Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

RIP Michael J.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SxuAOgjnog

That's nice, but it doesn't sound like Voyage au bout de la nuit at all.

xp

'rancid fat' for 'graillon' is nowhere near as colloquial and misses the fact that it's grilled; 'great shapeless desert' is a platitude next to the sheer inventiveness of 'grand abandon mou'; 'one', although technically correct, simply cannot capture the everyday familiarity and mild informality of 'on'; etc.

It's true that this translation sings, and wondrously so. Céline himself claimed that he was transcribing a 'petite musique', but the emphasis, to my mind, is on 'petite' ('la grande musique' being classical music): the Voyage is an epic that unceasingly undercuts its epic character, whereas this Journey comes across as opulent and smugly virtuosic in comparison – 'false luxury' ('le mensonge de son luxe') indeed.

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Last survivor of the Hindenburg disaster dies at age 90
https://apnews.com/76ab386f0f184276a215ee1716dd4ae5

According to Mark Harris, critic and all around insufferable bastard John Simon at the age of 94.

Last night the critic John Simon died. He was 94.

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) November 25, 2019

and it's about time

(wrote well on Bergman tho)

Architect (and Richard's son) Dion Neutra, at 93.

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2019-11-25/dion-neutra-architect-dead

Can't find an online obit as yet, but Facebook friends are reporting the sad news that the cartoonist Howard Cruse has died of cancer. This poster by Cruse was the first time I ever heard the verb 'to rim':

https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/Swann/65/644565/H0132-L173961529.jpg

aw that's a bummer; he's one of this generation's greats and severely underrated.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50570852

Gary Rhodes, British chef mainly responsible for the popularisation of Nouvelle Cuisine and owner of very rigid hair.

The Nigel Kennedy of sugar adverts, only 59, wonder what he died of.

wow

let's be honest, his recipes weren't exactly colossal

First Michelin Star at 26 - didn't know that.

Jonathan Miller has died

BREAKING: Theatre director, writer, broadcaster and actor Jonathan Miller died this morning aged 85 https://t.co/zxzzSKWOnI

— Evening Standard (@standardnews) November 27, 2019

don't pay much attention to the theatre but always enjoyed seeing him on television

I enjoyed his occasional documentary series, RIP JM

The Mortal Instruments actor Godfrey Gao dies on set aged 35

RIP Jonathan Miller, annoying as he could be.

I thought he was in his 70's

it means Alan Bennet is the last surviving member of Beyond The Fringe, and that was on stage during the Macmillan era

And now Clive James, blimey

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50578512?ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_mchannel=social

Miller was a mensch, James not so much

about fucking time tbh, he’d lingering in death’s doorway for the better part of 10 years

feel like you could have used some brexit catchphrases on Clive James before he finally got his act together: "just finally get death done for goodness sake" "you've got an oven ready deal with death sitting there unused!"

I was just thinking about Clive James when I read the other obits "look at all the people he's outliving" etc.

I’ll believe it when I see it re James tbh

*wins at the service with an axe and a crowbar, looking for his opportunity to jemmy open the coffin*

clive jemmies

too late, he's already been buried. two steps ahead of you there, wins, guess you'll never know

can't believe he's actually dead, 9 years terminally ill is a good run tho

If you read some of Clive James select wit and most hilarious humour to the cadaver and it can't conceal how funny and impressed it finds it, then it has failed the death test. Tell it to stop playing silly buggers.

i've read his TV criticism and i'm pretty sure not even his corpse would raise a titter

Another architect, Raymond Kappe, about a week ago. Wasn't sure how well known he was so I didn't post earlier, but his obit is pretty impressive.

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2019-11-23/raymond-kappe-dead-architect-sci-arc-director

i wouldn't worry about well knowness on this thread, every cunt that's ever drawn a comic book usually turns up

the ray kappe house is amazing

xp second lowest categorisation of celebrity on ilx iirc

i wouldn't worry about well knowness on this thread, every cunt that's ever drawn a comic book usually turns up

― FBPRieu (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:31 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is so true.

rip Clive James imo

agree

trying to think about notable australians whose deaths i would care about

the cast of kath and kim
tom rogic
the guy with the kangaroo sanctuary

i’ll be bummed when Baz Humphries drops off the twig

Another architect, Raymond Kappe, about a week ago. Wasn't sure how well known he was so I didn't post earlier, but his obit is pretty impressive.

― nickn, Wednesday, November 27, 2019 12:28 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

did i tell you guys that i had a dream about interviewing IM Pei a few days before he died?

i don't read that much into it, but it was pretty wild, i felt

like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our clives

trying to think about notable australians whose deaths i would care about

None can and will ever compare to Steve Irwin ;_;

that was honestly a sore one

stung a bit, yeah