Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

More than 20 - 1990 Burns night storms

Apocryphally lead to schoolyard jokes and one school head declaring that there is nothing funny about Gorden Kaye.

Actually lead to a crucial privacy case when a Sunday Sport journalist snuck into the hospital and photoed / "interviewed" him recovering from brain surgery. He lost the case - there is no common-law right to privacy.

1,200 performances of 'Allo 'Allo on stage, apparently.

I thought he was dead too!

Allo Allo is a crappy show that makes me feel inordinately nostalgic when I think of it. I loved it as a kid.

^^ otm. 'twas simpler times.

rip

another local luvvie once asked him if he supported Town and he replied " no, they don't come and watch me when I'm performing badly".

Ha! Nice.

RIP

Jean Georgakarakos, the "G" in legendary free jazz label BYG Records.

butch trucks

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/butch-trucks-allman-brothers-founding-member-dead-at-69-w462870

How have I never heard that there was a southern rock dude named Butch Trucks.

Dunno but having to refrain from SBing you for that

Or FPing you, whatever the kids are doing today.

gil ray of game theory/loud family

rough week for drummers

Aww man. RIP.

He had apparently just finished work on the upcoming Game Theory album, which was already tragic as it was being pieced together (by Ray and friends and former bandmates) from material that Scott Miller left behind upon his death in 2013.

mary tyler moore

https://twitter.com/AP/status/824341181140258833

oh man

holy shit, noooooooooooo

well it's you, girl, and you should know it.

my goodness

she was so great in ordinary people

2016, man

I'm worried about how my wife will take this. She's watched and re-watched the full run of Dick Van Dyke many times over and recently also went through the full set of the MTM show. I'd call her a true fan.

meow

she's so goddamn delightful & cool in the Dick Van Dyke Show, i have been watching a lot of those reruns lately

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/01/25/harry-mathews-1930-2017/

:(

rip hm

Tam Dalyell

... people you thought were etc

Mike Connors of Mannix, at 91 of leukemia, after being diagnosed just a week ago.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/mike-connors-dead-dies-joe-mannix-1201971140/

Patricia Crampton, translator of children's literature including the Miffy books.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/27/patricia-crampton-obituary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

nc state great, nba not-so-great charles shackleford, 50

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/college/article129133999.html

John Hurt

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-hurt-dead-elephant-man-809521?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=Direct

Oh shit.

shit

https://emmapeelpants.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/wife1.jpg

NSFW (& LOL at the soundtrack)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHk-ooDV2HE

Barbara Hale, the final member of the classic-era Perry Mason cast

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/barbara-hale-who-played-della-street-on-perry-mason-dies-at-94/2017/01/27/a18c6b20-e4d3-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html?postshare=5031485558807924&tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.76ddf97c8cfd

sad that she never bagged perry

Oh God, that article that mookieproof posted needs a thread/poll of its own.

RIP to both John Hurt and Barbara Hale. Loved old reruns of Perry Mason as a kid.

when only gyles brandreth gives an acceptable answer you're in trouble

John Hurt in Love and Death in Long Island is one of the most heartbreaking and smartest performances I've ever seen.

the second half of the 'what i want in a wife' article is rather worse

https://emmapeelpants.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/wife2.jpg

Obviously Sir Ian never found what he was looking for.

started reading 1984 (yet again) yesterday, was wondering how john hurt was going. sucks.

God, ya took the wrong Caligula

Obviously Sir Ian never found what he was looking for.

― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain)

Well, she doesn't exist, so how could he?

I'm just boggling at the idea that the chairman of the Zionist federation was one of the most eligible bachelors.. 'Very desirable'

Or Jimmy Savile.

Well, quite.

morbs otm