RIP thread

The Sandbox General
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Loved the Ronettes sound when I was 13 years old, especially their big hit Be My Baby.

RIP.

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Grew up hearing a lot of their music as my mom was also a big fan.

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David Allan Coe, outlaw country singer, dies at 86

“The perfect country and western song” He had a number of country hits but his most famous was probably Take This Job and shove it for Johny Paycheck

Dad was big fan so I heard a lot of him growing up. RIP

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J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/science/j-craig-venter-dead.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260430&instance_id=174864&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=100230907&segment_id=219060&user_id=198796e78ba5bb8f3abca146b96edaee

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:cry: not super well known - an incredible woman
Rest Peacefully :heart:

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CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87

He gave the commencement speech at my wife’s PhD. I seem to recall it being long winded and kind of boring. He clearly had an impact on society with the launch of CNN which has changed the way we get news.

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and TBS and TCM

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I remember him for the controversy of the colorization of black and white classic movies. Doesn’t seem that big a deal nowadays and when Peter Jackson colorized World War I footage, it worked well.

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I’ve never been a fan of colorization in general. But when Turner was doing it, the technology sucked and they all looked obvious, horrible, and distracting. If we still were using that sh*tty technology today, I suspect there might still be controversy.

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It was the poorly-done colorization that pissed off everybody.

It looked awful. The colors were so off.

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also, aesthetically, many of these pictures worked better as B&W

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I forget which ones really horked people off.

I don’t think he was getting films colorized that existed when color process (other than hand-painting) was an option. Films like The Apartment were B&W for artistic choice.

I think it was something like an old Miracle on 34th Street or It’s a Wonderful Life.

Okay, found it:

So, yes, he went after classic movies like Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon… which did not need colorization. Jeez.

In some cases, Turner was blocked because somebody important had control over film rights and didn’t allow him (Orson Welles’s estate prevented Citizen Kane from being colorized)

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Here’s a easy-to-read article:

and yes, It’s a Wonderful Life was one of the films in the controversy… one of the reasons that damn film got played every holiday season was bc it slipped into the public domain (and that’s its own story)

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I think an Onion type publication at the time wrote something about how bad it was that he was going to colorize The Wizard of Oz. :rofl:

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Half of the issue is that the wardrobe for the old “Black & Whites” were designed with the idea that the visuals would be gray scale. To the actual colors of the outfits in those movies would not satisfy a colorized aesthetics.

And I think that the colorization that Turner did initially didn’t “correct” for aesthetics (like I believe most modern techniques would); it matched patterns of grayscale to some color on a palette “blindly”.

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All clothes seemed to about evenly divided between faded-out red (kind of rosy), faded-out blue, and a sort of olive green that seemed very out of place in most actors’ wardrobes.

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I’m pretty sure that none of the actors wore their set attire out in public (except to the commissary during their lunch break).

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image

https://www.tmz.com/2026/05/12/donald-gibb-dead/

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RIP Schlitz. First beer I had

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