The boys are all back together for an ALL-NEW, right-off-the-assembly-line-edition of the one, the original, Podwits Podcast! They chat this week about their various jet-setting, before getting into topics that hit closer to home, like the loss of fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett, the recent passing of Leonard Nimoy and Star Trek producer Harve Bennett, and we embrace or even […]
Archive for the ‘Obituaries’ Category
Happy Pi Day 3.14159265359…… UGH!
Posted: 14th March 2015 by Podwits Administrator in Celebrities, Ernest Borgnine, Film, History, Literature, News, Obituaries, Podcast, Science Fiction, Technology, TelevisionTags: Chris Evans, Chris Pratt, Discworld, Doctor Who, Ernest Borgnine, Freaks, Grammys, Herb Alpert and Tijuana Brass, James Bond, Leonard Nimoy, Marvin Gaye, Michael Keaton, Mickey Rooney, Muddy Waters, Pi, Robert Downey Jr, Sir Terry Pratchett, SuperFuzz, Terrence Hill, The Black Hole
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Live Long And Prosper
Posted: 28th February 2015 by Podwits Administrator in Obituaries, PodcastTags: Alien Voices, Borgnine Night, Dan Akyroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ernest Borgnine, Isaac Asimov, Joe Piscopo, John DeLancie, Leonard Nimoy, Lorne Michaels, NBC, Q, Saturday Night Live, Spock, Star Trek, The Outer Limits, Tortilla Flats
This week The Podwits boldly explore the life and times of the late Leonard Nimoy. The Star Trek star passed away this week and J. and Dion wanted to pay their final respects to their honored dead. Please join us as we celebrate Mr. Nimoy as part of our look back at what’s been happening over the past […]
Side-Cast: Remembering Hollywood Make-up Legend Dick Smith
Posted: 6th August 2014 by Podwits Administrator in Books, Celebrities, Film, Film Review, History, Literature, Music, News, Obituaries, Podcast, Podwits Exclusive, Side-Casts, TelevisionTags: Altered States, Amadeus, Dick Smith, Foam Latex, Ghost Story, Greg Nicotero, Howard Berger, Jack Pierce, KNB, KNB EFX Group, Lon Chaney, Make-up, Marathon Man, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Rick Baker, Scanners, SFX, Side-Cast, Sidecast, Stan Winston, Starman, Taxi Driver, The Exorcist, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The House on Haunted Hill, Tom Savini, Wait Until Dark
In this very special edition of the Podwits Side Cast, Dion and contributor J. Blake celebrate the life of the “God among Gods“, SFX master, Dick Smith. They discuss his many groundbreaking achievements in cinema and touch upon the highlights of his extensive resume, bringing to light some films audiences may forget Smith was apart of. […]
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Posted: 1st August 2014 by Podwits Administrator in Art, Celebrities, Film, History, News, Obituaries, Technology, Television, UncategorizedTags: Altered States, Amadeus, David Bowie, Dick Smith, Dustin Hoffman, Ghost Story, Jack Pierce, James Caan, John Carpenter, Linda Blair, Little Big Man, Marathon Man, Martin Scorsese, Max Von Sydow, Nighthawks, Quentin Tarantino, Rick Baker, Stan Winston, Starman, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, The Exorcist, The Godfather, The Hunger, The Stepford Wifes, Tom Savini, William Friedkin, William Hurt
The Podwits were saddened to learn that Oscar-winning make-up icon Dick Smith, who defined generations with his pioneering makeup effects, passed away July 30th at age 92. Before CGI was common place, Smith practically invented techniques that are still used to this day, and is credited by Special Effects legends like Rick Baker and Tom Savini in spearheading where Universal Studios […]
Confessions of a Receipt Hoarder (#PodwitsBeer )
Posted: 28th June 2014 by Podwits Administrator in Beer, Cartoons, Celebrities, Comic Books, Ernest Borgnine, Film, Literature, Obituaries, Podcast, TelevisionTags: #PodwitsBeer, Adam West, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ayinger Urweisse, Batman, Batman (1966), Batman Returns, Batman TV series, Beer, Debbie Does Dallas, Drunk History, Eli Wallach, Eminem, Epic Rap Battles, How it Should of Ended, J.R.R. Tolkien, Josh Brolin, Kevin Conroy, Klaus Kinski, Leonard Nimoy, Michael Keaton, Nastassja Kinski, Otto Preminger, robert mckee, Steve McQueen, Superman, The Lego Movie, Tim Burton, Titanic, Toughguys, Toy Story, Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier Dunkel, Weird Al Yankovic, Will Arnett
So- What’s Brian drinking this week? How do you like your history: Drunken or through Freestyle Rap? How about Spoiler Alert or just plain Shut Up!? Well step right up and get all your questions answered on this weeks exciting new edition of the Podwits Podcast! Footnotes: Here’s how everything should end in How it […]
R.I.P. Silver Age Comics Legend Dick Ayers
Posted: 8th May 2014 by Brian in Comic Books, News, ObituariesTags: Dick Ayers, Marvel Comics, Sgt. Fury
This week, former Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Roy Thomas reported that Dick Ayers, a legendary artist from the Silver Age of comics, passed away on May 4 at his home in White Plains, New York, six days after his ninetieth birthday. In addition to being a frequent inker for Jack Kirby in the early days of […]
A Podcast By Any Other Name
Posted: 26th April 2014 by Podwits Administrator in History, Music, Music Review, News, Obituaries, Podcast, Recap, TelevisionTags: Baseball, Charlie Parker, Civil War, Derek and the Dominos, Dock Ellis, Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, Jim Morrison, Josephine Tey, Korean Ferry, LSD No No, Mosaic Records, Oliver Stone, Richard III, Sewol, The Allman Brothers, The Beatles, The Daughter of Time, The Doors, The Fillmore, Wolfgang's Vault
Well they’re back at it again for an all new Podwits Podcast. While enjoying a nice cool beverage in a safety-cup at their local convalescence home, the boys wax about the oldest American Civil War widow to die in 2008, and Brian’s 2010 trip to Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, which lead the boys over to: The […]
Richard Matheson 1926-2013
Posted: 25th June 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Literature, News, Obituaries, TelevisionTags: I Am Legend, Kolchak, Richard Matheson, Twilight Zone
Richard Matheson, the prolific writer of horror, sci fi and fantasy, passed away Monday at age 87. Matheson penned classics for well over sixty years and could almost be called the “Willie Dixon” of horror. Matheson was born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, New York, then moved to the west coast in 1951. […]
Ray Manzarek, Founding Member of the Iconic Group The Doors, Dies in Germany at Age 74
Posted: 21st May 2013 by Dion in Music, News, ObituariesTags: An American Prayer, Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, The Doors
Ray Manzarek, the outspoken founding member of the Doors, has died in Germany at the age of 74, after battling bile duct cancer. His keyboard playing became the defining sound for the legendary and groundbreaking rock ‘n’ roll group, a band who came to represent the counter-culture, the darker side of the 1960’s, the yin to the yang of the flower-power […]