Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (1821 of them)

View Previous Page...

Just re-watched it a few weeks ago actually, and it's still magnificently savage/funny.

― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Monday, 28 August 2017 18:28 (eight years ago)

Bernard Pomerance, Tony-winning playwright of The Elephant Man

http://deadline.com/2017/08/bernard-pomerance-has-died-elephant-man-playwright-was-76-1202157773/

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 20:45 (eight years ago)

rollie massimino, basketball coach

http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2017%2F0829%2Fr250863_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&w=1006&h=566&scale=crop&cquality=80&location=origin

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:06 (eight years ago)

Canadian-centric: Skip Prokop, drummer for Lighthouse and the Paupers.

http://www.durhamradionews.com/archives/104709

I mentioned interviewing him 30 years ago on a Monterey thread, I think--never knew until recently that the Paupers performed there.

― clemenza, Thursday, 31 August 2017 02:49 (eight years ago)

Shelley Berman

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/obituaries/shelley-berman-dead-comedian.html?referer=http://criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=594883

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 September 2017 18:27 (eight years ago)

old-comedian ranks thinning fast this summer

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 September 2017 18:32 (eight years ago)

Richard Anderson, supporting actor in Forbidden Planet, Paths of Glory, and those bionic shows

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/richard-anderson-dead-six-million-855240

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 September 2017 18:34 (eight years ago)

XP Schecky Greene better check in with a health professional asap.

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 September 2017 18:39 (eight years ago)

Mort Sahl too

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 September 2017 19:07 (eight years ago)

Cool trivia on Richard Anderson is that he once was in the cast of two different primetime shows that ran simultaneously (different time slots) on two competing networks. Because one bionic show was on ABC and the other on NBC in 1977-78. He and his cast-mate Martin E. Brooks may be the only actors who have pulled this off. (Imdb mentions other actors with two shows, but they don't address the two different networks part).

― Josefa, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:48 (eight years ago)

Pears' Cyclopaedia :(

― Jeff W, Saturday, 2 September 2017 12:29 (eight years ago)

Ann Jellicoe, playwright who wrote the Knack, and also directed my mother in Woking's community play.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/sep/01/ann-jellicoe-obituary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

― Madchen, Sunday, 3 September 2017 07:00 (eight years ago)

Apparently Walter Becker?

https://walterbecker.com

Fagen had said a couple of months back that Becker was recovering from a procedure but gave no further details.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 September 2017 12:27 (eight years ago)

wait that goes to a weird federalist site. try

http://www.walterbecker.com/

― maura, Sunday, 3 September 2017 12:47 (eight years ago)

oh no no no. met him once without having any idea who he was despite SD being one of the most important bands for me ever -- I will write more on their thread I guess.

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 3 September 2017 12:48 (eight years ago)

aw shit :(

RIP, one of the COAT

― a big sausage-handed small-eared guy (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 September 2017 12:51 (eight years ago)

That was GOAT and I hate my phone and thumbs

― a big sausage-handed small-eared guy (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 September 2017 12:52 (eight years ago)

Coolest, tbf

― imago, Sunday, 3 September 2017 12:53 (eight years ago)

real punch in the gut if this is the case

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 September 2017 12:53 (eight years ago)

Noooo ...

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 September 2017 13:45 (eight years ago)

it's legit, I am legit sad.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 September 2017 13:45 (eight years ago)

Colossal bummer

― Moodles, Sunday, 3 September 2017 14:46 (eight years ago)

No!!!!!!!!!!!

― flappy bird, Sunday, 3 September 2017 15:22 (eight years ago)

And now word of John Ashbery having passed as well.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 September 2017 20:12 (eight years ago)

We are very sorry to hear of the loss of our admired and beloved contributor John Ashbery. https://t.co/r81Kz7cMRB
— The Paris Review (@parisreview) September 3, 2017

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 September 2017 20:14 (eight years ago)

Two of Bard's best.

