Nichopoulooza
June 04, 2009
David Carradine
(December 8, 1936 June 3, 2009)
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"Kung Fu" and "Kill Bill" star David Carradine was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room on Thursday, police said. His personal manager, Chuck Binder, was quoted by People Magazine as saying that the death was "shocking and sad. He was full of life, always wanting to work ... a great person." American actor Carradine, 72, was in Bangkok to shoot his latest movie, Stretch, and stayed at a Suite Room 352 of the Park Nai Lert Hotel on Wireless Road since June 2. The film crew were aware of his absence when they went to dine out at a restaurant on Sathorn Road on June 3. Carradine did not show up at the dinner and the team could not reach him. They assumed that he took a rest because of his age. It was a hotel's maid who opened his suite on Thursday at 10 am after her repeated calls at the door were unanswered. She found Carradine in a closet. He was described as being half naked. Police said evidence at the scene showed that he hung himself. "It looks like a suicide," said Pol Col Somprasong Yentuam, chief of Lumpini police. "He was a big man and it would have been difficult for someone to move him in there and kill him in there." Police said he was dead for not less than 12 hours and found no sign of fighting, or intrusion or assaults. Somprasong said security at the hotel was very good. American Embassy officials had also been to the scene, police sources said.
Kung Fu Man
Aside from Quentin Tarantino's two-part "Kill Bill" in 2003 and 2004, Carradine was perhaps best known for his role as the fugitive half-Chinese Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s easternwestern TV drama "Kung Fu". He also starred in Martin Scorsese's "Boxcar Bertha" in 1972, portrayed folksinger Woody Guthrie in "Bound for Glory" in 1976, acted in Ingmar Bergman's "The Serpent's Egg" in 1977 and co-starred with half brothers Keith Carradine and Robert Carradine in the 1980 western "The Long Riders". His father was the noted actor John Carradine.
In Thai cinemas, Carradine was recently seen as a martial arts guru in the Rob Schneider comedy "Big Stan" and as a perverted elderly Chinese mobster in "Crank: High Voltage" starring Jason Statham. Carradine, who was married five times and divorced four, is survived by his widow, Annie Bierman, according to People magazine.
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Deaths in 2009 [Wikipedia]
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2009. Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.
Deaths of notable animals (that is, those with their own Wikipedia articles) are also reported here.
A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
June 2009
5
- Chris O'Brien, 57, Australian oncologist, cancer. [1]
[edit] 4
- Shitsuko Araki, 111, Japanese supercentenarian. [2] (Japanese)
- Frank G. Harrison, 69, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1983–1985). [3]
- John F. Henning, 93, American politician, Ambassador to New Zealand (1967–1969). [4]
- Jean Sagadeev, 42, Russian musician, suspected suicide by hanging. [5] (Russian)
- Shih Kien, 96, Hong Kong actor (Enter the Dragon). [6]
[edit] 3
- Geoffrey Bingham, 90, Australian evangelical Christian writer. [7]
- David Bromige, 75, British-born Canadian poet, winner of the Pushcart Prize. [8]
- Sam Butera, 81, American saxophonist, after long illness. [9]
- David Carradine, 72, American actor (Kung Fu, Kill Bill), suspected suicide by hanging. [10]
- Sam George, 56, Canadian activist, native rights campaigner involved with the Ipperwash Crisis, pancreatic and lung cancer. [11]
- Thomas Gill, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Hawaii (1963–1965). [12]
- Nikandros Kepesis, 95, Greek politician, natural causes. [13] (Greek)
- Peter J. Landin, British computer scientist, natural causes. [14]
- Benoit Marleau, 72, Canadian actor, cancer. [15] (French)
- Bruce McLachlan, 67, Australian horse racing trainer, heart attack. [16]
- John Campbell Ross, 110, Australian supercentenarian, last surviving Australian veteran of World War I. [17]
- Koko Taylor, 80, American blues musician, complications from gastrointestinal surgery. [18]
- Moloko Temo, 134?, South African claimant to the world's oldest person title. [19]
[edit] 2
- David Eddings, 77, American fantasy author. [20]
- Tony Maggs, 72, South African racing driver, cancer. [21]
- Palghat R. Raghu, 81, Burmese-born Indian musician, cardiac arrest. [22]
- Horst Siebert, 71, German economist. [23] (German)
[edit] 1
- Alaa Abdel-Wahab, 37, Iraqi sports journalist, bomb attack. [24]
- Bob Christie, 85. American racing driver, pulmonary fibrosis. [25]
- Erich Heine, 41, South African-born German director of ThyssenKrupp, plane crash. [26]
- Vincent O'Brien, 92, Irish race horse trainer. [27]
- Prince Pedro Luís of Orléans-Braganza, 26, Brazilian prince, plane crash. [28]
- Alexander S. Potupa, 64, Belarussian politician, physicist, economist and writer. [29]
- Jerry Rosenberg, 72, American jailhouse lawyer, natural causes. [30]
- Dirk du Toit, 65, South African politician. [31]
[edit] May 2009
[edit] 31
- Torsten Andersson, 82, Swedish painter. [32] (Swedish)
- Kamala Das, 75, Indian writer, after long illness. [33]
- Millvina Dean, 97, British woman, last living passenger aboard the Titanic, pneumonia. [34]
- Brian Edrich, 86, British cricketer. [35]
- Sir John Holland, 94, Australian engineer, construction magnate. [36]
- Danny La Rue, 81, Irish-born British female impersonator and singer, prostate cancer. [37]
