BREAKING: Sometimes Famous People Die

[BrotherMan]

I've been watching Dick VanDyke Show on Netflix. Usually right before I trudge off to work. She is an absolute gem on that show. I may have to pary that some streaming service picks up the Mary Tyler Moore Show because I'm p sure that's a good one to binge through as well. She was definitely a great bright spot in working my way through That 70s Show.

[Angakuk]

I loved the Dick Van Dyke show. What I mean is that there were no twin beds in my adolescent fantasies about Laura Petrie.

[The Man]

John Hurt dead: Elephant Man, Alien and Harry Potter actor dies aged 77 - Mirror Online

Oh no

He may be most famous for Alien and Harry Potter these days, but I'll probably remember him most fondly as the War Doctor. And of course, he was the perfect Winston Smith. And then there was his hilarious cameo in Spaceballs. And I could probably list a dozen more roles. A tremendous loss.

[mickthinks]

The first rôle I saw him in was Caligula in Auntie Beeb's epic I Claudius

"I, Claudius": Caligula (John Hurt) wonders if he's going mad - YouTube

He set the standard for a portrayal of an insane despot that I fear only Trump will surpass.

[JoeP]

[Stormlight]

Namco founder and “Father of Pac-Man� has died | Ars Technica

..

[erimir]

Oh, not the creator of Pac-Man.

A lot of the creators of the 80s greats of video games are getting up there in age now. It seems a lot of them were quite young at the time though (Shigeru Miyamoto was 29 when he created Donkey Kong, for example).

[JoeP]

Topical...

[Stephen Maturin]

2017 is gearing up to be another rough one for old geezer musicians I've revered over the decades.

RIP John Wetton

[Sock Puppet]

FUCK.

[The Man]

Starless

(there needs to be a "sad lighter" smilie)

We lost two KC lead singers/bassists in less than two months

[Stephen Maturin]

I would dearly love to see the current incarnation of King Crimson. It's Fripp, Tony Levin and Mel Collins with Jakko Jakszyk on vocals and three () drummers/percussionists. They toured the hell out of Europe during the last three months of 2016, and they're coming to the U.S. early this summer. I hope like hell they come here.

[Stephen Maturin]

I wish the sound quality were better, but here's Wetton and the late, great Chris Squire performing with Steve Hackett's band a couple of years back.

Hackett, Squire, Wetton - All Along the...

[Kyuss Apollo]

If I had a dollar for every time MTV played "Heat Of The Moment" in the summer of 1982...

RIP John Wetton (and Greg Lake, the other recently deceased Crimson alum who also sang "Heat Of The Moment" for the "Asia in Asia" concert after Wetton was unceremoniously shit-canned via telephone)

Also hoping for KC to swing through my neck of the woods in 2017; thanks for the tip, Mssr. Maturin.

[Stormlight]

Richard Hatch, Battlestar Galactica's original Apollo, dies at 71 | Television & radio | The Guardian

[ceptimus]

Hans Rosling: Data visionary and educator dies aged 68 - BBC News

The Swedish professor was famous for presenting his animated graphs and charts on TV. The graphs typically used coloured balls or other shapes that changed size/shape/colour as Hans narrated - so allowing data with three or more dimensions to be presented and explained in an intuitively simple and entertaining way.

Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4...

[The Lone Ranger]

Originally Posted by Stormlight

Richard Hatch, Battlestar Galactica's original Apollo, dies at 71 | Television & radio | The Guardian

Dang! I met him a few years ago, and he struck me as a very nice and very thoughtful person. He loved talking about the books he had written, and he seemed to be genuinely passionate about Battlestar Galactica and the positive vision of the Original Series. He was positively gushing when he talked about the Original Series' message of persevering against incredible odds and never giving up on either hope or basic decency.

He politely declined to give any real comments about the Reboot, other than to say how much he'd enjoyed doing it, and how much he'd enjoyed meeting the people associated with it.

[Stormlight]

Al Jarreau, Grammy-winning jazz, pop and R&B singer, dies at 76 | Music | The Guardian

The Wisconsin native won seven Grammys over a 50-year career and was one of few artists to have won Grammys in three categories – jazz, pop and R&B.

Considered one of jazz’s greatest vocalists, with a mastery of scat singing and vocal percussion, his biggest single was the untypically smooth and breezy We’re in This Love Together, from the 1981 album Breakin’ Away.

He was also a vocalist on the all-star 1985 charity track We Are the World and sang the theme to the TV hit Moonlighting, for which he wrote the lyrics.

In a 1976 interview with the UK music paper Sounds – in which writer Vivien Goldman called him “a cataclysmic hunk o’ funk” – Jarreau discussed his unique style, which he said came from a thorough grounding in jazz.

[Watser?]

Dutch illustrator and graphic designer Dick Bruna, famous for Nijntje/Miffy dies age 89.

[The Man]

Ken Arrow, Nobel laureate in economics, has died at age 95. He justly remains enormously influential in the field of economics; most pertinent to modern American politics is his definitive explanation for why markets do not work for health care.

Also dead this week is Ted Lowi, one of the giants of political science. His book The End of Liberalism examined how government responds to organised interests, and recommends what he described as juridical democracy to fix the perceived flaws of the state's capture by interest groups. Meanwhile, his textbook American Government has been a standard since it was published over forty years ago.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by The Man

Ken Arrow, Nobel laureate in economics, has died at age 95. He justly remains enormously influential in the field of economics; most pertinent to modern American politics is his definitive explanation for why markets do not work for health care.

Also dead this week is Ted Lowi, one of the giants of political science. His book The End of Liberalism examined how government responds to organised interests, and recommends what he described as juridical democracy to fix the perceived flaws of the state's capture by interest groups. Meanwhile, his textbook American Government has been a standard since it was published over forty years ago.

Too apropos to not pass this one around.

[Stephen Maturin]

Norma McCorvey, who was Jane Roe in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) and later became an avid pro-lifer, died on 2/18.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin

Norma McCorvey, who was Jane Roe in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) and later became an avid pro-lifer, died on 2/18.

What a weird plot twist.

[Ensign Steve]

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Mildred Dresselhaus, 'Queen Of Carbon' And Nanoscience Trailblazer, Dies At 86 : The Two-Way : NPR