Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Another lap around the sun but the reaper's job is never done.

he took the day off

Just learned that Ugandan Real World act Geoffrey Oryema died in June 2018. Exile and Beat the Border are two of my favorites.

Dean Ford of The Marmalade

Yep, it's beginning...

WWE is saddened to learn that WWE Hall of Famer Gene Okerlund, the most recognizable interviewer in sports-entertainment history, has passed away at age 76. https://t.co/DyPiEiVLoV

— WWE (@WWE) January 2, 2019

Former Heart of Midlothian defender Freddie Glidden who captained the team to wins in the League Cup, Scottish Cup, and the League title in 1955, 1956 and 1958 respectively.

Bob Einstein

https://deadline.com/2019/01/bob-einstein-dead-curb-your-enthusiasm-super-dave-osborne-smothers-brothers-1202527938/

When Milton Berle and other comics told jokes at his father’s 1958 funeral, the teenage Einstein decided he would never go into comedy.

Instead, he went to college and played basketball at Chapman University and then pursued a career in advertising. But when he did a TV performance on a local cable show for a friend, pretending to be the man who installed the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, it caught the eye of Tom Smothers. After Smothers invited the 26-year old to the set, Einstein recalled how it transformed his life. “I go over and now I’m sitting and watching rehearsals and my mind is burning and all of sudden out of nowhere I want this, a bee has stung me in the back, and I want this.”

Who was his father, Albert?

no, that's his brother

(Countdown to at least one post in the 'shockingly old' thread once people who didn't know realize who his brother is.)

ugh that's a tough one, always loved his deadpan

he was a very funny comedic actor

"Mean" Gene Okerlund

https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-wwe-personality-and-legendary-interviewer-mean-1831433229

I grew up watching Einstein as Super Dave Osborne on John Byner's show "Bizarre." Great stuff.

Hammer Films Producer Roy Skeggs:

http://petercushingblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/hammer-films-producer-roy-skeggs-dies.html

(Countdown to at least one post in the 'shockingly old' thread once people who didn't know realize who his brother is.)

That'll be me then.

RIP Funkhouser.

Albert and Bob, together

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/456595/Modern-Romance-Movie-Clip-You-Want-Happiness-.html

Nine minutes of madness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdOYE7IWouo

Whoa, this day.

Just In: The "Captain" Daryl Dragon of 70s pop music husband-and-wife duo Captain & Tennille has died at age 76. https://t.co/jBN5N0oQQS

— NBC Los Angeles (@NBCLA) January 2, 2019

RIP, he was on some good Beach Boys/Dennis Wilson stuff

how the heck was he known professionally as "the Captain" and not fuckin DARYL DRAGON

lol my thoughts exactly

a 70s porn star was already using that name, probably

Pegi Young:
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8492082/pegi-young-dead

Oof RIP

Daryl Dragon was quite an odd man, going by Toni Tennille's memoir. Seems to have suffered from serious OCD his whole life, and probably schizophrenia in his later years.

Thanks for all the great tunes, Captain.

gutted about Pegi

RIP, amazing lady

didn't the Captain live in a trailer behind Sunset Sound in the nineties?

or the Village Recorder or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi7mmLtIixw

aw pegi :(

That'll be me then.

Brooks took his stage surname for obvious reasons. Their dad was a "lol ethnics" character comedian as Parkyakarkus, successful in radio and film, who died onstage at a Friar's Roast benefit for hospitals. The hilarity continued backstage as doctors left their dinner to cut his chest open with a penknife and attempt to defibrillate him by stripping a lamp cord.

Joe Casely-Hayfiord, fashion designer. He was 62.

Yeah I saw that on Susie Bubble’s Instagram, but I was also struck that she was happy to be seen visiting Bicester Village outlets. I thought that was super uncool for tourists ? Is this a thing now?

Every so often Bicester Village hires a coach and fills it with fashion editors, who are also given gift cards for their day trip. In Susie’s case, she might just be buying toddler clothes (her partner is one of my editors at work).

For a brief time I was in touch with Joe C-H for work, and he was kind and quick to respond when to be honest he could legitimately have ignored me.

Nancy Roman, Nasa’s first Chief of Astronomy

https://sh-s7-live-s.legocdn.com/is/image/LEGO/21312_alt3

Herb Kelleher, innovative founder of Southwest Airlines (first to dress flight attendants in hot pants, to name one innovation)

Man, massive news we all missed! The legendary Al Reinert, director of THE moon landing documentary For All Mankind -- which also produced a legendary soundtrack, Eno's Apollo -- passed on, initial news announced yesterday:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Former-Chronicle-reporter-Al-Reinert-co-writer-13504713.php

I showed that to my daughters just a month ago - what a gem.

aw no :(

Howell Begle, who was a key figure via his pro bono support of Ruth Brown in getting royalties and more to any number of African American musicians from earlier years who'd been cheated out of them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/howell-begle-lawyer-who-championed-penniless-randb-stars-dies-at-74/2019/01/03/fdf1ac7e-0e32-11e9-84fc-d58c33d6c8c7_story.html?utm_term=.bb6514e3f36c

Percussionist-composer Alvin Fielder, founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

Alan R. Pearlman, founder of ARP Instruments:
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2019/01/06/arp-founder-alan-r-pearlman-has-died/

^ was just about to post that one :(

Eric Haydock, bassist for the Hollies from '62-'66

https://bestclassicbands.com/eric-haydock-obituary-1-6-19/?fbclid=IwAR0GGwtiK7RmlxLgfqk85EQ94VDEV3x4zCkb8pARcoktiM6fZEd1RVEQo-g

Victor "The Mascara Snake" Hayden died in December.

:(

jimmy hannan, old timey entertainment fellow

We made this little tribute to one of our favorite people ever in the world of comedy, the one and only Bob Einstein.

(And yes, I did give him the car..) pic.twitter.com/0cVMIERSL1

— Jerry Seinfeld (@JerrySeinfeld) January 5, 2019

Clydie King

https://m.facebook.com/451295254997830/posts/1917555085038499/

Ron Smith, seminal 2000ad artist.

We're very sorry to hear that Judge Dredd artist Ron Smith has passed away. From co-creating Chopper to the weird Otto Sump and the wonderful Mayor Dave, he was an incredible artist with a career spanning decades. Our deepest sympathies to his family.

Droid tribute by @PyeParr pic.twitter.com/sbLqGJHooa

— 2000 AD (@2000AD) January 10, 2019

RIP, best Dredd artist.

rip, second-best dredd artist behind the also-recently-deceased carlos ezquerra

Victor "The Mascara Snake" Hayden died in December.

