Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

xposts: He grossed me out in the Cathouse tv show. Yuk

xp aw RIP

NSFW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf0QQ1LzqiM

Walter Huddleston, Kentucky Democrat who lost his Senate seat in '84 to Mitch McVader

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/former-senator-walter-huddleston-dies-92

Rashod Ollison, a truly great music writer and presenter of his own work. His appearances at the Pop Conference were wonderful.

translator anthea bell

I wish ppl posting in the rolling obituary thread would link to obituaries for these interesting sounding people

i wish ppl reading the rolling obituary thread knew how to use a search engine

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/18/anthea-bell-obituary

The term translator seems insufficient in this case. A great

thanks that's a good one, what a career. I want to read that Tomcat book

Arkansas raised, Virginia -based music critic and author Rashod Ollison, mentioned above, died from cancer at 41. His writing about Aretha, Chaka Khan, and more was special.

https://pilotonline.com/news/local/article_9ea7895e-d31e-11e8-a7e0-bb75fff0a8b1.html

today's been busy

Danny Leiner, director of Dude, Where's My Car? and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-danny-leiner-director-of-harold-and-kumar-and-d-1829886429

RIP. great movies, the former is one of my favorites

pretty much the only stoner comedy films i've ever liked

(haven't sat thru Cheech & Chong)

bad movies

actually i don't remember dude where's my car well enough but harold and kumar is bad.

his other credits are pretty stellar though. i just watched the sopranos episode "luxury lounge" on saturday

nah both DWMC and H&KGTWC are great, and this guy was no slouch on the tv credits either. A real loss imo. Great, consistent comedy directors are rare!

harold & kumar was great! - i dont really remember Dude Wheres My Car except for the “and then?” bit

rip

the continuum transfunctioner is a very mysterious and powerful device and its mystery is exceeded only by its power

one of the more honest bromance comedy scenes

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

yesss

there is something very boyish and homoerotic about DWMC, much more so than Harold & Kumar. it's dreamlike, a fantasy movie in a way, & I don't mean the obvious alien stuff. like there's no reference at all to these guys being in/having gone to college, they work at a pizza place and can somehow rent that house (with the dude that lives in the closet), they've been dating the twins for a year and they still haven't had sex, and iirc are virgins? it's a bizarre movie

a friend of mine pointed out a significant plot hole recently though: no tailor would be open that late at night

Wim Kok, the last Dutch Labour politician (to date) to become prime minister, personification of the polder model and adherent of the Third Way:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-kok/former-dutch-prime-minister-wim-kok-dies-at-80-idUSKCN1MU0Q7

comics artist Steve Dillon (Preacher, Hellblazer): https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/arts/steve-dillon-comic-artist-who-helped-create-preacher-dies-at-54.html

Damn, a ruptured appendix? Good lord. I had appendicitis when I was a teenager and knew something was seriously wrong within an hour, and mine didn't rupture. But I have an extremely low tolerance for pain. My dad had it a few years ago and also thought it was food poisoning, for three days - thank god he got to a doctor and had an operation in time. Was a big fan of Preacher when I was kid, was pretty o_O next to The Amazing Spider-Man and even The Punisher. RIP

Steve Dillon died two years ago

Yeah, when I read that post, for a minute I was like, did I dream of him dying a while ago?

arguably the thread title only implies that this is 2018's thread for posting obituaries, not the thread for posting 2018 obituaries

ok lol at me. someone tweeted that and I didn't notice the date

via NYC's Film Forum:

Veteran Broadway, television and film actor James Karen, a frequent guest at Film Forum, died last night at his home in Los Angeles at age 94.

Known for his roles in Poltergeist, Mulholland Drive, Wall Street, The China Syndrome, Return of the Living Dead, and many other movies, Jim was featured in a Vanity Fair article on Hollywood’s greatest character actors. To New Yorkers, he was familiar as “The Pathmark Man” on local television for over 25 years.

He's the director of Betty's screen test in MD, and was also a close late-life friend of Buster Keaton's. (see the recent documentary about Beckett's Film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKM8zdG1a9Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPSAgc5-uiI

that's arguably the best scene in Mulholland Drive. RIP

I could have sworn he died in the 90s.

RIP James Karen. He and Don Calfa are both deliciously funny in Return of the Living Dead.

RIP.

Career-summing 2015 interview on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast: https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/james-karen/

quintessential that guy

just been looking at his filmography and he's in everything!

RIP

how is it possible that he was never on murder, she wrote *or* diagnosis murder

at least he hit matlock

the pathmark man!!!

seconding gilbert gottfried's james karen interview cryptosicko mentioned, it's great

tony joe white

https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/10/25/tony-joe-white-dead-obituary-rainy-night-georgia/1764875002

oh shit! he played Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival just last year

RIP

Polk Salad Annie is a killer

Seconded. I put it number one on my Elvis ballot. Also really like “I’ve Got a Thing About You, Baby.” RIP.

James Karen bought up the town at the end of Little House on the Prairie, and Pathmark got hate mail.

from his NYT obit:

When George Clooney accepted the American Film Institute’s lifetime achievement award this year, he tried to convey what the ceremony felt like to him by recalling that several years ago Mr. Karen, a friend, had asked him to write his obituary because he was near death. Weeks and then months went by; no death. Finally Mr. Clooney called Mr. Karen’s wife.

“Yeah, Jimmy’s doing fine,” Mr. Clooney said she told him. “He just wanted to know what everybody thought about him while he was still around. He got a bunch of people to do it.”

Now that’s a move

he really was on every fucking tv show for 30 years

in the Gilbert podcast he does a great bit of Arnold Stang squawking about losing billing to Schwarzenegger (then Arnold Strong) in Hercules in New York

Well, he was used to being Top Cat.