RIP thread

[patwynnfan]

Marni Nixon, known as Hollywood's "invisible voice", has died aged 86.

The singer appeared, uncredited, on many of the biggest movie musicals of all time - dubbing the voices for Deborah Kerr in The King and I, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady.

She also sang the high notes for Marilyn Monroe in Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend; and "ghosted" Natalie Wood's vocals on West Side Story.

Nixon died of breast cancer on Sunday, her agent confirmed to the BBC.

For most of her career, the classically-trained musician remained unknown. Twentieth Century Fox made her sign a contract saying she would never reveal the ghost-singing on The King and I. The story only came out later, when Kerr herself credited Nixon's work in a press interview.

The clandestine nature of her work led Time magazine to dub Nixon "the ghostess with the mostest".

The singer likened her work to that of a stuntman, and collaborated closely with the stars to perfect the screen illusion.

Kerr "wanted to look like she was really singing", Nixon told the Washington Post, "and wanted to be using the same muscles and the same stretches you do in expressions".

Hepburn even gave Nixon a lift to the set of My Fair Lady every morning; and they worked together to ensure their performances matched.

"I sat in on her singing lessons, so I could hear not only the Cockney and the upper-class British, which are two different voices. But I also had to get her very unique speech patterns, so I had to listen very carefully so I could catch it."

"It's fascinating, getting inside the actresses you're singing for," she told The New York Journal-American in 1964. "It's like cutting off the top of their heads and seeing what's underneath. You have to know how they feel, as well as how they talk, in order to sing as they would sing - if they could sing."

Not every actress appreciated her help, however.

Wood, playing Maria in West Side Story, thought Nixon would be helping out on the high notes. But director Robert Wise had other ideas.

"She didn't know how much of her work would be done by somebody else," Nixon later recalled. "She didn't know that it would all be thrown out and that it would be all my voice. I don't think that Natalie Wood's ego could take that."

Nonetheless, it was Wood's name that appeared on the soundtrack - which went on to sell more than three million copies in the US. As a result, Nixon was not given a share of the royalties, until composer Leonard Bernstein gave up a quarter of one per cent of his own royalty and passed it on to the singer.

[johnbear]

[patwynnfan]

Irish jockey JT McNamara, who was paralysed after a fall at the 2013 Cheltenham Festival, has died aged 41. John Thomas McNamara, a father-of-three, was a leading amateur rider before being seriously injured. He fractured two vertebrae in his neck after being thrown from his horse Galaxy Rock in the Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup on 14 March, 2013. He moved back home to Limerick in 2014 after being discharged from the North West Regional Spinal Injuries Centre. Adrian McGoldrick, senior medical officer for the Irish Turf Club confirmed McNamara "passed away peacefully during the night". McNamara rode four winners at the Cheltenham Festival, including guiding Teaforthree to victory in the 2012 National Hunt Chase. He won the same race in 2002 on Rith Dubh, was successful in the Cross-Country Chase with Spot Thedifference three years later and won the 2007 Fox Hunter Chase on Drombeag. A minute's silence will be held at the Galway Festival on Tuesday as a mark of respect, before the second race at 17:45 BST.

[tygrkhat40]

Lewis Steinberg, the original bassist of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, died on July 21 at the age of 82. Steinberg was with the band from 1962 to 1965, recording the albums Green Onions and Soul Dressing. When Steinberg left the group, he was replaced by Donald "Duck" Dunn.

Both Steinberg and Dunn were elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

[footstep]

St Etienne en Rouvray. 84 years old priest Père Amel, killed this morning by daesh terrorists.
Horror goes on, life also.

[loplop]

Sandy Pearlman - Producer for such groups as The Clash, Blue Oyster Cult and others. He died from complications from a cerebral hemorrhage that occurred in December. He was 72.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...ue-oyster-cult

[ball7]

Georgia TV anchor Taylor Terrell died on the 26th after plunging to death after slipping at the top of N.C. Waterfall.

http://breaking911.com/georgia-tv-an...-to-her-death/

[patwynnfan]

The remains of a 54-year-old man who disappeared hunting for a hidden stash of gold and jewels in New Mexico have been discovered, local authorities say. Police in New Mexico's capital Santa Fe confirmed the remains as those of Randy Bilyeu from Colorado. He went missing in January this year hunting for a $2m (£1.5m) trove hidden by art dealer and author Forrest Fenn. Thousands have searched for the hoard left by Mr Fenn, who gave clues about the treasure's location in a 2011 book. Bilyeu set out for the Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico with a raft and his pet dog on 5 January. His wife reported him missing on 14 January, and the raft and dog were found the next day. The remains were discovered along a stretch of the Rio Grande river. Mr Fenn has urged people not to search for the treasure during winter and joined in search efforts to find Bilyeu. The writer says hunters should not look in "any place where an 80-year-old man couldn't put it". A Texan woman got lost searching for the treasure three years ago but was found by rescuers.

[ball7]

Miss Cleo - famed late 90ties TV Psychic has died at the age of 53.
After a long battle with colon cancer.

http://www.tmz.com/2016/07/26/miss-cleo-dead-psychic/

[K_D]

Originally Posted by tygrkhat40

Lewis Steinberg, the original bassist of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, died on July 21 at the age of 82. Steinberg was with the band from 1962 to 1965, recording the albums Green Onions and Soul Dressing. When Steinberg left the group, he was replaced by Donald "Duck" Dunn.

Both Steinberg and Dunn were elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

Booker T. and The MG’s - Green Onions (1962):
https://tmblr.co/ZoHQpk1kzZ1hV