Would probably have never known about this but for this thread. RIP Victor.

http://www.beefheart.com/victor-hayden-rip/

Indian filmmaker Mrinal Sen

https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/mrinal-sen-indian-film-director-dead-dies-1203096782/

Verna Bloom

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/verna-bloom-dead-dies-animal-house-1203104909/

^ whoa, I never put it together that the single mother in Medium Cool, the abandoned wife in The Hired Hand, and the sad lady in the bar in After Hours were all the same actress, let alone that she was also in the likes of Animal House

and Mary, Mother of Christ.

Joseph Jarman, formerly of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. I saw him with them in 2017 - he got up and read a poem at their NYC show. He seemed pretty frail but not teetering on the edge of the grave. He was 81.

Oh no! RIP, love those AEC recs

He made a live album in 1978 with Famoudou Don Moye, Egwu-Anwu (Sun Song), that I'm listening to for the first time right now; it's amazing.

Civil rights activist John Hunter Gray, 84.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-john-hunter-gray-lunch-counter-protest-photo-dead-20190110-story.html?fbclid=IwAR2DtjNRNUA-5ClSsO5I29aEpZFPVHyURoSMa41Lo9bPXP7HmdJGod04vL0

Jo Andres, 65. Steve Buscemi’s wife of 30 years.

Mathematician Michael Atiyah: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/obituaries/michael-atiyah-dead.html

RIP

Cartoonist Batton Lash (creator of Wolff & Byrd, writer of "Archie Meets the Punisher")
https://www.newsfromme.com/2019/01/12/batton-lash-r-i-p/

Music writer Dave Laing:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/14/dave-laing-obituary

Willie Murphy, "mayor" of Minneapolis' West Bank music scene, running partner of Koerner Ray & Glover and producer of Bonnie Raitt's debut LP.

http://www.startribune.com/heart-and-soul-of-minneapolis-music-scene-willie-murphy-dies-at-75/504291622/

https://youtu.be/lQPtAiggTnQ

Stage and screen star Carol Channing:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46878018

;_;

comedian-actor William Stephenson

http://thecomicscomic.com/2019/01/14/r-i-p-william-stephenson-1957-2019/

John Bogle, founder of Vanguard

RIP

Openly gay Latin trap artist Kevin Fret, killed last week:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/11/kevin-fret-gay-latin-trap-rapper-shot-dead-puerto-rico

rip mary oliver

Guitar hero Reggie Young, 82. "Suspicious Minds", "Son of a Preacher Man", 'Hooked on a Feeling", "I Think I'll Just Sit Here and Drink", "Luckenbach, Texas", just for starters.

Love that guy. RIP:(

rip mary oliver

yes. she was/is my wife's favorite poet and one of the very few poets who was able to attract a large and loyal following in an age where perhaps one American in a hundred can name ANY poet who isn't dead already. her poetry ain't bad, neither.

Nick Redman

https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/nick-redman-documentary-filmmaker-and-soundtrack-producer-dead-1203111967/

Windsor Davies

Windsor Davies

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-46931129

I read somewhere once that he had two brothers named Stuart and Tudor.

"Oh dear.. How sad... Never mind."

#tomorrowsheadline

SHUT UPPPPPP!

Ted McKenna, drummer with the Sensational Alex Harvey Band et al ;_;

https://www.loudersound.com/news/ted-mckenna-drummer-with-rory-gallagher-sahb-michael-schenker-dead-at-68

RIP. Would it be an exaggeration to say that you the biggest SAHB fan on the borad?

I'm sure there's others.

Internet sensation Boo the Dog:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/19/americas/boo-cutest-dog-dies-scli-intl/index.html

Wow, RIP. Didn’t know this was an actual dog.

We still have Grumpy Cat and Lil Bub.

What about Bubb Rubb? We still have him?

Since we're doing animals, I meant to post about Roger, the buff kangaroo, who passed Dec 10.

https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.vrh1_WfwD4rW33F5KN_GXwHaFj&pid=15.1&P=0&w=209&h=158

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/10/675282745/roger-the-buff-kangaroo-beloved-online-dies-at-age-12

steroids are a helluva drug

rip big man, too swole to live

RIPped

" 'He's a big boy, and very aggressive,' says Chris, lifting his shirt to show off some war wounds.

" 'That's Roger,' he says pointing at one scar. 'That's Roger too. There are another six stitches on my groin. They're Roger.'

'Basically he's just a fighter,' says Chris. 'It's natural for an alpha male. He likes to see the threat go, so will always come out to confront you. If he grabs you, he doesn't let go. You can't get out easily. It's a chokehold. As for a well-placed kick, it can disembowel you.' "

he was such a gentle soul :p

Toxic marsupiality >:(

actress-singer-comedian Kaye Ballard

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2019/01/22/kaye-ballard-dies-at-93-rancho-mirage/2620474002/

Kaye Ballard

xp!

Edwin Birdsong

My family and I are asking for your prayers. My cousin and a music legend, the late Edwin Birdsong made his transition to be with the Lord. His music and legacy will continue to live on. Be blessed!!! #RIPEdwinBirdsong #MyGrammyAwardWinningCousin #ColaBottleBaby pic.twitter.com/3VqosL03ol

— James C. Birdsong, Jr. (@TheRealJBOnline) January 22, 2019

Harris Wofford

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/harris-wofford-civil-rights-activist-who-helped-kennedy-win-the-white-house-dies-at-92/2019/01/22/026fe870-1e09-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html

Kay Ballard & The Seeds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzbaKPBKwl0

Russell Baker, Pulitzer-Winning Times Columnist and Humorist, Dies at 93

columnists you thought were already dead

No, not Edwin Birdsong!

Jonas Mekas

RIP Jonas

I guess this will renew debate on his relationship to fascism, per J Hoberman

A remarkably well-timed death, then.

I saw JM around Anthology Film Archives (which he co-founded about 60 years ago) a lot in the '90s and 00s. I'd come looking for the new calendar and he'd smile, "Not yet, not yet."

http://www.artnews.com/2019/01/23/jonas-mekas-key-experimental-filmmaker-dies-96/

These seems to be the only mention in the Desert Sun article on Kaye Ballard about the 'complex personal life' in the title?

Ballard never married or had children. She wrote in her memoir, “I found an emotional connection with women like Liz (Smith, the admittedly bisexual syndicated columnist who was Ballard’s road manager in the 1950s) that I could never find with a man. I don’t know why or how it happened, but I do know it has kept me single my entire life.”

(also holy fuck at 'admittedly' in 2019)

RIP JM

With JM's passing the little French bistro Lucien at 1st Ave & 1st St. loses another regular. It used to be him, Taylor Mead, and Gerard Malanga there all the time and now only Gerard's left.

