Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I7f4ALqojg

This is lovely:

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

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.

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.

Thank calzino for my new screen name

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

"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

This is lovely:

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

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.

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

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

RIP

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

Jeezo.

John Pilger.

oof