Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

Doctor, my eyes! (xpost)

I don't know about their real life relationship, but that was a great moment in Paper Moon

highly recommend a cursory google/wikipedia trip, their irl relationship adds a whole other layer to their performance

This one for starters: https://nypost.com/2009/08/03/ryan-tried-to-get-tatum-to-date-im/

Ryan O’Neal wishes he’d never had children and is so estranged from his own kids that he didn’t recognize his actress-daughter Tatum — and shamelessly flirted with her — at Farrah Fawcett’s funeral, the actor admits in an explosive new interview.

“I had just put the casket in the hearse and was watching it drive away,” O’Neal, 68, said, “when a beautiful blond woman comes up and embraces me. I said to her, ‘You have a drink on you? You have a car?’ She said, ‘Daddy, it’s me — Tatum!’

whence the name 'tatum'?

(xpost) Yikes-very Benjamin Horne.

their whole relationship is so ._.

Here's the "Beautiful People, Ugly Choices" article from Vanity Fair that gets into the details:
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2009/9/beautiful-people-ugly-choices

tl;dr - O'Neal is a p.o.s.

"I consider him a vulture presiding over a carcass"

and that is a quote from one of his sons .. lol

So Fine over here

― underwater as a compliment (Eazy)

The cardboard box used to scare me at Blockbuster years and years ago.

Remember that Twitter sleuthing about what film Trump went and saw instead of being by his brother's side in his hospital deathbed, and the most likely candidate was the "Ryan O'Neal Assless Pants Movie"?

One of more surprising revelations of the Polly Platt season of You Must Remember This was that O'Neal was pretty staunch advocate for Platt and her work, helping her get her first non-Bogdanovich production design gig on The Thief Who Came To Dinner*, and he later put Bogdanovich on blast when he spoke at her funeral by saying the work she put in was the real reason those early films were so excellent.

*Presumably still locked up in rights hell, it and Brewster McCloud are two of the best shot in Houston films of the '70s.

But, 'stopped clocks' and so on...

https://louderthanwar.com/john-hyatt-the-three-johns-rip/ Rock On

(briefly confused him with John Hiatt who's still alive)

oh shit, three johns were an important band to me and my friends in my teens. god bless you john. my mate jim was the first one of us to get a car, an ancient vauxhall cavalier that he painted matt black. always remember my first ride in it, as we pulled away from the kerb and hit the dual carriageways of basingstoke, this was the tune that was blasting out of his tape machine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNTl5JeG4RI

Martin Davidson, who ran the Emanem record label devoted to (mainly) European free improv. Lots of bangers in the back catalogue. RIP.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanem_Records

RIP, a well kent face @ loads of gigs.

the first thing that came to mind with the mention of the Emanem record label is The Spontaneous Music Ensemble, one of the greatest UK bands of that era.

Apparently (because not 100% confirmed but good sources saying so) 2000ad artist Ian Gibson.

Now I've read the family's messages, if not yet then imminent.

Among the stars with Halo now.

RIP to Tony Smith, creator of Gus Honeybun the South West television rabbit presenter from 1961 onwards - famous enough for Victoria Wood to have pastiched him.

Apparently SF author David Drake has passed, per a Wikipedia update. Charlie Jane Anders on Bluesky with warm thoughts:

https://bsky.app/profile/charliejane.bsky.social/post/3kgaaji2qmy2f

Shirley Anne Field.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/11/actor-shirley-anne-field-dies

Was just coming to post that. In several of my favourite films, with The Damned probably due a rewatch.

2000ad Twitter account has confirmed Ian Gibson has died

Andre Braugher

https://deadline.com/2023/12/andre-braugher-dead-homicide-life-on-the-street-brooklyn-nine-nine-actor-1235665513/amp/

Now that's a shock, so young. He was great on Brooklyn Nine Nine. RIP

Damn...he was so good for so long. First remember him from Glory, then obv he was legendary for Homicide.

he was incredible in Homicide where he had an intense character arc. RIP

FUCK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqNf2vcNLik

fuck no way
one of my favorite actors, i loved him in so many things!! ;_; the best to do it
homicide
get on the bus
gideon’s crossing
men of a certain age
last resort
brooklyn 99

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

I loved him in Glory, and feel bad that I somehow just… didn’t really see him in anything else (but there’s still time, of course),

15 years ago some genius put together this Pembleton montage with Matchbox 20 “Push” over top (lol)… but yknow its kinda hitting for me rn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6_ngiDz0yk

I swear I think about this episode at least once every two weeks: "The Gas Man", in which Bruno Kirby & Richard Edson stalk Braugher who carries the episode by barely being in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdwm4ST_gGQ

I just rewatched the first few seasons of Homicide--one of my all time favorite tv shows--in which yeah he was so good. RIP

That sucks so much. I loved him as Pembleton - who doesn’t? - but I genuinely think his performance in B-99 is one of the greatest of all time - he’s just so fucking funny. We all knew he was good, but who knew he still had that in him? So many deliveries where I’d want to rewind and rewatch, in awe.

yeah he is so good in Brooklyn 99 in fact I kind of suspect it was intended to be a minor part as a lot of boss roles are but he was just so funny in it that they kinda made him the 2nd main character

also one of the few characters in sitcom history whose queerness is actually pretty well-written!

In Brooklyn Nine Nine, Andre Braugher was probably the greatest in a show filled with talent. Very sad to hear that he passed away at only 61 years.

otm re Captain Holt, one of the best sitcom characters ever. awful news :(

man thats a shock, he was great in everything i ever saw him in

I've seen him in a lot of movies and know him by face rather than name, rip

Andre Braugher was one of the top five greatest actors I've watched on TV.

My god he was so good in Homicide. The Adena Watson episode...

John Lydon manager John Rambo Stevens https://deadline.com/2023/12/john-rambo-stevens-dead-1235664462/

braugher was really one of the best actors of his generation. just gutting.

and to lose him and lance reddick in the same year…we’ve got a serious gravitas shortage

(xp) Appears to have been a total dick but sad for John L.

the stroke episode of Homicide was devestating

When I watched Andre Braugher on Homicide as a teen I thought he had some Al Pacino-level stardom ahead of him. He was totally riveting.