Ric Ocasek is Dead To Me!

Oh no! I loved the cars!

Who's gonna drive you home...

...tonight?

omg I was JUST asking my husband yesterday I wonder what Paulina is up to .

I love them too :.(

OMG! Had no idea he was even sick.

Also had no idea he was 75!

So young.

"Emotions in Motion".....love that song.

He wasn't R5. He was 70 years old.

Strange, I recall hearing that he'd died several years ago.

80s Gold

He was found dead in the house he's trying to sell...good luck with that!

All the news stories say he was 75, R8.

[quote]Strange, I recall hearing that he'd died several years ago.

That was Benjamin Orr.

wiki says he's 70. the report I read also lists his age as 70. and natural causes....how can the tell?

[quote]Strange, I recall hearing that he'd died several years ago.

No -- just his career.

what was on his ipod?

Just as Olivia moved in when Luise Rainer finally kicked it, we need to start thinking about a successor for the "so young" posts. I nominate Marsha Hunt.

Weird - didn’t he and Paulina recently divorce. Wonder if he was getting into drugs. Paulina is very together - one of the smartest supermodels I’ve heard interviewed.

This is the house he was found dead in and also trying to sell.

Love it, except for the pink bedroom and the drapes. I didn't realise he was that rich.

Ben Orr was the hot one.

R17, such talk is forbidden.

And Marsha Hunt is not a big name.

Ric had beautiful eyes.

He was so ugly...even with a model wife, his kids turned out ugly.

R24, not nice.

The original singer of The Cars who also died was gorgeous!

Prince Philip, R17. I'd nominate Kirk Douglas or Vera Lynn, but I don't think either of them will outlive Olivia by much, if at all.

I think Rhonda Fleming is 95 or so. Can she be the next "So Young" gal?

Eddie Money and now Ric Ocasek, I wonder who's next.

Sounds like it could be drugs perhaps? Hard to say when he was that age. TMZ is reporting that his 'estranged wife' is the one who found him. That has to be Paulina. They have two sons in their very early 20s if memory serves.

Very sad no matter how he died. Loved the Cars debut records, that and the follow up Candy-O are rock classics. Was just talking about these records the other day with a family member, Bye Bye Love was a great tune. "It's an orangy sky, always some other guy" - great lyrics.

I guess the Cars finally ran out of gas.

RIP Ric - turn it up:

[quote] Just as Olivia moved in when Luise Rainer finally kicked it, we need to start thinking about a successor for the "so young" posts. I nominate Marsha Hunt.

Not famous enough, I'm afraid. Olivia de Havilland is a legend, and every educated gay man knows of Luise Rainer because she won two major Oscars in a row and then left Hollywood.

i think we'll have to go next for someone else quite famous if they do manage to outlive Olivia: Betty White, Cicely Tyson, or Elizabeth II.

Holy fuck. He lived two blocks up from me between the same cross streets. Never knew. I know that townhouse well. It’s beautiful.

No! I just an hour ago was thinking about him playing the zonked out beatnik in Hairspray.

He was not wicked beauty.

He tried claiming he was born in 1949, even though he graduated from High School in 1963.

R37, maybe he's 33 like I am and graduated high school before he was born!

He had the most pronounced Adam's Apple I have ever seen.

I loved The Cars, although they were one of the few New Wave bands that had no gay sensibility whatsoever.

He dropped dead reading the "Gen X Eldergays: Tell Us About New Wave" thread.

r7 is confusing The Cars with Billy Squier. Distinctly separate Boston rock acts.

[quote]Just as Olivia moved in when Luise Rainer finally kicked it, we need to start thinking about a successor for the "so young" posts. I nominate Marsha Hunt.

How about Hugh Downs? He's 98.

[quote]Eddie Money and now Ric Ocasek, I wonder who's next.

Dee Snider will be next.

Dammit, 2019 is bleeding me and leaving me nothing with tears. Kleenex and Scott companies already compete for my facial tissue patronage.

