Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

You know the drill.

Twitter reporting that Peggy Cummins of film noir classic Gun Crazy has died age 92.

Rick Hall, of Muscle Shoals/Fame Studios

https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/rick-hall-father-of-muscle-shoals-music-dead-at-85-w514854

was thinking last night about how freaked out everyone was over the abundance of celebrity deaths in 2016, that definitely didn't carry over into 2017, and i was trying to think of other years that were like that... remembered that ingmar bergman and antonioni died on the same day in 2007, which is arguably crazier than the cavalcade in 2016 imo

Honestly, I think Bowie and Prince were just so shocking that it sort of readied us for virtually anybody kicking the bucket. When Tom Petty died, sad and untimely though it was, it just didn't feel as epochal as the passing of Bowie and Prince. There's going to be a steadily accelerating wave of notable deaths, given that youth culture and celebrity as we know it sort of kicked into gear in the 1950s and really only hit its stride in the '60s.

Anyway, RIP Rick Hall.

I mean, the '50s died last yeat but Chuck, Fats and Jerry Lewis were ancient.

^^And all had been known to be in declining health for years, which many of the big 2016'ERS had been able to keep under wraps to varying degrees.

xpost Hah, I thought you meant Jerry Lee Lewis, who is, of course, still alive, though probably barely. And Little Richard is still around, too.

I thought he meant Jerry Lee too, almost Googled to make sure.

It’s been mentioned elsewhere, but 1977 took some pretty big names: Presley, Bolan, Nin, Nabokov, Callas, 2 x Marx brothers etc etc

So, will Mark E Smith make it through the year?

Probably more chance of Tom Hanks winning the Booker Prize tbh

fred bass, owner of new york bookstore the strand

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/obituaries/fred-bass-strand-bookstore-dies-at-89.html?_r=0

Fuck Jerry Lee Lewis. I hope he dies this year.

Jerry Van Dyke

http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/jerry-van-dyke-coach-actor-dead-dies-1202655598/

Longest-serving U.S. astronaut John Young

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-010618a-astronaut-john-young-obituary.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

I liked John Young; he was the Apollo astronaut notorious for cursing while on mike during his flight/moonwalk.

Poor Dick Van Dyke, losing his brother and two of his old castmates in the last year.

Unbelievable that John Young flew the first Gemini and the first Shuttle mission. Oh and landed on the moon.

John Young hurts, considering my favorite present this year was the LEGO scale model of the Saturn V.

any moonwalkers left besides Aldrin?

My dad took me to NYC to see the Apollo 16 astronauts get the Keys to the City from Mayor Lindsay.

had an "is he/isn't he dead" moment with Buzz the other day

there are 5 left btw

Recommend the book Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth, by Andrew Smith, to those who have not read.

Cinamon Hadley, the model for Death in Gaiman's The Sandman:

https://www.comicmix.com/2018/01/06/cinamon-hadley-the-girl-who-was-death-has-died/

Peter Preston

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/07/peter-preston-former-guardian-editor-dies-aged-79

France Gall, ye-ye star and singer of Gainsbourg's Poupee de Cire Poupee de Son.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/france-gall-dead-french-singer-eurovision-michel-berger-a8146276.html

France Gall

http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2018/01/07/03004-20180107ARTFIG00037-mort-de-france-gall-une-chanteuse-qui-donnait-tout-pour-la-musique.php

Ray Thomas of the Moody Blues

http://teamrock.com/news/2018-01-05/ray-thomas-r-i-p

Geez, Jerry Van Dyke:

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/06/entertainment/jerry-van-dyke/index.html

Not sure if "stay safe" really applies to either Dick Van Dyke (92) or Carl Reiner (95).

Producer Chris Tsangarides. A huge loss to rock and metal in particular, but the dude worked on an unbelievable number of records.

People I know who recorded with him said he was a really good guy, sad news.

Tony Calder, promoter and co-founder of Immediate records with Andrew Loog-Oldham.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/07/tony-calder-obituary

xpost -- yeah Tsangarides's death is a real loss, what a credit list. Remember being happy to see him turn up in Anvil! The Story of Anvil and he had some of the best moments! Would have been great to get a book from him at some point, probably would have been the hard rock/metal equivalent to something like Are We Still Rolling?.

2018 is warming up now, the deaths are beginning to roll in.

Jesse Crumb, artist and son of Robert

https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2018/jan/8/jesse-crumb-eureka-resident-and-son-famed-cartooni/

aw man, that's sad.

Mikio Fujioka, aka Ko-Gami of Babymetal's backing band, age 36.

“Kami Band member Mikio Fujioka has passed away at the age of 36. Mikio Fujioka fell from a high astronomical observation deck on December 30, and died on January 5, with his 2 daughters next to him.”

The “Little” Guitar Kami of #BABYMETAL ‘s #Kamiband has passed away in the METAL GALAXIES. We hope that he is now with his GUITAR MASTER A.Holdsworth and enjoying an epic guitar session with him.

We are the one
Together
We're the only one
You are the one
Forever#RIP #THEONE pic.twitter.com/NMUg3mhmes

— BABYMETAL (@BABYMETAL_JAPAN) January 9, 2018

Jeff "Antennae Jimmy Semens" Cotton of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, 68.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cotton

Cotton died from complications of cancer on January 6, 2018.

The Boogie Report email newsletter and folks on Facebook are reporting that Denise LaSalle, Mississippi born r’n’b/soul singer has died as a result of surgery complications. Her biggest hit was “Trapped by a Thing called Love.” This century she recorded some great Southern soul for labels like Malaco and Ecko.

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/news-soul/denise-lasalle-r-i-p-r3749/

RIP. In the UK she's definitely best known for her cover of 'My Toot Toot', which was a top ten hit in 1985.

that was a big morning-zoo hit in the '80s too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL3Wwo6RGyw

betty jane willis, who released a couple of singles in the '60s, including this leon russell-produced cover of buck owens' 'act naturally'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5NShyAiE1I

this is an in-depth obituary

https://www.ocregister.com/2018/01/04/betty-jane-willis-more-than-another-homeless-death-she-was-a-soul-singer/

Any source for the Jeff Cotton death other than wikipedia (which is no source at all)? He's been notoriously hard to find for decades.

Only Gary Lucas's Facebook page, which is probably no source at all either. Hmm. Let's see if a proper statement comes out, apologies for jumping the gun if it turns out to be a false alarm.

Sleuthing reveals his wife died early last year, but I can't find anything on his dying other than that Lucas post.

