Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

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New year, new passings...

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 1 January 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link

Roll away the stone!

A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 January 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link

last post on the previous thread:

Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse

https://pitchfork.com/news/modest-mouse-drummer-jeremiah-green-dies-at-45/

wonderful drummer. earlier modest mouse was instantly recognizable, even during instrumental sections, and Green's drumming was a huge part of that.

Karl Malone, Sunday, 1 January 2023 16:11 (one year ago) link

Gangsta Boo

The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Sunday, 1 January 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link

Just saw this on FB, but the 2022 thread is locked:

https://i.imgur.com/bOKywKE.jpg

ArchCarrier, Monday, 2 January 2023 08:39 (one year ago) link

I'm not spotting the late Col Harkness from NWoBHM Quo-worshippers Spider in there, but maybe I need to look harder

this country's had enough of exports (Matt #2), Monday, 2 January 2023 10:18 (one year ago) link

Earth, Wind and Fire Drumming Prodigy Fred White Dead at 67

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/earth-wind-and-fire-fred-white-dead-obit-1234655162/

nickn, Monday, 2 January 2023 20:47 (one year ago) link

"A child prodigy who began drumming at age nine before going on to earn his first gold record at the age of 16 for his work on Donny Hathaway’s Live — which made Rolling Stone’s list of 50 greatest live albums of all time"

nickn, Monday, 2 January 2023 20:48 (one year ago) link

Rally car driver and stunt driving sensation Ken Block, killed in snowmobile accident

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 04:36 (one year ago) link

From Katharine Hepburn’s 1981 interview with Barbara Walters:

Hepburn: “I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man…I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to and I made enough money to support myself. And I ain’t afraid of being alone.”

Walters: “Is that why also you wear pants?”

Hepburn: “No, I just wore pants because they’re comfortable.”

Walters: “Do you ever wear a skirt, by the way?”

Hepburn: “I have one.”

Walters: “You have one.”

Hepburn: “I’ll wear it to your funeral.”

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 11:37 (one year ago) link

That's up there with:

rip barbara walters thank you for giving us one of the best interview moments of all time pic.twitter.com/nKmYEd1Ppv

— matt (@mattxiv) December 31, 2022

Alba, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 11:44 (one year ago) link

incredible

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 11:51 (one year ago) link

Amazing.

A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 11:56 (one year ago) link

Alan Rankine of the Associates.

hamicle, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 12:07 (one year ago) link

Oh no, surely not?

Aw naw, no' an Antonioni wan oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 12:27 (one year ago) link

Shit - that's a bad one.
Also
Kelly Monteith, who I haven't thought about in a very long time.

woof, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 12:29 (one year ago) link

One of those terrible channels on Freeview should show Kelly Monteith's shows again, I bet they'd stand up a lot better than Hale & Pace or whatever rubbish they are showing.

Aw naw, no' an Antonioni wan oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 12:37 (one year ago) link

As a small child it was one of those adult shows I'd sometimes see and always desperately want to see again.

woof, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 12:39 (one year ago) link

Alan Rankine confirmed. Fantastic musician, responsible for some of the greatest records ever made.

Aw naw, no' an Antonioni wan oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 12:53 (one year ago) link

Is the silly rabbit thing a reference to that one breakfast cereal, what's it called again?

A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 14:11 (one year ago) link

yes, anyone born after 1969 knows the allusion

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link

My wife tells me that when she was a child, Trix commercials struck her as needlessly cruel. The rabbit just wanted some cereal. It would have been harmless to let him have some.

Immodest Moose (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 14:32 (one year ago) link

Your wife otm

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link

How did she feel about the way The Roadrunner treated Wile E. Coyote?

A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link

My wife tells me that when she was a child, Trix commercials struck her as needlessly cruel. The rabbit just wanted some cereal. It would have been harmless to let him have some.

― Immodest Moose (Ye Mad Puffin),

but the sugar

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link

ugh, alan rankine.

dan selzer, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 15:03 (one year ago) link

Damn sad loss. I really appreciated how his teaching work and the creation of the Electric Honey label helped to pay things forward; even if I'm not a fan of acts like Belle & Sebastian and Snow Patrol, it's still good mentorship he provided.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link

Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham, 90. Wrote a pretty good tell-all about his NASA years The All-American Boys

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 22:45 (one year ago) link

RIP. Think that's one of the few nose cone histories I haven't read.

A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 23:00 (one year ago) link

Worth checking out and iirc doesn't hold back on much of the behind the scenes politicking going on among the astronauts. Cunningham only flew once - he had the misfortune of having Schirra as his Apollo 7 commander. Try to get the second edition with a lot of typo/content fixes.

