Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

RIP. Must have seen him live but I can't remember when.

Only time I saw him was with Cecil Taylor and Bill Dixon at the RFH, playing solo and then as a trio. Oxley really was the one stitching two very different players together - a very commanding presence. Love the picture of his kit on the cover of Ichnos.

Yeah that's the only time I've seen him too. Real shame.

Also the only time I saw him, must have been an ilx day trip. All three members of that night's trio now no longer with us, although Anthony Braxton, also on the bill, yet lives.
The Tony Oxley Quintet's 1969 "The Baptised Traveller" is as fine an example of free music as I've ever heard, RIP to a musician who played without fear.

Henry Sandon, mainstay of the Antiques Roadshow, 95.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/26/antiques-roadshow-pottery-expert-henry-sandon-dies-at-95

Lee Sun-kyun, 48

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67825665

I don't think I've seen him in anything but Parasite. Sounds like he might have ended his life while in the midst of a drug investigation? Sad.

From a Hollywood Reporter article:

"Local media reports that Lee had been under investigation over allegations that he had used illegal drugs. In recent weeks, the South Korean government’s ongoing crackdown on hard drugs has led to a series of allegations against high-profile people including actors, singers, socialites and heirs to the country’s richest families. The K-pop singer G-Dragon is among those who have been swept up in the crackdown, although he was cleared of any wrongdoing last week.

Yonhap reports that Lee had been questioned three times by police, including for 19 hours over the weekend over his use of marijuana and psychoactive drugs. Lee is reported to have visited Seoul’s Gangnam district on multiple occasions since early this year, including last Saturday, where he allegedly took drugs. The actor reportedly said he was tricked into taking drugs by a bar hostess, who then tried to blackmail him."

Ridiculous harassment. What a stupid waste.

Ugh, that's awful.

Wolfgang Schäuble, former German finance minister and key figure in the reunification process, has died at the age of 81.

He was paralysed from the waist down after being shot at an election rally in 1990.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/27/german-political-heavyweight-wolfgang-schauble-dies-aged-81

Bill Granger, 54

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-67825337

Brought Australian breakfast/cafe culture to Britain therefore responsible for Millennials and Gen Zers not being able to afford houses.

Ridiculous harassment. What a stupid waste.

Yeah, this story is infuriating.

Horrible story.

Tom Smothers

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/arts/television/tom-smothers-dead.html?fbclid=IwAR3-MgTeqtER15xWBemJ5ZIVpEUlcnqueGQewNHn_Lfnvhp2aPACz6sVIoM

Being reported by numerous accounts that famed visual artist, filmmaker, and provocateur William Pope.L has passed away.

his 2015 MoCA show was terrific and i still think about it from time to time, RIP

Jacques Delors

... who was 98!

Tom smothers!

Pope.L definitely gone - curator of his MoMA show posted on IG to that effect. RIP.

Tommy Smothers righteously heckles Dennis Miller and Bill Cosby
https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/11/the_case_of_bil.html

Thanks. That book Seriously Comic is looking pretty good to me/pvmic

“Dangerously Funny” is a great book specifically about the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, highly recommend

If it’s even a patch on the pants on Kliph Nesteroff’s The Comedians then I need it. You’ve convinced me, rabbit, I’m sold!

Also I loved that show when I was a kid and recall that the The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour started out life as a summer replacement for it, with a funny name which escapes me at the moment.

Summer Brothers Smothers Show

Vague memories of their CBS show. As a really little kid I was fascinated by Tommy's funny expressions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiSKu7SbGNQ

Gaston Glock, the man behind the gun, dies aged 94
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/obituary-gaston-glock-man-behind-gun-dies-aged-94-apa-2023-12-27/

All this time I never knew there was an actual Glock

stop all the glocks...

his son had a fake talk show though some alleged (incorrectly) that he was played by Martin Short

American Family Association founder Don Wildmon, 85

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk65Sk6_o-I

American Family Association founder Don Wildmon, 85

Sadly happening about 40 years after it should have.

Damn, VH-1 VJ Bobby Rivers, 70! RIP, sophisticated king.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puM133wcmdw

Not sure I've seen Macca as comfortable with any other host.

Actor Tom Wilkinson

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/30/full-monty-actor-tom-wilkinson-dies-aged-75

he was a decent LBJ in Selma and lot's beside but I've already seen him as "fULL mONTY ACTOR.."

"best known for his role in The Full Monty"? What the fuck is going on over there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RcnRSmNh3g

Excellent in ... In the Bedroom?

The universe has been telling me to rewatch Michael Clayton a lot lately. May this be the final domino effect

A solid actor. I'll vouch for his priapic Benjamin Franklin in John Adams.

oh yeah he was fantastic in John Adams. I'd forgotten that was him tbh.

Founding Father as Founding Fuckhound

first saw him in essex boys and he stood out in that sub ritchie romp for me

The voice that Tom Wilkinson used for Franklin continues to astonish me: Northamptonshire via Boston, Philadelphia, and London, schoolmasterly, sly, falsely modest. He had to have sounded just like that.

— Justin Sherin (@wychstreet) December 30, 2023

"best known for his role in The Full Monty"? What the fuck is going on over there?

Thankfully (and miraculously) he wasn't in any Harry Potter movies because, in the UK, they take preference over absolutely anything anyone has ever done in the rest of their career.

https://t.co/C4mKpQkBLO

— Sotiris Tsern (@SotirisTsern) December 30, 2023

Excellent in ... In the Bedroom?

The tribute all of us want after passing.

that's settled it - I'm doing John Adams again!