Maura - thank you for that Betty Willis obit, very sad, but nice they spoke with her daughter, former coworker and Bill Medley to tell a little of her story.

Starting to look like Jeff Cotton isn't true, but nothing more than FOAF reports either way. I do know his wife died of cancer last year -- that might be the source of the rumors.

Neave Brown, architect of low-rise social housing in Camden, recently awarded RIBA medal for same. Lived until his death in north London’s Dunboyne Road flats, which he designed. Here’s an interview from October conducted by one of my best friends:

https://www.ribaj.com/culture/humanity-as-a-design-tool-riba-royal-medal-neave-brown

BREAKING: Edgar Ray Killen, convicted in 1964 'Mississippi Burning' slayings of 3 civil rights workers, dies in prison. https://t.co/dKu8bikhBC

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 12, 2018

college football broadcaster keith 'whoa, nellie' jackson

First celebrity I ever saw opening something, Bella Emberg

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/bella-emberg-dead-blunder-woman-actress-russ-abott-show-costume-tributes-dies-died-tv-shows-a8157636.html

‘opening something’

25 years old, my god ;_;

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/13/model-killed-in-latest-london-stabbing

Doreen Tracey, Mousekateer who later worked with Frank Zappa.

http://beta.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-doreen-tracey-20180111-story.html

Bloody hell, Bella Emberg, that's someone for the people you didn't realise were still alive except now they aren't thread

https://www.rte.ie/amp/933526/?__twitter_impression=true

Dolores O’Riordan.

Gobsmacked and then some.

46

I just found out that Chu Ishikawa died at the end of last year. He was 51 and apparently was battling a long illness. He did the soundtracks for most of Shinya Tsukamoto's films and must have been quite influential in industrial music but he could do quite a variety of styles. I did think he looked alarmingly thin at times but I knew nothing about his illness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_L6tVsg2o

Dr Mathilde Krim

http://www.newnownext.com/mathilde-krim-dead/01/2018/

Edwin Hawkins, hitmaker of "Oh Happy Day"

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/16/578235211/gospel-star-edwin-hawkins-known-for-oh-happy-day-dies-at-74

as noted elsewhere, Joe Frank

https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/173192/joe-frank-influential-radio-monologuist-dies-at-79

Doug Harvey, the baseball umpire known as "God"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/obituaries/doug-harvey-dead-baseball-umpire.html

Jo Jo White

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22124169/jo-jo-white-boston-celtics-great-basketball-hall-famer-dies-71

Peter Wyngarde:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/18/actor-peter-wyngarde-department-s-dies

Oh no! RIP Peter ;_; That's it I'm pulling out my copy of his album to listen to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_HiW9J5prc

Mike Carroll, of Poison 13 and Lord High Fixers

Stansfield Turner, CIA chief 1977-81

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/adm-stansfield-turner-who-led-major-cia-overhaul-as-director-of-central-intelligence-dies-94/2018/01/18/eac46390-fc99-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html

Artist Ed Moses, 91.

http://beta.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-me-ed-moses-dies-20180118-story.html#nt=oft12aH-2gp2

Bradford Dillman
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bradford-dillman-dead-actor-compulsion-way-we-were-was-87-1075818

Peter Mayle

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/obituaries/peter-mayle-who-wrote-of-a-year-in-provence-is-dead-at-78.html

I did not know til a month ago that Dillman had been the first Edmund in Long Day's Journey.

Dorothy Malone

http://variety.com/2018/film/people-news/dorothy-malone-dies-dead-peyton-place-1202670315/

RIP, Dot :(

:o

i'm sorry I reminded everyone she was alive yesterday.

Legendary French chef Paul Bocuse

Jim Rodford.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/20/kinks-zombies-bassist-jim-rodford-has-died-aged-76/

christian burchard of embryo died on jan. 17

Bob Smith, first out gay comedian to appear on The Tonight Show, of ALS

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-smith-pioneering-gay-comedian-writer-dies-at-59-1076420

I took an improv class with Bob in 1985; he was sweet, acidic and very cute. I would've hit on him if I'd been gay then.

Oh, what a shame, they played in London recently - or maybe they're scheduled to play? Anyway, I have got some Embryo on my mp3 player, so can listen to them today - I'm at my mum's this weekend. RIP Christian.(xp)

Steve Nisbett, Steel Pulse drummer

https://www.reggaeville.com/artist-details/steel-pulse/news/view/steve-grizzly-nisbett-passed-away-founding-member-of-steel-pulse/

Bob Wakelin, creator of instantly recognisable art for a generation of Brits and designer of the Ocean software logo.

RIP Bob Wakelin - Any 80's gamers will be familiar with his iconic covers. pic.twitter.com/uOtlRWcv9l

— Stu Wood (@DigitalWood) January 21, 2018

"A couple of times the guys at Ocean said to me 'Look Bob, this game really isn't very good so we need an extra special cover.'

I suppose I should feel guilty for it."

Howard Lew Lewis, best known as Elmo in Brush Strokes but also one of the main cast in Maid Marian and her Merry Men.

http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/54752/howard-lew-lewis-1941-2018

Aw :(

Hugh Masekela

https://www.timeslive.co.za/tshisa-live/tshisa-live/2018-01-23-breaking-legendary-musician-hugh-masekela-has-died-report/

Oh man, RIP hugh

RIP, he was a legend and had an amazing life

simon “tinky winky” barnes

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/23/teletubbies-tinky-winky-actor-simon-barnes-dies-aged-52

Mary Lee Berners-Lee

Girl From the North Country

aw RIP Mary Lee Berners Lee and Bob Wakelin (only just seen that post)

as a child I studied the Rainbow Islands box art in great detail and decided that, since Taito was a Japanese company and the colourful big-eyed box art seemed vaguely like the Euro-Japanese coproduction cartoons imported to mid/late-80s CBBC for my daily viewing, the signed name "Wakelin" must clearly be Japanese, pronounced wa-ké-lin

it took many years to realise that this was quite a silly thought

https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Bob_Wakelin

I missed the France Gall post too :(

Catchiest German song about computer dating of the 1960s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rtdb_zgqdQ

Ursula K Le Guin

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html

oof, RIP

oh fuck what a shitty day this is for human culture

fuuuuuck

The worst of news. RIP.

Just read earthsea this past few months. Lovely.

RIP

All the times I linked to her blog saying m/l "you won't believe who's still around and still blogging", and now I can't believe she isn't.

Thanks for all the books (still so many more I haven't read, too), new ways of thinking for teenage me about fantasy and SF and gender - and the blog posts and cat pics too...

yeah, what a hero. earthsea books, with the amazing Tehanu reprise, were formative for me. Left Hand of Darkness and Lathe of Heaven also, later on. RIP. wonderful writer.

