M Is FOR MASHUP - February 8th, 2012
New Mashup Albums Galore
By DJ Useo
Hey all. I been away a lot, I know. Unavoidable, though. I still can't spare a lot of time to write a lot. You don't want to read tons anyway. I know what you want. The mashups! Call me 'accomodating', then, 'cause here they come! This week it's 6 great new mashup collections. Let's begin.
01 - DJ Frogg has been hopping around the bootleg scene for some time now. He gives fine tracks that are easy to play & memorable. On his latest collection '
Dj Frogg - Vintage Collection', he offers pairings like 'Daddy Voodoo' (Aphex Twin vs Korn vs The Prodigy) & 'Pupunanny Shack ' (BassNectar vs Afrika Bambaataa vs The B 52's vs Spank Rock and Benny Blanco). There's lots of variety, but it's all put toward a very accessible overall sound.
This album & others available here
( www.mixcloud.com/Frogg/playlists/vintage-collection/ )
02 - 'Chocomang's Best of 2011' is the real deal when it comes to killer mashup collections. Each & every track was highly successful on its own. Brought together in one large disc simply drives home more forcibly the sheer quality & successful design of each song. Sure, they were all good songs from the source artists, but even a cursory listen to this set reveals the intrinsic lure of the Chocomang mixed releases. Listen for gems like 'Don't Stop the Lonely Heart' (Bryan Ferry vs Yes), 'I Kissed A Whiter Shade of Pale' (Procol Harum vs Katy Perry) & 'Beat the New Year's Day' (U2 vs Michael Jackson). Check his site for links to the many video versions.
Album here
( official.fm/playlists/83930 )
03 - 'POMATIC presents 2011 Billboard Number 1 [Mash Hitz Edition] (2012)' is so great it burns like a second sun in the daytime sky. POMATIC is a longtime favourite mixer of mine. He is unerringly excellent with his productions. I find him notable for his ability to make very ordinary, mainstream artists shine the way they ought to on their own. This new collection never lets up with excellent pairings & progressions. Try 'Believe S&M' (Rihanna vs. Cher), 'Fade Into Friday Night' (Katy Perry vs. Avicii), or 'Black And Yellow Watercolours' (Wiz Khalifa vs. LTJ Bukem), you won't be let down.
Full album
& videos here
( www.pomaprod.com/1.html )
( vimeo.com/album/1800573 )
04 - OKI's 'RapMash Album' is all that & a bag of chips (that means it's good). It has wonderful source artists & the production is strong & concise. The thing that makes it extra special is OKI's ability to pair songs with such compatible elements that you can't resist. There's tracks like 'stray cats- runaway boys vs. house of pain- jump around', 'status quo- down down vs. public enemy- shut them down/rebel without a pause', & 'muse- sunburn vs. ice t- the hunted child'. OKI also has a strong way with videos, so look for plenty on this new collection.
Find it all here
( www.oki-mashups.yolasite.com/ )
05 - After supplying many creative & popular mashups & mashup albums since the 1990's, RIAA has bequeathed us 'The Last RIAA Album: "The Wonderful World of Sound'. It's not like the others mentioned today. Sure it's cut & looped sounds done with mixing software, but RIAA goes where none other dares! All while keeping the tunes appealing & interesting. Dwelling on this final RIAA release are tracks like 'The Wonderful World of Sound' (a 15 minute mash-mix with MPFC vs Laurie Anderson vs too many to list here. Lol), 'Come as The 80's' (Nirvana vs Killing Joke), & 'Tipsy Socialist' (J-kwon vs Public Image Limited). With this record you get the joy of mashup melodies along with the fun of playful inventiveness.
Listen here
( mrfab-riaa.blogspot.com/2012/01/last-riaa-album-wonderful-world-of.html )
06 - BRG,The Beatles Remixers Group presents 'The Beatles - You Can't Mash That 25'. It's a choice selection of mashups from the many producers out there who mix with the Beatles. It's got solidly-mixed & deliciously-chosen fare like 'AtoZ - Caveman Jam' (The Beatles At The Invention Of Music), Fissunix - End Of The Walrus, & 'Mighty Mike - Garden In The Sky'. They even included a track from me, 'Long Long Chulainn', a Celtic take on George Harrison's 'Long Long Long'.
