Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

I will always associate him with the 80's because I don't recall watching him once since he went to Sky. I can't remember what he said about the likes of Highlander and Big Trouble in Little China, i probably would have still watched them if he said they were trash! But can remember watching his review of Withnail and I for some strange reason.

My weirdly vivid memory is of seeing him review some Arnie film or other and constantly referring to him not by that affectionate diminutive nickname but by the diminutive nickname "Schwartzy", young me was like "wtf nobody calls him that how are you getting this wrong"

lol @ Schwartzy! Talking of that, although I can't remember any interesting details about his review I can remember excitedly telling my bro about how good Predator is going to be after a Norman review, Serous! This film is going to be so wicked I'm going to watch it twice!

He was fairly conservative in his tastes, but he did shape a nation's views. Hard to imagine a more famous critic?

A more famous English one or ?

Yeah, sorry. Or, more famous to the UK

John Blackwell

RIP Grotbags :(

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/grotbags-carol-lee-scott-dead-10745962

RIP indeed. Also she did this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEYaxZoQ188

No thread of his own? >:[

Pierre Henry RIP.

http://Lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2017/07/06/le-compositeur-francais-pierre-henry-est-mort_5156693_3382.html?

How is there no ILM thread on him?!?

Very sad news. R.I.P.

people I assumed were already dead :(

I wish I'd got my act together earlier this year to get up to L'pool for his 50-year-delayed inaugural mass for Paddy's Wigwam. Currently blasting Prismes from Kyldex on YT (where can I get an LP of this, I wonder?).

RIP.

I'd put money on a Pierre Henry soundtrack to the end credits of this evening's Tour de France highlights programme on ITV4.

http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/2017/06/22/cajun-music-legend-belton-richard-dies/418555001/

Everton fc

Carolyn Cronenberg, David's wife and sometimes editor.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/carolyn-cronenberg-dead-film-editor-david-cronenbergs-wife-was-66-1018686

film and TV actor Skip Homeier (Trekkies know him as Dr Sevrin)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/skip-homeier-dead-tomorrow-world-star-trek-actor-was-86-1018507

RIP Skip (he was the sort of hippy cult leader in Star Trek, yes?

No thread of his own? >:[

Pierre Henry RIP.

― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Thursday, July 6, 2017

How is there no ILM thread on him?!?

― El Tomboto, Thursday, July 6, 2017

^^

Singer and Grotbags the witch from Emu:
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5488/10496091984_b96ef68c11_o.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2xyRObL0Xw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VFB70KL89g

RIP Bradley Lowery.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/nelsan-ellis-dies-dead-true-blood-1202490405/

so sad. 39!

I wasn't a big fan of True Blood, but he was good on Elementary.

Elsa Martinelli

http://people.com/movies/elsa-martinelli-dead-italian-actress-indian-fighter/

RIP Elsa

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ewZN8FR4OyY/Uv-Ky4yzY8I/AAAAAAAAHMU/IUdyq80wKKc/s1600/Corbeau,+Elsa+Martinelli+dans+%C2%AB+Le+Proc%C3%A8s+%C2%BB+(Orson+Welles,+1962).jpg

I loved Lafayette in True Blood. That sucks.

Kenneth Silverman, Pulitzer-winning biographer of Cotton Mather, Poe and Houdini

(also taught and advised yours truly)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/books/kenneth-silverman-pulitzer-winning-author-dies-at-81.html

Chuck Blazer, accepter of bribes and whistleblower-out-of-desperation, 72:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jul/13/chuck-blazer-former-fifa-official-whistleblower-dies-aged-72

Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic, writer, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-40597514

Liu had been locked up by the Chinese for 11 years. A German and an American doctor who recently visited and examined him in a hospital in the north-eastern city of Shenyang both said he would be able to travel abroad.

But Chinese medical experts insisted that he was too ill to travel

terrible

mathematician maryam mirzakhani, aged 40

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40617094

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/arts/music/obituary-ray-phiri-dead-graceland-guitarist-stimela.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

Ray Phiri, the South African guitarist who reached an international audience backing Paul Simon on the albums “Graceland” and “The Rhythm of the Saints” and who founded Stimela, a widely acclaimed, long-running band that confronted apartheid, died on Wednesday at a clinic in Nelspruit, South Africa. He was 70.

A family friend and spokesman, Paul Nkanyane, announced the death and said that the cause was lung cancer.

The African National Congress, now South Africa’s ruling party, said in a statement: “Phiri was a voice for the voiceless and a legend of our time. An immensely gifted composer, vocalist and guitarist, he breathed consciousness and agitated thoughts of freedom through his music.”

George A. Romero, 77

fuck

George Romero.

https://images.moviepilot.com/images/c_limit,q_auto:good,w_600/ranking-the-10-scariest-kids-in-horror-films-ever-313840/ranking-the-10-scariest-kids-in-horror-films-ever.jpg

He was only 27 when he made Night of the Living Dead. RIP

Gotta quote Ebert's famous review:

The kids in the audience were stunned. There was almost complete silence. The movie had stopped being delightfully scary about halfway through, and had become unexpectedly terrifying. There was a little girl across the aisle from me, maybe nine years old, who was sitting very still in her seat and crying.

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-night-of-the-living-dead-1968

I used to wait on him when I was a bank teller. Nicest guy. RIP.

Awwww, man, I'm feeling that one. RIP.

noooo :( :( :(

i feel this one so hard, love him

And this just after news of a new psuedo-Dead movie (Romero-scripted but not directed) and Arrow's announcement of a nice bluray set of his immediate post-NOTLD films.

I mean half of his filmography is firmly in my all-time top 100. Dude was a giant.

otm

Well this is a crap day all around

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/martin-landau-dead-ed-wood-811318