Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

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.

(srsly, he was fine in EB; I'll take Sat Night & Sun Morning, Under the Volcano, Karaoke)

There's a moment in Shoot the Moon where his beloved oldest daughter won't accept his birthday present and, pissed off and frustrated, he breaks into her room and beats her with a wire hanger. After Diane Keaton separates them, he has this horrorstruck expression and he runs into the night. It's an extraordinary sequence. That's Method acting.

I grew up on mid-80s late-night cable so Finney was always a grouchy NYPD detective investigating werewolf murders during the Burning of the Bronx. RIP

Phil Western, 47

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156843783995851&set=a.75842315850&type=3&theater

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/r_i_p_vancouver_electronic_artist_phil_western

Architecture writer Robert Winter, at 94. He co-wrote the guide to Southern California Architecture (also the Nor Cal one).

https://la.curbed.com/2019/2/11/18220486/robert-winter-dead-architectural-guidebook-los-angeles?fbclid=IwAR3Mbd-crySktcMH1cc52NN7aZNNRQkmBX7BjmVgyS0UzMXqWi0q1vAbt3o

Goalie Gordon Banks

the day Banksy died.

:D

He saw one world war..

Disablist joke imo

No, he

;-)

ah '66 - that year the Spontaneous Music Ensemble's debut album came out.

Lyndon LaRouche, cult leader and other things.

With infinite sadness I report to you that Lyn passed away this morning. There are no words to describe the loss to humanity. He left us, but he lives in the simultaneity of eternity. It is now up to us to realize his life‘s work. Helga Zepp-LaRouche https://t.co/9deOLnWf81

— Mike Billington (@mobeir2) February 12, 2019

god that's sad news: there are more larouches?

another victim of the deep state

helga zepp-larouche is his widow

there's also a son, daniel, by his first marriage

John Harold Haynes - creator of the Haynes auto repair manuals.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2019/02/haynes-manual-founder-dies-aged-80/

LaRouche prevented from joining the 120 prez candidates

oppy the mars rover

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/02/13/opportunity-nasas-record-setting-mars-rover-is-declared-dead-after-years/

Andrea Levy, author of Notes on a Small Island, 62.

John Stalker

former deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester police who was famously removed from heading an inquiry into the shooting of suspected members of the Provisional IRA in the early 1980s (because he was finding things the establishment didn't like regarding the RUC).

he could also sell an awning like nobody's business

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5v5e3ajkN4

I believe his death will be a major contribution to road safety

Tarkovsky's biopic of him was something else, I think he captured Manchester very well. Or was it Stockport?

Lest we forget "John Stalker" and his contribution to the world of sun awning marketing. Retract In Peace. #RIP pic.twitter.com/92BNi3URQk

— Lane/Hewy of The Spheres/Chleo/CorbynDog (@LaneThomaHewitt) February 15, 2019

Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who starred in 'Der Himmel über Berlin' and 'Der Untergang', has died at the age of 77

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/film/2019-02/schauspieler-bruno-ganz-ist-tot

I wonder how this occasion will be immortalised

Surely not with an Untergang meme.

RIP

I'm one of the humourless fuckers that thinks those memes are bad and massively unfunny.

Ich disagree

I think they're mostly bad these days (IE probably about 24 hours after the first one) but any good that's in them in largely due to Bruno Ganz.

lady falkender aka marcia williams, harold wilson's enforcer

https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/wm-preview-1500/1934035a/40e68f29/mike-yarwood-impressionist-lady-falkender-formerly-marcia-williams-eric-morecambe-comedian-shutterstock-editorial-1934035a.jpg

(she's the one in the middle)

what get's me with the meme game is white people who seem to exclusively post memes of black people pulling incredulous faces or whatever, if I was black I'd be saying: what's yr game, arsehole?

Harold Wilson's REDACTED. Thought she'd died years ago tbh. RIP Bruno btw.

Call, the use of black person reaction .gifs by whites has been called ‘digital blackface’ for some time now.

RIP Bruno Ganz, lots of Wings of Desire sad-angel grabs doing the rounds.

Crushed about Bruno Ganz. He really had one of the "warmest" faces of world cinema. And yes, I had a black woolen coat, grey scarf, and ponytail when I lived in a colder climate. No one got the reference.

http://www.criterionforum.org/caps/wingsofdesireblu00007.jpg

Hitler meme decrying his own death incoming in hours.

Saw Wings of Desire for the first time in a massive theater just a few weeks ago, loved it & him in it. RIP

Ken Nordine

(only one source for this though - https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/word-jazz-creator-and-host-ken-nordine-dies/71c82188-3b11-432b-93da-91d83affdaad )