Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

He doesn't even have Wiki page :(

I have absolutely no memory of him despite him having no fewer than three TV shows: The Paul Squire Show (ITV, two series); Paul Squire Esquire (BBC); PS It’s Paul Squire (ITV).

smile meme guy

https://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/arts-and-culture/247642-comic-creator-gerry-alanguilan-dies

World cup winner and reference in monty python Martin Peters

"Well, it's hello..
From me,
PS
I'm just trying to make you happy.."

Looked him up on t'int about a month ago, his chat board was full of fans bemoaning Rik Mayall calling him Paul Squires.

Last time I saw him on TV was Cannon&Ball giving him a chance on their show. His routine including a reference to General Custer and the Indians "oh goodness gracious dear dear.. Nah, these were Real Indians!"

Oh dear Paul, think you just blew it.

Aw man, i loved Alanguilan's Elmer. Sorry to hear he died so young and clearly with so much difficulty. RIP.

http://gerryalanguilan.blogspot.com/2017/11/sleep-paralysis.html

If I recall correctly he also did a bunch of work writing about and curating Filipino comics (or komiks) history and original art.

Sorry for only knowing about that smile he did :(

what smile

https://i.imgur.com/c5iFk6G.gif

there's more info below that obit I linked to above (his "Hey Baby" video from 2009 etc)

British character actor Tony Britton.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50885272

Designer Emanuel Ungaro, age 86

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50886433

Ram Dass, 88

That’s a shame. He had been speaking a lot about preparing for death.

I really like some of his radio phone-in audios from the early 70s. They show his best side: empathetic, sensitive, gentle, providing helpful advice and accepting of people.

I sometimes heretically think that if you ignored some of his guru and “gee-wizz” miracle stuff (which wasn’t to my personal taste), he was a great therapist of any kind - religious or non-religious.

Junior Johnson, NASCAR driver played in a pretty good movie by Jeff Bridges

RIP Richard Alpert

xp I don't think that's heretical at all, he always renounced any idea that he was a guru or even remotely close to "finished." He readily copped to having a schtick—that really he was just a Newton, MA jew who was lucky enough to be lit up by psilocybin and then to find a guru of his own.

He was also smart enough, where Leary wasn't, to grok that acid was a cul de sac. Instead he parlayed the experience into a spiritual mission, which he also knew (and warned adherents) could act as a trap. He spent the last decades of his life woking with dying people, and now he's joined them.

Dave of Big Black

midnight funk association membership now officially lapsed :(

what? Oh no!

Riley worked as an assistant audio engineer for George Clinton's stable of Parliament-Funkadelic bands. He is credited on albums Trombipulation and The Electric Spanking of War Babies. He also occasionally served as a session musician for his friends

never knew this or that he'd had a major stroke in '93.

Songwriter Allee Willis, 72.

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/allee-willis-dead-dies-songwriter-1203451705/?fbclid=IwAR0b9myuD207TaVXhuG2hT90DLqzOShgpeHBaaGO0vkTwZvBVp0KbLM9RKo

Wrote so many good songs. And the Friends theme.

Had no idea she co-wrote What Have I Done To Deserve This? I'm guessing it was the Dusty part.

Yep. Tennant wrote the verses, Lowe the chorus.

lyricist behind the Howard the Duck soundtrack with Thomas Dolby.

https://youtube.com/YLMUTqlGNZ4

https://youtu.be/YLMUTqlGNZ4

Claude Régy, French theatre director. He was 96. RIP.

Peter Schreier, German tenor and conductor. He was 84. RIP.

Sleepy LaBeef

Jerry Herman

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2019/12/27/535371796/broadway-legend-jerrry-herman-is-dead-at-88

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jerry-herman-dead-broadway-composer-lyricist-hello-dolly-was-88-1141052

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEyYx7mTEsU

George Michael’s sister. :-(

muckraking journalist Bill Greider

https://www.rollingstone.com/author/william-greider/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2019/12/27/william-greider-political-writer-dead-83/2755289001/

Peanuts TV producer Lee Mendelson

https://padailypost.com/2019/12/27/lee-mendelson-executive-producer-of-peanuts-tv-specials-dies/

This one is strictly for US ILXors: racist radio talk show host Don Imus.

loooong overdue

Whoa

Can't wait to hear what Howard has to say

Good riddance.

Classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5J7OeY8lx4

*George Costanza voice* That's a shame.

Sue Lyon

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/movies/sue-lyon-dead.html

Fuck Don Imus, good riddance

hell yea shakey
rip sue Lyon tho

RIP. She’s in the classic Night of the Iguana

also John Ford's last film

Don Imus was king until Howard Stern blew him out of the water. Imus scrambled ever after, courting favor with NY/DC insiders who felt that Imus gave them street cred. They tolerated his racism until it became too much. Lesson? Keep your racism on low. Don't be obvious. pic.twitter.com/zp8xMGu4Xy

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) December 27, 2019

Alasdair Gray: https://canongate.co.uk/news/alasdair-gray-author-and-artist-has-died-aged-85/
Sad news.

Ah, shame, RIP Alasdair.