Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

For Angelenos (oddly, I was reading the Queens thread for the first time earlier today where Jitlada is mentioned):

https://la.eater.com/2017/10/19/16501046/jitlada-chef-tui-sungkamee-dies

bill lombardy, chess-playing priest and bobby fischer's second at reykjavik in '72 (bobby quit speaking to him after he described him in a sports illustrated article as "a mystery wrapped in an enigma"):

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/chess-the-church-and-the-cold-war-the-life-of-fr-bill-lombardy-1.3260707

Eamonn Campbell of the Dubliners. I loved listening to the Dubliners in my early teenage years, my dad took me to see them once when I was 13 or 14, it was the first concert I ever went to, I was very enthousiastic about it.
My time of listening to Irish folk music was really something of those days & it's over 20 years ago, but it makes me sad to see them go (he's the third one to pass away of the five-piece lineup I saw back then, after Ronnie Drew and Barney McKenna).

Federico Luppi, Spanish-Argentine actor likely best known for his roles in Guillermo del Toro films like the antiques dealer in Cronos

(no English obits yet)

That Michael Hann/Sean Hughes piece is vile. Takes a special kind of psychopath to say such unpleasant stuff about a man whose corpse is still warm. Whole thing stank of bitterness and grudge-bearing.

For context, people quoted in it, such as the comedian Carl Donnelly, say they were misled by Hann about the tone of the piece and how disgusted they are by the end result. An ex-girlfriend of Hughes has spoken out about how upset it has made her, on top of the grief she's already going through. It's as bad, if not worse, than any tawdry doorstep-barging Sun/Daily Mail journalist.

The whole vague "Hughes hates women" thing is probably the most horrible part - totally unfounded, baseless claims. It's especially eyebrow-raising when you look at Hann's Bring Me The Horizon interview from 2013 where he brushes over the widespread accounts of them abusing groupies and throwing piss on female fans, preferring to focus on how 'upset' the band were by these claims.

I know Hann is an ILX regular but absolutely fuck him. There's a time and a place for vicious exposés like this, and it's not two days after the guy's death.

The whole vague "Hughes hates women" thing is probably the most horrible part - totally unfounded, baseless claims.

they may be, in the piece, unsupported claims. but how do you know they're baseless and unfounded?

xp Counterpoint: yes it is, particularly if he died this week.

There's a time and a place for vicious exposés like this, and it's not two days after the guy's death.

Don't wish to debate yr other points, but this was written on the understanding it would be published in G2 after SH's funeral. They pulled it forward against MH's wishes. So now...well, MH isn't going to the funeral for one thing.

That's really odd considering the last paragraph starting "I shall go to his funeral on Monday..."

^^^Subeditors.

Personally, and as someone who *did* date Sean, I didn’t begrudge Michael alluding to his trickiness with women in the ‘90s. He could be really offhand with people, and it’s not for me to contradict the women who objected to that. But he was far from the worst of a bunch of creative/famous/public guys out there, and had many redeeming qualities (some of which I mentioned upthread). What I have found annoying, though, is seeing people who for years enabled or turned a blind eye to some of his worst antics, even getting the beers in, calling him an arsehole.

I’ve found out he wasn’t on his own when he died, which cane as a relief.

*came

George Young of the Easybeats, and brother to Malcolm & Angus

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/tributes-flow-for-songwriter-and-former-easybeats-guitarist-george-young/news-story/012f83f9c6a606273afdb46831f7cd4e

Did not know about his involvement with "Love Is In The Air"

Of Vanda & Young songwriting/production fame. RIP George.

Scott Putesky, aka 'Daisy Berkowitz'

https://pitchfork.com/news/marilyn-mansons-daisy-berkowitz-dead-at-49/amp/

he was always hanging out in the south FL music scene I came up in, didn't know him well but super sweet guy :(

robert guillaume

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-guillaume-dead-benson-actor-920459

What a run. Seriously a great, all around.

wish I was old enough to have seen him on Broadway in Purlie! and Guys and Dolls.

