Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

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

rip william friedkin

William Friedkin (1935 — 2023) pic.twitter.com/MAMd6Nbaf7

— MUBI (@mubi) August 7, 2023

will cue up TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985) in his honour tonight

I'll probably pull out THE HUNTED.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyhj98e-EP4

A surefire way to to get very wasted very quickly is to take a shot every time he says "leather bar" in this Cruising making of doc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YEVFlv3MEA

Friedkin's reaction to Refn calling Only God Forgives a masterpiece is hilarious pic.twitter.com/4Zc14YEzwg

— kyle 4kLD (@agnosoul) July 25, 2022

For me, as much as the other highlights are well observed, it still remains that final pre-credits roll shot of Vukovich driving up to Ruth's place once again. Utterly quotidian, also inescapable fate; death is almost certainly the only exit but neither knows when it will arrive.

I’m gutted. To Live and Die in L.A., Sorcerer, and Killer Joe have always meant so much to me. He was, I think, the last living director to have worked on Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Nat Segaloff’s biography of him, Hurricane Billy, is a hoot. It ends around 1989, but it’s packed with some incredible insights and quotes.

His 1985 Twilight Zone episode “Nightcrawlers” is a stunning work of art

I'll rep for Sorcerer. Someone should.

RIP.

Sorcerer has deservedly been reappraised and recognized as a classic. Very fortunate to have seen a gorgeous archival 35mm print about a decade ago. Tangerine Dream’s score changed cinema forever

Yep

Will rep once again for Sydney Tafler's performance as Goldberg in Friedkin's film of "The Birthday Party".