Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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Talk about yer actual guitar heroes ;_;

― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:34 (six years ago)

RIP

― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:38 (six years ago)

Peter Serkin, American classical pianist, 72. RIP.

― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Sunday, 2 February 2020 09:24 (six years ago)

Lila Garrett, TV screenwriter (Bewitched, All in the Family, etc), anti-war activist, hosted political radio show Connect the Dots on KPFK, Los Angeles (Pacifica Radio)

― Josefa, Sunday, 2 February 2020 16:02 (six years ago)

Ivan Kral of the Patti Smith Group

https://nationalpost.com/pmn/entertainment-pmn/ivan-kral-author-of-dancing-barefoot-song-dies-aged-71?fbclid=IwAR1diQ95pTWQ8PYNKTP7uYN71Io1nl-tqavJ_b5z4ZOVRSDsvqdIyy0UH18

i did not know this but he co-wrote Ask the Angels and Dancing Barefoot w/ Patti among others.

― dan selzer, Monday, 3 February 2020 01:12 (six years ago)

RIP

― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 February 2020 01:26 (six years ago)

Not another one. RIP Ivan.

― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Monday, 3 February 2020 07:06 (six years ago)

Lila Garrett had the typical for Pacifica horrible for radio voice but i never knew her tv background. RIP

― buzza, Monday, 3 February 2020 08:50 (six years ago)

George Steiner

RIP George Steiner who died today at age 90, whose “After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation” was a seminal book for so many of us translators. https://t.co/YI6IkCCWWU
— Asymptote Journal (@asymptotejrnl) February 3, 2020

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:46 (six years ago)

Damn. RIP.

― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:48 (six years ago)

still retweeting as recently as yesterday :(

― mark s, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:50 (six years ago)

RIP, that's sad.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:55 (six years ago)

Monique van Vooren

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/monique-van-vooren-dead-actress-tarzan-she-devil-batman-dies-at-92-1274182

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:10 (six years ago)

A link for Josh in Chicago: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/mexico-second-monarch-butterfly-sanctuary-worker-found-murdered

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 07:13 (six years ago)

Daniel Arap Moi, who seemed to be president of Kenya forever.

― ShariVari, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 11:13 (six years ago)

'70s TV producer-director Gene Reynolds, 96

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gene-reynolds-dead-mash-lou-grant-director-producer-was-96-978156

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 18:28 (six years ago)

Straightjacket Fits guitarist Andrew Brough

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nat-music/audio/2018732703/straitjacket-fits-guitarist-andrew-brough-dies

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 22:34 (six years ago)

Kirk Douglas

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:30 (six years ago)

oh fuck
he lived long enough to see trump exonerated

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:34 (six years ago)

103!

― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:35 (six years ago)

RIP

― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:38 (six years ago)

Man, what a run, what a life.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:39 (six years ago)

hats off to a legend. some innings

― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:40 (six years ago)

rip of the cap surely

― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:41 (six years ago)

damn

he had his vv severe stroke 24 years ago (as of Jan 28) and just kept going.

― omar little, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:44 (six years ago)

and i mean he lived those 24 years well

― omar little, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:44 (six years ago)

Paths of Glory is my favourite; like him in many more.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:47 (six years ago)

When I saw him at the post-stroke Oscars honor in 1995, I thought dat was dat for him.

No mention of the Natalie Wood sexual assault allegation?

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:47 (six years ago)

well not til now

― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:53 (six years ago)

Had totally missed that news, but a little searching digs it up -- harrowing.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 February 2020 00:05 (six years ago)

Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS star Dyanne Thorne:

https://www.straight.com/movies/1356776/ilsa-she-wolf-ss-passes-83

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 6 February 2020 09:02 (six years ago)

RIP Kirk Douglas. Someone once told my dad he looked like him and, put it this way, he was still telling us about it 20 years later

― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 February 2020 09:49 (six years ago)

You're basically married to Catherine Zeta-Jones

― Alba, Thursday, 6 February 2020 11:36 (six years ago)

Kirk Douglas awaits the postman in his front garden. pic.twitter.com/GhYmoTesbi
— Nostalgic Things (@Nostalgic_Thing) February 6, 2020

― calzino, Thursday, 6 February 2020 11:55 (six years ago)

(xp) It's murder, I'm telling you.

― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:27 (six years ago)

Film Historian FX Feeney

https://www.thewrap.com/fx-feeney-la-weekly-film-critic-and-historian-dies-at-66/

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:05 (six years ago)

Saw that, RIP. I love his Michael Mann coffee table book.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:17 (six years ago)

xxxp that's numberwang

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 6 February 2020 23:59 (six years ago)

Pierre Guyotat, French writer, 80. RIP.

― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Friday, 7 February 2020 18:12 (six years ago)

Ah man, RIP.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 7 February 2020 18:34 (six years ago)

Roger Kahn

https://www.mlb.com/news/roger-kahn-the-boys-of-summer-author-dies

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 February 2020 04:47 (six years ago)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/orson-bean-longtime-actor-comedian-hit-killed-car-los-angeles/

Actor Orson Bean, 91

― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Saturday, 8 February 2020 13:14 (six years ago)

RIP

― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 February 2020 13:25 (six years ago)

RIP, classic for Bilbo and Malkovich

― Οὖτις, Saturday, 8 February 2020 14:33 (six years ago)

Interesting to note in the Guardian's obit for Bean that his father cofounded the ACLU and his daughter married Breitbart, quite a generational shift!

― rob, Saturday, 8 February 2020 15:12 (six years ago)

Many in my age cohort saw Bean on game shows on a weekly basis.

He also wrote a book called Me and the Orgone… very into Reichian therapy. I saw him in the off-B'way musical I'm Getting My Act Together in college and there was a discussion with the student audience after; he seemed like a genial free spirit.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 February 2020 15:35 (six years ago)

Many in my age cohort saw Bean on game shows on a weekly basis.
*raises hand*

― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 February 2020 15:51 (six years ago)

(but you no doubt already knew that)

― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 February 2020 15:51 (six years ago)

"One night in a club in Boston, I tried the name Roger Duck. No laughs. The next night, I tried Orson Bean, putting together a pompous first name and a silly second name. I got laughs, so I decided to keep it," he said.

"Orson Welles himself came into the Blue Angel one night, summoned me to his table. I sat down. He looked at me for a moment and then said, 'You stole my name!' And he meant it. Then he dismissed me with a wave of his hand."

In 1964, Bean, actor Chuck McCann and others founded The Sons of the Desert, a group devoted to "the loving study of the persons and films" of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.In 1964, Bean, actor Chuck McCann and others founded The Sons of the Desert, a group devoted to "the loving study of the persons and films" of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/orson-bean-dead-dr-quinn-actor-was-91-1000269

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:25 (six years ago)

Many in my age cohort saw Bean on game shows on a weekly basis.

A daily basis!

― Miami weisse (WmC), Saturday, 8 February 2020 18:30 (six years ago)

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