Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

that's a life

Dennis Edwards of The Temptations, one day ahead of his 75th birthday (via Twitter).

:((((

Too soon. :(

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/obituaries/dennis-edwards-former-temptations-lead-singer-dies-at-74.html?action=click&module=In%20Other%20News&pgtype=Homepage&action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage

Screenwriter David Sherwin (The Mick Travis Trilogy)

https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/02/david-sherwin

His daughter was a colleague of mine at Edgy Style Mag - very well-spoken but grew up skint.

oh hell, i have O Lucky Man out from the library. Perhaps that's my Super Bowl sorted, then.

Drummer Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, who played with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, George Duke, Eddie Henderson, Santana, and many others, particularly in the 1970s.

I was just reminded on Twitter that Chancler is the drummer on Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean."

That'll be how the press will be remembering him, then.

The first two of the Mick Travis trilogy are among my favourite films of all time. RIP.

Louis Zorich, stage/TV actor ("Mad About You," Uncle Ben opp Dustin Hoffman in Death of a Salesman) and husband of Olympia Dukakis

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-louis-zorich-20180202-story.html

#BREAKING ‘Frasier' Star John Mahoney Dead at 77 via @TMZ https://t.co/QCZTiUj0oc pic.twitter.com/CrWTiSPuJ0

— Anthony Dominic (@alloveranthony) February 5, 2018

Aw. He was a local staple here. Used to be seen around all the time.

Oh no :-(

not confirmed yet but reading reports of experimental filmmaker Paul Clipson. His work with Grouper is amazing.

vimeo.com/109943175

fuck, nevermind https://www.gofundme.com/paul-clipson-family-memorial-fund

John Mahoney was also great as the Faulkner character in Barton Fink - “Where’s my honey?” - and as the out-of-tune dad singing along to “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” in Say Anything.

I could have sworn Mahoney died years ago. I must be thinking of another similar-looking character actor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonzBvi97qI

Paul Clipson - a criminally unsung luminary of the moving image - has died. His images, layers upon layers of light and energy and feeling has been an inspiration.
Very sad news. pic.twitter.com/3721ZHdLUg

— Scott Barley (@ScottBarleyFilm) February 5, 2018

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

Bad day for TV dads/grampas. Dakin Mathews, get thee to a doctor pronto.

Actually meant to post the lead up to that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-8M7lSEJD4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hi59dtP60k

Great comment about Mahoney

A great actor, gentle man and wonderfully private person in our celebrity-nutty world, telling me some 20 years ago, "I used to crave publicity. I now turn almost everything down. I would rather walk across broken glass." https://t.co/L9QkwwwNQf

— Rick kogan (@rickkogan) February 5, 2018

Rest in peace, John Mahoney. So much I could say, but I think this captures so much of why I love him. Martin Crane's message for future generations: pic.twitter.com/lZlM665M6y

— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) February 5, 2018

my heart sank when reading that

And had flat out forgotten he was General Rogard in The Iron Giant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l4m3S3k-pg

Oh man, John Mahoney RIP!

I first saw him (I think) in his Tony-winning role in this John Guare revival, opposite Swoosie Kurtz and 20-y.o. Ben Stiller. Great production, you can probably find the TV version shown on PBS somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8mQJWEWCPw

Paul Clipson was our beloved colleague and today was a truly surreal and horrible workday. Everyone is gutted.

Even when I was a kid, I found Mahoney to be the most compelling of the three principal's in Say Anything. RIP.

xpost -- Damn sorry to hear that. I must have seen his work at numerous times over the years given how many musicians I know around here have been devastated by the loss.

Paul was a dear person and a tremendous artist. He will be missed.

That video of the advert for HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES is tremendous ! Old school Broadway corn.

John Mahoney was between 52 and 63 when he was in 'Frasier'

Is this another one of those 'too young to play his dad' things?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO1AKAKGCvk

YES Ste!

Old school Broadway corn.

Ohhh, you'd never guess how that play ends...

John Mahoney was between 52 and 63 when he was in 'Frasier'

This is crazy.

He was less than 15 years older than Kelsey Grammer.

Mahoney's character in THoBL was the world's worst songwriter, his wife (Kurtz) mentally ill, and his son planning to assassinate Pope Paul. So it was a "new theatre" black comedy, especially when the first production flopped in 1971.

Estelle Getty was 62 when she started playing Sophia Petrillo. Bea Arthur was 63.

https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2018/02/05/paul-clipson-visionary-filmmaker-and-projectionist-dies-at-53/

Proper obit for Paul.

John Perry Barlow

https://www.jambase.com/article/john-perry-barlow-grateful-dead-lyricist-died

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_o5-fMQoE&

RIP Thomas Denis (aka Qebrus).

wow end of an era wrt barlow

i forget what his well username was

Another obituary from the other side of his career: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018

Lovebug Starski, 57.