Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

Re Jean-Marc Vallèe: Don't know if I've liked anything the past three or four years as much as Big Little Lies, first season especially. (Also, a little less so, Sharp Objects).

yeah otm

Apparently Andrew Vachss has passed:

Gutted to learn of Andrew Vachss’s passing. In 2010 I interviewed him. In the first 5 minutes I thought he was going to hang up on me. We talked for more than an hour and he said one of the most goddamn important things I’ve ever heard as a writer starting out. Sharing it here. pic.twitter.com/lyRADeWiga

— Rob Hart (@robwhart) December 28, 2021

Wow, good quote. RIP.

I've only read two or three of his books but always meant to read more.

Grichka (of the Bogdanoff twins, french science fiction/pseudoscience broadcasters/nerds) died of Covid : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_and_Grichka_Bogdanoff

RIP Andrew Vachss. Years and years ago, I went to a James Ellroy signing for the UK launch of LA Confidential, at the specialist crime bookshop Murder One. It was, slightly bizarrely, a joint signing with Ruth Rendell who, outshouted and outraged by a VERY full-on Ellroy, quickly stopped signing and left. After queuing for a while I got to Ellroy, and he asked me my name for the dedication. When I said 'Andrew' (cos that's my name) he immediately roared back, "WHERE'S THE EYEPATCH?"

His dedication? 'To Andrew - blood rage in a poodle's cage'.

Okay that's an anecdote for the ages.

April Ashley, trans pioneer.

i will never forgive vallèe for making dallas buyers club and also i found his aesthetic generally repellant but it sucks he died so young

Never saw Dallas Buyers Club, or any of his TV work, but I do remember liking his French Canadian gay teen Jesus flick, C.R.A.Z.Y..

J.D. Crowe, a master banjo player and bandleader who expanded the sound of bluegrass while attracting some of the genre’s most prodigiously gifted musicians into his groups, has died at 84. https://t.co/hwccnB1A77

— New York Times Arts (@nytimesarts) December 28, 2021

John Madden

I’m sure every year is full of notable losses, but, man.

NFL legend John Madden died unexpected this morning. He was 85. pic.twitter.com/FoC1mAzoF6

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 29, 2021

Boom!

cris collinsworth must eat six turkey legs on air during the playoffs to honor the king

— kilgore trout, tucker carlson’s mailman (@KT_So_It_Goes) December 29, 2021

Super Sky Point to the legendary John Madden. The GOAT color man in NFL history and the all-time highest winning percentage among head coaches with 100+ career wins. A larger than life figure. Heaven just added one sweet bastard. #RIP pic.twitter.com/pvwjfqmXvx

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) December 29, 2021

aw man. I still love his HOF induction speech in 2006, kinda embodies how I think of him in general

“Here is the deal: I think over in the Hall of Fame, that during the day, the people go through, they look at everything. At night, there's a time when they all leave. All the fans and all the visitors leave the Hall of Fame. Then there's just the workers. Then the workers start to leave. It gets down to there's just one person. That person turns out the light, locks the door.
I believe that the busts talk to each other. I can't wait for that conversation, I really can't. Vince Lombardi, … Reggie (White), Walter Payton, all my ex-players. We'll be there forever and ever and ever talking about whatever. That's what I believe. That's what I think is going to happen, and no one's ever going to talk me out of that.”

John Madden, the G.O.A.T. pic.twitter.com/dnEvOnF6ZY

— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) December 29, 2021

Harry Reid too

loool <3

In honor of the late John Madden, my favorite Madden call of an Eagles game, where he DESTROYS Barry Switzer for the famed 4th and 1 call.

“Yeah, they deserve to lose!”

The Dumbest Decision in NFL History (ft. Barry Switzer) https://t.co/gn8VOxlf5I via @YouTube

— John Stolnis (@JohnStolnis) December 29, 2021

Harry Reid

My favorite story about Reid is of course when as gaming commissioner he worked with the FBI on a sting operation. He simply had to discuss the bribe. He instead leapt at this suspect and choked him, screaming "You tried to bribe me, you son of a bitch!"

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) December 29, 2021

Imagine how much worse off our judiciary would be if Harry Reid hadn’t used the nuclear option for presidential appointments in 2013. Trump would’ve effectively gotten to appoint eight years worth of judges.

— Noah (@NoahJAguirre) December 29, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nvUoBX911k

I didn't see a post about Caroline Peyton, the great singer whose '70s albums Mock Up and Intuition gained a new audience when Numero Group reissued them in 2009. She died in Nashville on August 11. A fabulous singer indeed. I wrote this about her a few months ago.

Beatles’ Movies Producer Denis O’Dell Dies at 98 https://t.co/7YevodPidJ

— Variety (@Variety) December 31, 2021

Sally Ann Howes, "Truly Scrumptious", 91

Well fuck this

Beloved actress, comedian and American icon Betty White has passed away at 99, @TMZ reports. pic.twitter.com/pdrJijUwtb

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) December 31, 2021

Just saw someone tweet about this and assumed it was a joke despite the obvious. What a great life though.

This was unfortunate though

My 100th birthday… I cannot believe it is coming up, and People Magazine is celebrating with me! The new issue of @people is available on newsstands nationwide tomorrow. https://t.co/kTQnsbMDGK

— Betty White (@BettyMWhite) December 28, 2021

fuck. RIP

Not a hoax: @people has an obit with a statement from Betty White's agent. https://t.co/iaqYv1pISM pic.twitter.com/gxHdYdgz9g

— John M. Cunningham (@jmcunning) December 31, 2021

Damn!!! So close!!!

The answer we have received to the age-old “Who First: Betty White or Henry Kissinger?” question has conclusively proved that we live in hell.

— Fibromarxalgia ☭ (@comedyunism) December 31, 2021

Jesus, I remember the announcement of her turning 100 and I thought it already happened, not that it was around the corner. that's so cruel :(

Rest in peace Betty

Betty White RIP

;_; RIP Betty

Denis O’Dell’s nephew Dick managed the Slits and The Pop Group, amongst many.

Gosh - I never realised the connection. I met him (Dick) at a very good event on the history of pirate radio in London in a library in Ladbrook Grove a few years ago.

Most known for the essential Y Records. The I’m post punk funk cousin label of New York’s 99.

Also made a fortune from Pigbag. He’s an old friend of mine and was just discussing Denis on FB in the wake of Get Back a few weeks ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/arts/music/sandra-jaffe-who-helped-preserve-jazz-at-preservation-hall-dies-at-83.html

Sandra Jaffe at 83 ( and her husband who died in 1987), took over Preservation Hall in New Orleans in 1961 and had jazz bands there ever since. The Hall was integrated under their management at a time when New Orleans was segregated.

Peter Bogdanovich

he died in 2022

Rolling Obituary Thread 2022