Look for it (& the previous 24 albums) here
( beatlesremixers.freeforums.org/brg-releases-f7.html )
There's lots more new mashup albums worth mentioning, so I will…but not today.
Have fun with these & tell your friends.
Podcast Of The Week
BorisB's 'The Extra Hour' is a fantastic once-a-month love fest of current & past mashup material. BorisB is an excellent host with immaculate taste in bootleg music. I never miss his shows & you shouldn't either.
Here's The Extra Hour for February Show 2012
( theextrahour.webs.com/ )
Mashup Tip : Nobody likes polka mashups, at least so far. So, don't even go there. LMAO.
Latest Useo Thing
I made a mashup called 'Godzilla King of The Monsters' (Blue Oyster Cult vs Akira Ifukube) for the mashup forum
GET YOUR BOOTLEG ON
( www.gybo5.com/ ) They're having a MOVIE MUSIC MASHUPS CHALLENGE where you're supposed to use some film music. Mine has the first Godzilla movie theme set to a stark bass & vocal mix of BOC's 'Godzilla'.
Listen & see if you can name the 11 monsters I sampled for the mix.
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/02/godzilla-king-of-monsters-blue-oyster.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Remember that mashup you lost back in July? You'll find it in the couch cushions with some stale cheese puffs.
Recommended Reading
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Charlie Brooker: When the 'Daily Mail' calls rightwingers stupid, the result is dumbogeddon (Guardian)
On and on the comments went - a chimps' tea party of the damned.
Elsa Moriarty: The 6 Most Counterproductive PSAs of All Time (Cracked)
To public service announcement creators, their videos serve as a terrible portent of doom for the audience. And if they do their job right, it works: …If they do their job wrong, however, it mostly just reminds the audience that our preferred form of mischief is pretty fun, and hey -- it's been a little while since we did it, hasn't it? Well, here are six PSAs that definitely did their job wrong, because they make their subject matter look downright tempting.
What really happens to our muscles as we age if we are chronically active?
It's not just your age. It's what you do while you're aging, as these MRI scans show.
Matt Soniak: What Happens to the Losing Team's Championship Shirts? (Mental Floss)
Based on strong sales after the Chicago Bears' 2007 NFC Championship win, Sports Authority printed more than 15,000 shirts proclaiming a Bears Super Bowl victory well before the game even started. And then the Colts beat the Bears, 29-17.
Lucy Mangan: Come on, Feel the Noise (Guardian)
'These days I crave peace and quiet even more than I crave an uninterrupted shower, the public flogging of George Osborne or a night with Jon Hamm.'
Robert Lloyd: David Letterman's uncomfortable situation has been his success for 30 years (Los Angeles Times)
David Letterman celebrates 30 years in post-prime-time television this week …
Kevin Forde, Alex Strine: The 6 Most Elaborate F-Yous From Musicians to the Industry (Cracked)
Most musicians have to put up with record company executives being interfering dicks. It's part of the job, just like wearing sunglasses indoors and objectifying women. Not all bands let them get away with it, though. Every now and then, through luck, opportunism or having balls of brass, some get to fight back.
Katherine Coplen: "Super Indy: Meditations of D.M.C." (NUVO)
For the last thirty years, legendary hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. has racked up honor after musical honor. They were the first rap group to go platinum and first to be nominated for a Grammy Award. They were the first to sell out a whole arena tour. Honored as the Greatest Hip-Hop Group of all-time by both MTV and VH1, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2009. Their impact on the culture and history of hip-hop is practically immeasurable.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
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Animal-Centered Movies
Genesis Awards
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes," "War Horse" and the documentary "Buck" were among the films nominated for the 26th Genesis Awards by the Humane Society of the United States, the HSUS announced on Tuesday.
The Genesis Awards honor films with animal-friendly themes and creative portrayals of animal protection. (In the case of "Planet of the Apes," that means a film in which apes engage in a violent revolt against mistreatment.)
In the feature film category, "Apes" and "War Horse" were nominated alongside "Dolphin Tale" and the animated film "Rio."