Diana Athill, author and editor, 101.

Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwe's Afro-jazz legend

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46976005

name'll be familiar if you listened to peel in the 80s

people who were born in the '20s still use 'admittedly', AF

Sure, but that's not part of the quote, right?

Hugh McIlvanney, Scottish sports writer for Guardian and Sunday Times, aged 84

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/25/hugh-mcilvanney-veteran-sports-reporter-dies-aged-84

James Frawley

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-frawley-dead-monkees-muppet-movie-director-was-82-1178797

(xp) RIP Hugh. Another case of people you thought were dead, though his brother is a case of people you thought were alive.

(xp) RIP James.

Dušan Makavejev, 86

Worried the rule of three is going to come into play with a-g filmmakers.

RIP. I should watch something of his beyond WR.

Hugh McIlvanney, Scottish sports writer for Guardian and Sunday Times, aged 84

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/25/hugh-mcilvanney-veteran-sports-reporter-dies-aged-84

― Dan Worsley, Thursday, January 24, 2019 10:17 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one of the greatest sportswriters to come out of the uk. i don't care for the gee-gees, one of his areas of expertise, but he was magnificent on football and boxing

iconic voice as well. a friend and i would send each other messages reading things like the lyrics to poker face in mcilvanney voice

RIP. I should watch something of his beyond WR.

― jmm, Friday, January 25, 2019 12:45 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

his eclipse boxset is pretty good, I really liked the case of the missing switchboard operator

I saw him introduce Switchboard Operator some years ago and he had a good sense of humor

Michel Legrand

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47013214

RIP. Great composer. Truth be told I went to see him play piano once and it was not my cup of tea as they say.

Been a healthy crop of notable deaths so far this year, and it's not even February.

I have lost my dearest friend and creative partner James Ingram to the Celestial Choir. He will always be cherished, loved and remembered for his genius, his love of family and his humanity. I am blessed to have been so close. We will forever speak his name.❤️ pic.twitter.com/TDJfpbbJWa

— Debbie Allen (@msdebbieallen) January 29, 2019

I guess his best wasn't good enough.

oof

https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2019/film/news/dick-miller-dead-dies-gremlins-terminator-1203124265/amp/

RIP dear Dick

Aww. RIP.

Anyone see the recent-ish doc about him?

noticed him in chopping mall last october, thought "i know that guy, who is he?" and imdb'd him. saw him again in gremlins a few weeks later.

a face created by a caricaturist

RIP :(

Aw, Dick Miller.

Watched Gremlins 2 last night as a memorial. Still delightful.

Jeremy Hardy RIP. Didn't know he was ill.

#Breaking Comedian Jeremy Hardy died of cancer early on Friday, his publicist Amanda Emery says pic.twitter.com/IqvpEEo8FR

— PA Showbiz (@PAshowbiz) February 1, 2019

I saw this earlier this year

Please someone tell me Jeremy Hardy has been hacked :( pic.twitter.com/t8mar6eNnJ

— Emmack (@emmackwrites) January 3, 2019

then he deleted it and posted this

Dear All, I am fine. Sent dopey shit out. Was half asleep watching NHS cancer drama with Alison Steadman called Care. Was waking and tweeting. My brain is now as sharp as it will ever be. The Prime Minister is Clement Atlee.

— Jeremy Hardy (@JeremyJHardy) January 5, 2019

I hate the fucking News Quiz guffawing bubble but I still liked him.

oh shit

Aw man he was v funny and frequently otm for a tankie

A man so bad at singing even Danny Macnamara could laugh at him. Still the highlight of song rounds in modern day ISIHAC. RIP.

"Frankly, I do not see my job as keeping our rulers on their toes; I’d rather see them hanging by their feet."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/apr/04/politicalcolumnists.comment

His opinions didn't always prove popular with his audience. In 2000, he was booed by members of the Just A Minute audience when he used the subject "parasites" to begin a rant against the royal family.

In 2004, Burnley Council cancelled one of Hardy's performances after saying in an episode of his Speaks to the Nation show that members and supporters of the British National Party (BNP) should be shot.

Hero

A quote from JH I still use on the reg, re bombing former Yugoslavia:

"When I say 'this will only make things worse', critics ask me 'well what would you do then?' To which my reply is: 'not make things worse'."

aww. will always remind me of sitting in the back of my parents car being forced to listen to radio 4 and laughing at him despite myself

one of the very few good ones on r4 :(

RIP

Hero

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 February 2019 10:10 (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, closing two parts of that BBC obit is back to back bangers

the only actual joke of his I can remember is about white Britons trying to make curry in the 70s, trying to make it more palatable by adding fruit and ending up making a trifle

Sad day, RIP JH.

Yes. 57 years old.

I'm just remembering last time I heard him on r4, he was briefly talking about the pitfalls of being an ageing lefty in a torycentric UK, in such a charming, self-effacing sort of way. I still think comedy is bad, but he was an exceptionally nice guy.

um. listening to Jeremy Hardy Feels It from 2017 and it's all about death and Linda Smith... (and so very dense, a joke per sentence, over hundreds of sentences)

my carbon footprint is mostly my odor-eaters...

https://metro.co.uk/2019/02/01/keeping-appearances-star-clive-swift-dies-aged-82-8426217/

Clive Swift, immensely talented British actor of yore.

Doctor Who Magazine contributor Benjamin Cook interviewed Swift about Mr Copper and Voyage of the Damned for DWM 391. During the course of the interview Swift questioned Cook's journalism credentials, dismissed questions, and commented on not being paid to participate. Swift cut off Cook's final question with the remark that "I know that you all think that this is a big world, this Who business. But it isn't. There are much bigger things than this." When Cook replied, "Maybe, but it means a lot to a great many of us," Swift terminated the interview.

https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Clive_Swift

Lol classic

His version of A Warning To The Curious with Peter Vaughan is essential.

Aw, good actor, RIP Clive.

... was married to Margaret Drabble, wtf!

Aw man he was v funny and frequently otm for a tankie

― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Friday, February 1, 2019 2:01 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was a trot not a tankie.

I would accuse you Brits of making up celebrities again, but i see Clive Swift was in Frenzy and Death Line.

...and Excalibur!

i like to think he's at last free to disregard the cow in the field if he so chooses

xp

oh I'd forgotten he was Arthur's dad in Excalibur, and that Dr Who anecdote - lol!

which makes me think if I'd have been in a more ruthless mood I'd have deffo put John Boorman on my dead pool list this year.

Can't remember the show but Charlie Boorman and Jason Connery were on the same one last year (2017? Surely not 2016?) and the former said to the latter "haha my dad made your dad wear a happy".

^ Celebrity Masterchef.

