Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

Repository for deaths that don't have their own thread.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55508606

Reposted from 2020 thread

That'll be Mark Eden, fact fans..

Joan Micklin Silver, though I guess this really belongs in the 2020 thread
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/01/joan-micklin-silver-filmmaker-obituary-1234607326/

I've never seen Hester Street, but I like Between the Lines, Chilly Scenes of Winter--or at least I did, when I last saw it ~35 years ago--and Crossing Delancey.

RIP! One of the few female filmmakers of her generation who was able to work regularly and has a decent sized body of work.

I really enjoyed Between The Lines and Crossing Delancey when I saw them last year

These things come and go, but you can get Between the Lines on YouTube right now. When I saw it a few years ago, I quoted a line that kills me on the Jeff Goldblum thread. He's holding court for some would-be rock critics--he teaches a seminar or something--who are conspicuously all female and furiously taking notes:

"They say that rock is here to stay, you've heard them say that rock is here to stay...They never say where. Certainly not at my house--I don't have the room."

See the Bob Pollard thread to find out where rock wound up staying.

Sad news about Steve Brown, producer of Wham!, The Cult, ABC and Manic Street Preachers among many others. Young Guns (Go For It), She Sells Sanctuary, Tears Are Not Enough (original) and Motorcycle Emptiness: that's a hell of a CV in just four songs. https://t.co/GnLTc6mBDa

— Simon Price (@simon_price01) January 2, 2021

Paul Westphal:

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/hall-fame-basketball-player-paul-westphal-dies-70/

Gerry Marsden of Gerry & The Pacemakers

Life doesn't go on day after day

RIP. Now have “Ferry Cross the Mersey” and “The Silent Boatman” on mash-up rotation in my head.

Former is an all-time mood

Have a great Goodison derby programme (somewhere) from April '78 with a celebrity fan feature: Marsden representing the Reds, and Leonard Rossiter the Blues. I don't remember anything about the Gerry P interview but Leonard R was insightful on Tommy Lawton and wasteful corner techniques. Rigsby 0-1 Pacemaker (David Johnson) on that evening, mind.

rip Gerry, such a beautiful singer

https://tvline.com/2021/01/03/tanya-roberts-dies-that-70s-show-charlies-angels-actress-dead/

Tanya Roberts, who co-starred on That ’70s Show and Charlie’s Angels, passed away Sunday. She was 65.

Roberts reportedly collapsed at home following a walk with her dogs on Christmas Eve, a rep for Roberts told TMZ. She was hospitalized and put on a ventilator, but never recovered. The official cause of death is currently unknown.

rip midge

Chase no face, the faceless cat, died yesterday.

Barbara Shelley, actress with over 100 roles in TV and film on both sides of the Atlantic. Many Hammer roles including the female lead in the big screen Quatermass and the Pit.

httpss://twitter.com/jamescswanton/status/1346030441577459712?s=19

Barbara Shelley has died. She matched Christopher Lee's Dracula and Rasputin for blazing bravura. She became the cat girl and the Gorgon; fought the mad medicos of Wolfit and Cushing; inhabited a village of the damned and channelled the Martians. Our greatest horror actress. pic.twitter.com/EcPKX77W3J

— James Swanton (@jamescswanton) January 4, 2021

RIP Barbara Shelley. Very few classic Hammer film actors still around now.

Alexi Laiho, guitarist for Finnish metal band Children of Bodom. He was 41.

RIP Barbara, another one from last year's 'the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive' thread.

Chicago-based musician (probably best known as drummer for Running) Alejandro Morales.

Alexi Laiho

man. Alexi Laiho, guitarist and frontman for Children of Bodom has passed away. Alexi was an incredible musician, one of the best guitar players of all time, a pioneer in melodic death metal innovating with an inescapable sound. truly a metal legend. RIP, Bodom will live forever pic.twitter.com/1FuzHhfZMF

— Rod Breslau (@Slasher) January 4, 2021

OK let's row it back on the Tanya Roberts news

https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/04/tanya-roberts-still-alive-rep-saying-shes-dead-70s-show-bond-girl/

That story is mindboggling.

looks like people are disputing the legitimacy of the certification of the outcome of her life

Next up: Tiffany Dover

questions for the husband, who seems to have told literally everyone they knew that she was dead

and i guess the doctors too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cMsXBJ0Y98

Conservationist George Whitmore, on 1st team to climb Yosemite’s El Capitan, dies of COVID-19 at 89.

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article248238880.html

um

https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/05/tanya-roberts-dead-dies-65-bond-girl-70s-show-premature-announcement/

Undead Pool 2021

Fair ridiculous age to be climbing mountains to be honest xxp

I'm sad Tanya Roberts has actually died now. She would have been an amazing interview subject.

Colin Bell aka ‘Nijinsky’.

It is with the deepest sadness and heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of Manchester City legend Colin Bell.

🔷 #ManCity | https://t.co/axa0klD5re

— Manchester City (@ManCity) January 5, 2021

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55559343

Albert Roux, the more unassuming of the Roux brothers (and the one that didn't have an absolute bellend for a son).

I think he actually did? In that Michel Roux Jr. is his son, not his brother Michel's.

Oh well there you go.

Pierre Chappuis, Swiss poet and critic, 90. RIP.

remember when Man City had an online vote for whom to name a stand after and everyone voted for Colin Bell so it could be hilariously called "The Bell End".

tbf he actually was one of their best ever players - pre-Sheikh Mansour. Him and Shaun Goater.

I've no doubt Man City fans consider him a ledge. But fans of other clubs thought it was a bit of a wheeze at the time, but it was a fail because as far as I know nobody calls it the bell end!

Novelist Eric Jerome Dickey.

(xp) Sadly, the Dickov Stand never happened.

Alan Igbon (Loggo in Boys From The Black Stuff), aged 68. Apparently in early December.

also in GBH: "shall I twat him, boss?"

RIP, he had only had 20 years on me.

Like Yosser, a Mancunian who didn't *quite* nail the accent, but forgiven because they were all so good.

Free jazz pianist Bobby Few, who played with Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, David Murray, Frank Wright, Steve Lacy and many others. He also recorded as a leader. He was 85.

RIP Bobby F.

Very sad. His playing on those '70s Center Of The World records (and in the Alan Silva Orchestra in the '00s) is brilliant.

Never heard the '00s stuff but yeah, his work with Center of the World (and with Noah Howard) was amazing. He really carved out his own space, somewhere close to Don Pullen and Dave Burrell but still 100% his own.

https://deadline.com/2021/01/marion-ramsey-dead-obituary-police-academy-actress-was-73-1234666700/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Marion Ramsey, best known as Officer Hooks from the Police Academy films.

Helen Jackson, last known surviving Civil War widow, 101. Itself a weird tale:

Jackson volunteered as a caregiver to Civil War veteran James Bolin when she was a young woman and he, a neighbor, was in his final years. He appreciated her help, but he couldn’t afford to pay her – so he offered to marry her so she would inherit his Civil War pension when he died. The two were wed in 1936, when she was 17 and he was 93. Jackson told few people of the marriage, not wanting to invite salacious gossip about the arrangement. She kept her name and continued living at her own home even after the marriage, though she still helped care for Bolin until his death in 1939.

This relationship possibly an inspiration for Gene Simmons' lyric to Goin' Blind by Kiss.

Wow

I remember reading about her last year because there used to be two surviving Civil War widows receiving government benefits, and one of em died.

Or, I guess, the other one died, and now they're both dead.

If I'm remembering correctly, one of them was neuroatypical

Rather be an old man’s sweetheart than to be a young man’s fool.

