Bob Mackie obit

Bob Mackie Dies: Fashion Designer To The Stars Who Dressed Cher, Carol Burnett And Many More Was 87

 

He was not on the list.

Bob Mackie, the Oscar-nominated and Tony- and Emmy-winning fashion designer who dressed Cher in her most eye-popping costumes, Barbra Streisand in her batwing gown in Funny Lady and sketched the design for Marilyn Monroe’s beaded white dress she wore to sing “Happy Birthday” to JFK, died Monday. He was 87.

The news was announced on Mackie’s social media feeds.

“It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Mr. Bob Mackie passed away today,” it read. “He lived his 87 years to the fullest, fulfilling his dream of being a Fashion and Costume Designer, which is all he ever wanted to do. His genius and extraordinary designs will live on forever, continuing to bring beauty into this world.”

The impact of Mackie, born in Monterey Park just east of Los Angeles who attended Pasadena City College, was and remains felt across the entertainment landscape from the time he began working in the biz in the early 1960s as a sketch artist.

He was nominated for three Oscars — including Streisand’s Funny Lady and Lady Sings the Blues with Diana Ross (both noms with collaborator and partner Ray Aghayan) and later for Pennies From Heaven — and won nine Emmys including for his work with Burnett and on Mama’s Family, the spinoff of a sketch on The Carol Burnett Show, the latter for which he was the costume designer during its entire 11-year run.

Mackie and Aghayan won the Emmy for Individual Achievements in Art Direction and Allied Crafts – Costume Design for Alice Through the Looking Glass in 1967, the first Emmy ever awarded for costume design.

In theater, he won his Tony Award in 2019 for The Cher Show, part of a long association with the singer/actor that began back on the variety shows The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour and The Sonny and Cher Show, garnering him more Emmy noms. On Broadway he also costumed the likes of Burnett, Carol Channing, Liza Minnelli, Bernadette Peters and Debbie Reynolds.

But it was Mackie and Cher who flew highest, teaming for most of Cher’s iconic concert tour and red carpet looks — especially on the Oscars red carpet — that became her signature with their not-much-left-to-the-imagination designs that drew everyone’s eye. She in her Mackie gown she wore to the 1974 Met Gala made the cover of Time Magazine.

“The outfits are sometimes mistaken for fashion, but they’re costumes like for a character in a play,” Mackie told the Associated Press in a 1999 interview. “I want people to have fun. I want people to say ‘Wasn’t that interesting?’ or ‘Wasn’t that wild?’”

Mackie had his thimble in several projects, including creating a ready-to-wear line that debuted in 1982 and later gave a leg up to the early QVC; his brands featuring the QVC Wearable Art Collection and home furnishing collections launched in the 1990s. He also designed several Barbie dolls for Mattel that captured the fantasy spirit of his designs.

Among his lifetime accolades, he won the Costume Designers Guild’s Career Achievement Award for Television in 1999 and was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2022.

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Self

2001–2006

3 episodes

 

Behind the Blues: Lady Sings the Blues

6.2

Video

Self

2005

 

Inside TV Land (2000)

Inside TV Land

3.6

TV Series

Self

2003–2005

2 episodes

 

The 3rd Annual TV Land Awards

6.3

TV Special

Self

2005

 

Pennies from Heaven: 20th Anniversary Cast and Crew Reunion

Video

Self - Costume Designer

2004

 

E! True Hollywood Story (1996)

E! True Hollywood Story

6.5

TV Series

Self

2003

2 episodes

 

The 5th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards

TV Special

Self

2003

 

Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford, Tony Kaye, Chris Squire, Peter Banks, and Yes in Top Ten (1995)

Top Ten

6.0

TV Series

Self

2002

1 episode

 

Edith Head in Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002)

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

6.2

Video

Self - Fashion Designer

2002

 

Still Cher

8.8

TV Movie

Self

2002

 

It's Burlesque

TV Movie

Self

2001

 

Carol Burnett: Show Stoppers (2001)

Carol Burnett: Show Stoppers

7.9

TV Special

Self

2001

 

The Annual American Choreography Awards

TV Special

Self - Presenter

2001

 

Behind the Music (1997)

Behind the Music

7.4

TV Series

Self

1999

1 episode

 

Moon Over Broadway (1997)

Moon Over Broadway

7.2

Self

1997

 

My Fair Lady (1964)

The Making of 'My Fair Lady'

7.3

Video

Self

1995

 

The Hollywood Fashion Machine

7.7

TV Movie

Self

1995

 

The Carol Burnett Show (1967)

The Carol Burnett Show: A Reunion

8.7

TV Special

Self (uncredited)

1993

 

Vicki Lawrence in Vicki! (1992)

Vicki!

