Rolling Obituary Thread: 2015

aw

one of the great coaching faces, like a bball keitel

The excellent historian David Cesarani:

http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/148060/david-cesarani-has-died-aged-58

Gave superb lectures at my school a couple of times.

Lisa Jardine, too.

Her Shakespeare course at QMW opened my mind to so many possibilities and lines of analysis and inquiry. she was a fantastic lecturer, and a very charismatic force of nature, and I always enjoyed seeing her on TV or hearing her on radio after I graduated.

^ I was likely at the very same lectures - she was terrific.

shit, RIP Jardine - real scholarly heft barely ever comes with her kind of lucidity, imagination, breadth, style… such good books & a real loss.

New Orleans Dj Soul Sister is posting on Instagram that guitarist Marlo Henderson who played with Patti Labelle,Minnie Ripperton, Teena Marie, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson and many more, has passed away.

http://marlohenderson.com/about_marlo

when were you there eyeball kicks? and do we already know each other??

Marty Ingels, comedian/actor/agent/crazy person and husband to Shirley Jones (both big Republicans)

And, most importantly to our own Dan Perry, the voice of Pac-Man on TV cartoons.

And ten seconds later, I see that Jack Bruce has died.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/cream-bassist-jack-bruce-dead-at-71-20141025

And I can't read. Can someone send Ben Carson to kill me?

ten seconds and one year.

xp (still posting though)

when were you there eyeball kicks? and do we already know each other??

I was there 1999-2002. What about you? It's unlikely we ever spoke - I wasn't very sociable back then, unfortunately - but you never know.

i was 1993-6. too too old.

I'm hearing from Facebook friends that Penelope Houston, the former editor of Sight and Sound, has died. Not a good day for film critics - RIP Philip French, also. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34648695

Ah, I liked Philip French.

Mark Murphy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/arts/music/mark-murphy-an-unconventional-jazz-vocalist-dies-at-83.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

Anita Sarko, Mudd Club DJ.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/arts/music/reflecting-on-anita-sarko-influential-dj-of-the-new-york-club-scene.html?smid=fb-share

Tony Van Frater, 51, of left wing Oi! band Red Alert and bassist for the Cockney Rejects since 1999.

Haven't been checking this thread, so I didn't know about Penelope Houston and Philip French--amazing it'd be on consecutive days.

Different universe:

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/happy-days-star-al-molinaro-dies-at-the-age-of-96-20153010

Never cared much for Arnold, found Al quite funny.

always be Murray the Cop to me

"To you, I'm a kind, wise bastion of society, but..."

Fred Thompson

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2015/11/01/former-us-sen-fred-thompson-dies-73/74752142/

"Mike Love, a position shilling Reverse Mortgages has just opened..."

from No Way Out on, he was a terrific supporting actor, and gave a convincing performance as a GOP presidential candidate in 2008.

Nixon was not a fan.

Neither was "and what": fuck fred thompson & his red pick-up truck

Barring the impossible dream of Ron Paul getting the nod, Fred Thompson is this country's last hope. I may even campaign for him.

― Manalishi

I would like to see Thompson in an old grumpy fart-a-thon versus Joe Don Baker. They could compete to see who can say "well, whoop dee shit!" in the most curmudgeonly way possible. Thompson would have both hands tied in front of him, just so that he couldn't pass capital gains tax cuts and anti-abortion legislation behind him during the competition.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, May 23, 2007 6:45 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I always associate freddy t with early '90s blockbusters. he was always a really good screen presence, always made the most of his few minutes onscreen.

Actor and Chariots of Fire screenwriter Colin Welland:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34711578

^ people you thought were dead

people who should've written Chariots of Fire after they died

Solid in Kes, though!

good riddance:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/world/middleeast/ahmad-chalabi-iraq-dead.html?_r=0

Mr. Chalabi, the son of a prominent Shiite family, cultivated close ties with journalists in Washington and London

i wonder which ones?

(i say sarcastically)

Melissa Mathison
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/melissa-mathison-e-t-screenwriter-dies-dead-1201633801/

George Barris, King of The Kustomizers

http://www.thewrap.com/george-barris-designer-of-tvs-batmobile-dead-at-89/

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ys6fFLrN1qz5q5oo1_1280.jpg

http://rs415.pbsrc.com/albums/pp238/GeoffB/Show%20Rods/600745138_b103457318_o-1_zpsfb7c67d7.jpg?w=480&h=480&fit=clip

He didn't customize Webb Pierce's car, did he?

and of course this:

http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/gttl7qtKSQio53rUIjDKog--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/251/2012/11/30/batmobile-30112012-jpg_120219.jpg

Gunnar Hansen aka Leatherface:

http://abc7.com/entertainment/texas-chainsaw-massacre-actor-gunnar-hansen-dies-at-68/1073907/

Rest in peace big guy.

68! Jeez!

;_;

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2015/11/allen_toussaint_dies.html

He died at 77, of a heart attack, on tour in Europe.

In addition to playing piano, he composed scores of songs, including "Ruler of My Heart," "A Certain Girl," "Fortune Teller" and "Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette)." The New Orleans-born trumpeter Al Hirt had a hit with Mr. Toussaint's instrumental composition "Java."

In the 1970s, he embarked on a solo career, which reached a high point with the release of his "Southern Nights" album; the title song became a hit not only for him but also for Glen Campbell

Helmut Schmidt, former Chancellor of West Germany