He had quite a career as a producer after The Cars.

He had 6 sons, the ones with Paulina are just late teens/early adults.

Heart attack maybe?

He had quite a career as a producer after The Cars.

He had 6 sons, the ones with Paulina are just late teens/early adults.

Heart attack maybe?

I really like Paulina P too. She has a great essay on beauty and aging which is a topic dear to our hearts, but not addressed as often as it should be.

Crap. RIP. Feeling really, really old right now. Bye bye love.

So strange that two of them went gray while the remaining two flaunted thick, lush, glossy chestnut locks.

They must have taken grandma’s advice and brushed 100 strokes with a boar-bristle brush each night before bed.

That is a gorgeous townhouse and — even with the prospect of an exceptionally scary-looking ghost lurking around the premises — worth every penny.

[quote]Eddie Money and now Ric Ocasek, I wonder who's next.

Rick Springfield?

Ted Nugent

Justin Bieber

The Grammercy Park townhouse was originally listed at $15 mil and dropped price recently. Beautiful interiors and great location.

Is Sammy Hagar dead yet?

[quote]Holy fuck. He lived two blocks up from me between the same cross streets. Never knew. I know that townhouse well. It’s beautiful.

I still crack up at the degree to which non-NY/LA DLers try to keep where they live a secret - "I'm in a largish city in a midwestern state" - but NYers will be all like, "I live at 234 West 19th St, Apt 3...3A? 3B? Well, you don't think I'm going to reveal EXACTLY where I live, do you?!"

r56 Sammy is alive and kicking. Anyone seen "Diamond David" Lee Roth lately though?

Lindsey Buckingham has been very ill recently, with heart issues. All of these rockers are now getting well north of 65-70, its the age when people start to drop off and pass.

Someone should check on Meatloaf.

Another Great gone... replaced with...nothing.

Eddie Van Halen

The Cars were the first rock band I ever liked on my own. I was young when Let’s Go came out and I loved it.

I thought it, as the kids say, slapped.

your mouth to God's ear, r53

Another vote for feeling really old tonight. The Cars were great, lots of memories of their music. Jesus, where did the time go?

When I was young and hot, I had a stalker who left "Drive" as a message on my answering machine.

When I was young and hot, I had a stalker who left "Drive" as a message on my answering machine.

Loved The Cars from the very beginning.

He had a funny cameo (with Pia Zadora) in John Waters' Hairspray

I remember exactly the first time I heard The Cars in the summer of 79. It was the Candy-O album that a friend of mine had bought. I remember thinking that music was finally changing and we could leave all the disco/corporate rock/SoCal shit behind.

I remember that Drive used to be the closing video shown every night at Sidetracks in Chicago.

The townhouse is gorgeous while the decor is hideous. Imagine finding your ex dead, on a floral rug?

I still listen to his music. I love The Cars, & he was allegedly a good guy. RIP.

What a letdown this is. My mom and I both liked The Cars and Ric especially since I was a kid so it's a bit like facing the death of a childhood friend for me. We watched their videos together. Hope he got to talk with all his sons this past week.

It's funny how you never heard much of anything about The Cars outside of their music. No "Behind The Music" episode, no internal jealousies or resentments, no drugs or crazy antics with groupies. Everyone knew that Rick was married to Paula, but that was about it.

Well, maybe he died from heart attack...too much dick pills, who knows?

I mean, how can they just say natural causes straight away?

Shitty news. RIP Mr. Ocasek.

[quote]...too much dick pills

Where can I get some of these too much dick pills?

Well SHIT. I loved their music so much growing up, they were one of the best parts of the late 70s/early 80s for me.

[quote]All of these rockers are now getting well north of 65-70

They’re all in their mid-late 70s actually, and the oldest ones are starting to turn 80, like Bill Wyman of the Stones. Grace Slick turns 80 this year. It’s gonna be a steady stream of these rockers dying off now.

