Rolling Obituary Thread 2013

these are people who died, died

beate gordon, who helped write japan's constitution at 22(!)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/world/asia/beate-gordon-feminist-heroine-in-japan-dies-at-89.html

since we didn't get to him on the last thread, John Ford ensemble actor Harry Carey Jr (who also appeared in Gremlins and Mask):

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/western-character-actor-harry-carey-407048

Patti Page

I remember my mother had a single of "How Much is that Doggie in the Window?"

Her and Nat King Cole kind of define pop music for me pre-Elvis.

Godard collaborator Jean-Henri Roger

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-jean-henri-roger-1949-2012

Patti Page track on the Zabriskie Point soundtrack always threw me for a loop. RIP

so the death count for today alone was huell howser, ada louise huxtable, richard ben cramer and david r. ellis. nice going, 2013

I recognized Cramer's name, but had to refresh my memory on who he was--I read his DiMaggio book. There was all this controversy at the time, but it seemed believable and fair to me. (About the most scandalous revelation that I remember was DiMaggio's cheapness.) Unsettling scene of DiMaggio's agent getting him to sign stuff while on his deathbed.

posted in generic obit thread... director of Cellular, Snakes on a Plane

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/david-r-ellis-dead-at-409382

Sundazed is reporting on FB that Tandyn Almer (60s LA songwriter/Beach Boys collaborator) has died.

'Funky' Claude Nobs

Evan S. Connell Jr., author of Mrs. Bridge, Mr. Bridge, Son of the Morning Star and much more besides.

Oh no. At a loss for words. A huge talent and a great original. RIP.

I made him his own thread on ILB for his five fans here: RIP Evan S Connell Jr.

Jon Finch, Polanski's MacBeth.

Mariangela Melato, of Swept Away (and loads of other Lina Wertmuller movies) fame.

Jeanne Manford, activist mom / founder of Parents of Gays (PFLAG)

http://www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/gay-place/2013-01-10/what-becomes-a-legend-most/

Mariangela Melato, film actress for Wertmüller, Petri, Monicelli

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-mariangela-melato-1941-2013

^^covered on Friday, but that's a better obit.

Nagisa Oshima, director of "In the Realm of the Senses" and "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence".

Conrad Bain!

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2013/01/conrad-bain-dies-diffrent-strokes-star-was-89/

pauline phillips aka dear abby

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/business/media/pauline-phillips-flinty-adviser-to-millions-as-dear-abby-dies-at-94.html

Oh, I didn't realize until I clicked the Conrad Bain link that Rebbie Jackson's husband had died.

actress Sophiya Haque (who formerly played Poppy on Coronation St)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2013/jan/17/sophiya-haque-dies-41

Only 41 :(

Earl Weaver, legend of baseball

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bal-orioles-earl-weaver-dead,0,1452570.story

This longtime Baltimore Orioles fan is sad. He was such a character.

and a deep thinker on tactics, despite the circuslike personality (comparable to Stengel in that regard).

RIP Robert "Prop Joe" Chew

Chew is also identified with Baltimore -- "Homicide" and "The Wire"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/18/james-hood-dead_n_2507556.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=754905,b=facebook

One of the first black students who enrolled at the University of Alabama a half century ago in defiance of racial segregation has died. James Hood of Gadsden was 70.

Stan Musial

At the suggestion of a pal, actor John Wayne, he carried around autographed cards of himself to give away. He enjoyed doing magic tricks for kids and was fond of pulling out a harmonica to entertain crowds with a favorite, "The Wabash Cannonball."

On top of everything else, this is what makes a hero. RIP

Aw that AP story made me cry. RIP

yeah that was a lovely obit

RIP Stan the Man.

:(

Michael Winner apparently

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21123532

http://www.spin.com/articles/ohio-players-leroy-sugarfoot-bonner-dead?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spintwitter

oh no:(

too young

Stanley Karnow, journalist whose Vietnam War history became a PBS landmark:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/arts/television/stanley-karnow-historian-and-journalist-dies-at-87.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/arts/music/butch-morris-dies-at-65-creator-of-conduction.html?hpw&_r=0&pagewanted=print

January 29, 2013
Butch Morris Dies at 65; Creator of ‘Conduction’
By BEN RATLIFF

Butch Morris, who created a distinctive form of large-ensemble music built on collective improvisation that he single-handedly directed and shaped, died on Tuesday in Brooklyn. He was 65.

The cause was cancer, said Kim Smith, his publicist and friend. Mr. Morris, who lived in the East Village, died at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Fort Hamilton.