"Buck" will compete in the Feature Documentary category against "One Lucky Elephant" and the IMAX 3D doc "Born to Be Wild."
The Genesis Awards will take place on March 24 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and will be hosted by Carrie Ann Inaba. A one-hour version will air on Animal Planet in May. The nominations:
Genesis Awards
European Court Ruling Upholds
Media Freedoms
Europe's human rights court has rejected an invasion-of-privacy complaint by Monaco's Princess Caroline - one of two potentially groundbreaking rulings Tuesday that uphold the media's right to report on celebrities.
The verdicts by the European Court of Human Rights, based in the northeastern French city of Strasbourg, take immediate effect and set a benchmark for members of the 47-country Council of Europe.
Princess Caroline and her husband, Prince Ernst August von Hanover, had filed a complaint with the court alleging that their privacy rights had been violated in Germany over the 2002 publication by Frau im Spiegel magazine of a photo of the couple on a skiing holiday - a time when her father, Prince Rainier, was ailing.
A German court had initially upheld the media's right to report on how the royal family was coping with Rainier's illness, and how his children "reconciled their obligations of family solidarity with the legitimate needs of their private life."
The ECHR upheld that ruling, saying Caroline and her lawyers "had not provided any evidence that the photos had been taken in a climate of general harassment, as they had alleged, or that they had been taken secretly."
Media Freedoms
On CA Ballot
Roseanne Barr
Roseanne Barr's name is on California's primary ballot as a Green Party candidate for president.
Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced Monday that Barr is among 24 candidates she intends to place on the June 5 ballot. An officially certified list will be released on March 29.
A news release says Barr is among three candidates for the Green Party presidential nomination.
The actress-comedian released a statement last week saying she's a longtime supporter of the Green Party and she looks forward to working with people who share her values. She says the two major parties aren't serving the American people.
Roseanne Barr
95th Birthday
Zsa Zsa
After what felt like an eternity but was actually just a few minutes, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt emerged from a white door into the foyer of the old-fashioned Bel-Air mansion that he shares with his wife of 25 years, former glamour queen Zsa Zsa Gabor.
The self-proclaimed German prince held a chocolate birthday cake he said was a gift from celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck. Smoke from the expunged candles jabbed into the small cake was still drifting in the air.
Surrounded by paintings and photographs depicting Gabor when she was an infamously sassy Hungarian actress, a few dozen guests quietly sipped champagne and mingle in the common areas of the home overlooking the twinkling lights of Los Angeles.
But Gabor was nowhere to be seen - apparently celebrating her 95th birthday behind closed doors on the chilly Monday evening. Von Anhalt presented the cake to his bedridden beloved out of sight from the partygoers who had gathered for the occasion. He paraded it around the room as he greets his guests.
So why throw such a party for Gabor after all she's been through, especially if she can't participate? Gabor may not know what's going on outside her bedroom door, but she can feel the energy, according to von Anhalt.
Zsa Zsa
Money Makes Everything All Better
Rupert
U.S. authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible violations by employees of Rupert Murdoch's media empire of a U.S. law banning corrupt payments to foreign officials such as police, law enforcement and corporate sources said.
But U.S. investigators have found little to substantiate allegations of phone hacking inside the United States by Murdoch journalists, the sources added.
The FBI is conducting an investigation into possible criminal violations by Murdoch employees of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), a law intended to curb payment of bribes by U.S. companies to foreign officials, a U.S. law enforcement official said.
If it is found to have violated the FCPA, Murdoch's News Corp, which has its headquarters in New York, could be fined up to $2 million and barred from U.S. government contracts, and individuals who participated in the bribery could face fines of up to $100,000 and a jail sentence of five years.
In practice, U.S. authorities have usually settled FCPA cases in return for large cash payments from companies, who can sometimes avoid legal admissions of guilt.
Rupert
Won't Face Charges
Greg Kelly
A New York prosecutor considering rape allegations against Greg Kelly, a Fox TV local morning anchor who is the son of the city's police commissioner, has decided not to bring charges in the case.