I’m so sad about this loss.

I really hoped she'd make it to 100. RIP and thanks for changing the world for the better.

damn, RIP

I only read this a few months ago (and only picked up Earthsea trilogy from a friend for a reread yesterday). RIP

https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/lit_crit/works/leguin/carrier-bag.htm

Bob Dylan's Girl From the North Country

Careful when invoking his name in this thread.

Nah, there will be a ton of ilx revives first.

This thread would be the last place it gets mentioned

Lari White, country singer, 52.

https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/lari-white-now-i-know-country-singer-dead-at-52-w515694

What would be a good starting place for Ursula?

the lathe of heaven

Jeremy Inkel from Left Spine Down and Front Line Assembly. Only 34.

http://www.post-punk.com/jeremy-inkel-of-frontline-assembly-has-passed-away/

Thanks flappy

The other bumped thread worth reading through for recs stevie

Ah, thanks for the tip-off Dmac!

Author Jack Ketchum.

Mark E Smith

The day I've been dreading.

"It is with deep regret that we announce the passing of Mark E. Smith. He passed this morning at home.... 1/2

— Fall news (@fallnews) January 24, 2018

Oh fucking noooooo

Fucking shit fucking shit fucking shit

:(

oh shit! that would explain the show cancellations over the past month. RIP.

Ski filmmaker Warren Miller
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/obituaries/warren-miller-ski-bum-turned-filmmaker-is-dead-at-93.html

Beetle Bailey cartoonist Mort Walker:

https://www.newsfromme.com/2018/01/27/mort-walker-r-i-p/

sorry to hear about ol' mort -- beetle bailey had a good run and could be quite funny back in the day. jeet heer on twitter just pointed out that he was the very last cartoonist personally hired by william randolph hearst.

Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42851668

"hang on a minute, oh ffs these are the wrong screws"

John Morris, composer of most Mel Brooks films

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-morris-blazing-saddles-and-young-frankenstein-composer-dies-at-91-1202679605/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7-wqGbamZc

That track is one of my Halloween playlist favorites.

it's a lovely piece. as is this

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

i will cry such a river when/if mel brooks or carl reiner pass

it is a better world just knowing that they're out there somewhere watching a bad action movie together in one of their houses

https://i.imgur.com/pG26Qyd.jpg

polish footballer stan terlecki, who was the 1981-82 major indoor soccer league player of the year with the pittsburgh spirit and briefly played with the cosmos

http://www.nycosmos.com/news/2017/12/30/remembering-stan-terlecki

was also something of a dissident, which i did not know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok%C4%99cie_Airport_incident

award-winning investigative journalist Robert Parry

Thank you to @samrob12 for writing an obituary of Robert Parry for the New York Times that treats Parry honestly and seriously https://t.co/1stZnZlJUZ

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) January 30, 2018

http://gerryanderson.co.uk/jeremy-wilkin-died/

Jeremy Wilkin, who voiced Virgil Tracy in Thunderbirds and Captains Ochre and Black in Captain Scarlet, and numerous TV credits including Blakes 7, UFO and Doctor Who.

need to read more of parry's work -- everything i've seen has been v good

Mark Salling, former "Glee" star convicted of child porn possession, via apparent suicide.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/mark-salling-glee-actor-dead-at-35-w516136

oh no :(

I read a couple of his books, dude was so great. Full of firey passion

Huh?

I mean. Like. Child porn.

That may have been a case of xpostitis imho

yeah sorry my oh no was for Robert Parry

Roommate I've ordered two of the kiddyfiddlers books

Uh....too late

I was confused for a while there myself.

Porn star Jerry Butler, 58, supposedly of pancreatic cancer. He worked a lot in the 70s and early 80s, then wrote a book, Raw Talent, which pissed off a lot of people in the business, so work kinda dried up. Apparently, he moved back to the East Coast after that and became a bus driver in Brooklyn. He was married to Lisa Loring, who played Wednesday Addams on The Addams Family TV show.

that's a life

Dennis Edwards of The Temptations, one day ahead of his 75th birthday (via Twitter).

:((((

Too soon. :(

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/obituaries/dennis-edwards-former-temptations-lead-singer-dies-at-74.html?action=click&module=In%20Other%20News&pgtype=Homepage&action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage

Screenwriter David Sherwin (The Mick Travis Trilogy)

https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/02/david-sherwin

His daughter was a colleague of mine at Edgy Style Mag - very well-spoken but grew up skint.

oh hell, i have O Lucky Man out from the library. Perhaps that's my Super Bowl sorted, then.

Drummer Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, who played with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, George Duke, Eddie Henderson, Santana, and many others, particularly in the 1970s.

I was just reminded on Twitter that Chancler is the drummer on Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean."

That'll be how the press will be remembering him, then.

The first two of the Mick Travis trilogy are among my favourite films of all time. RIP.

Louis Zorich, stage/TV actor ("Mad About You," Uncle Ben opp Dustin Hoffman in Death of a Salesman) and husband of Olympia Dukakis

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-louis-zorich-20180202-story.html

#BREAKING ‘Frasier' Star John Mahoney Dead at 77 via @TMZ https://t.co/QCZTiUj0oc pic.twitter.com/CrWTiSPuJ0

— Anthony Dominic (@alloveranthony) February 5, 2018

Aw. He was a local staple here. Used to be seen around all the time.

Oh no :-(

not confirmed yet but reading reports of experimental filmmaker Paul Clipson. His work with Grouper is amazing.

vimeo.com/109943175

fuck, nevermind https://www.gofundme.com/paul-clipson-family-memorial-fund

John Mahoney was also great as the Faulkner character in Barton Fink - “Where’s my honey?” - and as the out-of-tune dad singing along to “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” in Say Anything.

I could have sworn Mahoney died years ago. I must be thinking of another similar-looking character actor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonzBvi97qI

Paul Clipson - a criminally unsung luminary of the moving image - has died. His images, layers upon layers of light and energy and feeling has been an inspiration.
Very sad news. pic.twitter.com/3721ZHdLUg

— Scott Barley (@ScottBarleyFilm) February 5, 2018

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

Bad day for TV dads/grampas. Dakin Mathews, get thee to a doctor pronto.

