Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

great as Thurgood Marshall as well

Chadwick Boseman dies. Donald Trump lives. I’ll take that as proof that there is no god.

I second JRN on Boseman’s performance in Get on Up, one of the better films in the sorry subgenre of rock biopics. R.I.P.

what a beautiful and talented man, this news is absolutely fucked.

Wow

This is a beautiful piece on him from last year: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/movies/chadwick-boseman-black-panther.html

Similar in career length to John Cazale, although getting stuck in two Avengers movies ruins his batting average.

Awful news

43 ffs, what an awful loss

what the fuck, RIP

Fuck you, abanana

man, idk how he pulled off filming movies during treatments.....

― pass the cur's dossier (Neanderthal), Saturday, 29 August 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Mind boggling

yeh can't imagine what he went through to make those last few films

not to mention a cavalcade of press appearances, interviews, etc

just devastating, rip to the king

i'm still stunned. RIP.

I’m glad he had the privacy he clearly wanted. Someone said on Twitter that his circle clearly was the best and I’ll be thinking about that for a long while to come. That’s Bowie level.

This is a heavy loss. He was already among the greats, but also only getting started. Just terrible.

it's incredible to think of the passion that drove him to continue creating while being in immense pain/feeling weak. a friend of mine currently has stage 4 colon cancer and is only a few years younger than Chadwick - some days I've visited to drop off groceries for him during a treatment week, he barely has the strength to get out of bed, and is on a cocktail of medications that causes a myriad of side effects - nausea, sensitivity to cold, etc. (naturally, this news got to him very badly yesterday).

having to push through all of that to shoot Hollywood movies, which can be a grueling thing to do when you are healthy, is just....wow.

his charisma, presence, and gravitas as Black Panther was unmatched. his disappearance during Thanos's "snap" actually affected me the most of all of the characters who blinked out.

I loved learning that Phylicia Rashad (and an unwitting Denzel Washington) were early mentors.

😭😫..

#RIPChadwickpic.twitter.com/rJdr5CyJhz

— Im_DKG🆅 (@Im_DKG) August 29, 2020

This death is hitting much harder than usual, given all of the attendant circumstances. And given how, IME, kids are so into Black Panther in particular.

Boseman was a skilled, charismatic actor who specialized in inhabiting black icons and died too young in a surprising fashion. That is gonna fuck people up under the best of the circumstances but, in a moment where the senseless death of young black men is so prominent among a sizable segment of daily media and life, the too-soon death of the Black Panther just feels cruel.

This photo gives me joy.

https://www.firstladyb.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-21-at-1.32.28-PM.png

Rashad's one of my straight crushes.

ulysses otm

We are going to join the stress test of the streaming services by watching BP at 8pm tonight

Yibambe!

Spike Lee posted this clip of Boseman singing “God is Love” and oh man

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CEeU-fTnUB5/?igshid=12c0tn4vxfbem

dammit

Breaking my twitter silence to share some beauty. This was one of my final texts from the brilliant & once-in-lifetime talent, @chadwickboseman - take this in & celebrate life. He knew how precious every moment was. Tonight the Heavens received one of its most powerful angels. pic.twitter.com/Hj8Cb1IfZS

— Josh Gad (@joshgad) August 29, 2020

gonna watch 5 bloods tonight

Very fucked up by this news.

RIP.

Phew.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/black-panther-director-ryan-coogler-pens-emotional-beautiful-tribute-to-chadwick-boseman

Beautiful. And heartbreaking.

ABC is airing Black Panther and some sort of Boseman tribute special this evening.

Content, composition and training, these are the components needed for a good photograph: Jürgen Schadeberg always spoke of this concept and applied it to his work. A passionate photographer, courageous and with a humanistic eye – he has now passed away at age 89.#Leica pic.twitter.com/L3LWA8TrMW

— Leica Camera AG (@leica_camera) September 1, 2020

A couple more Boseman remembrances/celebrations worth the read:

https://www.gq.com/story/chadwick-boseman-appreciation

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/chadwick-boseman-forever-1844904087

Michael B Jordan posted a v heartfelt remembrance of Boseman on Instagram yesterday

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEkpoYcgi43

Erick Morillo, 49.

RIP

Circumstances are pretty dark:

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/09/01/dj-erick-morillo-found-dead-in-miami-beach/

oof, I take back my RIP

You'd like to remove it, remove it?

jesus

Kang Kek Iew aka Duch, Khmer Rouge torturer, murderer and war criminal who later converted to Christianity in hopes of atoning for his 'sins'. He was 77.

(Speaking of Jesus.)

Legendary Baseball Pitcher Tom Seaver

Been out all day, just heard this. I became a fan during the 1970 WS, so I missed his glory season by a year. At least until Clemens/Maddux/Martinez/Johnson (and more recently Kershaw), the greatest pitcher of my lifetime as a fan.

david graeber :(

Yesterday the best person in a world, my husband and my friend .@davidgraeber died in a hospital in Venice.

— Nika Dubrovsky (@nikadubrovsky) September 3, 2020

what? and how? and why?

RIP :(

fuck!!!!!!

"Bullshit jobs", as a concept, has been very very handy to me in terms of broaching labor politics and all kinds of other subjects with co-workers and acquaintances whose political orientation (or much more often lack thereof) I have no knowledge of. So thanks for that DG