Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

He also loves Edith Wharton, so I give him the benefit of the doubt.

As I said I like those movies too, it's not unperson's tastes I'm taking issue with, it's the Poochie-like attitude of feeling the need to make clear that you like Rad Shit and so haven't heard of this boring arthouse guy...once again, in a RIP thread.

he doesn't watch gay arthouse movies bc they're for pussies or whatever, it's fine

lol I took that to mean the inverse which is another kind of thing

It strikes me as an ironic comment on what gets valued in cinema. That’s how I would have meant it, anyway.

Nothing that unperson says needs much thinking about.

Well but you're not posting away on the merits of Extraction 2 so the context's a bit different. xpost

The first sentence is literally true; I had never heard of Terence Davies until his name popped up here. (Of course, I've never heard of a lot of the BBC announcers and Sixties footballers who get memorialized in this thread, either, but that's beside the point.) One of his movies is an adaptation of one of my favorite books ever, The House of Mirth, though, so I might check that one out if it's streaming anywhere. The second sentence was a joke at the expense of my own somewhat knuckle-walking taste in movies, and recognition that I probably should have heard of this guy, even if I'd never seen any of his stuff. I mean, he seems like he could have been the English Whit Stillman, and I love Stillman. Anyway, many of you seem committed to taking my posts in the worst possible light, which is weird, but live your lives any way you want.

Side note: Jason Statham's latest movie was directed by arthouse darling Ben Wheatley, so...

Wheatley v much fallen from grace as an arthouse darling after that Rebecca remake but Meg 2 does look good.

"Anyway, many of you seem committed to taking my posts in the worst possible light, which is weird, but live your lives any way you want."

That must be it.

Paedophile DJ Chris Denning, last year but only just reported

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67026883

god what editor let them use “prolific” to describe him jesus

God, yeah

Chuck Feeney, philanthropic legend and the only billionaire who knew what to do with all the money and did so without pasting his name over everything he did.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/business/charles-f-feeney-dead.html

a good solid fella

RIP the only good billionaire there seemingly will ever be

Comedian Cal Wilson :( She was only 53!

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/oct/11/cal-wilson-new-zealand-comedian-and-tv-host-dies-at-53

https://ifanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Justice-League-5.jpg

Comic artist/writer Keith Giffen - one of the best!
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/keith-giffen-dead-blue-beetle-and-rocket-raccoon-1235616096/

That artwork is by Kevin Maguire

(damnit)

Giffen is the writer, though?

Aw, RIP Keith Giffen. He was at the core of the resurgence of cosmic Marvel, if not -the- intiator, writing Annihilation.

Giffen is the writer, though?

Plot (and possibly basic thumbnail layouts) by Giffen. Script by J M DeMatteis. Pencils by Kevin Maguire.

Right - are you still objecting to it? I'm not sure what's going on here.

Where did I 'object' to it? I pointed out that a drawing used in an obituary for artist Keith Giffen wasn't drawn by artist Keith Giffen (Elvis Telecom's subsequent 'damnit' seems to suggest he wanted to post an image drawn by Giffen).

Last Giffen post on FB is "anything not to have to go to NY Comic Con". Dude went out on a laugh.

Should have gone with Dr. Fate or The Heckler, but saw The Punch on Bluesky and got influenced.

Is The Heckler dialogued by Robert Loren Fleming? Always Giffen's best writer/collaborator imho.

I know I've been disagreeing abt Giffen on iLX at least since the Ethan P era (!), but this isn't the time or the place for more. All my comic book pro Facebook 'friends' are sad abt his passing.

Sad news about Giffen. Loved that run on Justice League.

Oh man, JLI such a formative influence on me - probably *the* formative influence during that awkward stage when you’re no longer a kid but not yet a teenager.

Loved his pencil breakdowns on 52 and his art in its “Munoz/Ambush Bug phase”. I don’t know how well Heckler has dated but it still looks spectacular. RINP (rest in nine panels)

Loved Giffen as a teen especially his Legion Of Super-Heroes but his Muñoz ripoff style was embarrassing.

justice league international was huge for me as a kid, as was ambush bug a bit later

genuine lol at his final facebook post

Rudolph Isley

https://pitchfork.com/news/rudolph-isley-co-founder-of-the-isley-brothers-dies-at-84/

RIP

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— The Paris Review (@parisreview) October 13, 2023

Mark Goddard, aka Major Don West on Lost in Space.

https://deadline.com/2023/10/mark-goddard-dead-lost-in-space-1235573113/

Piper Laurie, 91

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/piper-laurie-dead-carrie-1235756354/

;_;

Like this Variety article indicates, she would just show up in all these things down through the ages---and this sequence!

She picked up Emmy nominations for original drama “The Deaf Heart” on “Studio One in Hollywood” and “Days of Wine and Roses” with Cliff Robertson on “Playhouse 90.” Director Robert Rossen spotted her working at the Actors Studio and offered her the role of the crippled alcoholic Sarah Packard in the drama “The Hustler,” which brought her an Oscar nomination as best actress in 1961.

In the well-regarded period dramedy “The Grass Harp,” she reunited with her “Carrie” co-star Sissy Spacek but this time played her sister (they also both appeared in the 2001 telepic “Midwives”).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K06Px14j3yc

suzanne somers, 76

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/suzanne-somers-star-of-threes-company-dies-at-76/ar-AA1ifJIH

thought she was dead for a decade. i guess i had her mixed up with farah fawcett.

Always time for a replay of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkf84_tVdBc

lol awesome

she handled that as well as anyone could!

I hate when bands do that. I get the purposeful aloofness but maybe just skip the interview part and spare us the cringes?

Colin Newman hated it too.

It's a shame that wir weren't performing that night, someone could have broken the ice with a witty Three's Company reference.

It's crazy to me how 60s/70s her voice sounds. That's a particular accent you just don't hear anymore. It disappeared somewhere in the 80s. It's velvety, bouncy, somehow extremely offhand. I imagine a teenager in Santa Cruz being interviewed in 1973 on a poor quality Super 8 talking like this.

yeah Suzy didn't deserve that treatment