Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

once memorably described as looking like an "explosion in a pubic hair factory"

Johnson was another customer at the Notting Hill bookshop I worked in. He would always browse a big bookcase full of art books, on top of which perched the shop's speakers. I made a point of playing the most horrible sounds whenever he came in, in the hope of prompting an outburst, or an outraged of Notting Hill column somewhere, but he never batted an eyelid, the contrary fucker.

Noël Akchoté ... I think. Unless I'm misunderstanding the 1944-2023 tweet from his twitter, but haven't seen any reports elsewhere.

that's a picture of Jeff Beck on Akchoté's twitter

lol!

to a half blind fool like me everyone looks the same on my phone

he's way younger too, born in 1968

yes, an important detail that also escaped me!

while I'm here I'll offer a belated RIP to founding member of Dire Straits - Jeff Beck

Johnson was another customer at the Notting Hill bookshop I worked in. He would always browse a big bookcase full of art books, on top of which perched the shop's speakers. I made a point of playing the most horrible sounds whenever he came in, in the hope of prompting an outburst, or an outraged of Notting Hill column somewhere, but he never batted an eyelid, the contrary fucker.

I'm just a Ward standing in front of a Paul and (insert bad "Notting Hill" joke here)

Randy Bachman started Brave Belt and then BTO with his brother specifically because he felt he couldn't trust anyone else, and they spent almost the next 50 years in legal battles with each other.

I'm sure John Fogerty could understand.

I just found out that Johnson tried to cop off with Thatcher when they were at Oxford

He liked being spanked by his lover, so I'm guessing he would have happily been chastised by Thatcher too.

oooh tasty! - the gossip, not being spanked by Thatch obviously!

Rapid rescue operation there.

Robbie Knievel, daredevil son of Evel Knievel, dies at 60 (pancreatic cancer)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robbie-knievel-dies-age-60-evel-knievels-son/

Christopher Hitchens called him “Spanker Johnson”

Reports of Yukihiro Takahashi :(

Japanese sources are reporting that Yukihiro Takahashi, the former Yellow Magic Orchestra drummer and lead vocalist, has died. He was 70. He had an operation to remove a brain tumour in 2020, and in 2021 revealed further health problems. A sad loss of a prolific talent. pic.twitter.com/Fp9FZ0a9F2

— Electronic Sound (@ElectronicMagUK) January 14, 2023

Oh no, my favourite YMO!

Gina Lollobrigida, 95

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/16/gina-lollobrigida-dies-la-lollo-beat-the-devil

;_; I suppose she couldn't live forever.

rip

also confession i automatically think “Gina Lolajupiter” bc of the Jetsons

Gina Loadabricks for me (Flintstones)

Also Gina Lollobrickida on The Flintstones--must have been pretty iconic at the time.

There you go...Had to look up the spelling.

Doesn’t it half to rhyme with
“Your food I diggida”?

Took it from this piece, which is how I remember hearing it too:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-10-01/flintstones-rock-on-at-50/2281058

(Have) Anyway, RIP. Particularly liked her in Fanfan la tulipe with Gérard Philipe.

Good article, but I couldn’t quite tell, did she do the voice of that character?

I remember loadabricks and I confired (after posting) here
https://flintstones.fandom.com/wiki/Gina_Loadabricks

Feel like, despite the iconic nature of that character, there is a lack of parallelism in the piece clemenza linked. Maybe they should have mentioned Hoagy Carmichael or Jimmy O’Neill instead, if not the Bewitched-related episode, “Samantha,” which I have no recollection of.

anyway - sorry for starting that dumb derail - hail to the Queen

https://64.media.tumblr.com/e71e7f27022b9b75d833d83487373629/tumblr_n72sc8HD7y1sxj7qdo1_500.jpg

I want to try to check that, Nick (short of, you know, buying a Flintstones box set)--my memory of that is so clear, and for the joke (such as it was) to work, it has to end in a vowel.

Looked through her filmography, and Beat the Devil is all that I've seen, and ages ago at that. But immensely famous she was.

Good photographer too, what I've seen of her assignment or street scene stuff anyway. I think she did some hokey kids'n'animals photocollage in her later years, but fair dos.

anyway - sorry for starting that dumb derail - hail to the Queen

https://flintstones.fandom.com/wiki/Wilma_the_Maid

Interesting, but the maid wasn't supposed to be the actress.

Aw. Farewell Renée Geyer, Aus soul legend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RIIYWZgb4I

aw! loved her ;_;

my fave of hers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x92Trn2pMBs

Our amazing dad 💔. Piers Haggard, ‘Pennies From Heaven’ Director Who Worked With Liza Minnelli, Dies at 83 https://t.co/HkpRnf3GnL via @variety

— Daisy Haggard (@daisy_haggard) January 17, 2023

Most importantly for me, director of Blood On Satan's Claw.

Also I had never twigged Daisy was his daughter.

Also Gina Lollobrickida on The Flintstones--must have been pretty iconic at the time.

― clemenza, Monday, January 16, 2023 12:15 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Ha! I thought I was the only person who remembered this.

The Flintstones was the first thing my husband mentioned when the news came through. In the same ballpark, this is where my mind went first:

https://s1.dmcdn.net/v/C74zk1SRKTIfj-G-M/x1080

So I am still the only Fanfan la Tulipe stan? What about that other one about the card game (War?) in Sicily? Directed by Duvivier?

Or the other guy, Dassin.

Not War, The Law.

https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/noir-takes-a-holiday-close-up-on-jules-dassin-s-the-law

Most importantly for me, director of Blood On Satan's Claw.

Indeed. Rest In Peace and infinite thanks for that weird little masterpiece!

(xp) Not currently showing on MUBI USA :(