Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

best remember BC for Melvin Van Peebles' miniseries The Sophisticated Gents, well worth tracking down.

Hi Dere author of this article.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/william-g-stewart-dead-fifteen-one-host-passes-away-aged-82-1640334

Lillian Ross, 99, lifer at The New Yorker. Def read Picture, cinephiles.

http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/lillian-ross-was-one-of-the-best-reporters-on-the-arts-life-itself.html

xp OMG

He seems to be their obit writer, most of his articles are obits

Charles Bradley

https://youtu.be/UD1eaRDY-q4

Liz Dawn

David Shepherd, artist

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/21/david-shepherd-obituary

is best known for wildlife pictures (see above) but his train pictures, from the last days of steam, often of decommisioned engines, are quite something.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7024/6733038819_1dc3653b2d_b.jpg

"As his career took off, he bought a crumbling Surrey farmhouse in 16 acres with a trout pond, and could boast that he had railway engines in his back garden: three of them, each a mainline brute of 120 tons"

Tony Booth. Actor and father of Cherie Blair.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41400441

RIP Vera :(

Jack Good, early UK rock n' roll manager/TV producer. Perhaps best known in US as the creator of Shindig!

Hugh Hefner at 91, per a crawl on TV just now.

What a run for that dude. It's all downhill from here, Hugh.

We must study his immune system

The Dead on Playboy After Dark (and everybody got dosed): https://vimeo.com/10535211 (starts at 3:34)

We must study his immune system

I'll save you the trouble: Three Stooges Syndrome

Sorry for your loss, Frederik.

Albert Innaurato, playwright of “Gemini” and “The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Playwright-Albert-Innaurato-Passes-Away-at-70-20170928

To lighten the mood and lift the spirits, fake news distributor Paul Horner. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/27/paul-horner-dead-fake-news-trump

well, his life's work was already complete

Albert Innaurato, playwright of “Gemini” and “The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Playwright-Albert-Innaurato-Passes-Away-at-70-20170928🕸

i saw Gemini on B'way. Danny Aiello had left tho.

(Redd is referring to this ubiquitous TV ad, which helped a no-star play to run 4 years)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz8p6-LconE

Jeff Daniels was an understudy!

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/gemini-4005

yeah, I wonder if I still have the program...

i read "Jeff Daniels" and panicked for a split second

Yeah, me too. Don't do that!

Agh sorry!

Nixon lawyer and Watergate bagman Herbert Kalmbach

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/herbert-kalmbach-most-mysterious-figure-in-the-watergate-scandal-dies-at-95/2017/09/29/9a9452e4-a56a-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14_story.html

He professed that he had understood the payments — later widely regarded as hush money — to be for “humanitarian” purposes.

“My actions in the period immediately following the break-in,” he said before the Senate Watergate committee in July 1973, “which involved the raising of funds to provide for the legal defense of the Watergate defendants and for the support of their families were prompted in the belief that such was proper and necessary to discharge what I assumed to be a moral obligation that had arisen in some manner unknown to me by reason of earlier events.”

Mr. Kalmbach described for the committee the manner in which the cash was distributed: with utmost secrecy, using aliases and containers that included a hotel laundry bag, and with the assistance of Anthony Ulasewicz, a former New York City police detective who made the deliveries.

Delusion is a helluva drug

it's really amazing how every time one of Dick's decrepit stewards dies, it brings back the early '70s to me like a Proustian madeleine

Monty Hall, 96

Monty Hall

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-monty-hall-snap-story.html

Monty died two days after what would have been his 70th wedding anniversary (his wife died this June)

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RIP

:( RIP Monty

In first-year probability courses 50 years from now--maybe even today--students are going to wonder who in the hell the Monty Hall of the "Monty Hall Problem" is.

Si Newhouse of Condé Nast, 89.

I mean when was the last time he even hosted the show on a regular basis? Like the 70s? Pretty sure it's been true for decades that anyone introducing the problem would begin by "there used to be this TV show, see, and this guy, whose name was Monty Hall, would ask the contestants..."

You're right; I'm working on old-guy time here. I'm guessing the first thought is always, "Monty Hall--must have been a 19th-century mathematician."

The most contempo Monty Hall reference in my awareness (from 25 years ago):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-zWXy9R8Dg

wfmu's events venue is named after him

born in 1981 so when i came to that REM album i think my first "monty" reference was probably monterey jack from rescue rangers, followed by mister burns on the simpsons.

Who are the last of the iconic game show hosts? Bob Barker is still alive, obviously Alex Trebek, Pat Sajak... am I forgetting someone?

Chuck Woolery, who's gone the route of Curt Schilling, James Woods, and that Dilbert shithead.

Wink Martindale is still kicking.

Bob Eubanks is still making whoopee.

http://youtu.be/6swlPoUHd1Y