Gorilla Biscuits guitarist Alex Brown, 52, of an aneurysm.

Yikes

Ron Hutchinson of the Vitaphone Project and other work in film preservation.

https://www.facebook.com/ron.hutchinson.908

... was married to Margaret Drabble, wtf!

Their son presents Gardeners' World (?? Gardening Today?? Garden Time, whatever) and looks exactly like his dad.

Oh my goodness, he does, doesn't he? I never realised he was their son but I know *exactly* who you are talking about. He's one of the ones who presents some of the packages and also does a lot of broadcasting from Chelsea each year.

Wow, the Swift/Drabble clan get around as much as the Corens and the Freuds, don't they?

'Creature From the Black Lagoon' Star Julie Adams Dies at 92

https://comicbook.com/horror/2019/02/04/julie-adams-dies-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-star/?fbclid=IwAR0ec62ZkwkBDGma3IrD0RBWs0VDVvl9e7H6HiGWplY6hjNKnjJj8WiwqaA

https://metro-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/metro.co.uk/2019/02/04/young-restless-star-kristoff-st-john-dies-aged-52-8440198/

Kristoff St John, 52

Finnish ski jumper (and so much more) Matti Nykänen at 55.

https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/troubled_finnish_ski_jumping_legend_matti_nykanen_dead_at_55/10629072

A biopic seems inevitable.

sounds like a finnish gazza, albeit a gazza that actually won a shitload of stuff

RIP big man. One of my first sports heroes iirc.

Gazza comparison seems apt.

Was there ever a Finnish Moaty though?

if only ilx had a resident finn who could weigh in

"What are skis?"

lol

There was already a biopic about him a few years ago. Dude was also a wifebeater and a violent drunk who went to jail for stabbing a friend of his (he survived), so the glorification he's receiving right now makes me feel kinda uncomfortable.

thx for weighing in, resident finn

how does he measure up against Walter Steiner

How many ski jumping biopics do we actually need?

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JpIbVyQbUuw/WQR4wi9Qe5I/AAAAAAAAMl0/hbIGrWebi_4_bu4eB8SWHwQCgTmPmeccgCEw/s1600/image0008.jpg

Didn’t mean to glorify him (don’t think people here are glorifying Gazza either tbh). I read that stuff in the article too - thought the “troubled” in the url would be enough of a warning. Still, so much talent and fame gone wrong, it’s the stuff biopics are made of/for.

ban biopics tbh

Ban biopics of winter sports stars for sure.

Ban all biopics apart from ones about Nazis imo.

Ban everybody but Julian Schnabel, he did this right two or three times

C Y Lee, author of Flower Drum Song, at 102.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/cy-lee-author-of-the-best-selling-novel-the-flower-drum-song-dies-at-102/2019/02/03/29c2d7e4-2803-11e9-984d-9b8fba003e81_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2Xui1Qw8FWfPYtKroRMvgl2kJk_V61sAyRJdYh2somOpJqGog52lP-khI&utm_term=.5d7aca791dc0

Ban everybody but Julian Schnabel, he did this right two or three times

Too bad he wasted all those years painting before figuring out what he was good at.

Science Fiction writer Carol Emshwiller:

https://locusmag.com/2019/02/carol-emshwiller-1921-2019/

oh no! RIP

Albert Finney

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/08/albert-finney-dies-film-tom-jones-orient-express-millers-crossing

Aw shit, I loved him.

one of the greats for sure, rip big man

He did so much great stuff, from Annie to Wolfen.

Aww man. He was fantastic as Churchill in 'The Gathering Storm'. RIP

aye, he was a fine fine actor, and in a lot of class movies. RIP.

Jim Dunlop, of guitar picks and pedals

https://www.jimdunlop.com/category/remembering-jim.do

If you've never seen Finney opposite Diane Keaton in Shoot the Moon, you're missing one of the great portrayals of male white privilege.

I've probably only seen five or six Albert Finney films...He's fantastic in <i>Miller's Crossing</i>.

I know it's a divisive film, but Big Fish and his performance in it really moved me, and opened up space for a little bonding moment for me and my dad. RIP.

It's okay to admit it: he was awesome in Erin Brockovich.

I will be re-watching Miller's Crossing tonight.

I’m out for a good time. All the rest is propaganda.

It's okay to admit it: he was awesome in Erin Brockovich.

he really was

Great clip from a 1960 interview...
https://youtu.be/NRMCTgJnmTo

Oh fuck, that's why his thread was revived, awesome actor RIP Albert ;_;

xp yeah, Albert Finney in Erin Brockovich >>>>> Benicio Del Toro in Traffic

They’re both the best things about so-so movies, I’d argue.

In all your memorials, please remember #AlbertFinney loved making #MillersCrossing so much he stayed after wrap to be a female maid extra. pic.twitter.com/TCwzqxX0BO

— Greg MacLennan (@themaclennan) February 8, 2019

my daughter's obsessed with his version of Annie at the moment and plays the soundtrack several times every day. his version of Maybe is a right heartbreaker.

Finney turned down the offer of a CBE in 1980, and a knighthood in 2000. He criticised the honours system for "perpetuating snobbery".

Good man.

yes.

my daughter's obsessed with his version of Annie at the moment and plays the soundtrack several times every day. his version of Maybe is a right heartbreaker.

I haven't seen it since I was about eight, but it was a huge movie in our house for a while. I didn't even know, until many years later, that its reputation is as kind of a high profile disaster--it made a good-in-1982-dollars $57, but cost $50. I'd always assumed that because so many kids my age loved it (my sister had the doll, and the soundtrack) that it was a huge sensation.

Sheila Heti has a fantastic piece on her Annie fandom: https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/what-annie-knew/

Ooh, I shall read that.

She's literally just fired the CD up again...

There was a period of nearly a year where sister used to blare "Tomorrow" while getting ready for school every morning.

something wrong with my brain when that makes me think silverchair

My FB news feed is mostly about Annie today, which ... well, my FB feed is not a control group, it's safe to say.

Annie played on cable for much of the early and mid '80s, no? It was a big deal around my house because my sis taped it during its network premiere. Leave it to Twitter to make Daddy Warbucks his most indelible performance, I guess.

kill the young

It's okay to admit it: he was awesome Lou Grant in Erin Brockovich.

(srsly, he was fine in EB; I'll take Sat Night & Sun Morning, Under the Volcano, Karaoke)

There's a moment in Shoot the Moon where his beloved oldest daughter won't accept his birthday present and, pissed off and frustrated, he breaks into her room and beats her with a wire hanger. After Diane Keaton separates them, he has this horrorstruck expression and he runs into the night. It's an extraordinary sequence. That's Method acting.