:-(

patty andrews, last surviving andrews sister

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/patty-andrews-last-surviving-member-of-singing-andrews-sisters-dead-at-94/2013/01/30/a927e6ba-6b2a-11e2-9a0b-db931670f35d_story.html

no longer surviving. :(

Now all under the apple tree in heaven...

I just watched Buck Privates yesterday. RIP

I have a great picture of my Grandad (then in his seventies) and a couple of his pals dressed as the Andrews Sisters.

http://www.newsoxy.com/entertainment/ann-rabson-dies-114094.html

Ann Rabson, co-leader of longtime all-women Virginia blues group Saffire dies of cancer

ah, the Uppity Blues Women.... they were a fixture around here for decades

nooooo

Joan Fontaine too, according to people on twitter. Any stories about this yet?

Joan Fontaine, Oscar-Winning Star of Hitchcock Classics, Dies at 96

I guess Olivia de Havilland wins.

crikey, Olivia's still alive!

She's probably rung the Oscar people to arrange some kind of victory lap during the In Memoriam montage.

Pianist-composer Horace Silver.

RIP Horace. Needs his own RIP thread p'raps?

Country singer Ray Price a couple days ago. Pancreatic cancer at age 87.

Wasn't that retracted?

This time for real, I guess. RIP.

the horace silver story was

it was a fauxbituary

They jumped the gun on Ray Price too, over the weekend

Wasn't that retracted?

I thought that might have been some sort of medical term for a minute

Reminds me off some time travel off-color patter I heard Ray Price deliver when I saw him perform a decade ago.

yeah I heard Ray Price's obit on NPR last night and went huh, they're 2 days late...

Jazzwise ‏@Jazzwise 3m

Jazzwise apologises unreservedly for passing on reports on social media websites that Horace Silver had died and any offence this caused

http://isgeneralissimofranciscofrancostilldead.com/Franco.jpg

Exactly

Ronnie Biggs

legendary Chicago radio DJ Larry Lujack

Al Goldstein, Screw magazine publisher and cable pioneer

http://www.technologytell.com/entertainment/33980/remembering-al-goldstein-midnight-blue-and-channel-35/

Reading the Playboy interview with him in '74 when I was 13 (courtesy the for-show subscription belonging to my pretty-sure closeted uncle) was eye-opening.

oh man, the Gilbert Gottfried interview in that TT obit.

"Are there any animals you wouldn't fuck?" "You."

wow gilbert is SO coked up there

v v v funny tho
"when you're done masturbating how do you know you've cum?"
"well i'm generally notified by mail"

kinda feeling watching midnight blue on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wQCe_5wY6A

i mean goddamn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A98NnK8IWo

Jerry Lewis' technologized lifestyle in the '70s could be the subject of a v dark Wes Anderson film.

The host there is Stanley Siegel, who was a bit of a NY TV star in the late '70s cuz his therapist wd come on once a week and do a session w/ him.

Ned Vizzini, teenage columnist for NY Press in the '90s and YA author, a suicide at 32

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-writer-ned-vizzini-has-died-20131220,0,6354622.story#axzz2o4yJaNjc

David Coleman

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25476438

!

Lord Infamous of Three 6 Mafia? The only mention I can find is via Gangsta Boo's twitter, but they were of the same group: https://twitter.com/GangstaBooQOM/status/414422057959424000

aw fuck that's really sad

Skip first 15 seconds of music, then...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCHrtO9WhSs

Diomedes Diaz died! http://www.elespectador.com/entretenimiento/murio-diomedes-diaz-articulo-465606

As did yer man who invented the Kalashnikov (I only learned a couple of weeks ago that he was still alive) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25497013

Rest in Peace, Ben Curtis:

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2013/12/benjamin_curtis_rip.php

:-(

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/12/30/jerry-fine-the-man-who-made-superman-happen-dies-at-age-97

Jerry Fine, the man that introduced Jerry Siegel to Joe Shuster, and therefore is a majot player in the creation of Superman.

Eiichi Ohtaki of 1970s Japanese band Happy End :

http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/singer-songwriter-eiichi-ohtaki-dies-after-collapsing-at-home

John Fortune

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/british-comedian-john-fortune-dies-at-the-age-of-74-1.1641371

Yeah, just saw that. RIP John.

Golden age car racing figure (and STP guy) Andy Granatelli

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/30/sports/autoracing/andy-granatelli-dies-at-90-revved-businesses-and-cars.html

James Avery, aka Uncle Phil from the Fresh Prince

Shouldn't there be a new thread?

aw, the shredder!

yeah, bummer

Started it: Rolling Obituary Thread 2014