{"id":14732,"date":"2016-06-25T15:43:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T20:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14732"},"modified":"2016-06-25T15:43:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T20:43:52","slug":"obit-watch-june-25-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14732","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: June 25, 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Herr<\/a>, author of Dispatches<\/strong><\/a>. This is supposed to be one of the great Vietnam War books: I personally haven’t gotten around to reading it.<\/p>\n

Things I did not know:<\/p>\n

He contributed the narration to \u201cApocalypse Now,\u201d Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s epic adaptation of Joseph Conrad\u2019s \u201cHeart of Darkness,\u201d and with the director Stanley Kubrick and Gustav Hasford wrote the screenplay for \u201cFull Metal Jacket\u201d (1987), adapted from Mr. Hasford\u2019s novel (\u201cThe Short-Timers\u201d).<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bernie Worrell<\/a>, legendary keyboard player.<\/p>\n

His stint in the 1970s as keyboardist and music director in groups led by George Clinton \u2014 Parliament, Funkadelic and their eventual merged identity of Parliament-Funkadelic, or P-Funk \u2014 taught generations of musicians and listeners that synthetic sounds could be earthy and untamed.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Later on, of course, he played with the Talking Heads. I think this clip has some good shots of Mr. Worrell in action with the Heads:<\/p>\n