5.9

TV Series

Self

1992

1 episode

 

The Sixth Annual Council Fashion Designers of America Awards

TV Special

Self

1987

 

Fame, Fortune and Romance

TV Series

Self

1986

1 episode

 

Melissa Sue Anderson in Sex Symbols: Past, Present and Future (1986)

Sex Symbols: Past, Present and Future

6.3

TV Movie

Self

1986

 

Night of 100 Stars II (1985)

Night of 100 Stars II

7.4

TV Special

Self

1985

 

The Toni Tennille Show (1980)

The Toni Tennille Show

6.4

TV Series

Self

1980

1 episode

 

Omnibus (1980)

Omnibus

6.6

TV Series

Self

1980

1 episode

 

Mike Douglas in The Mike Douglas Show (1961)

The Mike Douglas Show

7.0

TV Series

Self - Fashion Designer

1976–1979

6 episodes

 

Not for Women Only

TV Series

Self

1975

1 episode

 

The 1975 Fashion Awards

TV Special

Self - Winner

1975

 

Archive Footage

David Muir in World News Tonight with David Muir (1953)

World News Tonight with David Muir

5.4

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2026

1 episode

 

Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner in Entertainment Tonight (1981)

Entertainment Tonight

3.6

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2023–2026

3 episodes

 

Mario Lopez and Scott Evans in Access Hollywood (1996)

Access Hollywood

3.2

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2025

1 episode

 

The Little Pageant That Could (2024)

The Little Pageant That Could

6.2

Self (archive footage)

2024

 

RuPaul's Drag Race (2009)

RuPaul's Drag Race

8.5

TV Series

Self - Guest Judge (archive footage)

2009–2014

4 episodes

 

Cheetah Chrome obit

Dead Boys Guitarist Cheetah Chrome Dies at 71

 He was not on the list.

Eugene Richard O’Connor, the punk rocker known as Cheetah Chrome and guitarist of the Dead Boys, died Sunday, his bandmates confirmed on Instagram. He was 71.

“We are incredibly sad to announce the news of the passing of our beloved friend and bandmate Cheetah Chrome,” the band wrote in the post. “Cheetah was a true original, an architect of the punk rock movement. A one-man hurricane tearing up the musical landscape with his feral guitar riffs and manic energy. Beyond all that Cheetah was also just a really sweet guy that loved rock-roll. We extend our deepest condolences to Cheetah’s family, friends and fans around the world. His music lives on and will continue to inspire others for generations to come. We ask for privacy during this difficult time. Godspeed Cheetah. Tony, Chris, Mark and the entire Dead Boys family.”

Cheetah Chrome was a Cleveland, Ohio-born punk-rock musician based in Nashville. He started as a guitarist in Rocket from the Tombs in 1974 before starting Frankenstein with Dead Boys members Stiv Bators and Johnny Blitz. The band quickly evolved into Dead Boys.

The three-piece band released their first album, “Young, Loud and Snotty,” in 1977 and their second, “We Have Come for Your Children,” in 1978 before breaking up a year later. The band reunited for a series of live performances over the years, but never put out another studio album. In honor of its 50th anniversary, the band had plans to tour their debut album in 2027.

O’Connor is survived by his wife, Anna O’Connor, and his 14-year-old son Rogan, who reside in Nashville.

Tone Capone obit

Tone Capone, Producer of ‘I Got 5 On It,’ Dies at 59

Capone’s funk-infused beats fueled hits by Scarface, Mac Dre, E-40 and more, plus the Luniz' global smash. 

He was not on the list.

Tone Capone, a prolific producer who brought the mobb music style of Bay Area hip-hop to the world with the smash hit “I Got 5 On It,” died on Saturday. He was 59.

Capone’s death was reported online Sunday by close family. A cause of death was not immediately known. Capone had been living in the Las Vegas area since 2021.