Actually meant to post the lead up to that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-8M7lSEJD4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hi59dtP60k

Great comment about Mahoney

A great actor, gentle man and wonderfully private person in our celebrity-nutty world, telling me some 20 years ago, "I used to crave publicity. I now turn almost everything down. I would rather walk across broken glass." https://t.co/L9QkwwwNQf

— Rick kogan (@rickkogan) February 5, 2018

Rest in peace, John Mahoney. So much I could say, but I think this captures so much of why I love him. Martin Crane's message for future generations: pic.twitter.com/lZlM665M6y

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) February 5, 2018

my heart sank when reading that

And had flat out forgotten he was General Rogard in The Iron Giant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l4m3S3k-pg

Oh man, John Mahoney RIP!

I first saw him (I think) in his Tony-winning role in this John Guare revival, opposite Swoosie Kurtz and 20-y.o. Ben Stiller. Great production, you can probably find the TV version shown on PBS somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8mQJWEWCPw

Paul Clipson was our beloved colleague and today was a truly surreal and horrible workday. Everyone is gutted.

Even when I was a kid, I found Mahoney to be the most compelling of the three principal's in Say Anything. RIP.

xpost -- Damn sorry to hear that. I must have seen his work at numerous times over the years given how many musicians I know around here have been devastated by the loss.

Paul was a dear person and a tremendous artist. He will be missed.

That video of the advert for HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES is tremendous ! Old school Broadway corn.

John Mahoney was between 52 and 63 when he was in 'Frasier'

Is this another one of those 'too young to play his dad' things?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO1AKAKGCvk

YES Ste!

Old school Broadway corn.

Ohhh, you'd never guess how that play ends...

John Mahoney was between 52 and 63 when he was in 'Frasier'

This is crazy.

He was less than 15 years older than Kelsey Grammer.

Mahoney's character in THoBL was the world's worst songwriter, his wife (Kurtz) mentally ill, and his son planning to assassinate Pope Paul. So it was a "new theatre" black comedy, especially when the first production flopped in 1971.

Estelle Getty was 62 when she started playing Sophia Petrillo. Bea Arthur was 63.

https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2018/02/05/paul-clipson-visionary-filmmaker-and-projectionist-dies-at-53/

Proper obit for Paul.

John Perry Barlow

https://www.jambase.com/article/john-perry-barlow-grateful-dead-lyricist-died

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_o5-fMQoE&

RIP Thomas Denis (aka Qebrus).

wow end of an era wrt barlow

i forget what his well username was

Another obituary from the other side of his career: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018

Lovebug Starski, 57.

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/02/09/584488179/lovebug-starski-rapper-and-dj-who-stood-at-the-vanguard-of-hip-hop-dead-at-57

This obit says he was first to rap the term hiphop

damn, Reg E. Cathey at age 59 per David Simon's twitter.
He'll always be first and foremost one of the hosts of PBS's Square One TV to me, but had a great run in the 2000s between Pootie Tang, the Wire, House of Cards, Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter, etc.

wow, way too young.

John Gavin

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-gavin-dead-dies-psycho-spartacus-1202694312/amp/

Reg E. Cathey was also a guest star on the greatest SVU episode ever.

He played a homeless guy on regular Law & Order, too. He was great.

Liam Miller, former Irish international footballer and player with Utd and Celtic among others

... Celtic, Utd, among others.

If you must

John Gavin was Reagan's ambassador to Mexico as well as a boring actor

Always got him and John Saxon mixed up.

^^^^^

Lol

Johann Johannsson

https://deadline.com/2018/02/johann-johannsson-dies-obituary-the-theory-of-everything-composer-1202284591/

Wow

Really shocking. Reports indicate he was found in his Berlin apartment yesterday, and that there'll be an autopsy, cause of death unknown.

RIP John Gavin - I read somewhere on Fbk that his passing now only leaves Vera Miles (aged 88) and Pat Hitchcock (89) still with us from the cast of Psycho.

sad that johannsson's obit has the theory of everything as his most famous work

horrible

Ghanian singer Ebony Reigns

https://www.fashionghana.com/site/ghana-mourns-death-of-dancehall-afrobeats-artiste-ebony-and-two-others/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI1caSAjTgk

http://www.wideopencountry.com/daryle-singletary-dies/

Oof, only 46.

Per Damon Krukowski on Twitter, Pearls Before Swine's Tom Rapp.

Vic Damone

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8099139/vic-damone-dies-89

People you thought were.... RIP Vic.

Tom Rapp, according to his daughter-in-law, on Twitter

(oh, missed your post there Ned)

Just heard about Reg Cathey yesterday--excellent in House of Cards, especially the big episode involving his son.

Marty Allen--some other world, one I remember.

http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/marty-allen-died-dies-comedian-daytime-tv-favorite-1202696418/

goodbye dere, Marty

BREAKING: #Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai dies in South Africa - MDC https://t.co/V2aCbYleFh pic.twitter.com/Mfb0etGKQ8

— Reuters Africa (@ReutersAfrica) February 14, 2018

Kenneth Haigh, who played Jimmy Porter in the original Look Back in Anger production, and told George Harrison "You can be replaced, chickie baby" in A Hard Day's Night.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/feb/13/kenneth-haigh-obituary

Peggy Cooper Cafritz, DC-area patroness of the arts.

https://wtop.com/dc/2018/02/peggy-cooper-cafritz-influential-education-and-arts-patron-dies-at-70/

As the obit notes, she fought against racism as a young student at George Washington university in the 60s and then later co-founded the Duke Ellington School for the Arts. For those 2 things alone she deserves kudos.

Norm Rogers, drummer for the Cows, the Jayhawks and more besides

http://www.startribune.com/former-jayhawks-and-cows-drummer-norm-rogers-dies-of-cancer/474613843/

Boyd Jarvis, House music producer. https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=41107

Billy Graham
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/billy-graham-dead_us_566e7e34e4b011b83a6bb479

and no link available yet, but Detective Chief Inspector Peter Jay, who arrested Muswell Hill Murderer, Dennis Nilsen.

