A couple of years ago, I posted an obit for Samuel Charters here. Charters was a great ethnomusicologist who wrote about many folk styles around the world, but whose greatest love was pre-war acoustic blues. He was the first to write about it to any great degree; but the second, and arguably the greatest living writer about the blues, Paul Oliver, died on Tuesday the 15th; I just heard about it last night. The NY Times has a nice obit.
Tobe Hooper, Director of 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' & 'Poltergeist', Dies At 74 - Variety http://variety.com/2017/film/news/t...assacre-poltergeist-director-dies-1202539868/ Tobe Hooper, the horror director best known for helming The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist, died Saturday in Sherman Oaks, Calif., according to the Los Angeles County Coroner. He was 74. The circumstances of his death were not known The 1974 Texas Chain Saw Massacre became one of the most influential horror films of all time for its realistic approach and deranged vision. Shot for less than $300,000, it tells the story of a group of unfortunate friends who encounter a group of cannibals on their way to visit an old homestead. Though it was banned in several countries for violence, it was one of the most profitable independent films of the 1970s in the U.S. The character of Leatherface was loosely based on serial killer Ed Gein. Hooper also directed the 1986 sequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, which took a more comedic approach. The 1982 Poltergeist, written and produced by Steven Spielberg, also became a classic of the genre. The story of a family coping with a house haunted by unruly ghosts starred JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson. The film was a box office success for MGM and became the eighth-highest grossing film of the year. After Poltergeist, Hooper directed two movies for Cannon Films, Lifeforce and Invaders from Mars, a remake of the 1953 alien movie. His 1979 CBS miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling novel Salem’s Lot is considered by many fans to be a high-water mark in televisual horror. Combining the intrigue of a nighttime soap opera with the gothic atmosphere of a classic horror film, the two-part program was eventually reedited and released theatrically throughout Europe. He continued working in television and film throughout the 1990s and 2000s, but none of the films had the impact of his early works. His last film, the 2013 Djinn, was set in the United Arab Emirates and produced by Image Nation. His other more recent works included Toolbox Murders, Mortuary and two episodes of Showtime's Masters of Horror. He also directed episodes of Amazing Stories, The Equalizer, Freddy's Nightmares, Tales From the Crypt, and Night Visions. William Tobe Hooper was born January 25, 1943 in Austin, Texas.
It really was. IIRC, 'Nova shot like 79% that night, missed one shot from the field in the second half and won by two.
We used to talk about the Jud Thud: his penchant for reacting to something dumb his players had done by smacking his forehead with the palm of his hand. At games, we'd yell "give it a thud, Jud!" I'm disappointed that I can't find a YouTube video of a bunch of Jud Thuds edited together. Ray Meyer and Al McGuire are gone. Still around, but probably not for that much longer since they're over 80: Denny Crum, Gene Keady, Jerry Tarkanian, John Chaney, Joe B. Hall. No point in listing Bobby Knight when he gets to 80 since he's undead.
Tark's dead, definitely. I doubt we'll hear anything more from Bob Knight; that time he had to be awakened on a national telecast suggested he was going south pretty quick.