Along with the Luniz’ “I Got 5 on It,” Capone produced many regional hip-hop classics that remain in regular rotation. Those include 3xKrazy’s “Keep It on the Real,” Mac Dre’s “Fire” and “Not My Job,” Celly Cel’s “It’s Goin’ Down,” Devin the Dude’s “Sticky Green” and E-40’s “Ring It.”

Across his career, Capone produced or worked with others constituting a who’s-who of Bay Area rap, including the Jacka, Dru Down, The Click, Conscious Daughters, Mac Mall, Messy Marv, Andre Nickatina, Spice 1, San Quinn and many more.

As a beatmaker steeped in the funk and soul of the 1970s, Capone’s rap production emphasized the the first downbeat of each measure, accompanied by exaggerated bass tones and live instruments. Along with his charting hits, his sound found receptive ears in Houston, Texas, where he worked with rapper Scarface, Devin the Dude and others.

Capone was born Anthony Douglas Gilmour in Berkeley, and was raised in North Oakland, near Bushrod Park. His house was filled with the music of the era: Earth Wind & Fire, the Crusaders, Parliament, Kool & the Gang, Curtis Mayfield, Donald Byrd.

While attending Berkeley High School, he learned how to DJ using a friend’s turntables. Before long, he began DJing at events — parties at fraternity houses, or at the Lake Merritt boathouse — with friend Nick Peace, who would become a prolific hip-hop producer himself.

In the mid-1980s, after high school, Capone began making beats with the technology of the time: four-track cassette recorders, drum machines, turntables and tape decks. Shortly after buying his first Technics 1200 turntable, he committed himself to making music instead of hustling. While Bay Area rap had been famously independent, some of Capone’s earliest work was commissioned by major labels for the Oakland group Capital Tax and R&B trio SWV.

In 1993, fate intervened. Capone reconnected with a friend from Berkeley High, Mike Marshall, who’d had a hit song with “Rumors,” by his group Timex Social Club. The two were at Capone’s house one day when members of the Luniz happened to visit, bringing song ideas.

One of the songs, in a rough sketch, was “I Got 5 On It.” On the spot, Marshall wrote the melody for the hook, Capone created a beat based on the Club Nouveau song “Why You Treat Me So Bad,” and before long, the track was laid down in the studio.

Released in 1995, “I Got 5 On It” was an immediate hit in the Bay Area, and reached the Top Ten on the Billboard Hot 100. Gradually, the song grew to enjoy global recognition, aided by a remix featuring Dru Down, Spice-1, E-40, Shock G, and Richie Rich. In 2019, a slow, brooding remake of Capone’s beat was utilized by director Jordan Peele in the horror film Us.

After chart success, Capone kept working. Through producing Oakland rapper Seagram, signed to Houston’s Rap-a-Lot Records, Capone met the producer Mike Dean, who suggested he join upcoming sessions for the rapper Scarface.

The resulting album, 1997’s The Untouchable, went platinum, with Capone’s production work throughout. Tracks included the Rick James flip “Mary Jane,” and “Smile,” a major hit featuring one of the last verses recorded by Tupac Shakur. (In his memoir Diary of a Madman, Scarface names Capone in a list of the all-time best producers, alongside Dr. Dre, Pharrell and Timbaland.)

Capone also connected with Mac Dre in the late 1990s, going on to produce the Ohio Players-inspired single “Fire,” the street classic “Not My Job,” the track “Genie of the Lamp” and others before Mac Dre’s death in 2004.

In the 21st century, Capone stayed active among a respected cohort of artists, pushing himself to try new tempos and styles. Before his death, he had recently worked with the Punjabi rapper Kanwar. He also took a day job, working at a hospital, before retiring.

At press time, no services have been announced.

George Chuvalo obit

Canadian boxer George Chuvalo, who faced Muhammad Ali in his prime, dead at 89

 

He was not on the list.

George Chuvalo, the iron-chinned Canadian heavyweight who took the best punches from the giants of boxing without ever falling, has died. He was 89.

Chuvalo suffered from dementia late in life and had been residing in a long-term care facility in Toronto. He died Saturday according to multiple online posts by family and friends.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who said the boxer was a family friend, shared condolences on social media Saturday.

"My thoughts are with all of George's family and loved ones as we mourn his passing," he said.

Chuvalo went the distance with Muhammad Ali in bouts in Toronto and Vancouver, and absorbed the hardest shots sluggers Joe Frazier and George Foreman had to offer without being knocked down.

