blessingx Posted February 9, 2015 Report Posted February 9, 2015 Another piece on Joe - Music: Debuts in Review; Joseph Grado, Tenor, In All-Italian Programhttp://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/03/arts/music-debuts-in-review-joseph-grado-tenor-in-all-italian-program.html
ironbut Posted February 12, 2015 Report Posted February 12, 2015 Rip Bob Simon. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-correspondent-bob-simon-1941-2015/
CarlSeibert Posted February 13, 2015 Report Posted February 13, 2015 David Carr died. He was the New York Times media critic made famous by his investigation of my former employer, which was featured in the movie 'Page One'. As reported by Lefsitz: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2015/02/13/david-carr/
TMoney Posted February 13, 2015 Report Posted February 13, 2015 (edited) ^ Â Boy, the David Carr thing makes me sad. Â He was one of my favorite writers over at the NYT. He was intelligent, honest, and frank, and he had a lot more left to give. Â RIP Edited February 13, 2015 by TMoney
Voltron Posted February 13, 2015 Report Posted February 13, 2015 RIP SIMON and RIP CARR. Journalism is taking a hit this week. Carr apparently just keeled over at work.
blessingx Posted February 14, 2015 Report Posted February 14, 2015 Great Carr extract: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/magazine/20Carr-t.html?pagewanted=all
guzziguy Posted February 17, 2015 Report Posted February 17, 2015 Tough weekend. Louis Jourdan on Saturday and Lesley Gore today.  RIP both of you, two more great entertainers lost.
Voltron Posted February 24, 2015 Report Posted February 24, 2015 RIP Clark Terry. Â Another amazing life in jazz comes to an end. Â http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/arts/music/clark-terry-influential-jazz-trumpeter-dies-at-94.html?_r=0
skullguise Posted February 24, 2015 Report Posted February 24, 2015 Wow....RIP to a true great one. Â First time I heard a flugelhorn was him playing....
Wmcmanus Posted February 27, 2015 Author Report Posted February 27, 2015 RIP Earl Lloyd, who died today at age 86. Â He was the NBA's Jackie Robinson. Â He broke the color barrier in 1950 and like Jackie was always a gentleman and remained a true ambassador of his sport throughout his life.http://www.nba.com/sixers/community/earl_lloyd_050208.html Â
blessingx Posted February 27, 2015 Report Posted February 27, 2015 Yutaka Katayama, Father of the Datsun/Nissan ‘Z,’ Dies at 105http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/business/yutaka-katayama-father-of-the-datsun-z-dies-at-105.html?mwrsm=Email "Perhaps the greatest boost Mr. Katayama gave the 240Z was its very name, which Nissan had intended only as a working model number. In the late 1960s, when the car was first introduced in Japan, a Nissan executive, enamored of a certain Lerner and Loewe musical, named it the Fairlady Z. When the first shipment of Fairlady Zs arrived in the United States, Mr. Katayama, judging the sobriquet horrifyingly effete for the American market, stripped the nameplate off each car with his own hands."
skullguise Posted February 27, 2015 Report Posted February 27, 2015 Didn't know much about Earl Lloyd, and knew basically nothing about Katayama-san, but what interesting stories!! Â RIP to people who made their marks on history.....
Knuckledragger Posted February 27, 2015 Report Posted February 27, 2015 Â Spaceship Earth is now down one science officer. Â I was never even close to being a trekkie, and I'm greatly saddened by this. Â Â
mikeymad Posted February 27, 2015 Report Posted February 27, 2015 Live long and Prosper - have some movie and TV to watching to do this weekend... RIP....Â
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