Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

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.

Shit

Pretty sure his family didn't share his enthusiasm, so the yard sale to end all yard sales might be happening soon...

What a time to move away from Frederick

Nashville A-team guitarist Ray Edenton, aged 95

Maybe not a household name, but you've heard him: Everly Brothers’ “Bye Bye Love” and “Wake Up Little Susie,” Roger Miller’s “King of the Road,” Webb Pierce’s “There Stands the Glass,” Marty Robbins’s “Singing the Blues,” and Neil Young’s Nashville-produced album Comes a Time

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

My dad is mentioned in a footnote in the section on Alwin Nikolai's "Limbo." He directed the chroma key effects as an engineer at WCBS-TV New York in 1968.

(No one cares, but when is anybody ever going to name check a book my dad is in.)

your dad must have been a pretty fucking amazing guy then

Coolio
https://www.tmz.com/2022/09/28/coolio-dead-dies-los-angeles/

Crazy.

oh shit

what the fuck

whoa

jesus no

will always love this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENfea-IFkKw

RIP Coolio. Thank you for being responsible for maybe the funniest sentence ever written in Canberra Times pic.twitter.com/4Kqy3xS3hu

— Dave (@Mesut_Ausil) September 29, 2022

i got to interview coolio one time and you bet i asked him if he was over his beef with weird al. pic.twitter.com/bVPZ15Qtpg

— Dan Ozzi (@danozzi) September 29, 2022

❗It is very sad to hear the passing away of Madingo Afework.

Madingo, the Melvin Franklin of #Ethiopia singing many melodious songs with his deep voice had many popular ballads that made him star for decades.

Rest In Peace! pic.twitter.com/xG9WCiCsL5

— Naty Yifru (@NatyYifru) September 27, 2022

RIP Ethiopian singer Madingo Afework