- Vyacheslav Nevinny, 74, Russian actor, diabetes. [38] (Russian)
- George Tiller, 67, American physician and abortion provider, shot. [39]
[edit] 30
- Luís Cabral, 78, Guinea-Bissauan politician, President (1973–1980). [40]
- Susanna Haapoja, 42, Finnish politician, cerebral haemorrhage. [41]
- Eric Hammond, 79, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the EETPU. [42]
- Ephraim Katzir, 93, Israeli biophysicist and politician, President (1973–1978). [43]
- Waldemar Matuška, 76, Czech singer, pneumonia and heart failure. [44] (Czech)
- Nell Meadows, 110, American supercentenarian. [45]
- Gaafar Nimeiry, 79, Sudanese politician, President (1969–1985). [46]
- Niki Typaldou, 64, Greek photographer and journalist, cancer. [47] (Greek)
[edit] 29
- Hank Bassen, 76, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack. [48]
- Kevin Beurle, 53, British scientist, hot air balloon accident. [49]
- Jonny Dollar, 45, British music producer, cancer. [50]
- Susan Jordan, 67, American lawyer and activist, plane crash. [51]
- Ed Murray, 80, American politician, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1987–1991). [52]
- Nikos Panayiotidis, 56, Greek actor, heart attack. [53] (Greek)
- Bill Perkins, 89, Australian footballer (Richmond). [54]
- Viktor Petrov, 89, Russian clarinetist and educator, professor at Moscow Conservatory. [55] (Russian)
- Karine Ruby, 31, French snowboarder, fall. [56]
[edit] 28
- Mort Abrahams, 93, American film and television producer (Planet of the Apes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), natural causes. [57]
- Terence Alexander, 86, British film and television actor (Bergerac). [58]
- Terry Barr, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions), Alzheimer's disease. [59]
- Marcel Béliveau, 69, Canadian television host, producer and comedian, cancer. [60] (French)
- Manuel Collantes, 91, Filipino diplomat, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs (1984), cardiac arrest. [61]
- Paul Haney, 80, American public servant, information officer for NASA ("Voice of Mission Control"), cancer. [62]
- Roger Kaffer, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Joliet. [63]
- Luis María de Larrea y Legarreta, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bilbao. [64] (Spanish)
- Lambros Papantoniou, 64, Greek journalist, after long illness. [65] (Greek)
- Lenrie Peters, 76, Gambian surgeon and novelist, after short illness. [66]
- Ercole Rabitti, 87, Italian footballer and trainer. [67] (Italian)
- Oleg Shenin, 71, Russian politician, member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1990–1991). [68]
- Betty Tancock, 98, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1932). [69]
- John Tolos, 78, Canadian professional wrestler, renal failure. [70]
[edit] 27
- Ammo Baba, 74, Iraqi footballer and trainer, diabetes. [71].
- E. D. Doyle, 90, Irish military officer and analyst. [72]
- Clive Granger, 74, British economist, Nobel Prize winner for economics. [73]
- Mona Grey, 98, British public servant, Chief Nursing Officer for Northern Ireland. [74].
- Ortega Henderson, 25, American rapper, gunshot wounds. [75]
- Abram Hoffer, 92, Canadian orthomolecular psychiatrist. [76]
- Gérard Jean-Juste, 62, Haitian political activist, after long illness. [77]
- Carol Anne O'Marie, 75, American Roman Catholic nun and mystery novelist, Parkinson's disease. [78]
- Sir William Refshauge, 96, Australian public health administrator. [79]
- Jack Reilly, 84, American television producer (Good Morning America), complications from a fall. [80]
- Paul Sharratt, 75, British-born American television producer, cancer. [81]
- Ralph D. Winter, 84, American missionary (U.S. Center for World Mission), multiple myeloma and lymphoma. [82]
[edit] 26
- Mamadou Bâ, 79, Guinean politician, cancer. [83] (French)
- Arcangelo Ianelli, 86, Brazilian painter, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [84] (Portuguese)
- Kaoru Kurimoto, 56, Japanese author, pancreatic cancer. [85]
- Mihalis Papagiannakis, 68, Greek politician, Member of Parliament, cancer. [86] (Greek)
- Michael Ross, 89, American screenwriter and director (Three's Company), complications from a heart attack and stroke. [87]
- Ronald Takaki, 70, American sociologist, professor of ethnic studies (University of California, Berkeley), suicide. [88]
- Peter Zezel, 44, Canadian ice hockey player, haemolytic anaemia. [89]
[edit] 25
- Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, 48, Nigerian Pan African activist, car accident. [90]
- Billy Baxter, 70, British footballer, cancer. [91]
- Amos Elon, 82, Austrian-born Israeli author and journalist. [92] (German)
- Haakon Lie, 103, Norwegian politician. [93] (Norwegian)
- Costas Sfikas, 82, Greek cinematographer. [94] (Greek)
- Franz Soronics, 88, Austrian politician. [95]
- Ivan van Sertima, 74, Guyanese-born British historian, linguist and anthropologist (Rutgers University). [96]
[edit] 24
- Jay Bennett, 45, American musician (Wilco) and songwriter. [97]
- Ella Snoep, 82, Dutch actress. [98] (Dutch)
- Blyth Wright, 65, British mountaineer, avalanche expert, and Scottish National Party activist. [99]
The Clash: Rude Boy 'Ray Gange was just too rudefor the Clash' [1980 Film]
The cult of the roadie
Ray Gange was just too rude for the Clash, says Marcus Gray
When people talk about the 1980 film Rude Boy nowadays, they call it "the Clash movie". It featured the band, portraying themselves, and a selection of great live performances. But they were not the notional stars of the film. That was a young man called Ray Gange, the Rude Boy of the title.
