Passages

[colinr0380]

Which was the Mulloy animation where the figures tore each other's heads off and swapped them? I remember that traumatising me on catching it late at night.

I presume they then went on to have sex with "themselves" and / or the detached heads?

Love Phil Mulloy: a true wild man of animation. I don't know if he'd want to rest in peace, so I hope he rests in a crazed fever dream of his choosing.

Let's just say that seeing it at around 13, it was probably the most inadvisable 'sex education' film I could have chanced upon! Put me off the subject for years!

[Aunt Peg]

Connie Francis, 87: https://variety.com/2025/music/news/con ... 236463533/

[hearthesilence]

Pianist Hal Galper, per JazzTimes, "master educator and repository of jazz wisdom, has joined the ancestors at age 87. Sideman to Cannonball Adderley, Sam Rivers, Phil Woods and many more, an Origin recording artist and active to the end. Our first Overdue Ovation of the new JazzTimes era, on December 23, 2024, was devoted to Hal, who read it and kindly responded. In a post soon after he said that despite impossible conditions in the jazz business, he still accomplished all he had set out to do. No regrets. Amen to that." Will be playing Portrait by the Hal Galper trio in his memory.

[hearthesilence]

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known as Theo on The Cosby Show, drowned on a family vacation in Costa Rica.

[jt938]

Ozzy Osbourne. This one hits hard after his farewell concert recently.

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-en ... 93958.html

[hearthesilence]

Another gut punch. At this rate, this year could surpass 2016 as the worst.

First six Sabbath albums are golden - I revisited all of them after they played their final show weeks ago - and one of the bright spots in the days following 9/11 was this.

[Kracker]

I understand that farewell show is in the process of being cut into a concert film for theaters so now it’ll be even more emotional and bittersweet. Can’t wait to see how they do the ending where they left him up there alone for awhile to soak in the adoring cheering crowd one last time for as long as possible.

Unbeknownst to us, the Reaper had indeed come for Ozzy. But had to wait backstage while he finished his set

[Matt]

Not to sound callous, but Ozzy's final curtain call is as classy an exit as Bowie casually dropping a masterpiece album two days before his death. It's truly touching that he was able to be embraced by a massive, adoring crowd one last time.

[Aunt Peg]

Australian actor, Henri Szeps, 81: https://prwire.com.au/pr/123102/vale-he ... and-screen

[paulm]

Hulk Hogan, 71: https://www.tmz.com/2025/07/24/hulk-hogan-dead/

[CSM126]

Chuck Mangione

Feels So Bad


Okay, I’ll show myself out

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Hulk Hogan was a childhood hero but man did he squander that in the later years. It’s sad to think that his final WWE appearance was met with boos and he deserved it. Still, biggest name in the sport and not for nothing.

[jt938]

This has been a rough few years for King Of The Hill fans.

[hearthesilence]

Like Jack Nicklaus who's still around, Hogan is someone who would've done their legacy an immense favor if they had died earlier, say in 2015. (EDIT: Forgot the racist remarks caught on tape. Make that 2006.) (EDIT: I guess 2005 to avoid the sex tape incident that later embarrassed him.)

I saw that Mangione episode. His music never spoke to me but that was a good guest spot.

[swo17]

Mangione's Rybczyński video

[dwk]

Mangione was on (and referenced in) King of the Hill a number of times, my favorite probably being the one where Hank had to go to an anger management class and Mangione was a fellow classmate.

[hearthesilence]

Hah nice. I only saw the one at the big box store (Megalomart).

[colinr0380]

Hulk Hogan, 71: https://www.tmz.com/2025/07/24/hulk-hogan-dead/

Not being a wrestling fan I'm more familiar his recent controversies. But film-wise there was that brief period where he tried to follow in Schwarzenegger's Kindergarten Cop footsteps with Mr Nanny (the trend of humiliating wrestlers by making them do sissy stuff was still going on decades later with The Rock in The Tooth Fairy and John Cena in Playing With Fire). Although Suburban Commando is the funnier film.

And of course he (and Paul Bartel!) turns up for a cameo in Gremlins 2 during the film breakdown sequence, although his part was entirely left out of the initial home video versions, which substituted a John Wayne-themed sequence instead.