Kelly's lawyer, Andrew Lankler, met this evening with the lead prosecutor, Martha Bashford, the chief sex crimes prosecutor for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., and left with a letter informing him that, following the investigation, it was determined the allegations against Kelly did not meet the standard of criminal prosecution and no charges would be brought.
Because Kelly is the son of New York City's nationally and internationally renowned police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, the police department recused itself from investigating a New York woman's rape allegations last month to avoid any conflict of interest.
The accuser, approximately 30, told investigators that she met Kelly, who is single, in lower Manhattan and that he later raped her in the law offices where she works as a paralegal.
Greg Kelly
Testimony Ends In Trial
Golden Globe Awards
Testimony concluded Tuesday in a trial that will decide whether the Golden Globe Awards remain on the NBC television network through 2018 with a federal judge strongly urging both sides to settle before a ruling is necessary.
U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz warned attorneys for the Globes' organizers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and its longtime producers that he would declare a clear winner, which could result in the Globes being tangled up on appeal for another awards season.
The case involves a $150 million deal that dick clark productions, also known as dcp, negotiated with NBC in 2010. The glitzy awards gala has aired on the network since 1996, but the HFPA contends the company had no right to enter the deal or to continue working on the show without its authorization.
Attorneys for dcp, which is no longer owned by entertainment pioneer Dick Clark, argue a nearly 20-year-old agreement gives the company rights to work on the Globes for as long as it airs on NBC.
After hearing nine days of testimony, Matz set closing arguments in the case for Friday and urged both sides to make another attempt at reconciliation.
Golden Globe Awards
Audio Recording Law Under Scrutiny
Illinois
Tiawanda Moore didn't think she was doing anything wrong when she took out her smartphone and started recording a conversation with two Chicago police officers she says were trying to stop her from filing a sexual harassment complaint against one of their colleagues two years ago.
Moore was promptly arrested and charged with violating a strict Illinois eavesdropping law that bars audio recordings unless all involved parties agree to it. Moore, then 20, spent more than two weeks in jail and faced up to 15 years in prison.
In Illinois, documenting life in the era of smartphones and YouTube can result in felony charges. The little-known law could draw more attention come May, when thousands of protesters and journalists are set to descend on Chicago for the NATO and G8 summits and someone unknowingly may try to record a clash with police.
Most states allow anyone taking part in a conversation to audio record it, a policy known as one-party consent. A dozen states require both sides of a conversation to agree. Illinois has an unusual version of the second type, requiring all parties in a conversation to consent. The law, enacted in 1961, only applies to recording conversations, so it is legal to record an event with the sound turned off or an event in the distance in which voices cannot be heard.
The law also includes a narrow exception for radio and television recordings made in public where conversations may be incidentally heard over the main broadcast. But that wouldn't preclude police from arresting a citizen who records audio from an event on a cellphone, as they may not be protected under traditional interpretations of freedom of the press.
Illinois
Judge Denies $25 IRS Payment
Richard Hatch
A request by reality television star Richard Hatch to give the Internal Revenue Service a reduced payment of $25 for January in his tax evasion case has been denied by a Rhode Island judge.
Court records show the federal judge rejected the request Tuesday.
He was ordered to pay 25 percent of his gross income to the IRS as part of his sentence for violating terms of his supervised release. He sought the reduced payment, saying he'd earned only $500 since being freed in December.
Public defender Mary McElroy says Hatch's accountant and agent take 20 percent of his income and he's saving for an apartment. She says he's relying on others for housing and basic necessities.
Richard Hatch
Man Admits Spree
Bicoastal Art-Theft
A wine steward who plucked artwork off hotel and gallery walls in a bicoastal spree admitted Tuesday to stealing a $350,000 drawing in New York, resolving charges here after serving jail time in California.
An art-loving thief who stole to decorate his own apartment, according to prosecutors, Mark Lugo pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the New York case.
He admitted he took the pricey sketch by the Cubist painter Fernand Leger from a lobby gallery at Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel on June 28 - one of the New York thefts prosecutors said Lugo accomplished by lifting art off hotel walls and walking off with the works in canvas tote bags. Besides the Leger, he was charged with stealing five works by the South Korea-born artist Mie Yim from another hotel on June 14.
