Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

John Waddington (The Pop Group, Maximum Joy), dead at 63

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/john-waddington-the-pop-group-maximum-joy-dead-at-63/

Ah that sucks, and after Mark Stewart too.

Winnie Ewing, politician, 93.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/22/winifred-ewing-obituary

Not confirmed yet, but I'm hearing that Peter Brötzmann is gone.

Just heard that from a WFMU dj, very sad news if true.

Oof. Seeing his Tentet play here some years back is one of my more memorable concert going experiences.

awful news

Oh no. Saw him many times, including the only jazz gig I've ever been to where the audience were offered ear plugs before the concert!

saw him w/ an ensemble open for sonic youth in 2000 - my first-ever live concert (i was 15). distinctly remember them being about as loud as SY.

Fiddler on the Roof lyricist Sheldon Harnick, 99

I think I know every word to every song in that show, my parents had the record

played Motel once.

some really good lyrics in these choons. RIP Sheldon.

Paxton Whitehead

Just a few months after Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest.

https://www.furiouscinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/conv1.png

https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/frederic-forrest-dead-apocalypse-now-the-rose-1235653788/

RIP, some great work

He looks so different in The Conversation--like most people, my first image of him is in Apocalypse Now--that when I looked up his filmography and saw that he played Mark, my first reaction was "Mark? Who the fuck is Mark?" I didn't even know the character had a name (and I'm not sure that it's ever mentioned in the film).

David Tamura, NYC-based multi-instrumentalist who worked with a slew of folks and bands over the years; was on Von LMO's Red Resistor album among others.

Official confirmation for Julian Sands

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jun/25/julian-sands-search-body-found-in-california-mountains-where-actor-disappeared

No, that’ll come in about a week if the remains are identified as being his.

Craig Brown, football manager.

RIP even though you only produced teams that were too negative and were scared of their own shadows

Body now confirmed as Julian Sands.

Sue Johanson

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66061800

Longtime Newsday TV critic Marvin Kitman, 93. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/arts/television/marvin-kitman-dead.html

Alan Arkin, Oscar Winner for 'Little Miss Sunshine,' Dies at 89 https://t.co/I56uWLD917

— Variety (@Variety) June 30, 2023

Oh no. RIP

Aw man

Oh man.

Great in everything he ever did but...his little bits of Grosse Pointe Blank, just hilarious.

his three mins in Americas Sweethearts would be enough all by itself

My personal favorite oddball choice is Slums of Beverly Hills.

Forget Freddy, Jason, etc. Arkin's Roat in Wait Until Dark still gets my vote for the best movie villain this side of Harry Powell.

And so weirdly cast too.

Monte Cazazza

It is With immense sadness and Love I had to let Monte go. He was very ill & in pain so I take comfort in the fact that that part is over but I miss him already! Where ever it is we go off to I am certain He will be causing trouble in his own way RIP the One & Only Monte Cazazza pic.twitter.com/SWoOjqQHz8

— Meri St. Mary (@MeriStMary) June 30, 2023

What a combination, Alan Arkin and Monte Cazazza.

Arkin is immense in Mother Night. Cazazza immense for arguably naming the industrial music genre.

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

Super in his two Oscar-nominated leads, Wait Until Dark, The In-Laws, Glengarry Glen Ross, Mother Night, Grosse Pointe Blank, Slums of Beverly Hills -- just a grouchy, irritable delight.

Search: Little Murders, which he directed.

Serpentine! Serpentine!

RIP 😥

The last thing I saw him in is embarrassingly the Carell / Hathaway Get Smart - he's great whenever he's on screen

Alan Arkin with 2 songs in this clip with his group The Tarriers. The first song would later be covered by the late late great Harry Belafonte D -O.
Check out the second song in this clip Alan singing Choucoune in Haitian Creole. pic.twitter.com/MROt3OEsx8

— Christopher Fusaro (@FusaCmee) June 30, 2023

Arkin had another folk group called the Baby Sitters with Lee Hays and others, I have some tunes on an old Folkways comp

The Russian Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming was one of my late father's favorite movies... RIP

Simon (Marshall Brickman, 1980) is unbelievably unique and hilarious

Arkin was one of the few male celebs who came off well in a #metoo story, telling Morgan Freeman to stop harassing a woman on set.

Yeah, I think Arkin came up in the folky/social justice scene of the 50's, which may have contained some creeps, but he wasn't one of them

In his best pissed off George Aaronow voice

Apparently Lord Creator but not a lot of confirmation

Appears agreed, RIP

Arl Kim also a founding member of the Compass Players (to become second city) IIRC.

Arkin