Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

Obit for S. Clay Wilson: http://www.tcj.com/s-clay-wilson-the-most-influential-artist-of-his-generation/

And the announcement from his long-time partner, who married him in 2010 in order to be able to be his full-time carer:

I posted this on Facebook yesterday...devastated by this loss. Perhaps you’d like to read these 4 screenshots of this journey.....I still need to write on the website....💔 pic.twitter.com/jWGTnoMGs9

— Lorraine Chamberlain (@Chamberpaint) February 8, 2021

Mary Wilson

Mary Wilson, Co-Founder of the Supremes, Dies at 76 https://t.co/Eh5VMxTJWu

— Variety (@Variety) February 9, 2021

Oof, damn

Ghédalia Tazartès, apparently.

ah shit

where are u seeing this Ned?

Various avant-garde/experimental music types on Twitter, hadn't seen the source yet.

He is older than I would have guessed considering recent output

No doubt the two were longtime friends but a major misconception about Elizondo’s partnership with director Garry Marshall is that the character actor was automatically gifted roles in all of his films when in fact auditioning was required in each case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYjpda8L9To

Elliot Mazer, Engineer-Producer for Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, and the Band, Dead at 79

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elliot-mazer-engineer-producer-dead-1125570/

So used to seeing his name on all the '70s albums, I assumed he did After the Gold Rush, but he doesn't seem to enter the picture till Harvest.

I see Mazer produced Lightfoot's Back Here on Earth, maybe his best.

DON: READ THE THREAD. ELIZONDO IS NOT DEAD.

Good catch Matthew

In case anyone else hasn’t seen it. Some good news...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cinemablend.com/television/2562573/despite-death-rumors-last-man-standings-hector-elizondo-is-very-much-alive

sigh, it's literally above your posts in this very thread, but I've been around the block enough times to recognise when I've been trolled

Ed Pearl, whose Ash Grove nightclub was at the heart of L.A.’s ’60s music scene, dies.

Also helped found the Peace & Freedom Party in 1967, per the obit.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-02-09/ed-pearl-dead-ash-grove

Former Wales and Everton goalkeeper Dai Davies

R.I.P. Dai Davies, goalkeeper for Wales in the first football match I ever saw (v England, Ninian Park, 1978), and on 52 occasions in total. Legend.

He let in three that day, though to be fair, he had no chance with two of them.https://t.co/JkrQznoEKQ

— Simon Price (@simon_price01) February 10, 2021

Oh man, there he was on ITV4 the other day, The Big Match Revisited*: haplessly spilling the ball to allow Sheff Utd to come back from two down at Goodison in April 1975. Ending Everton's title challenge (losing home and away to bloody Carlisle did that, to be fair). I never saw him play, it was all Gorgeous Georgie Wood when I started going.

(* - hugely recommended, if only for Brian Moore interviewing Alec Stock)

Hang on, I saw him play twice! For Wrexham in an FA Cup tie (Feb 1980, the same day Paul Ringer was sent off for Wales vs England at Twickenham) and for Swansea in a league match in Dec 1981. I'm sure he got a warm welcome from the Street end. Before conceding a total of eight goals.

(hadn't realised the Big Match was back on. was, if nothing else, fascinating for being old television (and old football) where all the on screen text was the video equivalent of letraset and the pitches were little better than quagmires. one i saw had a pitch where the snow was only cleared where the pitch markings were and they were playing with an orange ball for contrast. does that still happen?)

This was the Scunthorpe v. Bradford City game last night - I can't see the ball, but then neither could the players and the match was abandoned. Current league match ball is yellow though I think, so no need to swap to the orange ball?

https://i2-prod.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/incoming/article4986129.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/1_Etzsxi8XIAEsi0y.jpg

lol how long did that ball even spend at pitch level?

this is where I recommend watching The Second Game by Corneliu Porumboiu.
the director watches a fuzzy VHS of a very snowy Bucharest derby from 1988 with his hilariously surly dad, who was the referee for the match.

https://i.imgur.com/58fW8Dk.png

Richie Albright, long-time drummer & right-hand man to Waylon Jennings.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/richie-albright-waylon-jennings-drummer-dead-obit-1126223/

Because I'm ignorant I was surprised to hear this, due to me confusing him with Paul English, long-time drummer & right-hand man to Willie Nelson, who died nearly exactly a year ago.

Not to be confused with those two Wings drummers.

Larry Flynt

^^People you thought were already...

^Seconded

Seriously, I could have sworn he died at least 10 years ago.

Fourthed

Yup, came here to post same

Surprised he was "only" 78. He seems to belong to several lifetimes ago.

I've never seen People vs. Larry Flynt, but it seems like all of its thunder was stolen by Boogie Nights the next year.

Those two only a year apart? Seem to remember more time between. Guess I was younger then.

he looked 70 when the movie came out ~ 20+ years ago~ lol

PvLF: 1996
BN: 1997

I've never seen People vs. Larry Flynt, but it seems like all of its thunder was stolen by Boogie Nights the next year.

Courtney Love was pretty good--her first film, I think--but I didn't care for it that much. It was weighed down by all the stuff Boogie Nights just breezed past.

Courtney Love was pretty good--her first film, I think

She was in Sid & Nancy a full decade before PvLF.

I wasn't particularly close--it was her seventh film. Maybe the first one she got a lot of attention for?

It established her as a actress/Movie Star.

I too was shocked that Larry Flynt was only 78. He's looked like shit my entire life. Also thought he was dead.

Good for him for taking a bullet for love

I've never seen People vs. Larry Flynt, but it seems like all of its thunder was stolen by Boogie Nights the next year.

I remember it being a pretty great movie, and courtney was excellent in the role

Yep, P v LF written by the same team who wrote Ed Wood and the Eddie Murphy Dolemite movie, and equally entertaining - tho possibly problematic nowadays in presenting Flynt solely as a roguish free speech rebel. Definitely think it's a much better film than Boogie Nights fwiw.

(In the same vein they also created/head-wrote/showran the American Crime Story: OJ Simpson maxiseries, and (to lesser effect) the Margaret Keane bio Big Eyes, if Ward's triangulation sparks anyone to collect the set. In all instances it's more useful to see them as sketched stories about weird people having an against-the-odds-of-mainstream-culture success, rather than a detailed and accurate portrait of real events and lives.)

Yep, also Forman's next film, Man in the Moon, which again conforms to type.

thought I was forgetting another - have always avoided that one.