Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

There was a "Kids TV moments" on last night, a few Blue Peter moments there.

A few years ago, they repeated one of the old episodes which was mostly John, something to do with a big boat. Anyway, I watched it with Alice, and she agreed that there was nothing wrong with it. As opposed to a lot of those 60s shows that only work as nostalgia.

frank deford

I read him all through the '70s, when I was an SI subscriber. I don't associate him with anything specific--was he more of a generalist, writing about all sports?--but he was probably the first SI writer I would have named if asked. Posnanski has a remembrance up:

http://joeposnanski.com/a-toast-to-the-best/

Every time I look at a photo of him I think I'm looking at Dabney Coleman.

Noriega!

Perhaps 2017 can do for terrible eighties politicians what 2016 did for good seventies pop stars.

excellent idea, but would much prefer a death-wave of current terrible politicians.

re: Denis Johnson

I remember an overheard conversation between Denis Johnson and Donald Justice. Justice was going through a litany of all the books he'd been reading and asked Johnson what he was reading. "The only book I ever read. Under the Volcano," Johnson said.

"That's a great great book. A very sad ending, though."

"Oh, I haven't finished it yet," Johnson said.

Guitarist - composer Bern Nix, best known for his work with Ornette Coleman.

Roy Barraclough ;_; Can someone else post a link, I'm too sad ;_;

A life well lived tbf

http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/david-lewiston-musical-explorer-dies-88-2017-05-30

In Bali (and in the Himalayas and the foothills of Tibet and Ladakh, where Lewiston recorded soon after), music was still a very local affair,

Cheick Tiote, aged 30. Awful.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40163322

Peter Sallis :( That's all the original cast of Last Of The Summer Wine gone now.

Non-brits know him better as the voice of Wallace and Gromit

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40165443

fucking hell, Tiote was way too young.

v sad re bern nix: i remember the first time i read a village voice i was pleased to see the little ad he took out in the classifieds offering guitar lessons (where it continued to be a regular ad the 5-6 years i regularly read the voice iirc)

only 69, too :(

Dancing In Your Head is some immortal work, RIP

Peter Sallis :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40165443
RIP

Wendell Burton, Sterile Cuckoo actor turned Joel Osteen minion

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/movies/wendell-burton-dead-starred-in-sterile-cuckoo.html?referer=http://m.facebook.com/

Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi billionaire arms dealer

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40180931?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Bodger from Bodger and Badger

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/andy-cunningham-dead-bodger-badger-creator-friend-actor-dies-died-67-a7776801.html

true fact: when I saw Robin Williams' standup show at the Metropolitan Opera House, his opening joke was "Welcome to Adnan Khashoggi's living room!" #OldJokesInTranslation

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/glenne-headly-dead-film-tv-actress-dies-at-63-1011839

actress glenne headly, who was in tons of stuff but who i mainly remember from dirty rotten scoundrels

For some reason despite her lengthy career I remember her most prominently from Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy.

actress glenne headly, who was in tons of stuff but who i mainly remember from dirty rotten scoundrels

― na (NA), Friday, June 9, 2017

same!

i LOVED her! and i always thought she looked like a somewhat sad or wistful susan sarandon.

she played Bill Paxton's wife in "The Circle" :(

http://www.movpins.com/big/MV5BMjNkODY2MDktMmFlOC00ODM5LTk2YmUtOTMxZjY4NGRlOTMxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjUxMjc1OTM/bill-paxton-glenne-headly-and-emma-watson-in-the-circle-2017.jpg

I saw her on the stage in Shaw's Arms and the Man, w/ Kevin Kline and Raul Julia, directed by her then-spouse Malkovich.

She's in a coule good Alan Rudolph films, esp Mortal Thoughts, where she and Demi Moore plot to kill Bruce Willis.

also Lonesome Dove!

her lonesome dove character was pretty damned bleak even by the standards of that series.

Very sorry to hear about Headly. Although it wasn't a great movie, I remember being really pleased to see her as Joseph Gordon-Levitt's mother in Don Jon a few years ago, which was the first time I'd seen her in anything in a long while.

sam panopoulos, alleged inventor of hawaiian pizza

Mid-century Modern architect William Krisel, at 92.

http://www.latimes.com/home/la-me-krisel-obit-20170606-story.html

Headly was very sweet as the mother in the grim children's fantasy Paperhouse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperhouse_(film))

Adam West :-(

RIP Batman :(

Holy RIP!

Ah man. There's someone who shoulda lived forever.

Answering his final bat signal.

Now is as good a time as any to post the great pilot (and only episode) of Lookwell, the Conan O'Brien/Robert Smigel-created early 90s series starring West.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBQ3HbB0c8Y

An absolute legend, that pilot.

Indeed

Comedy gold from beginning to end

RIP best Batman

Hahah I'm seeing Lookwell trending on Twitter. As it should be.

POW! ZAP! RIP!

I watched the hell out of Batman re-runs as a kid. RIP

^^^