early successes such as Rebel Without a Cause and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral to the 1960s classics Cool Hand Luke and Easy Rider (which Hopper starred in, directed and won wide acclaim for co-writing), to later hits like Apocalypse Now, Rumble Fish, Blue Velvet and Hoosiers.
Hopper was born May 17, 1936 in Dodge City, Kan. After the Second World War his family moved to Kansas City, Mo., where he took art classes at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Hopper made his on-screen debut portraying an epileptic in an episode of the Richard Boone television series Medic. That same year, he was cast in the 1955 movie Rebel Without a Cause. Its star, James Dean, would become one of his closest friends and the two were reunited on set in the movie Giant.
After Dean’s shocking death in a car accident in September 1955, many noted that Hopper began taking on his friend’s defiant attitude, even refusing direction while at work as an actor.
On the set of From Hell to Texas, Hopper famously began improvising scenes, causing as many as 80 takes and making enemies with the crew. After that incident and the erratic behaviour that followed it, he was largely blacklisted from prominent Hollywood projects and relegated to B-movies.
During this period, he took roles in a raft of television shows, including The Twilight Zone and Bonanza. Gradually, he worked his way back into Hollywood’s good graces, including nabbing roles in two John Wayne movies, The Sons of Katie Elder and True Grit.
Hopper’s major comeback was 1969′s Easy Rider, which also featured Jack Nicholson, Terry Southern and Peter Fonda.
The story of two motorcyclists in search of freedom as they ramble through the southern U.S., the movie was released at the peak of the hippie movement. Capturing the zeitgeist of the time and resonating both with audiences and critics, it landed Hopper a host of honours, including best first film at the Cannes Film Festival and an original screenplay Oscar nomination (which he shared with Fonda and Southern).
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R.I.P. – Slipknot Bassist Paul Gray Found Dead
May 24th, 2010 Filed under: R.I.P. by admin
(Source – E! Online)
Tragedy has rocked Slipknot.
The metal band known for its freaky masks and doom-and-gloom songs is mourning the death of bassist Paul Gray.
The 38-year-old musician, who also went by the stage monikers “#2″ and “The Pig,” was found dead Monday in a hotel room in Urbandale, Iowa, a suburb of the Grammy-winning group’s native Des Moines.
Police say foul play isn’t suspected. The medical examiner has an autopsy scheduled for Tuesday.
Gray was arrested on suspicion of cocaine and marijuana possession in 2003, an incident less noted for the implication that the rocker had drug issues and more so for the fact that his mugshot was one of the rare photos available of a Slipknot member’s actual face.
At the time of his death, the L.A.-born Gray, whose family moved to the eventual Slipknot stomping grounds of Des Moine, was one of only three members of the existing band who were there at its inception. The others are Shawn “Clown” Crahan and Joey Jordison.
Slipknot has collected seven Grammy nominations over the years, winning in 2006 for Best Metal Performance for “Before I Forget.”
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R.I.P. – Ronnie James Dio, Dead at 67
May 16th, 2010 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(Photo - Jamie Sands)
(CBC) – Ronnie James Dio, whose soaring vocals, poetic lyrics and mythic tales of a never-ending struggle between good and evil broke new ground in heavy metal, died Sunday, according to a statement from his wife and manager. He was 67.
Dio revealed last summer that he was suffering from stomach cancer shortly after wrapping up a tour in Atlantic City, N.J., with the latest incarnation of Black Sabbath, under the name Heaven And Hell.
“Today my heart is broken,” Wendy Dio wrote on the singer’s website, adding he died at 7:45 a.m. Sunday. “Many, many friends and family were able to say their private goodbyes before he peacefully passed away.
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R.I.P. – Frank Frazetta (1928-2010)
May 11th, 2010 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(Source – Master Zico)
Frank Frazetta (February 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010) was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, record-album covers, and other media. He was the subject of a 2003 documentary.
We are sad to confirm via Frazetta’s agent Robert Pistella that the artist passed away this afternoon in a hospital near his home. The cause of death was a stroke. Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly.
Frank Frazetta was born February 9, 1928. His early artistic career consisted of years of exquisitely drawn comics work, including contributions to the EC line of comics, assisting Al Capp on L’il Abner and later drawing several years of the strip, and working with Harvey Kurtzman on Little Annie Fanny.
In the ’60s, Frazetta turned to cover paintings for the thriving pulp paperback industry and created one of the most recognizable illustration styles of all time. His covers for Conan, Tarzan and other rough-hewn heroes created a visceral, violent, erotic yet somehow still nuanced visual style that has been endlessly imitated but never surpassed — Frazetta’s imagery of brawny, relentless swordsmen, seductive, fleshy sirens and hellfire breathing monsters had a gut level impact because it came from the gut — his many followers were just tracing without the passion of the originals.
