Recent Celeb Passings
13 years 2 months ago #1
by riada
Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.
cent Celeb Passings was created by riada
Clare Amory, 35, American musician (Excepter), cancer
Excepter is a five-person experimental noise-improv musical group from Brooklyn, founded in 2002 by John Fell Ryan. They have released their work on labels such as Load Records and Animal Collective's Paw Tracks, and are known for their improvisational approach to playing both live and in the studio.
The Village Voice alt-weekly has mentioned the subject of the band's attire, with blogger and (former) Voice writer, Nick Sylvester referring to them as having "ousted Animal Collective as the Village People of Brooklyn Noise". The significance of their hats was noted several more times.
Nathan Corbin and Clare Amory participated as drummers in the Boredoms 77 Boadrum performance which occurred on July 7, 2007 at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, New York.
Member Clare Amory died of cancer on February 24, 2011
FEB 23...
Joseph H. Flom, 87, American corporate lawyer, heart failure.
Lisa Wolfson, 47, American author, pancreatic cancer
FEB 24...
Frank A. McClintock, 90, American mechanical engineer.
Eddie Serrato, 65, American drummer (Question Mark & the Mysterians), heart attack
QUESTION MARK AND THE MYSTERIANS (rendered ? and the Mysterians on the record label) are an American rock and roll band formed in Bay City, Michigan, in 1962.
The group is best known for its song "96 Tears", a garage rock classic recorded in 1966 that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and would go on to sell over one million copies and receive a BMI award for over three million airplays. ? and the Mysterians was perhaps the first band to be described as punk rock, and also may be the first Latino rock group to have a mainstream hit record in the United States. The group named itself after the 1957 Japanese science fiction film The Mysterians, in which aliens from the destroyed planet Mysteroid arrive to conquer Earth.
Peggy Rea (March 31, 1921 - February 5, 2011) was an American character actress known for her many roles in television, often playing matronly characters. Her recurring roles included:
•Cousin Bertha on All in the Family
•Martha Burkhorn on All in the Family
•Rose Burton on The Waltons
•Lulu Hogg on The Dukes of Hazzard
•Ivy Baker on Step by Step
•Jean Kelly on Grace Under Fire
Rea appeared in such television programs as I Love Lucy, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Sergeant Bilko, Ironside, Burke's Law, Marcus Welby, M.D., Hunter, The Odd Couple, Gidget, MacGyver, and The Golden Girls. She also appeared in feature films, including Cold Turkey and In Country.
Peggy Rea died of congestive heart failure at her home in Toluca Lake, Calif.,
Peggy Rea was 89 years old at the time of her death
FEB 21...
Ben Fricke, 35, American football player (Dallas Cowboys), colon cancer.
Dwayne McDuffie, 49, American comic book writer, editor and animator, complications following surgery.
Bernard Nathanson, 84, American pro-choice activist and co-founder of NARAL, later pro-life activist and writer, cancer.
Russell W. Peterson, 94, American politician, Governor of Delaware (1969–1973), stroke.
Judith Sulzberger, 87, American physician.
Justin Tennison, 33, American commercial fisherman (Deadliest Catch).
FEB 22...
Nicholas Courtney, 81, British actor (Doctor Who)
Ron Hudson, 71, American photographer and author.
Bill Nimmo, 93, American television announcer (The Jackie Gleason Show) .
Excepter is a five-person experimental noise-improv musical group from Brooklyn, founded in 2002 by John Fell Ryan. They have released their work on labels such as Load Records and Animal Collective's Paw Tracks, and are known for their improvisational approach to playing both live and in the studio.
The Village Voice alt-weekly has mentioned the subject of the band's attire, with blogger and (former) Voice writer, Nick Sylvester referring to them as having "ousted Animal Collective as the Village People of Brooklyn Noise". The significance of their hats was noted several more times.
Nathan Corbin and Clare Amory participated as drummers in the Boredoms 77 Boadrum performance which occurred on July 7, 2007 at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, New York.
Member Clare Amory died of cancer on February 24, 2011
FEB 23...
Joseph H. Flom, 87, American corporate lawyer, heart failure.
Lisa Wolfson, 47, American author, pancreatic cancer
FEB 24...
Frank A. McClintock, 90, American mechanical engineer.
Eddie Serrato, 65, American drummer (Question Mark & the Mysterians), heart attack
QUESTION MARK AND THE MYSTERIANS (rendered ? and the Mysterians on the record label) are an American rock and roll band formed in Bay City, Michigan, in 1962.
The group is best known for its song "96 Tears", a garage rock classic recorded in 1966 that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and would go on to sell over one million copies and receive a BMI award for over three million airplays. ? and the Mysterians was perhaps the first band to be described as punk rock, and also may be the first Latino rock group to have a mainstream hit record in the United States. The group named itself after the 1957 Japanese science fiction film The Mysterians, in which aliens from the destroyed planet Mysteroid arrive to conquer Earth.
Peggy Rea (March 31, 1921 - February 5, 2011) was an American character actress known for her many roles in television, often playing matronly characters. Her recurring roles included:
•Cousin Bertha on All in the Family
•Martha Burkhorn on All in the Family
•Rose Burton on The Waltons
•Lulu Hogg on The Dukes of Hazzard
•Ivy Baker on Step by Step
•Jean Kelly on Grace Under Fire
Rea appeared in such television programs as I Love Lucy, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Sergeant Bilko, Ironside, Burke's Law, Marcus Welby, M.D., Hunter, The Odd Couple, Gidget, MacGyver, and The Golden Girls. She also appeared in feature films, including Cold Turkey and In Country.
Peggy Rea died of congestive heart failure at her home in Toluca Lake, Calif.,
Peggy Rea was 89 years old at the time of her death
FEB 21...
Ben Fricke, 35, American football player (Dallas Cowboys), colon cancer.
Dwayne McDuffie, 49, American comic book writer, editor and animator, complications following surgery.
Bernard Nathanson, 84, American pro-choice activist and co-founder of NARAL, later pro-life activist and writer, cancer.
Russell W. Peterson, 94, American politician, Governor of Delaware (1969–1973), stroke.
Judith Sulzberger, 87, American physician.
Justin Tennison, 33, American commercial fisherman (Deadliest Catch).
FEB 22...
Nicholas Courtney, 81, British actor (Doctor Who)
Ron Hudson, 71, American photographer and author.
Bill Nimmo, 93, American television announcer (The Jackie Gleason Show) .
Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.
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