Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

An old friend was in the film Revolution with him and said he used to hang up the world’s largest Y-fronts in his dressing room.

I have also heard bad things about RC

Wondering if this is why The Sun referred to him as National Treasure, remembering tabloid tricks to get round rumour and/or injunctions (e.g. Hugh Bonneville and Elton/David Furnish headlines or subheadings) and his role in that.

"like many before him, he has fallen victim to the Harry Potter Effect whereby, as far as the UK media is concerned, he was in Harry Potter and some other stuff no-one cares about but let's talk about how great he was in Harry Potter"

This is why I've always felt sorry for Adam Samuelson, crane technician. Despite being a crane technician on Full Metal Jacket, Goldeneye, Alien3, Kafka etc the newspaper obituaries will go on and on about how he was dolly grip on Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and crane technician on Chamber of Secrets and Goblet of Fire. Those films will totally overshadow his other work.

His life must be a living nightmare with kids running up to him and saying "did you meet Harry Potter" or "what does the top of Harry Potter's head look like". Top chefs have Asia Argento going up to them and saying "I like your food let's fuck" but Adam Samuelson has stupid kids saying "how do you operate a crane" and "Harry Potter". At this point death would be a blessed relief.

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I hasten to add that nothing I heard about RC was at all Savile-like - just, you know, that he was not an especially nice person to deal with. But I agree that it's best to keep this thread a positive one, wherever possible.

Having people yell "Sausaaaage?!" at him all too often

Or alternately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZZ_J4A4X9Q

I remember RC being a voice of caution in the televised 'after UK live aid' party, broadcast while nothing much was happening on the US feed.

nothing I heard about RC was at all Savile-like

Phew, thanks.

Ted White, 96, who played Jason in Friday the 13th (4): the Final Chapter

https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3736642/ted-white-jason-voorhees-actor-from-friday-the-13th-the-final-chapter-has-passed-away/

Feels sorta ironic that he passed on Friday the 14th.

LMAO at the (new to me) ASF, thanks Ned

Joyce Sims

We are devastated to pass on the news of the death of R&B music great Joyce Sims at age 63. A great talent who sang, wrote and played for us for more than three decades https://t.co/FubXJ6ba3w pic.twitter.com/s4jn3uQAZr

— soultracks (@soultrackscom) October 15, 2022

Oh no - that’s way too young. RIP.

oh joyce :(

that’s so sad. RIP Joyce

Shit news. RIP

Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 commander Jim McDivitt, 93.

aw RIP

Carmen Callil, publisher of Virago Press among many other things.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/18/carmen-callil-pioneering-champion-of-female-writers-dies-aged-84

Latter-day rockabilly singer Robert Gordon, 75, of leukemia. I saw him once about 25 years ago. An absolutely tremendous voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VwzuzhWv3A

Oh, RIP. That’s sad. Was just thinking of him over here on New York Dolls

Aww, he was great!

Revived this thread for further discussion
Chris Spedding

Revived this thread for further discussion
Chris Spedding

That made me think Chris Spedding died.

Oops! So sorry.

Can't forget what an impact Robert Gordon's style and commitment to rockabilly & roots music had on us back in the punk days in NYC, saw him with Link Wray and yes Professor Longhair opening one night! Loved him with Chris Spedding too. He was so cool and elegant. pic.twitter.com/RItbnuHMwl

— Amy Rigby (@AmyRigby) October 18, 2022

If you click on the image of that poster, you'll see Professor Longhair on there too.

He opened for Roxy Music in Detroit (Manifesto tour). The crowd was giving him a hard time, and he turned his back on the audience and COMBED HIS HAIR. For a really long time. He won them over! Badass.

— Anthony M. Kaczynski (@FirekingRocks) October 18, 2022

Red Bull has announced that company founder, Dietrich Mateschitz, has passed away at the age of 78.

Mateschitz bought the Jaguar team in late 2004 and renamed it Red Bull Racing. He helped drive his team around from midfielders to world champions in just 6 seasons. pic.twitter.com/TJBuBq8bx0

— Autosport (@autosport) October 22, 2022

Three or four posts on my FB wall about Mary McCaslin:

https://celebrityaccess.com/2022/10/21/folk-singer-mary-mccaslin-dead-at-75/

(There's a Times obit behind a paywall.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuGMHTOEUG8

Apparently Ki Longfellow (novelist, playwright and widow of Vivian Stanshall) died in June, can't find any obituaries, but the date is there on Wikipedia.

Oh RIP. Totally remember reading about her during a Viv Stanshall jag.

Actor Leslie Jordan, dead at 67 following a car crash

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/leslie-jordan-dead-at-67-obit-1234617162/

A non-paywall article. Apparently a medical issue preceded the crash.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/obituaries-people-news/leslie-jordan-dead-will-and-grace-american-horror-story-1235412784/

terrible news

awful :-(

Suffolk's GenX Radio presenter Tim Gough dies on air

55, had come out of retirement after a decade:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-63377458

Jules Bass of Rankin/Bass, 87.

;_;

Mike Davis

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mike-davis-obituary/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=thenation&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Aw man

fuck

Mike Davis has passed. He was my favorite writer, and through coincidence and his down to earth nature I got to know him personally. As a human being he was a hundred times what he was as a writer. Everyone dies but I long irrationally believed maybe somehow we’d never lose Mike.

— rustbeltjacobin 🌹 (@rustbeltjacobin) October 26, 2022

oh shit, I've just got into him recently - RIP

oh damn

yeah i just got into his writing the past few years, what a real one

I've only read Late Victorian Holocausts, and I have City of Quartz queued up - but yeah what a real one indeed.

Fuck. sigh...

A privilege to audit his some of his classes at UCI. My business/online presence is named "Quartz City" because of....

RIP that is a real loss

He's free of pain after a long illness and he did the work and set an example. Be glad he was here.

A nice piece from max: https://maxread.substack.com/p/a-mike-davis-reader

Pierre Soulages

damn… his recent book old gods new enigmas was super interesting even for a wannabe leftist dummy like me. city of quartz is epic.

(Re mike Davis)