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H.R. Giger~Creator of the Alien creature/sets, has died.

H.R. Giger, Surrealist Artist and ‘Alien’ Designer, Dead at 74

Painter and sculptor, whose cover art graced albums by Debbie Harry, Danzig and more, had recently fallen down a flight of stairs

H.R. Giger

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By Kory Grow

May 13, 2024 9:25 AM ET

Surrealist painter Hans Ruedi Giger, whose designs inspired the creature in Alien and whose otherworldly and often grotesque art graced album covers for Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Debbie Harry and Danzig, died Monday, following hospitalization for falling down the stairs in his Zurich home. He was 74.

Look back at H.R. Giger’s greatest cover art, from Debbie Harry to Danzig

Giger described his artwork as "biomechanical," BBC reports, and earned renown for his monochromatic dystopian landscapes and perverse monsters. Many paintings featured genitalia in the art, while others found machines fused to organic beings.

"My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy," Giger said in a 1979 interview, according to the Associated Press. "If they like my work they are creative … or they are crazy."

His 1976 lithograph, Necronom IV, was the basis for the Xenomorph creature that debuted in Ridley Scott’s 1979 space horror Alien and appeared in its many sequels. He won the Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual Effects for Alien in 1980 and contributed designs to 1986’s Poltergeist II: The Other Side, 1992’s Alien 3, 1995’s Species and 2024’s Prometheus, among other films. He was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2024.

His eerie artwork also graced album covers by artists ranging from pop artists to death-****l bands. Prog trio Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s 1973 album Brain Salad Surgery featured complex packaging that allowed fans to open up its industrial, skull-like visage to see a woman’s face. He also designed the cover of Debbie Harry’s 1981 album Koo Koo, using her face in the art. His paintings grace the covers of death ****l trailblazers Celtic Frost’s 1985 album To Mega Therion, Danzig’s 1992 LP Danzig III: How the Gods Kill, melodic death ****l group Carcass’ 1993 record Heartwork, Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s 1998 live album Then and Now, and the two most recent albums by Triptykon, a death-****l band formed by Celtic Frost’s Tom Fischer.

Punk group the Dead Kennedys included a poster of Giger’s Landscape #XX, also known as Penis Landscape as it depicted rows of erect phalluses in coitus, in the packaging of their 1985 album Frankenchrist, and were subsequently put on trial for obscenity. When a 14-year-old girl bought the album for her 11-year-old brother, her parents filed a complaint with the California attorney general. The Dead Kennedys had included a sticker on their album art bearing a warning about the poster: "Some people may find [it] shocking, repulsive or offensive – life can sometimes be that way." The group later removed the poster and included a voucher fans could mail in for it. The obscenity case ended in a mistrial.

Additionally, Korn frontman Jonathan Davis commissioned Giger to design him a microphone stand, which he still uses, and Blondie guitarist Chris Stein owns a guitar that incorporated Giger’s artwork into its design.

Giger opened his own museum in Gruyeres, Switzerland, in 1998, to display his paintings and sculptures. It also includes art by the likes of Salvador Dalí and Ernst Fuchs.

H.R. Giger, Surrealist Artist and ‘Alien’ Designer, Dead at 74 | Music News | Rolling Stone

This gets me right in the damn nerd feels. I loved his work. Not just his work on the Alien series, but his art books, sculptures and even his cool album covors for Debbie Harry and others. God speed Maestro. You are now among the stars. Your legacy will live on. RESPECT!!

What Happened to Sandra Bland, a Black Woman Who Died in Jail Monday?

On Friday, Sandra Bland was arrested in Prairie View, Tx., following a routine traffic stop for failure to signal a lane change. Three days later, she was dead in her cell at Waller County Jail. Suicide by hanging is the official cause of death, but Bland’s family believes it was something much more sinister.

“The family of Sandra Bland is confident that she was killed and did not commit suicide,” the family’s law firm wrote in a statement released this week. “The family has retained counsel to investigate Sandy’s death.”

