Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

That Christopher Plummer portrait is in the players’ club

Someone who knew Leathers is saying on FB that it wasn't suicide, and pointed to this story.

The NPR story has been updated - it was murder, and someone's been arrested.

Paul Darrow, best known as Avon in Blake's Seven but in lots of other things too...

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48501099

aw fuck, RIP Leathers

https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/06/03/last-survivor-of-sobibor-death-camp-dies-at-96/

Semyon Rosenfeld who is reportedly the last known survivor of Sobibor Uprising, although I've not seen Yehuda Lerner's obituary yet (impressive guy from Lanzmann Sobibor doc who was an escape specialist and killed a top SS commander with an axe).

Damn -- Dr. John.

https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_a962e500-8877-11e9-991d-2f4782c02ae0.html/

damn! RIP.

He's one of those cats I know next to nothing about. I know he was a session guy at first, right? But for some reason the rest of his career has always seemed to hover at the margins for me. I think I have a copy of Gris Gris, but everything else ... no idea.

Yeah, he was a NOLA session guy that went west in the early sixties.

Kit Moon, mother of Keith Moon, at the age of 98...which means that she lived three times (and two years) longer than her son.

;_; rip Mrs Moon <3

woah, watched her being interviewed in an oldish Who doc last week and wondered if she was still alive. Dear Boy is a motherfucker of a biog.

We are deeply saddened and shocked to hear of the passing of Justin Edinburgh.

Our heartfelt condolences and thoughts go out to his family and friends at this terribly difficult time as well as everyone that worked alongside Justin at Leyton Orient. pic.twitter.com/rFRZZYNuLa

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) June 8, 2019

Justin Edinburgh, Spurs FA Cup winner and Leyton Orient manager, at 49 after a cardiac incident earlier in the week.

Seeing on FB that Bushwick Bill (Geto Boys) has passed.

As we first reported, Bill had a falling out with tour organizers ... feeling like they were exploiting his cancer diagnosis to sell tickets. He was especially bent out of shape with the mini-tour's title, "The Beginning of a Long Goodbye: The Final Farewell."

Promoters pulled the plug on the tour on the eve of its launch. However, Bill told us he wanted to do a 20-city solo tour called "Phuck Cancer" ... and planned to donate a portion of proceeds to pancreatic cancer patients in each city.

sounds like he was working with some disreputable shits in has last year.

We've lost the brilliant music journalist and lovely man Andy Gill. He was funny, rude, intelligent and a great writer. xxx

— David Quantick (@quantick) June 9, 2019

Was just coming to post that :-(

not so fast re Bushwick Bill

UPDATE: Bushwick Bill’s publicist revealed that the rapper is “still alive and fighting cancer” in a hospital.

➡️ https://t.co/eNNT9k7n9R pic.twitter.com/j9bsTqs2e5

— Complex (@Complex) June 9, 2019

Lol, was just trying to post that. Wtf is going on?

he can't be stopped (or can he?)

Geto Boys still wheeling him around that hospital. Get well, Bushwick!

RIP Andy Gill (the other one).

Media Matters journalist Simon Maloy. I don't know if I followed him on Twitter or that he was just retweeted a bunch by people I do follow, but I was very familiar with his face and perspective. a young man with young kids, absolutely heartbreaking.

Richard Stephen Shaw (December 8, 1966 – June 9, 2019) was a Jamaican-American rapper better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill.[2][3] He was best known as a member of the pioneering Texas hip hop group Geto Boys, a group he originally joined as a dancer in 1986 as Little Billy. He went on to become one third of the best-known incarnation of the group, alongside Willie D and Scarface.

So, I guess..

also has a nyt obit

they haven't gotten one wrong since Alan Abel

Jaguar test driver Norman Dewis
https://jalopnik.com/legendary-jaguar-test-driver-norman-dewis-who-transfor-1835357196

Philomena Lynott, mother of Phil

https://www.hotpress.com/music/thin-lizzy-fans-mourn-philomena-lynott-died-22776429

Word going around on social media that Sylvia Miles has passed.

... people you thought ...

I have a Sylvia anecdote that ends with Jerry Lewis saying "I thought it was Bobby Morse in drag."

Peter Whitehead

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/13/peter-whitehead-obituary

screenwriter/photographer Bill Wittliff

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Lonesome-Dove-screenwriter-Bill-Wittliff-13966561.php

Director Franco Zeffirelli, 96

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48648278

people you thought were

seconded

btw I haven't seen any of his films, just the TV "Jesus of Nazareth."

I saw Romeo and Juliet and Taming of the Shrew way back in middle school.

Ha, yeah, we saw the first one in school as well. Can't remember if it was middle school or first year of high school.

Romeo and Juliet was a permission-slip movie, because iirc ... boobs? Sex?

The downbeat ending?

I don't think it was the (spoiler alert!) suicide, I do think it's because they sleep together and/or there is nudity.

It was rereleased in 1973 but they must have had some kind of regular screenings after that for the timing to work.

I mean I don't remember it being a grade school trip.

We had to watch the '68 R&J in English class. It was split over a couple of classes, and in a rare United front, both boys and girls co-conspired to trick our teacher about where we'd left off so we could see the nude scene twice.

The nude scene was part of what made the '68 film so important, as it made clear that R&J had sex, something previously tiptoed around in film versions.

Bruce Robinson played Benvolio, and his off-screen encounters w/Zef later inspired some of the Uncle Monty plot in Withnail & I.

"Look at this little bastard. Boy lands plumb role for top Italian director. Of course his does. Probably on a tenner a day and I know what for: Two pound ten a tit and a fiver for his arse."

We had to watch the '68 R&J in English class. It was split over a couple of classes, and in a rare United front, both boys and girls co-conspired to trick our teacher about where we'd left off so we could see the nude scene twice.

Romeo and Juliet was a permission-slip movie, because iirc ... boobs? Sex?

Romeo's bare buttocks, if I remember correctly. As for FZ's TotS, I remember being yanked out of my suspension of disbelief by Elizabeth Taylor wearing enough eyeshadow to paint a house.

My mentor, teacher, and friend, the great writer and prominent member of the New Narrative school...Kevin Killian passed away yesterday.

https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/sites/default/files/styles/article_small/public/photo_kevin-killian-900x1200_0.jpg