Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

Si Newhouse of Condé Nast, 89.

I would guess that in 2017 his death won't raise a lot of dole but his was once a huge, huge name

RIP monty hall. loved the show (reruns) and as kid fascinated by logic and probability, the monty hall problem was formative

I never knew that that problem was named for him, or that his daughter is the actress Joanna Gleason.

David Remnick on Newhouse

https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/samuel-i-newhouse-jr-the-longtime-owner-of-the-new-yorker-and-chairman-of-conde-nast-has-died-at-eighty-nine

You didn't get invited to those private film screenings, did you?

No. Newhouse's passing was acknowledged at the NYFF today.

Feel like a friend of mine was related to Newhouse by marriage at one point, although I can't quite get him to fess up or clarify.

Anka Radakovich
@ankarad
12h
This wonderful man changed my life. Called and asked if he could publish my book at Random House. #RIP nytimes.com/2017/10/01/obi… #sinewhouse

Mark Kaufman
@Drawmark
11h
Rot in Hell Si Newhouse…Condè Nast's long history of unfair contracts, rights grabs, ripping off freelancers/interns vogue.com/article/si-new…

Conde Nasty

lol anka

xp to maura, they apparently had to change the name after hall's people sent a c+d letter; it's now officially Montgomery Hall in all the literature and website notation

It appears Tom Petty is no longer with us

heart attack and found unconscious . 66 years old. Wow.

And just after finishing a tour (last show Sep 25 at the Hollywood Bowl).

A 40th anniversary tour, which (grain of salt) Petty had hinted could be one of his last.

Some confusion - TMZ now reporting that the LAPD can't confirm despite issuing an earlier statement confirming Petty's death.

crossing fingers

(2/2) However, the LAPD has no investigative role in this matter. We apologize for any inconvenience in this reporting.

— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) October 2, 2017

“We apologize for any inconvenience” somehow manages to trump Trump's "warmest condolences" for the clumsiest death-related statement of the day.

Well, we can make it official now. RIP. What a day ...

electronic musician charles cohen

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=40112

Chuck Low, who played Morrie in Goodfellas

Just got an e-mail from friend about Chuck Low--we've been trading Morrie quotes for 25 years. Also fantastic in The King of Comedy, sitting in a restaurant and waving his hands Rupert-style in the background.

RIP Anne Wiazemsky (haven't seen the obit yet, just from my twitter)

:(

Confirmed by Allocine website, RIP Anne.

RIP Anne. fuck cancer.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/oct/05/anne-wiazemsky-actor-france-jean-luc-godard

http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/9730591/500full-la-chinoise-screenshot.jpg

Gotta love a red redhead.

Arthur Janov, 93

Ralphie May

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/ralphie-may-dead-dies-comedian-last-comic-standing-1202583047/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=72193&utm_term=281970

bluesman cedell davis died last week at 91

Bunny Sigler

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/bunny-sigler-helped-create-1970s-philly-sound-dies-50334319

oh whoooa Ralphie May! Shit. Great comic. Goddamn. I don't even know how old he was but I know it was way too fucking young. RIP.

Connie Hawkins:

http://www.nba.com/article/2017/10/07/connie-hawkins-dies-75-obit#/

He was in decline when I first started watching basketball in the mid-'70s, but he was still a big name.

RIP. David Wolf's biography of the Hawk is great and gives you a sense of how the league has changed.

Joe Bailon, inventor of “candy apple red” and other paints, dies aged 94

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/09/27/joe-bailon-inventor-of-candy-apple-red-and-other-paints-dies-aged-94/

my favorite color. RIP

French actor Jean Rochefort :(

Watched him gamely brightening the screen for five minutes in Mr Bean's Holiday (which went down well with my niblings) over the weekend.

Watched April & The Extraordinary World this past weekend and the gf got excited over Rochefort being in it, talked about how much she likes him.

Jimmy Beaumont of the Skyliners:

http://www.wtae.com/article/pittsburgh-music-legend-jimmy-beaumont-of-the-skyliners-dies-at-76/12805272

"Since I Don't Have You" is one of the great doo-wop songs ever--being introduced to it via American Graffiti (probably, anyway--I may have heard it on the radio before that) had, as the popular expression goes, a transformative effect on my life. (Geez, a YouTube search turns up the Guns N' Roses cover at the top of the list.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzyEd2soQkk

Grady Tate

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/jazz-drum-star-grady-tate-dies-85-article-1.3554932

:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nWaV8G8Sw

storied NY Giants QB Y.A. Tittle

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/10/556786699/football-legend-y-a-tittle-dies-at-90

Bob Schiller, TV writer for episodes of “I Love Lucy,” “Maude” and “All in the Family”, also Abbott & Costello and Red Skelton.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-schiller-dead-i-love-lucy-writer-was-98-1047459

For All in the Family, the pair penned the two-part episode "Edith's 50th Birthday" in which Edith (Jean Stapleton) is the victim of an attempted rape.

Also wrote the two-part Maude where Walter's drinking problem spiraled out of control. Dude liked to lay it on thick in the '70s.

also this

https://wpr-public.s3.amazonaws.com/wprorg/s3fs-public/images/segments/i-love-lucy-grape-stomping.jpg

(I mean, that was the Norman Lear brand. And given the restrictions of their earlier careers, he and Bob Weiskopf were probably thrilled to be able to do those.)