Bland was charged Friday with “assault of a public servant,” the Chicago Tribunereported, after she allegedly kicked the Texas State Trooper who pulled her over. Ablurry bystander video of the arrest, first published by a Chicago ABC affiliate, shows What appear to be two officers on top of Bland, who can be heard protesting the nature of the arrest: “You just slammed my head into the ground. Do you not even care about that? I can’t even hear. He slammed my fucking head into the ground.” Bland can also be heard thanking the bystander for recording.

Bland received breakfast in her cell at 7 a.m. on Monday, and was found dead at 9 a.m. On Tuesday, the Waller County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that Bland had apparently Died of self-induced asphyxiation, the Houston Chronicle reports. An autopsy by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences concluded that Bland’s death was a suicide by hanging. Representatives of the Sheriff’s office said did not specify What Bland allegedly used to hang herself, but said that she did not use shoelaces or a blanket, according to the Chronicle.

Bland, a native of the Chicago area, had recently accepted a job as a student outreach coordinator at Prairie View A&M, her alma mater, and was driving near the campus when she was pulled over.

The Texas Rangers, the investigative arm of the state’s Department of Public Safety, are investigating the circumstances of Bland’s death. Waller County prosecutor Elton Mathis told the Tribune that such an investigation is “typical protocol” following a death in custody.

Rev. James Miller, pastor at Bland’s Illinois church, told the Tribune that she was a “very, very accomplished young lady,” and a “commendable, active young adult,” adding that he hopes “the investigation is very comprehensive.”

I read earlier that the FBI is now going to investigate.

Marcia Strassman, known for Welcome Back Kotter, has died at 66

Marcia Strassman dead at 66: Actress known for ‘Welcome Back, Kotter,’ ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ battled breast cancer

https://www.nydailynews.com/entertain…icle-1.1988101

Marcia Strassman’s career spanned five decades with appearances on the hit shows ‘M*A*S*H’ and ‘Welcome Back, Kotter,’ and in the ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ franchise. She died Saturday at 66 after a seven-year battle with breast cancer that spread to her bones.

BY NICOLE HENSLEY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Sunday, October 26, 2024, 8:44 PM
Updated: Sunday, October 26, 2024, 9:19 PM

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Marcia Strassman died Saturday after a seven-year battle with breast cancer that spread to her bones shortly after her diagnosis.
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The 66-year-old actress played Julie Kotter in ABC’s ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’ from 1975 to 1979 and appeared in the ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ franchise.
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Marcia Strassman, the actress best known as the long-suffering wife on “Welcome Back, Kotter” and in “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” died Saturday after a seven-year battle with breast cancer. She was 66.
“She was the funniest, smartest person I ever met,” the actress’ sister, Julie Strassman, told Deadline.com. “And talented. She knew everything. Now I won’t be able to call her and ask her questions.”
Her five-decade career started with guest appearances on the Patty Duke Show, before appearing as Nurse Margie Cutler in six episodes of “M*A*S*H.”
But she remains best-loved as the on-screen wife of Gabe Kotter, a Brooklyn high school teacher played by Gabe Kaplan on “Welcome Back, Kotter.” Kaplan would end every episode by telling Strassman’s character a ridiculous anecdote about one of his family members. “So sad that a sweet friend, kind person and wonderful actress lost her brave battle with cancer,” comic director Bob Weide tweeted.
The New York native appeared opposite Rick Moranis in “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” in 1989 as the mother of two teenagers mistakenly reduced to the size of bugs. She reprised the role in “Honey, I Blew Up the Kid” in 1992.
Her appearances in film and television slowed down after her diagnosis of breast cancer in 2024, which was Stage IV. It had already spread to her bones, she told Coping Magazine in a 2024 interview.
Her final years were spent advocating for breast cancer awareness.
She is survived by her daughter, Lizzie, and brother, Steven.
nhensley@nydailynews.com

Little Jimmy Dickens Has Died at the Age of 94

Little Jimmy Dickens in 1977
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By Kay West
01/02/2015 AT 07:55 PM EST

He never stood any taller than 4’11", but he cast an impressive shadow on eight decades of country music.

