Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

which one?

Good question

Dalkey Archive guy?

He spells it with a ‘v’ so I guess not

Our dear friend Stephen Moore has died. A fine actor, a lovely man and the original and most iconic voice of Marvin The Paranoid Android in The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. Our thoughts are with his family and our memories of him will always make us smile. RIP Stephen. pic.twitter.com/d01PFDpVDq

— Dirk Maggs (@DirkMaggs) October 12, 2019

I thought it was him but then I didn't think he famous enough to end up itt.

He was also in Clockwise, and Adrian Mole, and The Queen's Nose, and Harry Enfield, loads of other stuff too.

He even had a hit single.

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

https://www.lococofineart.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Slaughter-We-got-here-Text.251.jpg

there was another Marvin single which included "Marvin, I Love You" which is probably better known than the above.

i listened to his audiobook recording of 'roadside picnic' last year. he had a wonderful voice.

Anna Quayle

http://www.playbill.com/article/anna-quayle-tony-award-winner-for-stop-the-worldi-want-to-get-off-dies-at-86

Her scene with John Lennon in A Hard Day's Night is so, so great. And Lewy body dementia is a hell of a way to go. That's what took my grandfather. :(

Never knew who that was. RIP

https://sofiaglobe.com/2019/10/13/milcho-leviev-bulgarian-jazz-great-dead-at-82/

Milcho Leviev, Bulgarian jazz pianist of some renown - worked with Don Ellis and Billy Cobham in the 70's.

Sophia Kokosalaki, fashion designer.

western canonizer harold bloom

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/books/harold-bloom-dead.html

Architecture writer Charles Jencks, 80. Also co-founded Maggie’s cancer centres with his late wife.

RIP Harold Bloom

Sophia Kokosalaki, fashion designer.

It usually takes a bit to make me really sit up and take notice of a dress at televised events of various sorts. The stadium-covering one worn by Björk when performing "Oceania" at the Athens Olympic opening ceremony in 2004 sure did.

Scotty Bowers, self-proclaimed Hollywood pimp to the closeted stars

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/scotty-bowers-dead-male-madame-stars-was-96-1247422

Kate Braverman
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2019-10-14/kate-braverman-poet-author-obituary

RIP

i know this is a RIP thread, but i went out and got a celebratory beer when i heard about Bloom yesterday. what a racist old shithead.

Yeah, also:

https://jezebel.com/a-look-back-at-how-the-media-demonized-naomi-wolf-for-a-1839046051

Loránd Gáspár, Hungarian-born French poet and a personal favourite. He was 94. RIP.

Yeah, the Wolf stuff is pretty egregious, too. I re-read the infamous Boston Review opinion piece yesterday, and had forgotten how truly execrable it is, like one huge dog whistle. What a total piece of shit, imo.

Ah yes, I remember that. Marjorie Perloff's response was unsurprisingly otm.

i think Rita Dove's is a bit more my style, but i also despise Perloff.

enough derailment, though. poetics thread?

Emmerdale actress Leah Bracknell https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50069971

RIP Elijah Cummings
Damn that’s a tough one

Márta Kurtág, Hungarian pianist and wife of György Kurtág. She was 92. RIP.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bill-macy-dead-maude-husband-922206

also the jury foreman in The Producers: "We find the defendants incredibly guilty"

Also the "Damn these glasses!" guy in The Jerk who gives Steve Martin the idea for the Opti-grab.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71kXok7hxgL._SY500_.jpg

Critics say you'll laugh so HARD, eh?

Nick Tosches

RIP. He wrote some great stuff.

RIP. Seems like maybe now I’ll finally get around to reading the Emmett Miller book.

I've only read In the Hand of Dante and the Dean Martin book. I'm sure Hellfire is as good as everyone says, but...I just don't care that much about Jerry Lee Lewis, or feel like there's anything I need to know that I can't get from listening to the records.

Hellfire is great, it's written like a novel, iirc, so more than just another "and then this happened, and then this ..." etc.

I'm reading the Emmett Miller book right now.

Is that directly or indirectly because of the Ken Burns Country doc?

No, haven't watched that yet, I've had the book for a while but am currently listening to 1929 and there is lots of Emmett making the cut, so thought I would give it a go, and it's really good.

Always loved his piece about listening to the Rolling Stones in Stranded.

Oh yeah. Forgot he wrote that one. Think about it quite often.

Actually its the Simon Frith one I think about sorry.

Deborah Orr, cancer

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/20/award-winning-columnist-deborah-orr-dies-aged-57

The story of her cancer relapse is so awful and was 100 per cent avoidable. I didn’t know her well but we have tons of mutuals and one of these posted about her death first thing this morning, and I’ve been ruminating on it all day. RIP Deborah.

sorry to hear about nick tosches, who was just an astonishingly good writer at his best. unsung heroes of rock'n'roll was my favorite, but hellfire is just as good as everyone says it is. it was often hard to tell how much he was bending the truth in his books; i remember the bill haley chapter in unsung heroes ends with a throwaway line that goes almost exactly like "he died, out of his mind, in 1981." which i took as a kind of joke for years until i read a long article about bill haley's sad final days and realized he hadn't been kidding. it also seems at once unbelievable and utterly fitting that JLL outlived tosches.