Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

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?

Kinda love how that first/main response to the Ken Shabby tweet is from Vijay Armitraj, his Octopussy costar. (Underrated film all in all. For Your Eyes Only remains my favorite of his run but there are some surprisingly effective moments throughout Octopussy, pretty nearly pulling off a have-its-cake/eat-it-too per Morbs's comment.)

I don't think anyone hates sean connery except for the fact he's a wife-beater

... and a Scottish Nationalist who doesn't live in Scotland because he doesn't want to pay tax there... also Rangers.

Also LXG.

... and a Scottish Nationalist who doesn't live in Scotland because he doesn't want to pay tax there... also Rangers.

― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:49 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinl

that too though i thought a scot should bring that up not a sassenach like myself

also why do you crazy ppl hate Sean Connery?

sir billi was such a bitter disappointment

yeah, i was keeping it to onscreen stuff but of course i knew the police would appear thx stevie & Tom

007 might be a lousy husband too -- at least it seems more likely than his being a bored twit

Oh right. Isn't Connery generally considered the canonical best Bond?

I mean I don't see any hate for his Bond performances here so I don't know

he is.

Lazenby iirc - but increasingly "who gives a shit?"

also an acceptable answer tbf

bond was a lousy husband yes

i found him alright tbh

all his ex-wives are dead, no?

just me and chinavision left

Better watch your step imo (reveals gun within bunch of flowers)

bond a terrible man for subjecting his wives to the dutch oven treatment iirc

the late mrs bond (tracy):
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eT0QouAn0Dc/TVyVA6ghcNI/AAAAAAAAArM/8J2RNVnoeQY/s1600/1.jpg

just me and chinavision chauvinism left. Connery is an asshole.

Ian Fleming was an asshole

pablo picasso was never called an asshole

just me and (-chinavision-) chauvinism left. Connery is an asshole.

Jeez whatever happened to not speaking ill of the dead

anyone who says roger moore is the best bond needs to stfu

Picasso was the worst asshole of them all iirc

Mark s is correct that there are no good bonds

the bond movies are bobbins but shir sean is the best bond