I grew up on mid-80s late-night cable so Finney was always a grouchy NYPD detective investigating werewolf murders during the Burning of the Bronx. RIP

Phil Western, 47

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156843783995851&set=a.75842315850&type=3&theater

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/r_i_p_vancouver_electronic_artist_phil_western

Architecture writer Robert Winter, at 94. He co-wrote the guide to Southern California Architecture (also the Nor Cal one).

https://la.curbed.com/2019/2/11/18220486/robert-winter-dead-architectural-guidebook-los-angeles?fbclid=IwAR3Mbd-crySktcMH1cc52NN7aZNNRQkmBX7BjmVgyS0UzMXqWi0q1vAbt3o

Goalie Gordon Banks

the day Banksy died.

:D

He saw one world war..

Disablist joke imo

No, he

;-)

ah '66 - that year the Spontaneous Music Ensemble's debut album came out.

Lyndon LaRouche, cult leader and other things.

With infinite sadness I report to you that Lyn passed away this morning. There are no words to describe the loss to humanity. He left us, but he lives in the simultaneity of eternity. It is now up to us to realize his life‘s work. Helga Zepp-LaRouche https://t.co/9deOLnWf81

— Mike Billington (@mobeir2) February 12, 2019

god that's sad news: there are more larouches?

another victim of the deep state

helga zepp-larouche is his widow

there's also a son, daniel, by his first marriage

John Harold Haynes - creator of the Haynes auto repair manuals.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2019/02/haynes-manual-founder-dies-aged-80/

LaRouche prevented from joining the 120 prez candidates

oppy the mars rover

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/02/13/opportunity-nasas-record-setting-mars-rover-is-declared-dead-after-years/

Andrea Levy, author of Notes on a Small Island, 62.

John Stalker

former deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester police who was famously removed from heading an inquiry into the shooting of suspected members of the Provisional IRA in the early 1980s (because he was finding things the establishment didn't like regarding the RUC).

he could also sell an awning like nobody's business

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5v5e3ajkN4

I believe his death will be a major contribution to road safety

Tarkovsky's biopic of him was something else, I think he captured Manchester very well. Or was it Stockport?

Lest we forget "John Stalker" and his contribution to the world of sun awning marketing. Retract In Peace. #RIP pic.twitter.com/92BNi3URQk

— Lane/Hewy of The Spheres/Chleo/CorbynDog (@LaneThomaHewitt) February 15, 2019

Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who starred in 'Der Himmel über Berlin' and 'Der Untergang', has died at the age of 77

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/film/2019-02/schauspieler-bruno-ganz-ist-tot

I wonder how this occasion will be immortalised

Surely not with an Untergang meme.

RIP

I'm one of the humourless fuckers that thinks those memes are bad and massively unfunny.

Ich disagree

I think they're mostly bad these days (IE probably about 24 hours after the first one) but any good that's in them in largely due to Bruno Ganz.

lady falkender aka marcia williams, harold wilson's enforcer

https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/wm-preview-1500/1934035a/40e68f29/mike-yarwood-impressionist-lady-falkender-formerly-marcia-williams-eric-morecambe-comedian-shutterstock-editorial-1934035a.jpg

(she's the one in the middle)

what get's me with the meme game is white people who seem to exclusively post memes of black people pulling incredulous faces or whatever, if I was black I'd be saying: what's yr game, arsehole?

Harold Wilson's REDACTED. Thought she'd died years ago tbh. RIP Bruno btw.

Call, the use of black person reaction .gifs by whites has been called ‘digital blackface’ for some time now.

RIP Bruno Ganz, lots of Wings of Desire sad-angel grabs doing the rounds.

Crushed about Bruno Ganz. He really had one of the "warmest" faces of world cinema. And yes, I had a black woolen coat, grey scarf, and ponytail when I lived in a colder climate. No one got the reference.

http://www.criterionforum.org/caps/wingsofdesireblu00007.jpg

Hitler meme decrying his own death incoming in hours.

Saw Wings of Desire for the first time in a massive theater just a few weeks ago, loved it & him in it. RIP

Ken Nordine

(only one source for this though - https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/word-jazz-creator-and-host-ken-nordine-dies/71c82188-3b11-432b-93da-91d83affdaad )

Looks like we missed noting that former Disney CEO/son-in-law Ron Miller died earlier this week.

Lee Radziwill, 85.

never occurred to me that ken nordine was still alive; rip

Nordine's last public appearances (as far as I can tell) were spoken word duets via Skype during Laurie Anderson's 2015-16 tour. So he was cogent at age 95 (born in 1920). We should all be so lucky to have a long, impactful life.

I have everything that released on CD (through 2001). I think tonight I'll watch Der Himmel über Berlin for Ganz (way better than the English title), Sunday will be a Nordine marathon.

Pat Caddell, pollster/adviser to Jimmy Carter gone MAGA

https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-patrick-caddell-20190217-story.html

Paul Flynn, Labour MP, 84.

Xp. A damn wonk who worked on the west wing and supporter Trump. What a combo

Lee Radziwill, 85.

The ecstatic sailor shown in an iconic photo kissing a woman in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died. George Mendonsa was 95. https://t.co/wzSfgLxW2X pic.twitter.com/skRgcYGp7O

— ABC News (@ABC) February 18, 2019

Didn't he just grab a random woman and shove his tongue down her throat

I remember reading that, or hearing that, somewhere

I haven't read the article

"It wasn't my choice to be kissed," Friedman stated in a 2005 interview with the Library of Congress.[3] "The guy just came over and grabbed!" she said, adding, "That man was very strong. I wasn't kissing him. He was kissing me."[3][10]

Yeah

It looks like that in the photo

Karl Largerfeld

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-karl-lagerfeld-dead-85-14019724

Lagerfeld, sorry!

Wtf. Rip karl. :-(

Ooh, big day at the office. What an innings. RIP.

Just so long as they keep his library intact.

My condolences to Choupette.

Had that particularly nasty breed of fatphobia that only certain formerly obese folks have. I hope he enjoyed the steroid bloat at the end.

^^^

There was a lot of Lagerfeld in that recent documentary about fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez (Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco). Kind of interesting to see Lagerfeld young and dark-haired, doing regular things like hanging out at the beach. His look always suggested a certain heaviness of spirit though.

Charo’s husband Kjell Rasten.

Consumer advocate David Horowitz (Fight Back! with David Horowitz)

Skip Groff, Yesterday and Today Records, a major force in the DC area music scene.

https://www.theonion.com/karl-lagerfeld-horrified-by-uninspired-garish-tunnel-o-1832730087

Skip Groff, Yesterday and Today Records, a major force in the DC area music scene.