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 23:58 (one year ago) link

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jan/03/tom-karen-designer-of-raleigh-chopper-and-marble-run-dies-aged-96

I met Tom Karen at a work event several years ago. He was squirrelish in his curiosity and kind in his conversation. It was before we had our son; I wish I could have told him the hours of joy our marble run has brought us.

Madchen, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 08:40 (one year ago) link

Roger Kean, co-founder of classic UK 8-bit games magazines Crash and ZZAP 64:

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/zzap64-magazine-and-crash-magazine-cofounder-roger-kean-has-died

Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 13:22 (one year ago) link

Fay Weldon.

put a VONC on it (suzy), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 13:25 (one year ago) link

West Ham head honcho and one half of the 'Dildo Brothers' David Gold, 86

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jan/04/david-gold-joint-chairman-west-ham-dies-at-86

this country's had enough of exports (Matt #2), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 14:11 (one year ago) link

Cue champagne popping all over Newham

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 15:03 (one year ago) link

Lise Nørgaard, journalist, memoirist, and creator of the utterly brilliant and legendary-in-Scandinavia TV series Matador.

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link

Wow. I had no idea he was ill. RIP.

Aw naw, no' an Antonioni wan oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Friday, 6 January 2023 10:15 (one year ago) link

Seeing on Facebook that Michael 'Wavelength' Snow has died

Ward Fowler, Friday, 6 January 2023 10:19 (one year ago) link

Fucking hell Vialli that's terrible

hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 6 January 2023 10:35 (one year ago) link

Yup seeing Michael Snow on twitter as well.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 January 2023 11:21 (one year ago) link

RIP Gianluca, awful news

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 6 January 2023 13:13 (one year ago) link

Kenyan LGBT activist Edwin Chiloba

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/06/africa/kenya-edwin-chiloba-lgbt-activist-death-intl/index.html

StanM, Friday, 6 January 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link

Character actor Earl Boen, best know for his role as the psychiatrist in the Terminator movies.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/earl-boen-actor-in-the-terminator-movies-dies-at-81/ar-AA163iun

Liz D. (Eliza D.), Friday, 6 January 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link

xp
rip Luca. he along with cavani are my benchmarks for what 'good movement' at the centre forward position should look like.

oscar bravo, Friday, 6 January 2023 21:25 (one year ago) link

Vialli was kinda weirdly important to me -- when I finally got a chance to follow UK club football on any sort of regular basis via the Fox Sports two hour weekly show they had (or whatever network it was on) in the late 90s, Vialli was doing his Chelsea run, and he quickly became a favorite of mine via the various post-game interview clips thanks to his good humor and approach to it all. Between him and Pierluigi Collina let's hear it for the bald Italians.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 January 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link

xps

fucking horrific

Edwin Chiloba was an amazing human. He was bold, passionate, his energy was immaculate. He embodied fashion. Someone murdered him cruelly, put his body in a box & dumped his body.

Edwin we speak your name. May yr blood not spill for nothing. Stop killing queer people. pic.twitter.com/aSgwyTSqnM

— Njeri Wa Migwi™ (@NjeriWaMigwi) January 5, 2023



RIP Edwin Chiloba

the shaker intro bit the shaker outro in the tail, hard (breastcrawl), Friday, 6 January 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link

Heh. Mrs. Redd has often referred to Colina as “Squidward” due to his purported resemblance to a certain cartoon co-worker.
(xp!)

Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2023 21:49 (one year ago) link

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

poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:49 (nine months ago) link

"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.

The Italian Yob (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:50 (nine months ago) link

https://t.co/C4mKpQkBLO

— Sotiris Tsern (@SotirisTsern) December 30, 2023

poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:51 (nine months ago) link

Excellent in ... In the Bedroom?

The tribute all of us want after passing.

underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:52 (nine months ago) link

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

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:54 (nine months ago) link

This is lovely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7o5kWrbJJE

poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:59 (nine months ago) link

my memory of his Franklin is that he was so completely suited to the horny decadence in Paris that he blended in seamlessly and grumpy, prudish, self-important J Adams arrival was a total buzzkill. I think that was the part of the series that stuck with me the most.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:16 (nine months ago) link

His IMDb resume is seriously impressive. Long list of quality projects. Besides Sense and Sensibility, my initial role association was Juntao in Rush Hour. He had Alan Rickman range, romantically charming and believably threatening.

the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:34 (nine months ago) link

Thank calzino for my new screen name

completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:43 (nine months ago) link

I just need to make a half decent one for myself now!

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 30 December 2023 19:05 (nine months ago) link

"completely suited to the horny decadence"

...is the new "addicted to the shindig"

...which was the new "knee-deep in the hoopla"

...which was the new "feelin' groovy."

