Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

RIP. Have never seen The Defiant Ones, only the 1001 parodies of it, but Morbs gave it a thumbs up.

I'm always talking about To Sir with Love; listed it on my favourite-movies-ever poll recently. If you're interested in Poitier, Mark Harris's Pictures at a Revolution is highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hs3S8gNIU0

I remember really liking To Sir with Love when I was coming up, haven’t watched in decades though. Still listen to the theme song of course.

My parents used to adore Lilies of the Field, but I haven't seen it in years... kinda want to revisit it

Poitier's heartbreaking dilemma is ar the heart of Pictures at a Revolution.

I almost never post GIFs, but I thought there might be one for this--looks like there's a dozen out there, at least.

https://media.giphy.com/media/Wrsr6oJfZ9YcHOA07L/giphy.gif

Poitier's heartbreaking dilemma is ar the heart of _ Pictures at a Revolution_.

RIP - my personal favorite was A Patch of Blue, mum gave me the book to read as a teen & i loved the movie so much, especially him. ;_;

Oddly enough, one of Peter Bogdanovich's TV movies was To Sir, With Love II, which is about Thackeray moving to Chicago and taking a job at an inner-city school. Lulu and Judy Geeson reprise their characters from the original.

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You can tell it's the '90s because all the students are staring down 30 hard...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPtXH2We4wY

Forgot about that (and haven't seen it)--good catch.

Lani Guinier, whose nomination for Assistant Attorney General was struck down by the GOP early in the Clinton era:

A loss that means more to me than words can say. Civil rights atty, professor, my mentor, member of our ⁦@NAACP_LDF⁩ family. A mother of the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act. A scholar of uncompromising brilliance.
Rest In Peace and Power, dear Lani.#LaniGuinier pic.twitter.com/r3TmI9KRZF

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) January 7, 2022

Bill Clinton sure showed her the respect she deserved.

I grew up w the story of how my dad met Mr. Poitier in an airport & said, "I was just about to purchase some earrings for my wife-who wld certainly leave me for u- wld you be so kind to pick them out?" He obliged. And that's how my mom has "the earrings that Sidney picked out."

— Saul Williams (@SaulWilliams) January 7, 2022

Harry Belanfonte on Sidney Potier’s passing:

“For over 80 years, Sidney and I laughed, cried and made as much mischief as we could. He was truly my brother and partner in trying to make this world a little better. He certainly made mine a whole lot better.”

🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/IRcZiyBx78

— Shanelle Genai✨ (@shanellegenai) January 7, 2022

Reasonably reliable source says RIP R. Dean Tayllor.

Or maybe not.

go/no go for taylor

Still waiting for a report on that alarm, VG.

roger. standing by.

Indiana Got Him?

Shane O’Connor, son of Sinead. So awful.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/08/son-of-sinead-oconnor-dies-at-age-of-17-after-going-missing

Terrible.

Calvin Simon, vocalist with the Parliaments, Parliament/Funkadelic etc

https://www.nme.com/news/music/parliament-funkadelic-co-founder-calvin-simon-has-died-3132791

... he also served in Vietnam!

This book has been on my list forever/pvmic

it's a brilliant, brilliant read

GLOW wrestler Dee Booher, aka Queen Kong/Matilda the Hun

https://heavy.com/news/dee-booher-dead/

no cause of death given :(

Michael "Woodstock" Lang, 77, of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/woodstock-michael-lang-dead-1281681/

He looked almost the same for 50 years... RIP

May his memory be a blessing, that is

Lyricist Marilyn Bergman died this week at age 93. She wrote the lyrics to all the songs in the film In the Heat of the Night including the title song that Ray Charles sings. She and Sidney Poitier passing at the same time has been rough for Quincy Jones, who was close friends with both of them.

Saxophonist Charles Brackeen. His first album, from 1973, was made with Ornette Coleman's former bandmates (Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell); later he was a member of Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society; and in the 80s he made a series of excellent albums with Olu Dara, Fred Hopkins and Andrew Cyrille. All of the latter are on Bandcamp.

James Mtume, apparently

aw no!

Dām-Funk is tweeting about it so i guess it's true

And to think his dad, Jimmy Heath, died in 2020. Sad.

Dwayne "Dobie Gillis" Hickman at 87.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/dwayne-hickman-dead-the-many-loves-of-dobie-gillis-actor-1235149782/amp/

Bob Saget:

Bob Saget has died.https://t.co/85nMLUQ4zl

— TMZ (@TMZ) January 10, 2022

Natural causes I'm sure.

what the hell

Eerie when this happens and the person was still tweeting early this morning:

Loved tonight’s show @PV_ConcertHall in Jacksonville. Appreciative audience. Thanks again to @RealTimWilkins for opening. I had no idea I did a 2 hr set tonight. I’m happily addicted again to this shit. Check https://t.co/nqJyTiiezU for my dates in 2022. pic.twitter.com/pEgFuXxLd3

— bob saget (@bobsaget) January 9, 2022

I'm amazed he was 65, looked great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEYoKxL3AiU

Damn, that's wild.

Earlier today, deputies were called to the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes for a call about an unresponsive man in a hotel room. The man was identified as Robert Saget & pronounced deceased on scene. Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use in this case. #BobSaget pic.twitter.com/aB1UKiOlmi

— Orange County Sheriff's Office (@OrangeCoSheriff) January 10, 2022

aw man, that's a bummer

I am broken. I am gutted.  I am in complete and utter shock.  I will never ever have another friend like him.  I love you so much Bobby.

— John Stamos (@JohnStamos) January 10, 2022

Rip fella who seemed genuinely huge in the states but i still have no idea who or what he was or did

^^^

"Well you would do in Huddersfield."

Well done Tom D!

is it pick on Hudds day or something?

lol I took it as you meaning Hudds as a hotbed of neo-fascism

Benedict 9 is featured in The Bad Popes, well worth a reminder how awful they were, absolute wronguns to a man!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

2022 delivers! Maybe we can have an annual papal death from now on until the entirety of the Holy See is gone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD9PqpG1FFY

Reading about the pornocracy and Marozia will make for a delicious Wiki dive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeculum_obscurum

A surprising amount of Hitler Youth footage in the TV news packages about Benedict. All I'll say is, even if we take him at his word that he was forced to be a Nazi, nobody forced him to be a Catholic priest.

"Pope otm." is the single greatest sentence ever written on ILX.

― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Monday, February 11, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ema7lfEAMk

"All I wanted...in the WORLD...was to be a catlick priest.."

Now Ruth is the last surviving Pointer sister. R.I.P. Anita

Anita Pointer, Grammy-Winning Artist and Founding Member of R&B Group Pointer Sisters, Dies at 74 https://t.co/olqHAWTW9f

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 1, 2023

Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse

https://pitchfork.com/news/modest-mouse-drummer-jeremiah-green-dies-at-45/

It's a new year!

Rolling Obituary Thread 2023