RIP thread

[K_D]

Joan Marie Johnson
January 15, 1944 – October 5, 2016

Founding member of The Dixie Cups

http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/joan...dies/329266326



The Dixie Cups - Iko Iko (1965):
https://tmblr.co/ZoHQpk1lnHY7H

[johnbear]

Australian award winning sports journalist died age 54 breast cancer.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/sports-j...06-grwtt9.html

[tsunamiSD]

Austin 'Rocky' Kalish, Prolific Sitcom Writer, Dies at 95

Austin "Rocky" Kalish, the sitcom writer and producer who partnered with his wife Irma on hundreds of television episodes, including memorable installments of Maude and All in the Family, has died. He was 95.

The couple pitched the story for "Maude's Dilemma," the polarizing two-part episode of the CBS sitcom that first aired in November 1972 in which Bea Arthur's title character discovers that she's pregnant at age 47 and decides to have an abortion.
For CBS' All in the Family, like Maude a show produced by Norman Lear, they wrote the episode "Gloria the Victim" — in which Sally Struthers' character survives a rape attempt and wrestles with whether to testify against her attacker — and received story credit on "Edith's Christmas Story," where Jean Stapleton's character finds a lump in her breast. Both episodes first aired in 1973.
The couple also executive produced and wrote for Lear's Good Times, a spinoff of Maude. "Lear was a great supporter of women writers," Irma, 92, said.
Earlier, the Kalishes wrote the pilot with Elroy Schwartz (show creator Sherwood Schwartz's brother) for the CBS comedy Gilligan's Island and conceived the show's characters, including giving each of them (and the boat, the S.S. Minnow) his and her name.

[tsunamiSD]

He merits two stories in today's Union-Tribune, the first on the front page, by Tom Krasovic:

Chargers mourn death of minority owner Pernicano

George Pernicano, one of the five original Chargers minority owners and a longtime San Diego restaurateur, died Thursday at his home in El Cajon, the football team announced. He was 98.
Pernicano, whose initial stake in the franchise was for $50,000, joined with former San Diego Union sports columnist Jack Murphy and other prominent San Diegans in persuading Barron Hilton, the owner of the Los Angeles Chargers, to locate the team in downtown San Diego in 1961.
He attended almost every Chargers game over a span of four decades, earning him the nickname Road Warrior.
In 1996, the Chargers inducted him into their Hall of Fame.

*****

The second story is by long-time San Diego area sports reporter and columnist, Nick Canepa:

Pernicano Was One of a Kind

This is a tough write.Because George Pernicano, an American original, has passed away, as everyone must, I suppose, except it seems strange with George. I can honestly say that I have known no one of this earth more full of life, who enjoyed every single moment of it, who was more generous, more fun without strain, than George Pernicano.
The calendar says he was 98. He lived to be 196. There were at least two long lives packed into the Chargers’ minority owner. George always said he was re-born, which I will get to, and I imagine he was. He had an incredible battery.
On the road with the Chargers, we spent dozens and dozens of hours together, most of them over a fine meal followed by cognac. Story upon story. Many of them repeated, but who cared? Up to a few years back, when he became ill, he hadn’t missed a Chargers game anywhere and had been to every Super Bowl.
He told me a thousand times. “Football. I love football.” George said the Spanos family had tried to buy him out — I believe he owned 3 percent of the team, once owning 5 percent when the club moved here from L.A. in 1961 — and he went Moe Greene. “You buy me out?”
He considered it an insult.
“This is my life,” he always said, usually following it up with curse words. And it was. He traveled with the team, and on the road, he would be up all hours of the night, often out in front of the team hotel puffing away on a cigar. Hence his nickname, “Road Warrior.”
I have lost a friend, a companion, and San Diego is missing an icon. The Chargers have had one great, recognizable face throughout their history, and it has been this mustachioed cherub from Punxsutawney, Pa., who came here with wife Belle and his large family by way of Detroit in 1946 after serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

Alas, I’m never going to do George Pernicano justice, no matter how much space I have to try. So I’ll stop here.
I loved him. George was a part of my life for so long. He cannot be duplicated.
Physically, he was not a big man. But, believe me, we have lost a giant.

[johnbear]

Australian Comedy Actor Died Age 86 most famous for Ted Bulpitt in the 1980s television situation comedy Kingswood Country.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-0...ged-86/7913758

[Greenman]

Re Sir Neville Marriner. I seem to recall that when he was on Classic FM(in the early days of the radio station) Henry Kelly, the presenter would play a lot of records by him and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields. I wondered if there was some kind of connection between him and Sir Neville.

[ball7]

The German football player Larissa Gördel has died in a automobile accident. She was only 21 years old.

She played for the club TSV Schott Mainz.

[johnbear]

Australia cricketer spinner died age 78.
http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news...s-away-aged-78

[mars67]

Andrzej Wajda,Polish movie director, honoured with Oscar for the whole of the artistic work, 9.10 died at the age of 90.R.I.P.

[gedly]

Mayer Hersh has died, aged 90: The Holocaust survivor who devoted his life to sharing his story with thousands of school children.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....-dies-12003262