In Remembrance--2011

[jaerdaph]

RIP TSR Artist Jim Roslof (1946-2011)

Posted tonight at GROGNARDIA: "According to Jeff R. Leason, who worked at TSR in the late 70s and early 80s as an editor and designer, artist Jim Roslof passed away peacefully this morning. Though the news is not unexpected, it's nonetheless sad to receive."

RIP, Mr. Rosolf.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Knut, a polar bear who was one of the most popular attractions at the Berlin Zoo, died yesterday. He was 4.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Warren Christopher, secretary of state from 1993 to 1997, died last Friday. He was 85.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Legendary bluesman Pinetop Perkins dead at 97

Pinetop Perkins, one of the last old-school bluesmen who played with Muddy Waters and became the oldest Grammy winner this year, died Monday at his home of cardiac arrest. He was 97.

In Remembrance

 

[Truth Seeker]

Soulful Disco Diva Loleatta Holloway Dead at 64

Like many twenty- and thirtysomethings, The Amp first encountered soul and disco queen Loleatta Holloway via Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's 1991 Number One single "Good Vibrations," which sampled her 1980 hit "Love Sensation." Regardless of whatever eye-catching activities Marky Walhberg was doing in the video (boxing, being shirtless, watch it below), that brassy, bruising disco diva vocal grabbed your ear and gave it a twist.

In Remembrance.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Nikolai Andrianov, winner of the most medals in men's Olympic gymnastics, died yesterday after a long illness. He was 58.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor died today. She was 79.

Taylor, who had been acting since she was a kid (National Velvet), is probably better known for her many marriages than for her movies (which also include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Cleopatra). In more recent years, she was a spokesperson against AIDS. She had been treated for congestive heart failure.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Tony-nominated actress Helen Stenborg dies at 86

Helen Stenborg, a Tony-nominated stage, film and TV actress who was the wife of the late Tony Award-winning actor Barnard Hughes and mother of the Tony Award-winning director Doug Hughes, has died. She was 86.

In Remembrance.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Liz was a long time dying- I'm glad her suffering is over.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Disco singer Loleatta Holloway dies at 64

US singer Loleatta Holloway, best known for her vocals which were sampled on Black Box's 1989 hit Ride On Time, has died at the age of 64.

The performer died of heart failure, her manager Ron Richardson confirmed to the BBC.

In Remembrance.