Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Susan Bernard, actress in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (and more) at 71

https://deadline.com/2019/06/susan-bernard-dead-faster-pussycat-kill-kill-actress-publisher-iconic-hollywood-photo-archive-1202638352/?fbclid=IwAR0m-0r5lxECskc0qjZpDZL2zMxRcsz8CKTWmpuD_jdCr3hQhkpIOPPP6sQ

Gary Duncan of Quicksilver Messenger Service

RIP

https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/06/gary-duncan-dead/

Lee Iacocca, 94

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190702214657-lee-iacocca-1984-minivan-medium-plus-169.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT6U57QkUe8

https://www.classiccarstodayonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1981-Chrysler-Imperial-ad-with-Frank-Sinatra-page-1-of-2.jpg
https://www.classiccarstodayonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1981-Chrysler-Imperial-ad-with-Frank-Sinatra-page-2-of-2.jpg

The car Sinatra actually drove around this time when he didn't want to be noticed was a Chrysler K-car wagon. I certainly wouldn't suspect Ol' Blue Eyes was behind the wheel of this thing....

http://www.thedrive.com/news/25511/frank-sinatra-actually-owned-this-1985-chrysler-lebaron-wagon-thats-headed-to-auction

jesus christ @ that ad, can you imagine reading all that?

Somebody must not have been available that day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvYXeBQzecU

I believe that Imperial ad only ran in large-format magazines, so it was pretty easy to read. I used to have a copy that came from an issue of Ebony.

From the Chrysler Dealer Ordering Brochure:

"Sinatra did it his way–selecting 16 of his favorite cassette albums for the Imperial FS." ...

"Your 16 Frank Sinatra tapes are sent to your dealer and presented to you when you take delivery of your new Imperial FS. These tapes come in a special tote bag designed by Mark Cross, one of America's premier leather manufacturers. In the Mark Cross tradition, the tote bag is constructed of the highest-quality scratch-resistant leather with leather straps and solid brass fittings."

• It Might As Well Be Swing
• Academy Award Winners
• Sinatra's Sinatra
• Softly As I Leave You
• September Of My Years
• My Kind Of Broadway
• Strangers In The Night
• That's Life
• The World We Knew
• Cycles
• My Way
• A Man Alone
• Trilogy (3 tapes)
....."The Past"
....."The Present"
....."The Future"
• Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits (Volume 1)

Not a bad selection, but no Watertown, no credibility....

http://sinatrafamily.com/forum/showthread.php/41403-The-Frank-Sinatra-Edition-Chrysler-Imperial/page2

but did it have rich corinthian leather

Man, haven’t heard that in a while. Seems like only yesterdaythree decades ago that I probably heard it every single day.

XPS No Sinatra/Jobim either...

or the Sinatra/Jobim sequel that was only released on 8-track cartridges and was pulled after one week on sale. Most valuable 8-track in existance!

True. Wait, what?

“Strangers In The Night” was just featured on the Friendbook page of The Wrecking Crew, not sure why unless this week was the anniversary of it hitting number one. Always amuses me to think that Glen Campbell played on it - using a capo!

http://8tracksrock.blogspot.com/2011/02/most-valuable-8-track-sinatra-jobim.html

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Sinatra-Jobim-Reprise-W7-1028-8-Track-ULTIMATE-Frank-rarity-Play-Tested/273674744014?hash=item3fb84930ce:g:6LUAAOSwq1tbZvzF

Stan Cronyn tells a great story about that in the liners to the complete Sinatra/Jobim sessions CD.

Interesting. Please tell us about that.

PARAPHRASED: Sinatra had some issues with the sessions (a story unto itself), but had OK'd the release of the album. The first release copies were on 8-Track (which was made in Japan), with the vinyl/reel to reels etc. to follow like a week or two later. Copies of the 8-Track were sent to Sinatra's estate at the same time it was being shipped to stores. An hour after receiving the album, Sinatra calls Reprise and tells them to kill the album. He didn't like his vocals on three tracks, and also didn't like how another was broken up over two tracks on the tape. The label pleaded with him, but ultimately acquiesced and recalled the tapes a couple of hours after they landed in a handful of stores. Watertown was added to the release schedule in its place, and Sinatra later cleared the reissue of seven tracks from the album as half of Sinatra & Company.

Huh, just noticed Watertown isn't on Spotify.

All I know about Iacocca I learned from Bloom County. Would that I could say the same for Trump.

Oh gimmee hype! Publicity!

Get them stretch marks off miss liberty!

Mocha! Polka! Patriotic tapioca

That's what is my Iacocca!

Union busting, profit lusting,

little pintos all combusting

apple pie and diet coke-a

that's what is my Iacocca!

As I said on Twitter, I could have sworn Iacocca was killed by a hit man in the lobby of Adrian Veidt's office in 1985.

In college I was taught about the Ford Pinto fiasco as a sort of test case in corporate negligence/malfeasance. That story was quite a big deal when it happened and for some years afterward.

Have enjoyed driving Mustangs over the years, whenever I can rent one.

Anyway rip.

The best bit of this Lee Iacocca obit (h/t @RayPride) https://t.co/GfezyYzcSN pic.twitter.com/wQVczAjxe2

— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) July 3, 2019

Little-known footnote to Lee Iacocca's career: his foray into the olive oil-based margarine spread business

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivio_Premium_Products
https://olivio.com/our-story/

Erstwhile satirist and latter day global warming denier prick Christopher Booker

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/07/03/christopher-booker-campaigning-journalist-first-editor-private/

RIP Jean-Louis Chrétien, French philosopher.

All I know about Iacocca I learned from Bloom County. Would that I could say the same for Trump.

same and otm respectively

^^^^

Laugh-In's Arte Johnson

:-(((

former large new york football giants quarterback jared lorenzen, 38

Coco McCririck

I'm inconsolable rn tbh!

hell needed a loudmouthed exhibitionist bigot etc...

well maybe not so much after Norman Stone's passing t'other week!

Ben Barenholtz, art-film exhibitor / distributor / producer, champion of Waters, Lynch, Coens

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/06/ben-barenholtz-john-waters-turturro-1202153765/

Joao Gilberto

Oh no. RIP.

He was 88.

RIP to a legend; that's a damn shame

He was a perfect musician

Disney actor Cameron Boyce, dead at 20 from a seizure.

Totally missed Arte Johnson; his hereafter line was my single favourite ever from that show (truthfully, one of the few specific lines I remember).

Painter Leon Kossoff: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/07/leon-kossoff-obituary

Disney actor Cameron Boyce, dead at 20 from a seizure.

Milos Stehlik, the cofounder and artistic director of the Chicago arts center Facets Multimedia

remembering him and Ben Barenholtz:

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6481-film-culture-loses-two-innovators

I missed the Leon Kossoff death. I always liked his landscapes more than his figurative stuff, the Willesden Junction studies were brilliant.