RIP thread

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

• Add "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3".

I won’t, for one simple reason: he wasn’t in that movie.

And now I'm trying to think who, in ANY of the three versions of that film, could possibly have been mistaken for Gene Hackman.

Boru

[Angrboda]

I won’t, for one simple reason: he wasn’t in that movie.

And now I'm trying to think who, in ANY of the three versions of that film, could possibly have been mistaken for Gene Hackman.

Boru

I'm guessing Walter Matthau. Same era. Same type of actor.

[Jackalope]

• Add "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3".

I won’t, for one simple reason: he wasn’t in that movie.

Holy shit both myself and my wife go that wrong.

[Thumpalumpacus]

NEW YORK (AP) — David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego, Buster Poindexter, has died. He was 75.

Johansen died Friday at his home in New York City, Jeff Kilgour, a family spokesperson told The Associated Press. It was revealed in early 2025 that he had stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor.

The New York Dolls were forerunners of punk and the band’s style — teased hair, women’s clothes and lots of makeup — inspired the glam movement that took up residence in heavy metal a decade later in bands like Faster Pussycat and Mötley Crüe.

“When you’re an artist, the main thing you want to do is inspire people, so if you succeed in doing that, it’s pretty gratifying,” Johansen told The Knoxville News-Sentinel in 2011.

https://apnews.com/article/david-johanse...e802d914d0

I was never a huge fan of his work, but I love this medley of Animals covers.

[AFTT47]

https://apnews.com/article/david-johanse...e802d914d0

I was never a huge fan of his work, but I love this medley of Animals covers.

I never heard of him. He reminded me a lot of Jim Morrison in that clip. Kinda startling because Morrison was unique to put it mildly.

[arewethereyet]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/...ngNewsSerp

Angie Stone, soul singer behind hit "Wish I Didn't Miss You," dies in car crash at 63

I remember hearing a lot about her when I lived near her hometown of Columbia, SC.

[Ravenshire]

NEW YORK (AP) — David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego, Buster Poindexter, has died. He was 75.

Johansen died Friday at his home in New York City, Jeff Kilgour, a family spokesperson told The Associated Press. It was revealed in early 2025 that he had stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor.

The New York Dolls were forerunners of punk and the band’s style — teased hair, women’s clothes and lots of makeup — inspired the glam movement that took up residence in heavy metal a decade later in bands like Faster Pussycat and Mötley Crüe.

“When you’re an artist, the main thing you want to do is inspire people, so if you succeed in doing that, it’s pretty gratifying,” Johansen told The Knoxville News-Sentinel in 2011.

https://apnews.com/article/david-johanse...e802d914d0

I was never a huge fan of his work, but I love this medley of Animals covers.

I've only recently been introduced to The New York Dolls, though I've likely heard their music quite a lot over the years, especially with the number of bands I listen to that cite them as an influence. They've been trending high on my rotation lately. A sad day for fans of the Dolls and of punk and glam rock/hair metal in general.

[Rev. Rye]

NEW YORK (AP) — David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego, Buster Poindexter, has died. He was 75.

Johansen died Friday at his home in New York City, Jeff Kilgour, a family spokesperson told The Associated Press. It was revealed in early 2025 that he had stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor.

The New York Dolls were forerunners of punk and the band’s style — teased hair, women’s clothes and lots of makeup — inspired the glam movement that took up residence in heavy metal a decade later in bands like Faster Pussycat and Mötley Crüe.

“When you’re an artist, the main thing you want to do is inspire people, so if you succeed in doing that, it’s pretty gratifying,” Johansen told The Knoxville News-Sentinel in 2011.

https://apnews.com/article/david-johanse...e802d914d0

I was never a huge fan of his work, but I love this medley of Animals covers.

Here’s how I remember him:

[arewethereyet]

Carl Dean, Dolly Parton's husband of nearly 60 years, dies at 82

[Fake Messiah]

James Harrison, blood donor whose rare plasma saved millions of babies, dead at 88

Harrison, whose plasma contained a “rare and precious antibody” known as Anti-D, donated blood more than 1,100 times, according to Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, which confirmed his death in a statement published Saturday.

Anti-D is used to make a medication administered to pregnant mothers whose blood would attack their unborn babies’ blood cells, known as rhesus disease.

The condition develops when a pregnant woman has rhesus-negative blood (RhD negative) and the baby in her womb has rhesus-positive blood (RhD positive), inherited from its father.

Considered a national hero, Harrison won numerous awards for his generosity, including the Medal of the Order of Australia, one of the country’s highest honors.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/03/healt...index.html