Marvin Hamlisch And Anna Piaggi Have Passed Away
Well, here's a double dose of sadness to go with your late afternoon cup of Red Bull and Mountain Dew. Musical theater composer Marvin Hamlisch died yesterday in Los Angeles after a brief illness, and former Hot Slut of the Day and fashion icon Anna Piaggi died in Milan today. Marvin was was 68 and Anna was 81.
If you find yourself drunkenly singing "The Way We Were" and "Nobody Does It Better" to an empty bottle of gin at the end of a long night, then you can thank Marvin Hamlisch for that. Marvin won a Best Song Oscar for "The Way We Were" and got another Oscar for writing the score for the movie. Marvin also won an Oscar for writing the musical notes that made up the score for The Sting. But Marvin is probably best known to theater queens like myself for writing the scores for the Broadway musicals A Chorus Line, The Goodbye Girl and Smile. Marvin got himself a Pulitzer and a Tony for A Chorus Line. Marvin is one of only 11 people who won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. AN EGOT! Marvin was working up to his death and recently finished the score for HBO's Liberace biopic starring Michael Douglas as Roy Orbison as Liberace.
Amy Poehler might think she can work a tiny hat like nobody else, but Anna Piaggi was working a tiny hat long before Amy was born. Anna was a fashion journalist and wrote several pieces for Vogue Italia. Anna was known for throwing a whole lot of multi-colored WTF on her body and making it work. Kunty Karl once called Anna one of his muses.
I'm sure that somewhere between here and heaven, Anna is lifting up her top hat and kicking while Marvin plays this song on an angel's harp:
And I've look at that picture of Anna for a hundred seconds and I don't know whether that fluffy animal in her arms is a dog, a baby Ewok or an unwaxed Snooki.
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Rest in peace, Marvin and Anna.
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"Any guy who values stick thin and young over smarts and personality isn't worth it and has NOTHING interesting to say anyway."-- Mrs. Kravitz
This is very sad. Marvin Hamlisch was not only an amazing composer & piano player, but was one of the genuinely nice guys in Hollywood; pretty much everyone he worked with thought he was aces. The good ones leave us, and yet we have kim whoretrashian & lindsay blowhan still alive & kicking. The universe is a mean spirited bitch...
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"Dammit, Pam, I've seen that, and now I can't unsee it. There's not enough liquor or therapy in the world to help me forget that..." - Archer
Now I miss Gilda Radner. Remember her piano recital in the filmed "Gilda: Live on Broadway" as nerdy Lisa Loopner who led the audience in the sing along "The Way We Were" and broke down crying half way through the song?
RIP, Mr. Hamlisch; such a great talent.
LaCoJo -- OMG, I love "Cabaret" and "All That Jazz," both directed by Bob Fosse, another great talent I miss dearly. And I also miss that hottie Roy Scheider, well, at least I thought he was hot. I also saw the revival of Cabaret on Broadway with Alan Cumming; it was amazing.
RIP, Mr. Hamlisch and little old lady.
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Showing my age . . . I saw "A Chorus Line" the first year it was on Broadway. In fact, I flew to NY just to see it and I was so amazed at what a lovely musical it was; so sad, so funny. I laughed, I cried, well, you know . . . Anyway, I pity the person who has only seen the movie version of it. You are missing a lot. I had no idea Marvin Hamlisch was ill. He was only 68, way too young to die. I wonder what caused it. I feel sad. Such a talented man.
Anna Piaggi always scared me . . . she was a very ugly woman with all that clown makeup and silly little hats. Plus, most of her writing didn't make sense. (Granted, I don't speak Italian!! HA!)
WORST!! movie adaptation of a musical in the history of film!! Almost made me hate A Chorus Line and that's hard to do. I saw the original cast on Broadway back in '77 when I was 13 and it was my coming out moment for me. True story.
RIP Marvin Hamlisch and little old fashion lady.
Submitted by Cowjam on Tue, 08/07/2012 - 5:06pm.
