Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/nyregion/larry-bloch-who-opened-wetlands-club-dies-at-59.html?ref=obituaries

RIP

Clive Dunn, 92.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13411725

RIP Clive. Just leaving Ian Lavender from the cast?

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Bill Pertwee is still alive I think

Looking him up, he is and actually is/was younger than Clive.

Frank Williams is still alive too.

Oh, the vicar!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KJGJRd8pGE

elliott stein, film critic/historian and, apparently, partial inspiration for 'notes on camp'

http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/elliott-stein-1928-2012

Used to see him around town back in the day, mostly when he was running a Japanese film series at the YWCA, iirc. RIP.

Almost like one of those premonitions people are always claiming to have: in something I was looking up I came across his byline on a post-2000 Voice review a few days ago, and, realizing I'd been seeing his name for years, started reading up on him to try to find out how old he was.

Mingus/Cecil Taylor trumpeter-composer Ted Curson.

Major Harris of the Delfonics

http://pitchfork.com/news/48547-rip-the-delfonics-major-harris/

Stalking Cat

http://news.bme.com/2012/11/12/rip-stalking-cat/

Well, that one sent me down a body mod/furry/native American rabbit hole of websurfing for about 45 minutes. O_o.

There is nothing O_o about Native American tradition, but get the furry transethnic thing involved and my right eye grows suddenly huge.

Ray Zone, king of 3D comics.

Jack Gilbert, great poet; lived to 87.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jack-gilbert#about

Pete Namlook :(

Oh man, that sucks. He was a bit older than I thought, but still way too young to die.

Boris Strugatsky died at 79 a few days ago :(

macho camacho

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/entertainment/-Ranchie--McLean-is-dead_13044689

Jamaican reggae bassist

TV's "Mr. Food", Art Ginsburg

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/tv-chef-art-ginsburg-mr-food-dies-81-155816058.html

RIP, Larry Hagman.

damn. Liked him in Fail Safe.

adios, JR

RIP, Larry. Was just reading Space Oddities: Women and Outer Space in Popular Film and Culture, 1960-2000, which talked a lot about your old show.

Boris Strugatsky died at 79 a few days ago :(

Liked Hagman in both Nixon (bad guy) and Primary Colors (good guy).

Oh, no. I'm a big Hagman fan (wearing my J.R. Ewing t-shirt as I read/write here). He still brought it in this recent Dallas revival, but the fact that they shot around his cancer treatments as much as they did didn't seem to bode well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR7A0cXogW0

RIP JR

RIP Larry, seemed like a fun guy

... also reliably watchable in whatever he was in, he was really good in this:

http://www.iphotoscrap.com/Image/522/1297150974-m.jpg

His appearance on 'Shooting Stars' is rightly famous, Nancy Banks-Smith in The Guardian said Hagman 'looked like a man in a nightmare'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy5UTHaRs8U&hd=1

Never forget

http://tgda.vcmedia.vn/Images/Uploaded/Share/2009/03/20090314095339499/220.jpg

Former Who co-manager (and brother of actor Terence) Chris Stamp

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

You co-starred with Lauren Bacall in the 1973 made-for-TV movie “Applause.” Tell me why you licked her the first time you met her.

I had been rehearsing with her stand-in for two weeks before I met her, and I was told, “Do not kiss her, and do not touch her if you can help it,” and it was driven into my mind. So I am ushered into her dressing room, and she presented her hand kind of like the Dowager Empress Maria Theresa of the Austro-Hungarian empire would offer her hand. I just couldn’t resist it. I licked her from her hand up to her elbow. She held it in check very well, though I do think it may have colored our relationship

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/magazine/the-rollicking-life-of-larry-hagman.html?_r=0

Larry DIRECTED B!tB?? That's quite a "guest-star" cast too.

He's terrific in Harry and Tonto.

Deborah Raffin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/arts/television/deborah-raffin-actress-and-publisher-is-dead-at-59.html

Looking over her credits, I don't think I saw her in anything. But I do remember her.

Had no idea Hagman was such a leftie. That's awesome.

I am angry at Larry Hagman because he couldn't quit drinking.

I don't know what the hell "Shooting Stars" is, but I imagine that's the sort of clip Japanese people play to show how fucked up Western game shows are.

Shooting Stars was the attempt to transfer Vic & Bob to game show (see also Families At War), which they used as an attempt to launch Ulrika Jonsson's comedy career. The best period was the first three (?) series, the Mark Lamarr era, especially John Peel trying to climb into a baby's pram but a late highlight was Donald Cox The Sweaty Fox.

vic & bob is basically surreal/non sequitur humour combined with running gags that you couldn't possibly get unless you've seen loads more of their stuff

the first vic & bob exposure i ever had was concert footage in which they said 'and now, here's the man with the stick' and a man walked on stage with a stick and the crowd went UTTERLY BONKERS and then the man with the stick left again. my face at the time == hagman's face upthread

Ah, see, I love the Man With The Stick. Graham Lister on Novelty Island doing Three Laughs With Lard was the first real WTF moment for the viewing public I think.

Maudlin and full of self-pity. He's magnificent:

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