Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2012/03/28/earl-scruggs-country-music-hall-of-famer-dies-at-age-88/

oh fuck earl scruggs was a titan. rest easy world-changingly great picker.

oh no

I saw him at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass a few years back, he was wonderful

Rich's gazahls are great.

Scruggs and Rich, jammin' in Heaven, I hope.

Was suprised by Adrienne Rich, didnt know she was still with us!

Southern novelist Harry Crews.

Oh booooo that sucks!

Nancy L. Earp, 911 operator who may have talked to the Zodiac killer.

Warren Stevens, character actor who played Doc Ostrow in Forbidden Planet

http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/9036/forbidden-planets-warren-stevens-dies-at-92.html

Sorry for your loss, Dr. Morbius.

according to a FB friend, jamaa fanaka passed away (can't find any obits yet tho) - i missed his films in the LA rebellion screening series that just happened here but 'penitentiary' and 'welcome home, brother charles' are considered blaxploitation classics

RIP NY Cosmos and Lazio legend Giorgio Chinaglia

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, designer of the Porsche 911

Luke Askew Acording to his wiki, he passed on March 30th.

Gil Noble

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/business/media/gil-noble-host-of-show-on-black-issues-dies-at-80.html?ref=nyregion

James Marshall, guy who developed those stacked amplifiers

RIP. But the former WFMU dj of the same name seems to still be going strong

Thomas Kinkade painter of shite light.

Placerville fellow, just up the hill from Sacramento. Heaven will be full of little candles and Christmas scenes.

Mothers and grandmothers everywhere will mourn.

Jigsaw puzzles at half-mast

end of an era

Mike Wallace!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qRyTDbEskM

i'm glad we now recognize bullshit movies as the highest posthumous truth

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, designer of the Porsche 911

― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, April 5, 2012 12:02 PM (3 days ago)

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http://www.texasdude.com/9-11-01/trade%20center%20eagel.jpg

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