Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

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...and Kelley is now being reported as a suicide. Damn.

Three Word Username, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

i know it doesn't mean a lot in terms of larger-known artists and writers and personalities, but Stacy Doris, an amazing poet/writer and incredibly kind, wonderful woman, passed yesterday from cancer complications.

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/702

http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Doris.php

Sophomore subs are the new Smith lesbians. (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

i remember Stacy Doris!

And damn, Mike Kelley, one of my favorites.

sarahell, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

Muhammad Ali trainer Angelo Dundee dies

... one of those guys you thought had died years ago

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 February 2012 10:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh, I had no idea that Dorothea Tanning was still alive. That's her and Leonora Carrington passing away in the last few months, must be the last of that whole wave of Surrealists?

Phibes Kartel (NickB), Thursday, 2 February 2012 10:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

*sadmeltingfacewithboobsforeyesorsomething*

Yeah Yeah Bohney (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 2 February 2012 11:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

aw, rip

buzza, Saturday, 4 February 2012 00:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

so so great

rip

The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 4 February 2012 00:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

;_;

wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

goddamn you.

Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

i speak for the common man here, morbz

wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

The very last quote in that Times obit is amazing.

I Can Only Give You Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 February 2012 02:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

gonna have to put They All Laughed in the library queue.

Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 February 2012 02:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

It was on HBO once many moons ago when I was home from college on break and in my vegetational state I watched it many times. I don't think overall it was very good but yeah, he and some of the rest of the cast did a good job.

I Can Only Give You Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 February 2012 02:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

And also, Wild Orchid director Zalman King:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/zalman-king-dies-69-red-shoe-diaries-nine-half-weeks-287000

Which makes me feel horribly shitty for blurbing this only days ago:

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=4893&cpage=1#comment-129068

Who wants to see the great Pavarotti sit on a pie? (jer.fairall), Saturday, 4 February 2012 03:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

John Christopher.

Fizzles, Monday, 6 February 2012 17:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

That last one makes me sad. The Tripods and Sword of the Spirits trilogies were hugely important to my younger self.

EZ Snappin, Monday, 6 February 2012 17:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

Bill Hinzman, the first onscreen "ghoul" in Night of the Living Dead.

You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Monday, 6 February 2012 17:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

Had no idea that John Christopher was still alive. RIP.

Hambone Italiano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 February 2012 18:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

just came here to post that. crazy.

Z S, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 05:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

RIP keyboardist and arranger to the stars Clare Fischer: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/28/local/la-me-clare-fischer-20120128

I Can't Give You Any Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 February 2012 13:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

A Boy Named Clare

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 10 February 2012 13:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

rest in peace, nello ferrara! you were a giant in candyland!

http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/10477823-418/nello-ferrara-93-invented-lemonheads-saw-macarthur-in-occupied-japan-sang-with-sinatra.html

scott seward, Friday, 10 February 2012 13:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

Tom Dada, I think there is also one in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

I Can't Give You Any Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 February 2012 13:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

Well that's Thomas Hardy for you, he has a dude called Jude too

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 10 February 2012 13:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty. The character's role was greatly expanded from that in the novel and Kubrick allowed Sellers to adopt a variety of disguises throughout the film. Early on in the film, Quilty appears as himself: a conceited, avant-garde playwright with a superior manner. Later, he disguises himself as various personae. First, he is an inquisitive policeman on the porch of the hotel where Humbert and Lolita are staying. Next he is the intrusive Beardsley High School psychologist, Doctor Zempf, who lurks in Humbert's front room for the purpose of persuading him to give Lolita more freedom in her after-school activities.[2] Later in the film he is an anonymous phone caller conducting a survey

Ward Fowler, Friday, 10 February 2012 13:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

... but always he is a self-indulgent actor ruining a perfectly good film

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 10 February 2012 13:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

^blech

Peter Breck of TV's "Big Valley" and Fuller's Shock Corridor:

http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/peter-breck-the-big-valley/

Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 February 2012 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

David Kelly, quintessentially feckless rogue and charmer, renowned Beckett/stage performer and the recipient of the finest umbrella hits in tv history

Dr Frogbius (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 10:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

And walking Oirish hate-crime, never too busy to rubbish up any production with the same wince-inducing character over and over and over again.

Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 February 2012 10:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

a gig's a gig

Dr Frogbius (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 10:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Oh, he didn't just have the one arm then?"

Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Monday, 13 February 2012 10:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

He was only following orders the script, yes.

Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 February 2012 10:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

RIP Mr. Kelly

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 13 February 2012 11:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

RIP, John Severin.

http://www.comicsbeat.com/2012/02/14/rip-john-severin/

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh man john severin. total boyhood hero.

scott seward, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, one of my alltime favorites. I thought I'd posted here earlier today, but that was during one of today's internet outages. Anyway, it took a great talent to make Herb Trimpe look good.

Steamtable Willie (WmC), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

Aw, Dory Previn :(

Madchen, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

rip albert riddle

pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

lillian bassman

Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

Rip miss Bassman :'-(

Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

Was a huge fan of Severin- didn't he sometimes use the name "O O Severin," which I guess I just realized thirty something years later is a play on "007." In avant-ILX times I thought about doing "TS: Mort Drucker vs. John Severin." RIP everybody.

AINT ET ENNE (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

character actor Phil Bruns, best known as Mary Hartman's dad

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/159631-Phil-Bruns-Stage-and-Television-Actor-Dies-at-80

Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 February 2012 03:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

clemenza, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 14:43 (5 months ago) Permalink

Let's all dance a little sidestep in his honor

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 17:17 (5 months ago) Permalink

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

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:00 (5 months ago) Permalink

Someday I will figure out how to embed videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiKy3ktxw6M

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:01 (5 months ago) Permalink

sigh

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:01 (5 months ago) Permalink

Fontella Bass

WilliamC, Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:09 (5 months ago) Permalink

Oh no you didn't, WmC .

Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:22 (5 months ago) Permalink

I didn't do it! It was a heart attack!

WilliamC, Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:29 (5 months ago) Permalink

I think it was the image posted here that did it: "Rescue Me" (Denis Leary firefighter show on FX) - anyone?

Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:35 (5 months ago) Permalink

seeing on twitter that norman schwarzkopf is dead

curly moe shempsen (donna rouge), Friday, 28 December 2012 00:23 (5 months ago) Permalink

RIP Fontella Bass, Stormin Norman, not quite so much, but still.

Alba, Friday, 28 December 2012 00:36 (5 months ago) Permalink

Jean Harris, Scarsdale diet doc killer.

something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 December 2012 21:36 (5 months ago) Permalink

tony greig

炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 29 December 2012 20:28 (5 months ago) Permalink

Former Indy 500 driver, wannabe actor, and hard-luck case Salt Walther. Perhaps most remembered for this crash in 1973

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 29 December 2012 21:45 (5 months ago) Permalink

aw shit of course that happened five years ago.

I had such a fontasy (stevie), Sunday, 30 December 2012 00:42 (5 months ago) Permalink

Not going to be missed: Sir Irvine Patnick.

fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Monday, 31 December 2012 11:55 (5 months ago) Permalink

Ray Collins, singer with the Mothers

nickn, Thursday, 3 January 2013 06:22 (5 months ago) Permalink

need new thread

Jeff, Thursday, 3 January 2013 12:36 (5 months ago) Permalink


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