Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

award-winning stage/screen actor Roy Dotrice, 94, most recently of the elf show

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/oct/16/roy-dotrice-obituary

John Dunsworth, who played Jim Lahey in Trailer Park Boys, 71.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/john-dunsworth-beloved-actor-best-known-as-mr-lahey-has-died-1.4357370

Gord Downie, of the Tragically Hip, 53.

I'm seeing Phil Miller, guitarist from Hatfield and the North, has passed away on the Gong facebook page.

Legendary French actress Danielle Darrieux, 100. One of the greats has passed.

oh my, RIP DD

Charles Osborne, Arts Council director and writer of opera guides, Auden biographer...

I liked this extract from his obituary in The Times:

He was educated at Brisbane State High School, where he developed a keen appetite for life’s pleasures. A Mr Ross, who conducted the school choir, provided his first homosexual encounter at the age of 14; a year later Anna Kunz, a Viennese friend of his mother, lured him to her beach house for his first heterosexual encounter.

“The foundations of my sexual technique were as well and truly laid that weekend as I was,” he wrote, adding: “At the age of 17 I became sex mad and leapt in and out of bed with whomever I found attractive and could attract, of either sex.”

i am hearing "SEX MAD" to the tune of prince's "BAT DANCE"

startling obit of sean hughes by ex-friend and sometime patron of these parts, michael hann: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/oct/19/remembering-sean-hughes-the-sadness-is-he-didnt-get-to-be-old-just-lonely

I shall go to his funeral on Monday, and I will still be asking myself: who was my old friend? And why did his life turn out this way?

I'm sure he'll have a cracking time with his fellow mourners at the funeral after this obit

http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2017/10/19/news/morto_umberto_lenzi-178712510/amp/

Umberto Lenzi, probably most famous for Cannibal Ferox.

Had a bulk email from the Idler this afternoon from Tom Hodgkinson, linking to that MIchael Hann obit with the comment "This piece by Michael Hann, also a former friend of Sean's, in The Guardian describes exactly my own experience of the man."

Yeah I'm guessing Michael's take on Sean will chime with that of most of his fellow mourners. It's a great piece.

Konono No. 1 Bandleader Augustin Mawangu Mingiedi Dead at 56 (he took over bandleader role after his father dies in 2015).

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/konono-no-1-bandleader-augustin-mawangu-mingiedi-dead-at-56-w509710

oh no! RIP

Michael’s piece was great. I’m glad Tom spoke up as well.

that Sean H piece is really sad, and it seems there are many similar lives among comedians/musicians who were smart/talented as hell.

(Jerry Lewis claimed he loved being onstage with Dean Martin the most, because as a solo, "It's lonely. Try it.")

RIp to Mingiedi

For Angelenos (oddly, I was reading the Queens thread for the first time earlier today where Jitlada is mentioned):

https://la.eater.com/2017/10/19/16501046/jitlada-chef-tui-sungkamee-dies

bill lombardy, chess-playing priest and bobby fischer's second at reykjavik in '72 (bobby quit speaking to him after he described him in a sports illustrated article as "a mystery wrapped in an enigma"):

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/chess-the-church-and-the-cold-war-the-life-of-fr-bill-lombardy-1.3260707

Eamonn Campbell of the Dubliners. I loved listening to the Dubliners in my early teenage years, my dad took me to see them once when I was 13 or 14, it was the first concert I ever went to, I was very enthousiastic about it.
My time of listening to Irish folk music was really something of those days & it's over 20 years ago, but it makes me sad to see them go (he's the third one to pass away of the five-piece lineup I saw back then, after Ronnie Drew and Barney McKenna).

Federico Luppi, Spanish-Argentine actor likely best known for his roles in Guillermo del Toro films like the antiques dealer in Cronos

(no English obits yet)

That Michael Hann/Sean Hughes piece is vile. Takes a special kind of psychopath to say such unpleasant stuff about a man whose corpse is still warm. Whole thing stank of bitterness and grudge-bearing.

