Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

that is a sickening story, just horrible.

vividly recall being almost physically nauseated by all the rando facebook comments i stumbled across when he was convicted that all went "lol, he deserved it! what a moron!" can only assume all those ppl were future trump voters.

(not directed at unperson -- i think it's insane that there's a company that actually offers new year's and st patrick's day pub crawl tours of north korea, wtf.)

I would never say he deserved it, obviously. I'm just saying don't go to North Korea. Ever.

Clint Eastwood, apparently

Maybe. Still looking for a reputable source.

There was a snopes-displled rumor that he was found dead last month, so I guess it's in the air.

So weird - last week I was on a flight back to the UK from NYC and the photographer I was traveling with turned to me and said "Sad about Clint Eastwood, isn't it?" And I said "What?" And I realised he'd just woken up (it'd been 48 hours of red-eye flights and long hours) and dreamed that Clint Eastwood had died, but he was convinced he'd seen a headline about it earlier in the day while we were in transit, and he leaned over to the passenger next to us, a stranger, to see if she knew anything about it, knocking his jack and coke all over me in the process.

I dunno, malaysiandigest.com is reputable enough for me. RIP, big man.

I will make the prediction that if he is not dead, he will be dead soon.

Little known fact: Malaysia's national news agency, ever since "Every Which Way But Loose" was a big hit there thanks to orangutan preservation efforts, has a dedicated 24/7 Clint Eastwood desk.

can only assume all those ppl were future trump voters.

Obviously he didn't in any way deserve whatever happened to him, but there's a long history of dumb American tourists going to other places and assuming the local rules don't really apply to them, a very Trumpian trait.

Prodigy from Mobb Deep, at 42.

RIP, fucking loved The Infamous :(

Oh wow. That link made me realize I've never actually seen the video for Shook Ones before, which is basically a perfect song as far as I'm concerned.

I was just youtubing Right Back at You and feeling quite emotional for loads of different reasons:(

omg! Up North Trip was another classic.

Bill Dana (aka Jose Jimenez)

aaaand we'll just leave it there

Gabe Pressman, pioneering local TV reporter in NY since the '50s

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Gabe-Pressman-WNBC-Dead-430323423.html

Paul Berlin, legendary Houston radio personality

http://m.chron.com/entertainment/article/Longtime-Houston-DJ-Paul-Berlin-dies-at-86-11243175.php#photo-13140836

Pianist - composer Geri Allen:
http://wbgo.org/post/geri-allen-brilliantly-expressive-pianist-composer-and-educator-dies-60#stream/0

RIP :(

I had only just read she was gravely ill earlier, RIP.

RIP. A wonderful musician.

Gerry Conlon

Hmmm. Dangers of fb that, he's dead years apparently. Belated RIP Gerry

Swedish actor Mikael Nyqvist, 56, lung cancer.

damn...way too young. he was very good in everything i saw him in. great in Together, better than he needed to be in the Millennium films, a really good villain in Ghost Protocol and John Wick.

Shit

Michael Bond, writer of the Paddington the Bear books, at 91. The last Paddington book was 2014! but the latest Monsieur Pamplemousse was his last, in 2015.

Film critic Barry Norman

Ooh, RIP Barry and why not.

film critic and onion magnate

I will always associate him with the 80's because I don't recall watching him once since he went to Sky. I can't remember what he said about the likes of Highlander and Big Trouble in Little China, i probably would have still watched them if he said they were trash! But can remember watching his review of Withnail and I for some strange reason.

My weirdly vivid memory is of seeing him review some Arnie film or other and constantly referring to him not by that affectionate diminutive nickname but by the diminutive nickname "Schwartzy", young me was like "wtf nobody calls him that how are you getting this wrong"

lol @ Schwartzy! Talking of that, although I can't remember any interesting details about his review I can remember excitedly telling my bro about how good Predator is going to be after a Norman review, Serous! This film is going to be so wicked I'm going to watch it twice!

He was fairly conservative in his tastes, but he did shape a nation's views. Hard to imagine a more famous critic?

A more famous English one or ?

Yeah, sorry. Or, more famous to the UK

John Blackwell

RIP Grotbags :(

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/grotbags-carol-lee-scott-dead-10745962

RIP indeed. Also she did this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEYaxZoQ188

No thread of his own? >:[

Pierre Henry RIP.

http://Lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2017/07/06/le-compositeur-francais-pierre-henry-est-mort_5156693_3382.html?

How is there no ILM thread on him?!?

Very sad news. R.I.P.

people I assumed were already dead :(

I wish I'd got my act together earlier this year to get up to L'pool for his 50-year-delayed inaugural mass for Paddy's Wigwam. Currently blasting Prismes from Kyldex on YT (where can I get an LP of this, I wonder?).

RIP.

I'd put money on a Pierre Henry soundtrack to the end credits of this evening's Tour de France highlights programme on ITV4.

http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/2017/06/22/cajun-music-legend-belton-richard-dies/418555001/

Everton fc

Carolyn Cronenberg, David's wife and sometimes editor.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/carolyn-cronenberg-dead-film-editor-david-cronenbergs-wife-was-66-1018686