I loved his music. Did he ever eat?

R5

I had no idea he was still alive.

He was found unresponsive and unconscious in his bed at 4pm by his ex.

At least he didn't suffer...not a bad way to go.

Wasn't Drive sung by Orr?

Funny, geeky, talented. RIP.

He was born in 1949, so he was 70.

The Cars are always associated with Boston, though Rick and Benjamin were from Cleveland and Elliot was from Brooklyn.

r83 many of the rockers associated with Boston are from someplace else, many of them came to go to school and stayed on to start music careers.

Ric, Ben Orr, and Tom Scholz of Boston are all from Ohio but well known as Boston musicians. Tracy Chapman is also from Cleveland (came east to go to Tufts).

Read the thread, r82.

Has Susan Dey commented yet?

I'd forgotten that he'd produced some of Weezer's stuff. Their statement:

R87 he reminds me of a lesbian woman in that photo.

Great musician. RIP.

This makes me sad. A gentle and talented giant he was.

[quote] [R7] is confusing The Cars with Billy Squier. Distinctly separate Boston rock acts.

No he isn't. Emotion in Motion was also a single by Ric Ocasek on his 2nd solo album.

Susan Dey thinks her band was better.

R92 Susan Dey must be hitting the bottle again... just sayin’

If you're living in Manhattan, you're probably living in a space where someone died.

Even the NYT lists him as 75.

what's the point of lying about his age? It's not like he's an actor lol

The Cars were also a great live band, and though Ric was the brains who wrote all the music, Benjamin Orr was the voice of almost all their best songs. And he was beautiful.

Does age matter clearly he has died? I’m sure his real age will be revealed soon.

More will come out about his death. It always does

R95 Lots of celebrities have lied about their ages. Public records have both 1944 and 1949 for birth years, but 1944 has to be correct since he graduated from High School in 1963 and got married the first time shortly after that in Ohio.

His High School Year Book photo from 1961. He wasn't bad looking back then.

His 1962 High School Yearbook photo.

Why would you decide to take drugs at 70?

Why don't streets in New York have proper names?

Suicide?

R103 That's what I'm wondering, considering the circumstances. Why was Paulina there on Sunday afternoon when they've been separated for a couple of years? I hope that's not what it was, but I have a bad feeling.

Billy Idol mentioned suicide in his tweet

Ok, he produced the band Suicide. W

R84, Ric was from Baltimore.

R.I.P. I remember dancing to “Shake It Up” at the Dublin Pub on Long Island while doing 25 cent Alabama Slammer shots.

Susan Dey says she doesn’t have eddy money to come to Ric’s funeral in NY!

He produced music for Suicide Squad. Billy Idol refers to liking that music, not his manner of death.

I assume he had plans with someone and when he did not show and could not be reached, she went round to check on him.

Reports keep saying an apartment, was there a separate suite in the town house?

I think this sounds like suicide. Why would he be lying in his bed at 4 PM and what led Paulina to go over there...

He was 75, Pats.

I get him mixed up with Peter Wolf

r24

My kid is NOT ugly

How could he afford a Manhattan apartment? I bet it was murder and drugs. He was selling drugs to afford his "crib" and then reneged on a deal.

R39 no that's Yuzuru Hanyu, that y'all won't let us talk about anymore. Well, maybe his Adam's apple not quite as pronounced as Ric's, but he's prettier so deserves a discreet mention.

My guess would be it was a heart attack.

Great live performance of "Since You're Gone" on Fridays:

It's sad to see these aging rockers die. RIP to another 80s icon.

He was found dead in bed in the townhouse by Paulina.

I think one outlet said apartment and it was picked up and repeated.

Likely to be natural causes at his age.

Ric Ocashek.

Terrible taste in rugs...

R122 Maybe that's what killed him.

R115 Ric wrote all the Cars songs which sold millions and still get played today. Publishing royalties........

r113

They both were ugly and got lucky.

r124

I haven't heard one of their songs since 1989. No one I talked to can even name one of their songs. Go back to 1989 dude.