In recent years, as reported here and elsewhere, the Frazetta estate had been much in dispute among his four children, following the death of his wife, Ellie. After some family squabbles that could only be called stressful and embarrassing, peace was made, however, and the sale of some of Frazetta’s most iconic paintings had begun, notably with the $1,000,000 sale of one of his paintings to a buyer believed to be Metallica’s Kirk Hammett. Another Frazetta painting was recently put up for auction, although it was not owned by the family.
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R.I.P. – Lena Horne dies at 92
May 10th, 2010 Filed under: R.I.P. by admin
(Source – Entertainment Weekly)
Lena Horne, the ground-breaking singer, actress and civil rights activist who, in 1942, became the first African-American performer to be put under contract by a major studio, died on Sunday, May 9, at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. She was 92. According to the New York Times, Horne’s death was announced by her son-in-law, Kevin Buckley.
Though her movie career spanned nearly six decades and included a smattering of well-regarded films, like Stormy Weather (1943), Ziegfeld Follies (1946), and Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956), Horne was best known for her singing. Her music highpoints include blockbuster collaborations with Tony Bennett, Grammy-winning recordings of her Vegas nightclub act (1981′s The Lady and Her Music, Live on Broadway, and 1995′s An Evening With Lena Horne), and her Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway musical, Calypso. Horne grew up in an upper-middle-class African American enclave of Brooklyn, raised primarily by her grandparents after age 3, when both her parents left the family. By the time she was 16, Horne had scored a regular singing gig at Manhattan’s Cotton Club. Her knack for dramatic flourish and romantic renditions of jazz standards led to appearances on TV variety shows including The Ed Sullivan Show and The Dean Martin Show, as well as a role in the big-screen musical, The Duke Is Tops (1938). Though she never found the substantial, satisfying work she sought on film, Horne did make an impact, later in life, on TV in recurring roles on The Muppet Show and The Cosby Show.
Throughout her career, Horne was equally dedicated to her advocacy for civil rights. She was an early pioneer in the movement for equality, fighting for desegregation alongside such legends of the movement as Paul Robeson and Medgar Evers. She also fought with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt to pass anti-lynching laws. The combination of Horne’s disarming talent and fierce individuality created a powerful force in breaking down racial barriers in Hollywood and beyond.
Horne is survived by her daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley. Horne’s husband and her son both died in 1971, the latter of kidney failure.
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Writer for “The Wire” David Mills, Passes at 48
April 1st, 2010 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(BBC) – Award-winning TV writer David Mills, who worked on US dramas including The Wire and ER has died, having suffered an apparent brain aneurysm, aged 48.
A statement from cable TV channel HBO said Mills fell ill on Tuesday in New Orleans, on the set of new drama Treme, and died later in hospital.
HBO described Mills as “a gracious and humble man”.
Treme, a show about New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, is due to air in the US on 11 April.
“HBO is deeply saddened by the sudden loss of our dear friend and colleague David Mills,” HBO said, in a statement.
“He was a gracious and humble man, and will be sorely missed by those who knew and loved him, as well as those who were aware of his immense talent.
“David has left us too soon but his brilliant work will live on.”
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R.I.P.- Rock Photographer Jim Marshall Dies At 74
March 25th, 2010 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(Billboard.biz) – Music photographer Jim Marshall, who spent more than a half-century capturing rock-and-roll royalty ranging from the Beatles to Ben Harper at work and in repose, has died. He was 74.
Aaron Zych, a manager at the Morrison Hotel Galleries in New York City,
confirmed Marshall’s death on Wednesday (March 24). Zych says Marshall had been scheduled to appear at another gallery on Wednesday night to promote his new book with celebrity photographer Timothy White and apparently died alone in his sleep in his New York City hotel room.
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R.I.P. – Actor Peter Graves, Dead at 83
March 14th, 2010 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(MSNBC) – Actor Peter Graves, 83, was found dead of natural causes at his southern California home on Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Graves, born in Minneapolis as Peter Aurness, is best known for his lead role in the TV program “Mission: Impossible,” which ran from 1967 to 1973, and that show’s 1988-1990 revival.
Actor James Arness is Graves’ brother.