Josh Malina posted on Twitter that he did see him in Guys and it inspired him to start acting, so he was super grateful when he got to work with him on Sports Night.

Also today, astronaut Paul Weitz, who both crewed Skylab and piloted the first flight of Shuttle Challenger. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-weitz-nasa-commander-space-shuttle-challenger-dies/

;_;

89 is a fine age though.

Never knew about the Easybeats-AC/DC connection.

I can’t believe you!

Sending back my copy of I Wanna Be Sedated

<3 guillaume

Fats Domino :(

Ain't that a shame.

Found his freedom :-)

Aw, RIP Fats Domino ... somewhat forgotten as a major force in early rock 'n' roll, but he had more cross-over hits than anybody in that era

Oh man, I keep thinking about how he has hung on, even through Katrina when people thought he'd gone.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5259801

Like so many people my age my first exposure to anything of his was Richie Cunningham's repeated use of "I found my thrill . . ." on Happy Days. I only really got turned on to him later, via The Beatles' early recordings and Hamburg days.

:(

Fats was the god, RIP

RIP Fats, a musical saint

Walter Lassally, cinematographer of early Tony Richardson films, Merchant-Ivory, Zorba the Greek

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/walter-lassally-dead-oscar-winning-cinematographer-zorba-greek-was-90-1051421

What an absolute downer:( Going to blast out some Fats later.

Brent Briscoe, character actor of Mulholland Dr., "Parks and Recreation" and Twin Peaks 2.0 (Detective Macklay)

https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-brent-briscoe-from-twin-peaks-and-parks-and-recr-1819754694

Barry Z, NYC public access TV host. Michael Musto calls him "the original Jiminy Glick"

Ian McKellen
http://mailonline-tv.com/breaking-english-actor-ian-mckellen-dies-aged-78/

Hoax.

https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/ian-mckellen-alive-death-hoax-sends-internet-meltdown/

oh sorry

Better if he had just shown up in public in a white robe

Landmark feminist art historian, Linda Nochlin. RIP

Keith Wilder, founder of the band Heatwave, has passed away. 🙏🏾 #RIPKeithWilder https://t.co/UgjvUEg1s2 pic.twitter.com/70zs8BrWZU

— Okayplayer (@okayplayer) October 30, 2017

That fucking jumper.

Is so awesome. RIP Keith.

Dennis Banks

https://apnews.com/1c04cc7faef345d8855f62f7eeb7ade1

Jack Bannon of "Lou Grant"

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jack-bannon-20171027-story.html

Muhal Richard Abrams
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/obituaries/muhal-richard-abrams-dead-idiosyncratic-pianist-and-composer.html

mike hudson of the pagans
http://www.laweekly.com/music/mike-hudson-of-cleveland-punks-the-pagans-dead-at-61-8807350

Paddy Russell, the first woman to direct Doctor Who (The Massacre, Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Pyramids of Mars and Fang Rock) and with sterling work on many other enterprises of the time such as Compact, Out of the Unknown (the amazing Come Buttercup, Come Daisy with Milo O'Shea), Z Cars and Within These Walls. Also did nearly a full year on Emmerdale and the first two years of 3-2-1.

https://scifibulletin.com/2017/11/03/rip-director-paddy-russell/

muhal richard abrams and mike hudson? fuck it, those are sad losses

Aww man, that sucks about Mike Hudson. I used to have a really cool rekkid by Hudson/Styrene, wherein he recited these seedy stories of the Amerikan underbelly, accompanied by the artsy and evocative music of Clevo legends The Styrenes. It's a wonderful piece of music, side 2 takes a whole to itself, that I highly recommend if you should see it around. And, of course, The Pagans were one of the seminal U.S. punk bands of their day/all time. I didn't know about the journalism stuff, maybe we'll get lucky and someone will compile and publish some/all of it. In any case, RIP Mike.