No!

the Sailor Kissing statue got tagged with #metoo

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/20/metoo-kissing-sailor-statue-day-after-george-mendonsa-death?CMP=fb_gu&fbclid=IwAR0ooojYVzzIghL9kX577T2VqS-5ij1rVKo-V4xiaZ6spAElHi3EjwIscZo

statue was called Unconditional Surrender...

RIP Marie-Claire Bancquart (1932-2019), French poet.

peter tork of the monkees, 77

Shit :(

oh fuck you death

Oh shit. RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr5dnte9JgU

;_;

He sounded very very bad on their recent Christmas album. RIP.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/8499382/lewis-kahn-dies

RIP Lewis Kahn, salsa trombonist & violinist with the Fania Allstars and Larry Harlow’s Band

RIP

Swiss director Claude Goretta died a couple of days ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/21/claude-goretta-obituary

'La Dentellière (The Lacemaker)' was a very good character study, with Isabelle Huppert outstanding in an early role, and I've a lot of time for 'La Mort de Mario Ricci' too.

Jackie Shane, May 15, 1940 - February 22, 2019.
Memoriam to follow.
Rest In Power, Ms. Shane. pic.twitter.com/RLLZDoUQGP

— ɴᴜᴍᴇʀᴏ ɢʀᴏᴜᴘ (@numerogroup) February 22, 2019

aw, sad to hear that; she had a solid last act

i mean i don't have an emotional investment really but i do use his useful invention quite often

Ross Lowell, founder of Lowel-Light and the creator of gaffer tape, dead at 92https://t.co/vFN9ugZoWq pic.twitter.com/rRlsaSS12q

— DPReview (@dpreview) February 21, 2019

RIP hero

Brody Stevens :(

https://theblast.com/comedian-brody-stevens-dead-suicide

aw man, i liked that guy.

Fred Foster, of Monument Records fame

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/fred-foster-country-music-producer-dead-obituary-797487/

Ross Lowell, founder of Lowel-Light and the creator of gaffer tape, dead at 92

― mark s, Friday, February 22, 2019 12:38 PM (seven hours ago)

I don't know why I'm crying

Fred Foster, of Monument Records

i am so sad about Brody Stevens. He was like no-one else. i think he was a repeat guest on like every comedy podcast i’ve ever loved. he was fkn funny & weird & just goddamn great. my twitter feed is so full of brody love tonight, it’s really moving. ;_;

Stanley Donen.

Funny Face is such a classic.

Oh fuck. Big love to Elaine May.

Stanley Donen

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:24 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The curse of the 'the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive' thread strikes again. And so rapidly in this case.

RIP Stanley.

Wow.

More of local note but it's a big one -- San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. Since I only relatively recently moved here others should say more but my sense is that he and his team really have held their own in holding the feet of the police to the fire in terms of real and potential abuses, and did so over the course of most of two decades; as such, a role model for the nation, if lucky enough to take advantage of being an elected rather than an appointed official. He was only just recently reelected -- unopposed at that -- and so that's another long term with his direct action now robbed, though hopefully his successors will carry on the legacy.

https://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Public-Defender-Jeff-Adachi-dies-13638785.php

Also of note -- he was a filmmaker as well, and directed two documentaries on Asian Americans and acting -- The Slanted Screen and You Don't Know Jack (re Jack Soo) -- as well as codirecting a more recent film on criminal justice, Defender.

A deep appreciation:

https://missionlocal.org/2019/02/a-valediction-for-jeff-adachi-who-defended-the-public/

Coverage of the San Francisco Police Department’s “Textgate” scandal — a cadre of officers nabbed exchanging horrifically racist messages — often overlook that these messages were only unearthed because of successful federal corruption probe of the police department. And that probe only came to pass because Adachi posted videos onto YouTube of cops barging into residential hotels sans warrants or consent like some manner of Stasi.

I'm hearing reports of the death of jazz writer Ira Gitler. https://t.co/iwlNqSqbjx Ira has been a great inspiration to me (and many others)—I've been turning to these works for ages, and they still are my go-to guides. A terrible loss for the jazz community. pic.twitter.com/qPFxBuRzyj

— Ted Gioia (@tedgioia) February 24, 2019

Very sorry to hear the news that #MarkHollis of #TalkTalk has died. He was behind some of the finest albums of the 1980s / early 1990s. R.I.P. pic.twitter.com/IoTuAkGCUf

— THE THE (@thethe) February 25, 2019

Oh, no. RIP.

Fuck. This is heart breaking. 😭

Beverly Owen, best known for playing "normal" daughter Marilyn Munster on "The Munsters," age 81. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/munsters-star-beverley-owen-dies-81-172137504.html

she was the Munsters' niece; never really made clear why her parents were related to ghouls

aw RIP

and Morbs makes a good point, I always wondered about that backstory. did her parents die maybe?

Andy Anderson, drummer for The Cure

https://pitchfork.com/news/the-cure-drummer-andy-anderson-dead-at-68/

Gaffer Tape inventor Ross Lowell at 92. I suppose responsible for many gigs going to plan.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ross-lowell-dead-oscar-recipient-inventor-gaffer-tape-was-92-1190871

Also received a Technical Achievement Oscar in 1979 for "the development of compact lighting equipment for motion picture technology"and photographed various documentaries for directors John Boorman and Robert Aldrich.

Oops double post - apologies it's early

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/obituaries/dorothy-masuka-dead.html
RIP to one of the greats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytZayivmedU

andre previn

Argh, RIP. Highly recommend his memoir, No Minor Chords.

yep, and easily predicted that he would write and relate so well

Here is a relevant link: Major vs. Minor

mike willesee

actress katherine helmond of 'soap', 'who's the boss', time bandits,brazil and more, 89

noooooooooo ;_;

she was so wonderful in Soap

Aww. She was always great, even in something as mediocre as Who’s the Boss?

Keith Flint of The Prodigy, 49 (!)

wtf

Just saw this. Wtf was my exact reaction as well.

RIP

Fuck, really?

Found him at home, apparently.

Holy shit.

Police said they were "called to concerns for the welfare of a man" just after 08:00 GMT. "Sadly, a 49-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.

"The death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner."

Wow, shocker.

Ted Lindsay, Gordie Howe's linemate:

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2019/03/04/ted-lindsay-dies-detroit-red-wings/579477002/

Yeah keith flint. A definite shock. :-(

the prodigy instagram account says "our brother Keith took his own life over the weekend"

:(

This is so incredibly sad.

luke perry, 52

oof...that is insane to me

He had a massive stroke three days ago, so I'm less shocked by that one.

yeah the stroke ok but...wow

damn

It's still pretty terrible, don't get me wrong.

https://frinkiac.com/video/S04E22/0Pka44ZkOT1y7PjeAx-QPmhqEYM=.gif

Oof, RIP X 2. Please take care of yourselves today, people who came to fame in the '90s.

farewell, Byron-quoting rebel without a pause Dylan McKay.

