Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Technoblade, minecraft youtuber.

Sonny Barger.

RIP to Gary Todd, who reissued many crucial Terry Riley releases on his Organ of Corti label. https://t.co/rNuQmz7fzX

— Marc Masters 🌵 (@Marcissist) July 1, 2022

Sad, and grateful for his work, such a great label. Had been meaning to post a correction on a thread here that claimed that he died years ago. RIP.

Okay, I've barely heard of TechnoBlade before today, but this video from his dad is pretty heart-wrenching:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62006852

https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Joe-Turkel-as-Lloyd-the-Bartender-in-The-Shining.jpg

Joe Turkel from Blade Runner & The Shining... dead at 94

I guess his shift at the Overlook can now begin, rest is pisco

Two great performances that maximize the impact of their screen time.

My kids were upset about Technoblade (lots of conversations about cancer & death from the 7-year-old) and after watching that video yeah I am a bit too.

xpost Looked at his filmography - He was in a whole bunch of stuff, including several noir films back in the 50's

Ralph Sonny Barger once offered his Angels to US Gov for service as "Gorillas" in Vietnam.Think he wrote directly to LBJ.
At the drive-in, I saw a what-if movie, where bikers did plunge into the jungle---and became involved with the residents of a village they were trying to protect---still the only movie I've seen in which Vietnamese were presented as actual people--very rare to see civilians at all.

That sounds a bit like The Losers from 1970

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mmbqZLjONws/VB5OI-5AQ_I/AAAAAAAAzzc/Ce9JSAr7RQE/s1600/PDVD_480.BMP

Nam Angels? It's the first thing I thought of.

Yeah, The Losers was sometimes billed as Nam Angels, and I think the latter title was also used for a later movie.

I was thinking about the later movie, but I think I was mixing them up in my head.

It was no Doberman Gang.

Apparently it was re-titled Nam's Angels when release on video

Per wikipedia, it was actually shot in the Philippines using sets and crew from Too Late the Hero... at a time when 95% of biker movies were shot within 45 minutes of los angeles

xpost don't remember anything about it except what I said, but Vietnamese as people, living their civilian lives as best they could, that was and is a hell of a thing (they were pretty Other in Apocalypse Now, though that may have been a projection of/to reinforce Kurtz's freaked-out POV)(still)

Inventing the Afro pick AND being a pioneer of the Jheri Curl is an astounding resume. https://t.co/fR05gOq5BM

— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) July 2, 2022

Andy Goram:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61460438

RIP you useless hun bastard. Fuck Cancer forever seriously

In the Proclaimers song Cap In Hand, "Hibs goalie" was him, right? I will play that in tribute whatever

Peter Brook, influential theatre visionary, dies aged 97 https://t.co/Q6ibYGxkRA

— The Guardian (@guardian) July 3, 2022

Best in the game, working well into his 90s. His Hamlet with Adrian Lester was astonishing.

His Marat/Sade movie was too visceral for me to say whether I enjoyed it, exactly, but his King Lear was very good, whatever Pauline Kael had to say about it.

The Tightrope is a bit hard to find (used to be free on Amazon Prime), but it follows Brook in rehearsal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6johAzP2oI

“hammerin’” hank goldberg, former espn reporter and sportscenter fixture

Hank Goldberg, who worked at ESPN as an NFL reporter and handicapping expert for 17 years, died Monday on his 82nd birthday, his family confirmed. Goldberg had been in treatment for chronic kidney disease in recent years.https://t.co/iGal5YGB4c

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 4, 2022

Manny Charlton, founding guitarist of Scottish hard rock band Nazareth (he was with them from 1968 to 1990).

RIP

Now heaven is messing with a son of a bitch

RIP, a guitarist who didn't need to be flashy to get his point across

James Caan. I've still never seen the Godfather movies but anybody with Thief and Rollerball on their resume did it right.

james caan

fuck, what a legend

He was a great one

Huh.. IMDB says he was in 1941 as "Sailor in Fight (uncredited)"

Must have been hanging out partying, and they found a spot for him

Kazuki Takahashi, creator of Yu-Gi-Oh!
https://www.nhk.or.jp/lnews/okinawa/20220707/5090019050.html

His reply last week to an Academy tweet about Misery:

Pretty good movie 🤕😃 End of tweet

— James Caan (@James_Caan) June 28, 2022

amazing actor, his Thief performance is incredible, and yes one of the best celebrity tweeters

RIP what a fkn king

Michael Mann on James Caan: pic.twitter.com/521BuyUQaB

— Chris Evangelista (@cevangelista413) July 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWtlL95P0TM

So much of Freebie & The Bean is Gold (except for...you know)

The 1976 James Caan Playboy interview goes so hard pic.twitter.com/CSxmLCXW9E

— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) May 26, 2021

"But there's lots of good-looking, well-built guys in this business, and most of them couldn't play a corpse on Medical Center."

Here’s James Caan working on a heater between takes of Sonny's death scene in The Godfather. pic.twitter.com/nNGnEfG7Z2

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) May 30, 2021

Historians now believe that James Caan was either heating a lung dart or covered in an inferior’s man blood after a physical altercation for 78% of the 70s. The other 22% of the time was both. pic.twitter.com/SJbfLUx4lu

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) May 5, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooXXec3mMIo

Amazingly--you've got about 10 minutes to tell me I'm wrong--there's not even an ILX thread for him. I'm going to start a click-box poll.

i couldnt find anything either !
poll is a great idea

Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe dies in hospital after he was shot at campaign event, say local mediahttps://t.co/lqtBtzsvLl

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 8, 2022

Mark Wilkins aka Mark Astronaut, of the Astronauts