Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Wow, Henry Silva was still alive.

(xxp) Gee philospher Kripke... RIP

always disorienting to find out the sage and revered philosophers whose essays i was being set as a student were in their thirties at the time, when i had them all filed as like maybe a decade younger than heraclitus (ie the age i am now)

anyway rip saul k, i am fairly certain i didn't get it and my own essays were all terrible

good lord, i barfed to his wine
for an entire summer and more

everyone did

our barf covered the lawns, that summer
the gas stations were filled to the brim
with franzia boxes

the trash cans, that is

unexplainable diapers
and emptied franzia sacks

those were the best days of my life
back in the summer of two-buck wine

hate to be petty here, but "franzia boxes" were produced by his father I believe.. this guy's big gift to the world was Charles Shaw, via Trader Joe's

Report from Twitter that Dave Foreman - founder of Earth First! and later the Rewilding Institute passed. Age 74. True one-of-a-kind human. A much needed militant voice in the 80s when ignoramuses like James G. Watt were propagandizing about how trees cause more pollution than cars. Any conversation with him left you feeling optimistic and motivated - a rarity!

Per Syd Straw, Anton Fier

https://m.facebook.com/#!/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02Xb6ifcJ1tW7PWh47dPpuDVNeydMFJTN3s6qghMt4kWkS1GhZ9Da7P9gtkmTpt1Ul&id=542674938&m_entstream_source=permalink&ref=m_notif¬if_t=close_friend_activity

Oh wow... legend

Glenn Kenny remembers

https://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2022/09/i-remember-anton-fier.html

Country singer Luke Bell, dead from an "accidental fentanyl overdose."

Ooops, I guess that was just the autopsy result. He died in August. I did a CTRL+F and didn't see his name itt.

Cherry Valentine, from RuPaul's Drag Race UK Season 2, 28.

Hilary Mantel

We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald. This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful she left us with such a magnificent body of work. pic.twitter.com/d8bzkBBXuH

— 4th Estate Books (@4thEstateBooks) September 23, 2022

whoa

Wow, 70.

oh no!

she was maybe our greatest living novelist

noooooo wtf ;_;

Louise Fletcher

Louise Fletcher Dies: Oscar-Winning ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ Actor Was 88 https://t.co/RaZahsNYAI

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) September 24, 2022

the MEANEST <3

oh no!

Isn't there some TV show about her (the nurse) back story?

rip kai winn

otm

also she was awesome in flowers in the attic

Maarten Schmidt, astronomer who discovered quasars.
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-09-23/maarten-schmidt-astronomer-who-changed-our-understanding-of-the-cosmos-dies

Maybe not verified but twitter filled with mentions of Pharoah Sanders passing.

:-O

oh no

Ach, please no!

Fuck tho

Confirmed ;_;

RIP. One of the last of his era.

RIP, what a loss. Saddest I've been at a musician's death for ages.

An incredible force. Got to see him live twice, once in the mid '90s and again in December 2019. His whole run of Impulse! albums from 1969 to 1975 or so is unimpeachable — not a bad one in the bunch, and some are life-changing.

Fuuuuck, what a legend

damn we’re really losing the best people these days :(

Definitely wept on hearing this— absolutely life-altering music for me. RIP

:-(

Kitten Natividad, actress from Russ Meyer films, 74

Man, she was in everything. Dig her cameo in this Mitch Ryder video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1NLrpNhfRc

rip the legend

good interview here from 2016, she’s had a rough go for a long time

https://www.vice.com/en/article/8x49w3/sex-icon-kitten-natividad-profile

Sue Mingus, widow of Charles and vigilant keeper of his cultural legacy for decades.

Was wondering. RIP.

Ex-robber & public enemy #1 John McVicar, 82.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/former-public-enemy-no1-ex-robber-john-mcvicar-dies-after-heart-attack-while-walking-his-dog/ar-AA12cV8b

Isn't there some TV show about her (the nurse) back story?
Yeah, Ratched on Netflix: a "psychological thriller," tells how she got so Ratched. Starring Sarah Paulson. A major difficulty with the role and the film was that viewers lost the often distended, hallucinatory, struggling POV in novel, so Big Nurse was just a big ol' bitch on screen as real life----but somehow Fletcher made her more than 1 or 2-D, unusually enough in that flick.

Ironically, the Ratched character had been softened in the script compared to Kesey’s original, and Fletcher gave a rather subtle performance, often conveying the character’s emotions simply through facial expressions, which is why she deserved her Oscar in the first place. Indeed, the actress even enables us to feel sorry for Ratched at more than one key moment in the film.

Did not know about the "Nashville" connection:

In 1973, after raising her children, she resumed her profession...she was cast in a supporting role in “Thieves Like Us” — a movie her husband, Jerry Bick, was producing.

Fletcher’s life story helped serve as the inspiration for one of the main characters in Robert Altman’s classic 1975 film “Nashville” and was set to play the character when Bick and Altman had a falling out.

Director Milos Forman chanced to see Fletcher in “Thieves Like Us.”

“She was all wrong for the [Ratched] role, but there was something about her,” Forman later wrote in his memoir. “I asked her to read with me and suddenly, beneath the velvety exterior, I discovered a toughness and willpower that seemed tailored for the role.”

Yeah, she was a CODA and they used her life experience for the part that ultimately went to Lily Tomlin.

a bit late on this, but gene youngblood died on april 6, 2021. i was thinking of him today because i'm reading Expanded Cinema.

Gene Youngblood (May 30, 1942 – April 6, 2021)[1][2] was an American theorist of media arts and politics, and a respected scholar in the history and theory of alternative cinemas. His best-known book, Expanded Cinema, was the first to consider video as an art form and has been credited with helping to legitimate the fields of computer art and media arts.[3][4] He is also known for his pioneering work in the media democracy movement, a subject on which he has taught, written, and lectured since 1967.[4][5][6]

I've spent the last few years browsing late Sixties / early Seventies issues of Los Angeles Free Press for a project, and he'd frequently pop up in there. I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't realize who he was beyond that until now.

Legendary 78 collector Joe Bussard.