Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

lillian bassman

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/07/16/arts/28993805.JPG

Rip miss Bassman :'-(

Was a huge fan of Severin- didn't he sometimes use the name "O O Severin," which I guess I just realized thirty something years later is a play on "007." In avant-ILX times I thought about doing "TS: Mort Drucker vs. John Severin." RIP everybody.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/york-nightlife-fixture-zelda-kaplan-dies-a-fashion-week-article-1.1023306

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-a-new-york-times-reporter-dies-in-syria.html?_r=1&hp

character actor Phil Bruns, best known as Mary Hartman's dad

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/159631-Phil-Bruns-Stage-and-Television-Actor-Dies-at-80

original morty seinfeld too

I have strong memory of seeing an episode of Mary H in which she is distraught over her marital problems and has no one to turn to so she calls her dad. He tells her he has been watching a Claudette Colbert movie on TV that he has never seen the end of and if he doesn't watch it now he will never get a chance to see how it turns out. Mary hangs up and endures her troubles in silence, alone. RIP.

Dick Anthony Williams, Tony-nominated actor whose film roles included The Mack, Dog Day Afternoon, The Jerk, and Malcolm X on stage and in TV's "King" miniseries

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/theater/dick-anthony-williams-actor-and-producer-dies-at-77.html

RIP Frank Carson :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17046201

:((((

RIP

Wrecking Crew session man Billy Strange

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2012/02/billy-strange-1930-2012.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/arts/jan-berenstain-dies-at-88-created-berenstain-bears.html?_r=1

This is a weird one. Neil Hope, who played "Wheels" on the original "Degrassi Junior High" series in the 80s, apparently died in 2007 at the age of 35, but his death was just revealed publicly.

Erland Josephson, of Bergman films and Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-0227-erland-josephson-20120227,0,6567412.story

longtime NY theatre critic Howard Kissel

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/howard-kissel-long-time-daily-news-theater-critic-dead-69-article-1.1028518

Davy Jones of the Monkees.

WTF? wow!

My wife, who is a Monkees superfan, texted me about 10 minutes ago, so I went to find the link.

My first crush :(

(My first non-human crush was Fred from Scooby Doo, Davy was my first human crush)

so sudden
RIP

My sister was a Monkees superfan from back when MTV would air Monkees reruns, she will be crushed.

Holy shit!

Bruce Surtees, cinematographer on Lenny, The Shootist, Dirty Harry, and many other Eastwood films:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bruce-surtees-20120301,0,7713839.story

Andrew Breitbart:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46588600

Breitbart.

Gawker:

Breitbart was 43 years old. His last tweet came just seven hours ago.

boil lanced

Yeah, it's hard to mourn a total dick.

drudgesiren.rip

really wish he had dropped in the middle of that "Behave yourselves" meltdown

counting it as a notch for OWS anyway

That last tweet, his legacy to the world:

AndrewBreitbart ‏ @AndrewBreitbart

I called you a putz cause I thought you were being intentionally disingenuous. If not I apologize. @CenLamar @dust92

^^Tombstone

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/arts/design/eleanor-callahan-photographic-muse-for-harry-callahan-dies-at-95.html

You can see photos of her when she was younger in the exhibit of her husband's photos at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC through Sunday March 4. A nice exhibit

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/callahaninfo.shtm

peace out breitbart, you won't be missed

lucio dalla, who wrote some music for antonioni and monicelli films and is overall a national treasure in italy

http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-01/ae/31114450_1_italian-song-mario-monicelli-italian-singer

also this song is a jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2_iQihFWY

Artist Ralph McQuarrie, who almost single handedly designed what we think of as the look of the Star Wars universe. Not many artists who have their own action figure.

http://www.starwars.com/news/ralph_mcquarrie_remembered.html

RIP, Ronnie Montrose.

http://ronniemontrose.com/

Hollywood character actress Martha Stewart, 89, of Daisy Kenyon, In a Lonely Place

Robert Sherman! :(

ie co-songwriter of Mary Poppins, not teen idol Bobby

Jungle Book, too, among many others.

I'll even forgive him for "It's a Small World," a plague upon the earth

Ravi—http://ibnlive.in.com/news/noted-musician-ravi-dies-at-85/237097-8.html

New Delhi: Noted musician Ravi Shankar Sharma, popularly known as Ravi, died today at the age of 85 after prolonged illness. The musician was born in Delhi on March 3, 1926.

One of the gifted musicians of the Hindi film industry, Ravi never had any formal training in music. He shifted to Mumbai in 1950 and got his first break in 1952 film 'Anand Math'. Soon his name started to feature among respected musicians. Films such as 'Chaudhvin Ka Chand' (1960), 'Do Badan' (1966), 'Humraaz' (1967), 'Ankhen' (1968), and 'Nikaah' (1982) won his critical as well as commercial success.

holy shit

note: this isn't Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar. This is the other Ravi Shankar, aka Ravi.

My prayers are with the other Norah Jones.

(Sorry.)