IIRC the last recipient of a civil war pension did die last year - Helen Jackson never claimed it in the end.

The woman who died last year was the daughter, not the widow, of a US Civil War veteran, who was able to claim a survivor's pension due to being institutionalized. This scenario apparently did not inspire any Kiss lyrics.

Love Gun, iirc.

baseball's tommy lasorda, 93

https://y.yarn.co/d7fad4f6-c485-468d-8383-f363172d1601_screenshot.jpg

Comic artist Steve Lightle, 61

https://www.cbr.com/steve-lightle-legion-of-super-heroes-artist-obituary/

Michael Apted, creator of the 7 Up series.

:(

damn

Apted didnt create the Apted series. He started directing them with the second installment

Yes! However it was with 7 Plus Seven and 21 Up that it turned into the grand project it became. I still think 21 Up is the best one by far.

I've loved them all, including the most recent one. I hope someone takes over for it.

RIP. I hope there's someone else on the Seven Up team that has built up relationships with the participants as if not I can't really see it continuing.

Bummed that Apted didn’t get the chance to call The World Is Not Enough 007 Up

Katharine Whitehorn, first woman Observer columnist, 93.

... people you thought were...

RIP. She had a column, albeit one showing her well past her powers, until very recently.

Just heard about Michael Apted. 28 Up was my entry point--hugely important to me at the time (still haven't caught up with 49 and beyond, I don't think--the latest got cancelled here just after the pandemic hit). Like Coal Miner's Daughter and Class Action a lot, too.

Just saw that. RIP.

world is not enough is a gravely underrated bond film btw [/vmic]

Its no QoS tbh

i'm sympathetic to that viewpoint they're both underrated

I was kind of lost when I saw 28 Up--I was 25 or thereabouts--and Neil's situation (at a low point in that film; he bounced back in the next couple) was sobering.

Nothing compares to a Question of Sport imo.

seven time classic tetris world champion jonas neubauer, at only 38 :(

https://www.newsweek.com/tetris-legend-jonas-neubauer-dies-38-medical-emergency-fans-legacy-1560232

Th "Up" series is humbling and brilliant, and the last instalment was very powerful - mortality becoming a recurrent theme, as the subjects aged. The relationship between Apted and his "cast" grew more moving with time, as well. They probably should end the series now, but I'll be sorry if they do.

RIP William "Jesus" Jellett, aka Jesus the nude hippie festival dancer, age 72. Anyone who went to rock gigs in London (or festivals anywhere in the UK) in the 70s/80s knew who this guy was.

https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/rip-jesus.373317/#post-16907781

Earlier article with some background on him: https://medium.com/@JPRobinson/the-mystery-of-jesus-the-naked-hippie-dancer-9822c0da8765

seven time classic tetris world champion jonas neubauer, at only 38 :(

https://www.newsweek.com/tetris-legend-jonas-neubauer-dies-38-medical-emergency-fans-legacy-1560232

― exist in theory (esby), Saturday, January 9, 2021 11:17 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This is incredibly sad- this guy and his wife Heather found themselves become "variety streamers" on Twitch after branching out into other games beyond Tetris and their hundred-something viewer streams were very cozy little hang outs full of positivity. The two of them were clearly very much best friends beyond being husband and wife so I feel so devastated for her. They were on day 2 of a big move to Hawaii and were simply reading on the couch, then he got up to get something and collapsed and never regained consciousness. Heartbreaking.

Mark Keds from Senseless Things:

https://louderthanwar.com/mark-keds-senseless-things-deadcuts-rip/

xp. yikes, horrible.

Sad news about Mark. Still have my Pop Kid t-shirt. RIP

Had mine for years -- long-sleeved!

That's sad about Mark Keds, he couldn't have been particularly old. saw the senseless things a couple of times in the late 80s, still love 'too much kissing'

He was 50.

https://metalinjection.net/this-is-just-a-tribute/megaforce-records-marsha-zazula-has-passed-away?fbclid=IwAR09pL352CjU7Xp6qkvyH_OexezKujInywzXW_8eNZY1Lf81y7FcgEQm5-s

Marsha Zazula of Megaforce Records.

Gutted about Mark Keds.

First time I saw the Senseless Things was when they supported the newly reunioned Buzzcocks. Tough spot, but they were both great.

No thread on ILM though...

Xxp damn. Any idea what happened?

Keds? Sounds like Covid related

Well that's shit :(

Multi-instrumentalist - composer Howard Johnson. He made his recording debut with Bill Dixon, enjoyed a long association with the Band and Levon Helm, and also collaborated with Charles Mingus, Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, and many, many others.

I was just listening to him on a Gato Barbieri record.

RIP Howard.

Haha I really REALLY do believe this.

He’s angry about impeachment, people who have spoken to him say. But the reaction to the PGA decision was different order of magnitude.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 11, 2021

Ultimately with impeachment he's all 'yeah yeah I'm about out, fuck it,' but the PGA was part of the next steps of scamming and now he's fucked there.

Is Trump dead now?

if Ned posted it, it's true

#onethread

let's get together and feel alright

Multi-instrumentalist - composer Howard Johnson. He made his recording debut with Bill Dixon, enjoyed a long association with the Band and Levon Helm, and also collaborated with Charles Mingus, Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, and many, many others.

Multi-instrumentalist - composer Howard Johnson. He made his recording debut with Bill Dixon, enjoyed a long association with the Band and Levon Helm, and also collaborated with Charles Mingus, Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, and many, many others.

That must have been some PGA decision.

No, Mr Trump, I expect you to die

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

I feel bad not having a clue who Howard Johnson is despite him playing loads of classics like Liberation Music Orch and Mama Too Tight. RIP

Eve Branson, Richard’s mother - COVID.

Celia Humphris of UK folk-rock band Trees, also the voice artist for London Underground station announcements in a later, startling career move.

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/celia-humphris-trees-rip.1046874/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF2GHHCLFTM

oh ffs

RIP

I feel bad not having a clue who Howard Johnson is despite him playing loads of classics like Liberation Music Orch and Mama Too Tight. RIP

I have a ton of records Howard Johnson plays on (Mingus, Dixon, Hill, Rivers etc.) but honestly when I heard the news I immediately jumped to see if he was the tuba player who'd worked with Arthur Blythe on so many records. He was not; that was Bob Stewart, who's still alive.

Did you ever see him live?

Don't think so.

Here's a link to a post where an interview with him is linked: The dog trots freely thru the Rolling Jazz Canto Thread 2016

He had such a great attitude from everything I read.

Sheldon adelson

Oh boy.

his only regret is that he didn’t make the world even worse

it sez he was a casino magnet, cheating fucker!

The world is a better place today.

Cellist David Darling. His recordings on ECM are all time beauties.
https://www.daviddarling.com/

Gay porn auteur Jerry Douglas: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2021/01/jerry-douglas/

Lol calzino

David Barclay, one half of the Barclay brothers

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/01/12/sir-david-barclay-telegraph-owner-twin-frederick-built-vast/

Bit of a checkout day for rich right-wing arseholes!

Was going to say. Awful tribute here

Farewell with respect and admiration to Sir David Barclay who rescued a great newspaper, created many thousands of jobs across the UK and who believed passionately in the independence of this country and what it could achieve.

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) January 13, 2021

As I saw someone write on Twitter this morning, Barclay didn't believe in the UK enough to actually pay tax here

Hopefully these things come in threes, there are plenty of candidates.

Jessica Campbell, Tuba Girl from Freaks & Geeks and attempted spoiler candidate Tammy from Election.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/jessica-campbell-election-star-dies-at-38?