Richard Anderson, Actor on 'Six Million Dollar Man', Dead At 91 - Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/richard-anderson-dead-six-million-855240 Richard Anderson, who portrayed Oscar Goldman, the head of a secret scientific government organization, on the 1970s series The Six Million Dollar Man and its spinoff, The Bionic Woman, died Thursday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 91. Anderson, who was mentored by Cary Grant, received a huge career boost when he was cast in Stanley Kubrick’s anti-war classic Paths of Glory (1957). A frequent authority figure onscreen, Anderson also portrayed a colonel in another notable war film, the Rod Serling-scripted Seven Days in May (1964), and he operated on Rock Hudson, the second time much to Hudson’s dismay, in another John Frankenheimer film, the sci-fi thriller Seconds (1966). As an MGM contract player who started out in the mailroom, Anderson appeared early in his career in such films for the studio as The Magnificent Yankee (1950), Scaramouche (1952), Escape From Fort Bravo (1953) and Forbidden Planet (1956). He then moved to Fox and played Joanne Woodward’s mama’s-boy boyfriend in The Long, Hot Summer (1958). In the highly rated, two-part episode that brought a thrilling end to the 1960s ABC series The Fugitive, Anderson portrayed the brother-in-law of Richard Kimble (David Janssen). He also was Police Lt. Steve Drumm on the final season of CBS’ Perry Mason and Santa Luisa Police Chief George Untermeyer on ABC’s Dan August, starring Burt Reynolds. After three popular Six Million Dollar Man telefilms in 1973, the Universal TV property was given steady life as an ABC series in January 1974. On the show, Anderson played the chief of the fictional Office of Scientific Intelligence and the boss of Steve Austin (Lee Majors), a NASA astronaut who is injured in a crash and “rebuilt” (at a cost of about $29 million in today’s dollars), becoming a secret agent. The series then spawned The Bionic Woman — starring Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers, a tennis player who’s infused with machinery and brought back to life after a parachuting accident, and Anderson played Goldman on that show (which went from ABC to NBC) as well. He was the first actor to portray the same character on two TV series running concurrently on two networks. Both shows ended in 1978, but Universal, prodded by Anderson, made three more bionic telefilms through 1994. The career-long supporting player was once a leading man — portraying a doctor in Curse of the Faceless Man, a forgettable 1958 film that took six whole days to make. “It was a low-budget remake of The Mummy two decades earlier, featuring a stone monster rather than one wrapped in bandages,” Anderson recalled in a 2015 interview. “The only movie poster I have hanging in my home is from that film.”
The guy in the front with the floppy brown hair went to my HS and graduated with my older sis. Believe he was a freshman statistician that year. Must've been a fun ride.
Another progrocker down. https://pitchfork.com/news/steely-dans-walter-becker-dead-at-67/?mbid=social_twitter Cant listen to 'Aja'. Too many feels
The best way to describe Walter Becker is simply as a musician and artist...a tremendous one. Steely Dan without a doubt will always hold a place in the soundtrack of my life for all the memories they were a part of.
Larry Elgart, Who Kept Swing Up To Date, Dies At 95 - N.Y. Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/arts/music/larry-elgart-who-kept-swing-up-to-date-dies-at-95.html Larry Elgart, a bandleader who, with his brother, Les, recorded the theme song for the long-running television dance show American Bandstand, and who later scored a surprise hit with Hooked on Swing, a medley of swing classics set to a disco beat, died on Tuesday in Sarasota Fla. He was 95. After playing alto saxophone with Woody Herman, Tommy Dorsey and other bands, Mr. Elgart teamed up with Les, his older brother, to record a series of successful albums for Columbia that brought swing music into the 1950s and beyond. Taking advantage of advances in recording technology, he developed a distinctive “Elgart sound,” which emphasized tight choreography between the silky-smooth saxophone section and the rich, brilliant horns, to which he added two bass trombones. He lightened up the rhythm section, replacing piano with guitar, and cut back on improvised solos. In 1954, while touring the country to promote their records, the brothers met Bob Horn, the host of Bandstand, a teenage dance show in Philadelphia. Les Elgart proposed that the brothers record a theme song. Bandstand Boogie was the result. Two years later, Dick Clark took over as host of the renamed American Bandstand, and ABC picked up the show for national broadcast. Bandstand Boogie became an anthem for generations of teenagers. In 1982, Mr. Elgart rode the disco wave with Hooked on Swing. Heading an ensemble called the Manhattan Swing Orchestra, he blended Cherokee, Sing Sing Sing, A String of Pearls and other big-band standards into a tasty disco stew that cracked the Top 40.
Walter Becker, the guitar-playing half of 1970's jazz-rock group Steely Dan, passed away on Sunday. http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/03/entertainment/walter-becker-obituary/index.html I remember so many of their songs growing up. A true talent. He will be missed.
http://variety.com/2017/music/news/...elicopter-crash-montgomery-gentry-1202552325/ Troy Gentry dies in a helicopter crash. 50.
Am I the only one who thinks that most of the country music nowadays is not the same as before. RIP Sir Don Williams his song will live on.