Nanette Fabray

http://deadline.com/2018/02/nanette-fabray-dies-stage-tv-comic-actress-was-97-1202301558/

Eddy Amoo

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-band-real-thing-star-14330919

Anybody who says You To Me Are Everything hasn't touched them is a liar.

rip eddy my man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEDboC4mBYk

I see on the Stern’s music store & label blog that singer Medoune Diallo has died. He was in the great West African groups Orchestra Baobab and Africando.

http://sternsmusic.blogspot.com/2018/02/medoune-diallo-11021949-10022017-rip.html?m=1

Emma Chambers, from Vicar of Disley, 53

Was just coming here to post that http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43183354

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43171117

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-crystals-singer-barbara-ann-alston-dead-at-74-w517091

She sang lead on early songs including “Uptown “ & “He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss)”

“He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss)”

jesus christ

oh shit :( Barbara was the living end, i love the Crystals so much
rip lady <3

like Ronnie was THE voice but Barbara had such a sweet sincerity, I really love her early songs

https://youtu.be/gkpeUDbVAlE

Would never have guessed the lead singer of the Crystals was still alive. Close call between them and the Ronettes--they're even tied in the iconic-Scorsese-shots department.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCYwcObxl78

ronnie? i meant darlene ugh ugh

also xposts to AA: the girls all HATED the song. written by Goffin & King

I was a little confused too..."sang lead on early songs"--so it's Darlene Love on "Then He Kissed Me"?

No, that's LaLa Brooks.

The Crystals started out as a quintet with Barbara in lead til 62

Spector pulled a switcheroo & recorded Love’s group The Blossoms AS the Crystals doing He’s A Rebel while the real Crystals were on the road touring. Suuuuuuper dick move
Then the real Crystals were back on deck with LaLa in 63 and she sang Then He Kissed Me and Da Doo Ron Ron

it’s sad tho bcz I always forget it’s LaLa and not Darlene on those 2!

> Would never have guessed the lead singer of the Crystals was still alive.

They were all terribly young at the time though, all born in the '40s. Darlene is still alive and kicking up a storm at 76

also xposts to AA: the girls all HATED the song.

oh thank god

Harriet Fier, Rolling Stone editor.

I still have a few of those issues--a friend gave some of his brother's, the first time I'd really read the magazine (I knew about it). The reviews section was fantastic during those three years: Paul Nelson was editor, and Marcus, Bangs, Marsh, and a bunch of other people--the Stranded writers, basically, minus Christgau--were all in there at the same time.

x-post- Carole King soon came to hate the song too. Goffin said the lyrics were based on something Little Eva told him about her boyfriend

Lewis Gilbert, aged 97

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lewis-gilbert-dead-alfie-james-bond-director-dies-at-97-1088811

Ah man. My gran was best friends at school with Lewis Gilbert. As a child it felt like a secret connection to Roger Moore.

Aw RIP Lewis. What an innings tho! 97!
He had the cutest Elmer Fudd speech impediment

African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo

http://variety.com/2018/film/global/idrissa-ouedraogo-dies-dead-tilai-1202704129/

Peter Miles, British actor you'll mainly recognise from 70s TV (and especially as Nyder in Genesis of the Daleks) but also a jazz singer and guitarist who was a close friend of Dusty. He played guitar on the first record The Springfields made and appeared on other Dusty recordings like this one:

https://youtu.be/yLMrMMSFviU

Jackson Galaxy's main cat, Veloouria, at the fairly unbelievable age of 26.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b3/a2/fd/b3a2fd00c29cf16de87146bf55434b47.jpg

very distinguished looking cat, rip veloouria

cynthia heimel

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/obituaries/cynthia-heimel-irreverent-writer-about-sex-dies-at-70.html

:-(( RIP improver of my 1980s.

comedian/activist Barry Crimmins

https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-barry-crimmins-comedian-and-activist-1823430381

RIP <3
Anyone who hasn't seen "Call Me Lucky" definitely should

Guardian columnist Michele Hanson.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/03/michele-hanson-warm-witty-much-loved-columnist-dies-guardian

It's a bit unnerving that her Twitter account is retweeting tributes to her without anyone announcing that they are in control of it and that she's not tweeting from beyond the grave!

https://twitter.com/michelerhanson

David Ogden Stiers

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/david-ogden-stiers-emmy-nominee-005402748.html

he was so great on MASH <3

I like how he pronounced "cretins"

Harvey Schmidt, composer of The Fantasticks

http://www.playbill.com/article/harvey-schmidt-fantasticks-composer-dies-at-88

MASH was good at replacing people

winchester, hunnicutt and potter were all better than burns, trapper and blake

The first one maybe, the second definitely not, flip a coin on the third.

DOS was good in everything I watched him in. i remember him being particularly outstanding in the very good, totally slept on mid-'90s thriller Bad Company w/Laurence Fishburne, Ellen Barkin, Frank Langella, etc...

Fun Fact: DOS went to high school w/Roger Ebert.

Davide Astori, the Fiorentina captain, dies last night at 31.

*died

Roger Bannister too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lKcSIKkI2A

Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind-up radio: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/05/trevor-baylis-inventor-wind-up-radio-dies-aged-80

re Sir Rog

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/05/590792079/roger-bannister-first-runner-to-break-4-minute-mile-dies-at-88

russ solomon, founder of tower records (also rip)

http://amp.sacbee.com/latest-news/article203542104.html

"Ironically, he was giving his opinion of what someone was wearing that he thought was ugly, then asked (his wife) Patti to to refill his whisky," Solomon said. When she returned, he had died.

Much worse ways to bow out, really.

xp
"Either that outfit goes or I do!"

I just watched that Tower Records doc a week or so ago. He seemed like a dude!

Historian Hayden White. One of very few people that I read as an undergraduate who - cliché alert - really changed the way I viewed history.

André S Labarthe. Film critic and filmmaker behind the great "Cinéastes de notre temps" series of filmmaker docus ( snippets often appear nowadays on Criterion releases).

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

The Volkswagen Beetle (again)
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-geneva-motor-show/volkswagen-confirms-beetle-wont-be-replaced

my mom had this type/color when i was small. not as clean and shiny tho

https://i.imgur.com/qpwW6Xk.jpg

saw one of those on the street the other day... on a tow truck

the print NME

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43367267

Ken Dodd

Gary Burden

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-album-cover-artist-gary-burden-dead-at-84-w517736

Didn't recognize the name, but Gold Rush and On the Beach are brilliant album covers.

Ken Dodd was terrifying.

XP There's a good doc about Burden and Henry Diltz called "Under the Covers - A Magical Journey: Rock N Roll in L.A. in the 60's - 70's" that used to run on PBS as a pledge programmer 10-15 years ago. IIRC, it only touches on Neil through CSNY, but Crosby is interviewed (among others), and he's in rare form (even for him).

Ken Dodd managed to spend a very long career surrounded by young kids without getting yewtreed, sad that this is in any way notable of course. My mum's cousin was a diddyman and as far as I'm aware he was fine.

His single "Tears' was also the third best selling single of the 60s in the UK, he was hugely popular in his time and still doing ridiculously long shows to packed houses aged 90.