James Cecil Dickens – known to generations of Grand Ole Opry fans as Little Jimmy Dickens – Died in a Nashville area hospital on Friday. He was 94.

Dickens Died of cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke on Christmas Day. He is survived by his wife, Mona Dickens, married since 1971, and two daughters, Pamela Detert and Lisa King. Dickens was the longest running member of the Opry, joining in 1948, and last performed at the Opry on Dec. 20, 2024, singing "Out Behind The Barn" and delivering his trademark comedy. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time however a public visitation and a public service is being planned.

"The Grand Ole Opry did not have a better friend than Little Jimmy Dickens," said Pete Fisher, Opry vice president and general manager. "He loved the audience and his Opry family, and all of us loved him back. He was a one-of-kind entertainer and a great soul whose spirit will live on for years to come."

The oldest member of the Opry was also its longest-tenured, inducted in 1948. The oldest of 13 children raised on a farm in Bolt, West Virginia, Dickens started his career performing on local radio shows until he met Roy Acuff, one of the Opry’s biggest stars, who invited him to come to Nashville and appear on the show.

A recording contract followed and his first single, "Take an Old Cold Tater (and Wait)" was released on Columbia Records in 1949. Its success prompted his good friend Hank Williams to bestow him with the affectionate nickname "Tater."

More novelty hits followed, including "A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed," "Hillbilly Fever" and his first and only no. 1 single, "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" in 1965.

"I kind of got branded as a novelty singer right at the start of my career," he said in the book Around the Opry Table in 2024. "I had been doing other kinds of songs, ballads and gospel, but once "Tater" hit the Top 10, I had to follow that up with another like it. The novelty songs were how radio knew me. It didn’t bother me."

It was longtime fan and fellow West Virginian Brad Paisley who introduced Dickens to a new generation of country fans, using the elder icon in his videos and stage shows, as well as appearing with him countless times on the Opry stage.

"He’s from West Virginia and is well-known there and beloved. I was a great fan of his comedy and whole demeanor," said Paisley in a 2024 interview with PEOPLE. "When I was a teenager, I met him when I opened for him on the Saturday night Jamboree USA radio show in Wheeling at the Capitol Music Hall."

When Paisley moved to Nashville and performed at the Grand Ole Opry, he re-introduced himself to his hero backstage and extended an invitation. "I was a brand-new singer in town and he didn’t know me at all, but I knew he liked to fish so I asked him if he would like to go fishing together some time and he said yes, and we went just a few days later. That was our first date."

And the start of an enduring friendship. "The more I got to know him it was real apparent that he is one of the most unique and special human beings that ever lived," Paisley said. "I like the idea of what he has done with his life. He has made the absolute most of every situation he has ever been handed. He has never said no to any crazy thing that I asked him because he doesn’t care about anything other than ‘Will it work, will it get a laugh?’ That is such a *******ing outlook on life."

Dickens appeared in several Paisley videos, taped bits broadcast during Paisley’s live shows, and recorded bonus comedy tracks on Paisley’s albums as a member of the novelty band The Kung-Pao Buckaroos, which also included George Jones and Bill Anderson. He made 13 trips to Europe, twice entertained troops in Vietnam and in 1964 became the first country artist to circle the globe. And he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1983.

But Dickens was always most comfortable standing on the sacred circle of the Grand Ole Opry stage, either performing or hosting a segment.

He turned 94 on December 19 and celebrated his birthday the following night doing what he loves best – performing on the Saturday night Opry.

Source: Little Jimmy Dickens Has Died at the Age of 94 – Death, Music News, Brad Paisley : People.com

French designer Christian Audigier died at age 57

French designer Christian Audigier died at age 57 (myelodysplastic syndrome)

Christian Audigier Dead: Ed Hardy designer Dies at 57 After Cancer Battle

Celebrity News Jul. 10,2020 AT 9:16AM By Rachel McRady

French designer Christian Audigier died at age 57. Credit: Florian Seefried/Getty Images

French designer Christian Audigier has passed away at age 57, TMZ and WWD report.
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Audigier had been battling cancer since January and had previously told TMZ that he was suffering from myelodysplastic syndrome, the same bone disease that Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts was diagnosed with back in 2024.