Rude Boy is a strange piece of work, stuck in that always awkward place between documentary and fiction. Uncomfortable and (in some cases) reluctant amateurs struggle to portray themselves, or people who share their names. To describe Gange's's own performance as wooden would be unfair: wood can't drink heavily and look embarrassed while mumbling its lines.
The original 1960s rude boys were sharp-dressed, gang-affiliated young Jamaicans. A decade later, the Clash appropriated the term as a romantic catch-all for their own followers. At first, the 20-year-old Ray Gange on the screen seems to be an archetypal Clash fan, albeit one lucky enough to be offered a job as a roadie. But it soon becomes clear that the pro-capitalist and borderline racist views he expresses are at odds with the values championed by his new employers.
During the period of filming, spring 1978 to spring 1979, Margaret Thatcher was on the verge of assuming power, and racism was a major issue. Joint producer-directors David Mingay and Jack Hazan pushed for Gange to challenge the band. Thus, the screen Ray Gange is partly the real Ray Gange, partly a composite of other Clash hangers-on, and partly the film-makers' zeitgeist indicator.
The shiftlessness and drunkenness are authentic Gange, though: it's not easy to hump amplifiers with a can of Special Brew stuck to your lips, so Gange didn't bother. Here, Mingay and Hazan had no choice but to run with the result, playing up his haplessness. When the Clash finally lose patience and leave him stranded, the question is not so much why as why so long?
After watching the rough cut of Rude Boy, the band certainly had regrets. They instructed Mingay and Hazan to cut it to 50 minutes of straight concert footage, and when the pair refused, the band withdrew their support. The most recent DVD reissue of Rude Boy seems to agree about its key selling point, offering the option to "just play the Clash". For the record: the 20-odd blistering live performances would never have been captured had it not been for (the real) Ray Gange, who first pointed Mingay and Hazan in the Clash's direction.
By the time the film was released, Gange was in Hollywood with a green card - working on a building site. He quit, involving himself with various "band projects" on the local punk scene, and picking up occasional work as a TV and film extra, though Rude Boy remains his only credit on imdb.com. In late 1982, he moved back to his native Brixton. Asked to sum up what he has done since, he offers "band management, record label owner, narcotics vortex, art degree, parent, and get old". He no longer drinks or smokes, and is a full-time father and a part-time artist who hopes to show his paintings and sculptures on a website by the end of the summer.
Now heavy-set and balding - but affable and surprisingly healthy-looking - he recently played an Italian assassin in an unnamed short, which "may never see the light of day". He's also in a video for Radio London, recorded this spring by the Devildolls Rock'n'Roll Street Gang in support of the Strummerville foundation.
Meanwhile, the screen Ray Gange appears to have acquired cult status. The real Gange insists it was only ever "journalists" who concerned themselves with a political analysis of either Rude Boy or his role, anyway. These days, people are simply impressed that he was there and has the film to prove it. "It's a source of identification for a lot of the band's fans," he says. "They weren't expecting an existential De Niro-esque tour de force." And, he adds, he's happy to hear film offers from anyone who knows they won't be getting De Niro.
· Marcus Gray is the author of The Clash: Return of the Last Gang in Town
June 3, 2009
like a cigarette for the rapture
like a cigarette for the rapture while you casually inhale--a temporary satisfaction completely in your control; to be out of control leads to wild and unimaginable delight, none of which i would trade for more standard fare. what care i if the keeper makes infrequent visits to my cage out of obligation or tenderness, for i will gorge on her raw, bloody meat, passed through the bars and not bare my Sabre fangs even if she holds in her hand the meat of my dinner-dreams: fantastic savanna, i once roamed without compare.
i have even gotten her to believe she may rub my striped snout, with her brave eyes showing tenderness, which hide the fear which i smell above even the fresh meat...and although i wish to take the steak and the hand back into my cool chamber and gorge , it is only for the next visit that i don't.
why, i even think she thinks i am a tame house cat.
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