Claude Lanzmann director of the monumental, in length and subject matter, Shoah.
Steve Ditko
Co-creator of Spider-Man with Stan Lee. Died at age 90 sometime last week. Found in his NYC apartment. May have been dead a few days. He was a true eccentric and a bit of a recluse. He fell out with Stan Lee because he never got the credit he deserved. But he was also a supremely talented and unique graphic artist. One of a kind.
Auguste Clape
Nancy Sinatra. Not the daughter with the laughing face; her mother, at 101 years old.
Ray Emery, former Blackhawks goalie and a 2013 Stanley Cup Champion with them. 36 years old, and looks to be from drowning.
sunnylea57 posted:Auguste Clape
RIP. Have loved so many of his wines.
Auguste Clape died?
wineart 2 posted:Auguste Clape died?
http://www.terredevins.com/act...proue-du-rhone-nord/
passed @93 yrs
Jonathan Gold, the great food critic from the LA Times. First food critic to win a Pulitzer Prize.
theoldman posted:Jonathan Gold, the great food critic from the LA Times. First food critic to win a Pulitzer Prize.
I often disagreed with his take on restaurants, but I always enjoyed his writing. A big blow to the LA food scene. RIP
His writing while always about food, was really about the greatness of being a city with so many varied countries' cuisine and peoples. This sentence, about his early time living in Korea Town explains it all:
“The neighborhood — the diversity of the neighborhood — may have been what drove me to write about food in the first place. Immediately before the riots there had been restaurants from 14 regions within a few minutes’ walk from my apartment. Not just the Korean, Mexican and Japanese places you might have expected, but restaurants from Sumatra, Thailand, Guatemala, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Holland, Colombia, Nicaragua, Japan and Peru among others — all coexisting, all more or less delicious. It’s one thing to decide whether you feel like burgers or pizza for dinner; another to choose between bangus, empek-empek or brains masala.”
Amazingly he was also an assistant to artist Chris Burden during his dangerous performance art phase.
Tony Cloninger....Baseball pitcher. Only pitcher ever to hit two grand slam home runs in the same game.
Art Bell (back in April)
Police now say accidental overdose. I still say alien abduction
Ron Dellums
Joel Robuchon.
PH
Chef of the Century
RIP
French celebrity chef Joël Robuchon Yup Fully agree
Stan Mikita. He is now in a much better place than he had been the past few years. I got to witness his statue unveiling in person. He was recovering from throat (I think) cancer but was in great spirits. RIP Stas.
purplehaze posted:Joel Robuchon.
PH
I’ve been to l'atelier in Paris a few times, London a few times and Vegas a few times and loved them all. The first time in Paris left a real impression and my wife and I still talk about a few of the courses. The mashed potatoes of course are legendary and worthy of the praise.
Went to the 3 star in Vegas once and while still had a grand time always felt his best venue was L’atelier.
RIP to a great talent that really changed the game.
Canadian painter Mary Pratt, 83.