Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

RIP Mary Tamm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/jul/26/doctor-who-mary-tamm-dies

Romana ;_;

What a babe, RIP Mary

German film actress Susanne Lothar (Funny Games, The Lives of Others), only 51:

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-susanne-lothar-1960-2012/

Sie hätte nur mit Mühe überlebt. (Bad German pun.)

It's looking like heroin and/or suicide on Lothar -- a shocking number of critically acclaimed German stage and screen actors are junkies -- the family's lawyers are being extremely hush hush but actor colleagues are hinting strongly in the German press.

aw man :/

i stumbled across this short film she's in while flipping through channels once and i still get creeped out thinking about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxpIwpLEez0

austrian artist franz west passed away as well

http://www.gagosian.com/artists/franz-west/

No English-lang obits yet, but French filmmaker Chris Marker has died at 91.

http://www.metrofrance.com/culture/le-cineaste-chris-marker-est-mort/mlgD!hVkHar3vcKogc/

Oh man, that's terrible news. Thought my day was going well, too.

91 is a pretty good age, esp if you don't have a long decline.

His birthday too, apparently.

R.G. Armstrong, TV western actor who became a regular for Peckinpah and Warren Beatty:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/arts/television/r-g-armstrong-character-actor-in-westerns-dies-at-95.html

Tony Martin, pop singer of the '40s and '50s, married to Cyd Charisse for 60 years:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/arts/music/tony-martin-debonair-pop-baritone-dies-at-98.html

Maeve Binchy, writer

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0730/writer-maeve-binchy-dies-aged-72.html

aww :(

In the 1930s my dad spent a college year in the south and roomed with R.G. Armstrong for a bit. Nice guy, always sent xmas cards (and sent a nice eulogy to my dad's funeral). Always liked seeing him appear in shows and movies when I didn't expect it.

gore vidal (link: the whole internet)

Tony Sly, 41, Singer and song writer for No Use For A Name. http://s3.fatwreck.com/498.html

Robert Hughes, art critic, writer, documentary guy.

Marvin Hamlisch

Fashion editor Anna Piaggi, link to come.

Jeez, I guess that locks in Marvin's songs for the Nutty Professor musical.

Was just 68. Hamlisch collapsed after a brief illness, his family announced

RIP, Robert Hughes. A great populizer and genuinely captivating guy.

Bernard Lovell, founder of Jodrell Bank:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19164236

Mark O'Donnell, playwright, novelist, librettist of the Broadway musical of Hairspray

http://news-briefs.ew.com/2012/08/07/tony-winning-hairspray-writer-mark-odonnell-dies/

Sir Bernard was also an accomplished musician, a keen cricketer and an internationally-renowned arboriculturalist who created an arboretum at Jodrell Bank.

He is survived by four of his five children, 14 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

What a guy!

Ad exec Curvin O'Reilly, who was responsible for the Bill Cosby/Jell-O pudding campaign (among many other things).

I missed that about Robert Hughes--he was great in Crumb, contemptuously deriding the hallowed halls of Berkeley or something like that. Culture of Complaint was quite good.

Judith Crist. Man, it's been a rough month for the arts.

I remember Crist's column about the week's network movie telecasts in TV Guide very well.

'zinging and influential'!

Wow--along with Toronto's Clyde Gilmour, the first film critic I ever encountered. Can't even find an image of Judith Crist's TV Guide to the Movies to post.

Like Morbz and clemenza, first film critic I ever read -- loved her column though I was too young to really get a grasp on much of what was discussed.

http://gos.sbc.edu/c/crist.html

At one point the Times obit treats her almost on a plane with Kael and Sarris, and, as with Rex Reed, that just wasn't where she resided. Her blurb on Vertigo, from the book I mentioned earlier: "You'll find yourself helpless in the hands of the ultimate artist of chill-and-thrill films." I'm sure she would have been the first to admit that she served a different function. Could be wrong, but in Kellow's biography I think there was mention of Kael maintaining a casual friendship with her.

Jairo Varela, Founder of Colombia's Grupo Niche, Dead at 62
August 08, 2012 | By Leila Cobo (@leilacobo), Miami

Jairo Varela, the iconic founder and leader of celebrated Colombian salsa band Grupo Niche, died suddenly of apparent heart failure in his home in Cali, Colombia. He was 62 years old.

Wow, no idea Hughes died. "Fatal Shore" is fascinating.

Humorist and This American Life contributor David Rakoff.

wait what

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/david-rakoff-humorist-and-essayist-dies-at-47/

Mel Stuart, TV documentarian who went on to make Wattstax and, of course, Wonka

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/mel-stuart-director-willy-wonka-dead-83-article-1.1133430

wattstax is a great movie.

Carlo Rambaldi, FX designer of E.T., Alien, Possession etc.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/italian-special-effects-master-carlo-rambaldi-father-of-et-dead-at-86/2012/08/10/eade6e52-e30e-11e1-89f7-76e23a982d06_story.html

Rest In Peace, Joe Kubert. Will post a link when I have one. Absolutely crushed.

NOOOOOOO

exactly. Tearing up here.

Oh man, no. Have been wasting time watching this Olympic shite when I could have been reading his stuff again.

Gary Cox, guitarist/songwriter for US power pop band Artful Dodger.