RIP 2021

[Bovidae]

Gavin MacLeod, aka Captain Stubing on The Love Boat. He was 90.

[raznomore]

@bovidae I spent a good amount of time watching the love boat as a kid. Didn't realise he was still around. He was obviously in a lots of different things but I remember him Peter Sellers "the party". A horribly racist movie that's fantastically funny and still has the house I aspire to own one day.

[dogmeat]

For all you country music fans out there Grammy Hall of Famer BJ Thomas (Raindrops Keep Falling On My head - Hooked on a Feeling) Big in the 70's has died of lung cancer.

[JC]

Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove and many others, has died at 84. RIP

[MiketheSnow]

@jc said in RIP 2021:

Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove and many others, has died at 84. RIP

Legend

Mar 31, 2021  /  Books

Larry McMurtry obituary

American novelist who wrote Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove and the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain

[Crucial]

Northern Soul legend Dean Parrish aged 78. Also known (real name) as Phil Anastasia.
A native New Yorker, he was apparently unaware of his cult status in the UK with songs like this

Also worked as a session muso with Hendrix, Santana and Bob Marley in the early 70s.
Was recording still right up to last year for Acid Jazz

[MN5]

He’ll be squealing like a pig in heaven.

RIP

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57467111?fbclid=IwAR2APj4_SVGJO8XAjPhrmVIuMvLB7Nz7iD96nmtKdwWw1hRR1NJ50pOT0UI

[MiketheSnow]

@mn5 said in RIP 2021:

He’ll be squealing like a pig in heaven.

RIP

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57467111?fbclid=IwAR2APj4_SVGJO8XAjPhrmVIuMvLB7Nz7iD96nmtKdwWw1hRR1NJ50pOT0UI

Legend

[JC]

Fane Flaws has died. He was in Blerta, Spats and The Crocodiles as well as being a talented artist and a genuinely lovely bloke. RIP.

Edit: He also did this video for the Muttonbirds, which i just love.

[nostrildamus]

@jc sorry to reply to an older post but yes

AK03:As good as the bloody original - NZ Herald

I think it is also easy to forget how little comedy/political satire there was in those days..

[nostrildamus]

@mn5 said in RIP 2021:

@godder said in RIP 2021:

@siam said in RIP 2021:

John Clarke is/was the best you motherf....s!!

He was no Billy T...

Holy Shit no, he was a real one trick pony compared to BTJ

Clarke had a truly distinctive singing voice.

[MN5]

@nostrildamus said in RIP 2021:

@mn5 said in RIP 2021:

@godder said in RIP 2021:

@siam said in RIP 2021:

John Clarke is/was the best you motherf....s!!

He was no Billy T...

Holy Shit no, he was a real one trick pony compared to BTJ

Clarke had a truly distinctive singing voice.

I’ve forgotten who we were talking about sorry.

[nostrildamus]

@mn5 John Morrison Clarke//Fred Dagg..

[antipodean]

John McAfee

Jun 23, 2021  /  technology

John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison

The McAfee antivirus software creator, 75, was found dead in a prison cell in Barcelona hours after a court had authorised his extradition to the US.

[Nepia]

@antipodean said in RIP 2021:

John McAfee

Jun 23, 2021  /  technology

John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison

The McAfee antivirus software creator, 75, was found dead in a prison cell in Barcelona hours after a court had authorised his extradition to the US.

WTF!!! I had completely forgotten he was on the run.

[JC]

@antipodean Hmmm... I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

[Machpants]

Superman, Lethal Weapon, The Omen, etc Director Richard Donner

Jul 5, 2021  /  Film

Richard Donner, master of macho blockbusters with a human touch

Superman, Lethal Weapon, The Omen, Scrooged – the movie director’s CV tracked Hollywood’s most bankable genres from the 80s onwards

[Virgil]

@machpants

Loved The Goonies, golden era of going to the movies as a kid in the 80's (Return of the Jedi, Back to the Future, Gremlins and Goonies)
He did some good movies, The Omen as well. Thats a decent creepy horror.

[Bovidae]

It might be time for a rewatch of Lethal Weapon.

Ladyhawke has always been a guilty pleasure of mine.

[MN5]

Wow, I always thought Stephen Spielberg directed the Goonies.

Nevertheless that’s a pretty solid body of work, as @Virgil says it was an absolutely Golden era and he was a huge part of that.