Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

Bob Schiller, TV writer for episodes of “I Love Lucy,” “Maude” and “All in the Family”, also Abbott & Costello and Red Skelton.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-schiller-dead-i-love-lucy-writer-was-98-1047459

For All in the Family, the pair penned the two-part episode "Edith's 50th Birthday" in which Edith (Jean Stapleton) is the victim of an attempted rape.

Also wrote the two-part Maude where Walter's drinking problem spiraled out of control. Dude liked to lay it on thick in the '70s.

also this

https://wpr-public.s3.amazonaws.com/wprorg/s3fs-public/images/segments/i-love-lucy-grape-stomping.jpg

(I mean, that was the Norman Lear brand. And given the restrictions of their earlier careers, he and Bob Weiskopf were probably thrilled to be able to do those.)

they also did the "Cousin Liz" lesbian episode of AITF

Remember the guy who placed the urinating dog statue at the feet of the statue of the girl facing down the Wall Street bull?

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/subway-hit-vic-urinating-dog-art-fearless-girl-statue-article-1.3561378

couldn't have happened to a yadda yadda

Karma is a bitch

People on Twitter saying Sean Hughes has died. His last tweet on Oct 8th just says "in hospital".

It's just broken on BBC news as well.

51

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41632761

Not much on here as yet, I guess it'll get filled in during today.

Possibly Cirrhosis:

https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/4695/news-sean-hughes-dies

Fuck.

I always feel uncomfortable + a bit queasy when another boozer dies from booze. RIP and all that, but good lord I found him insufferable as a comedian.

Shit! He lived in my neighbourhood. Saw him around a lot.

xp yeah

thanks for summing up my thoughts calz

Possibly Cirrhosis:

Yikes.

I haven't gone back to rewatch Sean's Show, I suspect the ways that it succeeded have been absorbed into comedy to the point where all that's left as a delta is its missteps. It would definitely require you to be fond of him, for a start.

It's what he would have wanted

The hint of parp, iirc

We dated in the ‘90s and the last time we met, he had given up alcohol. I am too shocked to be sad just yet, but he was challenging and wonderful and opened my eyes to a lot of practical adult life skills - I never thought I would be reading this news about someone like him. Thoughts with his brother Martin - I don’t think he has any other close relatives?

I liked him but most of his tv stuff was before I paid attention to much comedy.
Recently saw an interview with him in which he talked about Morrissey being disappointing to meet and getting slapped by Jah Wobble for asking why he had to physically attack Nick Kent.

Richard Wilbur, American poet

Good Wonder Stuff joke here: https://youtu.be/ZiX85xryuNA?t=18s

Richard Wilbur, American poet

how does Grant McLennan compare with Rob Thomas?

Lol

rip sean hughes wtf

i loved him back in the day

my sister had a mad crush and posters on her wall and stuff

sorry for your loss suzy

yeah i just scrolled back saw yr post
<3 suzy

Thanks. It just hit me in the guts that when my vice detective uncle died from alcoholism complications, Sean made sure I wasn’t on my own with the news and invited me over to sit up all night with him and tell him about the guy. I’m going between shocked and upset and shocked and upset and oh, it’s awful.

Sorry for your loss, Suzy.

I was just coming on here to say something banal about having really enjoyed Sean's Show in my youth and how 51 is no age.

award-winning stage/screen actor Roy Dotrice, 94, most recently of the elf show

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/oct/16/roy-dotrice-obituary

John Dunsworth, who played Jim Lahey in Trailer Park Boys, 71.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/john-dunsworth-beloved-actor-best-known-as-mr-lahey-has-died-1.4357370

Gord Downie, of the Tragically Hip, 53.

I'm seeing Phil Miller, guitarist from Hatfield and the North, has passed away on the Gong facebook page.

Legendary French actress Danielle Darrieux, 100. One of the greats has passed.

oh my, RIP DD

Charles Osborne, Arts Council director and writer of opera guides, Auden biographer...

I liked this extract from his obituary in The Times:

He was educated at Brisbane State High School, where he developed a keen appetite for life’s pleasures. A Mr Ross, who conducted the school choir, provided his first homosexual encounter at the age of 14; a year later Anna Kunz, a Viennese friend of his mother, lured him to her beach house for his first heterosexual encounter.

“The foundations of my sexual technique were as well and truly laid that weekend as I was,” he wrote, adding: “At the age of 17 I became sex mad and leapt in and out of bed with whomever I found attractive and could attract, of either sex.”

i am hearing "SEX MAD" to the tune of prince's "BAT DANCE"

startling obit of sean hughes by ex-friend and sometime patron of these parts, michael hann: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/oct/19/remembering-sean-hughes-the-sadness-is-he-didnt-get-to-be-old-just-lonely

I shall go to his funeral on Monday, and I will still be asking myself: who was my old friend? And why did his life turn out this way?

I'm sure he'll have a cracking time with his fellow mourners at the funeral after this obit

http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2017/10/19/news/morto_umberto_lenzi-178712510/amp/

Umberto Lenzi, probably most famous for Cannibal Ferox.

Had a bulk email from the Idler this afternoon from Tom Hodgkinson, linking to that MIchael Hann obit with the comment "This piece by Michael Hann, also a former friend of Sean's, in The Guardian describes exactly my own experience of the man."

Yeah I'm guessing Michael's take on Sean will chime with that of most of his fellow mourners. It's a great piece.

Konono No. 1 Bandleader Augustin Mawangu Mingiedi Dead at 56 (he took over bandleader role after his father dies in 2015).

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/konono-no-1-bandleader-augustin-mawangu-mingiedi-dead-at-56-w509710

oh no! RIP

Michael’s piece was great. I’m glad Tom spoke up as well.