Lugo was publicly identified as a suspect in several New York heists shortly after his July arrest in San Francisco. Authorities there said he strolled into the Weinstein Gallery, took a $275,000 1965 Picasso drawing "Tete de Femme (Head of a Woman)" off a wall, walked down the street with the sketch under his arm and hopped into a taxi. Police tracked Lugo to a friend's apartment in nearby Napa County.
At Lugo's own apartment in Hoboken, N.J., investigators then found a $430,000 trove of stolen art on display.
Bicoastal Art-Theft
Collector Pleads Guilty
Presidential Memorabilia
A noted collector of presidential memorabilia pleaded guilty on Tuesday to stealing thousands of rare historical documents, including copies of speeches by President Franklin, from a presidential library and historical societies.
Barry Landau, 63, who had promoted himself as a U.S. presidential historian, pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal major artwork and theft of major artwork from December 2010 to July 2011. An accomplice who helped steal the documents pleaded guilty in October.
Authorities found 10,000 documents and other historical objects during a search of Landau's house last July and August. So far, they have determined that more than 4,000 were stolen from libraries and repositories, include documents signed by George Washington, John Adams, Franklin Roosevelt, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon Bonaparte, Karl Marx, and Sir Isaac Newton.
Landau and his co-conspirator, Jason Savedoff, sometimes stole the documents by hiding them in specially designed pockets in their clothing and by distracting museum curators. They also stole card catalogue entries to conceal the fact that the items existed and were missing.
Presidential Memorabilia
Beats Out Chips As Biggest Salt Source
Bread
Bread and rolls are the No. 1 source of salt in the American diet, accounting for more than twice as much sodium as salty junk food like potato chips.
That surprising finding comes in a government report released Tuesday that includes a list of the top 10 sources of sodium. Salty snacks actually came in at the bottom of the list compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Breads and rolls aren't really saltier than many of the other foods, but people tend to eat a lot of them, said Mary Cogswell, a CDC senior scientist who co-authored the report.
Salt is the main source of sodium for most people, and sodium increases the risk of high blood pressure, a major cause of heart disease and stroke. Health officials say most Americans get too much salt, mostly from processed and restaurant foods - not added from the salt shaker.
Experts have known that the sodium in breads and certain other foods can add up, but even CDC officials were amazed that just 10 foods are responsible for 44 percent of the sodium consumed.
Bread
Deserves Ridicule
Rep. John Fleming
Republican House Rep. John Fleming of Louisiana has made himself the target of online ridicule after confusing a spoof article about Planned Parenthood as a factual news report, according to Politico.
An article posted to the Onion's website on May 18, 2011 is headlined, "Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex." Of course, as millions of readers already know, the Onion is a satirical news organization, which makes up fake parody stories about real people, places and things.
The fictitious article opens with the obviously made-up lead sentence: "Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday the grand opening of its long-planned $8 billion Abortionplex, a sprawling abortion facility that will allow the organization to terminate unborn lives with an efficiency never before thought possible."
However, the Onion's mission statement apparently was not explained to Rep. Fleming, who took to his Facebook account, writing: "More on Planned Parenthood. Abortion by the wholesale."
The post has since been removed from Fleming's Facebook page, but it can still be seen the website Literally Unbelievable, which captures posts from Facebook users who mistakenly think Onion articles are real.
Rep. John Fleming
All the Cats in the World Suddenly Died?
What If
Perhaps you're a cat lover. Perhaps you abhor the lazy critters. Either way, when you see a cat lounging on an armchair, napping all day but for the occasional stretch or window gaze, "useless" is by no means the last word that comes to mind. Cats, beloved or otherwise, don't radiate the message that they're indispensable, hard-working members of the household, or the world.
But, in fact, they're just playing it cool (as usual). Experts say that if all the world's cats suddenly died, things would quickly go to hell in a handbasket.
Cats, both pets and strays, may fool us into thinking that they depend on our food and trash for survival, but according to Alan Beck, professor of veterinary medicine and director of the Center for the Human-Animal Bond at Purdue University, they're expert predators with adaptable hunting behaviors. "They are a significant predator of small animals, and can survive as almost solitary animals when the prey is scarce, while thriving in high density when the prey is abundant," Beck told Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site to LiveScience.