Who was the beautiful actress in the music video in R10?

I always thought it was so odd that the magnificent Paulina was with the dorky looking Ocasek. I wonder if he was despondent because Paulina was leaving him? When he was in his 40s and she was in her 20s, the age difference might not have been so bad, but does a beauty like Paulina, who is still beautiful in her 50s, want to be, like the Germans in WWI, shackled to a corpse? I think not!

But I can also see how having your beautiful younger partner walk out on you might be the last straw. He looked like an ancient ostrich. What were his chances of getting another partner? Probably nil.

R111 Ric was lying in bed because he was 75.

I don't Paulina registered to him as much younger once she passed 35.

R126: the Cars are a staple of classic rock radio and 70s and 80s oldies. You don't listen to or know anything about that. This may come as an enormous shock to you but the world doesn't revolve around you. Don't hurt yourself when you throw a temper tantrum.

RIP, Ric.

I thought he left Paulina for a younger woman, for some reason. I imagine she was pragmatic about the split and kept a cordial relationship with him for the sake of her kids. Even if the kids are adults, they’ll appreciate having parents who get along.

When Peter Wolf goes it should be declared a National Holiday.

R132 is not Faye Dunaway.

Ocasek and Benjamin Orr were in a folksy band called Milkwood in the early seventies.

They remind of Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

she probably left him for a younger man.

She left him for Eddie Money. Joke's on her.

I don’t think they left each other for new people. They probably just grew apart as their kids got older. Very common story that happens to many couples.

NONONONONONONONONO

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Really R24 ? Their son Oliver was in a Loewe campaign last year and looks pretty good. He’s the guy at the top of this photo.

r139

The processing of his face in that pic...

The other son looks a little like Jason Schwartzman.

r126 is proud of being an ignorant rube-noob.

What a twat!

R134 Ric looks like Pablo Schreiber in that picture.

I still think all the hippie-era rockers should have to die before any from my generation.

😔😔😔😥😡😥😡😭😭😭

Fun Paulina interview from 2008. She was still married to Ric at the time, of course.

The dark haired son is kinda cute. Needs a better hair style though.

Publishing has always been where the money is in music, r124, and Ric Ocasek wrote most of The Cars' music, and they sold millions of records. The other members of the band might not be rich, but he is.

R147 Only if Ric owned the publishing. Many artist didn’t their labels did.

Paulina’s special modeling talents! LOL

When the broke up there was a BI that he left her for a young chick.

The dark-haired kid has Paula's eyes.

What a loss! My first acting role was playing Nora Clitheroe in a kindergarten production of [italic]The Plough and the Stars.[/italic]

I’m surprised no one has mentioned that the dark-haired son used to be married to the late, great Kris Kardashian.

R126 You live under a rock. I have heard adverts recently using CARS songs. Very popular music still.

I like the song Drive, it's still used a lot in movies and elsewhere...

What no shirtless pics, yet?

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Was that a syrup?

It’s sad, my own mortality is really heightened as I see celebrities/artists of my era die. Although, I’m only 49, but make no mistake death is very insidious and affects us all. Sad.

[quote] make no mistake death is very insidious and affects us all.

Thank you for the heads-up, r158

R159 you’re welcome. That was my scared thinking being put into words.

Death comes like a thief in the night. Just scary when you really think about it.

[quote]i think we'll have to go next for someone else quite famous if they do manage to outlive Olivia: Betty White, Cicely Tyson, or Elizabeth II.

I nominate Marge Champion; there's something about her that just says "Datalounge!"

[quote]all the hippie-era rockers should have to die before any from my generation

At 75 he was the same generation as the “hippie-era rockers.”

Honor Blackman is 94 but I don't think she's been seen in public since 2015...

[quote]When Peter Wolf goes it should be declared a National Holiday.

