Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

Noooo!

This is a real bummer

Fuck, that's a rough one. Just was watching the episode of What We Do In The Shadows where he shows up as one of the members of the vampiric counsel. I watched his shows and Pee-Wee's Big Adventure so much as a child.

hate the way he was treated for doing exactly what people did in xrated movies at the time.

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

Oh my god :(

Nooooooo

hate the way he was treated for doing exactly what people did in xrated movies at the time.

It was insane how twisted that was. When the news broke I remember people in small town Central Illinois talking about it as if he did it in the middle of a mid-day Batman Returns matinee screening. Also see his weird 2002 arrest for his collection of exotica and the fallout from that. People really had it in for this guy and really wanted to take him down.

oh shit, this is too bad

shit

if he did it in the middle of a mid-day Batman Returns matinee screening

Just remembered he played the Penguin's Dad in that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_L04BPyxYo

xp but what a comeback..."heard any good jokes lately?" Leaning in to defuse the bomb, he pretty much set the standard for that strategy.

oops, didn't see that the vid was already posted!

re: Reubens' arrest, it kills me that the LAPD tried to do the same thing to Fred Willard... in 2012

he was a classic. love the first pee-wee movie -- and can you imagine choosing tim burton as your director based on watching half of vincent? -- loved the kids' show, loved seeing him in random roles during the pee-wee hiatus, thought big holiday was surprisingly good.

i suppose putting the stage show's adult jokes in the kids' show was a bad idea (you know what they say, big feet... big boots) and would have been part of the grooming moral panic if it happened today.

Gary Panter on facebook: "As a child I was obsessed with kid shows and wanted to design one. Paul Reubens made that dream come true. We had many adventures. Enjoy heaven, Paul."

Weird that Reubens would die so closely to Sinead O'Connor--the big controversies that derailed their careers were pretty close together (July '91 for Herman, Oct. '92 for O'Connor), and both are getting much sympathy now for being treated unfairly. He was very good in Blow.

angus cloud, actor from hbo's euphoria. 25 years old.

just devastating

Damn, I don't know anything about him as a person but his character was very lovable, maybe the best on the show.

I guess he's also in an upcoming Oakland-based film called Freaky Tales

Robbie Shepherd, Scottish broadcaster probably the most recognised Doric speaker on TV and radio

In a world of limited interest posts by me on this thread, this may be the zenith (or nadir depending on your perspective)

We used to be forced into listening to Robbie Shepherd in ye olde days because my cousin's husband is a leading light in the world of accordion music and his band used to be on Take the Floor all the time.

Yes I assumed you were the only other person who would know what I was on about

Glad to be of service.

Man, this is a dark end to the New Times saga

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/08/01/backpage-executive-james-larkin-dies-before-new-prostitution-trial/70509940007/

Jeez. that seems like the ultimate New Times chapter, in terms of righteous male sleazebertarianizm---but Lacey may find a way to keep going, unless Backpage was financially essential to his empire.

Composer/conductor Carl Davis

davis was composer of the "world at war" themetune; but also -- in a difft mode -- fondly remembered by ppl of a certain age for a clip of him playing a cinema organ cheekily nude in the credits to (if i recall correctly) the end of the pier show

a show my dad loved, i was a bit young for it (it was "satire")

So that’s where Monty Python got that from!

i believe so!

https://www.fabermusic.com/news/carl-davis-cbe-1936-202303082023

I'm sorry I never got to hear his score for Napoleon.

Mark Margolis of Scarface, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul fame

*ding* *ding* *ding*

RIP

I remember him first from Darren Aronofsky's first movie.

RIP

that's the guy who tried to frame riker!

omg YES

John Gosling, 75, keyboard player for The Kinks in the 1970s

Awww, shame. No comment from Ray Davies I see... yet, I suppose.

RIP

His piano was really the key element in the perfect ramshackle feel of the records of that era, yet his playing was exemplary whether the song required a shambolic or elegant approach. First song that comes to mind when I think of him is "Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues", he conveys those supposedly incompatible feelings of jollity and despair.

Ray says: "Condolences to his wife Theresa and family. Rest in Peace dearest John."

*wipes away tears*

I recently watched the animated series Digman! (highly recommended, btw), and was very surprised to hear “Schooldays” prominently featured. It reminded me of how much Gosling brought to the band. R.I.P.

Unfortunately I can't find any clips of them playing "Have a Cuppa Tea" on the Old Grey Whistle Test on YouTube because he's the star of that performance. He was very definitely was a major asset to the band in the 70s.

Cellist-composer Tristan Honsinger, collaborator with Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor, and the Ex, among many others.

Also played on this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJJl9hv-Zd0

Ah, fuck; I was hoping to interview Honsinger for my Taylor book. Oh, well.

Bram Moolenaar, creator and maintainer of the Vim text editor

actress Anita Carey, who was in Coronation Street, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads and lots of other stuff

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/aug/07/coronation-street-actor-anita-carey-dies-aged-75