Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

xpost Wait, I thought you never saw "The Insider," you doofus.

Anyway, I always wondered what Mike Wallace thought of a characterization that simultaneously lionized him as a journalistic badass and a cynical, self-interested sell-out.

dunno where u got that idea; I saw the bipartite Mann hunks-in-gray-hair crapfests

Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore computers and Auschwitz survivor
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/04/09/computer-legend-and-gaming-pioneer-jack-tramiel-dies-at-age-83/

Raymond Aubrac, French resistance hero

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2012/04/11/01016-20120411ARTFIG00516-raymond-aubrac-mort-d-une-figure-de-la-resistance.php

He was pals with Hô Chi Minh and was an official interlocutor between him and Kissinger.

Effing heck, even Le Fig wants me to download a sodding app these days

William Finley, aka Brian De Palma's Phantom:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/in-memory-of-star-william-finley-1942-2012-5-things-you-might-not-know-about-phantom-of-the-paradise-20120416

Paul Bogart, TV director of All in the Family, Get Smart, The Defenders

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/arts/television/paul-bogart-tv-director-dies-at-92.html

Oh, wow, William Finley. Outside of DePalma's work, that dude ate more scenery than any other actor in history on Tobe Hooper's "Eaten Alive."

dick clark
http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/18/dick-clark-dead-heart-attack/#.T48aR9klfIV

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Many apologies for the incorrect news about Dick Cheney. Of course it is Dick CLARK who just died. Sorry for dropping the ball on that.

lol, but also ;_; @ not true

I'm sure that, on balance, Clark contributed a lot to the history of pop. The one thing I always held against him was the way he emerged from the payola scandal of the early '60s untouched, while Alan Freed took the fall.

millions of lazy sitcom writers mourn the passing of their laziest go to old person joke

betty white died?

Dick Clark just HAD to die in 2012. Fuck, maybe the Mayans were right!

Chuck Colson, Nixon-admin detritus. Good fucking riddance.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57418411-503544/former-nixon-aide-chuck-colson-dies-at-80/

Watergate Club in hell nearly complete

Don't have a link yet, but the Gram Parsons page on FB is reporting that Chris Etheridge has died.

can't find an obit yet but amos vogel reportedly passed away this morning. 'film as a subversive art' was key to my film-fan development (i own 2 copies)

more on Vogel... I don't think I've ever seen or heard much about that book. :(

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/amos-vogel-1921-2012

it should be in print now (i managed to get a copy off the street from one of the back-of-the-truck booksellers in front of NYU when it wasn't)

Pete Fornatale, pioneering deejay at WNEW-FM

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/arts/music/pete-fornatale-a-pioneer-of-fm-rock-dies-at-66.html

david weiss of fischli/weiss

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/news/2012-04-27/david-weiss-of-fischliweiss-has-died/

This guy was probably going to win Olympic gold this year. :(

http://espn.go.com/olympics/swimming/story/_/id/7876459/swimming-world-champ-alexander-dale-oen-norway-dies-arizona-26

"Skip" Pitts, guitarist on the Isleys' "It's Your Thing" and Hayes' "Theme from Shaft".

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/may/01/stax-music-great-charles-skip-pitts-dies/

Don't know if this was noted elsewhere, but Greg Ham, sax/flute player for Men At Work, died a few days ago.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/greg-ham-dies-found-dead-men-at-work-flute-player-314266

"Skip" Pitts? Oh no. RIP

Oh man, RIP Junior Seau.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/sports/football/junior-seau-famed-nfl-linebacker-dies-at-43-in-apparent-suicide.html?_r=1&hp#

oh, as usual I didn't find the other thread: nfl offseason transactions, fired coaches, general nonsense 2012

whoa fuck!

Adam Yauch...

George Lindsey aka Goober Pyle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blQrIySidOA

funnier than Gomer IMO

Absolutely.

RIP Meow

Alligator Records says Arkansas bluesman Michael "Iron Man" Burks has died after collapsing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He was 54.

The record label says Burks collapsed Sunday after returning from a European tour. He was pronounced dead at an Atlanta hospital. A spokesman for the record label says Burks died of a heart attack.

Maurice Sendak ;_;

Damn. RIP, Maurice.

oh no

if you don't look good (or if you do), he don't look good

http://thelook.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/09/11621751-famed-hairstylist-vidal-sassoon-dead-at-age-84?lite

http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons1/300/3001837/14_2009/1a/Vidal_Sassoon.jpg

"You didn't pay them for that, did you?"

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/pixel.gif

actress Joyce Redman, best remembered for her Tom Jones eating sceme with Albert Finney.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18013687

Mort Lindsey, bandleader of Judy at Carnegie Hall and The Merv Griffin Show:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/arts/music/mort-lindsey-musical-director-dies-at-89.html

Carroll Shelby, racer and car builder

Thought he'd already died. Hm.

well, he's dead now.

Perhaps more to the point, I finally get onto the Dead Pool scoreboard.