Sorry, that slot is already reserved. Hopefully it will open up again soon though.

The Cars frontman Ric Ocasek died naturally of heart disease, the city Medical Examiner’s Office said Monday.

The iconic new-wave rock star, 75, was found unconscious inside his Gramercy Park pad around 4:14 p.m. Sunday by his estranged wife, supermodel Paulina Porizkova.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

It’s unclear how long Ocasek, born Otcasek, had been suffering from heart disease. Pulmonary emphysema, a type of lung disease, contributed to his death, the ME’s office said.

The “My Best Friend’s Girl” singer had recently placed the home where he was found on the market after he and Porizkova announced their split in May 2018.

The pair — who shared two sons — had been together for 28 years when they separated. The singer also had four other sons from previous marriages.

Ric showed how much of The Cars sound he was when he released solo single "Something To Grab For" with video starring Playmate of the Year Marianne Gravatte.

I'm so glad it wasn't suicide.

Let them leave you up in the air...let them brush you Rock-n-Roll hair!

The Cars will always remind me of 1984 when I was driving my new sports car with my windsurfer strapped to the roof of my car driving to San Philippe Mx for vacation. I had just gotten into the San Diego area when I heard their new CD on the radio and had to have it. I remember calling ahead to a local store to see if they would pull a copy for me and give me a chance to pick it up, it was already almost 9:00pm, the did. I played that CD all the way to SP and the entire time I was there. What a wonderful vacation. All the giant shrimp I could eat and that CD. 8 months later I was transferred to Chicago and enjoyed that CD over again driving on Lake Shore Drive, even leased an apartment of LSD. Memories

How soon can they tell someone died from heart disease? They don't have to open him up to know that?

What a great memory, r169

Everyone who loves music should view the clips at r96 and r118 for a master class in what a tight, near-perfect live rock-and-roll band looks like. A lost art these days.

There were no CD's in 1984 R169, there were tapes. You have a pretty bad memory.

1984: A CD player in a car?

The Cars were notoriously boring in concert, R172, and those clips do nothing to dispel that criticism.

Ric Ocasek’s estranged supermodel wife discovered he had died while bringing him coffee on Sunday — revealing in a statement that The Cars frontman was recovering from recent surgery.

“Ric was at home recuperating well after surgery,” Paulina Porizkova wrote in a statement published on Instagram Monday — calling the rock legend’s death “untimely and unexpected.”

“Our two sons, Jonathan and Oliver, and I were making sure he was comfortable, ordering food and watching TV together.

“I found him still asleep when bringing him his Sunday morning coffee. I touched his cheek to rouse him. It was then I realized that during the night he had peacefully passed on.”

Porizkova thanked fans for their support — sharing a photo of the small floral shrine which sprung up outside his Gramercy Park pad where fans and neighbors paid tribute to the iconic new wave rock star, 75.

“We appreciate the great outpouring of love. We, his family and friends, are completely and utterly devastated,” she wrote. The pair, who had been together for 28 years, announced their split in May 2018.

Neighbors stopped to pay their respects on Monday — with one fan dropping of a picture of The Cars’ 1978 debut album and another leaving behind a vintage toy car.

Locals who knew Ocasek described him as a “very sweet” and “gentle” man who was an unassuming fixture in the neighborhood and always happy to have a chat.

Lisa Chai, 46, stopped by on her way to work to pay her respects and left the toy car for the rock icon, describing his death as “very sad.”

“I was going to go get flowers but I feel like a car was more appropriate!” Chai said. “My son was born here and (Ocasek) would always pass by and say hello. He was so nice, so friendly.”

The “My Best Friend’s Girl” singer died naturally of heart disease, the city Medical Examiner’s Office said Monday.

Local Rebecca Spath grew up listening to Ocasek’s rock band and left behind a pink candle, telling The Post, “I wanted to honor him as a neighbor, as a musician and producer.”

“I left a candle, I didn’t have a car! I was hoping there would be flowers here today, I’m glad he’s being remembered,” she said.

