There was a time I didn’t listen to anything BUT Beach Boys. Insane to lose him AND Sly Stone within a couple of days at the same age (82) given their parallel career trajectories and struggles as bandleaders and artists.

My favorite Beach Boys song:

 

And possibly the greatest pop song ever:

 

Harris Yulin, Actor in ‘Scarface,’ ‘Training Day’ and ‘Ozark,’ Dies at 87

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/harris-yulin-dead-scarface-training-day-ozark-1236263033/




His episode of, and performance in, ST: Deep Space Nine ("Duet") is considered one of the best in all of Trek. 

 

Two legends. Harris Yulin was a brilliant character actor in so many things but his performance in "Duet" above, maybe the first great episode of DS9 and one of the best Trek stories ever, is indelible.

Brian Wilson: What can you say?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ananda-lewis-dead-mtv-vj-1236263206/

Been a sad story over the last few years. Ananda was one of the few MTV VJs I had any respect for.

Hard to even know what to say about Brian Wilson, whose work was timeless. When I was growing up, I often just thought of the cheesy beach songs, I didn't listen to Pet Sounds until I checked it out from a library and was enthralled, but even then, when I was a kid, I remember "When I Grow Up to be a Man" being in Look Who's Talking? and I was so affected by the song. Few could ever combine melancholy, a deep inner life, and nuance the way he could. And those harmonies. Few artists can make me cry the way the Beach Boys can.

If the Beach Boys ever were America's band, they were because of Brian, who exemplified so many complexities and scars of this country in a way that few of us can ever understand, and I am not sure he ever fully did either.

My favorite Brian song:

 

Edited June 12Jun 12 by DRW50

I should also mention "Guess I'm Dumb" which Brian gave to Glen Campbell. A gorgeous song, aching, and like many of Brian's songs from those years, startingly ahead of its time. 

Tatsuro Yamashita had a lovely cover on his Big Wave soundtrack album, which is in many ways just an extended Beach Boys tribute album. That includes this ditty, Jody, which is one of my favorite songs of all time. 

 

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Ananda's death hits hard. She was all over BET and MTV in my youngest years, and all these years later, I still think of her as a fun-loving yet thought-provoking 20something. 

 

https://globalnews.ca/news/11233871/juliette-powell-muchmuch-vj-electric-circus-dead/

There probably aren't a lot of people here who knows who she was, but as a Canadian of a certain age (35), I grew up watching her on MuchMusic in the 90s/early 00's. Because of her, Electric Circus looked like the best party to be at, and by all accounts, it absolutely was. Being at such an impressionable age, Juliette Powell and most of the classic MuchMusic VJs always seemed like the coolest people on the planet. Her, Rachel Perry, Rick the Temp, Sook Yin, Master T, George Strombo ... I'll always look back so fondly on those days and as is customary to say these days ... "These people raised me!" To think one of them has passed is devastating. I do remember them doing a special episode of EC at Canada's Wonderland, where my family happened to be at the same time, and that memory of being on one of the roller coasters at night was always cool on its own, but to have the Electric Circus crew there made it absolutely magical. All the love to Juliette Powell and the evoking of a bunch of great childhood memories.

https://x.com/DEADLINE/status/1933333541242483145

https://deadline.com/2025/06/terry-louise-fisher-dies-79-1236432626/

 

 

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16 minutes ago, janea4old said:

https://x.com/DEADLINE/status/1933333541242483145

https://deadline.com/2025/06/terry-louise-fisher-dies-79-1236432626/

That looks exactly like Lee Grant in a black wig! Were they twins separated at birth? 

R.I.P. Clifton Jones. Space:1999 was another show I grew up watching.

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/clifton-jones-space-1999-dead-newsupdate/

So after I made the post above of Clifton Jones' passing, I found out his costar in Space:1999, Prentis Hancock, passed a couple of weeks ago. 

https://www.nationalworld.com/culture/celebrity/doctor-who-star-prentis-hancock-dies-at-83-as-family-confirm-his-passing-5160156

       

That is, frankly, bizarre. 

Non-Celebrity Death Post 

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/video/remembering-minnesota-sen-melissa-hortman-and-her-time-in-politics/

MN senator Melissa Hortman, 55 years old and her husband were assassinated down to death yesterday. 

https://variety.com/2025/music/columns/brian-wilson-is-the-surest-sign-pop-music-is-religious-1236431243/