With the death of my last great aunt in Liverpool late last year, this really feels like the end of the WW2 generation (on a personal level, I know)

RIP Ken

He lived in the same house he was born in for 89 of his 90 years apparently.

Carol Vorderman was a former Diddyman btw.

Tory indoctrination club?

Diddymen were non-union labour iirc

living in the same house you were born into all your life is sometimes a very bad option for some people!

yeah it didn't work out so great for the Fritzls

I wish Ken has made funnies like that!

had

Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead and now so is Ken, RIP Doddy.

nv in with the fritzl gag right after 9 on a monday, gonna be a belter of a week of ilxor dot com for sure

apparently ken dodd singles charted 19 times in the uk, maybe we should have an in-memoriam poll thread

Ahem, can I point you in the direction of the opening track of this ILX Compilation:

https://soundcloud.com/nedraggett/tom-d-happiness-in-spite-of-the-death-of-his-fathers-dog?in=nedraggett/sets/ilx-precovers-the-pet-shop-boys-super

Kate Wilhelm died yesterday, never knew she wrote crime fiction as well as great SF.

https://boingboing.net/2018/03/11/the-sweet-birds-sang.html

Hubert de Givenchy, 91

https://fashionista.com/.amp/2018/03/hubert-de-givenchy-death?__twitter_impression=true

Craig Mack. I liked his debut album but can't recall anything else he did.

some of these effusive RIP legend/icon comments seem to be laying it on a bit thick, he dropped one mixtape that disappeared without a trace in the last 20 years.

Nokie Edwards, the Ventures' Lead Guitarist, Dead at 82.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/nokie-edwards-the-ventures-lead-guitarist-dead-at-82-w517837

Stephen Hawking. daaamn.

oh no

eaten by wolves

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-matt-dike-obituary-20180313-story.html

Collaborator and co-producer of Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique album, Delicious Vinyl label co-owner ( Tone Loc), club Dj for Ice-T, and more , dead from cancer at 56.

Oh damn that's awful

Jim Bowen, who I would genuinely have sworn was dead for a decade or so.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43403178

RIP Jim. that Bully had 20m viewers at it's peak is quiet staggering.

Imagine the conversation between him and Stephen Hawking.

Jim Bowen, who I would genuinely have sworn was dead for a decade or so.

Same here. RIP Jim tho.

jim bowen is he dead

About 1,380,000 results (0.29 seconds)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYPqrZhXkAAFnUD.jpg
huge amounts of predictably abelist crap about Hawking is popping up in multiple obits. Dr Francis Ryan has a huge dedicated thread of them.

Bullseye is a staple of the "Challenge" TV channel, on a nightly basis. They show three or four shows a night, then when they've played them all, they start over again!

I can remember a friend's dad back in the 80's whose Sunday afternoon routine was "a bit of Bully" then off to evening mass, like clockwork. Interrupt him at church if you like, but not when he was watching Bullseye!

Old episodes of Bullseye make for pretty compelling time-capsules

So, I'm still watching Bullseye from 1981. And everyone is unemployed. But when they tell Jim this, he doesn't mock them or chide them; he offers his support and asks how bad it is wherever they're from. Like it's a war. Which it was - and they're on the same side.

— David Hill (@davidWhill14) February 3, 2018

My grandparents were Bullseye obsessives.

it's completely righteous + bang on in a good way is that tweet.

tube celebs never heard of outside the UK crowding out ol' Hawking

hawking had an amazing career and all but he never gave anyone a speedboat iirc

i was just gonna post that tweet!

did hawking share the screen with a darts-playing anthropomorphic bull for an audience of tens of millions every weekend?

did he fuck

Jim Bowen one of those people who seems to have always looked old. If he was 80 now he'd've been in his 40s in those 80s Bullseye episodes, which seems impossible.

here's jim on his wedding day, aged er anywhere between 23 and 58?

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article770371.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Bullseye%20presenter%20and%20stroke%20victim%20Jim%20Bowen%20with%20his%20new%20wife%20Phyllis

liam o'flynn, planxty founder member

John Humphreys asking Brian Cox if Hawking was ever 'cut any slack' because of his disability...

— Chris Coombs (@ChrisCoombs88) March 14, 2018

this senile cunt needs putting out to pasture.

I really just heard some knobhead on BBC WS saying without flinching that "despite having his tremendous physical disabilities, Hawking always remained psychologically very normal"

Liam O'Flynn? He was my favorite piper :(

thats because he was the greatest

RIPed him on the Planxty thread, lads.

Thanks for that tweet, Stevie.

It would have been pretty o_O if he had mocked and chided unemployed contestants though.

couple of years later it would've been compulsory

also Sunday tea - crabstick sandwiches - Bullseye was my entire early teens

These days unemployed Bullseye contestants would be getting U/C sanctioned for not declaring the speedboat.

That picture - it's the life that Morrissey would have had!

Did Brian Cox say to John Humphries "No, if he even thought of getting out of that chair, he'd have been on a "Fit to work" cert and down to the sewing machine factory as soon as!"

Then his only chance would have been winning a speedboat on "Bullseye"

Where am i?

Thanks for that tweet, Stevie.

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, March 14, 2018 3:18 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i must admit i filched it from dorian, formerly of this parish

hawking had an amazing career and all but he never gave anyone who lived in the landlocked midlands a speedboat iirc

apparently contestants often took the cash equivalent instead of the speedboat

Charlie Quintana, drummer for just about everybody. He started out in the Plugz, who were secretly one of the best L.A. punk bands, then played with Bob Dylan, John Doe, Cracker, Mike Ness and Social Distortion, Izzy Stradlin, and a million other bands.

Quintana stuck around w/ Zim after this, wish the other Plugz had too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ycpYslCn6c

Wow, Quintana. He looked like a guy that could and would kick an ass.

louise slaughter

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/rep-louise-slaughter-liberal-democrat-who-championed-womens-rights-dies-at-88/2018/03/16/7b7f7c3e-2865-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html

bento the keyboard cat ;_;

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/bento-keyboard-cat-youtube-dies

(pvmic obv)

pffft not even the original keyboard cat

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kak-channthy-cambodian-space-project-frontwoman-killed-crash-38-updated

Hit by a car. AKA Srey Thy

don't understand how Deliveroo can exploit their employees so much and still be more expensive than getting a taxi to the takeaway and back

lol wrong thread soz

A proper candidate for the "people who you thought were dead but weren't" thread until now, where she belongs in this thread. RIP Katie Boyle.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12525627

Weird, she was the answer to a picture question on a Bullseye repeat last week and we had no idea who she was. Who else will fall to the Bullseye curse?

