Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Confirmed, sadly: https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2022/02/monica-vitti-dies-italian-screen-icon-of-1960s-classics-was-90-1234924794/amp/

RIP Monica :(

RIP

Mandy Allwood, 56. What a way to start the day, reading this. RIP.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/octomum-dies-of-cancer-aged-56-b980653.html?amp

Jesus, what an absolutely tragic story. That poor, poor woman.

That is sad. Wasn't there another Octomom, an American one?

Yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadya_Suleman

Dubbed "The most hated woman in Britain" for not giving interviews to the paper that dubbed her, for free. Doubtless.

Todd Gitlin: https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/todd-gitlin-prominent-activist-thinker-dead-79-82697239

Lata Mangeshkar, 92

Oh! RIP.

Syl Johnson, July 1, 1936- February 6, 2022.

Sock it to 'em wherever you end up next, old friend. pic.twitter.com/d0wv4mQ4OW

— numerogroup (@numerogroup) February 6, 2022

RIP Syl

Man and his brother just passed away too.

Composer George Crumb, 92

https://pitchfork.com/news/george-crumb-prolific-avant-garde-composer-dies-at-92/

Oh no! RIP George.

Noooooo

So very very dear to me

Heard Ancient Voices of Children in a music appreciation class in college. Loved him since. I just bought but I haven’t listened to the new Marcantonio Barone CD. Going to do that now.

it’s really great, not a huge departure from Makrokosmos I and II but a potent enchantment

Bamber Gascoigne, 87

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/feb/08/bamber-gascoigne-former-university-challenge-quizmaster-dies-at-87

Almost posted him the unexpectedly still alive thread the other week. RIP BG.

Tony "Strat" Thomas of P-Funk.

Don't think we mentioned Mark Levine yet.
https://www.wbgo.org/music/2022-01-31/mark-levine-a-versatile-artist-and-influential-teacher-in-jazz-and-latin-music-is-dead-at-83

Douglas Trumbull, who did more for a generation's idea of film SF than probably anybody else. And beyond, through his lasting influence.

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/douglas-trumbull-dead-visual-effects-1235174814/

Monumental loss but the legacy is forever now.

Oh man, that's a biggie. An unsung hero whose work is deservedly adored but whose name is probably unknown to most.

what a legend. RIP

Trumbull was so instrumental to so much and so many, revered by his peers, that it was probably the best, proudest kind of fame.

Oh wow. RIP.

I saw him introduce a print of Brainstorm at MOMI a few years back. He was lively and engaging, and laser-focused on the issues of film projection quality and (his longtime obsession) the possibilities of high-frame-rate cinema. Somehow he managed to complain about the proportions of MOMI's room/screen without it coming off as a faux pas. I saw 2001 for the first time a short time later, in a 70mm print on an IMAX screen, and his big final effects sequence made the case for grand projection all by itself.

Did Trevor Pinch get a mention at the end of last year? Don't think so.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/12/pioneering-professor-trevor-pinch-dies-69

seeing posts suggesting Betty Davis passed away, not yet confirmed

confirmed by Rolling Stone

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/betty-davis-dead-obit-1297372/

Oh fuck. RIP Betty.

RIP Betty :(

awww RIP

RIP

I remember the first time I heard anything from her right around when she was first being reissued, and thinking it was the hardest, funkiest music I'd ever heard.

Ian McDonald, founder member of both King Crimson and, er, Foreigner

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/ian-mcdonald-king-crimson-foreigner-dead/

...and saxes on "Bang A Gong"!

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wow didnt know that! RIP

I know soul & blues singer Syl Johnson and his blues guitar playing brother Jimmy Johnson's deaths within a week of each other were mentioned on the 6th , but here's a nice article on them by author Aaron Cohen

https://chicagoreader.com/music/a-tribute-to-syl-and-jimmy-johnson/

Sadly seeing several folks post on Facebook now that Memphis drummer Howard Grimes has passed away. He played on Stax and Hi records including efforts by Al Green and Ann Peebles. He released a book about his life last year.

Ivan Reitman

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/ivan-reitman-dead-obit-1299688/

pj o’rourke

I'm afraid it's true. Our panelist and my dear friend PJ O'Rourke has passed away. More later.

— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) February 15, 2022

vile man. I remember reading a line of his that read something like "how can a country that smells so much of crap have so much food poverty" and never read another line of his since.

Pretty repellent worldview, but I remember laughing uncontrollably at his writing in the 90s. Probably my love of snark coupled with political naïveté.

He was pretty good with the pithy quip