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Early in his career, Bochco wrote episodes of Ironside, Columbo, McMillan & Wife and The White Shadow. He died today after battling leukemia for several years. Here is a classic passage from Hill Street Blues: "When the man understandably objects to being arrested, Earps here hits him with a board!" "We had to, boss. We couldn't get his attention."
Steven Bochco, creative force Behind Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue and Doogie Howser, M.D., dies at 74
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...creator-741199
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In 1957 she turned down a recording contract with Warner Bros. because the studio wanted total control over what she recorded and where she performed. Hah! Take that, Warner Bros.!
Singer-pianist Audrey Morris, an icon of Chicago cabaret and jazz, dies at 89
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...402-story.html
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Outside of Seattle, she was perhaps best known for her small role as a librarian (with a spiky mullet hairdo!) in the 1987 movie Harry & The Hendersons.
Tough, funny Seattle comedian Peggy Platt dies at 58
https://www.seattletimes.com/enterta.../tktkbk-platt/
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Dunbar wrote the 1970s hits Patches, Band Of Gold, Mind Body & Soul and Give Me Just A Little More Time. Brrrrrttttt!
Songwriter-producer Ron Dunbar dies at 77
www.soultracks.com/story-ron-dunbar-dies
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He released 75 albums between 1956 and 2009. Wow!
Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist and icon of the avant-garde, dies at 89
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecor...rde-dies-at-89
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She also starred in off-Broadway productions of Hair and A View From The Bridge..
Susan Anspach, 1970s actress known for Five Easy Pieces, Blume In Love and Play It Again, Sam, dies at 75
https://www.aol.com/article/entertai...t-75/23404894/
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McCann appeared in several movies and tv shows, was an Oliver Hardy impersonator and voiced General Mills' Sonny the Cuckoo Bird: "I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!"
Chuck McCann, legendary comic, voice actor and WPIX children's show host, dead at 83
http://www.pix11.com/2018/04/08/chuc...at-83-friends/
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Roebuck "Pops" Staples formed the Staple Singers in 1948 in Chicago with his children Cleotha, Pervis and Mavis. They began performing at Mount Zion Church, where Roebuck's brother was pastor. The Staple Singers started recording in 1952 and had 10 top-ten r&b hits in the 1970s. They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1999 and the Gospel Music Hall Of Fame in 2018. Daughter Yvonne, who joined the group in 1954, died this morning in her Chicago home.
Yvonne Staples of the Staple Singers dead at 80
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/yv...rs-dies-at-80/
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Davis played tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet and flute and released 16 albums between 1965 and 2006. He worked alongside Ray Charles, Art Blakey, Kenny Clarke and many other artists.
Pittsburgh jazz musician Nathan Davis dies at 81
http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music...s/201804100098
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The nation's tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists and UFOlogists are going to be upset by this news.
Radio host Art Bell dies at 72
Las Vegas Review-Journal, Apr 13 2018 10:14 PM
Longtime radio host Art Bell died Friday at his Pahrump, Nevada home. He was 72. Bell’s paranormal-themed show Coast To Coast AM was syndicated on about 500 North American stations in the 1990s before he left the nightly show in 2002. He broadcast the show from Pahrump’s KNYE 95.1 FM, a station he founded. Bell retired several times in his career, which included a short-lived show on SiriusXM satellite radio in 2013.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/...ll-dies-at-72/
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Actor/director/screenwriter Miloš Forman won Academy Awards for directing Amadeus and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. "Get out of my way, son, you're usin' my oxygen."
Miloš Forman, Oscar-winning director, dies at 86
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/14/enter...bit/index.html
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Ermey spent 11 years in the Marine Corps before becoming a movie/tv actor. "From now on you're Private Snowball. Do you like that name?" "Sir, yes sir!" Ermey was also the voice of the Sergeant of the green army men in the Toy Story films.
R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket gunnery sergeant, dies at 74
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituar...415-story.html
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On a 1988 episode of Night Court, bailiff Bull Shannon (played by Richard Moll) made this observation: "Death is just nature's way of telling you, "Hey, you're not alive anymore." Well.......
