Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

I think the picture is supposed to be the person behind a really horrendous account who’s been banned multiple times for harassment and is a colossal transphobe. He spends all his time online ranting about Owen Jones & even tweeted “Jussie Smollett” when OJ was talking about being assaulted. I think it’s him going by the context of other Loki tweets and the “frisson” caption is a reference to his goodreads page?

pic.twitter.com/wT2dwn9fSI

— Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. (@dismalplaces) January 12, 2020

he must be related to Scruton by at least a degree or two of separation so totally on topic!

Tony Garnett

After a short illness, Tony Garnett, the legendary TV & Film Producer and founder of World Productions, died around midday on January 12.
Tony was a great man and an inspirational producer who will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him.

— World Productions (@worldprods) January 12, 2020

Born in Birmingham, Garnett lost his parents when young: his mother died when he was five from the after effects of a back-street abortion, and his father committed suicide nineteen days later.

Ouch.

Handgun is a bit of a curio from the VHS rental era - it never clicked with me until now that the older star of that movie was Agent Sanseverino in The Sopranos.

bad typing!

Handgun was quite a serious sort of a serious feminist movie but it seemed to be marketed as a female Death Wish at the time

Very interesting career Tony Garnett had. RIP.

In the 1980s, Roger Scruton organized money and books for dissidents in Eastern Europe. I was one of the student couriers who helped smuggle them "across the iron curtain." I am still grateful for what Roger did for them, and for me.

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) January 12, 2020

there might have been toilet roll shortages at the time tbf.

anyone want to explain to the Americans who the fuck Roger scrotun was

Did ppl call him Roger Scrotum

They rarely called him anything else.

anyone want to explain to the Americans who the fuck Roger scrotun was

He was the man who was successfully sued for libel by the Pet Shop Boys:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/573718.stm

hah I did not know that, amazing!

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jul/15/tony-garnett-email-bbc-drama?CMP=share_btn_tw

blisteringly good e-mail from Tony Garnett from 2009 - putting the boot into soulless new labour managerialism and the fucking bbc!

"Sometimes, as with the Spice Girls or the Pet Shop Boys, serious doubts arise as to whether the performers made more than a minimal contribution to the recording, which owes its trade mark to subsequent sound engineering, designed precisely to make it unrepeatable."

lol the guy got sued and had to pay up for that??? libel laws are so stupid.

Typical scrotum move to do the absolute minimum research and pass off his ill-informed, in this case libellous, opinion as if it had been handed down to him on mount sinai

yep! And for decades all his fawning acolytes are like : he's a true genius of our age, what a brave and incisive mind he has...

the Spice Girls are great

Scruton embraced conservatism after witnessing the May 1968 student protests in France.

Ahead of his time, truly

Lmfao

Julie Strain, Statuesque Star of B-Movies, Dies at 57.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/julie-strain-dead-statuesque-star-b-movies-was-57-1168492

link has been updated to NOT dead fyi

this via twitter

🥰🖤🖤🖤🖤 pic.twitter.com/nZ0IRddafy

— Diana “Darcy the Mail Girl” Prince 🤠🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🖤 (@kinky_horror) January 14, 2020

Double oops, then.

Sundazed is reporting on FB that Steve Martin Caro from the Left Banke has passed.

Former Scotland goalkeeper and manager, Bobby Brown, only 96!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51128915

I recently saw a documentary on people in their 80s and 90s and he was on it and he had me blubbing talking about his wife, who was dead, and he seemed such a sweet and lovely man. The documentary was, like, 5 years old so I assumed he'd probably died since it was made.

Rocky Johnson, pro wrestler and father of The Rock

https://comicbook.com/wwe/2020/01/15/rocky-johnson-dead-75-dwayne-johnson-father-wwe-legend-the-rock/

christopher tolkien, 95

Damn. RIP.

Hell of a run.

sad news. always found something very moving about his dedication to his dad's work, and the seriousness w/ which he took his task.

r.i.i.p.

sad lol

Look away now, Morbz. Derek Fowlds, actor, 82.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-51147182

Basil Brush himself said he is "so desperately sad" at the news, describing the late star as "my best friend forever".

i tried finding a sad BB jpg or gif but apparently no such thing exists :(

hes as good as you could hope for as bernard

I don’t know what to say, I’m so desperately sad. 😢😢🦊such times we had, rest in peace Mr Derek, my best friend forever #DerekFowlds #BasilBrushshow pic.twitter.com/iQqI8v1Plm

— Basil Brush (@realbasilbrush) January 17, 2020

;_;

Mr Derek and Mr Roy are my era. It's weird that despite all his other acting achievements my first thought of him was of being Mr Derek.

It's a strange feeling, watching your childhood disappear piece by piece. RIP.

Gary Starkweather, inventor of the laser printer

Had no idea Bernard the civil servant was a children's TV icon. RIP.

Also married to Lesley Judd, whoa.

This led to my partner and I discovering that we both fancied "Mr Derek" in his Basil Brush days. The things you learn.

Chris Darrow of Kaleidoscope:

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/chris-darrow-dead/

I won't lie--until five minutes ago, I couldn't have named anyone in the band except David Lindley. Anyway, one of '67's greatest and weirdest songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBqP33iEaWw

televangelist jack van impe, 88

Aww, Chris Darrow made some really great solo albums, too, and iirc played with Fahey for a minute. Solid musician. RIP

RIP Chris Darrow, love that band.

oh shit, US kaleidoscope were the best