Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

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

!! Genuinely gutted....

Michael Friedman, writer of BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON

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

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

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

Len Wein, truly one of THE figures of comics:

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

Oh man RIP

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.

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.

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

I know he's a bad bad man but I will weep tears when Stan goes

Don Ohlmeyer, TV sports/programming exec/producer

Wiki:

Shortly after (Norm) Macdonald was taken off the Weekend Update desk, David Letterman, during a taping of his CBS network television program the Late Show, called Don an "idiot" and referred to Ohlmeyer as "Happy Hour Don" (a reference to Ohlmeyer's problems with alcohol). After the taping, Letterman decided that his comment was inappropriate and had the reference edited out of the broadcast, but the comment (which was heard by the entire live studio audience) was publicized shortly thereafter in a report in the New York Post.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/don-ohlmeyer-dead-at-72-nbc-must-see-tv-1202553810/

Steve Howe's son Virgil, a drummer who played on some of Steve's albums.

Due to the tragic, unexpected death of guitarist Steve Howe’s beloved younger son Virgil, the remaining #YESTIVAL dates have been cancelled. pic.twitter.com/u1934a93Ng

— YESofficial (@yesofficial) September 11, 2017

Oh man. So sad. Poor Steve...

wtf? Wasn't he touring with them? Shocker.

No, that's the other son, Dylan.

Sir Peter Hall, 86.

Virgil has played with FSOL/AA a lot, as well as being a part of the mashup/dj era and releasing a brilliant mix cd under the alias of sparoworlds when he used to discuss stuff with me via his myspace page.

r.i.p.

Sorry to say I didn't know about Virgil but I love Steve Howe so it's very sad to see this.

Edith Windsor, the gay-rights activist whose landmark Supreme Court case struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/woman-helped-end-federal-gay-marriage-ban-dies-49801389

Jessi Zazu, Those Darlins Singer, Dead at 28 (cervical cancer).

http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/jessi-zazu-those-darlins-singer-dead-at-28-w502855

Pete Domenici, NM senator for 36 years

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/13/pete-domenici-dies-obituary-242660

Frank Vincent, 78. (Phil Leotardo/Billy Batts.)

Aw fuck

he was the victim and perpetrator of some famously ugly death scenes.

Vincent and Farina, jammin' in Heaven.

Phil Leotardo "coming out" of Vito's closet will forever haunt me.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJoeCWfWsAEntru.jpg

RIP Wm Berger of "My Castle of Quiet"/WFMU

^^another image to forever haunt me

Xpost my wife just told me about that
Uncle Wiggly is one of her all time favorite bands

RIP, hope he's telling people in Heaven to get their shineboxes

god i just realized the poetry of Pesci killing Billy Batts and then what happens in Casino with, well...

http://www.chud.com/articles/content_images/0NICK2/casino_1818.jpg

Nothing to say about Frank Vincent in Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and (to a somewhat lesser extent) Casino that hasn't been said a million times already. My favourite scene of his from The Sopranos--this one scene lingered for the rest of the series with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBcbc8eWz6U

(xpost: And don't forget the beating Pesci gives him in Raging Bull.)

Grant Hart

Ooof. Fuck cancer.

JP Donleavy

Oh man, what a day!

Gastone Moschin, Italian film actor of The Conformist and Godfather II (Don Fanucci of Little Italy)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/movies/gastone-moschin-dies-at-88-played-a-doomed-don-in-godfather-part-ii.html

Harry Dean Stanton

aw fuck! he just had a new film coming out and a retrospective downtown.

Can't wait to see that film! And yeah, what a career.

Nooooo!!!

:(

Goddamn it, I was afraid 2017 was going to be out of the frying pan into the fire.

dammit

That's, what, three Twin Peaks: The Return cast members now?

four, I think?

Warren Frost, Coulson, Ferrer + Stanton

And Bowie