Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Howard Johnson's restaurants. Although the last one, in Lake George, NY, was really an ex-HoJo gone independent that reverted to the name without having any connection to the original company.

RIP, Mess O' Smelt.

HJ had so much nostalgia power for a certain generation I'm surprised no one successfully exploited the trademark.

i was in lake george last fall and was very perplexed to see that howard johnson's lol

Grachan Moncur III
https://www.npr.org › 2022/06/03 › grachan-moncur-iii-t...

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/03/1103013844/grachan-moncur-iii-trailblazing-blue-note-trombonist-dies-at-85

off to join grachans moncur i & ii :(

Grachan Moncur II was a bassist who played on (among other things) several Billie Holiday records.

There would appear to be a part 4 too!
https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/grachan-moncur-iv

'New Africa' is all-time, RIP to #3

Ex-Bon Jovi bassist Alec John Such

:(

Jim Seals (Seals and Crofts), 80.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jim-seals-dead-dies-seals-crofts_n_629fa1d7e4b0b1100a69c45f

RIP Summer Breeze man

Artist Paula Rego, known for her visceral and unsettling work, dies aged 87 https://t.co/oimRyPh98r

— The Guardian (@guardian) June 8, 2022

RIP

Great clip circulating of her talking to Benfica coach Jorge Jesus:

Jorge Jesus: "I wish you much health so you can keep doing your paintings"

Paula Rego: "same to you, good luck with all the footballs and goals"

lol

Peace campaigner Bruce Kent, 92

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/09/bruce-kent-obituary

... people you thought were...

Julee Cruise

https://www.reddit.com/r/twinpeaks/comments/v8z6fh/julee_cruise_passed_away/?

Damn. What awful news to hear just before going to bed. I was listening to her first album just yesterday. It’s brilliant. RIP Julee Cruise.

😥

Damn, that’s sad

Oh no, terrible news

Billy Bingham, ex-NI manager.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61757384

Phil Bennett has died at the age of 73

He is regarded as one of the greatest players to wear the number 10 shirt for Wales and the Lions pic.twitter.com/47qSk83TRC

— BBC Sport Wales (@BBCSportWales) June 12, 2022

Reports out there that noted NYC Artist/Scenester Duncan Hannah has passed from a heart attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1qMD5dA-kg

💔 Philip Baker Hall (1931—2022) pic.twitter.com/V7KbaXFGGn

— Letterboxd (@letterboxd) June 13, 2022

Would have been a good candidate for the still alive thread. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAwpVJ7ZSTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH0kOWNtLFo.

XP!

Floyd Gondolli: I'm not a complicated man. I like cinema. In particular, I like to see people fucking on film. But, I don't want to win an Oscar and I don't want to re-invent the wheel. I like simple pleasures, like butter in my ass and lollipops in my mouth. That's just me. That's just something that I enjoy. Call me crazy, call me a pervert. But, there's one little thing that I'mg going to do in this life and that is I'm going to make a dollar and a cent in this business.

His role in Hard Eight is one of my favorites of the last 30 years. I saw it without knowing he was in Secret Honor and sat there astounded.

last year i rewatched Midnight Run, which came out like 40 years ago, and was astounded that PBH looked just as old back then. i guess he was already in his 50s by that point. great actor.

oh what a great actor, like George C Scott his presence could elevate an average movie into a great one that you re-watch umpteen times.

So good and yet underused. I always expected him to get more leading actor work on the back of his incredible PTA roles, and that never seemed to happen, or at least not often enough.

I mean Hard 8 is not a great film by any measurement but he’s incredible in it.

yeah it would have been been a completely forgettable b movie without him.

^^^

just in case you think that was sarcasm - it's not intended as such!

i always understood secret honor to be a film made of a play -- the playwrights converted it to a script -- and assumed that PBH had developed the role on-stage and had been in theatre as much as film, but i can't find any online evidence for any of these facts: that the play was staged, that PBH played in it -- or that did he did much theatre work at all

i first saw it at the london film festival and altman did a Q&A but i can't remember a single answer or even question

From IMDB:
Actor Philip Baker Hall reprised his role as Richard Nixon which he had originated on stage at the Los Angeles Actors' Theatre in 1983.

it does seem like a play made to a tv movie and he seems comfortable enough with the material to do long unedited one-takes, but god knows.

xped!

lol cheers, my fu was v weak there

here's a rundown of his theatre-work (not lusted on wikipedia at all): https://www.abouttheartists.com/artists/307034-philip-baker-hall

watched the bookman ep of Seinfeld only last week. god his delivery in that and Jerry's reaction are perfect.

Duncan Hannah obits coming in

https://www.artforum.com/news/duncan-hannah-1952-2022-88733

what a fucking legend PBH was, he made anything better by an order of magnitude. One of the all time greats. Shit.

Noticing again in that Boogie Nights clip Robert Ridgely losing it in background when PBH goes into the "I'm not a complicated man..." bit.