Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

somehow totally missed that former US attorney general-turned-activist Ramsey Clark died three weeks ago

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ramsey-clark-dead/2021/04/10/70314e68-9949-11eb-a6d0-13d207aadb78_story.html

Man, somebody should POLL the Al Schmitt discography, but it might be too much work.

Just found out about Surfin' with the Astronauts, for example.

https://louderthanwar.com/anita-lane-rip-birthday-party-bad-seeds-solo/

Anita Lane, long term Nick Cave/Barry Adamson collaborator and Mute artist in their own right.

More obit links (by Rob Sheffield and Nick Cave) over here if anyone wants them: Nick Cave : Classic or Dud ?

Eli Broad, mover and shaker in LA's construction and art scene, at 87.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/us/eli-broad-dead.html

Olympia Dukakis

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/05/olympia-dukakis-dies-at-89-1234634665/

;_;

I love Olympia Dukakis.

Walter Jones, pretty obscure not prolific but consistently excellent house producer, perhaps best known for 'I'll Keep On Loving You / Living Without Your Love' on DFA in 2009

I've just learned of the passing of the Dj and Producer Walter jones, who was an amazing, lovely dude. I'm honored I got to know him, one of the real ones. Rest in peace man, we love youhttps://t.co/mo9WUGUaDL

— John Barera (@johnbarera) April 29, 2021

Milva, Italian singer and actress, 81.

Love Milva, her album of Ennio Morricone songs from 1972 is a perennial fave. The one of Brecht/Weill songs from 1971 is also classic. She was in my pantheon of 80-something Italian singers along with Mina and Ornella Vanoni.

https://www.musicinafrica.net/fr/node/15368

Earlier bio of Amha Eshete covering his years as a pioneering Ethiopian producer and label owner, plus touching on his later years after he fled to Washington DC and started the Blue Nile and the Ibex restaurant/ clubs. Eshete who has been sick for awhile, has just passed ( per an email from H in Addis and Facebook and Twitter)

afterthought re Milva: you gotta love the nicknames the Italian press gave to singers in the '60s -

Milva was "The Panther of Goro"
Mina was "The Tigress of Cremona"
Ornella Vanoni was "The Singer of the Bad Life (i.e. the Underworld)"
Iva Zanicchi was "The Eagle of Ligonchio"

Thanks, Josefa. Did they marry anyone that would qualify them for the other thread?

Milva was in a relationship with the spaghetti western and giallo actor Luigi Pistilli (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). He committed suicide after they split up.

Bummer. "Living Without Your Love" was one of my favorite singles of the last decade.

Her album with Vangelis is sublime. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqbyII1NGY

Bobby Unser

https://www.espn.com/racing/indycar/story/_/id/31383651/bobby-unser-three-indianapolis-500-winner-dies-age-87

cinematographer Willy Kurant

Willy Kurant, the cinematographer who worked with Godard, Varda, Welles, Robbe-Grillet, Marker, Skolimowski, Pialat, Rozier, Schlöndorff, Gainsbourg, and Garrel, has died. He was 87.https://t.co/URQosQX8YQhttps://t.co/cujHMM67wB pic.twitter.com/DamLRXkC6w

— The Daily (@CriterionDaily) May 3, 2021

^^helluva resume: masculin-feminin, a grin without a cat, a nos amours, the baby-sitters club, pootie tang....

RIP

Pootie tang does whip

Which Garrel did he shoot? Doesn’t seem to be on MUBI.

Oh, I see.

god that list is so sick lmfao

Rest In Peace. One of the greats.

Stay safe, Bruno Nuytten!

Hermine Karagheuz, frequent Rivette collaborator

Hermine Karagheuz, the actress, writer, and photographer who appeared in films by Jacques Rivette, Jeanne Moreau, and Bertrand Bonello, has passed away.https://t.co/jnTegu3UgLhttps://t.co/eWL2x85U23 pic.twitter.com/Yp0zOWzCVF

— The Daily (@CriterionDaily) May 3, 2021

Noted Rock Writer/Historian Ed Ward

Phil Naro of Talas, Druckfarben, and a half dozen other bands. one of the last singers who could really hit that Geddy Lee/Jon Anderson zone. by all accounts a super nice guy too.

X-post - Ed Ward 1948-2021

RIP . Lots of interesting writing about rock’s early days and more

RIP

https://www.statesman.com/story/obituaries/2021/05/04/austin-ed-ward-obituary-music-critic-historian-dies-age-72/4936964001/

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ed-ward-dead-obit-1164828/

Jeez, I feel like Ed Ward was just on Fresh Air the other day, maybe I'm mistaken... RIP rocker

Nick Kamen at just 59.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/nick-kamen-death-levis-model-age-cause-b1842435.html

I looked up Hermine Karagheuz and came across this still from Out 1:

https://phildellio.tripod.com/hermine.jpg

Is that not the film's final image? I saw it once 10 years ago, and I still think about that.

The last image in Out 1: Spectre is Leaud playing with the Eiffel Tower keychain (?) in his room, I thought the longer version ended with Lonsdale on the beach, but there might be something after that.

Nick Kamen :(

RIP; already noted yesterday, btw.

Wonder what happened to him after the nineties. All the obits seem to end there.

When I was 14 a girl sent me a valentine's card and wrote on it that I was just as dreamy and fit as Nick Kamen. It was all rapidly downhill from there.

Billie Hayes, who played Witchiepoo on HR Pufnstuf, at 96.

https://people.com/tv/billie-hayes-dead-actress-witchiepoo-hr-pufnstuf/

RIP

:(

John Hannon, UK recording engineer notable for many years' work in the DIY/hardcore/experimental scene as well as playing in Understand, Woe, Liberez and probably more.

Tawny Kitaen, model and actress, most famous for her appearances in Whitesnake videos, age 59. https://variety.com/2021/film/news/tawny-kitaen-dead-whitesnake-video-bachelor-party-1234969193/

Same age as Nick Kamen, not a good week for gorgeous folks from the 80s.

Nathan Rabin has been writing about all her movies on his website, not in a disrespectful way.

Memorable on Seinfeld.

Isabel: Ever since you came back from the Army, you've changed. I swear Nelson, I don't even know who you are anymore.

Jerry: I'm Nelson!

xpost Wow, 59?

Lloyd Price

https://variety.com/2021/music/news/lloyd-price-dead-mr-personality-1234969166/