Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Aw man, RIP to Loretta. I spent much of my life actively avoiding country music because of associations with assholes I grew up around, so I didn't approach her on my own until that Jack White produced record, but do have fond memories of my uncle playing her Conway Twitty duet eight tracks in his pickup truck.

Fist City will be a lonelier place without her
What a legend :( RIP

(xposts) Ditto re Gene Youngblood. Expanded Cinema was one of the first film books I ever laid eyes on, probably around the same time as Myonga. Somewhere along the way I picked up a used copy, but I've never read it.

Back to Loretta Lynn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5iQDZm9jbM

Coal Miner's Daughter is one of the (very!) few biopics that makes me grin from end to end watching it; it takes its cue from her smile, her determination.

💔

“You’re my pride, Loretty, my shining pride.”

rip loretta :(

I spent much of my life actively avoiding country music because of associations with assholes I grew up around

I didn't grow up with/around any country listeners, but "associations with assholes" is exactly why I avoid it now. That said, Loretta Lynn has long been on my very short list of country singers I actively enjoy. Her late '60s/early '70s stuff is amazing. There's so much wicked joy in her voice when she sings some of her most feminist/rebellious/punch-you-in-the-face songs. She was fantastic.

I was one of those snobs who raised an eyebrow when The Kids bought the Jack White-produced VLR, but it still has several of Lynn's best self-written songs. "Miss Being Mrs" is one of the most shattering depictions of widowhood I've heard. https://

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Z8bCokpTY

I don't (or didn't) like the Jack White record, but she's obviously all-time, and has been for some time.

Van Lear Rose is notably absent from streaming.

she endorsed Trump and was campaigning for him at her gigs, great voice but a total a-hole.

...who also wrote some of the greatest feminist anthems after living with a rotten sonofabitch husband.

Coal Miner's Daughter is one of the (very!) few biopics that makes me grin from end to end watching it; it takes its cue from her smile, her determination.

Yeah was just saying that on FB -- a biopic that actually works and Sissy just nailed it. Levon Helm was brilliant casting in turn.

The Trump turn I take on board, but I didn't throw out my VU records when Mo Tucker went Tea Party; what's past is not always present.

Think she even did a good collabo with Elvis Costello too.

Think she even did a good collabo with Elvis Costello too.

Raymond Allen, writer of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Comedienne-accordionist Judy Tenuta

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/judy-tenuta-dead-eclectic-comedienne-1235235361/amp/

I just came here to post that. I saw the headline and said "Judy, JudyJudyJudy" (actually, what I said was, "Aw, damn").

I knew she had been ill but very sad to hear regardless

:-(

It could happen

RIP Bruno Latour

⚫ Le philosophe Bruno Latour, figure majeure du monde des idées, est mort

https://t.co/uIIWxYLAjR

— Libération (@libe) October 9, 2022

Damn, RIP. Aramis in particular blew my mind a few years back, in the lead up to my dissertation.

Oh! RIP

TOLDJA! RIP Deadline's Nikki Finke

During my tenure as a @newyorker fact checker, I spoke with CIA agents & North Korean diplomats & movie stars, but the most difficult subject I ever interviewed was Nikki Finke, who died this weekend.

— Lila Byock (@LByock) October 10, 2022

longtime NYT art critic Grace Glueck

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/business/media/grace-glueck-dead.html

Legendary Los Angeles disc jockey Art Laboe:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-10/art-laboe-dead

Man. Jaime Jarrin retires and then Laboe goes. At least Jarrin's still with us but with Vin out too that's the last of the great LA radio voices of that generation gone from the airwaves, really.

I interviewed Jenni Rivera in 2010 and she talked about how the only way she would ever make an English-language album would be if it was a collection of oldies, and she specifically said "like you might hear on the Art Laboe show."

That's damn right.

Artist Billy Al Bengston, 88

https://hyperallergic.com/768290/billy-al-bengston-dies-at-88/

Angela Lansbury

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/angela-lansbury-murder-wrote-beauty-beast-star-dies-96-rcna42421

holy shit that's big time

...and thus ended the series of murders in Cabot Cove.

RIP, but i just wanted to be the first to mention the manchurian candidate (she is amazing in the manchurian candidate)

That she is.

That _Sweeney Todd_ which endlessly ran on PBS was great.

yeah she is so excellent as Mrs Lovett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_iBcXCu84w

She could sing, she could do comedy, she could play sweetness and light, she could play villains. She could play statues the park like Jessica Fletcher.

RIP

RIP Angela Lansbury, seem here in 1969’s Battle of Britain pic.twitter.com/XaCWXnckok

— Alan Owl-Port 🦉 🎃 (@Alan_Allport) October 11, 2022

And Gaslight. And her incredible fitness video. Always incredible. Damn.

R.I.P. to an incredible actress. Of course Angela Lansbury transcended this role, but I strongly encourage you to check out this supercut of every time Jessica Fletcher has a twinge of intuition on "Murder She Wrote" because it is quite a ride: https://t.co/MWqNES6ckH

— DREW “𝙟𝙤𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙢"🪱 DANIEL (@DDDrewDaniel) October 11, 2022

How Lansbury was cast in her first film, Gaslight: She was 17, had never performed in front of a camera (& only a bit on the stage), & was working as a shopgirl at Bullocks department store. The screenwriter met her at a party & told George Cukor she should do a screen test.

— Dana Stevens (@thehighsign) October 11, 2022

Yeah, Cukor said he'd never seen a newcomer make such an impression in a screen test.

One of my favorite screen moments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd0_K0fqGVA

Wes Anderson cast her in The Grand Budapest Hotel, but she ultimately had a scheduling conflict and was replaced by Tilda Swinton.