Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

voice actress Russi Taylor, who has been the voice of Minnie Mouse since 1986 and, among many other things, voiced Martin Prince on "The Simpsons"

https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-russi-taylor-voice-of-minnie-mouse-and-the-simp-1836762262

Damn, RIP

Seriously. RIP.

RIP. She voiced one of the greatest lines in the history of animation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdwU_HU8brg

Aussie tennis star Peter McNamara, at 64.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/28/peter-mcnamara-obituary

Hal Prince. Damn.

https://www.broadway.com/buzz/191114/harold-prince-winner-of-21-tony-awards-directorproducer-of-phantom-cabaret-more-dies-at-91/

21 is a lot

"Popular music was the music of musicals, and it isn't anymore," Prince said during a 2017 segment of All Things Considered for NPR. "So, once that happened, you could examine other subjects and make musical numbers about an infinite variety of complicated psychological matter.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harold-prince-dead-king-broadway-musical-was-91-1115559

I saw him walking on Central Park West once, and probably only recognized him because he was with Joel Grey and Carol Burnett.

Karsten Schubert, German-born London gallerist and publisher who was an early yBa advocate, 57.

Miami Dolphin legend Nick Buoniconti at 78, quite possibly from CTE related dementia. Used to love watching him on "Inside the NFL." Hell, liked the show more than the games themselves, probably.

Robert Kennedy's granddaughter Saoirse Roisin Kennedy Hill.

many-time champion pro wrestler Harley Race, 76

Sy Tomashoff, production designer for Dark Shadows, The Bold and the Beautiful and other classic soap operas, 96

That sounds like a fascinating job - will need to learn more about them.

Kinks keyboardist Ian Gibbons

Lol Mason, frontman of City Boy and later the Maisonettes.

c'mon be appropriately respectful here for goodness sake :P

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/celibate-rifles-star-damien-lovelock-has-died/news-story/d138bbe5c6c2bca98c0793bc2b0b7060

Damien Lovelock from cancer. Was in Australian band Celibate Rifles

that is a great band name

D.A. Pennebaker, 94

The Celibate Rifles were great, RIP (check out The Eastern Dark as well btw)

Miami Dolphin legend Nick Buoniconti at 78

I saw Buoniconti play back in the '70s at the no longer existing Orange Bowl in Miami. He was an awesome linebacker. Didn't realize that post-NFL he was the president of the U.S. Tobacco Company (!)

I was surprised Pennebaker's The War Room didn't place in the political-film poll--whatever you think of Clinton, it's pretty great in laying out that election. I love Monterey Pop, too, and about half of Don't Look Back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP7OKxjObNo

101 remains a fave (and I think was his fave?).

The War Room rules, feelings about Clintons aside of course, it's not about them - how in the world did that not even place? So bummed I missed that poll.

101 remains a fave (and I think was his fave?).

I'd heard that too. For many reasons it is my absolute keeper from him.

Joe Longthorne, tho he made a right fight of it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-49219270

Oakland Raider wide receiver Cliff Branch

Cliff Branch, one of the Raiders' career-leading receivers who won three Super Bowls, has died. He was 71. https://t.co/EXE38cBNaI

— The Sacramento Bee (@sacbee_news) August 4, 2019

https://www.avpress.com/news/phil-hymes-who-lit-snl-dies-at/article_3984196a-b66d-11e9-9835-7fd5a51244c2.html

Phil Hymes, a veteran lighting director who became a major, if irascible, backstage figure with “Saturday Night Live” for his strong opinions about stagecraft he liked and comedy he disliked, died Monday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 96.

His son, Jeff, said the cause of death was complications of bladder cancer.

“He was a force to be reckoned with, and his presence and strength were something I came to rely on,” Lorne Michaels, the longtime executive producer of “SNL,” said in a statement. “He will be missed, but if God has him now, despite all the arguing, heaven will be much better lit.”

Hymes joined “Saturday Night Live” in 1976, in its second season, bringing with him decades of experience at NBC, much of it spent in live programming beginning in the early 1950s.

He remained with the show until early 2018, after nearly 42 years of putting up lights and designing the look they gave to sketches, monologues and musical numbers.

Several months later, at 95, he accepted an Emmy Award, his first since 1965, for outstanding lighting design and direction for a variety series.

Tim Dundon, aka Zeke the Sheik, local counterculture guy in Altadena, Cal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWk6wdCf51s&fbclid=IwAR0E68crD43t42Xwb5hLdPehCf_FurHaxl2qK44V4iHN86UC8GB5gxGGpT4

Toni Morrison

Oh no. :(

Damn. RIP.

RIP Toni Morrison.

oof that is a loss

Seems cruel she had to pass with Trump still in power

Henri Belolo, the writer of Y.M.C.A., In The Navy and Go West

(For NYC people): Lucien Bahaj, the head honcho of the French bistro Lucien, in business since 1998 at 1st Ave and 1st St. Also opened the bar Pink Pony on the Lower East Side.

It would be too much of a task to list every celebrity who passed through Lucien - their photos are on the wall. Among the regulars were Jonas Mekas, and from the old Andy Warhol crowd, Gerard Malanga and Taylor Mead. Lucien was always a mensch to me, and always a lovely conversationalist (that means a good listener also) and I will miss him like family.

https://www.documentjournal.com/2019/08/remembering-lucien-bahaj-creator-of-the-french-bistro-that-became-nycs-last-cultural-salon/

David Berman

We couldn't be more sorry to tell you this. David Berman passed away earlier today. A great friend and one of the most inspiring individuals we've ever known is gone. Rest easy, David. pic.twitter.com/5n5bctcu4j

— 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖌 𝕮𝖎𝖙𝖞 (@dragcityrecords) August 7, 2019

aw man :(

Fuck!

Nicky Wonder, Brian Wilson and Wondermints Guitarist, Dead at 59

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nicky-wonder-brian-wilson-wondermints-guitarist-dead-at-59-obituary-868888/?fbclid=IwAR0Gh3rya7SNAMaq7jw8pUk7fnQbY3ZghmAEeMxVLUODxhitwoqWBtxKE-4

Rosie Ruiz, Boston Marathon fraud

Jeffrey Epstein, "suicide"

Well then.

Let the conspiracy theories begin!

somebody find Bubba and Dershowitz

I mean you don't need to theorize that hard

Most convenient suicide ever