Wow...She's great in both (her F&G character was so ahead of its time).

RIP, two iconic roles

Awwwwww that sucks. I had a huge crush on her in my youth. RIP

That's awful, she was brilliant in Election, and so young!

oh fuck! RIP.

three-time olympic rowing gold medalist (for canada) kathleen heddle, 55

C. Grissom dug this up--love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Hnm8Z_E8k

Thud Rock Bassist Extraordinare Tim Bogert

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tim-bogert-dead/

He was definitely on my “thought he died years ago” list. I like Cactus while simultaneously wishing they were half as good as they could have been.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErsiYJwXYAADZJs?format=jpg&name=small

Harold Bornstein
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=harold-bornstein&pid=197497206

Nonsense. His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary. If exhumed, Mr. Bornstein, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever resurrected.

When he's out of office Trump has two choices: never go to the doctor again, or find some other yes-man hack that is not legally (if secretly) obligated to make sure he stays alive because he's the President. He's going to go straight from getting medicine snuck into his breakfast cereal to getting prescribed huge doses of opioids from some pill mill.

is this like where the head vampire dies so all of the other vampires also die

Margo St James: feminist, sex worker activist - and private investigator.

Bad day for showmen:

Siegfried Fischbacher, half of large-animal magic team Siegfried & Roy, dies at 81
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/siegfried-fischbacher-dies/2021/01/14/24d513f4-54e9-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html

Gerry Cottle, circus showman and Wookey Hole Caves owner, dies of Covid aged 75
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/jan/14/gerry-cottle-circus-showman-and-wookey-hole-caves-owner-dies-of-covid-aged-75

I do know who Margo St. James was after following the link, but when I saw Margo and sex in the same sentence, I thought at first it was Wade Boggs' paramour.

"large-animal magic team" was this written by a robot?

carnivorous feline conjuring partnership

biting-beast trick friends

lion manager

From a WGN article about Chicago's vaccine plans:

The city says the biggest problem its facing is not receiving enough vaccines.

“When I think about 600,000 people to vaccinate in that next phase, getting 36, 32, 35,000 doses a week isn’t going to be enough to move ahead quickly,” Dr. Allison Arwardy said.

This doesn't make me feel great. The "next phase" they are referring to is the 65+ older/essential workers phase (1B). So assuming 35,000 doses per week, it's going to take more than 17 weeks to get through that phase (assuming we ignore the second dose, for the moment). Considering this phase hasn't even started yet, we are looking at June before we even start to get to Phase 1C, which is other essential workers and high-risk folks under 65. We're in for a long, long, long ride.

Shit, sorry, wrong thread! Mods feel free to delete.

#onethread

lol, I mean I guess it's not a far stretch from the outbreak thread to the obituary thread.

Pittsburgh's Action News 4 has confirmed that Joanne Rogers, wife of Mr. Rogers and a behemoth in her own right, has passed away at age 92.

It's a sad day in this neighborhood.

May she rest in peace.#WTAE pic.twitter.com/DFczBq0wvZ

— David Kaplan (@DKaplanWTAE) January 14, 2021

Seeing reports on FB that Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls passed yesterday.

oh shit really?

link?

I think links are coming. Discussion I saw was in a private group taken from another private group containing people who would know.

...and that stuff was only about an hour ago.

does leave Johansen as the last new york doll standing now?

DaJo is it. Sylvain actually wrote a bit of his early solo stuff.

Syl Sylvain, 1951-2021. The heart of the New York Dolls, responsible for the best of David Jo's solo material, and his own records were unfailingly soulful. Truth and Soul-that was the name of Syl’s fashion line and an apt description of his music too. Sleep well, baby doll. pic.twitter.com/7pWQ8jyFge

— Bob Mehr (@BobMehr) January 15, 2021

RIP

fuck. RiP Sylv

Prolific TV actor Peter Mark Richman (formerly Mark Richman)

John Reilly of US daytime TV fame.

TMZ reporting Phil Spector has died from Covid-19.

what a shame

Expect many awkward obituaries to come.

Exactly what I was thinking too...musically, huge.

Gosh. Up til death, possibly the most important, most influential horrible living musician?

da do done done

One of the funniest moments I've ever seen in a music doc--it's on YouTube, but in some altered mashup form--is when Spector talks about John Lennon calling him up in the early '70s about some film he just saw that used "Be My Baby," and that that was Spector's first encounter with "Skeezy."

RIP. In recent months keep thinking about that speech he gave inducting Doc Pomus into the RnRHoF.

He was a very important yet "problematic" figure, but unlike e.g. Michael Jackson, 99.9% of the audience didn't feel any personal connection to him. I mean I would assume that whatever Spector "fans" still exist in 2021 have held him at arm's length since even before the murder. That will make obituaries less awkward, the "twisted, increasingly isolated genius" is a familiar enough trope.

Great producer, awful excuse of a human being.

Who got to call Ronnie & tell her the good news

Thanks Dead Phil for reminding me that Starsailor existed for the first time in a decade.

He was an awful human being, but I am going to have Back To Mono on all afternoon today while I do work.

Fuck Phil Spector, but I'll keep the tunes. Which belong at least as much to the singers and songwriters as him anyway.

Larry Levine though

Him too.

There's a funny account in Dr. John's biography of playing on some Spector gigs in the early-mid '60s. He and the rest of the players were contemptuous of the whole thing, just banging on the same chords all at the same time.

I'd say that Jack Nitzsche deserves a great deal of the credit for the Wall of Sound, but he was also a pretty terrible human being.

The proximity of Spector and Sylvain Sylvain resonates.

Jason ‘Rowdy’ Cope, Guitarist for the Steel Woods, Dead at 42

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/jason-rowdy-cope-steel-woods-dead-obituary-1115742/

jazz pianist Junior Mance, RIP.

Ah, man, RIP. Been a long time coming though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-55709000

Andy Gray, Scottish comedy actor maybe best known for City Lights.

Jean-Pierre Bacri (69), actor/writer/director

https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/cinema/mort-de-l-acteur-jean-pierre-bacri-a-69-ans-18-01-2021-8419788.php

RIP

this one hurts

RIP Winfield Parker, 1960s Baltimore soul singer whose song "Mr. Clean" on Ru-jac Records became a Northern soul favorite. A retrospective Ru-jac compilation was issued a few years ago. He later acquired a new audience singing gospel, and also gained new fans for his soul music via gigs at Ponderosa Stomp, Dig Deeper, & MOJO WORKIN' Donostia R&B Weekend in Spain. He got Covid a few weeks ago, and didn't recover.

Hearing on Facebook that the great English improvising guitarist John Russell has just passed. RIP, and fuck cancer.

Saw him play lots of times when he ran that improv night in the Red Rose club, just up the road from where I live. His own stuff was not really my thing but he put on lots of interesting music, even if there were sometimes more people playing than watching and seemed like an affable chap. RIP John.

Baseball's Don Sutton

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30743861/hall-fame-pitcher-don-sutton-dies-75

A tribute to John Russell by Evan Parker:

https://londonjazznews.com/2021/01/20/a-tribute-to-john-russell-1954-2021-by-evan-parker/

Important chapters of a biography would feature the Red Rose Club in Stoke Newington, walking distance from where John lived during that whole era, the pre-Vortex versions of Mopomoso.

Sub-editor sleeping on the job there, the Vortex was in Stoke Newington, the Red Rose Club in Finsbury Park, walking distance for me and John Russell it seems - cheap booze too.

