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#8151 Post by otis » Mon Mar 16, 2020 1:51 pm


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#8152 Post by hearthesilence » Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:13 pm

Vittorio Gregotti, renowned Italian architect, dies of coronavirus at 92. He helped re-design the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys for the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, and created the Marassi stadium for the 1990 Football World Cup.

Italian medical chief Roberto Stella dies of coronavirus at 67. He was the president of the Medical Guild of Varese.

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#8153 Post by mfunk9786 » Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:50 pm

Sobering post, hearthesilence.

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#8154 Post by Feego » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:57 pm

Lyle Waggoner, star of "The Carol Burnett Show" (and the first Playgirl centerfold).

Stuart Whitman

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#8155 Post by GaryC » Thu Mar 19, 2020 10:52 pm

Saskia Post. aged 59, best known for her lead role in Dogs in Space.

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#8156 Post by CSM126 » Sat Mar 21, 2020 3:02 am


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#8157 Post by artfilmfan » Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:37 pm

Very sad news. I have always enjoyed listening to many of his songs (Lady, Through the Years, You Decorated My Life, We’ve Got Tonight, Islands in the Stream, Don’t Fall in Love with a Dreamer). RIP, Kenny Rogers.

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#8158 Post by therewillbeblus » Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:52 pm

Well that’s surreal... literally seconds after I saw this, the next episode of Ed came on opening with a ten dollar bet to ask a Kenny Rogers lookalike for his autograph. It’s not like the medium is bursting with references to the guy (or maybe I’ve been blind to them all along)

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#8159 Post by ianungstad » Sat Mar 21, 2020 3:21 pm

Sad news. Coward of the County was probably my favorite of his songs. :(

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#8160 Post by fiddlesticks » Sat Mar 21, 2020 5:22 pm

therewillbeblus wrote:
Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:52 pm
It’s not like the medium is bursting with references to the guy (or maybe I’ve been blind to them all along)
I dunno, the man makes a pretty strong bird.

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#8161 Post by kcota17 » Sat Mar 21, 2020 5:35 pm

therewillbeblus wrote:
Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:52 pm
Well that’s surreal... literally seconds after I saw this, the next episode of Ed came on opening with a ten dollar bet to ask a Kenny Rogers lookalike for his autograph. It’s not like the medium is bursting with references to the guy (or maybe I’ve been blind to them all along)
This also comes the day after I watch Richard Jewell. Where the characters attend a Kenny Rogers concert.

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#8163 Post by MichaelB » Tue Mar 24, 2020 5:42 am

Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo.

Interestingly, the article stresses upfront that it wasn't anything to do with Covid-19, although I daresay that's now going to be our immediate suspicion whenever anyone elderly dies (Uderzo was 92).

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#8164 Post by hearthesilence » Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:49 am

Indeed. It's now reported that African saxophonist Manu Dibango has died from COVID-19.

The 86-year-old was best known for fusing jazz and funk music with traditional sounds from his home country, Cameroon. His biggest success was probably his 1972 hit "Soul Makossa" - originally quoted uncredited in Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," Dibango responded with a lawsuit and won.

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#8165 Post by hearthesilence » Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:45 pm

Cultural historian, curator, and art critic Maurice Berger at 63 from COVID-19

Jerry Saltz: "The art world has lost one of its most passionate activist writer-historian-humanitarian lover-of-life and wild minds."

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#8166 Post by Ribs » Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:40 pm


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#8168 Post by dwk » Wed Mar 25, 2020 2:58 am


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#8169 Post by colinr0380 » Wed Mar 25, 2020 6:55 am

dwk wrote:
Wed Mar 25, 2020 2:58 am
Stuart Gordon
That's awful. A lot of focus will be on the notorious Lovecraft riffs of Re-Animator and the eye-popping From Beyond (the fearless Barbara Crampton headlining both! I might be in the minority that thinks that she steals the show from Jeffrey Combs!), but I also really want to put in a word for his excellent sci-fi prison film starring Christopher Lambert Fortress from 1992 (which really came to mind when watching the disappointing Brawl In Cell Block 99 recently). It has a great Kurtwood Smith bad guy role after his Paul Verhoeven ones, and of course Jeffrey Combs has to be in the supporting cast as well! And the 'intestinator' explosive device that all the prisoners get implanted with is this film's equivalent of the Running Man or Wedlock-style explosive collar, just much more internalised! (The film could also be argued to be kind of the male-focused version of The Handmaid's Tale!)

And his mid 2000s more 'grounded' films Edmond from 2005 starring William H. Macy and based on a story by David Mamet, and the 'based on a (horrific) true story torn from the tabloids' Stuck from 2007 (both of which star Mena Suvari) are absolutely fantastic.

Oh, and he also wrote the story of Honey, I Shrunk The Kids!

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#8170 Post by hearthesilence » Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:12 am

He's collaborated with so many bands, like R.E.M. post-Bill Berry and Nine Inch Nails, but his best work may be on Ministry's most enduring albums.

Also Jenny Polanco, acclaimed Dominican fashion designer, from COVID-19.

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#8171 Post by knives » Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:30 am

dwk wrote:
Wed Mar 25, 2020 2:58 am
Stuart Gordon
That got an audible no from me. I really loved where his career was going recently with King of the Ants and Stuck showing an evolution in his style suggesting late Cronenberg type possibilities if he could just get a job off the ground. Even Edmund, easily his worst films and one of the worst I've seen, suggests so many possibilities of where he could have gone. That last kiss almost redeems the film.

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#8172 Post by hearthesilence » Wed Mar 25, 2020 2:45 pm


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#8173 Post by ando » Thu Mar 26, 2020 12:39 am

Ribs wrote:
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Terrence McNally
The PBS American Masters episode on McNally is streaming on local affiliates until April 1.
Channel 13 streamer.

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#8174 Post by Close The Door, Raymond » Thu Mar 26, 2020 1:49 am

Italian actress Lucia Bosè was 89

Some reports state it was COVID-19 related.

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#8175 Post by swo17 » Thu Mar 26, 2020 1:52 am

Close The Door, Raymond wrote:
Thu Mar 26, 2020 1:49 am
Italian actress Lucia Bosè was 89

Some reports state it was COVID-19 related.
It was, and she has her own thread

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