Deficits are ok now

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/obituaries/peter-g-peterson-dies-power-from-wall-st-to-washington.html

pffft not even the original keyboard cat

i miss shakey too and i appreciate the effort but it's just not the same when someone else does it ;_;

This is getting a bit spooky now. Katie Boyle was just mentioned in this One Foot In The Grave repeat we're watching now. I'd never heard of her until last week now she's everywhere.

Somewhat bizarrely, my dad used to fancy her, but she was like the daughter of an Italian count so she was a bit out of his league. He was very taken with Annie Lennox too.

Benny Hill used to drag up to spoof K Boyle's ads in the '70s, I seem to recall. Clingfilm? Also flexed her linguistic skills presenting Eurovision.

I read her TV Times agony aunt column avidly as a boy. Scarcity of media and all that.

She used to win the TV Times awards' "Female Personality of the year" with an ubiquity like "Ant and Dec" had. It seemed very strange that the BBC news 'tribute' consisted of a couple of snips from Blankety Blank w/ Wogan, a few pics from Eurovision, and a matter of fact 'un yeah, she died OK?" (not an actual quote)

Les Payne, pioneering journalist of Long Island (NY) Newsday

https://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/newsday-les-payne-dies-1.17534552

aw man

If Ozymandias had lived: Toys "R" Us founder Charles Lazarus dies at 94

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/22/toys-r-us-founder-charles-lazarus-dies-at-94-as-toy-empire-liquidates.html

Oh he'll be back

another interesting fun fact I didn't know is that Frida from Abba was an OG Norwegian "Lebensborn-child" - Norwegian mother + Nazi officer father. I can't remember one that mentioned in the 1982 Look-In annual ABBA interview!

rong thread!

Oh he'll be back

a really cold part of me is dreading arnold schwarzenegger dying because every subeditor and ~twitterati~ on the planet will spew “he’ll be back” like it was their own special genius idea

Unless he's killed like Bennett in Commando, then they'll all be saying "let off some steam, Arnie"

Louise Latham

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/louise-latham-dead-tippi-hedrens-mother-hitchcocks-marnie-was-95-1096599?__twitter_impression=true

"unpredictable" Zell Miller, frequently a jerk

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/zell-miller-georgia-governor-and-senator-with-unpredictable-streak-dies-at-86/2018/03/23/9bc8a858-2eaf-11e8-b0b0-f706877db618_story.html

frequently a jerk

There were times when he wasn't, in your mind?

Never mind; I don't want to know. I'll just assume he said something shitty about Hillary.

wow, Zell Miller is a blast from the past

Bassist Buell Niedlinger has died. Played with Cecil Taylor, with Anthony Braxton, did sessions with Dolly Parton, the Eagles, the Village People. https://jazztimes.com/news/buell-neidlinger-dies-at-82/

Philip Kerr, author of the Bernie Gunther detective series dead from cancer

Oh man that's terrible

the Bernie Gunther detective series is great. The next and perhaps final one is out April 3 in the U.S.

Nice celebration of the books from last year:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/the-third-reichs-good-cop

And I gotta say, an anthology called The Penguin Book of Fights, Feuds and Heartfelt Hatreds is right up my street.

French actress Stéphane Audran

;_;

also

Barbara Stone, producer, distributor and founder of London’s Gate Cinema

Andy Lewis, who, along with his brother Dave, wrote the screenplay for Alan J. Pakula’s Klute

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5502-the-daily-remembering-stephane-audran-barbara-stone-and-more

the actor Bill Maynard

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20716037

the gaffer!

I always remember the bit from the titles where he pulls a parking ticket off the windscreen of his car, gets in, and then chucks it on the back seat on top of hundreds of other tickets.

Oh No, not Selwyn Froggitt!

^ that has to be a headline somewhere

http://img.sharetv.com/shows/standard/oh_no_its_selwyn_froggitt_uk.jpg

Bill Maynard was often very good and of course Alan Plater is an all time great but ONISF! really has not aged well at all

ONISF! is still good imo, it's a pity it doesn't get repeated more.

the pilot episode (by Roy Clarke) is interesting, it's a bit less broad than the series, emphasises the bleakness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q2HK10cvMQ

you Brits are really losing a lot of domestic celebs, so for our part, Rusty Staub

https://www.amazinavenue.com/2018/3/29/17175710/mets-rusty-staub-death-new-york

Bill Maynard a definite candidate for "people you thought died years ago".

Alias, the anticon guy

There’s no proper way to say this or deal with this, but so I want to put this out there and then step away for a while. Our great friend and longtime collaborator Brendon Whitney (@AliasAnticon) passed away of a heart attack yesterday. No one was nicer. No one. We love you, Bren pic.twitter.com/4TxOCPJo2z

— Sage Francis (@SageFrancis) March 31, 2018

damn, he can't have been very old at all. Loads of ppl in their 40's dying of heart attacks recently, well not all of them famous, but it seems to be a thing I've noticed a lot recently - including an old school pal.

Aw, Selwyn. The ubiquitous and emphatically not-Northern David Lodge playing his brother in that pilot. A little verklempt at the boom-in-shot around 3min. And applause from the studio audience over the titles! Another time.

Revived his own separate thread, but Steven Bochco:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-bochco-dead-hill-street-blues-la-law-nypd-blue-creator-741199

rip my tv watching in high school & college :(

never locked into any of his shows cept Hill Street, but that was certainly a landmark

Winnie Mandela

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/03/janka-nabay-bubu-music-sierra-leone

The 54 year-old Nabay was back in his homeland of Sierra Leone when he became ill and died. He had been living in recent years in Philadelphia, Brooklyn and DC .

oh shit, he played here just a couple of months ago. man had some jams, rip janka

Ray Wilkins

It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we have learnt that former England midfielder Ray Wilkins has passed away, aged 61.

The thoughts and condolences of everyone at the PFA are with his family and friends. pic.twitter.com/pr0JBahJgQ

— PFA (@PFA) April 4, 2018

I'll go for the "if you haven't got anything good about the departed, then stfu" post!

Isao Takahata, director of Graveyard of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, Tale of Princess Kaguya etc etc
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20180406-00000503-sanspo-ent

Eric Bristow!

that's big!

only 60 wtf? thought he was much older than that

also i'm surely not the first person to think that he's gone out on a single and double top

180 was never on. RIP Eric nonetheless.

pianist - composer Cecil Taylor, one of the most important and influential figures in western music.

shit

wtf no

Wow

It's weird - Cecil is the third major avant-jazz figure, after Bill Dixon and Ornette Coleman, who seems to have given his last big interview to me (all for The Wire). I've always wanted to interview Anthony Braxton and Pharoah Sanders, but in a way I kinda...don't?

yeah man, steer clear!

