DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[belfastboy]

He was one I loved to hate.

I was always a Giant fan and HAD to hate the Dodgers. ......except for the Duke and maybe PeeWee & Tommy.

 

[Zombie_61]

This just in: Tanya Roberts is still dead. That is all.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

British film director, writer & producer, Michael Apted has died aged 79. His name might not ring any bells but you've probably heard of a few of his movies; ' Gorky Park' (1983) ....'Gorillas in The Mist' (1988).....'Thunderheart' (1992)....'The World is Not Enough' (1999)

 

[Lean'n'mean]

British writer, journalist & columnist, Katharine Whitehorn has died aged 93. She was suffering from Alzheimer's in the last years of her life.

 

[Frunobulax]

This just in: Tanya Roberts is still dead. That is all.

Our top story tonight....

 

[Doctor Strange]

British film director, writer & producer, Michael Apted has died aged 79. His name might not ring any bells but you've probably heard of a few of his movies; ' Gorky Park' (1983) ....'Gorillas in The Mist' (1988).....'Thunderheart' (1992)....'The World is Not Enough' (1999)

Don't forget he also directed the fantastic Up documentary series!

Up (film series) - Wikipedia

Michael Apted - Wikipedia

 

[MisterCairo]

Another sad loss indeed. My mum and sister went to see Coal Miner's Daughter in one Cineplex screen while I watched something else so awesome I cannot remember what it was. This was when the whole multiplex thing was new. The Eaton's Centre in Toronto had 21 screens, some I recall being little bigger than my current TV.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/michael-apted-obit-1.5866818

 

[belfastboy]

British film director, writer & producer, Michael Apted has died aged 79. His name might not ring any bells but you've probably heard of a few of his movies; ' Gorky Park' (1983) ....'Gorillas in The Mist' (1988).....'Thunderheart' (1992)....'The World is Not Enough' (1999)

He was also the guy that filmed the '7 Up' series of docs....

 

[Doctor Strange]

Hey, I already said that.

Eugene Wright, bassist for the classic 1958-1967 Dave Brubeck Quartet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/arts/music/eugene-wright-dead.html

 

[Trenchfriend]

R.I.P., Hubert Auriol.

 

[belfastboy]

Hey, I already said that.

Eugene Wright, bassist for the classic 1958-1967 Dave Brubeck Quartet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/arts/music/eugene-wright-dead.html

missed that!

 

[OldStrummer]

Dang. Another one.

David Darling (March 4, 1941 – January 8, 2021) was an American cellist and composer. In 2010, he won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. He has performed and recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Paul Winter Consort, Ralph Towner and Spyro Gyra and released many solo albums. Among these were 15 recordings for ECM.

More info about him on his web site: https://www.daviddarling.com/

David Darling re-introduced me (or maybe even introduced me) to the music of the cello. I have several of his CDs, and they are evocative, emotional and original. Eight String Religion is a remarkable recording. Curl up with something or somebody nice and put this on. Lovely!

 

[RAH]

James Leavelle, the detective who was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald as he was shot dead by Jack Ruby has died at the age of 99. Leavelle died Thursday at a hospital in Denver. The former Dallas homicide detective was handcuffed to Oswald as he was led through a police station basement on Nov. 24, 1963, two days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Ruby, a nightclub owner, stepped out of the crowd and fired a fatal shot at Oswald. The moment was captured in one of the most famous photographs of all time which showed Leavelle in his white stetson reacting with shock.

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In the last month, I have unwittingly purchased two of the hats featured prominently in Bob Jackson's infamous image here, a vintage Stetson Open Road Twenty like the detective is wearing, and a gray Cavanagh with a black band like Jack Ruby wears. A fellow newspaper photographer worked with Jackson after he left Dallas and went on to Colorado. My friend tells the story that Jackson was allowed to keep the copyright to this image. He was a staffer at the Dallas Times Herald at the time and won the 1964 Pulitzer prize for the image. Staff photogs being allowed to keep the copyright to their work is unheard of nowadays. There were other photographers on the scene that day but Jackson captured the 'decisive moment.' A fantastic image for a horrific time.

 

[MisterCairo]

Canadian rowing powerhouse Kathleen Heddle, who along with partner Marnie McBean won three gold medals in the summer Olympics, has died, aged only 55.

The two were part of a Canadian women's rowing squad that dominated in the 90s. Huddle and McBean are the only Canadians to win three Olympic summer golds.

https://twitter.com/rowingcanada/status/1349448626368483328?s=20

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/rowing/olympics-kathleen-heddle-dead-at-55-1.5871976

 

[MisterCairo]

 

[MisterCairo]

Siegfried of Siegfried and Roy fame has died from cancer, aged 82. Roy died last year at 75.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/siegfried-fischbacher-dies-1.5872823

 

[MisterCairo]

Phil "wall of sound" Spector, record producer and convicted murderer, has died. I cannot recommend Let It Be Naked more highly.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...81-Jailed-Wall-Sound-producer-dies-COVID.html

 

[OldStrummer]

Phil "wall of sound" Spector, record producer and convicted murderer, has died. I cannot recommend Let It Be Naked more highly.

It's an odd obituary: Phil Spector, Convicted Murderer And Pioneering Pop Producer, Has Died

 

[MisterCairo]

A man at the centre of one of Canada's darkest moments, former British diplomat James Cross, has died, aged 99.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/james-cross-october-crisis-obituary-flq-1.5879766

A Quebec separatist movement, the FLQ (Front de la Liberation du Quebec), moved from politics to terrorism in 1970. During the "October Crisis", James Cross was kidnapped from his home, allowed to dress and kiss his wife good bye, then taken hostage, with demands being met, failing which he would be killed.

Later, Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte was also kidnapped. The two hostages never met while in captivity. PM Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, and the Canadian Army deployed to the streets of Montreal. Eventually the place of captivity was located, but Pierre Laporte was found murdered.

Cross was released on condition the terrorists were allowed passage to Cuba. Amazingly this was agreed to and he was released.

Best passage from the story:

"Throughout the ordeal, however, Cross displayed a sense of calm that often impressed his kidnappers, and may have ensured his survival.

"Cross was calmer than us," Jacques Lanctôt, who headed the FLQ cell that kidnapped him, told a CBC podcast last year.

Cross acknowledged afterward he had tried to remain friendly with his captors, joking with them and inquiring about their political beliefs. But that, he recalled, was merely a survival tactic.

"I hated the lot of them and would have cheerfully killed them if the opportunity arose," the diplomat said in an 1995 account of the kidnapping that is part of an oral history project at Cambridge University."

 

[Frunobulax]

Hall of Famer Don Sutton (1945 - 2021).

https://www.mlb.com/news/don-sutton-dies-at-75