Recently Deceased II

[cremetangerine82]

CW: cancer+, heart failure<3

Alonzo Butler, American boxer, dies at age 44.

Richard Andrew, Australian drummer (Underground Lovers, Crow, Black Cab), dies at age 58.+

Stephanie Collie, British costume designer (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Peaky Blinders; Argylle), dies at age 60.+

Janey Godley, Scottish stand-up comedian and writer, dies at age 63.+

Alastair Down, English journalist and broadcaster (Racing Post, Channel 4 Racing), dies at age 68.

Matt Peacock, Australian journalist (ABC News), dies at age 72.+

Phil Rickman, British author (The Bones of Avalon), dies at age 74.

Trevor Whymark, English footballer (Ipswich Town, Grimsby Town, national team), dies at age 74.

Steve Morse, American music journalist (The Boston Globe), dies at age 76.

Alan Rachins, American actor (L.A. Law, Dharma & Greg, The Spectacular Spider-Man), dies at age 82.<3

Candy Devine, Australian radio broadcaster (Downtown Radio) and singer, dies at age 85.

Greg Hildebrandt, American illustrator and artist (Star Wars movie poster, The Lord of the Rings calendar illustrations), dies at age 85.

Paul Bailey, British novelist and critic (At the Jerusalem,Gabriel's Lament, An English Madam: The Life and Work of Cynthia Payne, The Stately Homo: A Celebration of the Life of Quentin Crisp), dies at age 87.

Dick Lowry, American football coach (Wayne State University Warriors, Hillsdale College Chargers), dies at age 89.

Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal, Cuban trumpeter (Buena Vista Social Club), dies at age 91.

Ray Semproch, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), dies at age 93.

Dub Jones, American football player (Miami Seahawks, Brooklyn Dodgers, Cleveland Browns) and coach, dies at age 99.

[PearlySweetcake]

Music titan and longtime Seattleite Quincy Jones has died at 91.

[gremlin45]

British civil rights activist Dr. Paul Stephenson has died at 87.

A civil rights campaigner who led the Bristol Bus Boycott in 1963 has died at the age of 87, his family say.

Dr Paul Stephenson OBE organised the boycott which overturned a ban on people from ethnic minorities working on buses in the city and was instrumental in paving the way for the first Race Relations Act in 1965.

In a statement, his family said he passed away on Saturday evening after a "courageous battle" with Parkinson's disease and dementia.

They described him as "a passionate advocate for equality, tirelessly working to dismantle the barriers of discrimination".

Godspeed, sir.

[cremetangerine82]

CW: cancer+, fatal drowning~, pneumonia%, stroke#

Kathleen McGee, Canadian comedian and columnist (BeatRoute), dies at age 43.+

Brian Wheeler, American basketball announcer (Portland Trail Blazers), dies at age 62.

Tyka Nelson, American singer, dies at age 64.

Tony Todd, American actor (Candyman, Platoon, Night of the Living Dead, Final Destination series), dies at age 69.

Johnny Duhan, Irish singer-songwriter ("The Voyage"), dies at age 74.~

Elwood Edwards, American voice actor (America Online), dies at age 74.#

Trevor Sorbie, British celebrity hairdresser, dies at age 75.+

Mack Daughtry, American basketball player (Carolina Cougars, Harlem Globetrotters, Wilkes-Barre Barons), dies at age 78.

John Dempsey, English-Irish football player (Fulham, Chelsea, Ireland national team) and manager, dies at age 78.

Bruce Degen, American illustrator (The Magic School Bus), dies at age 79.

Charlie Turner, American football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Edmonton Eskimos, Winnipeg Blue Bombers), dies at age 79.

Judith Jamison, American dancer and choreographer (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater), dies at age 81.

Jim Hoagland, American journalist (The Washington Post) and Pulitzer Prize winner (1971, 1991), dies at age 84.%

Bobby Allison, American NASCAR race car driver and founder of the Alabama Gang and three-time Daytona 500 winner, dies at age 86.

Don Bosseler, American football player (Washington R*******), dies at age 88.

Al DeRusha, American television producer (WTCN) and professional wrestling executive (AWA, WWF), dies at age 88.

Gerry Faust, American football coach (Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Akron Zips), dies at age 89.

John Robinson, American football coach (USC Trojans, Los Angeles Rams), dies at age 89.%

Kathleen Watkins, Irish broadcaster and actor (Insurrection) and and harpist, dies at age 90.

George Wilkins, American composer (Walt Disney Parks and Resorts), dies at age 90.

