Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

There's been quite a lot about Ghostwatch though:

https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/17/sir-michael-parkinson-88-ghostwatch-bbc-banned-19348644/

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ghostwatch-michael-parkinson-drama-traumatised-nation-094548007.html

https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/17/sir-michael-parkinson-ghostwatch-banned-bbc-stephen-volk-19352529/?ito=article.mweb.share.bottom.link

I suppose only Parkinson could've gotten this quip from George Michael:

George Michael’s incredible opening line when he spoke to Michael Parkinson in the wake of his arrest for lewd behaviour in LA pic.twitter.com/oDVATAFsWT

— Neil Brennan (@nrdbrennan) August 17, 2023

The unknown-to-me older brother of William F. Buckley Jr. Who was a senator?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/nyregion/james-buckley-dead.html

yeah, he was briefly the great white hope of Conservatism

It's weird to think there was a time when the Buckleys were a celebrity family, like the anti-Kennedys.

https://www.originallifemagazines.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/117-012-1800.jpg

the golden era of the 'intellectual conservative'

those days are gone, book learnin' is for woke commonists, ban those dern books already

In a roundabout way, I guess James inspired a famous quote during a debate when his brother ran against John Lindsay for mayor: "I am satisfied to sit back and contemplate my own former eloquence."

Wow, I somehow missed Robbie Robertson's passing. What a gut punch.

It was all over ILX, much to the annoyance of Scott Seward!

I was traveling with my youngest and paying no attention.

John Warnock, 82 - founder of Adobe, and creator of PostScript, Photoshop, and the PDF file format.

(used to refer to the red and blue PostScript books all the time, still have them but haven't had to look something up since the 20th century)

Ray Hildebrand, "Paul" of "Paul & Paula" fame

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/ray-hildebrand-part-1960s-duo-that-hit-no-1-with-hey-paula-dead-82/GD2KMAAMMFHBFC5LN45GQILWXA/

Brooke Delarco

Audio engineer/producer primarily in the late 70s/early 80s New York scene. Heartbreakers, Feelies, Terry Ork related etc. Later did some engineering in DC during the post-hardcore years. Almost worked with her on a pre-Crazy Rhythms Feelies CD for Acute but Glenn decided against it in the end, to our dismay.

https://www.punkglobe.com/brookedelarco0220.php

Nick Hitchon from the Seven Up series of documentaries (the kid from the Yorkshire dales who went on to become a science professor in the USA)

https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/leisure/23678639.obituary-dales-scientist-known-millions-tv-show/

Oh, that’s sad. The journey his life took was quite something. Is he the first of the original 7 Up to die?

https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2013/01/04/e116898c-3615-11e3-8ce8-047d7b15b92e/thumbnail/1200x630/06f528704834a134cd701090c13e20e2/UP_JackieSueLynn_49.jpg?v=08aa43fa812a9e12e93282c47f58b17f

Lynn Johnson (centre) died in 2013, the year after they filmed 56 up. I think all the others are still with us

I'm seeing a lot of posts that Denis Lepage of Lime has passed away but can't find a news story about it.

I have found a French Canadian article: https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/musique/2023-08-22/mort-de-denis-le-page/le-cerveau-du-groupe-lime-n-est-plus.php

Oh no! Total legend. Tons of great classics.

Oh man, so sad about Nick. Sort of fell in love with all those guys when we did a bing 7Up binge a few years back.

Yeah. I hope he learned all he wanted to about the Moon

RIP. That reminds me of him talking about getting used to Americans and their positive attitude since they always seems to be “over the moon.”

RIP Denis LePage. What a sad turn of events for him. Thanks for the great tracks.

Prigozhin apparently.

Terry Funk RIP

Droz died in June - not a good summer for the Beyond The Mat cast.

RIP Terry, the scene in Beyond the Mat where the doctor tells him his knees should have crumbled to dust years ago and he kinda shrugs will forever pop into my head every time I'm complaining about a mild ache or pain.

RIP

I went to a screening of Beyond the Mat in London a few years ago and during the scene where Terry says he's retiring a ripple of laughter went through the audience

Sadly it's finally true

Loved the story in Foley's autobiography where he was hyped to finally get to wrestle Terry and find out the secret to how his punches always looked so amazing, and then promptly found out that they were legitimate skull-crushing live rounds, Funker saying to him after the match in his gentle, sad voice "oh Cactus, and you thought I was just that good all along"

<3

deeper magic from before the dawn of time

Conspiracy author Daniel Hopsicker, 72. Wrote the book Barry & The Boys that was the basis of the Tom Cruise film American Made and lots more about shady Florida pilot schools, the intelligence community, and cocaine smuggling.
https://www.madcowprod.com/2023/08/23/a-great-journalist-has-passed-daniel-hopsicker-july-16-1951-august-22-2023-r-i-p/

David Jacobs, TV writer and producer who created the nighttime soaps Dallas and Knots Landing, 84.

John Warnock, Inventor of the PDF, Dies at 82

Unfortunately no one had the right software to edit his obituary

I converted his tombstone from a Word doc

just needs to make an (enfocus) pit stop on his way to pre-press heaven.

Bad week for wrestlers.
Windham Rotunda, better known by his ring name Bray Wyatt, 36.

Hold on are you telling me his real name was Windham Rotunda?

indeed, he's a 3rd generation wrestler and Barry Windham is his uncle

Isabel Crook, a Canadian anthropologist and communist who spent most of her life in China

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/21/isabel-crook-obituary

Good Morning…I’ve just woken up to the awful news that my old friend & former Snake Bernie Marsden has passed. My sincere thoughts & prayers to his beloved family, friends & fans. A genuinely funny, gifted man, whom I was honored to know & share a stage with
RIP, Bernie XXX pic.twitter.com/KXwsDEICN6

— David Coverdale (@davidcoverdale) August 25, 2023

RIP Bernie, an early star of the 'Horrible 70s album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do' thread with this stone classic:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcRbfGjV62W1nfo2QRV7yXXhO3lun4fDPB0hrGas-ScpzsH_0Fg&usqp=CAc

Bob Barker, per TMZ. 99!

thought he would never. RIP.

RIP to the legend Bob Barker.

Watched so much The Price is Right growing up and rented “Happy Gilmore” countless times from Blockbuster to watch the Adam Sandler fight.

The Barker-Sandler reunion in 2015 is unreal. pic.twitter.com/YU8f7QFT7j

— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) August 26, 2023

Who won that fight? I don’t remember

I cannot believe Bob Barker lived as close to 100 as possible without going over.

— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) August 26, 2023

I made that same joke in the “still alive” thread a few days ago

No one thought it was funny when I said it bc I’m not a professional comedian

Although tbf Louis Virtel is hilarious and everyone should follow him