Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

pablo picasso was never called an asshole

just me and (-chinavision-) chauvinism left. Connery is an asshole.

Jeez whatever happened to not speaking ill of the dead

anyone who says roger moore is the best bond needs to stfu

Picasso was the worst asshole of them all iirc

Mark s is correct that there are no good bonds

the bond movies are bobbins but shir sean is the best bond

picasso was not a very good Bond

shoulda been Blofeld

He was dece in The Spanish Spy Who Painted A Lot

xp

Sort-of underrated Moore performance: ffolkes

Totally underrated Moore performance: The Cannonball Run

live and les demoiselles
man with the golden guernica

The Saint getting slept on ITT.

You all need to watch 'North Sea Hijack' (released as 'ffolkes' in the US).

"The Man Who Haunted Himself" was one of his more interesting movies.

Totally underrated Moore performance: The Cannonball Run

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, May 24, 2017 5:51 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^this

https://songbook1.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/1967_casino-royale_ursula-andress_6.jpg

^^^^ actual best Bond

[joeks, that movie is UNWATCHABLE]

i watched it once

its funniest line is Woody Allen saying "I have a low threshhold of death."

One of the 007s from that movie also died this month - Daliah Lavi - aka The Detainer in the film. She and Roger Moore had birthdays two days apart (not the same year).

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Damn. Author Denis Johnson, 67.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/denis-johnson-author-of-jesus-son-dead-at-67/2017/05/26/dc00ccc0-420b-11e7-b29f-f40ffced2ddb_story.html

bummer. I gave him a ride to the airport once. He talked about movies the whole trip.

Zbigniew Brzeniski!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/us/zbigniew-brzezinski-dead-national-security-adviser-to-carter.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=65359133&pgtype=article

Probably the hardest name to spell of any famous person

google "Mika Scarborough"

subtle, flappy bird

Xpost I didn't realize Denis Johnson was that old. I found Jesus' Son in a remainder bin at Barnes and Noble, years ago. I picked it up primarily because of the V.U. intimations of it's title, and was utterly blown away by it. Generally, I'm not too big on fiction, but that little black novel was a killer. I guess I just presumed he was closer to my own age. I need to check out some of his other works. RIP chronicler of the American bohemian underbelly.

Yeah that book is quietly magical

fuck, denis johnson was important to me for many years and somebody who i always respected. that's a tough one.

"Jesus' Son" the movie was really good, too, and it's been sort of forgotten.

Re: the film, it's definitely the best thing I've seen starring Jack Black! I generally subscribe to Mark E Smith's opinion of him, that is " what a fucking twat ".

Gregg Allman,

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7759662/gregg-allman-dead

RIP. Was just enjoying his 1973 album Laid Back.

rip. love his voice.

Marcus Intalex :-(

http://www.factmag.com/2017/05/28/marcus-intalex-kaye-trevino-has-died/

John Noakes, best ever Blue Peter presenter:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/29/blue-peter-presenter-john-noakes-dies-at83/

:-((

There was a "Kids TV moments" on last night, a few Blue Peter moments there.

A few years ago, they repeated one of the old episodes which was mostly John, something to do with a big boat. Anyway, I watched it with Alice, and she agreed that there was nothing wrong with it. As opposed to a lot of those 60s shows that only work as nostalgia.

frank deford

I read him all through the '70s, when I was an SI subscriber. I don't associate him with anything specific--was he more of a generalist, writing about all sports?--but he was probably the first SI writer I would have named if asked. Posnanski has a remembrance up:

http://joeposnanski.com/a-toast-to-the-best/

Every time I look at a photo of him I think I'm looking at Dabney Coleman.

Noriega!

Perhaps 2017 can do for terrible eighties politicians what 2016 did for good seventies pop stars.

excellent idea, but would much prefer a death-wave of current terrible politicians.

re: Denis Johnson

I remember an overheard conversation between Denis Johnson and Donald Justice. Justice was going through a litany of all the books he'd been reading and asked Johnson what he was reading. "The only book I ever read. Under the Volcano," Johnson said.

"That's a great great book. A very sad ending, though."

"Oh, I haven't finished it yet," Johnson said.

Guitarist - composer Bern Nix, best known for his work with Ornette Coleman.

Roy Barraclough ;_; Can someone else post a link, I'm too sad ;_;

A life well lived tbf

http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/david-lewiston-musical-explorer-dies-88-2017-05-30

In Bali (and in the Himalayas and the foothills of Tibet and Ladakh, where Lewiston recorded soon after), music was still a very local affair,

Cheick Tiote, aged 30. Awful.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40163322

Peter Sallis :( That's all the original cast of Last Of The Summer Wine gone now.

Non-brits know him better as the voice of Wallace and Gromit