Harry Anderson, star of Night Court and Dave's World, dies at 65
http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/harr...65-1202754949/
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The Wait Wait Don't Tell Me program has never had a big budget. From 1998 to 2014, when listeners won contests, the "prize" was an answering machine message custom-recorded by Carl Kassel.
Carl Kassel, NPR newscaster and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me announcer, dies at 84
News & Observer, Apr 17 2018 04:15 PM
Carl Kasell, longtime newscaster, University of North Carolina alumnus and co-founder of radio station WUNC, died today from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He was 84. Kasell was the voice of NPR news for 30 years, beginning in 1975 part-time before becoming the network's full-time morning newscaster in 1977, followed by the Peabody Award-winning Morning Edition program in 1979. He joined Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! as judge and official scorekeeper in 1998 and retired in 2014.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/loc...209144054.html
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Randy was one of three sons born to banjo legend Earl Scruggs and wife Louise. He began performing professionally at age 13.
Randy Scruggs, Grammy-winning guitarist, songwriter and producer, dead at 64
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...-64/529111002/
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Colman, a British guitarist/producer/broadcaster, owned a recording studio in London and lived in Nashville from 1995 to 2014. He produced records for Cliff Richard, Phil Everly, Faith Hill, Kim Wilde, the Crickets, the Osmonds and many others. Colman was a member of the studio group Flying Machine, who had a #5 hit in late 1969 with Smile A Little Smile For Me.
Harrogate music legend Stuart Colman dies at 73
https://www.harrogateadvertiser.co.u...gate-1-9125378
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Colman
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Tim "Avicii" Bergland drank a lot and today he died at 28. Let this be a lesson.
Avicii, Swedish DJ, musician and Electronic Dance Music pioneer, dies at 28
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...was-28-1104501
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Mickey Rooney was 5-foot-2 and Billy Barty was 3-foot-9. They were giants compared to 2-foot-8 Verne Troyer. "Oh, behave!"
Verne Troyer, 'Mini-Me' in Austin Powers films, dies at 49
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/21/enter...bit/index.html
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In a 2016 interview on the Hey U Guys entertainment website, Kidder said she thought the first Superman film (1978) would be a "flop." She added, "Nothing prepares anyone for that sudden thing of being world famous. It was such a shock. It wasn't something I really liked or something I was very good at. I didn't realize how good the movie was until I saw it at the premiere in Washington."
Margot Kidder, Lois Lane in four Superman movies, dies at 69
https://movieweb.com/margot-kidder-d...perman-movies/
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SiriusXM's Beatles Channel plays every Beatles song but one: Revolution 9. And that isn't really is a song. It's an eight-and-a-half-minute sound collage put together by John Lennon with some help from George Harrison and Yoko Ono. Matt Marks created an arrangement of Revolution 9 to be performed live. My question is: Why???
Matt Marks, cutting-edge composer and musician, dies at 38
New York Times, May 14 2018
Matt Marks, a composer and musician who was at the epicenter of a diverse community of open-minded artists as a founding member of the contemporary chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound, died of heart failure May 11 in St. Louis. He was 38.
As a performer, Marks was known best as a French horn player for Alarm Will Sound, of which he was an integral member. The ensemble has been critically praised and is known for its unusual stylistic breadth and commitment to innovation. When the group ventured further into theatrical concerts and multimedia events, he rose to the occasion as a singer, actor and keyboardist. He also contributed one of the group’s signature pieces: an eerily accurate arrangement for live performers of Revolution 9, the notorious 1968 musique concrète sound collage recorded by the Beatles.
A diligent musician from 9 years old onward, Marks played in high school bands and pursued his formal education at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, the Royal Academy of Music in London and Stony Brook University on Long Island. Marks co-founded Alarm Will Sound in 2001 and also performed with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Wordless Music Orchestra, the Argento Chamber Ensemble and the Brooklyn Brass Quintet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/o...ies-at-38.html