[flyonthewall2983]

His role in Rocky 3 is the primary cinematic legacy. His performance as Thunderlips made him enough of a star to carry over into rejuvenating his heel gimmick into Hulkamania. 1989's No Holds Barred represents the full metamorphosis from something largely unconsidered to a major force in entertainment, but is also when he started to lose his audience. The film was a critical dud, and wasn’t capturing the captivation of the same audience that went in comparative droves to Batman and Indiana Jones that summer.

[dwk]

Hah nice. I only saw the one at the big box store (Megalomart).

Even that doesn't narrow it down, there are two Megalomart episodes that Mangione plays are part in (the one where Dale works overnight in the store to deal with a rat problem and the one where Hank works at Megalomart.)

[beamish14]

7 year old me would have been devastated. I can never forget learning about Hulk Hogan’s origins on Nickelodeon and discovering how he turned his life around from filling up entire shopping carts with pastries to becoming a steroid-abusing lunatic

[hearthesilence]

Not to mention a scab who sold out his fellow wrestlers and tried to keep it a secret.

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Michael Ochs, at 82. The self-described “music junkie” collected millions of images of singers, actors and celebrities for an archive that fed CD reissues, books, news sites and documentaries.

[beamish14]

Budd Carr, music supervisor on most of Oliver Stone’s features and Michael Mann’s Heat

Natural Born Killers producer Jane Hamsher’s memoir about said production trashes him (and Stone) quite a bit, by stating that the film’s music was largely curated by her and that she got screwed out of earning royalties on its very successful soundtrack release.

[Lemmy Caution]

Lebanese musician, composer, and playwright Ziad Rahbani, the son of legendary singer Fairuz, passed away Saturday at the age of 69 after battling an illness at a hospital in Beirut, according to the National News Agency.

Ziad Rahbani, born in 1956, was the eldest son of legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz and renowned composer Assi Rahbani. He began composing for his mother as a teenager and was the creative force behind iconic songs such as “Kifak Inta” and “Bala Wala Shi.” His father, Assi Rahbani, was also a celebrated musical figure in Lebanon.

His theatrical productions were known for their sharp political and social commentary, combined with humor and wit.

He was widely beloved and enjoyed broad popularity, making the news of his passing deeply saddening for his audience—even prompting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to publicly mourn him on X. Aoun expressed his wish for Rahbani to rest in peace, describing him as "not just an artist but a complete intellectual and cultural phenomenon … a living conscience, a voice rebellious against injustice, and an honest mirror."

President Aoun concluded, saying that Ziad Rahbani’s numerous remarkable works will remain alive in the memory of the Lebanese and the Arab world, inspiring future generations and reminding them that art can be a form of resistance, and words can stand as a powerful stance

Ziad Rahbani: Son who redefined her mother’s sound
Fairuz shared an exceptional bond with her son Ziad, one that went beyond family ties to a rare artistic partnership that began early in their careers. At just fifteen, Ziad composed the song “Saalouny El Nas” for his mother during his father, Assi Rahbani’s, illness.

Over the following decades, Ziad developed a distinctive and unconventional musical voice, composing some of Fairuz’s most famous songs, including “Adesh Kan Fi Nas”, “Eh Fi Amal,” “Ahwak,” “Awedak Rannan,” and “Wala Keef.” He introduced a new style of musical arrangement and artistic vision.

Ziad and family defined Lebanese music since the 50's. His mother Fairuz is 90. The iconic Lebanese singer and actress, who along with the Rahbani Brothers, her husband and brother in law, transformed Arab music.
Immensely sad how devastated Lebanon, Syria and Palestine have become.

[TVC15]

7 year old me would have been devastated. I can never forget learning about Hulk Hogan’s origins on Nickelodeon and discovering how he turned his life around from filling up entire shopping carts with pastries to becoming a steroid-abusing lunatic

What makes him a lunatic?

[beamish14]

7 year old me would have been devastated. I can never forget learning about Hulk Hogan’s origins on Nickelodeon and discovering how he turned his life around from filling up entire shopping carts with pastries to becoming a steroid-abusing lunatic

What makes him a lunatic?

He was a racist, sexist, homo/transphobic shit.