Category Archives: we are the dead

a book by its cover

Posted on May 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

Pierre: A Cautionary Tale. Maurice Sendak (who died Monday morning at age 83). 1962.

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mca is dead

Posted on May 4, 2012 | Leave a comment

In news that might not be entirely surprising but is devastating nonetheless to anyone old enough to have owned Licensed to Ill on cassette, the great Adam Yauch aka MCA aka Nathanial Hörnblowér has died. He left behind a wife, a daughter and at least one truly stone-cold classic album. I fucking hate cancer.

Goddamnit. RIP MCA

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levon helm is dead

Posted on April 19, 2012 | 1 comment

The Band drummer/vocalist Levon Helm, pictured here with fellow Band-member (and now fellow dead man) Rick Danko, dead at age 71.

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dick clark is dead

Posted on April 18, 2012 | Leave a comment

Dick Clark, host of American Bandstand and America’s Oldest Teenager, dead at age 82.

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mike wallace is dead

Posted on April 9, 2012 | Leave a comment

Mike Wallace, seen here getting the boot from the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, died Saturday at age 93. Check out some of Mike’s early TV interviews here.

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record labels

Posted on March 1, 2012 | Leave a comment

(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone. The Monkees (whose Davy died yesterday). 1966.

Porpoise Song (Theme from Head). The Monkees. 1968.

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dig the critics

Posted on November 29, 2011 | 2 comments

Ken Russell, who died on Sunday, reviews The Citizen Kane book for Films and Filming. May 1972.

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st. clair directs

Posted on October 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

Mal St. Clair (, seated behind cameraman Walter Lundin,) directs Barbara Kent—who died last week at age 103!—in Welcome Danger. 1929.

Also pictured from left, Gaylord Lloyd (just visible), Wallace Howe, Jimmy Anderson, Harold Lloyd, head electrician “Bard” Bardwell and Harold’s double Jake Jacoby.

St. Clair’s contributions as director went uncredited.

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cute couple alert

Posted on July 28, 2011 | Leave a comment

Peter Bogdanovich and Polly Platt, who died yesterday at age 72 (,and Ryan O’Neal). 1971.

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leacock directs

Posted on April 29, 2011 | 1 comment

Cinéma vérité pioneer Richard Leacock, who died last month at age 89, with his lightweight camera. Circa 1962.

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