Jonathan Haze, American actor (The Little Shop of Horrors, The Terror, It Conquered the World), dies at age 95.

Lou Donaldson, American jazz saxophonist (Milt Jackson, Thelonious Monk, Clifford Brown, Blue Mitchell, Horace Silver, Art Blakey), dies at age 98.

Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer (Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Wardell Gray, Stan Getz, Sarah Vaughan), dies at age 99.

Ella Jenkins, American singer and songwriter (Multicultural Children's Songs), dies at age 100.

June Spencer, English actor (The Archers), dies at age 105.

[gremlin45]

Timothy West has gone. He was 90, and was married to Prunella Scales for 61 years. She's had vascular dementia for over 20 years. I'm so sad for her.

I suspect most people will know Prunella Scales best as Sybil in Fawlty Towers.

I really liked Timothy West. He played the King in Ever After, and seemed to be having a lot of fun with the role.

Godspeed, sir.

[ratscabies]

Gerry Faust was a great guy.

After Notre Dame, he came to Akron to be head coach of the U of A Zips. Just like Notre Dame, his record doesn’t tell the story.

Akron U has had a crap football program my entire life. While Gerry didn’t succeed in changing that for any length of time, he was a great mentor for his players, and was well loved here for decades after he retired.

My father, who was pretty high up at Goodyear, and went to Akron U, was a season ticket holder for football and basketball for more than 20 years. My dad’s sister worked in alumni relations, dealing with sports donors.

I would often attend basketball games with my dad and grandpa during the 90s, and Gerry was at every game. He became friendly with my dad and would always saunter over from his seats one section over to say hi and catch up. Just a genuinely nice man.

RIP, Gerry.

(BTW, the son in law quoted in the Beacon Journal article above was a classmate of mine. We were pretty good friends in 3rd grade, and were still friendly all through high school, though we drifted apart when I chose music over sports.)

[cremetangerine82]

CW: heart attack<3, cancer+, pneumonia%, complications from a stroke#

Jon Kenny, Irish comedian and actor (The Banshees of Inisherin, Les Misérables, Father Ted), dies at age 66.<3

Wesley Cox, American basketball player (Golden State Warriors), dies at age 69.

Tommy Alverson, American country singer-songwriter, dies at age 74.+

Coloso Colosetti, Argentine professional wrestler (NWA, CMLL), dies at age 76.

Colin Petersen, Australian drummer (Bee Gees, Humpy Bong) and actor (Smiley), dies at age 78.

John Ray Godfrey, American basketball player (Abilene Christian Wildcats), dies at age 80.

Peter Sinfield, English lyricist ("21st Century Schizoid Man", "I Believe in Father Christmas") and musician (King Crimson) and record producer, dies at age 80.

Al Ferrara, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds), dies at age 84.%

Brian Maxine, English wrestler known as Goldbelt and cabaret artist, dies at age 86.

Shel Talmy, American record producer ("You Really Got Me", "My Generation", "Friday on My Mind"), dies at age 87.#

Arthur Frommer, American travel writer and founder of Frommer's, dies at age 95.%

Graham Bailey, English footballer (Huddersfield Town, Sheffield United), dies at age 104.

Eileen Kramer, Australian dancer and choreographer, dies at age 110.

[tabby]

Bela Karolyi, who coached the US Women's Olympic gymnastic team after defecting from Romania, has died.

He was, to say the least, problematic. His outright abusive coaching style is probably still around, but there are now gyms - some founded by former Olympians - that don't include verbal and physical abuse with a side of starvation.

[phillipa]

I highly recommend reading "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes". It's from the 90s so it's a bit out of date, but it describes in pretty gruesome detail the coaching strategies of Bela. His wife Martha was no peach either but he made her look downright gentle by comparison. The documentary "Athlete A" which is about the USAG Larry Nassar scandal also describes how Bela and Martha were essentially dictators (ironic considering their defection from the Eastern Block) over USA gymnastics for decades, and how they created a culture in which young athletes were too scared to speak up about abuse.

Bela certainly won a lot of medals for the United States (and Romania), but the cost was devastating for a lot of young girls.

[prisma]

I read Little Girls in Pretty Boxes when it came out and that pretty much ended my fascination with gymnastics because I realized how cruel the gymnastics pipeline was. And I don't even remember if it touched on sexual abuse. I do remember how the media loved to show pictures of Bela hugging the gymnasts after their routines and, in the book, Mary Lou Retton described the cruel/critical things he would whisper to them as they were hugging.

Until that point I loooooooved watching gymnastics.