Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Juan Corona, California serial killer, at 85.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-juan-corona-serial-killer-dead-20190304-story.html

A study in extremes today

horrific. not too far from Sacramento, either.

Carolee Schneemann

http://www.artnews.com/2019/03/06/carolee-schneemann-died-feminist-art/

billionaire diamond trader ehud arye laniado, 65 - dead from complications during penis enlargement surgery

rip not-so-big man

Carolee Schneemann

:(

RIP

The experienced diamond expert's heart attack happened when a substance was injected into his penis, Belgian media reported.

It never hurts to be reminded that specificity is the watchword when it comes to penis injections. 'A substance' could be 18 fluid ounces of tartar sauce for all you know.

tbf, injecting 18 fluid ounces of tartar sauce into your dick would definitely make it bigger, so mission accomplished imo

the thought of getting that surgery at age SIXTY-FIVE is a good reminder than other people are a total mystery

Eat the rich(‘s dicks with tartar sauce)

xp or that penis enlargement surgery is prohibitively expensive, as a diamond billionaire couldn't amass enough of a fortune to get it until he was 65

live slow, die old, leave a big-dicked corpse

Yeah, this is a move that only really makes sense to me as like a prelude to John Quiñones approaching people outside of a funeral home and asking them why they glared so long at the comically-engorged genitalia of their deceased loved one.

Inject with tartare sauce and upsize your codpiece.

Professor Mike Oliver, academic and disability activist. His recent angry rebuke towards "parasitic" disabled charities who have been mostly pusillanimous government lapdogs during austerity was so otm.

https://www.tmz.com/2019/03/08/airwolf-star-jan-michael-vincent-dead/

i literally am only aware of this guy's existence because of a Rick and Morty bit, but RIP nonetheless.

Now I can stop confusing him with Jon-Erik Hexum.

RIP. One of my earliest cinema memories was The Mechanic with him and Charles Bronson, pretty bleak stuff for an 8-year-old.

Jan-Michael Vincent -- the '80s heartthrob best known for his role on TV's "Airwolf" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.

Jan-Michael actually died back on February 10 after suffering cardiac arrest while a patient at a North Carolina hospital ... according to the death certificate. We're told no autopsy was performed and he was later cremated.

weird to be a guy who was an up-and-comer in film, and later a fairly massive TV star for a bit, then die and the news breaks a whole month later.

And I will stop confusing him with Jan Hammer.

_The experienced diamond expert's heart attack happened when a substance was injected into his penis, Belgian media reported. _

sentences you never wanted to read

JMV was much sleeker in build and had a longer career (and life) than JEH.

It appears I only saw him in Big Wednesday, Bite the Bullet and V Gallo's Buffalo 66. Three of the least drive-inny entries in his filmography.

Nobody over 50 associates Vincent with fucking "Airwolf."

His life post-Airwolf seemed pretty fucking grim.

I still associate him with Tribes, a made-for-TV movie from the early 70s. Also the movie Buster and Billie, which was the first male frontal nudity (non-sexual) I saw in a theater (rated PG-13 too!).

Before The Mechanic, I remember him from the Danger Island segments on the Banana Splits tv show (directed by Richard Donner).

he starred in White Line Fever and had a key role in the Burt Reynolds flick Hooper as well.

He was looking bad in recent years, really emaciated and with a prosthetic leg; he had most of his right leg amputated a few years ago after an infection.

I mostly know him from Damnation Alley, Hooper & Airwolf...he was super handsome in the 70’s. Hewas pretty dreamy but also really fucked up history with booze & drugs, like Mickey Rourke-bad assaulting wife & a couple of girkfruends, drunk driving accidents, the whole nine.

Huh there’s a film of Damnation Alley, didn’t realise, I used to love the book as a kid but It looks like the movie is significantly different

Hooper is a very fun movie iirc

he was frequently kind and then suddenly cruel
he could do as he pleases, he's nobody's fool
but he can't be convicted, he's earned his degree
and the most he will do is fire missiles at you
cause he'll always be airwolf to me

^^^^Bravo!

LOL!

omg LOL

Sid Sheinberg, MCA/Universal exec who signed some kid named Spielberg to do some TV

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sid-sheinberg-dead-universal-longtime-831936

Also Terry Gilliam's Public Enemy #1 - http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/06/i-feel-every-cut.html

moooookiieee

hall of fame mp, truly

Michael Gielen, 91 – one of the greatest conductors of modernist classical music. RIP.

Johnny Thompson a.k.a. Tomsoni, magician, recently known as the behind the scenes guy on Fool Us.

sportswriter/novelist Dan Jenkins

Babe Ruth's adopted daughter Julia, 102

Dan Jenkins: his Semi-Tough is the more famous and highly regarded book, I think, but North Dallas Forty is the better movie.

Agree, but never read the books

I read Jenkins in the '70s when he was still on staff at Sports Illustrated

This is super sad...

Kelly Catlin, US track cyclist
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/10/kelly-catlin-cycling-team-pursuit-world-champions-dies-age-23

Wow

Just so sad.

oh no. that is so sad....

Freeda Foreman, former boxer and daughter of George, 42.

http://m.tmz.com/#!2019/03/09/george-foreman-daughter-freeda-dies-dead-boxer-age-42/