It was unfathomable family tragedy after he retired that brought him to his knees.

"If you added up every punch I took and multiplied the total by 10,000, it wouldn't begin to equal the pain of losing three sons and a wife to drugs and suicide," he said in his 2013 autobiography Chuvalo: A Fighter's Life, co-written with Murray Greig.

The son of Croatian immigrants was born Sept. 12, 1937, in Toronto's Junction neighbourhood. He became intrigued by boxing after seeing The Ring magazine at a newsstand.

Chuvalo was 10 years old the first time he stepped through the ropes, and a growth spurt combined with an interest in weightlifting saw him develop into a six-foot, 210-pound fighter.

After a brief amateur career, he turned pro in 1956, winning notice for performances at the Jack Dempsey Tournament at Maple Leaf Gardens.

But by the early 1960s, Chuvalo's career had stagnated under ineffective guidance until Toronto poultry magnate Irv Ungerman took over as his manager.

Chuvalo parlayed several wins into an attention-getting 11th-round stoppage over contender Doug Jones at Madison Square Garden in 1964. He returned to that mecca of boxing the next year, narrowly losing a decision to former champ Floyd Patterson in a bout The Ring named best of 1965.

'He just keeps coming and coming'

Chuvalo's style was inexorable without being reckless. He moved forward with thudding blows from both hands to the head and body, producing stoppages in 88 per cent of his wins.

"You can't believe his strength," Canadian fighter Bill Drover once told a writer. "There's no way to stop him. He just keeps coming and coming. The only way you can stop him is with a stick of dynamite."

Chuvalo would always insist his defence was better than advertised, but it was his durability that was remarkable. He was able to absorb the shots, he said, thanks to a 17.5-inch neck strengthened through exercises.

Chuvalo found himself fighting for the heavyweight title in 1966 as a replacement foe when Ali's affiliation with the Black Muslims and controversial anti-Vietnam-War stance made him a pariah in the U.S.

The challenger's prospects were described in a New York Times headline: Bettor's-Eye View of Chuvalo: A Big Bum With a Lot of Heart.

While Chuvalo failed to become Canada's first heavyweight champion since Tommy Burns in the early 1900s, he earned praise for a gritty performance. Ali famously called him the toughest man he had faced up to that point, but Chuvalo was ambivalent being the first to take the champ 15 rounds.

"In a crazy way, that fight is what defines me for a lot of my fellow Canadians but it took a long time before I came to appreciate how good it made me feel," he said.

Never knocked down

With wife Lynne and five children at home, Chuvalo appreciated the paydays the Ali performance begat. He would beat contenders Jerry Quarry and Manuel Ramos, losing close bouts to Oscar Bonavena and Jimmy Ellis.

Chuvalo was stopped for the first time in 1967 by Frazier, requiring a silicone implant to keep an eyeball from drooping. The loss to Foreman in the fourth round three years later was also notable, with the referee stepping in before Chuvalo's "never knocked down" streak might have been ended.

Chuvalo's loss to Ali in Vancouver in 1972 was not as compelling or as close as the first bout. He retired for good on a winning note six years later, finishing with a record of 73 wins, 18 losses and two draws, with 64 of his wins coming by knock out.

Unlike with Ali and others, the toll of concussive blows wasn't evident on the surface. Chuvalo was articulate and spoke in rapid-fire bursts, with a quip or self-deprecating joke usually at the ready.

But like many fighters, he had a tough time transitioning to the "humdrum" nature of life, as he once described it. At various points, he opened a nightclub, got his real estate licence, promoted fights, hosted a TV show and took cinema's worst ever arm-wrestling defeat in a cameo in David Cronenberg's The Fly.

Chuvalo told CBC Radio in 1968 he didn't want his four sons boxing for a living, but it was outside the ring where he couldn't protect them. The youngest, Jesse, became hooked on heroin after a prescription for pain medication ran out and was just 19 when he fatally shot himself in 1985.

Older brothers George Jr. and Steven had by then also become users of the drug and involved in petty crime to feed their habits. Steven Chuvalo described a feeling of "worthlessness" he and his two addicted brothers felt in an interview with CBC's the fifth estate in 1995.

"My dad spent quite a few years chasing us around the city, Georgie and I in particular, and dragging us out of drug houses and heroin houses and basically just trying to keep us alive," he said.

