RIP someone or another

[dsavitsk]

Chaim Topol, Fiddler on the Roof actor, dies aged 87

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/09/chaim-topol-dead-fiddler-on-the-roof-actor-dies-death-aged-87

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/obituaries/topol-dead.html

 

Edited March 9, 2023 by dsavitsk

[skullguise]

Oh, man, my wife will especially be sad to hear that.  RIP, and may his memory be a blessing.

[robm321]

RIP Bobby Caldwell. 71

[Knuckledragger]

Oh man, I just heard about Bobby Caldwell.  Two things:

Two:

I can't think of a better tribute.

[Grahame]

BBC News - Lance Reddick, star of The Wire and John Wick, dies aged 60
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64959805

https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/lance-reddick-dead-the-wire-john-wick-1235557886/

https://www.tmz.com/2023/03/17/the-wire-star-lance-reddick-dead-dies/

Edited March 17, 2023 by Grahame

[TMoney]

RIP Lt. Daniels.

 

[Voltron]

Sad. No more Meestah Weeck. 😢 RIP Special Agent Broyles. 

[HemiSam]

Godspeed, Lance. 
 

We loved The Wire from the first show. The man had presence…underscore. 
 

HS

[skullguise]

RIP Israel "Zuny" Zelitch.  99 years old, he was in the same Independent/Assisted Living facility as my mother-in-law.  In times after his wife passed, and my father-in-law was gone, he was a wonderful companion to her.  She passed in June 2021, he just passed today.

A brilliant and fascinating man, not much for idle conversation but had some fascinating stories.  Also a major part of local Yiddish organizations, and very well known in that community.  Unfortunately he was unconscious soon after catching COVID recently, was moved to hospice where his son (wearing basically a hazmat suit) got to say goodbye.  A woman from that Yiddish community was called and they held the phone to his ear while she spoke; he actually twitched his eyes several times.  Shortly thereafter, he passed.

One link with info about him: https://portal.ct.gov/CAES/ABOUT-CAES/Staff-Biographies/Israel-Zelitch

Karen and I had met his son and daughter-in-law years back, when our kids went to the same after-school program.  We also found out his son's wife was my neighbor growing up!  We got to reconnect after we found out Zuny was his dad.  Karen was able to share some stories about Zuny and her mom that his son was so thankful to hear.

Just a wonderful family, and a fascinating man.  RIP Zuny, you may have two women vying for your attention now! 🙂

Edited March 23, 2023 by skullguise

[Voltron]

Sorry for your loss. RIP Zuny.

[n_maher]

1 hour ago, Voltron said:

Sorry for your loss. RIP Zuny.

This.

[swt61]

Sorry for your loss.

[guzziguy]

Sorry Todd.  RIP Zuny.

[Grahame]

RIP Gordon Moore

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/gordon-moore-obituary.html

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23655844/gordon-moore-intel-co-founder-creator-moores-law-died

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/25/gordon_moore/

 

 

[Knuckledragger]

RIP Ryuichi Sakamoto.  Member of YMO, producer, film composer, and so many other things.  I've had Robin Brunson's remix of his "Anger" in my record bag in one form or another since 1998:

 

[skullguise]

Oh, man, that sucks....RIP to yet another legend gone!

[blessingx]

 

[blessingx]

RIP Seymour Stein, founder of Sire Records and discoverer of Talking Heads, Ramones, Madonna, etc. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65160979

Additional names that Stein would sign to Sire included the Pretenders, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Seal, The Smiths, Echo & The Bunnymen, Ice-T, Dinosaur Jr., Ministry, k.d. lang, Madness, Wilco, Aphex Twin, etc. 

https://rockandrollglobe.com/remembrance/music-industry-titan-seymour-stein-gone-at-80/ 

 

[blessingx]

RIP Klaus Teuber, protector of sanity during the pandemic (aka inventor of Settlers of Catan) 

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168256131/catan-board-game-klaus-teuber-dies 

https://www.gameshub.com/news/news/catan-creator-klaus-teuber-passes-away-age-70-2612253/ 

[HemiSam]

Godspeed, Mr. Breedlove. 

One of the U.S.’s finest speed centric soul searchers.

May you go as fast as you dreams…

HS

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a43539008/farewell-to-craig-breedlove-americas-king-of-speed/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_rdt&utm_medium=email&date=040723&utm_campaign=nl31099329&user_email=5a40c51c3d4254d5f58319200ca2ac8bb44b94437291b38bd1d989d5554293b0&utm_term=AAA -- High Minus Dormant and 90 Day Non Openers

[Craig Sawyers]

Wow. A speed icon passes. RIP Mr Breedlove.

[dsavitsk]

Al Jaffee, Inventive Cartoonist at Mad Magazine, Dies at 102

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/arts/al-jaffee-dead.html

 

[Grahame]

RIP Al Jafffe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Fold-in

https://13thdimension.com/13-mad-fold-ins-an-al-jaffee-birthday-celebration/

https://www.cc.com/video/k79bmy/the-colbert-report-sign-off-mad-magazine

Edited April 11, 2023 by Grahame

[Craig Sawyers]

Mad even got across the pond. I'm astonished that the responsible cartoonist was still alive and drawing at 99! 102 is not a bad age.

[skullguise]

Agreed, Craig.  I used to love to pour through my dad's copies of Mad....

To this day, I still remember one cartoon that I repeated to my son.  A kid is bugging his dad and keeps saying something like, "Dad lookit....lookit what I'm doing....lookit, lookit, lookit....!"  And the dad then retorts, "I'm lookiting!!"

Don't know why that stuck with me, but I still use it occasionally.....