Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

kinda was hoping a little tbh tho, is that bad

no, prince philip is bad

i thought maybe the emergency was that he met some people in the south pacific and didn't once call them "pygmies"

he is going to 'retire' from public life it seems

so a living death

I'm sure everyone knows but Prince Phillip is stepping down from public engagements from September onwards - whether this is due to some specific setback that might have also caused the rumours is as far as I know not public.

sorry for xping a doctor!

Saxa of The Beat. :(

RIP :(

;_;

Wow, how old was Saxa?

(Answer: 87!!!)

And Prince Philip still alive. What a world.

oh fuck, rip saxa

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/dsr.jpg

Daliah Lavi

Joanna Brouk, new age composer featured on the "i am the center" comp.

Frightwig drummer Cecilia Kuhn died of cancer at 61.

oh shit :/

Mary Tsoni, Greek actress ("Dogtooth"), at 30. This says she called the police police and when they came to her place she was dead.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/mary-tsoni-dead-dogtooth-1202421328/

Trance producer Robert Miles at the age of 47

woah

http://mixmag.net/read/legacy-trance-producer-robert-miles-passes-away-at-age-47-news

Holy shit @ tsoni

Michael Parks

He's one of those guys who was really good in everything I saw him in but I could never place his name. Great face for a character actor

oh shit, I just saw a revival of Kill Bill last week. Forgot that he played two characters. RIP

Marc Laurick, bassist for a ton of Philly and Seattle bands, including Bunnydrums

Geoffrey Bayldon, beloved to many generations of British kids for roles in Catweazle and Worzel Gummidge, and twice offered and declined the lead in Doctor Who.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/geoffrey-bayldon-beloved-star-catweazle-dead-93-1621161

"Nothing Works!...."

aw man, i loved catweazle

Always loved his cameo turn in the T Rex film Born to Boogie (scene filmed at John Lennon's country estate):

http://www.marcbolanmusic.com/bayldon.aspx

Q How did you get involved with the Born To Boogie film and what was it like at the location?

A Well Marc and The Beatles were all Catweazle fans and that was the whole connection. I arrived very early and there was nobody in the garden… there was someone with a camera and I asked where everyone was but he didn’t know. Ia asked about make-up but he didn’t know about that either! About 11.30 they all started coming in, I’d never seen a script or anything. Marc had said “We’ve got this marvellous idea because you’ve done Catweazle, we want you to dress up as a waiter, under a tree in John Lennon’s garden and the idea is that you dish out hamburgers.” And it just went on from there, on cloud cuckoo. It was a great day, we were all high as kites

Q Was there any rehearsing?

A There was a bit of rehearsing… “Have another hamburger”… they were from Fortnum (& Mason). It certainly made me realise what an enormous gap there was between the acting and pop world

Then we ended up going around the house. It hadn’t been lived in, I don’t know if it ever was, I’m not sure about that… There was a wonderful kitchen and on top of the fridge there were three plastic garden gnomes ‘having each other’, to put it mildly! There were pictures around the house of Yoko and John, starkers against the staircase!

Also I am mildly amused re the author of the obit aldo's linked there.

RIP

Also I am mildly amused re the author of the obit aldo's linked there.

:-o

Gone yet not forgotten

Haha, I hadn't even spotted that.

Powers Boothe.

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18519992_10213379649068435_2198161922730845993_n.jpg?oh=7d4635245e4f687afa4afa7ef9ee9b44&oe=597DB349

Fuuuuuuuuuck :(

Damn. Southern Comfort.

seems to be a hoax?

Well, if it's a hoax, at least it led me to find Beau Bridges on Twitter.

It's with great sadness that I mourn the passing of my friend Powers Boothe. A dear friend, great actor, devoted father & husband.

— Beau Bridges (@MrBeauBridges) May 14, 2017

Looks confirmed. RIP. Great in Deadwood.

Yeah, that's where I remember him best for sure.

fuck...he was great. really outstanding in almost everything I saw him in, though Extreme Prejudice is my go-to for him. but really yeah, Deadwood, Southern Comfort, Tombstone...lots of great roles. actually was thinking a lot about him more recently after Paxton died, because he was one of the leads in Frailty.

He was Jim Jones to me.

There's that cliche about "real" comedians being able to make you laugh just by standing on a stage and doing nothing. Boothe was kind of the same, except for communicating "you don't want to fuck with me".

A member of Friends of Abe, apparently :-(

that seems vmic.

you guys still give a shit about the political beliefs of goddamn actors, huh

A tiny bit more of a shit than I give about yr political beliefs, prob.

tough but fair