Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Finnish ski jumper (and so much more) Matti Nykänen at 55.

https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/troubled_finnish_ski_jumping_legend_matti_nykanen_dead_at_55/10629072

A biopic seems inevitable.

sounds like a finnish gazza, albeit a gazza that actually won a shitload of stuff

RIP big man. One of my first sports heroes iirc.

Gazza comparison seems apt.

Was there ever a Finnish Moaty though?

if only ilx had a resident finn who could weigh in

"What are skis?"

lol

There was already a biopic about him a few years ago. Dude was also a wifebeater and a violent drunk who went to jail for stabbing a friend of his (he survived), so the glorification he's receiving right now makes me feel kinda uncomfortable.

thx for weighing in, resident finn

how does he measure up against Walter Steiner

How many ski jumping biopics do we actually need?

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JpIbVyQbUuw/WQR4wi9Qe5I/AAAAAAAAMl0/hbIGrWebi_4_bu4eB8SWHwQCgTmPmeccgCEw/s1600/image0008.jpg

Didn’t mean to glorify him (don’t think people here are glorifying Gazza either tbh). I read that stuff in the article too - thought the “troubled” in the url would be enough of a warning. Still, so much talent and fame gone wrong, it’s the stuff biopics are made of/for.

ban biopics tbh

Ban biopics of winter sports stars for sure.

Ban all biopics apart from ones about Nazis imo.

Ban everybody but Julian Schnabel, he did this right two or three times

C Y Lee, author of Flower Drum Song, at 102.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/cy-lee-author-of-the-best-selling-novel-the-flower-drum-song-dies-at-102/2019/02/03/29c2d7e4-2803-11e9-984d-9b8fba003e81_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2Xui1Qw8FWfPYtKroRMvgl2kJk_V61sAyRJdYh2somOpJqGog52lP-khI&utm_term=.5d7aca791dc0

Ban everybody but Julian Schnabel, he did this right two or three times

Too bad he wasted all those years painting before figuring out what he was good at.

Science Fiction writer Carol Emshwiller:

https://locusmag.com/2019/02/carol-emshwiller-1921-2019/

oh no! RIP

Albert Finney

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/08/albert-finney-dies-film-tom-jones-orient-express-millers-crossing

Aw shit, I loved him.

one of the greats for sure, rip big man

He did so much great stuff, from Annie to Wolfen.

Aww man. He was fantastic as Churchill in 'The Gathering Storm'. RIP

aye, he was a fine fine actor, and in a lot of class movies. RIP.

Jim Dunlop, of guitar picks and pedals

https://www.jimdunlop.com/category/remembering-jim.do

If you've never seen Finney opposite Diane Keaton in Shoot the Moon, you're missing one of the great portrayals of male white privilege.

I've probably only seen five or six Albert Finney films...He's fantastic in <i>Miller's Crossing</i>.

I know it's a divisive film, but Big Fish and his performance in it really moved me, and opened up space for a little bonding moment for me and my dad. RIP.

It's okay to admit it: he was awesome in Erin Brockovich.

I will be re-watching Miller's Crossing tonight.

I’m out for a good time. All the rest is propaganda.

It's okay to admit it: he was awesome in Erin Brockovich.

he really was

Great clip from a 1960 interview...
https://youtu.be/NRMCTgJnmTo

Oh fuck, that's why his thread was revived, awesome actor RIP Albert ;_;

xp yeah, Albert Finney in Erin Brockovich >>>>> Benicio Del Toro in Traffic

They’re both the best things about so-so movies, I’d argue.

In all your memorials, please remember #AlbertFinney loved making #MillersCrossing so much he stayed after wrap to be a female maid extra. pic.twitter.com/TCwzqxX0BO

— Greg MacLennan (@themaclennan) February 8, 2019

my daughter's obsessed with his version of Annie at the moment and plays the soundtrack several times every day. his version of Maybe is a right heartbreaker.

Finney turned down the offer of a CBE in 1980, and a knighthood in 2000. He criticised the honours system for "perpetuating snobbery".

Good man.

yes.

my daughter's obsessed with his version of Annie at the moment and plays the soundtrack several times every day. his version of Maybe is a right heartbreaker.

I haven't seen it since I was about eight, but it was a huge movie in our house for a while. I didn't even know, until many years later, that its reputation is as kind of a high profile disaster--it made a good-in-1982-dollars $57, but cost $50. I'd always assumed that because so many kids my age loved it (my sister had the doll, and the soundtrack) that it was a huge sensation.

Sheila Heti has a fantastic piece on her Annie fandom: https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/what-annie-knew/

Ooh, I shall read that.

She's literally just fired the CD up again...

There was a period of nearly a year where sister used to blare "Tomorrow" while getting ready for school every morning.

something wrong with my brain when that makes me think silverchair

My FB news feed is mostly about Annie today, which ... well, my FB feed is not a control group, it's safe to say.

Annie played on cable for much of the early and mid '80s, no? It was a big deal around my house because my sis taped it during its network premiere. Leave it to Twitter to make Daddy Warbucks his most indelible performance, I guess.

kill the young

It's okay to admit it: he was awesome Lou Grant in Erin Brockovich.