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2013 Entertainment Industry Obituaries

LARadioRewind said:
Fonz, is your lloony llama reference supposed to teach me a llesson that I should lleave out all the obituaries of llitle-known personallities and just post obituaries of llongtime llegends? Okay, how about author Tom Clancy? Many of his books have topped the New York Times best-seller list and four were made into movies, including Patriot Games and The Hunt For Red October. Clancy died October 1 at age 66.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/tom-clancy-dead_n_4029876.html?flv=1
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Guess you don't recognize a parady when you see one, LA. The truth is, I was doing just the opposite. With all due respect to the deceased, most readers never heard of 90% of the people in the obits you post. Seems like your just posting the obit columns from the LA Times.
 
jfrancispastirchak said:
Re therapy, me too, only I must need even more since I'm on almost everyday. And it's working.
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Honestly, all youse guys! This started as a rundown of the year's obits and turned into a sniping match on rap; I'm surprised the admins didn't move it to TIO. (And my respect and sympathy to Melan8tor as well, please.)

Putting things in perspective, it seems it's every generation's duty to proclaim the next's music to be crap. Many people in the music publishing (sheet music was a much bigger factor then) and recording business despised the swing of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman. Nobody was a bigger joke than Sinatra was in the 40's. (Listen to the radio comedians and watch the animated cartoons of that era.)

Rock 'n' roll in general and Elvis in particular were of course the target of revulsion in the 50's. I just read a 1958 Billboard interview with a juke box operator whose barely concealed racism came through in his comments on hating "those Mau-Mau records the teenagers listen to."

There's a vinyl-oldies record shop in my home town; I've nicknamed it "Old Fart Day Care." All the 60-something ex-garage-rockers hang out there, and the talk is always how all modern music (modern defined as since they left high school) is $#!+, but everything "back then" was pure gold, and boyoboy, didn't we fuggin' rock back then, you betcha. That, Tea Party politics, and muscle cars are the only topics of conversation allowed.

Sure, there's schlock music now; there was "back then" too. (Fabian or Patty Duke, anybody?) But even though I'm about the same age as the vinyl-shop crowd, I've always believed that keeping your ears open keeps you young at heart.

And if you want to read some really outraged comments about "immoral" and "degenerate" music, go back a couple hundred years and see what people were saying about the WALTZ!
 
Austrian-born composer Johann Strauss II wrote more than 400 waltzes and other tunes, plus 17 operettas and a ballet. His most famous works are Blue Danube, Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Die Fledermaus and Tales From The Vienna Woods. Strauss died of pneumonia on June 3, 1889, at age 73.

There ya go! I aim to please. :)
 
LARadioRewind said:
Fonz, is your lloony llama reference supposed to teach me a llesson that I should lleave out all the obituaries of llitle-known personallities and just post obituaries of llongtime llegends? Okay, how about author Tom Clancy? Many of his books have topped the New York Times best-seller list and four were made into movies, including Patriot Games and The Hunt For Red October. Clancy died October 1 at age 66.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/tom-clancy-dead_n_4029876.html?flv=1
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You would be doing readers a service if you did some REAL research on behind-the-scenes people who are still alive, instead of plagiarizing newspaper obits.
 
"Summarizing" is not "plagiarizing." And why would I write about celebrities who are "still alive" on an Obituaries thread? In the past eleven years, I've written plenty about living celebrities in my daily Rewind columns for LARadio.com. Thank you and good night.
 
Cal Shofner is not a very good name for a country singer...so change it to Cal Smith and then people will confuse you with country singer Carl Smith. Brilliant!

Cal Smith, whose hits include Country Bumpkin, The Lord Knows I'm Drinking, It's Time To Pay The Fiddler and I've Found Someone Of My Own, died October 10 at age 81.

http://tasteofcountry.com/cal-smith-dead/
 
Bill Anderson wrote The Lord Knows I'm Drinking after being in a restaurant with his wife and being confronted by several self-righteous church members who were offended that he and his wife were drinking wine with their meal. His wife uttered the words that became the title. (This story is in Tom Roland's Billboard Book Of Number One Country Hits) The song became Cal Smith's first number-one hit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6voAw66Bxko
 
Character actor Ed Lauter appeared in more than 400 movies and tv shows. He had recurring roles on ER, Psych and Shameless, played a butler/chauffeur in The Artist, and played a baseball scout in Trouble With The Curve. Lauter died of mesothelioma October 16 at age 74. He had roles in three movies that have yet to be released. One of them is titled The Grave. Woooh, creepy!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/prolific-character-actor-ed-lauter-dies-649138
 
LARadioRewind said:
Character actor Ed Lauter appeared in more than 400 movies and tv shows. He had recurring roles on ER, Psych and Shameless, played a butler/chauffeur in The Artist, and played a baseball scout in Trouble With The Curve. Lauter died of mesothelioma October 16 at age 74. He had roles in three movies that have yet to be released. One of them is titled The Grave. Woooh, creepy!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/prolific-character-actor-ed-lauter-dies-649138
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After being impressed with his performance in the film "The Longest Yard", Alfred Hitchcock cast Lauter in Hitchcock's final film "Family Plot" (1976).
 
Noel Harrison. son of actor Rex Harrison, was a champion skier, co-starred on The Girl From U.N.C.L.E., won an Academy Award for best song for The Windmills Of Your Mind (from The Thomas Crown Affair), and had a 1965 hit with A Young Girl ("lying there by the road..........dead." Noel died of a heart attack October 19 at age 79. I could make a pun about "the last Noel" but it would be in poor taste.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-britain-noelharrison-20131022,0,5309755.story
 
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