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R.I.P. – Brooklyn Rapper GBaby Fatally Shot At Fabolous’ NYC Concert
March 13th, 2010 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin(Global Grind Reports) – Sources have told GlobalGrind, that there was a shooting last night at Fabolous’ party in Queens and the victim was Gregory Brown aka GBaby, who is a Brooklyn MC. There are not many details about how it happened or who was the other party involved, but we will be reporting any news that we hear, as soon as we hear it.
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R.I.P. – Lost Boys actor Corey Haim dies aged 38
March 10th, 2010 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(BBC) – The Lost Boys actor Corey Haim has died aged 38, the Los Angeles coroner’s office has confirmed. A spokeswoman said he passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning at Providence St Joseph Medical Centre.
A post-mortem will determine the cause of death and no other details have been released as yet. The Canadian-born star’s first role was in the 1984 hit Firstborn. In recent years, he appeared in reality TV show The Two Coreys.
The series, which also starred Haim’s friend Corey Feldman, was cancelled in 2008 after two series.
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N.S. blues guitarist Wade Brown dead at 63
February 23rd, 2010 Filed under: Made In Canada, News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(CBC ) – Nova Scotia blues guitarist Wade Brown, best known as a member of Canadian blues legend Dutch Mason’s band, has died at the age of 63.
Brown’s body was discovered by a friend who dropped by his home in Truro, N.S., on Friday night.
Over the past decade, he had been in declining health and suffered from Crohn’s disease, according to friends of the musician.
A member of the Dutch Mason Blues Band during the group’s heyday in Dartmouth, N.S., and Toronto in the 1970s, Brown served as a mentor to his peers and to younger musicians.
He was born in Truro and much loved in the community.
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R.I.P. – ‘My Sharona’ singer Doug Fieger of The Knack dies at 57
February 14th, 2010 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(Variety) – Doug Fieger, lead singer and songwriter for the L.A.-based new wave pop band the Knack, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 57.
Fieger had battled successive sieges with lung and brain cancer for six years, and underwent multiple operations to remove brain tumors.
He is best known for the Knack’s ubiquitous 1979 hit “My Sharona,” a lusty, incessantly riffing rocker inspired by his obsession with 16-year-old musician Sharona Alperin.
The song, co-written by Fieger and guitarist Berton Averre dominated U.S. radio airplay in the summer of ’79, and held the No. 1 spot on the national singles chart for six weeks. The band’s debut Capitol album “Get the Knack” spent five weeks at No. 1, and was certified double platinum.
“My Sharona” returned to the national charts in 1994 after it was used in the pic “Reality Bites.”
Though the group’s sophomore LP “But the Little Girls Understand” reached No. 15, none of their other singles ever reached the top 10, and the Knack never recaptured their initial success.
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R.I.P. – Frisbee inventor dies at 90
February 12th, 2010 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(CNN) — Some mourners may bring Frisbees to Saturday’s memorial service for Walter Fredrick “Fred” Morrison, who invented the flying disc.
Morrison, 90, died this week at his home in Utah, said Jen Derevensky, a spokeswoman for Wham-O, the company that has sold the Frisbee since signing a contract with Morrison in 1957.
“Fred’s the one who thought of commercializing something that people had been doing forever — picking up a round, flat object and watching it sail,” said Phil Kennedy, Morrison’s biographer.
Wham-O has sold more than 200 million Frisbees to date, Derevensky said Friday.
“It’s so simple that anyone could pick it up and fly it acceptably well in a few minutes,” Kennedy said. “It’s inexpensive and adaptable to existing games and to new games.”
Morrison started experimenting with flying disc designs in 1937 after his girlfriend’s uncle invited him outside to toss the lid from a popcorn tin, according to Wham-O.
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R.I.P. ‘Jaws’ producer David Brown dies aged 93
February 2nd, 2010 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(BBC) – David Brown, the producer behind hit films including Jaws and The Sting, has died at the age of 93. Brown brought Elvis to the small screen for the first time in Love Me Tender, before taking up a job at Fox. He later set up his own company with Richard Zanuck, producing both Jaws and The Sting, starring Paul Newman – which won an Oscar for best film in 1973.
In later life, he was behind movies such as Driving Miss Daisy, Chocolat and Angela’s Ashes.
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R.I.P. – The Legend of Zelda Begins as ‘Poltergeist’ actress dies at age 76
January 28th, 2010 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(CNN) – Zelda Rubinstein, the actress best known for her role as the psychic in the horror film “Poltergeist,” died in Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday, her agent said. She was 76.
Eric Stevens, Rubinstein’s agent for the past four years, said the 4-foot-3-inch actress had never recovered from a mild heart attack she suffered several months ago, which he said left her a patient at Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles.
“She had several pre-existing conditions that she had been dealing with for years, and unfortunately they began to overtake her,” Stevens said.