Change my mind

CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 30 December 2023 19:56 (nine months ago) link

This is lovely:

At first I thought that was old Paul Giamatti sitting next to young Paul Giamatti

stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 December 2023 20:19 (nine months ago) link

in which Tom Wilkinson, in his greatest and perhaps most challenging role, played a mirror.

poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 20:25 (nine months ago) link

https://deadline.com/2023/12/richard-romanus-dead-actor-mean-streets-the-sopranos-was-80-obituary-1235683695/

Richard Romanus -- pretty excellent in Mean Streets as Michael, the too-nice loan shark who's a bit more dangerous than he appears.

omar little, Sunday, 31 December 2023 03:10 (nine months ago) link

Terrific also as the voice of lethal cabby Harry Canyon in the dystopian noir segment of Heavy Metal.

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 31 December 2023 05:27 (nine months ago) link

Fantastic in Mean Streets. "Now's the time."

clemenza, Sunday, 31 December 2023 06:21 (nine months ago) link

RIP

completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 31 December 2023 08:14 (nine months ago) link

Australian Olympic ex-cyclist Melissa Hoskins

https://www.globalcyclingnetwork.com/racing/news/rohan-dennis-charged-in-relation-to-the-death-of-his-wife-melissa-hoskins

StanM, Sunday, 31 December 2023 09:58 (nine months ago) link

Jeezo.

Madchen, Sunday, 31 December 2023 10:36 (nine months ago) link

John Pilger.

glumdalclitch, Sunday, 31 December 2023 11:50 (nine months ago) link

oof

The Italian Yob (Tom D.), Sunday, 31 December 2023 11:57 (nine months ago) link

“Frank Sinatra once saved my life,” Greene quipped. “A bunch of guys were beating on me and Frank said, ‘OK, that’s enough.’ ”

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 31 December 2023 21:23 (nine months ago) link

dang i thought he was long gone
RIP legend!

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 31 December 2023 21:25 (nine months ago) link

lolled pretty hard at that Sinatra gag

emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 31 December 2023 21:50 (nine months ago) link

Comedian Shecky Greene has passed away. He was 97. Here he is on the cover of Night Life in Chicago Magazine, dated May 1955 where he performed at Chez Peree Restaurant in Chicago. R.I.P. #RIPSheckyGreene #RIPSheckGreene @sheckygreene pic.twitter.com/8T0Ifd8TBN

— Vanished Chicagoland (@vanishedchicago) December 31, 2023

underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Sunday, 31 December 2023 22:04 (nine months ago) link

Shecky played Christie Lane--a stand-up comedian and a stand-up guy--in what I usually name as my favourite bad movie, The Love Machine.

clemenza, Sunday, 31 December 2023 22:38 (nine months ago) link

British comics artist John M Burns, who drew everything from George and Lynne in The Sun to The Bionic Woman in Look-In.

Ward Fowler, Monday, 1 January 2024 09:08 (nine months ago) link

Which inspired this Viz parody (nsfw) https://www.flickr.com/photos/stillunusual/13389387073

Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 January 2024 09:16 (nine months ago) link

Sad coincidence of Richard Rampton, the brilliant lead barrister in the Irving v Lipstadt libel case, and Tom Wilkinson, who played him in the movie "Denial", both dying in late December, within days of one another.

— Sir Richard Evans (@RichardEvans36) January 1, 2024

Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:04 (nine months ago) link

RIP 2023, i never liked you anyway

blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:15 (nine months ago) link

Les McCann, 88

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDMQqDUtv4

underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 1 January 2024 19:35 (nine months ago) link

Time for a new thread. Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 January 2024 19:49 (nine months ago) link

Time for a new thread.

Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 January 2024 19:50 (nine months ago) link

Time for a new thread.

Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 January 2024 19:51 (nine months ago) link

Time for a new thread.

Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 January 2024 19:52 (nine months ago) link

Yikes!

Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 January 2024 19:54 (nine months ago) link

four months pass...

Susan Backlinie, actress/stuntwoman featured in the opening of jaws

jbn, Thursday, 16 May 2024 16:11 (four months ago) link

Dabney Coleman, 92.

nate woolls, Friday, 17 May 2024 20:13 (four months ago) link

Mods, please lock thread.

Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 17 May 2024 20:16 (four months ago) link

Wait wtf no

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 17 May 2024 20:32 (four months ago) link

Dabney isn't dead. Why u lie?

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 17 May 2024 20:35 (four months ago) link

LOCK THREAD

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 May 2024 20:42 (four months ago) link

Ah I posted to the wrong thread didn't I

nate woolls, Friday, 17 May 2024 21:26 (four months ago) link

(it's may 2024, maybe we should lock the 2023 obit thread)

koogs, Saturday, 18 May 2024 13:03 (four months ago) link

(oh there is a 2024 thread)

koogs, Saturday, 18 May 2024 13:04 (four months ago) link

Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:53 (four months ago) link


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