Neighbor Julie Block told The Post she was grief-stricken as a fan of his music and as his neighbor.

“I first spoke to him about seven years ago, and I swear this is true, I was walking down the street and I was listening to The Cars and there he was!” Block said.

“I pulled an earphone out and I said, ‘I’m listening to you right now and you made my workout really happy!’ and he was very friendly,” she said.

My friend’s boyfriend had a Jeep with a CD player in it, in 1987/1988. I don’t know about any earlier

Paulina is still gorgeous. She has wrinkles but she still looks youthful.

70/75 . . . . . . . .

🍎Apples/🍊 Oranges

Potato🥔Potahtoe, Tomato🍅Tomahtoe

Shhhh, R138 it's alright, it's alright, Ric is in a better place, he is at peace, still ugly, but at peace * gently rocks R138 back and forth * he has probably already found an angel even though she is ridiculously younger than him and ridiculously better looking than him and even though he is still married, Ric is happy now R138 Ric still gets to be the rock-n-roll prick in Heaven that he enjoyed being while in this life

No wonder he hooked up with Paulina. Ric got tired of his wives punching out ugly kids. Eeewww!

Never liked The Cars, never liked Ocasek but when it was time to hang it up and go away they hung it up, went away and stayed away. I'll give Ocasek and the rest some credit for that.

Paulina Porizkova always seemed the most bearable and grounded of the supermodels. She had a humor about herself and the industry, and though she ended up with a rock star, it was for nearly three decades, and it didn’t seem to be for looks, something that the simple and shallow r180 cannot grasp, though, to his credit, he’s trying earnestly to express his garbled thought patterns in poorly written sarcasm.

Ric had to go and join the 75 Club.

Damn! Damn! DAMN!

Kidding. This mumbling, charmless overrated fugly stringbean never did a thing for me.

We can't go on thinking that this is important news. (What happened? Was he sorting through a lawn bag full of $100 bills and then bleed to death after receiving a massive paper cut?)

Shhhh, it's alright R183, it's alright, Ric is at peace now, mother earth and father time R183, mother earth and father time, it's alright honey, it's alright, Ric is our angel now

R180/r185 and r184 add nothing but shit to this thread. Go away you pathetic assholes.

[Quote] Never liked The Cars, never liked Ocasek but when it was time to hang it up and go away they hung it up, went away and stayed away. I'll give Ocasek and the rest some credit for that.

I believe he had a successful career as a music producer. I imagine that kept him from the nostalgia circuit.

I wonder if there'll be a lot of fighting over his estate. Paula's kids vs. the Pre-Paula offspring.

R174 Pioneer's CDX-1 CD-player for cars came out in 1984.

[Quote] Pioneer's CDX-1 CD-player for cars came out in 1984.

What would it have set you back?

R180 + r182 can go die in a grease fire.

Ocasek and the Cars had more talent in their pinky fingernails than all 650 pounds of your entire bodies will ever have!

The Cars = among the Top 50 Best Pop Musicians of All Time.

Yeah, r180, r182 + r184 are too busy with their Beyonce and Taylor Swift albums to care.

Or are you some of the Streisand/Sinatra Elderqueens?

Do tell us which musicians “did something for you.”

If you hit ignore, the haters all vanish as a single, unhappy entity. Let it consume itself in its own bile.

Paulina was really wonderful on "Dancing With the Stars." She got kicked off WAY too soon.

[quote]If you're living in Manhattan, you're probably living in a space where someone died.

And if you're not, odds are you'll die there.

R190 A 1985 article in the NYT describing the CDX-1 experience in a limo ride mentions that the player alone was going for $549.95.

Using an inflation calculator, that has the same purchasing power as about $1,331 today.

I wonder what surgery he had. Wife said he was recovering from surgery...

gee, maybe something went wrong?

I'm thinking he went the Joan Rivers route, R197. He looked like he'd had some "work" done at that Hall Of Fame induction last year.

