Do you see a mod note here? Nope. Then you're not in trouble. Why would you think that?
Bugger. Another death. Legendary photographer Irving Penn is dead at 92.
And number 2 - Stephen Gately from Boyzone dead at 33.
A total shocker.
Am I the only person in the world who's never heard Boyzone? (I can only vaguely recall hearing of them.)
No, there are at least two of us.
This was such a shock, and no real news about what caused his death, either. I've reached that point in my life when people my age are dying, and I have to say, it pretty much sucks.
They were very big in the UK - I don't think that they ever released anything in the US.
I'm more bummed that no one commented on the brilliant Irving Penn. He was a wonderful photographer.
The NYTimes has an
audio slideshow featuring some of Penn's work from the "small trades" series, if you haven't seen it.
He lived a long time for a guy who got thrown around for a living. I used to watch WWF because Cyndi Lauper was into it and sometimes did appearances. Lou Albano was awesome.
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
I meant of the current run. Irving Penn, Stephen Gately and then Lou Albano.
And we haven't yet mentioned Al Martino (singer) and Nat Finkelstein (he was the "official" photographer of the Andy Warhol Factory scene) - I'm bummed about the latter because his work is in a show at the Brooklyn Museum later this month. I'm going to the opening - would have been cool to meet him.
Joseph Wiseman, perhaps better known as Dr. No,
has passed away at age 91.
Well isn't that just like a pie in the face.
Soupy Sales, dead at 83.
Local news in Detroit actually started this morning with a montage of pie fights. I heartily recommend this for all newscasts.
And also reminiscences of this classic TV lore:
For notoriety, nothing beat the show that aired New Year's Day 1965, when Sales was producing the program in New York. Told he had a minute to fill, the comic told the children watching on WNEW-TV to find their parents' wallets and "get all the green pieces of paper with the pictures of guys in beards" and mail them to him. In return, he said, he would send them "a postcard from Puerto Rico."
Sales had used the same joke in Detroit and Los Angeles. But this time, the prank elicited some $80,000 "in Monopoly money," as well as a complaint from a viewer filed with the FCC. Sales' show was suspended, prompting fans to swamp the station's switchboard with protest calls, mostly from high school and college students who demanded that their favorite television fare resume. Within a week, it did.
