RIP: To remember those lost to us, whether close or at large

[secundem_artem]

Larry King  (87)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/larry-king-breezy-interviewer-of-the-famous-and-infamous-dies-at-87/ar-BB1d1qhd?ocid=Peregrine&li=BBnb7Kz

King had a truly odd interviewing style.  "So.... Putin, Schmutin.  Waddaya think?"  He had a 60 year career so I expect that means this was successful, but I always found it confusing.

[hmaria1609]

King had a truly odd interviewing style.  "So.... Putin, Schmutin.  Waddaya think?"  He had a 60 year career so I expect that means this was successful, but I always found it confusing.

Here's an interview with Larry King from 2015:
https://wtop.com/entertainment/2021/01/broadcast-legend-larry-king-dies-at-87-wtop-shares-obituary-in-his-own-words/
I didn't know he'd been in radio before he went to CNN. From WTOP Radio online 1/23/21

[namazu]

Flory Jagoda.

The American Folklife Center is very sad to pass on the news of the death of Flory Jagoda. Flory was a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, teacher, and cultural activist who survived the Holocaust and kept the flame of Sephardic Jewish tradition alive in the face of adversity. She was a tradition bearer whose work was crucial to her tradition and to the United States, and she was recognized with a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among many other honors.

Flory appeared at the Library of Congress many times in the past few years. She was a favorite performer and friend to many in the American Folklife Center and the Judaica Section. All of us at the Center express our condolences to Flory's family, friends, students, and fans.

[...]

At the link, find a blog post celebrating Flory's legacy, with embedded videos of three of Flory's concerts and an oral history interview by Howard Bass.
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2019/03/homegrown-plus-flory-jagoda/?loclr=fbafc

Appropriately, Flory died in the hours leading up to a special Sabbath in the Jewish faith: Shabbat Shirah, which commemorates the passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea. Shabbat Shirah means "The Sabbath of Song," because the Israelite women sang a song of praise after coming through the sea, led by the prophet Miriam with her tambourine. Flory was just such a song leader for so many in the community of Sephardic musicians.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

Someone I know lost her mother to Covid. :(

[fishbrains]

Cloris Leachman.

R.I.P. Frau Blücher [sad, but still nervous, neighing of horses]

[apl68]

Captain Tom, the 100-year-old World War II veteran who did 100 laps to raise money, has now died of COVID.

[clean]

Hal Holbrook  at 95.
I saw him in An Evening With Mark Twain. I had tickets to see him a second time, but the show was cancelled when his wife took a turn, and unfortunately, died. 

[apl68]

Hal Holbrook  at 95.
I saw him in An Evening With Mark Twain. I had tickets to see him a second time, but the show was cancelled when his wife took a turn, and unfortunately, died.

He played the elderly Mark Twain so convincingly for so long that I was surprised to hear that he had still been alive.  I'd supposed that he must have passed 100 years ago.

[mamselle]

Friends just told me about meeting him in London at a small restaurant near Pall Mall several years ago.

They recognized him, but didn't let on. He just said, "How nice to see some Americans here!"

He asked them what they'd been doing, they said wandering around London.

They asked him what he'd been doing, he said going to Buckingham Palace to see the Queen.

I don't know what happened after that, but they said they did not ask for autographs or let on they knew who he was.

M.

[hmaria1609]

Captain Tom, the 100-year-old World War II veteran who did 100 laps to raise money, has now died of COVID.

The London Eye was lit in red, white, and blue in his honor:
https://secretldn.com/london-eye-captain-tom/
Posted on Secret London online (2/2/21)

[apl68]

Nobody here has mentioned Cicely Tyson.  She died suddenly within the last couple of weeks.  She lived to be almost as old as Miss Jane Pitman.

Her memoir was just in the process of coming out.  We have it on order for the library.

[mamselle]

I've had it in mind twice and didn't have a link on hand to an obit or article on her.

RIP, Cicley: You set the bar high for class, role selection, and style.

M.

[secundem_artem]

Christopher Plummer aged 91 after a fall.

[jimbogumbo]

Susan Bayh, wife of Sen. Evan Bayh, at 61 of cancer.

[clean]

Rush Limbaugh age 70

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rush-limbaugh-conservative-radio-provocateur-and-cultural-phenomenon-dies-at-70/ar-BB1dLy8M?li=BBnb7Kz