Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Philip McKeon, a Child Star on the Sitcom Alice, Dies at Age 55 https://t.co/17kCk8jZlE

— People (@people) December 10, 2019

TV naturalist David Bellamy https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/dec/11/tv-naturalist-david-bellamy-dies-aged-86

Grapple me grapenuts!

Heaven needed a climate change denier

a conservationist climate change denier at that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAHsSY3RpUM

Limmy
Limmy
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RIP

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/22/article-2266188-1714D64E000005DC-817_634x354.jpg

bellamy once described my dad as the best botanist in the UK

(i am neither competent to assess this judgment nor inclined to challenge it, he was the best dad in the UK tho so RIP DB)

his postal vote should be considered void now :p

danny aiello, 86

RIP, star of Godfather II, Papa Don't Preach, and Hudson Hawk.

do the right thing! moonstruck!

The Professional!

I recall him talking about arguing with Spike Lee that labelling his script for Do The Right Thing as "Pizza-Man" was racist!

The Purple Rose of Cairo!

Hell, his Once Upon a Time in America role, brief as it is. Totally forgot he was in it until I saw it again this summer -- just a short sequence, but a classic profane, raging and hilarious performance.

danny aiello, 86

was 31 years older than nic cage when cast as his brother in moonstruck

Rockabilly also-ran Jack Scott, best known for the song "The Way I Walk," which both Robert Gordon (with Link Wray on guitar!) and the Cramps covered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyF0_vRuEgU

RIP Aiello... this Broadway ad is the first time nearly everyone near NYC became aware of him, and the first words i always associate him with are "It's gonna be some pahty"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz8p6-LconE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2MXvhA8kY8

RIP. Soon as I saw the word Broadway there I thought “Gemini.”

Also RIP Jack Scott. Love that tune and got to see Robert Gordon do it live once, albeit with Chris Spedding instead of Link Wray on guitar, which was still pretty cool.

that tune being “The Way I Walk,” don’t know from “Geraldine.”

I saw Gordon with Spedding once, too, at the Lone Star Roadhouse in NYC.

RIP Danny Aiello. His performance in the @DavidKoechner penned "Hi-C and Turkey" sketch on SNL is one of the all-time greats. #SaigonWhoores https://t.co/KBoya5eWxU pic.twitter.com/UTv3Lypcvv

— Mark Graham (@unclegrambo) December 13, 2019

Roy Loney of the Flamin' Groovies passed this morning after surgery.

RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR0JmzdzbC8

Friend says he met him a few times and he was a nice guy.

Anyone seen confirmation of this?

Damn RIP Gershon Kingsley who wrote THE GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME don't at mehttps://t.co/0FNLzQGo0u

— Robert Beatty (@EdSunspot) December 13, 2019

From the family of Gershon Kingsley: Gershon passed away peacefully in his sleep on the morning of December 10th, surrounded by loved ones at home.

— Gershon Kingsley (@GershonKingsley) December 13, 2019

Rough Fuckin' Day...

Was about to say...

oh no

from wikipedia

Other notable works

Kingsley (with Perrey) is also credited with composing the song "Baroque Hoedown", released in their 1967 album, used by Walt Disney Productions for the Main Street Electrical Parade at its theme parks; and the song "The Savers", best known as the theme for the game show The Joker's Wild.

Oh no..Anna Karina.

RIP

Panamarenko, 79, Belgian artist who specialized in fantastic flying machines, submarines,...

https://www.google.be/search?&tbm=isch&q=panamarenko+werken

Ah man :((

Pretty gutted about that. I'm so glad I caught one of his exhibitions in Brussels (around '05? '06?).

First Volcker, now Felix. Who will be third apostle of austerity from the 1970s to kick it? https://t.co/1Q0SPFZRee

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) December 14, 2019

TCM's annual memorial roundup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktwlkY46gVQ&t=2s

https://youtu.be/ktwlkY46gVQ

nice

Nicky Henson, enduring presence on British tv and cinema for five decades.

No! I saw him doing a Q&A session at the BFI a couple of years ago after a screening of the amazing Psychomania, he was very entertaining and didn't seem to take himself too seriously.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qRK-xkYeE7Q/V_usokTrpAI/AAAAAAAAA0I/_zsIAHpPkGIye_Uvi2djQiZPubmTfqilQCLcB/s1600/psychomania2big.jpg

Seconding the love for Psychomania, which I saw on TV at age six and haunted me for years. That and the film where he's Goldie Hawn's drummer boyfriend are what the name Nicky Henson calls to mind.

Fawlty Towers.

"I've never seen so many medals 'round one neck in my life. He must be the bravest orangutan in Britain."

Xpost I would have loved to have seen him talking about it. He’s in splendid form in this documentary. Hopefully he came around to it by the time he did the talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1-tDvENdkE&t=13s