[quote] It’s unclear how long Ocasek, born Otcasek, had been suffering from heart disease. Pulmonary emphysema, a type of lung disease, contributed to his death, the ME’s office said.

Did he ever stop smoking?

Thanks, Debbie Downer at r175.

They were still married, the divorce was not finalized.

I assume that they knew about the cardiac and breathing issues, it may have been related to the surgery, or would have been identified prior to surgery.

r188 Paulina and her kids got on well with Ocasek's older sons, she was just vacationing with his DIL and two grandkids over the summer per her Igram. His eldest son has tagged her on numerous posts as well over the years.

I do wonder what will happen to his estate since I believe they weren't formally divorced at his death. It hadn't been finalized. Someone with knowledge of NY estate could contribute.

"knowledge of NY estate law" at r202

Had they initiated divorce proceedings or were they just separated?

The NYC townhouse was for sale, would lead one to believe they had begun proceedings or were close to it.

Cause of death determined

when they got married, Paulina was wayyyy out of his league. How could the most beautiful girl in the world marry such a freaky looking weirdo?

Now she is his equal in the looks department...

Hardly, R208. She's older, but still beautiful.

He had serious BDF

Still think it sounds strange that she was "bringing him his Sunday morning coffee," yet she discovered him around 4 p.m.

Same. Unless there was a delay to sort things and that is just when the police were called? If he was clearly dead?

Was he still in a relationship with the woman he left her for?

Sounds like they were all still living in the house?

Presumably he had a will, but as his still legal spouse, I assume she gets the bulk of his assets. There are 6 sons all together. He admitted that he had been an absent father to the older kids and that one was an addict. She really sounds like a lovely person, shame he did not appreciate that.

I'd like to see her with silver/white hair. I don't like the dull blonde.

Is it usual for extremely beautiful women to marry extremely handsome men? I don't think so.

I used to see him all the time when I lived on 20th street and 3rd. I knew he lived in the neighborhood but had no idea he lived in that townhouse. I know exactly where it is.

The pic at r207 is perfection. There really is no rival...

She had an interesting face for sure. It was very square but still incredibly feminine. I think it’s wonderful that’s she’s allowed herself to age mostly naturally (but I can tell for sure she’s using lasers lol!)

But still, dumped as an older woman, despite all she had brought to his family. Perhaps not the nicest of men? Talented tho.

Eh... I imagine there was some relief on her part however they parted. Who wants to reach their 50s only to nursemaid someone well on their way to 80?

Sounds like she still was acting in that role, R219.

[quote]The Cars frontman Ric Ocasek died naturally of heart disease

Is that something they're just *telling* people?

Most people don"t give a shit about this guy !

Did he really leave Paulina for another woman? That is just crazy to me. Mind-boggling...

The pictures of her don't really tell the story. yes she still looks good.

I've seen her in person and she is very tall and slim but those wrinkles are very deep, that's what the pictures don't show. And she had full on make up on...with deep, deep wrinkles, not a good look.

[R224] Did she smoke?

Meh. She still looks beautiful. If she embraces grey/white hair, she'll look even better.

[R111] Do you assume when people die that they get up and change positions depending on what time it is when they're found? If he died that night he'd obviously still be in his bed.

Counting down my favorite Cars songs not yet linked.

#7 Drive

#6 My Best Friend's Girl, which even had a movie named after it!

#5 Hello Again, which a local TV station in my area used to promote reruns of '80s and '90s sitcoms with.

#4 Wound Up On You, which I discovered on their Elektra Years box set:

#3 mega-hit Shake It Up, which most people recognize.

I know none of their songs. I love the album cover with big smiling young woman, though. It's a classic image/design.

#2 Misfit Kid. A more obscure but fun track from Panorama. My theme song!

#1 Magic. My '80s summer anthem!

[quote]When Peter Wolf goes it should be declared a National Holiday.

