Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

Polish poet Adam Zagajewski, 75.

Nawal El Saadawi https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/21/nawal-el-saadawi-egyptian-author-women-rights-icon-dies

Legendary Laker Elgin Baylor, 86

Just learned of Baylor. I don't have any basketball memories until the Knicks in '73, so I just missed him. Finished his career with the 69-13 Lakers.

In 70s-era footie legends news: Frank Worthington, 72

They're dropping like flies. RIP Frank.

I sort of knew him from when I worked in the bookies and he was a regular at the Lindley branch of J Pearsons. RIp legend.

He was far more obsessed with horseracing than football. He often seemed bored shitless when people talked football with him, unless he was looking for info on one of his former clubs for some after dinner speaking event.

I was too young to ever seen him play, but people who did spoke in awed tones. To my stepdad he is only second to Stanley Matthews as best player he has ever seen in the flesh.

I'm sure lots of footballers find football boring!

I couldn't find any mention of his book "One hump, or Two?" on ILB!

Oh man, I'm turning into my dad ("I saw Duncan Edwards/Pele/Frank Sinatra/Danny Kaye and they were rubbish")... I saw Frank W sent off! I can't even remember what for, but it was a dismal 1-1 draw w/Birmingham at Goodison in late 1980. Eamonn O'Keefe scored for us with his chest, or some combination of arm and face. It was classy stuff.

FW was so dashing in his prime, he looked like Jason King or something. One of his outrageous goals in his Bolton days was a fixture of the Granada Kick Off opening credits for years, even when he was at least five clubs down the line from Burnden Park.

Here 'tis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJI1SBekmEk

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George Segal, 87.

one weird thing I used to do freshman year was after class I'd watch Becker and Just Shoot Me. I've probably seen at least half the episodes of both. I don't know why, I never particularly liked those shows, but they were weirdly comforting in my first year away from home. George was maybe my favorite part of that show.

Oh shame, who doesn't like George Segal?

Didn't clue in from the Altman revive. As integral to the the early '70s as Pacino, De Niro, Hackman, etc.--locked in there even more definitively. (Haven't watched his TV shows; he did eventually move on.)

California Split is a favourite of mine. RIP.

Yes, he seemed to be in everything for a little while there. RIP.

He was in The Hot Rock, to name just one, but I had to look it up to be sure.

But he wasn’t in Cops and Robbers. I guess the rule back then was that every movie had to have either George Segal or Joseph Bologna.

Superb timing. Paul Mazursky's favorite actor, an indelible part of fortysomething manhood suddenly entering the '70s and needing mutton chops and free love.

Perfection opposite Mary Tyler Moore in David O. Russell's Flirting With Disaster. I was the only one at a 1 p.m. screening in early summer '96, laughing like a fool.

he's very funny in the original fun with dick and jane

watched who's afraid of virginia woolf for the first time this past weekend, dude was so good

Somewhere I've got sealed vinyl of his banjo album from the '70s...Harry Nilsson guests!

https://img.discogs.com/GrAoBJ7TLhIaQC9S1QZFkSxPkGo=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3232933-1573685431-3742.jpeg.jpg

xp Yeah I was gonna say he holds his own against Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton-- which, damn

XP One of the tracks on it is that "Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown" song he keeps singing in California Split.

Aw man RIP.

California Split is one of my favourite movies, but he was great in Just Shoot Me as well

I've only seen him in The Owl and the Pussycat, so I should probably see him in some non-lousy films, huh?

He was in Rollercoaster, with Sparks!

He isn't bad as a spy in the Quiller Memorandum

has some fun playing himself stuff in early larry sanders eps

Years ago I watched Carbon Copy, for some reason. It was also Denzel Washington's first film. Now that was a lousy movie, but they can't all be winners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSllh1_hRio

He's very likeable in "No Way to Treat a Lady", but he was generally very likeable.

An utterly detestable film !

RIP. Only last month I watched Born to Win, early 70s Ivan Passer movie where he has the non-comedic lead role as a junkie, and he's pretty good in that - it's on YouTube.

yeah that's a pretty good urban-bummer-heroin movie. saw it in a double feature with Where's Poppa?, which was..... not my cup of tea. need to see more Segal though; have been really really impressed with California Split both times i've watched it.

Fabulous as the harried husband in Flirting with Disaster.

A daft joke cartoon background detail I recall from one of the early 80's DC Thomson annuals was a cinema with "Now Showing: The Birds starring George Seagull" on the sign. It was a powerful enough image to seed in my memory the notion that he was actually in The Birds for decades.

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Bertrand Tavernier

Bertrand Tavernier, celebrated writer and director known for his work across five decades, has died at the age of 79. https://t.co/Jr5Dgc1zQH pic.twitter.com/siYkD2XWuC

— Notebook (@NotebookMUBI) March 25, 2021

Ah man, Jessica Walter.

https://deadline.com/2021/03/jessica-walter-dead-actress-arrested-development-1234721873/

Aw, RIP

noooooooooo

She was so hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EW_tlvW4aI

she deserved a medal for being the funniest person in that ridiculously strong ensemble

rip