Chances of londonjazznews.com having subeditors are rather slim I would say.

Mira Furlan, best known for Babylon 5:

pic.twitter.com/uVlatjUocZ

— Mira Furlan (@FurlanMira) January 22, 2021

one of my best friends named his daughter after her. he's very upset

i guess her illness wasn't widely known?

First I'd heard of it.

Straczynski's tribute

It is a night of great sadness, for our friend and comrade had gone down the road where we cannot reach her. But as with all things, we will catch up with her in time, and I believe she will have many stories to tell us, and many new roles to share with the universe. pic.twitter.com/HyQlqyC19v

— J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) January 22, 2021

very memorable in Lost too

I never watched Babylon 5, so I couldn't place her, but once I learned she was also on Lost I realized exactly who she was. R.I.P.

aww RIP, she was so good as Ambassador Delenn. about time I gave B5 another rewatch.

Hank Aaron

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

damn, rip hammerin' hank

Nathalie Delon

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210121-glamorous-french-star-nathalie-delon-dies-at-79

Her fling with Bobby Keyes was one of the more surprisingly amusing revelations from Keef's book.

Ah man, stunt driver supreme Rémy Julienne

Stunt driver extraordinaire Rémy Julienne has died at the age of 90 from Covid-19. He worked on six James Bond films. pic.twitter.com/hWZzvkefFw

— James Bond (@jamesbondlive) January 22, 2021

Julienne is all-timer. In addition to the Bond films he worked on dozens of Eurocrime movies, injecting his Buster Keaton meets Evel Knievel style into scene after scene of tiny European moto mayhem. This chase from THE BURGLARS is a personal favorite: https://t.co/MZPvN2zohs https://t.co/s8DRa33Y4T

— Cinema Elevator (@pobrecito) January 22, 2021

Hank Aaron was the Class Day speaker the year I graduated from college

Fantastic (did you get to speak to him?). Happy to say I was watching when he hit #715--the whole story around that (Bowie Kuhn's embarrassing behaviour, the death threats, the kid tearing around the bases with Aaron, the fact it was his first swing of the season) is amazing.

Aaron was still playing when I was 6-7 yrs old and I was in awe of him, he seemed possessed of superpowers. And always seemed like such a gracious man.

otm

hank aaron killed by the covid shot!

Ugh

(I did not get a chance to speak to him. It's always been a regret.)

Gregory Sierra, actor of many TV credits, perhaps best remembered for playing Julio on Sanford and Son and Det. Sgt. Chano Amenguale on Barney Miller.

He died on January 4, though the news just broke today.

hank aaron killed by the covid shot!

this is xzanfar posting, take with grain of salt

RIP, Gregory Sierra.

aw :(

RIP to Pop Surreal Legend, Van Arno

https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/rip-to-pop-surreal-legend-van-arno/

RIP Julio. You were the GOAT. (sorry)

Gregory Sierra, actor of many TV credits, perhaps best remembered for playing Julio on Sanford and Son and Det. Sgt. Chano Amenguale on Barney Miller.

He died on January 4, though the news just broke today.

RIP. I've never seen "Sanford and Son" but "Barney Miller" was a late night treat on Scottish TV.

Barney Miller = best cop show ever.

pic.twitter.com/x0Hl0X6vqU

— Larry King (@kingsthings) January 23, 2021

RIP

The end of this tiktok is maybe the hardest I've ever laughed pic.twitter.com/XhDowMP7lT

— Kristin Chirico (@lolacoaster) December 22, 2020

Don't know anything about the guy but I just noticed on wiki that he was married 7 times - 8 if you included the wife he married twice - and he separated from his last wife in 2019. Larry King that is.

Yeah. He was a workaholic. Didn’t have much time for the domestic stuff.

WaPo headline is funny.

If you were caught up in the O.J. story in '94 and '95, his show was ground zero. I'm sure it would all happen on Twitter now.

yeah, larry was one of the last of his kind

Good thoughts here on that:

What I wrote about Larry King in 2015: His crusty Jewish vaudevillian affect was a throwback to early TV, & it set him apart from everyone else in broadcasting. Also he was just a weird dude, fascinating to look at & listen to. Broadway Danny Rose meets Dada. pic.twitter.com/dbc24514f3

— Jody Rosen (@jodyrosen) January 23, 2021

As you'd expect, lovely tribute from Piers Morgan

Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was ‘like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.’ (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert) But he was a brilliant broadcaster & masterful TV interviewer. pic.twitter.com/1JsXeeZYEk

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 23, 2021

King was a close friend of my husband's lawyer--they both had TV shows in Miami. Never got to meet him, though.

!

larry used to frequent a bookstore i worked in in DC. he was kind of a dick. one time he came up to the info desk and snapped at me ‘i need five copies of my book’ and i deeply regret lacking the presence of mind to reply ‘okay . . . what’s your name’

"Here you are, 'Woodrow Wilson: A Biography'"

RIP Larry King. My impression of him was so gravelly I damaged my vocal cords and eventually needed surgery.

We eventually met and someone told him the story. He teased me about it, of course, but later, pulled me aside and asked, very sincerely, “You’re okay now, though?

— Dana Gould (@danagould) January 23, 2021

lol just remembered Larry King asking Sharon Tate's sister how she could still feel comfortable being in touch with Roman Polanski even after he murdered her sister. RIP to a real one, we'll never see his like again.

— Will Sloan (@WillSloanEsq) January 23, 2021

Heh. One of those links mentioned that Joe Franklin quality he had which I thought was otm.

"Larry, I'm on Ducktales."

Re: Hank Aaron, I read his autobiography when I was in 2nd grade and absolutely obsessed with baseball, and there was a section that published some of the hate mail that he received. It was the first time I'd ever been exposed to such vile, racist shit, and I credit that book with giving me some of my moral compass re: racism as I've aged. RIP.

I used to show a section of Ken Burns' Baseball to my classes on Jackie Robinson's birthday, one that included some of the hate mail he got. I was always a little uncertain if this was a good idea for a primary class (anywhere from grade 4 to grade 7), but I'm glad I did. You can't begin to appreciate Robinson or Aaron unless you're confronted with the full extent of what they went through.

James Purify

https://bestclassicbands.com/james-purify-im-your-puppet-obituary-1-23-21/

on hank aaron and apologies if this has been posted elsewhere, but for a UK poster like me, this peanuts strip is one of those times where you get a potent, exciting sense of US cultural artefacts (something slightly pynchonian about it), that US-ness which feels thrilling/liberating/powerful and (again for a UK poster) exotic/foreign.

Hank Aaron played a role in "Peanuts" during his historic run to the all-time home run record. Snoopy at one point was trying to beat him to it. There's a long series on this, which included this strip from August 9, 1973. pic.twitter.com/cQi0xkURXY

— Luke Epplin (@LukeEpplin) January 22, 2021

It included hate mail of the sort that Aaron had received and had been publicized in the media. pic.twitter.com/Y5tCqfQHAC

— Luke Epplin (@LukeEpplin) January 22, 2021

Was thinking of that Peanuts run last night. An all time strip highlight.

This is a big one if you've ever lived in Toronto: George Armstrong.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/nhl-maple-leafs-george-armstrong-obit-1.5885742

pianist junior mance, 92

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/arts/music/junior-mance-dead.html

Already mentioned on the 18th but thanks for the link.

I think he was poor health for while now, he was a good one and definitely worth another RIP

Yes, he stopped his regular gig at Cafe Loup several years ago because of his Alzheimer's.

That obit is very good, worth the wait.