George Jr., three days sprung from jail in Kingston, Ont., overdosed on Halloween 1993.

Just four days after that, 49-year-old Lynne Chuvalo swallowed pills and left a suicide note.

"I never thought she'd do it, but I'm not surprised," Chuvalo told the New York Times a short time later, adding his wife never got over the first burial of a child.

Steven Chuvalo, who spoke on the fifth estate of wanting to make his father proud, would overdose and die eight months after that program aired.

Chuvalo would persevere, marrying again, and cherishing time spent with oldest son Mitch, daughter Vanessa, and his grandchildren. He would travel the country, speaking bluntly to students, as captured in a CBC Radio report in 1998.

"I'd like to think if you're ever tempted with the idea of doing drugs, or you ever flirt with doing drugs, I hope you think of me, George Chuvalo, and what drugs did to my family."

In 2017, reports surfaced of family drama involving Chuvalo's surviving children and the fighter's second wife, Joanne, who he was divorcing. Some of the disputes centred around the state of Chuvalo's cognitive decline and his future care.

On a podcast five years later, Mitch Chuvalo said his father no longer recognized him when he visited.

By that time, his legacy had been recognized by the City of Toronto, with the official opening in 2019 of the 7,000-square foot George Chuvalo Community Centre, located in the Junction.

Cal Nichols obit

Nichols, who saved Oilers from relocation in 1990s, dies at 84

Businessman, investor 'stepped forward repeatedly' to help franchise stay in Edmonton 

He was not on the list.

Cal Nichols, who helped save the Edmonton Oilers from relocation during the 1990s, died on Saturday. He was 84.

Nichols was born in Paradise Hill, Saskatchewan, in 1942 and built a career in business from a young age before moving to Edmonton in 1969. There, he continued to make a name in the oil industry while also becoming a season ticket holder for the Oilers, something he remained for the rest of his days.

Nichols first helped the team he loved by co-chairing the Friends of the Oilers ticket drive in 1996, which more than doubled the team's season ticket base, before taking it a step further in 1997.

That year, Edmonton owner Peter Pocklington put the team up for sale, but Nichols assembled a group of 38 local investors and was able to purchase the Oilers for $110 million in 1998. Edmonton Investors Group went on to sell the Oilers to current owner Daryl Katz in 2008.

“If it wasn’t for Cal, the Oilers wouldn’t be in Edmonton,” Katz said when he assumed ownership of the team.

Kevin Lowe, a Hall of Fame defenseman who worked closely with Nichols when he became the Oilers' general manager in 2000, echoed those sentiments on Sunday.

“That’s what really needs to be remembered forever, is that he was the guy that put it all together and he was a dog on a bone,” he said. “The thing almost didn’t get done because at the 11th hour they didn’t have the money, but it came together.

“Lots of people deserve acknowledgement, but Cal for sure. The Oilers aren’t there, Rogers Place is not there, and Connor McDavid is not there. None of that happens without Cal’s leadership.

“He was a real gentleman, and he had a great love for the game of hockey. At that point he was well established in Edmonton, and he didn’t want to lose the history of the Edmonton Oilers and he knew keeping them here would be great for business and great for the city.”

Outside of the Oilers, Nichols was inducted into the Alberta Business Hall of Fame and was awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal from the Governor General of Canada in 2002. He was also awarded the Order of Canada in 2015, which recognizes a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation.

“It is difficult to imagine that the Oilers would still be in Edmonton if not for Cal Nichols," Commissioner Gary Bettman said. "During the 1990s, Nichols stepped forward repeatedly to not only save the franchise from leaving the city that adores it, but to ensure its long-term stability and success.

“Cal truly was a self-made man who, from modest beginnings as a teenager, gradually built a successful business career -- turning his management of a single gas station into running his own oil company. An early Oilers season ticket holder, he co-chaired a ticket drive in 1996 that forestalled relocation. The following year, when the team was up for sale, he rallied dozens of local business leaders to purchase the club and keep it in Edmonton. And he served as the Oilers’ governor for a decade.

“On a personal note, Cal was a friend and trusted confidant on whom I could rely for wise counsel and for relentless effort on behalf of the franchise he loved.

“The National Hockey League family mourns his passing. We send our most sincere condolences to his wife, Edna; their children Ken and Kristine; their five grandchildren; and his many friends and admirers."