Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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Looking into Michael Alig, I didn't recognize his name (am bad with names) but I'm pretty sure I know his story from some recentish telling of it and it's now bugging me where that was. Definitely wasn't the Macaulay Culkin movie and I don't think it was the Glory Daze documentary either.

Man, has any actual decedent in 2020 received as much commentary itt as Michael Musto? Grade A ILX right here, I tell you.

A reminder that Michael Musto is not dead (afaik).

Musto been someone else

Ali G iirc

RIP michael musto. heaven needed another person who I have never heard of. I wanna run 2 u big man

You're telling me that this isn't an aggressive way to frame something that no one with any sense would give a shit about?

There’s just something aggressively anti-intellectual about not having heard of a four-plus decade chronicler of NYC nightlife and queer issues

Reads as pretty aggro to me.

― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 12:40 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah me too. however, its only half of the sentence. maybe you didn't understand what suzy was saying?

Can we take it to the 'Michael Musto: Class Act or Who's That?' thread so the dead can RImotherlovingP already

Purgatory is people having this argument over your immobile-yet-fully-aware corpse for all eternity.

Who knew this blind item would have bionic legs?

KIP let RIP in ROT:2020

ROT in Peace

Michael Musto is no Bruce Vilanch.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/o33ZgoTV_Jg/maxresdefault.jpg

Look, I'm just trying to say that Musto isn't Old Geoffrey, the butler who died after two eps of Bosom Manor.

ok

tbf those two episodes (or "series" as they're called in the UK) aired 15 years apart

Save us, Death!

Purgatory is people having this argument over your immobile-yet-fully-aware corpse for all eternity.

The obituary thread would be more interesting if people would actually link to the obituaries of the Bosom Manor extras they’re mourning instead of just leaving a “rip”

Unfamous or barely famous people are often interesting and their obituaries may be the best chance we have to read about their lives, post a damn obituary don’t just try to be first to the thread yknow?

Obituaries tend to have a different meaning in the US and UK media btw. Except for really big figures who were of a dying age, obituaries in the UK don’t tend to be published the same day as the death is reported in a news story.

I like this thread being a record of deaths as soon as they are announced, personally.

Sometimes there's no English-language obituary available for some of my RIPs – or at least not yet.

I always try to post a link.

a complex web of links

My links are sometimes limited to the only other person on twitter who has heard of them.

In British terminology, an obituary:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/11/paolo-rossi-obituary

Not an obituary:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/10/paolo-rossi-italian-football-great-and-world-cup-winner-dies

The day will come... when all of the American and British ILXors meet... and we stand off... and we decide, once and for all, the proper style guide for this board... but, I assure you... oh yes, I assure you!!... blood must spilled...

im reading too much celine

I’m sure you’ll be fine, most of the blood spilled will probably be of us non-American and non-British sacrificial pigs

xp

Indeed.

oh we dont even exist hadnt you heard

Alto Reed (real name Thomas Neal Cartmell), saxophonist in Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band, of colon cancer at 72.

Wow. A bunch of friends and I saw Seger at MSG in January, and we found it endlessly amusing that his trench coat wearing sax player was named Alto Reed.

Dawn Wells, from Covid-19

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/dawn-wells-dead-gilligans-island-mary-ann-1234876755/

Claude Bolling, composer who scored some classic ‘70s French films including “Borsalino”, “Flic Story” and a ton of others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW3JT4yXDwU

Mary Ann with the Shaky Hand.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dawn-wells-dead-mary-ann-gilligans-island-was-82-1149549

(Missed C. Grissom's post.)

Adolfo Quiñones, Dancer, Choreographer and Cultural Icon Known as Shabba-Doo, Dies at 65. (Was right under the Dawn Wells obit.)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/adolfo-quinones-dancer-choreographer-and-cultural-icon-known-as-shabba-doo-dies-at-65

Adele Rose, creator of Byker Grove

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-55488255

Might be first woman to write on Coronation Street too, if my friend who is currently writing it has his facts right.

Joe Clark, the NJ high school principal played by Morgan Freeman in the movie Lean On Me.

Friends and neighbors of mine went to Eastside HS under “crazy” Joe Clark and other friends were extras in “Lean On Me”!

the reaper is filling out his quota for the year I suppose

Frank Kimbrough, jazz pianist.

just saw that, RIP

Tommy Docherty

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55501754

RIP - will always remember him like this:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/12/31/16/37457240-0-image-a-39_1609430508566.jpg

:( RIP Doc

Kimbrough put out a six-CD set of every Thelonious Monk composition in late 2018 that's well worth hearing. The full band was a quartet (sax, piano, bass, drums) but they subdivided a lot from track to track. Some are piano solos, some are sax/drums, like that.

I didn't know much about him but did enjoy his Solstice album a few years back.