Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

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

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

Chandler makes a non-funny funny in Friends about Ross & Emily's wedding being held in Montgomery Hall. I think that's where I first became aware of the existence of someone called Monty Hall.

It's weird the format of Let's Make a Deal never took off over here. Apparently it ran for a wee while with Mike Smith & Julian Clary under the name Trick or Treat, but I have zero recollection of this.

Si Newhouse of Condé Nast, 89.

I would guess that in 2017 his death won't raise a lot of dole but his was once a huge, huge name

RIP monty hall. loved the show (reruns) and as kid fascinated by logic and probability, the monty hall problem was formative

I never knew that that problem was named for him, or that his daughter is the actress Joanna Gleason.

David Remnick on Newhouse

https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/samuel-i-newhouse-jr-the-longtime-owner-of-the-new-yorker-and-chairman-of-conde-nast-has-died-at-eighty-nine

You didn't get invited to those private film screenings, did you?

No. Newhouse's passing was acknowledged at the NYFF today.

Feel like a friend of mine was related to Newhouse by marriage at one point, although I can't quite get him to fess up or clarify.

Anka Radakovich
@ankarad
12h
This wonderful man changed my life. Called and asked if he could publish my book at Random House. #RIP nytimes.com/2017/10/01/obi… #sinewhouse

Mark Kaufman
@Drawmark
11h
Rot in Hell Si Newhouse…Condè Nast's long history of unfair contracts, rights grabs, ripping off freelancers/interns vogue.com/article/si-new…

Conde Nasty

lol anka

xp to maura, they apparently had to change the name after hall's people sent a c+d letter; it's now officially Montgomery Hall in all the literature and website notation

It appears Tom Petty is no longer with us

heart attack and found unconscious . 66 years old. Wow.

And just after finishing a tour (last show Sep 25 at the Hollywood Bowl).

A 40th anniversary tour, which (grain of salt) Petty had hinted could be one of his last.

Some confusion - TMZ now reporting that the LAPD can't confirm despite issuing an earlier statement confirming Petty's death.

crossing fingers

(2/2) However, the LAPD has no investigative role in this matter. We apologize for any inconvenience in this reporting.

— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) October 2, 2017

“We apologize for any inconvenience” somehow manages to trump Trump's "warmest condolences" for the clumsiest death-related statement of the day.

Well, we can make it official now. RIP. What a day ...

electronic musician charles cohen

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=40112

Chuck Low, who played Morrie in Goodfellas

Just got an e-mail from friend about Chuck Low--we've been trading Morrie quotes for 25 years. Also fantastic in The King of Comedy, sitting in a restaurant and waving his hands Rupert-style in the background.

RIP Anne Wiazemsky (haven't seen the obit yet, just from my twitter)

:(

Confirmed by Allocine website, RIP Anne.

RIP Anne. fuck cancer.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/oct/05/anne-wiazemsky-actor-france-jean-luc-godard

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