― Eazy, Monday, 4 September 2017 15:30 (eight years ago)

Was just thinking that

― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 September 2017 15:31 (eight years ago)

Murray Lerner

http://variety.com/2017/music/news/documentary-filmmaker-murray-lerner-60s-70s-music-dead-new-york-1202546989/

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 16:20 (eight years ago)

Holger Czukay

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:31 (eight years ago)

Rick Stevens, former Tower of Power singer and triple murderer.

― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 02:34 (eight years ago)

Oof, isn't that two Can members this year?

― koogs, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 03:07 (eight years ago)

Jesus, losing the CAN rhythm section is like one of the laws of physics being rescinded. Vale Holger.

― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 05:14 (eight years ago)

things are moving so fast they can't even keep the dead musicians straight

http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/former-tower-of-power-lead-singer-rick-stevens-dead-at-77/ar-AArmal2?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

― nomar, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 05:24 (eight years ago)

Kate Millett, author of Sexual Politics, at 82.

― the general theme of STUFF (cryptosicko), Thursday, 7 September 2017 16:46 (eight years ago)

Troy Gentry of Country Dudes Montgomery Gentry, in a helicopter crash

http://www.wideopencountry.com/montgomery-gentry/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=partner&utm_term=authtx&utm_campaign=authtx

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 September 2017 20:45 (eight years ago)

Don Williams

http://m.chron.com/life/article/Don-Williams-country-music-s-Gentle-Giant-has-12183755.php

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 September 2017 21:00 (eight years ago)

Don Williams had such a smooth voice, him and Whispering Bill Anderson was a couple of my mom's favorite country singers. From what I always understood, Don Williams was really popular in west Africa.

― earlnash, Saturday, 9 September 2017 04:46 (eight years ago)

sci-fi writer Jerry Pournelle

― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Saturday, 9 September 2017 11:17 (eight years ago)

Earlnash, have you read that book Hidden in the Mix, by Diane Pecknold?

― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 September 2017 12:34 (eight years ago)

Don Williams had such a smooth voice, him and Whispering Bill Anderson was a couple of my mom's favorite country singers. From what I always understood, Don Williams was really popular in west Africa.

Massively popular in Zimbabwe as well, it turns out. Pretty cool!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 September 2017 17:42 (eight years ago)

Meantime, just learned that Celia Mancini of King Loser passed -- real shame.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nat-music/audio/201857627/king-loser-s-celia-mancini-has-died

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 September 2017 17:43 (eight years ago)

!! Genuinely gutted....

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 9 September 2017 22:03 (eight years ago)

Michael Friedman, writer of BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON

http://www.playbill.com/article/michael-friedman-composer-of-bloody-bloody-andrew-jackson-dies-at-41

― maura, Sunday, 10 September 2017 13:47 (eight years ago)

Oof. That's a great show. Hearing lots of stories about his generosity and talent this morning from theater friends.

― Eazy, Sunday, 10 September 2017 13:54 (eight years ago)

Blunt reminder too that we can control HIV but it's not curable yet.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 September 2017 13:57 (eight years ago)

Len Wein, truly one of THE figures of comics:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/len-wein-co-creator-of-wolverine-and-editor-of-watchme-1803098383

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 September 2017 22:12 (eight years ago)

Oh man RIP

― Οὖτις, Sunday, 10 September 2017 22:54 (eight years ago)

Within 6 months of Bernie too.

I wouldn't still read comics if it wasn't for Len. Swamp Thing is the single character that pulled me back in as an adult and House of Secrets #92 is still a favourite.

― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Sunday, 10 September 2017 23:23 (eight years ago)

RIP Len Wein. I met him once in a hotel bar after a comic convention in central London - he was extremely affable and approachable, and wore his 'big name pro' status very lightly.

― Gulley Jimson (Ward Fowler), Monday, 11 September 2017 08:27 (eight years ago)

Oh shit len wein

I haven't bought a new comic-book in years and only rarely read my old comic books, but a name like that strikes deep within my memories

― Cyndi Larper (stevie), Monday, 11 September 2017 13:17 (eight years ago)

Skipping 1721 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

This thread has been locked by an administrator

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.