Mr. Mance also taught in the B.F.A. jazz program at the New School from the late 1980s until 2011, and toured with 100 Gold Fingers, a jazz ensemble consisting of 10 pianists, including Marian McPartland, Hank Jones and Tommy Flanagan

Film Producer Alberto Grimaldi

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/alberto-grimaldi-dead-dies-producer-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1234891108/

Combination of tropical drink and sub-par footwear did him in.

Oh my, tragically wring thread

Ugh

Looking over Grimaldi's credits, I might pick The Canterbury Tales as my favourite, although even Pasolini fans seem to dislike it.

James White, owner & founder of The Broken Spoke Honky Tonk in Austin

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/01/24/austin-music-icon-james-white-broken-spokes-owner-dies-81/6694281002/

Oh no, I've been impressed with Broken Spoke's longevity

Canterbury Tales is great

It's my favourite too, so I figured it was the basic choice...

Joseph Sonnabend. A hell of a life and a story, as this thread shows.

I’m deeply saddened to learn that Dr Joseph Sonnabend, one of the most important figures in the history of AIDS, died yesterday. I spent time with him in 2018 for one of the last interviews he ever gave. Let me tell you about this man and what he did: 1/https://t.co/XSPEfZKzBr

— Patrick Strudwick (@PatrickStrud) January 25, 2021

conceptual artist Barry Le Va

https://www.artforum.com/news/barry-le-va-1941-2021-84936

Larry King's greatest moments.

His drunken monologue about "pro- fessionals"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KRUje1UQJs

Taking a five minute phone in the middle of a live interview with Dave Rubin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdS8b8gfWKI

That was great, thanks, but where were the other three minutes?

"we don't tell you that we're looking for a farmhouse in the middle of the desert"
I feel like Larry King probably killed somebody at one point, lotta secrets in that cranium.

Larry King time is different than Youtube time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd3_k-OF_aU

Cloris Leachman, Emmy and Oscar Winner, Dies at 94 https://t.co/gGiC7mrYLk

— Variety (@Variety) January 27, 2021

Aw. RIP.

Oh no 🙁

Betty White one step closer to getting the Mary Tyler Moore Show tontine.

awwww shit. RIP Cloris. :(

Back in pre-kids 2014, Andrea and I were out on a date eating pizza. I felt a person tug on my hoodie and say “can I have some of that?” and I was like “what the fuck?” then realized it was #ClorisLeachman and was like “Can we recreate that for the internet?”

RIP to a legend🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/GCo5skn1ar

— Another Adam Smith (@AdamOfTheSmiths) January 27, 2021

<3

lol

awesome

ledge

A picture from the last time I saw you. Always beautiful. Nothing I could say would top the enormity of my love for you. Until we meet again darling. #clorisleachmanrip pic.twitter.com/9etOZo13Kb

— Ed Asner (@TheOnlyEdAsner) January 27, 2021

The power and beauty that was Cicely Tyson.

Cicely Tyson, an Emmy and Tony-winning actor known for playing strong Black leads in films like "Sounder," and "Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," dies at 96. https://t.co/8k094gYWRD

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 29, 2021

Just two days ago.

In a new memoir, legendary actress Cicely Tyson is opening up about her impressive career and personal life.@GayleKing caught up with 96-year-old @IAmCicelyTyson to reflect on the defining moments in her life, starting with a reporter’s question that caught her off guard. pic.twitter.com/86xvScQ4ys

— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) January 26, 2021

And that's why you get the biggest advance possible for a book: because you're unlikely to ever see any royalties.

Sorry. RIP Cicely Tyson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dn6Me-IkGA

Cédric Demangeot, French poet, translator and editor, 46. RIP.

@GayleKing caught up with 96-year-old @IAmCicelyTyson to reflect on the defining moments in her life

Seeing her shed her first tear for a sexual assault that happened an entire lifetime ago really got to me.

Amazing woman

longtime temple men's basketball coach john cheney, 88

Jacques Rivette.

Oh no! RIP

He passed away in 2016. I guess today is the 5th anniversary of his death.

I was about to say, isn't he already dead?

I was wondering.

I was trying to think when I last watched Celine and Julie, and it must have been when he actually died.

I started to try to watch Out 1, Noli me tangere on Mubi last night based on reading about it Luc Sante's latest book which I was inspired by JBL to get, but then I chickened out and watched a 90 minute Jacques Becker movie that was about to leave instead.

I saw it at TIFF over a two day span, it has some amazing moments and some scenes that are literally there only to fulfil the pre-decided formalist structure. If you're open to a 13-hour failed experiment, then it's worthwhile.

Out 1: Spectre is a masterpiece, however.

Yeah, not sure how to see that right now.

That's funny, it was the "commercial" version and now it's obscure.

Right

Guitarist Hilton Valentine of The Animals

People who I didn't know were stilll... RIP

Out One: Spectre is available on a blu ray from Arrow that also contains Out 1: Noli me Tangere, it's not obscure at all.

https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/out-1-blu-ray/FCD1886

L'amour Fou is the fugitive Rivette on home video.

"Out Of Stock"

Out One of Stock

Halfway There: I was probably at that same screening--10 years ago? Unless they've played it since then.

According to a John Harkness writeup in NOW Magazine, it was Feb 2007. I saw Spectre about 1994, also at TIFF.

Sax Legend Grady Gaines (Little Richard's Upsetters)

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/article/Houston-blues-and-R-B-great-Grady-Gaines-dies-15909115.php

(xpost) That sounds about right. I still think about the final shot 14 years later!

Noli Me Tangere is far superior to Spectre! I would never recommend watching Spectre first or instead of Noli Me Tangere.

Definitely watch Noli Me Tangere first - a lot of Spectre's interest comes from the rearrangement of the materials.

The Out 1 set is still available on UK Amazon but I didn't want to risk sic's wrath and link to them.

PC Music artist SOPHIE after an accident in Athens. Only 34. Fuck.

Whaaaaat?!

Jesus fuck

https://mixmag.net/amp/musician-sophie-died

Very sad.

ugh, that sucks.

I've heard maybe one song by SOPHIE but I was already planning on mentioning them in my lecture this week for my course before I saw this (course is Gay Life in the 21st Century; this week's topic is pop music). RIP.

I would love to hear that lecture, tbh.

Very sad about SOPHIE, 34 is no age and it feels like she was only just starting to really make the impact she could have.

Clayton Eshleman, one of the most gifted poetry translators of our times, has died. If you've ever read César Vallejo or Aimé Césaire poems in English, there's a good chance he translated them. Never met him, but the Césaire translations have been indispensable to me as a poet and teacher. Some can be found here: https://www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/aime-cesaire-solar-throat-slashed/

Poetry translation is an absolute devil of a job.

Modular synth legend Wowa Cwejman.

Rupert Webster, who played the beautiful blond boy Bobby Phillips in If... Passed away in December but his death wasn't noted on the 2020 thread. He never returned to acting but lived in Boston and playing in several local bands, amassing a serious collection of guitars in the process:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/07/rupert-webster-obituary

Eshleman was a remarkable poet in his own right, working at the intersection between historical anthropology, psychoanalysis and mythology. I always thought of him as a kind of American Bataille/Artaud/Jouve. RIP – he will be greatly missed.

Pom, I admit that I always admired his work as translator and editor more than his own work in English-- just not my thing. But the other work, and the way he brought different writers together, is incredible. Reading the contents pages of the journals he started and edited over the years is like reading a who's-who of innovative poetry of the past 60 years. Really remarkable life and work.