Omg no...gutted

Speaking of Sanders, has anyone seen him play recently? Is he still bringin' it? He's scheduled for a local festival in June, and that might make me go.

xp sorry be be a little crass.

He's playing here NYC in about two weeks. I've heard he's still good, if obviously slightly mellowed with age, so I might check it out.

Saw him maybe seven years ago and he was great. Last time I saw him two-three years ago he hardly overblew, maybe not at all, was too inside for my taste.

Last time I saw Sanders he was barely there, really disappointing. But I don't want him to die!

Jeez, RIP Cecil

Soul songwriter and Holland-Dozier-Holland collaborator who also worked with George Clinton Ron Dunbar, died April 4 at 77. https://www.soultracks.com/story-ron-dunbar-dies

Susan Anspach

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/susan-anspach-dead-five-easy-pieces-blume-love-actress-was-75-1100288

oh shit not cecil

So sad about Cecil. RIP.

RIP Cecil. I had a bad feeling that thread revive would be a shit one :(

Aw, Isao Takahata. Our son has had Totoro, Ponyo and Kiki on rotation since we bought some Ghibli DVDs last month.

I'm sad about that one too. It reminded me that I should watch Grave of the Fireflies at some point if I can take it.

Yeah, same here.

I lasted 25 minutes. If you’re a parent the thing is an emotional shotgun.

Takahata and Taylor in one day. This world is hurting.

Only Yesterday got a new English release in 2016 and is excellent.

I'd heard of Cecil Taylor for long time but never really checked him out until we decided to name our son Cecil, and he was adopted from a woman named Taylor. She was the only person we told the name to before he was born.

I mentioned him to her after we told her the name we'd chosen and she, a 20 year old in a very chaotic period of her life, gave me most amazing "what the fuck kind of old man music nerd shit about 'free jazz' are you telling me right now?" look which still makes me laugh whenever I think about this.

never knew Anspach had a child with Nicholson.

I missed Susan Anspach. Have mentioned her many times on this board. She sure left a lasting impression based on the four films she did between '70 and '73. (Actually, it's been a while since I saw The Landlord, so I can't remember how big her role is.)

French singer/songwriter Jacques Higelin: http://en.rfi.fr/20180406-jacques-higelin-obit

Sad about Ron Dunbar (x-post above) who co-wrote Freda Payne’s “Band of Gold” plus P-Funk songs

RIP-Funk Ron :(

Yvonne Staples

Mitzi Shore, owner of The Comedy Store

...and mother of Pauly!

yes

Oh wow. I don't know anything about her first-hand, but she was a constant non diegetic presence in Maron's podcast.

J.D. McClatchy, poet and partner to book designer / novelist Chip Kidd.

J.D. McClatchy's martini recipe is as... particular as J.D. McClatchy was, may he rest in lemon-spritzed, Lucky Pierre peace pic.twitter.com/AHh3TXYBgL

— Matthew Schneier (@MatthewSchneier) April 11, 2018

x-post-- aww RIP Yvonne Staples. She was comfortable singing in the background.

Art Bell. No other details atm

Mr Veg said “He didnt die. (Solemnly) They came and got him.”

Some of my best road trip memories from my first visits here were the late nights listening to Coast To Coast with Mr Veg. A true piece of Americana imo

aw damn RIP

Miloš Forman.

Wtf no

Nooooooooo!

he was old

Sorry to see him go, but he did have a respectable run.

And, before that, a more interesting and cutting-edge one.

(Tho tbh, I love Amadeus as much as Soto, so.)

THEY finally silenced Art Bell. (And by "THEY," I mean old age.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/nyregion/david-buckel-dead-fire.html

David Buckel via self immolation.

Vittorio Taviani of the Taviani Brothers (directors of The Night of the Shooting Stars and Padre Padrone.

Also, R. Lee Ermey, though I don't have a source for that one.

Ermey's passing was confirmed via his Facebook/Twitter accounts. 72 years old, pneumonia -- unfortunate and by all accounts totally unexpected, but a hell of a run.

ah damn

i was a fan of his reality show Mail Call on the history channel (the other ones not so much)

Sadly remembering how he will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you.

Also unscrew your head and shit down your neck

FIVE FOOT NINE? I DIDNT KNOW THEY STACKED SHIT THAT HIGH!

giving a reacharound in his honor

lol

ronald chesney

Mostly for local Cleveland interest, but if you saw the documentary you know him: Maurice Reedus Jr., Cleveland's "Sax Man"

https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2018/04/16/the-sax-man-maurice-reedus-jr-has-passed-away

Ah man, Harry Anderson:

http://www.wspa.com/news/night-court-actor-harry-anderson-dies-in-asheville/1126241637

Wow, we never did have a Night Court thread.

I don't think night court got screened much in the UK but i always loved his cameos in cheers

Well... NIGHT CORUT

Probably not the time, huh.

Still works!

Never watched NC, but I remember Anderson doing magic tricks on SNL.

;_; i loved night court, one of the random reruns we got in Australia

RIP Harry. He was a delight.
Also grownup Richie Tozier in the It miniseries. Beep beep :(

I love it.

When Harry Anderson used to shop at Zanadu Comics' university district store location in Seattle, he liked to attempt the same cash pranks that his "Harry the Hat" used on CHEERS. He did it often enough that the owner warned all his cashiers! Truly a character, on and off stage.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) April 17, 2018

lol

The social media reactions of his Night Court colleagues are unusually raw and heartfelt. They loved this guy.

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/528656453/npr-newscaster-carl-kasell-dies-at-84-after-a-lifelong-career-on-air

;_;

crosses “Karl Cassell voicemail message” off my bucket list

Barbara Bush

Willow
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/17/queen-devastated-loss-last-remaining-corgi/amp/

Where does this fascination with British royal family come from, Stan?

I know that the queen, like many other people, loves her dogs, but fucked if I know why anyone else would care about them.

I don't actually know - maybe it's because some belgian newspapers and magazines want the number of visitors and controversial/stupid commenters that the daily mail has (because of the clicks), so they shamelessly steal a lot of those stories. There's a disproportionately large number of meghan and harry stories in there as well, for instance, even though even less people care about them over here than in the uk.

Relieved that the above, contrary to my initial reaction, was not in fact a flip notice of Warwick Davis's premature demise.

The British care about their royalty so that the French can continue making fun of them.