Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Charlotte Rae at 92.

the day news broke about a facts of life reboot

Okay this hit me a little hard.

RIP IN PEACE ALL OF MY CAST MATES. I MISS YOU ALL. pic.twitter.com/tS52TfryKo

— Todd Bridges (@ToddBridges) August 6, 2018

Joel Robuchon, world's most Michelin starred chef.

oh wow

Oh man, a friend and I were wondering just last week whether Mrs. Garrett was still alive. I just assumed she couldn't possibly be.

She had a small role in Jonathan Demme's last film (the Streep rocker).

She also had a dancing moment in the film of Hair, played Woody Allen's mother in Bananas, Al Lewis's wife on "Car 54, Where Are You?", and was in this Broadway cast of The Threepenny Opera in 1954 (Lotte Lenya, Bea Arthur, John Astin, Paul Dooley):

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/threepenny-opera-13509

her sexy oil heat commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzB6_h-Iw2g

She was on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast in 2016.

peter richens

Irish luthier Chris Larkin.

WHOOSH

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/doug-grindstaff-dead-star-trek-sound-effects-maestro-was-87-1130648

Rockabilly guitarist/singer Lorrie Collins.

hall of fame hockey player stan mikita

And additionally immortalized in Wayne's World.

http://sportsmockery.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_5533.jpg

<3

Paul Laxalt, Nevada sen/guv and Reagan's 3-time prez campaign manager, at 96 (only the good die y'know)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/paul-d-laxalt-nevada-governor-and-influential-reagan-adviser-dies/2018/08/06/1d4ec0de-99e4-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html

Legit "People who you thought were dead already"

WP and NYT obits don't mention Howard Hughes at all - what garbage.

yeah for real i thought he popped his clogs 20 years ago

Funniest possible things to say during moment of climax.

V S Naipaul

https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/v-s-naipaul-dies-at-age-85-the-legacy-of-the-trinidadian-nobel-prize-winner.html

Beckett's publisher John Calder, barely two months after I posted about him in the "people you were surprised to discover were still alive" thread.

RIP. Despite the numerous howling errors in so much of the Beckett stuff he published.

RIP. He is now with Grove Press's Barney Rossett, who passed away six years ago, and Les Editions de Minuit's Jérôme Lindon, who died in 2001.

I've read most of the Beckett prose works on Calder and I don't recall seeing a single typo.

They're famously full of textual and editing errors if not actual typos.

the errors in his editions have been criticized in reviews etc. e.g. the collection "as the story was told" and the collection of poems from 1930-1989

To be fair, even as (or because) he was obsessed with le mot juste, Beckett reworked his plays repeatedly, to such an extent that what he would later deem 'an error' is not always as obvious as it appears. Other instances are rather egregious, though, and both Calder and Rossett are variously responsible for them.

Morgana King, jazz singer and Mama Corleone

only 87! about 9 years younger than Pacino

ummm i meant older

Aretha Franklin

https://news.sky.com/story/queen-of-soul-aretha-franklin-dies-at-76-11474096

awww, morgana king sang my favorite take on "tomorrow never knows".

Strangely, she died in March, but it was only just announced.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45194833

RIP Doodzieke

RIP Rampage from DOA

Huntress singer Jill Janus, suicide.

I saw them perform two or three times, and met her once. She seemed nice, and mildly nuts, but in a theater-girl sort of way, not a manic/suicidal sort of way. And I liked their music; they weren't great, but they improved on each of their three albums.

Kofi Annan

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45232892

knee deep in corruption, did fuck all to prevent 2 major genocides - classic nobel peace prize winner!

RIP Morgan Freeman

In commemoration today I'm having coffee and a nan for breakfast

*throws fruit* booo get off the stage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTfcWd8Ygg8

That is almost certainly where I got it from, so it wasn't even original

I assumed you were referring to that!

charles blackman

oh no :( i was just thinking about him yesterday.
we had a school trip to one of his exhibitions in early high school & i became a huge fan of his work
good innings though

Motown session guitarist Eddie Willis:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eddie-willis-guitarist-for-motowns-funk-brothers-dead-at-82-713708/

RIP :(

Barbra Harris (Nashville, A Thousand Clowns, Peggy Sue Got Married etc)

https://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/barbara-harris-dies_86195.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=21aug2018

BARBARA Harris