It's not my preferred poetic mode either tbh, I just thought your post was amusing in its commitment to subjective pickiness, kind of like reading an obit titled 'Terrence Malick, Noted Translator of Heidegger's Vom Wesen des Grundes, Has Died' (don't worry, he's still alive, this is just the first example that sprang to mind). Anyway, Eshleman's English renderings of Vallejo are indeed phenomenal, but for equally picky reasons I can't bear to read them.

From what I've heard of Eshleman, he'd probably argue with me about my pickiness while being equally picky and subjective himself— this is the life of a poet, it seems lol.

I mean, another gentleman whom Eshleman is associated with, Jerome Rothenberg, is one of the best editors and language anthropologists of the past century. His own poetry is also not very good— not everyone has to be good at everything!

True, lol. Ron Silliman's reminiscences popped up in my feed this morning, which seems very apropos:

https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2021/01/i-was-just-22-when-clayton-eshelman.html

xp nah Rothenberg's poems are good not bad.

not my thing at all

I don't love his stuff but I think he's good at what he does.

As far as that constellation is concerned, if there's someone whose translations are indeed way better than his poetry in my book, it's Pierre Joris.

agreed!

btw, for pom an anyone else interested, the entire run of the two magazines that Eshleman edited can be found here: http://www.centreforexpandedpoetics.com/library-items?fbclid=IwAR3mvOyC7_dDdADbtxZbKLwym3ltQN4twfxbqq9pi8qWbocglm51irHFX8s

Worth pasting the intro from that site, too, with bolding of my own:

Our archive sets out from Caterpillar and Sulfur, two of the most innovative and important poetry magazines of the twentieth century. Under the discerning editorial guidance of Clayton Eshleman, Caterpillar carried forward the energy of Cid Corman’s Origin (initiated in 1951), combining discrepant vectors in American poetry with work in translation along with visual art, essays, letters, and reviews. The magazine included work by Charles Olson, Nora Jaffe, Dianne Wakowski, Jackson Mac Low, Robert Duncan, Nancy Spero, Kenneth Irby, Carolee Schneeman, Robert Kelly, Lorine Niedecker, César Vallejo, Paul Blackburn, Yashuhiro Yoshioka, Rae Armantrout, Jack Spicer, and Robin Blaser, among many others.

Eshleman’s editorial commitment to “the whole art” was then revived by Sulfur, published in 46 issues from 1983-2000. Abjuring a narrative of successive movements whose claims displaced those which came before, Sulfur fused traditions stemming from surrealism, ethnopoetics, black arts, and open field poetics with writers associated with Language poetry, the New York School, and deconstructive theory, among many less identifiable currents. The capacious range of the magazine drew together, for example, translations of Blanchot, Jabès, Celan, Césaire, and Labé; essays by archetypal psychologist James Hillman and anthropologist James Clifford, poetry by Susan Howe, Will Alexander, Karen Lessing, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Ron Silliman, Nathaniel Mackey, Jorie Graham, Kusano Shimpei, Gustaf Sobin, Amiri Baraka, and Myung Mi Kim; visual art by Ana Mendieta, Linda Connor, Cecilia Vicuna, and Unica Zurn — to mention only a tiny fraction of its contents. Contributing editors and correspondents included Marjorie Perloff, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Keith Tuma, Allen Weiss, Jed Rasula, Charles Bernstein, Michael Palmer, Clark Coolidge, Jayne Cortez, John Yau, Marjorie Welish, Jerome Rothenberg, Eliot Weinberger, and managing editor Caryl Eshleman. Sulfur included a regular commentary section in which positions could be articulated, works assessed, and polemics pursued — ensuring that the magazine’s heterogeneity was not merely eclectic but sustained through subtle distinctions, forthright argument, and a critical distance from the stultifying effects of creative writing culture. An anthology of selections from Sulfur was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2016, and can be purchased here. Print copies of individuals issues are available for purchase here.

Together, the sixty-six issues of Caterpillar and Sulfur testify to the breadth of poetic attention and the depth of poiesis in the late twentieth century, and they constitute an incitement to take the whole art in new directions in the twenty-first century. Rather than facilitating navigation by providing excerpted tables of contents, we invite readers to explore these issues as one would by pulling them off a shelf or receiving them in the mail: one by one, with an appetite for contingency and discovery.

Good stuff, thanks!

Re Cicely Tyson: a friend tells me that Sounder is on TCM at 8:00 tonight. I have not seen that since I saw it at a drive-in in 1972, when I was 11.

Allan Burns, screenwriter, co-creator of The Munsters, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Rhoda.

:( RIp

RIP. Classic for those shows alone but his resume has all kinds of other interesting stuff I just saw.

People Under the Stairs Rapper Double K Dead at 43

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/people-under-the-stairs-rapper-double-k-dead-1121555/

Allan Burns got an Oscar nomination for writing A Little Romance (1979), Diane Lane's film debut, which is very cute though Lawrence Olivier hams it up more than necessary

*Laurence

IMDB trivia says Allan Burns also created the character of Capn Crunch!?

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122560/bio?item=nt0045118#trivia

cool if true

Hilton Valentine, guitarist of The Animals:

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

RIP. Already noted upthread, btw.

cant keep up!

Marc Wilmore, writer on In Living Color and The Simpsons, among others; younger brother of Larry.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/marc-wilmore-tv-writer-and-brother-of-comedian-larry-wilmore-dies-at-57

Andrew Brooks, Rutgers professor who led research on the first FDA-approved COVID-19 saliva test: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/us/andrew-brooks-obituary-covid-saliva-test/index.html

SCREECH!

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/dustin-diamond-dead-saved-by-the-bell-screech-1234897484/

holy shit

he lived in Grafton Wisconsin for a long time. I actually saw him twice at the Family Video but never said anything. wish I had a fun story about him, indeed everything I've heard about him from other folks I know who lived in Grafton is uh...not great

that's a shame. he had such a stereotypically grim former child actor adulthood - substance abuse, bad/unsuccessful standup career, bad/unsuccessful band, he did a porno, he wrote a tell-all book that pissed off the other cast members of Saved by the Bell, he was jailed for stabbing someone in a bar fight etc.

Let he amongst ye who hath never sinned cast the first stoner

I know a few people who saw his standup at various Wisconsin campuses, he was not very good but always pretty eager to meet people and sign stuff at the end

I had no idea he was so young

Elvis Costello's mother.

Indeed, and quite a detailed remembrance

https://www.elviscostello.com/#!/news/299589

Ricky Powell

https://www.complex.com/style/photographer-ricky-powell-dead-at-59

Toooooo young

fucking sucks. RIp ricky

Hal Holbrook, died 23 January and announced today

always a fave of mine, stood next to him once crossing the street in beverly hills, he had a good run

If you want to read a mean, gossipy obituary for a woman whose career was taken down by a mean, gossipy NY Times story 20 years ago:

I wrote our obituary for Jamie Tarses, who died on Monday at 56. As the first woman to run a TV network (ABC), she encountered sexism, weaponized industry gossip and scalding news media scrutiny.https://t.co/z4tWVnkHfK

— Brooks Barnes (@brooksbarnesNYT) February 1, 2021

Captain Tom, noted (redacted) of this parish.

Lol he’s dead now, you can’t libel him

he survived dengue fever, malaria and the onslaught of the imperial japanese army - but was killed by his family!

He's past the statue of limitations

https://image.assets.pressassociation.io/v2/image/production/5c9692d933aaf55b4e99f84da23fdb27Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaCwxNTk0OTc5MTEz/2.54604035.jpg

That was a short knight

oh right, sorry.