Rubinstein, who took up acting later in life after a career as a lab tech, also appeared on television in shows including “Picket Fences” and “Hey Arnold.”
But the diminutive actress first came to fame for her portrayal of Tangina Barrons, the diminutive clairvoyant in “Poltergeist,” where she urged a group of spirits to “Go into the light.” She later revisited the role in the movie’s sequels.
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R.I.P. – ‘Catcher in Rye’ Author J.D. Salinger
January 28th, 2010 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(Variety) – “Catcher in the Rye” author J.D. Salinger has died at age 91 in New Hampshire.
The author’s son, in a statement from the author’s literary representative, says Salinger died of natural causes at his home. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.
“The Catcher in the Rye” with its immortal teenage protagonist — the twisted, rebellious Holden Caulfield — came out in 1951 during the time of anxious, Cold War conformity.
Mr. Salinger wrote for adults, but teenagers all over the world identified with the novel’s themes of alienation, innocence and fantasy.
In later years, Salinger become famous for not wanting to be famous, refusing interviews.
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R.I.P. – Jazz Drummer Ed Thigpen Passes at age 79
January 26th, 2010 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(NYT) – Ed Thigpen, a drummer whose tasteful and understated style made him a favorite accompanist of some of the best-known performers in jazz, died on Jan. 13 in Copenhagen, where he had lived since 1972. He was 79.
His death was announced by his family. No cause was specified.
Mr. Thigpen was most famous for his tenure with the pianist Oscar Peterson’s trio, one of the most popular small groups in jazz, from 1959 to 1965. He was the first drummer to work with Peterson, whose trios up until then had consisted of piano, bass and guitar, and he earned raves for his supportive playing and especially for his deft use of brushes.
After leaving Peterson, he spent five years with Ella Fitzgerald. He then moved to Copenhagen, where he became an in-demand sideman for visiting and expatriate American jazz musicians.
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R.I.P. – Tommy Boy Rapper Apache Dies of Illness
January 24th, 2010 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(Ballerstatus) – Popular 90s rapper, Apache, died on Friday (January 22) from an undisclosed illness.
“I got a call from Shakim [Compere] this morning, Queen Latifah’s manager,” Vin from Naughty by Nature told MTV News. “He was really feeling it. He told me, and I spread the word to Kay and Treach and the rest of our camp.”
The New Jersey-bred rapper (real name: Anthony Teaks) was signed to Tommy Boy Records, where he enjoyed success in 1993 with his controversial hit Q-Tip-produced single, “Gangsta Bitch.” While it only hit no. 67 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, he became a smash in hip-hop circles and clubs.
His solo debut, Apache Ain’t Sh**, peaked at no. 66 on the Billboard 200 in 1993.
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R.I.P. – Jean Simmons (Too bad, we were hoping it was the other one)
January 23rd, 2010 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(UPI) – Jean Simmons, a two-time Oscar nominee who won an Emmy for the miniseries “The Thorn Birds,” died Friday in Santa Monica, Calif., her agent said. She was 80.
Simmons — who was still in her teens when she was nominated for a supporting actress Oscar for her turn as Ophelia in Laurence Olivier’s film adaptation of “Hamlet” — died at her home, her agent, Judy Page, said. Simmons had lung cancer, the Los Angeles Times reported
Simmons received a best actress Oscar nomination in 1969 for “The Happy Ending” and won a best actress Golden Globe Award in 1955 for “Guys and Dolls.” Her screen credits in a career of more than 60 years included “Elmer Gantry,” “Spartacus” and “Home Before Dark.”
Jean Merilyn Simmons was born Jan. 31, 1929, in London. She appeared in five British films before she was 15, the Times said. Her first major exposure came when she was cast in Sir David Lean’s film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations.”.
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R.I.P. – Canadian Folk Legend Kate McGarrigle Passes
January 19th, 2010 Filed under: Made In Canada, News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
(Vancouver Sun) – Montreal folksinger and songwriter Kate McGarrigle has died.
The folksinger, famous for her collaboration with her sister Anna, was 63 and had been battling clear-cell carcinoma. She died Monday at home in Montreal surrounded by family members, her brother-in-law Dane Lanken said.
The McGarrigle sisters sang in English and French and played piano, guitar, banjo, and button accordion. Montreal Gazette music critic T’cha Dunlevy said Kate McGarrigle had a huge impact on the Canadian music scene.
“In terms of folk music internationally, she was an icon,” Dunlevy said. He noted that the sisters were influential with both English and French audiences and regularly covered Quebecois artists’ songs.
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