Passages

[hearthesilence]

Guitarist and singer Amadou Bagayoko of the Malian music duo Amadou & Mariam.

[Gregory]

Four weeks ago but Robert McGinnis, whose illustrations graced the posters for Barbarella, The Pink Panther, The Odd Couple, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and many James Bond films

[hearthesilence]

One of my favorite bassists from one of my very favorite bands.

It is with broken yet full hearts that we share the news that Dave Allen, our old music partner, friend, and brilliant musician, died on Saturday morning. He was at home with his family. Dave had endured the early-onset of mixed dementia for some years which has been a heartbreaking time for his wife Paddy, his children, and close friends. Our love and thoughts are with them. Jon and I [Hugo] went to see him and spent a lovely afternoon with him and the family. We talked and laughed for hours, sharing rich and vivid memories of good times together. Adventures, careers in music, raising families, our interwoven lives spanning half a century. We’ve been so very lucky to have had the Ace of Bass in our lives.

We know that Dave would have wanted nothing more than to step onstage with us again in Portland on our farewell US tour. But it’s now a bridge too far.

Goodbye, Old Friend.

[beamish14]

One of my favorite bassists from one of my very favorite bands.

It is with broken yet full hearts that we share the news that Dave Allen, our old music partner, friend, and brilliant musician, died on Saturday morning. He was at home with his family. Dave had endured the early-onset of mixed dementia for some years which has been a heartbreaking time for his wife Paddy, his children, and close friends. Our love and thoughts are with them. Jon and I [Hugo] went to see him and spent a lovely afternoon with him and the family. We talked and laughed for hours, sharing rich and vivid memories of good times together. Adventures, careers in music, raising families, our interwoven lives spanning half a century. We’ve been so very lucky to have had the Ace of Bass in our lives.

We know that Dave would have wanted nothing more than to step onstage with us again in Portland on our farewell US tour. But it’s now a bridge too far.

Goodbye, Old Friend.

Playing some Shriekback to remember him

[GaryC]

Kerry Greenwood, aged 70. Her Phryne Fisher novels became the TV series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, its spin-off Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries and, for the cinema, Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020).

[Feego]

Jay North, TV’s original Dennis the Menace

[dadaistnun]

Blondie drummer Clem Burke

[Roger Ryan]

Blondie drummer Clem Burke

A fantastic drummer in the Keith Moon tradition (although more disciplined than Moon). I only saw him live once: not with Blondie but with the great Dramarama in a bar small enough that Burke's kit was only about seven feet away from me. He was amazing. RIP.

[hearthesilence]

Blondie drummer Clem Burke

This fucking year man....

I didn't see Blondie until the 2010s, at which point I was very familiar with their television appearances from the 1970s and early 1980s, and Clem was still every bit as amazing to see. I thought MLB should've given him an honorary gold glove - across many tosses and twirls, I never saw him drop a stick or miss a beat once, it was a perfect 1.000. But beyond that he could play anything - he was a powerhouse and he moved everyone to dance. 70 is far too young for him to leave us. I never met him, but just about everyone has said he was a true gentleman and more than a few said he was the greatest drummer of his generation.

[Never Cursed]

Shaw Brothers lifer Ku Feng, who appeared in some 300 films between 1959 and 2013, died March 27. If you've dug into that studio's output at all, you've doubtlessly seen a film where he appears somewhere, even as a henchman.

[hearthesilence]

Reggae legend Max Romeo.

[Never Cursed]

Nicky Katt

[beamish14]

Nicky Katt

Him firing off a blank in a full classroom during the pilot episode of Boston Public is peak David E. Kelley idiocy. I loved that garbage show

[The Narrator Returns]

A great presence almost anywhere (even shouting tone-deaf "comic relief" through the biggest Dark Knight setpiece) but above all for me a Soderbergh legend. I've already seen him aimlessly riffing on movie-set passersby in The Limey shared multiple times, and his showcase part in Full Frontal is by far the funniest take on the low-hanging fruit of "method acting".

[domino harvey]

Katt's line delivery of "What do you mean 'lose arm', my arm?" has lived rent free in my head ever since I first saw Planet Terror and it still makes me laugh every time I rewatch it

[John Cope]

Incredibly powerfully understated in SubUrbia,

[colinr0380]

And he also has a good supporting role in Christopher McQuarrie's The Way of the Gun.

[domino harvey]

Val Kilmer discussion moved here

Ted Kotcheff discussion moved here

[GaryC]

Jean Marsh, aged 90. She had a long career, beginning in 1947 at age thirteen. On TV she had three roles in Doctor Who, including companion-more-or-less Sara Kingdom in The Daleks' Master Plan. She co-created Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-5) and played the leading role of the maid Rose and was the only member of the original cast to return for the revival of the show in 2010-12.

[colinr0380]

Jean Marsh, aged 90. She had a long career, beginning in 1947 at age thirteen. On TV she had three roles in Doctor Who, including companion-more-or-less Sara Kingdom in The Daleks' Master Plan. She co-created Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-5) and played the leading role of the maid Rose and was the only member of the original cast to return for the revival of the show in 2010-12.

She also briefly appears in Hitchcock's Frenzy as one of the staff in the escort agency, giving a thorough description of our wrong man to the cops!

And she is also just as briefly, though importantly, in the opening sequence of The Changeling as George C. Scott's wife.

[willoneill]

I'm going to shout out Marsh's dual role in the 1980's-child-scaring Return to Oz.

[JSC]

Speaking of Doctor Who, she was also married to Jon Pertwee at one point. I also remember her from a
Twilight Zone episode The Lonely which I liked a lot.

[Feego]

I'm going to shout out Marsh's dual role in the 1980's-child-scaring Return to Oz.

Between that film and Willow, Jean Marsh was one of the great wicked witches of 1980s cinema.

[hearthesilence]

Peruvian novelist and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the pivotal figures who ignited a global boom in Latin American literature.

[Feego]

Clive Revill last month