Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

Ugh

Looking over Grimaldi's credits, I might pick The Canterbury Tales as my favourite, although even Pasolini fans seem to dislike it.

James White, owner & founder of The Broken Spoke Honky Tonk in Austin

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/01/24/austin-music-icon-james-white-broken-spokes-owner-dies-81/6694281002/

Oh no, I've been impressed with Broken Spoke's longevity

Canterbury Tales is great

It's my favourite too, so I figured it was the basic choice...

Joseph Sonnabend. A hell of a life and a story, as this thread shows.

I’m deeply saddened to learn that Dr Joseph Sonnabend, one of the most important figures in the history of AIDS, died yesterday. I spent time with him in 2018 for one of the last interviews he ever gave. Let me tell you about this man and what he did: 1/https://t.co/XSPEfZKzBr

— Patrick Strudwick (@PatrickStrud) January 25, 2021

conceptual artist Barry Le Va

https://www.artforum.com/news/barry-le-va-1941-2021-84936

Larry King's greatest moments.

His drunken monologue about "pro- fessionals"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KRUje1UQJs

Taking a five minute phone in the middle of a live interview with Dave Rubin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdS8b8gfWKI

That was great, thanks, but where were the other three minutes?

"we don't tell you that we're looking for a farmhouse in the middle of the desert"
I feel like Larry King probably killed somebody at one point, lotta secrets in that cranium.

Larry King time is different than Youtube time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd3_k-OF_aU

Cloris Leachman, Emmy and Oscar Winner, Dies at 94 https://t.co/gGiC7mrYLk

— Variety (@Variety) January 27, 2021

Aw. RIP.

Oh no 🙁

Betty White one step closer to getting the Mary Tyler Moore Show tontine.

awwww shit. RIP Cloris. :(

Back in pre-kids 2014, Andrea and I were out on a date eating pizza. I felt a person tug on my hoodie and say “can I have some of that?” and I was like “what the fuck?” then realized it was #ClorisLeachman and was like “Can we recreate that for the internet?”

RIP to a legend🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/GCo5skn1ar

— Another Adam Smith (@AdamOfTheSmiths) January 27, 2021

<3

lol

awesome

ledge

A picture from the last time I saw you. Always beautiful. Nothing I could say would top the enormity of my love for you. Until we meet again darling. #clorisleachmanrip pic.twitter.com/9etOZo13Kb

— Ed Asner (@TheOnlyEdAsner) January 27, 2021

The power and beauty that was Cicely Tyson.

Cicely Tyson, an Emmy and Tony-winning actor known for playing strong Black leads in films like "Sounder," and "Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," dies at 96. https://t.co/8k094gYWRD

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 29, 2021

Just two days ago.

In a new memoir, legendary actress Cicely Tyson is opening up about her impressive career and personal life.@GayleKing caught up with 96-year-old @IAmCicelyTyson to reflect on the defining moments in her life, starting with a reporter’s question that caught her off guard. pic.twitter.com/86xvScQ4ys

— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) January 26, 2021

And that's why you get the biggest advance possible for a book: because you're unlikely to ever see any royalties.

Sorry. RIP Cicely Tyson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dn6Me-IkGA

Cédric Demangeot, French poet, translator and editor, 46. RIP.

@GayleKing caught up with 96-year-old @IAmCicelyTyson to reflect on the defining moments in her life

Seeing her shed her first tear for a sexual assault that happened an entire lifetime ago really got to me.

Amazing woman

longtime temple men's basketball coach john cheney, 88

Jacques Rivette.

Oh no! RIP

He passed away in 2016. I guess today is the 5th anniversary of his death.

I was about to say, isn't he already dead?

I was wondering.

I was trying to think when I last watched Celine and Julie, and it must have been when he actually died.

I started to try to watch Out 1, Noli me tangere on Mubi last night based on reading about it Luc Sante's latest book which I was inspired by JBL to get, but then I chickened out and watched a 90 minute Jacques Becker movie that was about to leave instead.

I saw it at TIFF over a two day span, it has some amazing moments and some scenes that are literally there only to fulfil the pre-decided formalist structure. If you're open to a 13-hour failed experiment, then it's worthwhile.

Out 1: Spectre is a masterpiece, however.

Yeah, not sure how to see that right now.

That's funny, it was the "commercial" version and now it's obscure.

Right

Guitarist Hilton Valentine of The Animals

People who I didn't know were stilll... RIP

Out One: Spectre is available on a blu ray from Arrow that also contains Out 1: Noli me Tangere, it's not obscure at all.

https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/out-1-blu-ray/FCD1886

L'amour Fou is the fugitive Rivette on home video.

"Out Of Stock"

Out One of Stock

Halfway There: I was probably at that same screening--10 years ago? Unless they've played it since then.

According to a John Harkness writeup in NOW Magazine, it was Feb 2007. I saw Spectre about 1994, also at TIFF.

Sax Legend Grady Gaines (Little Richard's Upsetters)

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/article/Houston-blues-and-R-B-great-Grady-Gaines-dies-15909115.php