Category Archives: we are the dead

on your sleeve

Posted on December 6, 2012 | 1 comment

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Take Five 45. The Dave Brubeck Quartet, whose leader died yesterday a day before what would have been his ninety-second birthday. 1959.

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festival time!

Posted on October 28, 2012 | Leave a comment

Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel, who died earlier this month at age 60, at Cannes. 1975.

And at Cannes. 1976.

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a book by its cover

Posted on August 2, 2012 | Leave a comment

Myra Breckinridge. The late Gore Vidal. 1968.

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chris marker is dead

Posted on July 30, 2012 | Leave a comment

One-of-a-kind French filmmaker Chris Marker died yesterday at age 91. Click here for an obituary.

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cute band alert

Posted on July 10, 2012 | 2 comments

The Frogs (pictured above with Our Lord Grunge), whose Dennis (left) has apparently and unfortunately drowned at the age of 57. And with that our world has gotten a little less awesome. The Frogs were truly one of a kind as anyone who has ever heard their It’s Only Right and Natural LP or their Starjob EP or any of their other usually brilliant, oddball albums or singles can attest.

(Pic and news courtesy of matablog and thanks, Matador, for releasing the Now You Know You’re Black 45 back in the day—I distinctly recall that in the product description for the single in your catalog it advised potentially disgruntled buyers to send their complaints directly to the NAACP—I also recall Malkmus throwing that “here comes the watermelon seed up my snoot snout” line into We Dance when it was performed at your tenth anniversary show.)

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ernest borgnine is dead

Posted on July 8, 2012 | Leave a comment

Academy Award winning actor Ernest Borgnine (seen above with Spencer Tracy in Bad Day at Black Rock and below with Joan Crawford in Johnny Guitar) died today at age 95.

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andy griffith is dead

Posted on July 3, 2012 | 1 comment

A Face in the Crowd (above) star and American television mainstay Andy Griffith has died at age 86.

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andrew sarris is dead

Posted on June 20, 2012 | Leave a comment

Influential American film critic, author, Pauline Kael nemesis and editor of the original English language edition of Cahiers du Cinéma, Andrew Sarris died today at age 83. He is survived by his wife, with whom he is pictured above, noted film theorist Molly Haskell.

A number of his books and articles are favorites of mine that I have gone back to repeatedly over the years. If it were possible to wear the grooves out of a book as one can a record, I would have done so with the Preston Sturges chapter in his 1998 book “You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet”: The American Talking Film, History and Memory, 1927-1949. He’ll be missed.

Check out the New York Times obit here, his Top Ten film lists for every year from 1958 to 2006 here, or a podcast of a charming discussion between Sarris and his wife here.

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victor spinetti is dead

Posted on June 19, 2012 | 1 comment

Actor and co-star in three of The Beatles’ films, Victor Spinetti died yesterday at age 82.

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richard dawson is dead

Posted on June 3, 2012 | Leave a comment

British-born U.S. television personality, Family Feud host and actor Richard Dawson, who made constant appearances as a panelist on the game show Match Game and appeared alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Running Man (Glaser. 1987.), died yesterday at age 79.

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