HRH Captain Sir Tom "Rodger" Moore, assassin of JFK and MLK, butcher of Nanjing, Lockerbie bomber, chief polluter at BP, Honorary life-president of Al Qaida, founder of NAMBLA, lead-singer of Staind, defiler of the innocents, destroyer of dreams, Donald Trump's real father, garden-walker-arounder, Medal "For the Tapping of the Subsoil and Expansion of the Petrochemical Complex of Western Siberia", Eschator of Munster, Baron Chiswick, Royal Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Fidget Spinner, Extra Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Egg-cracker, Grand Master and First and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the Braggadocians, Personal Aide-de-Camp to Piers Morgan, Lord High Field Marshall of the United Kingdom, blessed be his name, RIP 🙏 🙏

He outlived host + panel on that Xmas 1983 episode of Blankety Blank, apart from Ruth Madoc and Sabina Franklyn. (To be fair, Beryl Reid was older than him).

are you guys actively trying to make the bosom manor jokes start up again as part of some kind of masochistic kink

I think the Queen automatically gets his Blankety Blank chequebook and pen. I don't make the rules.

I remember really rooting for Hal Holbrook to win an Oscar for Into the Wild; alas, it wasn't meant to happen. I always liked him, solid dude.

It's hit Hoff hard

pic.twitter.com/GxvrCWqV9P

— David Hasselhoff (@DavidHasselhoff) February 2, 2021

Woah

"Now let's go to Malibu and find out what David Hasselhoff thinks of Sir Moore's passing.. to you, David."

had assumed that the blankety blank clip was not online, but here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4PFNtE5EpA

he looks exactly like a retired army captain in his 60s

MJ, what about the other contestant?

I'm always plugging this movie, but I think Hal Holbrook gives a great performance in Gus Van Sant's Promised Land (almost but not quite his last non-TV role).

Always liked Holbrook. I expect that most obits will highlight All the President's Men, unless I'm forgetting something major. RIP.

unless I'm forgetting something major

Whichever Dirty Harry movie he was in (the third one, maybe?). Also, more seriously, didn't he get a lot of good writeups for playing Mark Twain on stage for like 40 years?

Holbrook was in a pretty important 1972 tv movie called That Certain Summer, probably the first American film to portray homosexuality in a positive or at least sympathetic light: “I’d robbed banks and kidnapped children and raped women and murdered people, you know, in any number of shows. Now I was going to play a gay guy and that was like considered a career ender. Oh, for Christ’s sake! What kind of culture do we live in?”

Clayton Eshleman, one of the most gifted poetry translators of our times, has died. If you've ever read César Vallejo or Aimé Césaire poems in English, there's a good chance he translated them.

yeah, those Vallejo translations are great. I submitted some writing to Sulfur and Eshleman wrote me a very long and nice rejection letter in which he tried to set me up with another poet in my city (who happened to be my ex)

Mark: I'm not going any deeper than what IMDb offers :) I can tell you that TREASURE ISLAND (1950) followed on BBC1, and then Jim'll Fix It. :/

(like)

Here's Hal as the stage manager in Our Town:

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

Also, more seriously, didn't he get a lot of good writeups for playing Mark Twain on stage for like 40 years?

Longer than that, I think. He started in the 1950s when he was young and carried on doing it into the last decade, so maybe 60 years?

69 years, actually, according to the NYT

1948-2017

Whichever Dirty Harry movie he was in (the third one, maybe?)

The second one: Magnum Force, with one of the all-time ending kills.

My obit: he started posting to ILX as a young man in 2000 and his career there spanned six decades, making an appearance as recently as the late 2060s.

Paul McEnery of Mondo 2000:

Paul McEnery, who held Mondo 2000 together content-wise, during it's later years almost until the end, died on Sunday of a heart attack. He was brilliant and funny and big on calling out bullshit wherever it was launched from. I'm in shock. RIP pic.twitter.com/21kJ2PhDT6

— MONDO 2000 (@2000_mondo) February 2, 2021

Whichever Dirty Harry movie he was in (the third one, maybe?)
The second one: Magnum Force, with one of the all-time ending kills.

Robyn Hitchcock is obsessed with this scene and wrote a pretty good song about it (“A Man’s Gotta Know His Limitations (Briggs)”)

Barry La Va

This piece on Ricky Powell is worth yer time

https://phatfriend.com/2021/02/03/the-complicated-death-of-an-iconic-scumbag/

thanks for that, helpful to have awareness of before my inevitable deli conversation

yeah that was good, thx ned

Danny Ray, longtime MC and "Cape Man" for James Brown

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-02-03/danny-ray-james-brown-cape-dies

RIP :(

Naim Attallah, publisher, 89.

Eva Coutaz, former head of Harmonia Mundi, a label that gets a ton of respect, but still not nearly enough.

Amazing label indeed, nice to read about the people behind it, about whom i knew nothing

Matt Harris, bassist with Oranger and The Posies, and a really lovely guy.

Whoa... He was in Spiral Stairs' band as well. Any details?

Oof, looks like an OD. Sad news.

Jim Weatherly https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55943997

Paul Crutzen, who coined the term ‘Anthropocene’ to describe humanity’s impact on our planet, has died https://t.co/HkRSaKYJXl

— The Ice Age ❄️🌞 (@Jamie_Woodward_) February 5, 2021

End of an era

See what you did there

wouldn't epoch be more accurate ? ;)

Reports surfacing that Christopher Plummer has passed. 91 years, what a crazy run.

https://deadline.com/2021/02/christopher-plummer-dies-91-sound-of-music-all-the-money-in-the-world-star-1234688379/

wasn't someone just talking about how all the principals of the sound of music were still alive? or was that Mary Poppins?

had the pleasure of interviewing him years ago and he told me this fun story about the time he and jason robards got a police horse drunk in nyc https://t.co/jI4jZJT884 pic.twitter.com/tnMp7zzJDR

— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) February 5, 2021

Can't say I'm familiar with most of his movies, but it's interesting that scanning the list now he seemed to get better roles the older he got.

sorry for linking to my own tweet but the tidbits about how miserable he was making the sound of music always crack me up

RIP Christopher Plummer https://t.co/1B0YYHII9B

— n1ck amm3rman (@somelanguage) February 5, 2021

also i watched the silent partner for the first time this year and he's very fun in that as a total psychopath

Starcrash forever. "IMPERIAL BATTLESHIP!...Halt the flow of TIME!" If he hadn't've done that he should have been in Flash Gordon by default.

or was that Mary Poppins?

But Glynis Johns and Dick van Dyke are still alive at 97 and 95, and Julie Andrews at 85, so pretty good show

Silent Partner is def one of my go-to unknown gems I recommend to ppl. Plummer really rides the film's transition from light comedy bank caper to psycho slasher.

somehow it never occurred to me that amanda plummer was his daughter

This is weird because I honestly never knew that was Plummer in The Sound Of Music! I only knew his older face.

Stefan Cush from The Men They Couldn't Hang.

(no links as yet but the band have announced on Facebook)

Knives Out was a bonafide hit... good to know he was making winners right up to the end.

Loved him in Sound of Music, gah so very much
And i just recently saw Silent Partner (1978) which is a fucking TRIP of a movie, he is great & menacing in it

https://www.theafricareport.com/62955/sibongile-khumalo-voice-of-the-new-south-africa-dies-at-63/

RIP Sibongile Khumalo, South African Zulu township jazz & choral singer

leon spinks

https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/30848782/leon-spinks-ex-heavyweight-champ-upset-muhammad-ali-dies-67

And i just recently saw Silent Partner (1978) which is a fucking TRIP of a movie, he is great & menacing in it

I spend a not insignificant % of my online life telling people to check out that movie

A friend of mine was scarred by seeing The Silent Partner when it came out... at the age of eight. There's a decapitation scene whose memory still disturbs him.

