Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

101 remains a fave (and I think was his fave?).

I'd heard that too. For many reasons it is my absolute keeper from him.

Joe Longthorne, tho he made a right fight of it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-49219270

Oakland Raider wide receiver Cliff Branch

Cliff Branch, one of the Raiders' career-leading receivers who won three Super Bowls, has died. He was 71. https://t.co/EXE38cBNaI

— The Sacramento Bee (@sacbee_news) August 4, 2019

https://www.avpress.com/news/phil-hymes-who-lit-snl-dies-at/article_3984196a-b66d-11e9-9835-7fd5a51244c2.html

Phil Hymes, a veteran lighting director who became a major, if irascible, backstage figure with “Saturday Night Live” for his strong opinions about stagecraft he liked and comedy he disliked, died Monday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 96.

His son, Jeff, said the cause of death was complications of bladder cancer.

“He was a force to be reckoned with, and his presence and strength were something I came to rely on,” Lorne Michaels, the longtime executive producer of “SNL,” said in a statement. “He will be missed, but if God has him now, despite all the arguing, heaven will be much better lit.”

Hymes joined “Saturday Night Live” in 1976, in its second season, bringing with him decades of experience at NBC, much of it spent in live programming beginning in the early 1950s.

He remained with the show until early 2018, after nearly 42 years of putting up lights and designing the look they gave to sketches, monologues and musical numbers.

Several months later, at 95, he accepted an Emmy Award, his first since 1965, for outstanding lighting design and direction for a variety series.

Tim Dundon, aka Zeke the Sheik, local counterculture guy in Altadena, Cal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWk6wdCf51s&fbclid=IwAR0E68crD43t42Xwb5hLdPehCf_FurHaxl2qK44V4iHN86UC8GB5gxGGpT4

Toni Morrison

Oh no. :(

Damn. RIP.

RIP Toni Morrison.

oof that is a loss

Seems cruel she had to pass with Trump still in power

Henri Belolo, the writer of Y.M.C.A., In The Navy and Go West

(For NYC people): Lucien Bahaj, the head honcho of the French bistro Lucien, in business since 1998 at 1st Ave and 1st St. Also opened the bar Pink Pony on the Lower East Side.

It would be too much of a task to list every celebrity who passed through Lucien - their photos are on the wall. Among the regulars were Jonas Mekas, and from the old Andy Warhol crowd, Gerard Malanga and Taylor Mead. Lucien was always a mensch to me, and always a lovely conversationalist (that means a good listener also) and I will miss him like family.

https://www.documentjournal.com/2019/08/remembering-lucien-bahaj-creator-of-the-french-bistro-that-became-nycs-last-cultural-salon/

David Berman

We couldn't be more sorry to tell you this. David Berman passed away earlier today. A great friend and one of the most inspiring individuals we've ever known is gone. Rest easy, David. pic.twitter.com/5n5bctcu4j

— 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖌 𝕮𝖎𝖙𝖞 (@dragcityrecords) August 7, 2019

aw man :(

Fuck!

Nicky Wonder, Brian Wilson and Wondermints Guitarist, Dead at 59

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nicky-wonder-brian-wilson-wondermints-guitarist-dead-at-59-obituary-868888/?fbclid=IwAR0Gh3rya7SNAMaq7jw8pUk7fnQbY3ZghmAEeMxVLUODxhitwoqWBtxKE-4

Rosie Ruiz, Boston Marathon fraud

Jeffrey Epstein, "suicide"

Well then.

Let the conspiracy theories begin!

somebody find Bubba and Dershowitz

I mean you don't need to theorize that hard

Most convenient suicide ever

His death comes just days after he was found unconscious in a Manhattan jail cell with injuries to his neck, US media had reported, citing unidentified sources.

It was not clear how he suffered those injuries. Two anonymous sources told New York’s local NBC News 4 that Epstein’s injuries may have been self-inflicted, while another said an assault by another inmate had not been ruled out.

After the incident, Epstein was placed on suicide watch.

... uh right.

stoked for the nah not really I don't much care

they meant the other kind of suicide watch

I have little doubt someone watched him commit suicide.

Killing child predators is like the get out of jail free card for people already in jail.

Hey Morbius, do you still have the password to the "Clinton Body Count" page on Geocities? Time for an update.

you're so funny. An all-timer.

Most convenient suicide ever

For my own convenience 1959 would have been a pretty handy time for him to go, but nobody asked me

New Debate Question: Would you go back in time and kill baby Epstein?

rip big man, heaven needed all the secrets you kept about the child sex ring you ran for rich and powerful men

Peter Fonda dies of lung cancer aged 69

https://www.tmz.com/2019/08/16/peter-fonda-dead-dies/

dang RIP

he's great in a handful of classics and I don't really like Easy Rider that much but Wild Angels, The Hired Hand, Dirty Mary/Crazy Larry, The Limey are all great

rly need people my parents' age to not be dying, "lol"

Fonda died at the age of 79, not 69 - my mistake.

oh phew, my parents will never die, is what you're saying, great

Terry Valentine, R.I.P.

Tell Bruce Langhorne I’m coming!

He took that whole ‘60s Southern California zeitgeist and ran with it.

Pete was even good in his Oscar-nominated Ulee's Gold

seemed to get over Dad's demons easier than Jane; of course he may have suffered less from them

Checking his IMDb, it's amazing just how many motorcycle/fast car movie roles he played--many of which are winks to Easy Rider (Cannonball Run, Escape From L.A., Ghost Rider etc.).

One of the first recordings of a Gram Parsons song, "November Night" (1966)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2NNjwjgYbU

bridget still lives

former NFL running back Cedric Benson (Bears, Bengals, Packers), in a motorcycle crash

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/27413898/former-longhorns-nfl-rb-benson-dies-36

Richard Williams, animation director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit and writer of The Animator's Survival Kit

katreese barnes, snl music director and composer of “dick in a box”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/arts/music/katreese-barnes-dead.html