"Kiss today goodbye, and point me towards tomorrow..." Thank you, Ed Kleban and Marvin Hamlisch for that song and RIP Mr. Hamlisch.
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awwwwww i loved this story! *sniff*
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"It's called a party bus! Not a punch-a-titty bus. And put your MetroCard away, Chris Brown, no such bus exists." MK
I'm generally a "for whom the bell tolls" person, but his songs were pretty much sappy pablum.
Wonder what he died from--no one is saying?
The one in the hat is a woman??? Thought it was an old drag queen!
"Let them all boil in their own hotdog juice." Deb 7/2012
that sucks marvin is dead.
i wanna know what a "BRIEF ILLNESS" is? see that all damn time on obits. just what the hell is it?
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Diamond, VERY FUNNY! ololol
*pictures Whamo jumping into the mattress*
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That's true Within. still funny no matter what ya call it
Diamond, Whamo said he is watching himself though! HAHAHAHAH I don't know if that technically counts as mirror sex! teeheehee
Oh I bet nobody does it better, lol
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Submitted by DiamondDogs on Tue, 08/07/2012 - 5:35pm.
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I was on a musical kIck one weekend so I watched Cabaret, All That Jazz, & A Chorus Line back to back to back, in that order. Maybe I was all misicaled out by the time I watched A Chorus Line, but I didnt care for it. The music was good though.
LOL @ Whamo mirror sex
Couldn't believe the Hamlisch news. Just damn and big sadz.
Even though I'd rather have a sharp stick in my eye than listen to "Nobody Does it Better," he did a helluva lot that was awesome.
Too freakin young to die. (But then so was his biggest fan, Lisa Loopner.)
I always liked how he laughed along with everybody else at his nerdy looks and image.
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He was pretty young. For some reason, I thought he was older. Hope Babs goes to the funeral and sings.
Submitted by Cowjam on Tue, 08/07/2012 - 5:06pm.
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aww, that's nice wipes small tear from cold eyes:)
I will never forget the night before I began my first job after college. I was alone, far from home, far from where I went to school, in a cheesy motel in a strange town. I was so scared and lonely, with my whole life and career in front of me, not at all sure how it was going to play out. Went down to the motel lounge, the singer was singing "What I Did For Love". Went back to my room, bawled my eyes out, called my mom, and ranted for an hour about what an idiot I was for leaving home.
5 minutes later there was a knock on my door. I thought my mom had called suicide prevention to come and get me. It was 2 other graduates who were going to be in the corporate training program with me. They invited me to come to the lounge and have a drink with them, and proposed that we 3 find a place to live together and take care of each other. "Kiss today goodbye, and point me towards tomorrow..." Thank you, Ed Kleban and Marvin Hamlisch for that song and RIP Mr. Hamlisch.
... and of course it wouldn't be dlisted if MK didn't find a way to sneak Audrey Landers into the story!
RIP Marvin
RIP Anna
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That's one freaky fluff ball of a doggy and what a snappy clip, thanks MK!
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This is bad ....all were left with is this Glee crap
where can i get one of those baby cthulhu's she has in her lap?
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I remember we sang "One" in chorus in 7th or 8th grade. We probably sounded pretty bad, but we loved singing it. It also taught us the word "peripatetic."
RIP
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I LOVED A Chorus Line.
While I didn't know him personally, he seemed like a funny kind man, and was obviously very talented.
We don't get too many of those.
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RIP Marvin. He was a great talent.
I love Carly Simon's version of "Nobody Does it Better" ( I actually though it was her tune to tell you the truth) anyway pretty song!
I like to play it and look at myself in the mirror while I'm getting laid lol! :P
I hated "A Chorus Line". The Bob Fosse movie was much better, IMO.
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"a chorus line" is so good and i am not into musicals. at all. rip, marvin.
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WHAT!?? Marvin Hamlisch died?
Nooooooo! This makes me so sad.