Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

Well, yeah.

Fuck yeah

rupert next

maybe all the news reports were saying "roger ails" all along, and subeditors kept fucking it up

i think it's fair to say that rupert takes much better care of himself than human/hutt hybrid ailes ever did, not that i won't leap for joy when murdoch finally succumbs

gone too late x

Thanking u yet again, bizarro.

ha, yr welcome

Anyone have him in Dead Pool?

woohoo

Good fuckin riddance. Died in disgrace, as he deserved.

I didn't think much of Soundgarden either, but that's a bit strong.

Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

ah celebrities

Sorry to hear about the passing of Roger Ailes. He and I shared many laughs He was always very nice to me and I counted him as a friend

— Russell Simmons (@UncleRUSH) May 18, 2017

I don't know who those particular people are, but that tweet reminds me of Limmy (the Scottish comedian) habitually tweeting made-up platitudes after well-known figures' deaths, for which he got into trouble with regard to Ian Brady the other day. He had to delete said tweet this time, but I think the above helps illustrate at least part of what his long-running joke may be.

"Had the pleasure of meeting x at a charity do once. (S)he was surprisingly down to earth and VERY funny."

http://www.avclub.com/article/human-boil-roger-ailes-mourned-online-ceaseless-pa-255595

Slug-like sexual predator and architect of today’s broken political discourse Roger Ailes died this morning, disgraced and unemployed.

so glad people aren't holding back with this guy.

Dave Cutler, the last of Adge's siblings. That's a very regional and specific onr.

Saw a report on FB that Creem's Richard C. Walls has passed on.

Aww, bummer. Was a huge CREEM fan growing up. Still got a few around here. Definitely remember his name, not hitting me like Rick Johnson's death did, but still a definite bummer. RIP Richard.

Aw man ;_;

RIP RCW

Didn't he write a lot of the TV stuff in Creem? I know he was one of my favourites from the early-'80s era.

Yeah, "Prime Time" was his semi regular tv column...I just grabbed an old issue of creem and had to laugh at him imagining Kael and Sarris sniping at one another while hosting "Sneak Previews"

Is that the same piece that had one of my favourite lines ever, something about the ideal auteurist film (where the highest words of praise are "claustrophobic" and "ambiguous") being something about underground miners told from an uncertain point of view?

Austin singer-songwriter/scene pillar Jimmy LaFave, 61, cancer

https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2017-05-22/r-i-p-jimmy-lafave/

xp no, piece was about siskel and ebert's shared crusade against "mad slasher" films...kael/Sarris bit was just a little aside

http://m.metrotimes.com/the-scene/archives/2017/05/22/remembering-the-writer-richard-c-walls

As with Paul Nelson, Paul Williams, and Rick Johnson, depressing.

Drummer - composer Mickey Roker.

He appeared on many records/with many musicians, but his work on Lee Morgan's Live at the Lighthouse always struck me as particularly beautiful.

All three Morgan records he's on - Standards, Live at the Lighthouse, and Sonic Boom - are great. He's also on Herbie Hancock's Speak Like a Child, one of his best Blue Note albums. And he worked with Duke Pearson a lot - something like 10 albums. He must have been Pearson's favorite drummer.

Sir Roger Moore

With the heaviest of hearts, we must share the awful news that our father, Sir Roger Moore, passed away today. We are all devastated. pic.twitter.com/6dhiA6dnVg

— Sir Roger Moore (@sirrogermoore) May 23, 2017

Damnit I owe calzino £10

surprisingly bummed by this one tbh, although the timing probably has a fair amount to do with it

King of DGAF. RIP.

RIP Roger! Roger!! ROGER!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Nx7jNqHqI

http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-shot-2014-09-28-at-19.31.15.png

classic @sirrogermoore bants

go go mr bond

not to downplay his body of work but i do wonder whether a vigil will be held at chiswick roundabout

Love his last tweet:

https://mobile.twitter.com/sirrogermoore/status/862051461810843648?p=v

Two things I remember about Roger Moore:

When I went to see Octopussy at the cinema with a school chum, he laughed uproariously at the scene where he tells the snake to hiss off.

+I always remember one of his ex-wives saying "I don't how he ever made it as an actor, he only has two different facial expressions"

anyway RIP RM

This truly wonderful Roger story from @marchaynes is soothing my aching soul. 😪 pic.twitter.com/DM7zhybLrs

— Ken Shabby (@MrKenShabby) May 23, 2017

that's fucking awesome

he was the James Bond of my childhood & i think next to Craig he's my fave Bond, even with the polyester suits and corny terribleness

i <3 underwater car

xxpost omg that made me tear up

my favourite Bond

RIP

Actress Dina Merrill, 93.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dina-merrill-dead-butterfield-8-operation-petticoat-actress-was-93-978723

Apocryphal: Moore once said that he “only had three expressions as Bond: right eyebrow raised, left eyebrow raised and eyebrows crossed when grabbed by Jaws.”

I loved Octopussy for giving the franchise the delirious trashing it tot deserved at that point. Unfortunately, it continued.

also why do you crazy ppl hate Sean Connery?