Bruce N. Blackburn, graphic designer who designed the American Bicentennial logo as well as the NASA logo in use 1975-1992 (now revived as a secondary NASA logo).

Worm logo!

Although there doesn't appear to be any other corroborating evidence online at the moment, Edward James Olmos just posted this tribute on twitter that seems to heavily imply that Hector Elizondo has died at age 84, which is much older than I would have guessed.

One true giant of humanity who gave to everyone he met a sense of self-esteem and self respect Hector Elizondo a true gift to the stage screen and life My love to Elaine and Eddie and the family my heart cries But I celebrate one of the great human beings I’ve met through life 🙏🏽 pic.twitter.com/SsBDqLDcco

— Edward James Olmos (@edwardjolmos) February 7, 2021

Always liked him. An actor who even managed to make some of the worst Garry Marshall comedies more bearable (and I'd call his work in Pretty Woman legit great). RIP.

Wow, guess I've got (another) excuse to pull my Taking of Pelham One Two Three Blu-Ray off the shelf.

https://wtop.com/government/2021/02/reagans-longtime-secretary-of-state-george-p-shultz-dies/

George Shultz, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State, 100

By far the sanest member of Reagan's Cabinet.

too bad about theranos

Cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno

The Leopard is the first one of his that comes to my mind. RIP

https://popculture.com/celebrity/news/last-man-standing-hector-elizondo-not-dead-death-rumors-hoax/

I just got off the phone with a rep for Hector Elizondo who confirms he is still very much alive and well. She just got off the phone with him. https://t.co/Dk9VM353Pi

— Rosy Cordero (@SocialRosy) February 7, 2021

Rotunno’s work with Fellini is all-time. Beautiful images. RIP

White Nights was apparently the first Visconti film he worked on, very beautiful black and white cinematography.

How old was he when he shot The Leopard? Good lord. He JUST died???

He was around 40 then, 97 when he died.

We lost Hector Elizondo

Who did?

^^Tanya Roberts

I can bring this all home in one post...Christopher Plummer and The Silent Partner in the obituary thread sent me to a different thread to post about Celine Lomez. When I read up on her a bit, I came across this: "One of the finalists in casting for the television series Charlie's Angels, but lost the role to Tanya Roberts because network decided Lomez was too sexy for prime time."

Which is kind of something thinking about Tanya Roberts.

A real diversity of films/genres that were a natural fit for Elizondo’s warmth and irascibility.

read the thread Don

Underground comix creator S. Clay Wilson.

Jean-Claude Carrière (1931 — 2021) pic.twitter.com/Xtk6M51iJJ

— MUBI (@mubi) February 8, 2021

Oh, man, RIP.

Posting another link about "Midnight Train to Georgia" songwriter Jim Weatherly, already mentioned upthread. https://www.npr.org/2021/02/05/964473172/jim-weatherly-who-wrote-midnight-train-to-georgia-dies-at-77

(xp) RIP. Watched a whole bunch of Bunuel films over the festive period and very much enjoyed the accompanying interviews with him.

While researching the Sally Can't Dance poll, I discovered that Lou Reed's keyboard player from 1974 - 1980, Michael Fonfara, died here in Toronto last month of cancer at 74.

Oh, RIP

Moufida Tlatli, Tunisian filmmaker and editor http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/5/402542/Arts--Culture/Renowned-Tunisian-filmmaker-Moufida-ElTalatli-pass.aspx

Obit for S. Clay Wilson: http://www.tcj.com/s-clay-wilson-the-most-influential-artist-of-his-generation/

And the announcement from his long-time partner, who married him in 2010 in order to be able to be his full-time carer:

I posted this on Facebook yesterday...devastated by this loss. Perhaps you’d like to read these 4 screenshots of this journey.....I still need to write on the website....💔 pic.twitter.com/jWGTnoMGs9

— Lorraine Chamberlain (@Chamberpaint) February 8, 2021

Mary Wilson

Mary Wilson, Co-Founder of the Supremes, Dies at 76 https://t.co/Eh5VMxTJWu

— Variety (@Variety) February 9, 2021

Oof, damn

Ghédalia Tazartès, apparently.

ah shit

where are u seeing this Ned?

Various avant-garde/experimental music types on Twitter, hadn't seen the source yet.

He is older than I would have guessed considering recent output

No doubt the two were longtime friends but a major misconception about Elizondo’s partnership with director Garry Marshall is that the character actor was automatically gifted roles in all of his films when in fact auditioning was required in each case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYjpda8L9To

Elliot Mazer, Engineer-Producer for Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, and the Band, Dead at 79

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elliot-mazer-engineer-producer-dead-1125570/

So used to seeing his name on all the '70s albums, I assumed he did After the Gold Rush, but he doesn't seem to enter the picture till Harvest.

I see Mazer produced Lightfoot's Back Here on Earth, maybe his best.

DON: READ THE THREAD. ELIZONDO IS NOT DEAD.

Good catch Matthew

In case anyone else hasn’t seen it. Some good news...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cinemablend.com/television/2562573/despite-death-rumors-last-man-standings-hector-elizondo-is-very-much-alive

sigh, it's literally above your posts in this very thread, but I've been around the block enough times to recognise when I've been trolled

Ed Pearl, whose Ash Grove nightclub was at the heart of L.A.’s ’60s music scene, dies.

Also helped found the Peace & Freedom Party in 1967, per the obit.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-02-09/ed-pearl-dead-ash-grove

Former Wales and Everton goalkeeper Dai Davies

R.I.P. Dai Davies, goalkeeper for Wales in the first football match I ever saw (v England, Ninian Park, 1978), and on 52 occasions in total. Legend.

He let in three that day, though to be fair, he had no chance with two of them.https://t.co/JkrQznoEKQ

— Simon Price (@simon_price01) February 10, 2021

Oh man, there he was on ITV4 the other day, The Big Match Revisited*: haplessly spilling the ball to allow Sheff Utd to come back from two down at Goodison in April 1975. Ending Everton's title challenge (losing home and away to bloody Carlisle did that, to be fair). I never saw him play, it was all Gorgeous Georgie Wood when I started going.

(* - hugely recommended, if only for Brian Moore interviewing Alec Stock)

Hang on, I saw him play twice! For Wrexham in an FA Cup tie (Feb 1980, the same day Paul Ringer was sent off for Wales vs England at Twickenham) and for Swansea in a league match in Dec 1981. I'm sure he got a warm welcome from the Street end. Before conceding a total of eight goals.

(hadn't realised the Big Match was back on. was, if nothing else, fascinating for being old television (and old football) where all the on screen text was the video equivalent of letraset and the pitches were little better than quagmires. one i saw had a pitch where the snow was only cleared where the pitch markings were and they were playing with an orange ball for contrast. does that still happen?)

This was the Scunthorpe v. Bradford City game last night - I can't see the ball, but then neither could the players and the match was abandoned. Current league match ball is yellow though I think, so no need to swap to the orange ball?

https://i2-prod.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/incoming/article4986129.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/1_Etzsxi8XIAEsi0y.jpg

lol how long did that ball even spend at pitch level?

this is where I recommend watching The Second Game by Corneliu Porumboiu.
the director watches a fuzzy VHS of a very snowy Bucharest derby from 1988 with his hilariously surly dad, who was the referee for the match.

https://i.imgur.com/58fW8Dk.png