Why? Is he a jerk? Spill, please.

"Blue Tip" from their ignored 2011 album Move Like This

"Sad Song"

Their music was just pure fun. LOVED them.

R239, Agreed. Nothing like the Cars' songs to get you up, energetic, and ready for a physical workout.

The “Magic” video was directed by Mr. Debby Wings!

I always think of the movie The Last American Virgin when I think of The Cars. That film effectively used some of their songs.

And Heartbeat City is a beast of an album.

I think I've told this before.

I've met them about a dozen times when I used to work in a NY hospital. The first time I met him he was alone in an elevator with me. We had to go up 20 floors. He looked familiar (he in a black leather coat) but I couldn't place him. I asked him, "are you in a band"? He replied that he was. I replied, "oh yes, how are you?". Although I couldn't remember which band he was in. A week later I realized who he was. I continued to see him and Paulina at the hospital over the next few weeks. My office was near the office of whomever they were seeing. He always said hello to me and started joking and asking me each time if I "was in a band". I always replied that I was. We both always laughed

A few year later I met them through friends and they remembered me. They're are/were really lovely people

"Moving in Stereo" in Fast Times at Ridgemont Hight was the soundtrack to many 80s teen masturbation sessions.

Who was the chick in the album cover picture?

Looks a bit like Carol Burnett, R245.

[quote]Did he ever stop smoking?

Yeah. A couple of days ago.

Sad about Ric, and I also can't believe it's been almost 20 years since Benjamin Orr died. :(

I wonder if a biography will be coming out? Would probably be short. I LOVE the Cars but I don't think any of their lives was especially eventful.

Was it drugs? LOL of course it was. Even if it was a heart attack he was drugged out at the time.

R249, a Benjamin Orr biography came out in the past year or so. It was a nice read, but very amateurish and definitely uneventful, as the writer wanted to be respectful. Ric's bio would probably be interesting, but I doubt there would be any market for it.

One of the few people who looks even bettter in B&W

kitty cat

A very young Paulina in the early 80s with Cocteau Twins soundtrack

Pulina is from a time when models actually had to be beautiful

Now, she wouldn't book a job

A new interview with Paulina published today in Rolling Stone. Link in her Insta. Reading between the lines, it seems there is more to his death than first reported. Either suicide or some health issue not previously known (or disclosed publicly).

"He would wake up and get meticulously dressed like he was going to a photo session and go down to the basement and work all day, even if nobody was in the house. You wouldn’t catch him dead in a pair of sweatpants."

Truly, a straight man after DL's own heart.

From the [italic]Rolling Stone[/italic] article linked by R258:

[quote]His death was not at all related to his heart or his surgery, which was two weeks earlier. I don’t know how much I want to say about the surgery, but it was successful.

Sounds like cosmetic surgery.

"I don’t know how much I want to say about the surgery, but it was successful."

Hmm... Separated in 2017, and now cagey about a mystery "surgery."

Are you suggesting she bumped him off?

No, R261! Just wondering what kind of surgery is so (apparently) embarrassing. I mean, the guy was newly single at age 73. Some sort of genital thing to regain function? I don't know; just seems odd that she'd be so evasive.

He was transitioning late in life r262? I was suspicious about this last year, when they announced their separation after such a long marriage.

Would also explain why they remained so close after the split, so friendly. She was checking in on him at home before he died along with their kids.

If he transitioned, couldn’t she become a lipstick 💄 lesbian? Is that too much of a stretch for a supermodel?

Maybe she was more attached to Ocasek's dic than he was.

[quote]the guy was newly single at age 73

I thought I read somewhere that he had a new girlfriend, which was the reason for the split with Paulina?

(however, the mind boggles at the thought of him doing a Caitlin Jenner) [italic](shiver!)[/italic]

definitely fishy

Oh, shit. I bet that’s what it was. He was transitioning...?

Did he have Marfan’s Syndrome?

I had wondered the same about Marfan's.