Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

http://mixmag.net/read/legacy-trance-producer-robert-miles-passes-away-at-age-47-news

Holy shit @ tsoni

Michael Parks

He's one of those guys who was really good in everything I saw him in but I could never place his name. Great face for a character actor

oh shit, I just saw a revival of Kill Bill last week. Forgot that he played two characters. RIP

Marc Laurick, bassist for a ton of Philly and Seattle bands, including Bunnydrums

Geoffrey Bayldon, beloved to many generations of British kids for roles in Catweazle and Worzel Gummidge, and twice offered and declined the lead in Doctor Who.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/geoffrey-bayldon-beloved-star-catweazle-dead-93-1621161

"Nothing Works!...."

aw man, i loved catweazle

Always loved his cameo turn in the T Rex film Born to Boogie (scene filmed at John Lennon's country estate):

http://www.marcbolanmusic.com/bayldon.aspx

Q How did you get involved with the Born To Boogie film and what was it like at the location?

A Well Marc and The Beatles were all Catweazle fans and that was the whole connection. I arrived very early and there was nobody in the garden… there was someone with a camera and I asked where everyone was but he didn’t know. Ia asked about make-up but he didn’t know about that either! About 11.30 they all started coming in, I’d never seen a script or anything. Marc had said “We’ve got this marvellous idea because you’ve done Catweazle, we want you to dress up as a waiter, under a tree in John Lennon’s garden and the idea is that you dish out hamburgers.” And it just went on from there, on cloud cuckoo. It was a great day, we were all high as kites

Q Was there any rehearsing?

A There was a bit of rehearsing… “Have another hamburger”… they were from Fortnum (& Mason). It certainly made me realise what an enormous gap there was between the acting and pop world

Then we ended up going around the house. It hadn’t been lived in, I don’t know if it ever was, I’m not sure about that… There was a wonderful kitchen and on top of the fridge there were three plastic garden gnomes ‘having each other’, to put it mildly! There were pictures around the house of Yoko and John, starkers against the staircase!

Also I am mildly amused re the author of the obit aldo's linked there.

RIP

Also I am mildly amused re the author of the obit aldo's linked there.

:-o

Gone yet not forgotten

Haha, I hadn't even spotted that.

Powers Boothe.

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18519992_10213379649068435_2198161922730845993_n.jpg?oh=7d4635245e4f687afa4afa7ef9ee9b44&oe=597DB349

Fuuuuuuuuuck :(

Damn. Southern Comfort.

seems to be a hoax?

Well, if it's a hoax, at least it led me to find Beau Bridges on Twitter.

It's with great sadness that I mourn the passing of my friend Powers Boothe. A dear friend, great actor, devoted father & husband.

— Beau Bridges (@MrBeauBridges) May 14, 2017

Looks confirmed. RIP. Great in Deadwood.

Yeah, that's where I remember him best for sure.

fuck...he was great. really outstanding in almost everything I saw him in, though Extreme Prejudice is my go-to for him. but really yeah, Deadwood, Southern Comfort, Tombstone...lots of great roles. actually was thinking a lot about him more recently after Paxton died, because he was one of the leads in Frailty.

He was Jim Jones to me.

There's that cliche about "real" comedians being able to make you laugh just by standing on a stage and doing nothing. Boothe was kind of the same, except for communicating "you don't want to fuck with me".

A member of Friends of Abe, apparently :-(

that seems vmic.

you guys still give a shit about the political beliefs of goddamn actors, huh

A tiny bit more of a shit than I give about yr political beliefs, prob.

tough but fair

James Redd noted the death of 61-year old New Yorker Sal Cuevas over on ILM

http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2017/05/12/in-memoriam-sal-cuevas/

Cuevas quickly rose to be one of the most in-demand bassists in latin music. He was a member of the Fania All-Stars from 1978 to 1985 and played for a who’s who of salsa, jazz, and pop including Willie Colón, Rubén Blades, Héctor Lavoe, Ray Barretto, Tito Puente, Machito, Celia Cruz, Larry Harlow, Ismael Miranda, Eddie Palmieri, Gloria Estefan, the Black Eyed Peas, and more. Cuevas was also a top-call bassist in the lucrative jingle scene of the ’70s and ’80s. He’s often credited as an innovator of Salsa music by incorporating new techniques into his bass playing.

Brad Grey, 59.

Ian Brady

rip

My friend David told me the story of the teacher at Shawlands Academy who used to say to new pupils, "John Martyn sat there ... and Ian Brady over there..."

John Stalker (remember him? probably not): "I have always been implacably opposed to capital punishment but I would have made an exception in this case". Not that implacable then.

Yeah, exactly..

'Maybe have a referendum after each mass-murder' (nobody)

John Cygan, actor in "The Commish" and several video games

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-cygan-dead-commish-actor-was-63-1003999

"I'll let you go out in STYLE!"

good riddance to bad rubbish re Ian Brady.

rip threads really not the place vg, critical reappraisal of his work is best done elsewhere

lol

saw that Ian Brady had died and I immediately thought of ailsa bc she always picked him in the dead pools I ran

good riddance to bad rubbish re Ian Brady.

I never liked him either

Thing is, people die, and they all rest in peace.

Unless you are of the belief they potentially suffer in the afterlife, etc.

There was Jimmy Savile, resting nicely, until all the stories broke so they dug him up, destroyed his memorial headstone/plot, and chucked his remains, I dunno where... next to the main line through Clapham Junction? Noisy enough for you Jim?

I immediately thought of ailsa bc she always picked him in the dead pools I ran

Yep. Top of the list of people I never felt bad about picking because, y'know, evil bastard.

I never liked him either

― in a soylent whey (wins), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 07:54

My favourite recent post

Rhodri Morgan

Chris Cornell!

BREAKING: Chris Cornell, lead singer for rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, has died, his rep says

— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 18, 2017

OH GOD 2017 STOP TAKING ALL THE GENIUSES

Damn, Soundgarden was gonna play a theatre here Thursday week, and I was thinking of going based on recent ILM reports re:their current live show.