Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

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

The Paris Review mourns the loss of Louise Glück (1943-2023). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her poems from our archive. https://t.co/J4pscv0vA3 pic.twitter.com/nPScWoYL6I

— 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

tbf the Wire guys would have no idea who she was.

I like how she goes along with the absurdist stuff, almost like she's up for some improv, but the band is too dull to go another step.

haha, they really didn't like being called 'far out'

Friends of mine were in the audience for that. They loved it, of course.

She was actually younger than Bruce Gilbert btw.

Graham objects to being called a 'far out kinda group' while sporting that mullet... curious

Yes that hairstyle is the most objectionable aspect of the whole episode.

Lewis was by far the foxiest member of the group until he thought he'd look like a Puerto Rican breakdancer.

Lara Parker, of Dark Shadows among other things

https://extratv.com/2023/10/16/lara-parker-angelique-on-cult-favorite-dark-shadows-dies-at-84/

My favorite cast member on that show, she was so good

Buck Trent, Banjo Legend

https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/10/13/buck-trent-legendary-country-musician-has-died/71166125007/

Seeing some initial reports that Carla Bley passed away.

Reported by the France Musique X account and website, fwiw.

Oh no. I hope not!

Yep read it too
Rip

Pianiste, organiste, leader de premier plan et compositrice aux œuvres protéiformes, autant inspirées par le jazz que la musique classique, religieuse et folklorique, la jazzwoman américaine Carla Bley est décédée ce mardi matin. Elle avait 87 ans.https://t.co/jXM5upZGrI

— France Musique (@francemusique) October 17, 2023

RIP

RIP! What a giant. Another one I'm thankful I got to see at Big Ears.

RIP! What a giant. Another one I'm thankful I got to see at Big Ears.

Burt Young

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/burt-young-dead-rocky-1235761505/

I saw him in an episode of Miami Vice just a week ago and I thought he was dead and looked him up to confirm and saw that he was still alive.

Great in Chinatown, great in The Sopranos.

He's in a terrific episode of the Rockford Files.

I kind of love how much of that obit is devoted to praising his performances in bad movies.