Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

A tribute to John Russell by Evan Parker:

https://londonjazznews.com/2021/01/20/a-tribute-to-john-russell-1954-2021-by-evan-parker/

Important chapters of a biography would feature the Red Rose Club in Stoke Newington, walking distance from where John lived during that whole era, the pre-Vortex versions of Mopomoso.

Sub-editor sleeping on the job there, the Vortex was in Stoke Newington, the Red Rose Club in Finsbury Park, walking distance for me and John Russell it seems - cheap booze too.

Chances of londonjazznews.com having subeditors are rather slim I would say.

Mira Furlan, best known for Babylon 5:

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— Mira Furlan (@FurlanMira) January 22, 2021

one of my best friends named his daughter after her. he's very upset

i guess her illness wasn't widely known?

First I'd heard of it.

Straczynski's tribute

It is a night of great sadness, for our friend and comrade had gone down the road where we cannot reach her. But as with all things, we will catch up with her in time, and I believe she will have many stories to tell us, and many new roles to share with the universe. pic.twitter.com/HyQlqyC19v

— J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) January 22, 2021

very memorable in Lost too

I never watched Babylon 5, so I couldn't place her, but once I learned she was also on Lost I realized exactly who she was. R.I.P.

aww RIP, she was so good as Ambassador Delenn. about time I gave B5 another rewatch.

Hank Aaron

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

damn, rip hammerin' hank

Nathalie Delon

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210121-glamorous-french-star-nathalie-delon-dies-at-79

Her fling with Bobby Keyes was one of the more surprisingly amusing revelations from Keef's book.

Ah man, stunt driver supreme Rémy Julienne

Stunt driver extraordinaire Rémy Julienne has died at the age of 90 from Covid-19. He worked on six James Bond films. pic.twitter.com/hWZzvkefFw

— James Bond (@jamesbondlive) January 22, 2021

Julienne is all-timer. In addition to the Bond films he worked on dozens of Eurocrime movies, injecting his Buster Keaton meets Evel Knievel style into scene after scene of tiny European moto mayhem. This chase from THE BURGLARS is a personal favorite: https://t.co/MZPvN2zohs https://t.co/s8DRa33Y4T

— Cinema Elevator (@pobrecito) January 22, 2021

Hank Aaron was the Class Day speaker the year I graduated from college

Fantastic (did you get to speak to him?). Happy to say I was watching when he hit #715--the whole story around that (Bowie Kuhn's embarrassing behaviour, the death threats, the kid tearing around the bases with Aaron, the fact it was his first swing of the season) is amazing.

Aaron was still playing when I was 6-7 yrs old and I was in awe of him, he seemed possessed of superpowers. And always seemed like such a gracious man.

otm

hank aaron killed by the covid shot!

Ugh

(I did not get a chance to speak to him. It's always been a regret.)

Gregory Sierra, actor of many TV credits, perhaps best remembered for playing Julio on Sanford and Son and Det. Sgt. Chano Amenguale on Barney Miller.

He died on January 4, though the news just broke today.

hank aaron killed by the covid shot!

this is xzanfar posting, take with grain of salt

RIP, Gregory Sierra.

aw :(

RIP to Pop Surreal Legend, Van Arno

https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/rip-to-pop-surreal-legend-van-arno/

RIP Julio. You were the GOAT. (sorry)

Gregory Sierra, actor of many TV credits, perhaps best remembered for playing Julio on Sanford and Son and Det. Sgt. Chano Amenguale on Barney Miller.

He died on January 4, though the news just broke today.

RIP. I've never seen "Sanford and Son" but "Barney Miller" was a late night treat on Scottish TV.

Barney Miller = best cop show ever.

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— Larry King (@kingsthings) January 23, 2021

RIP

The end of this tiktok is maybe the hardest I've ever laughed pic.twitter.com/XhDowMP7lT

— Kristin Chirico (@lolacoaster) December 22, 2020

Don't know anything about the guy but I just noticed on wiki that he was married 7 times - 8 if you included the wife he married twice - and he separated from his last wife in 2019. Larry King that is.

Yeah. He was a workaholic. Didn’t have much time for the domestic stuff.

WaPo headline is funny.

If you were caught up in the O.J. story in '94 and '95, his show was ground zero. I'm sure it would all happen on Twitter now.

yeah, larry was one of the last of his kind

Good thoughts here on that:

What I wrote about Larry King in 2015: His crusty Jewish vaudevillian affect was a throwback to early TV, & it set him apart from everyone else in broadcasting. Also he was just a weird dude, fascinating to look at & listen to. Broadway Danny Rose meets Dada. pic.twitter.com/dbc24514f3

— Jody Rosen (@jodyrosen) January 23, 2021

As you'd expect, lovely tribute from Piers Morgan

Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was ‘like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.’ (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert) But he was a brilliant broadcaster & masterful TV interviewer. pic.twitter.com/1JsXeeZYEk

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 23, 2021

King was a close friend of my husband's lawyer--they both had TV shows in Miami. Never got to meet him, though.

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larry used to frequent a bookstore i worked in in DC. he was kind of a dick. one time he came up to the info desk and snapped at me ‘i need five copies of my book’ and i deeply regret lacking the presence of mind to reply ‘okay . . . what’s your name’

"Here you are, 'Woodrow Wilson: A Biography'"

RIP Larry King. My impression of him was so gravelly I damaged my vocal cords and eventually needed surgery.

We eventually met and someone told him the story. He teased me about it, of course, but later, pulled me aside and asked, very sincerely, “You’re okay now, though?

— Dana Gould (@danagould) January 23, 2021

lol just remembered Larry King asking Sharon Tate's sister how she could still feel comfortable being in touch with Roman Polanski even after he murdered her sister. RIP to a real one, we'll never see his like again.

— Will Sloan (@WillSloanEsq) January 23, 2021

Heh. One of those links mentioned that Joe Franklin quality he had which I thought was otm.

"Larry, I'm on Ducktales."