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The famed designer is most known for his work with Ed Hardy, but has also worked on lines for Levi’s, Diesel, Guess, American Outfitters, Bisou Bisou, and XOXO.
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His most famous brands, Ed Hardy and Von Dutch, were made popular by celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, Audrina Patridge, and Jon Gosselin in the early 2000s. Two of his biggest celebrity supporters were Madonna and the late Michael Jackson.

Woman who ‘died’ from cancer heard screaming from inside coffin after being buried

Is the Mirror UK a tabloid/rag NY Post kind of paper?

Totally bizarre.

Woman who ‘died’ from cancer is heard screaming from inside coffin after being buried alive. Cemetery workers claim they heard a Woman banging and shouting an hour after being buried.

Cemetery workers raced to a newly-dug grave after they heard banging and muffled shouting an hour after a 45-year-old Woman was buried.

As they grabbed tools and anything they could find, they rushed to dig the grave up again after the Woman woke up to find herself buried alive in a coffin.

But tragically, the un-named Woman died before her would-be rescuers could reach her inside the plot at a cemetery near Greece’s Thessaloniki.

Now police are probing why the Woman was pronounced dead by doctors treating her for cancer, only to be found alive.

Her grieving family arranged her funeral at the graveyard in Peraia, a small town 16 miles south of Thessaloniki, Greece’s main city in the north.

Shortly after the last relatives left the cemetery on Thursday, residents and a group of children playing outside reportedly heard a female voice shouting for help from inside the grave.

They called the police, and began digging up the grave to save her but she had suffocated to death inside the coffin, it was reported.

However, a doctor who was at the scene and examined the woman’s ****, said she had been dead for hours and could not have been revived.

Dr Chrissi Matsikoudi told Greek TV channel MEGA: "I just don’t believe it. We did several tests including one for heart failure on the ****.

"It would have been impossible for someone in a state of rigor mortis to have been shouting and hitting the coffin like that.” A coroner is expected to examine the ****.

Meanwhile, relatives of the dead Woman say they are considering filing a complaint against the doctors responsible for her treatment at the cancer clinic.

Woman who ‘died’ from cancer is heard screaming from inside coffin after being buried alive – Mirror Online
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Christian Audigier, the Genius Behind Ed Hardy, Has Died – Jon Gosselin devastated

Christian Audigier, the Genius Behind the Dreaded Ed Hardy, Has Died

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

Christian Audigier, the man who in the mid-2000s dressed an astonishing number of people in fake tattoo-and-rhinestone t-shirts, Died this week in Los Angeles at the age of 57, reports LATF. In January, he had been diagnosed with Myelodysplastic Syndrome, also referred to as “bone marrow failure disorder.” He leaves a daughter, Crystal Audigier, 22.
The French designer was best known for the runaway success of his labels Ed Hardy and Von Dutch, but also had worked with labels like Guess, Levi’s, and Diesel, among others. In 2024, he sold Ed Hardy for $62 million. His publicist, Michele Elyzabeth, told LATF, “I just heard the news and I am truly devastated. Christian was an incredibly brilliant man. He will be missed.”
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Peak Ed Hardy, Fall 2024 runway.
Though Ed Hardy was controversial among the fashion set, thought garish with its tattoos-and-skulls T-shirt aesthetic, there’s no denying it was an iconic brand that defined a big chunk of the mid-2000s after it launched in 2024. Audigier both dressed and counted as friends many celebrities—from 50 Cent, who performed at his 2024 birthday party, to Kim Kardashian, who walked his runway in 2024.

