Obit

For Silver Apples, Coxe built a massive electronic rig — named “the Simeon” — that comprised a mix of oscillators, telegraph switches, manual controllers and an assortment of effects pedals. “I had heard the word synthesizer, but I had no idea what it was,” Coxe told The Guardian last year. “We were dirt poor and used what we had, which was often discarded World War II gear.” … [Read more...] about Simeon Coxe, Synth Pioneer With Silver Apples, Dead at 82

The group hit their breakthrough, though, with 1973’s aptly titled fourth studio album Wild and Peaceful, a mix of raucous, brassy funk and mellifluous soul. The album would spawn three Top 10 hits — “Funky Stuff,” “Hollywood Swinging” and “Jungle Boogie” — all co-written by Bell and establish the group as both a preeminent pop chart force and funk powerhouse alongside Earth, Wind and Fire, the Isley Brothers and Sly & the Family Stone. … [Read more...] about Kool and the Gang Co-Founder Ronald Bell Dead at 68

I thanked him and got off the phone and smiled. Honestly, I felt a kind of relief come over me for the first time since I became a reporter in Hollywood. Finally. I had reached my potential. I didn’t know it until I got that validation from Tom Pollock. I was able to tell him this at our last lunch together. When I told him the impact he had on me, he paused and said, “I just had no idea.” I added, “I wasn’t the only one, Tom. For many, many people.” And we held that nostalgic moment together in silence, neither of us looking up from our plates. … [Read more...] about Anita Busch Remembers Tom Pollock: Smartest Guy In The Movie Business

However, the author relented. “My hidden treasure pulls families into the Rocky Mountains to search and hike, and observe the raw nature that is there,” Fenn told the New York Times in 2017. “They go home with a whole new perspective on what life is all about. In this troubled world, we need some of that.” … [Read more...] about Forrest Fenn, Author and Creator of Famed Treasure Hunt, Dead at 90

With the success of The Avengers, major film roles followed. In 1969, she was cast in the James Bond flick, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, as Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo, the only Bond girl to properly marry 007 (there’s a wedding in You Only Live Twice, although it’s technically a ploy). Over the next several decades, Rigg hopped between stage and screen in a way that showed off her range. During the Seventies alone, she earned a Golden Globe nomination for her role in the acclaimed 1971 satire The Hospital, turned around and starred in Vincent Price’s campy horror-comedy Theatre of Blood, and earned high praise for her work in theatrical productions like Abelard and Heloïse, The Misanthrope and Jumpers. … [Read more...] about Diana Rigg, Acclaimed Actress From ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘The Avengers,’ Dead at 82