Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Dennis Nilsen outlived his arresting officer by 2.5 months (see upthread).

Tessa Jowell. RIP.

Will Alsop, architect.

For the massive window and amazing view from the children’s section of Peckham library, I thank you, Will.

Al Fritz, designer of the Schwinn Sting-Ray bicycle
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/business/al-fritz-inventor-of-the-sting-ray-bike-dies-at-88.html

Believe I had me one of those. RIP

Margot kidder

Totally great.

RIP Margot Kidder pic.twitter.com/0F1R6aWoZv

— Paranoid Bush (@paranoidliotta) May 14, 2018

karen allen still lives

Poor Margot. RIP :(

I was at a Toronto comic-con in the 00s and they had Kidder and Erica Durance (the Smallville Lois) next to each other for autographs, and all the guys were queuing for Durance instead of Kidder, and that’s when I realised nerds were dead to me now

Everyone knows Reeve = Superman but it’s just as true for Kidder

argh rip margot, you and christopher reeve were the great screwball comedians that made those movies work.

A Margot Kidder RIP poll.

Ah man, Glenn Branca

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8455922/glenn-branca-dead

Fuck that

Whoa!

RIP

Oh fuck. Rest in noise Glenn

RIP. :(

blasting The Spectacular Commodity right now, in awe as always

RIP

oh no, that's a big one (sorry Kidder).

Wow! Godspeed guitar man. He did some amazing work. And his presence here will be missed.

Tucking cancer again!!

Auto correct don't like the F bomb

I was listening to Theoretical Girls for maybe the first time in five years yesterday. Spooky..rip

What! RIP Glenn ;_;

he always seemed so likeable in interviews :(

Jlloyd Samuel, premier league footballer for a good portion of the 00's

Also a Trinidad international and one of the few U.K.-based footballers ever to play in the Iranian league. Very sad news.

:(

Tom Wolfe

saw him on the street in the white suit once

rip big man, the right stuff is an amazing piece of reportage

RIP. Was very into him in college, read everything I could get my hands on. Right Stuff is brilliant.

Joseph Campanella, "that guy" character actor

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/joseph-campanella-dead-character-actor-909457

Huh. For a "that guy" I don't think I've seen anything he was in. I guess he played a bartender in "The Producers" and "man on street" in "Seconds?" Dunno if I would recognize him from those. Morbs, what do you know him from?

at least a couple dozen TV guest shots in the '70s

(MTM, Rockford Files, Quincy)

Golden Girls

JiC, you are citing the credits of FRANK Campanella, Joe's brother.

dissident Romanian filmmaker Lucian Pintilie

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/director-lucian-pintilie-dubbed-godfather-romanian-new-wave-dies-at-84-1112852

xpost That's right! Just looked though and I've seen even less of Joe's stuff. Maybe only ... Ben? Know of but never saw any of those TV shows he and his brother were in.

my posts are primarily aimed at the olds, and lovers of Romanian cinema

My first exposure to Joe Campanella was as the narrator on the Canadian science TV show "What Will They Think Of Next?"

Campanella seems less for the Romanian cinema set and more for the "Mannix" set.

Reggie Lucas:

⚫️ #RIP Reggie Lucas, Legendary Guitarist who played for Miles Davis, produced the majority of the first Madonna album and founded the Quantum Sound recording studio where Jodeci, Jeff Buckley and Pet Shop Boys recorded 🙏 https://t.co/mwX9Z89Ab9

— Vinnie Crocker (@Vinnie_Crocker_) May 19, 2018

...and wrote "Borderline" for Madonna too.

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Reggie Lucas, producer of most of Madonna's first album, but more importantly (to me anyhow) the rhythm guitarist in Miles Davis's band from 1972-75. He's on Agharta, Pangaea, Dark Magus, Live at Philharmonic Hall, Get Up With It and some posthumous live compilations and the Complete On The Corner Sessions box.

Knew him from Pangaea-era Miles, didn't realize he did all that other stuff too. RIP