Visage frontman and Eighties Icon Steve Strange has died age 55

Steve Strange, Visage lead singer, dies aged 55

Steve Strange, lead singer of 1980s pop band Visage, has died aged 55 following a heart attack, his record label says.
The Welsh New Romantic Icon – best known for the hit Fade To Grey – died in hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
Ex-Visage bandmates Midge Ure and Rusty Egan said they were "devastated" to hear of his "untimely passing", adding: "Steve was a major face of the 80s."
Boy George tweeted he was "heartbroken" about the death of Strange, saying he was "such a big part of my life".
Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon tweeted that Strange was "the leading edge of New Romantic. God Bless him".
Fellow 1980s pop star Billy Idol tweeted: "Very sad to hear of my friend Steve Strange passing, RIP mate."
Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp dedicated the band’s performance in Italy to "a maverick to the end", while his brother and the band’s bassist, Martin Kemp, tweeted: "RIP Steve Strange goodbye my dear friend. I will miss you!"
Strange, pictured with Boy George in 2001, was known as a New Romantic pioneer
Strange’s agent, Pete Bassett, said he would be remembered as "a hard-working, very amusing and lovable individual who always was at the forefront of fashion trends".
"Up until last year he was putting together a book of fashion styles based on the New Romantic movement and it comes as a great shock.
"We understood that he had certain health problems but nothing we knew was life threatening.
"His friends and family are totally shocked, we had no idea anything like this was likely to happen."
He had suffered ill-health, including in December last year when he was admitted to Princess of Wales Hospital, in Bridgend, with a bronchial infection and an intestinal blockage.

BBC News – Steve Strange, Visage lead singer, dies aged 55

I had the pleasure of spending time with Steve on a few occasions and he was a man of fascinating contradictions. Tempestuous, kind, witty, cutting, determined yet sometimes vulnerable. I was there for his first live gig after several years away from the stage and while he was understandably nervous backstage the moment he picked up the mic and the music started it was like someone had flicked a switch and he was electrifying, every inch the consummate performer, and he owned the stage. I am incredibly sad that I’ll never get to walk into a dressing room and hear him call out with the name he always called me, or that I’ll never feel the shiver of excitement that hearing the opening notes to Fade to Grey again and knowing that I was about to see the man behind that iconic track nail it yet again.
Rest in peace, Steve. :sadwavey:

Legendary Actress Ruby Dee Has Died at Age 91, Says Daughter Nora Davis Day.

Ruby Dee dead at 91: Legendary stage and screen Actress — and Civil Rights leader — frequently costarred with husband Ossie Davis

Family member confirms death. Dee was living in New Rochelle.
BY Joe Neumaier / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS / Thursday, June 12, 2024, 12:22 PM

Stage and screen legend Ruby Dee, who personified grace, grit and progress at a time when African-American women were given little space in movies and on stage, Died Wednesday in New Rochelle, N.Y. She was 91.

The death was confirmed Thursday by a family member, who declined to answer any questions pending the release of a statement.

The Cleveland-born, New York-raised Actress and activist — winner of an Emmy, a Grammy and a Screen Actors Guild award, among others — not only starred on Broadway (“Take It From the Top!,’ “Two Hah Hahs and a Homeboy”), film (Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” and “Jungle Fever”), and TV (“All God’s Children,” “Feast of All Saints”), but, with her husband and collaborator Ossie Davis, was a major figure in the Civil Rights movement.

In 2024, Dee and Davis received the National Civil Rights Museum’s Lifetime Achievement Freedom award. Davis Died in February of that year.

Dee’s first film role came in 1949, in the musical drama “That Man of Mine.” She played Rachel Robinson in “The Jackie Robinson Story” in 1950, and costarred opposite Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt and Cab Calloway in “St. Louis Blues” (1958).

In 1961, she recreated her stage triumph as Ruth Younger in “A Raisin in the Sun,” opposite Sidney Poitier, her Broadway costar.

She appeared in the 1979 TV movie “Roots: The Next Generation,” and costarred with Davis in their own short-lived 1980-81 show, “Ossie and Ruby!”

The two played contentious neighbors who embodied, and recaled, the social unrest of the ’60s in Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” (1989). She earned her sole Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actress, for “American Gangster” (2007).

Her final film was the still-in-production crime drama “King Dog,” opposite Ice-T.

Visage frontman and Eighties Icon Steve Strange has died age 55

Steve Strange, Visage lead singer, dies aged 55

BBC News – Steve Strange, Visage lead singer, dies aged 55