And that's just why we'd miss them. By killing mice and rats in barns and grain storage areas, cats are vital for keeping those pests in check. In India, Beck said, cats are believed to play a significant role in lessening the amount of grain loss caused by consumption or contamination by rodents. In other words, it may be true that humans feed cats, but without cats, humans would have less food in the first place.
So, how dramatically would the rodent population increase if cats suddenly vanished? It just so happens that several scientific studies have been conducted that paint a vivid picture. A 1997 study in Great Britain found that the average house cat brought home more than 11 dead animals (including mice, birds, frogs and more) in the course of six months. That meant the 9 million cats of Britain were collectively killing close to 200 million wild specimens per year - not including all those they did not offer up to their owners. A study in New Zealand in 1979 found that, when cats were nearly eradicated from a small island, the local rat population quickly quadrupled.
What If
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Jan. 30-Feb. 5. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. Super Bowl: N.Y. Giants vs. New England, NBC, 111.35 million.
2. "Super Bowl Post Game," NBC, 76.8 million.
3. "The Voice," NBC, 37.61 million.
4. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 18.48 million.
5. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 17.41 million.
6. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 16.54 million.
7. "Person of Interest," CBS, 15.1 million.
8. "The Mentalist," CBS, 13.78 million.
9. "NCIS," CBS, 13.04 million.
10. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 11.44 million.
11. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 11.13 million.
12. "Rob," CBS, 11.06 million.
13. "CSI: NY," CBS, 10.25 million.
14. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 10.14 million.
15. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 9.71 million.
16. "Glee," Fox, 9.07 million.
17. "House," Fox, 8.73 million.
18. "Super Bowl Great Commercials," CBS, 8.58 million.
19. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 8.45 million.
20. "Alcatraz," Fox, 8.44 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Janice Voss
Former Astronaut Janice E. Voss, one of the few women launched into space, has died of breast cancer in Arizona, her alma mater said on Tuesday.
Voss, 55, died on Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz., where she was receiving treatment, Purdue University said in a news release.
She had logged five space flights with NASA, spending a total of 49 days in orbit and traveling 18.8 million miles in 779 laps of the Earth.
Born in South Bend, Indiana, Voss earned her bachelor's degree in engineering science at Purdue and then gained a doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She became an astronaut in 1991, blasting into space for the first time two years later. She took part in space missions in 1995, two in 1997 and the last in 2000.
Her final mission was an 11-day flight during which the international crew aboard shuttle Endeavour mapped more than 47 million square miles of the Earth's land surface.
After her final space mission, Voss continued to work for NASA on payload issues, and used her cachet as an astronaut to encourage students to study science and math.
Janice Voss
In Memory
Bill Hinzman
Bill Hinzman, who was cast on-the-spot as a zombie in 1968 cult film "Night of the Living Dead" in a role that earned him the longlasting admiration of horror fans, has died at age 75, his daughter said.
Hinzman died of cancer on Sunday evening at his home in Darlington, Pennsylvania, his daughter Heidi Hinzman told Reuters.
He played a prominent role in director George Romero's low-budget, black-and-white 1968 film "Night of the Living Dead," which is credited with revolutionizing the zombie genre.
Hinzman was working as an assistant cameraman on the film when Romero decided to cast him as the zombie in the movie's opening sequence.
"We'd like to tell the story that it was a hard audition session, but Bill was there and old enough and thin enough and he had an old suit," said the film's producer Russ Streiner.
Dressed in that suit, Hinzman appears at a Pennsylvania cemetery and attacks a pair of young siblings by knocking the man's head against a tombstone and chasing the woman.
He lurches across an open field and eventually chases the woman into a farmhouse.
Fans called Heinzman "No. 1 zombie," said Streiner, who also played a character named Johnny who fought with Hinzman in the cemetery.
Hinzman also went on to direct and star in the 1980s horror movies "The Majorettes" and "FleshEater."
He will be cremated, as he had asked, said Heidi Hinzman.
"He always joked with me that if he got buried he would come back," she said.
Bill Hinzman
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