RIPs

[Steve Green]

Tony's bit starts about 1:45 in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0n_ZMFSGM0

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

This is not a good year to be an artist. Another innovative creator gone. Link to Nemesis the Movie no less. Very sorry to hear he's gone.

http://downthetubes.net/?p=14877

[JayzusB.Christ]

Just announced tonight that artist Tony Luke, formerly of this parish, died this afternoon, after a long, long battle against cancer.

Aw, man.  Sorry for your loss, Gordon.  And I'm sorry anyway.  I liked his stuff; his stone devil playing the violin will always be a highpoint in the Megazine for me.

[Goaty]

Harper Lee of To Kill a Mockingbird at 89

[Something Fishy]

Very sad.  It was expected as she's not been well for a while but still sad.   RIP.

[Colin YNWA]

Umberto Eco at 84. His thinking on lieracy and reading were a massive influence in me. He was a fantastic novelist as well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35620368

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Harper Lee now Umberto Eco. The world has become shallow. RIP Harper Lee, Umberto Eco your work is done .

[TordelBack]

Adore Eco's work, Foucault's Pendulum in particular had a huge effect on me with its examination of the banality that underlies commonalities in religious and other cult thinking. He was also an enormously funny writer, even while wrestling with weighty topics - which I suspect the very best authors are.   Still, at least he and Harper Lee both had a fairly decent crack at the whip, redirecting this year's morbid trend in a more understandable upward direction.

[Dandontdare]

I adored Name of the Rose, but never managed to finish Foucoult's Pendulum despite two attempts.

[Something Fishy]

Another great.  What a year.  RIP.

[I, Cosh]

Umberto Eco at 84. His thinking on lieracy and reading were a massive influence in me. He was a fantastic novelist as well.

Can't remember the name but he wrote a short book about the creation of Name of the Rose which is one of the most entertaining pieces of writing about writing I've ever read.

[TordelBack]

I know the one you mean - I think it was just called "PostScript to the Name of the Rose" (although maybe something sexier in Italian). I only discovered its existence relatively recently, after my latest re-read when I had a list of things I didn't understand and was looking for commentaries online - you're right, it was a great read. For similar, his essay collection Travels in Hyperreality is brilliant.

[Ghost MacRoth]

Douglas Slocombe director of photography for such films as Raiders, The Italian Job, The Great Gatsby and more. Aged 103.

[Something Fishy]

Another great.  RIP.

[Spikes]

Just checking his filmography, so many top films on his C.V.
RIP, Mr Slocombe.