Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

just in time for a new series of strictly too, what a pro

Never forget that Triumph Of The Will had 20m+ audiences as well.

Brace Forsyth
(oh man if he dies in the next couple of weeks I'm going to feel like shit, but he did tweet last week that he was fine and that he wanted people to stop asking if he was well)

― 2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), zondag 1 januari 2017 12:01 (seven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He got his wish, they'll stop asking

14 dead and 100s injured in terrorist attack in Barcelona, fuck that shit, let's roll those Brucie tributes and talk to everybody who even slightly knew the 89 year old entertainer for the next few hours.

Derek & Clive to thread

didn't he do well

This even got a fucking newsflash before Pointless, I got all excited and assumed the queen had popped off.

now that he's dead are we allowed to speculate that he has some yewtree dirt on him that will come out soon enough without being sued for defamation?

ha, i've been thinking for years that it was odd brucie's name never came up in relation to yewtree

be careful there, Tarby might challenge you to a duel.

well, tarbuck [REDACTED COMMENT]

holy shit bbc one is showing a new bruce forsyth documentary right now, they've clearly been cued up for this like a fucking military operation for months

god help us when brenda finally carks it

Yeah, there's a danger with these pre-built ones.

Who was it recently who died, and amongst the tributes and sad-eyes was someone who you'd expect to have outlived the subject, but didn't?

Sonny Landham

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/arts/music/paul-oliver-authority-on-the-blues-dies-at-90.html?emc=edit_ms_20170818&nl=louder&nlid=37355772&te=1&_r=0&referer=

Blues and architecture historian

Sonny Burgess

Shit. Thought he died years ago. He made a great album with Dave Alvin in 1992 called Tennessee Border; it's on Spotify.

Twitter is saying Dick Gregory. Nothing official yet, but he was hospitalized Friday.

(hospitalized several days ago, actually)

Dick Gregory, 84.

RIP Dick

He was great :( RIP

https://movies.mxdwn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/KingofComedy2.jpg

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/advance-obit-jerry-lewis-dead-721408

lol at that url

RIP Jerry ;_;

Is it wrong to be excited that this might lead to a release for The Day The Clown Cried?

RIP Jerry.

yes it is, aldo, and fuck you

Oh no! And just days after Morbs reminded me he was among the greatest living directors. Which without question he was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MsgHyRGA88

URL fixed btw, and "Nonpareil Genius of Comedy" wd've been unthinkable in America 30 years ago

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jerry-lewis-dead-nutty-professor-bellboy-star-was-91-721408

His 1972 film The Day the Clown Cried — a drama set inside a Nazi concentration camp — was never released. He donated a copy to the Library of Congress in August 2015, with the agreement the film not be shown for a decade.

RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naf5uJYGoiU

Never understood why his work deserved any more respect than, say, Adam Sandler's

But money for MD is good!

many watch, few understand

i loved Jerry so much as a kid, he was up there with the Marx Bros and Looney Tunes cartoons for happy tv-watching memories

... and Laurel and Hardy. OTM.

https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1306754173l/3422338.jpg

always had half a plan to interview him in a special ep, to kick off a third series of slug of time, re the craft of writing and editing SF short stories -- life and time got in the way, as they do :(

A New Wave icon. I probably need to dig out some appropriate reading tonight. See you in the stars.

RIP (great Bruce Pennington cover, too)

RIP Mr. Aldiss.

Was just thinking of the Helliconia books the other day for some reason.

I haven't read much sci-fi, and I've enjoyed even less, but I really enjoyed his stuff. RIP.

RIP. Barefoot in the Head is so classic

RIP. Greybeard is one of my favorite SF novels.

RIP. Re-reading his books as a middle-aged adult has been so rewarding.

Jazz guitarist John Abercrombie. Listening to his 1975 album Timeless now (Jan Hammer on keyboards, Jack DeJohnette on drums) and it's amazing. Some really delicate stuff, then some wild prog-fusion explosions like a cross between Tony Williams Lifetime and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.