Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

That's a good thought but I think I liked him before that and found his appearances on it kind of silly? (I was a stuffy little kid.)

Probably my Dad just told me he was good or something. My mum had one of his 50s fiction books, which was pretty tedious and outdated even to a kid like me who'd grown up reading my parents' old Jennings books and Eagle annuals.

wasn't his fiance killed in a bombing raid during the war? Perhaps explains anti-German sentiments, without wishing to try to excuse them.

Yes, but when that interview (from May this year) also contains such gems as "the French betrayed us, the Belgians did nothing and the Italians are only good for ice cream" and "those countries were much better off when the English ran them" (where "those countries" are the Commonwealth) you quickly get the concept that he wasn't particularly anti-German, he was anti-foreigner.

Still he wore a monocle. How could anybody that wore a monocle ever be bad?

it was genuinely moving to hear him talk on tv about his fiancees death. he himself flew with raf bomber command during the war btw but i'm sure he only ever killed bad guys

Think he was a navigator wasn't he? Having little Englander views might make him a bore, but I don't think it necessarily makes you a bad person- I'm not sure you it's possible to judge people on those terms.

sorry that sentence got a bit mangled!

saying "homosexuals are mainly responsible for the spreading of AIDS (the Garden of Eden is home of Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve)" makes you a bad person

hah true enough

I saw a bit of the Patrick Moore tribute thing last night. It featured a man saying "We were the luckiest boys alive, being invited to his house to see his telescope."

Jimmy Savile has tainted everything :(

Ravi Shankar ;_;

Kenneth Kendall

Maurice Herzog - first person to summit a 8000 meter peak (Annapurna in 1950).

Robert Bork, apparently.

http://www.towleroad.com/2012/12/gay-adult-film-actor-josh-weston-dies.html

firebomb the towleroad comments section, fucksake

spencer cox, AIDS activist:

http://www.queerty.com/pioneering-aids-activist-spencer-cox-dead-at-44-20121219/

Robert Bork, apparently.

Huh. When I was in 7th gr I got this "a year in my life" scrapbook thing, and usually I hate those things but I think I was so bored in the summer that I filled it out. Apparently Robert Bork was a big deal that year because I distinctly remember him making it into my scrapbook. RIP, I guess.

borked from this mortal coil

RIP Weston. I've "enjoyed" his work over the years.

Co-sign (his early, not totally irresponsible work, I mean).

Honestly didn't know he had gone the irresponsible route, but I guess it explains a lot.

Prince Fatty, UK producer RIP:
http://www.facebook.com/gentlemansdubclub/posts/436438596409492

http://www.facebook.com/princefatty

hoax.

ha I'm gullible! sorry.

Mike Scaccia, guitarist for Rigor Mortis, died onstage in Fort Worth last night:

http://centraltrack.com/Music/3040/Rest-in-Peace/Rigor-Mortis-and-Ministry-Guitarist-Mike-Scaccia-Died-After-Falling-Onstage-on-Saturday-He-Was-47

:/

Rest In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Lee Dorman.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/arts/music/lee-dorman-bass-guitarist-for-iron-butterfly-dies-at-70.html?_r=0

http://www.noise11.com/news/legendary-funk-diva-marva-whitney-passes-away-20121224

Marva Whitney, one of the greats of funk and soul and the woman whom James Brown called “Soul Sister #1″, passed away last night (December 23, 2012). She was 68.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/arts/music/jimmy-mccracklin-rb-singer-and-songwriter-dies-at-91.html?ref=music&gwh=91AD3338CFE178EEE2E227B4A6357A56

aw shit marva no

Jack Klugman
:(

Quincy.M.E :(

A little more of my youth has just faded.

last of the Angry Men

now he can play more Challenge Yahtzee with Tony Randall

Forgot about challenge Yahtzee. RIP, Jack. I don't like pits pits pits in my juice juice juice either.

Charles Durning

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-mew-charles-durning-dies-20121225,0,7403321.story

(Santa Claus in 4 different movies)

:-(

Was particularly good in Tootsie. RIP

RIP Pappy ODaniel and Waring Hudsucker

and Sgt. Moretti :(

Weird that for all the Tootsies and Dog Day Afternoons he was in, my immediately association with him is always as Holly Hunter's father in Home From The Holidays (which is underrated, and which it's been far too long since I've watched).

i always think of him in O Brother Where Art Thou

search: Twilight's Last Gleaming, True Confessions

Saw him as the ex-prez in The Best Man on Broadway in 2000. He was very heavy but the line readings were gossamer.

NYT:

Mr. Durning was also remembered for his combat service, which he avoided discussing publicly until later in life. He spoke at memorial ceremonies in Washington, and in 2008 France awarded him the National Order of the Legion of Honor.

In the Parade interview, he recalled the hand-to-hand combat. “I was crossing a field somewhere in Belgium,” he said. “A German soldier ran toward me carrying a bayonet. He couldn’t have been more than 14 or 15. I didn’t see a soldier. I saw a boy. Even though he was coming at me, I couldn’t shoot.”

They grappled, he recounted later — he was stabbed seven or eight times — until finally he grasped a rock and made it a weapon. After killing the youth, he said, he held him in his arms and wept.

Mr. Durning said the memories never left him, even when performing, even when he became, however briefly, someone else.

“There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don’t want anyone to know about,” he told Parade. “There’s terror and repulsion in us, the terrible spot that we don’t talk about. That place that no one knows about — horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.”

For whatever reason, him yelling "I don't give a fuck!" in Sharkey's Machine has always been one of my favorite lines in a film. RIP.

Two consecutive best supporting actress noms in the early eighties (never saw Best Little Whorehouse in Texas).

He plays this beautifully:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvMKDVUoTqc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfNMsVdRmeU

(not the scene i was hoping to find, but a good, and appropriate, one)

"Languishing!! Goddamn campaign is languishing!!"

"Eckard! You may as well start draftin' my concession speech right now."
"OK Pappy."
"I'm just makin' a point, ya stupid sonovabitch! Gimme back my hat!"
"Pappy just makin' a point."
"Shut up!!"

(it's a lot funnier when you see it)

love this guy, RIP

My favourite moment of his is right at the end of Alfred's first clip above: where he fake-punches Hoffman out of exasperation/affection after Hoffman confesses. It's like Keaton fake-strangling his girl in The General.

Let's all dance a little sidestep in his honor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJG75FJkjr8

http://www.youtube.com/v/RiKy3ktxw6M