Jfc this one def hurts. I was so happy to see him in Riverdale. Teen me is crying.

so sad ;_;

He was the best parent on Riverdale (the bar is v low given everyone is a murderer but still, love u Fred)

ah jeez, that’s rough

sara romweber, north carolina drummer with let's active, snatches of pink and her brother dexter

wrestler king kong bundy, 61

Magenta Devine, presenter, 61.

oh no!

Yeah, that's a thing. Network 7 well ahead of its time. RIP

I doubt anyone here cares, but…

Antoine Emaz, French poet, 64.
Jean Starobinski, Swiss literary critic, 98.

RIP

RIP Magenta :(

Eusebio Pedroza, featherweight world champ for 7 years

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/26113169/hofer-pedroza-dies-pancreatic-cancer-62

Magenta was the first person whose style I knowingly tried to copy. 1980s Madchen couldn’t have chosen a cooler style icon imo.

I doubt anyone here cares, but…

I would like to very sincerely entreat you not to let this stop you (or anyone else). I don't know any of those two, but a) it is good to be prodded to research a bit outside the anglosphere, and b) the next time it could be some other relative non-celeb I actually really care about. In other words, thanks.

Happy to hear it. Both of those two are very much worth exploring btw, although I have no idea whether their works have been translated into English at all.

So sad to hear about Magenta. Madchen otm, she was cool af!

Antoine Emaz

Oh, I've read some of his stuff! RIP

Co-inventor of the handheld calculator:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/calculator-inventor-obit-1.5044286?fbclid=IwAR1NdOBRd4GuF8-vAr4ZLOVd8DXpTjNfAdz7FAGABKaFo4xvSd_xyTf_Z-4

Getting my first calculator in the mid-'70s--I think it was a desk model, not handheld--was thrilling. (And indispensable in tandem with my MacMillan baseball encyclopedia.) I think it would have cost in the neighborhood of $50-75, which would be how much in 2019 dollars? You'd buy the same calculator today at a dollar store.

Juan Corona, California serial killer, at 85.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-juan-corona-serial-killer-dead-20190304-story.html

A study in extremes today

horrific. not too far from Sacramento, either.

Carolee Schneemann

http://www.artnews.com/2019/03/06/carolee-schneemann-died-feminist-art/

billionaire diamond trader ehud arye laniado, 65 - dead from complications during penis enlargement surgery

rip not-so-big man

Carolee Schneemann

:(

RIP

The experienced diamond expert's heart attack happened when a substance was injected into his penis, Belgian media reported.

It never hurts to be reminded that specificity is the watchword when it comes to penis injections. 'A substance' could be 18 fluid ounces of tartar sauce for all you know.

tbf, injecting 18 fluid ounces of tartar sauce into your dick would definitely make it bigger, so mission accomplished imo

the thought of getting that surgery at age SIXTY-FIVE is a good reminder than other people are a total mystery

Eat the rich(‘s dicks with tartar sauce)

xp or that penis enlargement surgery is prohibitively expensive, as a diamond billionaire couldn't amass enough of a fortune to get it until he was 65

live slow, die old, leave a big-dicked corpse

Yeah, this is a move that only really makes sense to me as like a prelude to John Quiñones approaching people outside of a funeral home and asking them why they glared so long at the comically-engorged genitalia of their deceased loved one.

Inject with tartare sauce and upsize your codpiece.

Professor Mike Oliver, academic and disability activist. His recent angry rebuke towards "parasitic" disabled charities who have been mostly pusillanimous government lapdogs during austerity was so otm.

https://www.tmz.com/2019/03/08/airwolf-star-jan-michael-vincent-dead/

i literally am only aware of this guy's existence because of a Rick and Morty bit, but RIP nonetheless.

Now I can stop confusing him with Jon-Erik Hexum.

RIP. One of my earliest cinema memories was The Mechanic with him and Charles Bronson, pretty bleak stuff for an 8-year-old.

Jan-Michael Vincent -- the '80s heartthrob best known for his role on TV's "Airwolf" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.

Jan-Michael actually died back on February 10 after suffering cardiac arrest while a patient at a North Carolina hospital ... according to the death certificate. We're told no autopsy was performed and he was later cremated.

weird to be a guy who was an up-and-comer in film, and later a fairly massive TV star for a bit, then die and the news breaks a whole month later.

And I will stop confusing him with Jan Hammer.

_The experienced diamond expert's heart attack happened when a substance was injected into his penis, Belgian media reported. _

sentences you never wanted to read

JMV was much sleeker in build and had a longer career (and life) than JEH.

It appears I only saw him in Big Wednesday, Bite the Bullet and V Gallo's Buffalo 66. Three of the least drive-inny entries in his filmography.

Nobody over 50 associates Vincent with fucking "Airwolf."

His life post-Airwolf seemed pretty fucking grim.

I still associate him with Tribes, a made-for-TV movie from the early 70s. Also the movie Buster and Billie, which was the first male frontal nudity (non-sexual) I saw in a theater (rated PG-13 too!).

Before The Mechanic, I remember him from the Danger Island segments on the Banana Splits tv show (directed by Richard Donner).

he starred in White Line Fever and had a key role in the Burt Reynolds flick Hooper as well.

He was looking bad in recent years, really emaciated and with a prosthetic leg; he had most of his right leg amputated a few years ago after an infection.

I mostly know him from Damnation Alley, Hooper & Airwolf...he was super handsome in the 70’s. Hewas pretty dreamy but also really fucked up history with booze & drugs, like Mickey Rourke-bad assaulting wife & a couple of girkfruends, drunk driving accidents, the whole nine.

Huh there’s a film of Damnation Alley, didn’t realise, I used to love the book as a kid but It looks like the movie is significantly different

Hooper is a very fun movie iirc

he was frequently kind and then suddenly cruel
he could do as he pleases, he's nobody's fool
but he can't be convicted, he's earned his degree
and the most he will do is fire missiles at you
cause he'll always be airwolf to me

^^^^Bravo!

LOL!

omg LOL

Sid Sheinberg, MCA/Universal exec who signed some kid named Spielberg to do some TV

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sid-sheinberg-dead-universal-longtime-831936

Also Terry Gilliam's Public Enemy #1 - http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/06/i-feel-every-cut.html

moooookiieee

hall of fame mp, truly

Michael Gielen, 91 – one of the greatest conductors of modernist classical music. RIP.

