Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

I'm seeing Kat Arthur, singer of Legal Weapon. No link.

Wow Paul allen dying is kind of nuts considering his real estate company has been a big part of the construction boom out here. Wonder what’s gonna turn out to be in his will.

Maybe $1 billion to me

I hope it all goes to the Allen Brain Institute, that group has been doing some fine work and making their data freely accessible.

Allen is kind of a mythical figure to me - I worked at WSU, where he dropped out of after two years in the 70s and there were always rumors that he was on one of the private jets that would show up on home football game days.

And I don't know if it was amazing trolling or just weird timing, but Bill Gates gave the school $25 million for a animal health research building, and a year later Allen gave $26 and they ended up naming it after him.

One of the bad things Paul Allen did (long-ish, but mentioned at the end):

https://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/lost-hollywood-the-enchanted-hill-of-fred-thomson-and-frances-marion/

based on the rotation of costumes exhibited at Cinerama, he also owns…most Hollywood memorabilia. Like possibly most of it that exists.

Wouldn't anything in the property rooms of any Hollywood studio have been in one or more movies? So, it might just be memorabilia of some forgettable short feature from 1936, but it would still be "Hollywood memorabilia".

$26?

rip paul allen, who will play shreddin' blues licks on your obscenely giant yacht now

iirc he was a respectable guitarist!

Favorite comment on video of Allen shredding: "Warren Buffett is better than Steve Vai any day."

Arto Paasilinna. Finnish writer, best known for The Year of the Hare. RIP.

Dennis Hof, owner of the Nevada brothel the Bunny Ranch. I met him once, for work.

“Less than 24 hours ago, Hof celebrated his birthday along with pornographic actor Ron Jeremy, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist.”

how can hell top that. i ask you

lol, I just made the same joke on the US politics thread. I suppose hell for this guy would be more like being trapped in a library

I would be happy to be that librarian.

his first question: do you have any books w boobs in them

I would take my time in responding.

*hands over the complete Mencken*

In Spanish.

Milena Dravić, of WR: Mysteries of The Organism fame.

https://criticsroundup.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/wr-mysteries-of-the-organism-still-526x295.jpg

xposts: He grossed me out in the Cathouse tv show. Yuk

xp aw RIP

NSFW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf0QQ1LzqiM

Walter Huddleston, Kentucky Democrat who lost his Senate seat in '84 to Mitch McVader

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/former-senator-walter-huddleston-dies-92

Rashod Ollison, a truly great music writer and presenter of his own work. His appearances at the Pop Conference were wonderful.

translator anthea bell

I wish ppl posting in the rolling obituary thread would link to obituaries for these interesting sounding people

i wish ppl reading the rolling obituary thread knew how to use a search engine

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/18/anthea-bell-obituary

The term translator seems insufficient in this case. A great

thanks that's a good one, what a career. I want to read that Tomcat book

Arkansas raised, Virginia -based music critic and author Rashod Ollison, mentioned above, died from cancer at 41. His writing about Aretha, Chaka Khan, and more was special.

https://pilotonline.com/news/local/article_9ea7895e-d31e-11e8-a7e0-bb75fff0a8b1.html

today's been busy

Danny Leiner, director of Dude, Where's My Car? and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-danny-leiner-director-of-harold-and-kumar-and-d-1829886429

RIP. great movies, the former is one of my favorites

pretty much the only stoner comedy films i've ever liked

(haven't sat thru Cheech & Chong)

bad movies

actually i don't remember dude where's my car well enough but harold and kumar is bad.

his other credits are pretty stellar though. i just watched the sopranos episode "luxury lounge" on saturday

nah both DWMC and H&KGTWC are great, and this guy was no slouch on the tv credits either. A real loss imo. Great, consistent comedy directors are rare!

harold & kumar was great! - i dont really remember Dude Wheres My Car except for the “and then?” bit

rip

the continuum transfunctioner is a very mysterious and powerful device and its mystery is exceeded only by its power

one of the more honest bromance comedy scenes

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

yesss

there is something very boyish and homoerotic about DWMC, much more so than Harold & Kumar. it's dreamlike, a fantasy movie in a way, & I don't mean the obvious alien stuff. like there's no reference at all to these guys being in/having gone to college, they work at a pizza place and can somehow rent that house (with the dude that lives in the closet), they've been dating the twins for a year and they still haven't had sex, and iirc are virgins? it's a bizarre movie

a friend of mine pointed out a significant plot hole recently though: no tailor would be open that late at night

Wim Kok, the last Dutch Labour politician (to date) to become prime minister, personification of the polder model and adherent of the Third Way:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-kok/former-dutch-prime-minister-wim-kok-dies-at-80-idUSKCN1MU0Q7

comics artist Steve Dillon (Preacher, Hellblazer): https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/arts/steve-dillon-comic-artist-who-helped-create-preacher-dies-at-54.html

Damn, a ruptured appendix? Good lord. I had appendicitis when I was a teenager and knew something was seriously wrong within an hour, and mine didn't rupture. But I have an extremely low tolerance for pain. My dad had it a few years ago and also thought it was food poisoning, for three days - thank god he got to a doctor and had an operation in time. Was a big fan of Preacher when I was kid, was pretty o_O next to The Amazing Spider-Man and even The Punisher. RIP