For context, people quoted in it, such as the comedian Carl Donnelly, say they were misled by Hann about the tone of the piece and how disgusted they are by the end result. An ex-girlfriend of Hughes has spoken out about how upset it has made her, on top of the grief she's already going through. It's as bad, if not worse, than any tawdry doorstep-barging Sun/Daily Mail journalist.

The whole vague "Hughes hates women" thing is probably the most horrible part - totally unfounded, baseless claims. It's especially eyebrow-raising when you look at Hann's Bring Me The Horizon interview from 2013 where he brushes over the widespread accounts of them abusing groupies and throwing piss on female fans, preferring to focus on how 'upset' the band were by these claims.

I know Hann is an ILX regular but absolutely fuck him. There's a time and a place for vicious exposés like this, and it's not two days after the guy's death.

The whole vague "Hughes hates women" thing is probably the most horrible part - totally unfounded, baseless claims.

they may be, in the piece, unsupported claims. but how do you know they're baseless and unfounded?

xp Counterpoint: yes it is, particularly if he died this week.

There's a time and a place for vicious exposés like this, and it's not two days after the guy's death.

Don't wish to debate yr other points, but this was written on the understanding it would be published in G2 after SH's funeral. They pulled it forward against MH's wishes. So now...well, MH isn't going to the funeral for one thing.

That's really odd considering the last paragraph starting "I shall go to his funeral on Monday..."

^^^Subeditors.

Personally, and as someone who *did* date Sean, I didn’t begrudge Michael alluding to his trickiness with women in the ‘90s. He could be really offhand with people, and it’s not for me to contradict the women who objected to that. But he was far from the worst of a bunch of creative/famous/public guys out there, and had many redeeming qualities (some of which I mentioned upthread). What I have found annoying, though, is seeing people who for years enabled or turned a blind eye to some of his worst antics, even getting the beers in, calling him an arsehole.

I’ve found out he wasn’t on his own when he died, which cane as a relief.

*came

George Young of the Easybeats, and brother to Malcolm & Angus

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/tributes-flow-for-songwriter-and-former-easybeats-guitarist-george-young/news-story/012f83f9c6a606273afdb46831f7cd4e

Did not know about his involvement with "Love Is In The Air"

Of Vanda & Young songwriting/production fame. RIP George.

Scott Putesky, aka 'Daisy Berkowitz'

https://pitchfork.com/news/marilyn-mansons-daisy-berkowitz-dead-at-49/amp/

he was always hanging out in the south FL music scene I came up in, didn't know him well but super sweet guy :(

robert guillaume

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-guillaume-dead-benson-actor-920459

What a run. Seriously a great, all around.

wish I was old enough to have seen him on Broadway in Purlie! and Guys and Dolls.

Josh Malina posted on Twitter that he did see him in Guys and it inspired him to start acting, so he was super grateful when he got to work with him on Sports Night.

Also today, astronaut Paul Weitz, who both crewed Skylab and piloted the first flight of Shuttle Challenger. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-weitz-nasa-commander-space-shuttle-challenger-dies/

;_;

89 is a fine age though.

Never knew about the Easybeats-AC/DC connection.

I can’t believe you!

Sending back my copy of I Wanna Be Sedated

<3 guillaume

Fats Domino :(

Ain't that a shame.

Found his freedom :-)

Aw, RIP Fats Domino ... somewhat forgotten as a major force in early rock 'n' roll, but he had more cross-over hits than anybody in that era

Oh man, I keep thinking about how he has hung on, even through Katrina when people thought he'd gone.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5259801

Like so many people my age my first exposure to anything of his was Richie Cunningham's repeated use of "I found my thrill . . ." on Happy Days. I only really got turned on to him later, via The Beatles' early recordings and Hamburg days.

:(

Fats was the god, RIP

RIP Fats, a musical saint

Walter Lassally, cinematographer of early Tony Richardson films, Merchant-Ivory, Zorba the Greek

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/walter-lassally-dead-oscar-winning-cinematographer-zorba-greek-was-90-1051421