Johnny Thompson a.k.a. Tomsoni, magician, recently known as the behind the scenes guy on Fool Us.

sportswriter/novelist Dan Jenkins

Babe Ruth's adopted daughter Julia, 102

Dan Jenkins: his Semi-Tough is the more famous and highly regarded book, I think, but North Dallas Forty is the better movie.

Agree, but never read the books

I read Jenkins in the '70s when he was still on staff at Sports Illustrated

This is super sad...

Kelly Catlin, US track cyclist
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/10/kelly-catlin-cycling-team-pursuit-world-champions-dies-age-23

Wow

Just so sad.

oh no. that is so sad....

Freeda Foreman, former boxer and daughter of George, 42.

http://m.tmz.com/#!2019/03/09/george-foreman-daughter-freeda-dies-dead-boxer-age-42/

And, if you want happier news, serial killer, rapist and child molester Angus Sinclair.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-40721755

was reading about how other (no doubt extremely nice) lags were having a sweepstake on how long till he croaked after his last stroke.

Bit like ilx

except without the [redacted] since [redacted] stopped posting.

The mighty Hal Blaine

https://www.facebook.com/HalBlaine/posts/2372154496162525

Ouch. RIP Hal.

RIP. Quarter note triplets won’t be the same without you.

the most prolific drummer? RIP

aw man, hal was the best

In 2012 we were lucky to see Hal play with Nancy and a quorum of Wrecking Crew at a small memorial show for Billy Strange. Indescribable transcendence hearing “Be My Baby,” “These Boots…,” “Bang Bang” directly into your ears - maybe like seeing Mickey Mantle or the Grand Canyon.

omg that must have been incredible

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/03/14/us/gambino-crime-family-member-killed

Francesco Cali.

Seems weird to still have mob bosses being shot in the street in 2019.

franky boy... won't see him no more

I feel like it's in bad taste right now to post this on Facebook but I'm pretty emotional right now I guess

A really amazing Toronto musician just died last night, Justin Haynes. He worked with everyone, he was always helping people out. He made a record with my friend Chris once when Chris was going through the worst, worst time, hospitalized for mental illness stuff.

https://haynesplayparkinson.bandcamp.com/track/falling-in-love

Here's an amazing track of his, he's terrific through-and-through though

And he was homeless recently for a while and wrote extensively about it on his blog, which was reduced and revised for the local weekly Now, truly a heartbreaking read

https://www.justinhaynesmusic.com/postcards

I'm really broken up right now :(

sorry for your loss fgti <3

Sorry to hear that, fgti. RIP.

condolences, fgti

Birch Bayh, Indiana senator

https://www.apnews.com/62fde227741d471487407ff37414d7b3

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2019/0314/1036458-irish-actor-pat-laffan-has-died/

RIP Pat Mustard Laffan

Fgti, hugs. Sending you lots of warmth.

RIP mistur bourgis

Justin's music is really nice. Thanks for sharing it.

Seems weird to still have mob bosses being shot in the street in 2019.

otoh, Staten island

first top ranking NYC mob boss taken down since Gotti made his ‘85 move iirc?

Tom Robinson Band guitarist Danny Kustow

https://www.loudersound.com/news/tom-robinson-band-guitarist-danny-kustow-has-died?fbclid=IwAR2tfnZ1oe492Kfth0CX9YH6gW-Z6yufwF-Sr6UzZaGjh2BYJItAYEgTPfo

I'm sorry for your loss fgti, that's rough <3

fgti i’m so sorry <3

Thanks for the kind words. I really encourage people to listen to his music he was completely amazing.

https://justinhaynes.bandcamp.com/album/magnus-hitch

Jake Phelps, editor-in-chief of Thrasher, 56.
Apparently he "died suddenly and easy", which I guess is something.

https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Jake-Phelps-editor-Thrasher-mag-dead-skateboarding-13690148.php

"Suddenly and easy" is a really strange phrase I've never heard before. "Suddenly," yes. "Peacefully," sure. "Easy?"

Yeah, it's weird. But not such a terrible way to go?

have only ever heard murders in shit crime dramas use that word re death

oops *murderers*

louis tomlinson’s sister felicite, 18

What??? Oh no. Only lost his mom not too long ago

I don’t know to what extent people outside the skateboarding world know Jake Phelps, but it’s impossible to understate his importance to skateboarding. He brought a larger than life influence to a huge culture, and was instrumental to its development since its adolescence. A week ago I bought a back issue of the first issue of Thrasher I ever had, and it was poignant to reflect on the significance that magazine had at a formative time. All that’s to say I’m shocked and saddened by that news and feel compelled to write this out to feel more grounded. R.I.P.

ah fuck i hadn’t heard about Jake.. RIP

W.S.Merwin

:(

Fuck drunk drivers. A friend just got killed in an accident. 26. Fuck. Life had just started for this sweet sweet girl.

Sorry shldnt have posred here.

I'm so sorry, nathom

Thanks. Fuck drunk drivers.

Michael Wycoff, whose best known track was "Looking Up To You".

Also Frankie Smith, of "Double Dutch Bus" fame.

Sad to hear about Frankie, RIP.

Hadn’t heard of Michael Wycoff, but in things you were shockingly old when you learned: Zhané’s “Hey Mr DJ” is based in large part on “Looking Up To You”, so RIP Michael as well.

Barbara Hammer, art filmmaker, 79.

Richard Erdman, actor in Stalag 17 and Leonard in Community.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/richard-erdman-dead-community-stalag-917730

Dick Dale, King of the Surf Guitar.

Bernie Torme, Ozzy Osbourne and Ian Gillan Guitarist, Dead at 66

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bernie-torme-ozzy-osbourne-ian-gillan-obituary-795089/?fbclid=IwAR3jIfox1ZWtPbetlGy1TvTvKRbwljcKWETZSsCakPoRn5Rjlk3We8-Ndco

Andre Williams, R&B/soul legend, 82

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-rafi-eitan-ex-mossad-agent-who-led-eichmann-s-capture-dies-at-92-1.7045841

Rafi Eitan, top Mossad agent who led the operation to capture Eichmann, fought against the British in the Mandatory Palestine, led mossad operations in Paris in the 70's, handled US spy Jonathan Pollard. Fair to say he saw a bit of action did this fellow!

Cult filmmaker Larry Cohen (God Told Me To, It's Alive, Q) at 77.

We're talking about him over here: On Larry Cohen

Scott Walker. Damn.

Oh, fuck.

Father of Sandy Hook victim Avielle Richman found dead outside of Newtown Town Hall after apparent suicide https://t.co/JD57vIihNA

— Hartford Courant (@hartfordcourant) March 25, 2019

jesus, that's tragic.