Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

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Tom Wolfe

saw him on the street in the white suit once

rip big man, the right stuff is an amazing piece of reportage

RIP. Was very into him in college, read everything I could get my hands on. Right Stuff is brilliant.

Joseph Campanella, "that guy" character actor

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/joseph-campanella-dead-character-actor-909457

Huh. For a "that guy" I don't think I've seen anything he was in. I guess he played a bartender in "The Producers" and "man on street" in "Seconds?" Dunno if I would recognize him from those. Morbs, what do you know him from?

at least a couple dozen TV guest shots in the '70s

(MTM, Rockford Files, Quincy)

Golden Girls

JiC, you are citing the credits of FRANK Campanella, Joe's brother.

dissident Romanian filmmaker Lucian Pintilie

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/director-lucian-pintilie-dubbed-godfather-romanian-new-wave-dies-at-84-1112852

xpost That's right! Just looked though and I've seen even less of Joe's stuff. Maybe only ... Ben? Know of but never saw any of those TV shows he and his brother were in.

my posts are primarily aimed at the olds, and lovers of Romanian cinema

My first exposure to Joe Campanella was as the narrator on the Canadian science TV show "What Will They Think Of Next?"

Campanella seems less for the Romanian cinema set and more for the "Mannix" set.

Reggie Lucas:

⚫️ #RIP Reggie Lucas, Legendary Guitarist who played for Miles Davis, produced the majority of the first Madonna album and founded the Quantum Sound recording studio where Jodeci, Jeff Buckley and Pet Shop Boys recorded 🙏 https://t.co/mwX9Z89Ab9

— Vinnie Crocker (@Vinnie_Crocker_) May 19, 2018

...and wrote "Borderline" for Madonna too.

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Reggie Lucas, producer of most of Madonna's first album, but more importantly (to me anyhow) the rhythm guitarist in Miles Davis's band from 1972-75. He's on Agharta, Pangaea, Dark Magus, Live at Philharmonic Hall, Get Up With It and some posthumous live compilations and the Complete On The Corner Sessions box.

Knew him from Pangaea-era Miles, didn't realize he did all that other stuff too. RIP

Wow. So slot him in with Narada Michael Walden and Quincy Jones as legit jazz dudes who turned out to be super adept at '80s pop.

been listening to this

https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/behind-the-boards-reggie-lucas-mtume/pl.521eed682f3749009a02b4bbec86ef9d

my posts are primarily aimed at the olds, and lovers of Romanian cinema

it's always jarring to me when someone else posts about the death of, e.g., the gaffer on spartacus, before you

"Borderline" (and "Lucky Star") are Madonna's zenith for me. RIP Reggie.

Campanella seems less for the Romanian cinema set and more for the "Mannix" set.

Just as an aside, three of Joseph Campenella sons have/had bands in the LA scene for years. Rob C. has been in the Brian Jonestown Massacre for over a decade and also plays in the Quarter After with his brother Dominick. Andy C had a band called Captain Planet (I think that was their name?) and has played drums in a couple others. Anyway, Joseph Campenella would occasionally be at one of the big parties at Rob's house - he loved listening to the music and he was amazing to talk to - total gentleman. In addition to The Invaders, Mannix, Ironside, One Day At A Time, and Dallas, he also has a credit for whistling on a BJM record.

Bill Gold

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/20/obituaries/bill-gold-dead-movie-posters.html

had no idea, Elvis!

xpost -- Good grief, never heard of Gold before. Total legend, I now realize.

Patricia Morison, 103, original Broadway star of Kiss Me Kate

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/20/patricia-morison-star-broadway-hollywood-dies-103

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYw86-TM91Y

middle east historian/neocon tool bernard lewis

richard goodwin, JFK/LBJ/RFK speechwriter + spouse of doris kearns:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/21/613062729/richard-goodwin-crafter-of-johnsons-famous-we-shall-overcome-speech-dies

Robert Indiana, whom you may know from the

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sculptures

Alas, the heroic pop art generation dwindles further.

Philip Roth

https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/philip-roth-in-the-new-yorker

Wow, a big one. Last of the big ones? One of the last.

6'6'' western star Clint Walker (Cheyenne, None But the Brave, The Dirty Dozen)

Glenn Snoddy, the guy who invented the fuzz pedal.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8457662/glenn-snoddy-nashville-engineer-inventor-fuzz-pedal-dies-96

Fucking Rest in Fuzz brother

RIP, where was the Nobel Prize for this guy?

if they'd have found a way to use his fuzz pedal for committing genocide, he'd have been a major contender #trenchant

Pretty sure My Bloody Valentine weaponised it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK4DpIenJiU

where was the Nobel Prize for this guy?

http://www.vintageguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/DALLAS-FUZZ-FACE-01.jpg

gaming youtuber and noted gamergate cretin john bain, aka totalbiscuit, dead at 33 from cancer

it's sad, he was interested in ethics in gaming journalism

heaven needed another asshole

heaven needed an asshole, so it gave john bain bowel cancer because death sometimes has a sense of humour

pitch black lols

I’ve never heard of him before today but part of me wonders if one of his final regrets was that he was an adult human male known to most of those who knew him at all as “totalbiscuit”.

Zero Man Total Biscuit

I’ve never heard of him before today but part of me wonders if one of his final regrets was that he was an adult human male known to most of those who knew him at all as “totalbiscuit”.

You've never met Colonel Poo.