Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

Bosley Crowther thought the same

new year, similar UK unknowns dominating the rolls

'noted cincinnati bengals coach sam wyche, 74' et al being household names outside the US, of course

Make America dead again

I didn't hear about Larry Gogan - between him and Marian Finucane we could have a takeover.

Buck Henry

https://deadline.com/2020/01/buck-henry-dead-saturday-night-live-the-graduate-get-smart-1202825337/

aw man

Aw RIP Buck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeE-Hkno9Ao

"Anything wrong, sir?"

"It's just not a lemon party without old Dick!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biaTRgFKJ3I

"funny and with a stroke"

Science fiction author and editor Mike Resnick.

That guy did some good work. Surprised Malzberg outlived him tbh

RIP. Didn’t he write some multivolume tome about the history of sf magazines?

no, that was Mike Ashley, sorry

I know Resnick because he edited/wrote the intro for this: https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-passage-of-the-light/ which is great

I wrote an obituary for a woman who died in Buffalo, and the fact that she lived to 111 isn't close to being the most impressive thing about her. Please read: "Mamie Kirkland, Witness to an Era of Racial Terror, Dies at 111" https://t.co/vK6vsCUeGf

— Dan Barry (@DanBarryNYT) January 9, 2020

Edd "Kookie" Burns

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/edd-kookie-byrnes-dead-87-grease-77-sunset-strip-1203462364/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpLpmt7LydI

"Byrnes", even

That Buck Henry Player clip is brilliant. "A malady of some sort."

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/keith_spera/article_534c48a6-3334-11ea-a1c7-978eb892e515.html

New Orleans bounce rapper 5th Ward Weebie at 42 after surgery for a ruptured artery

Film Director Ivan Passer

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/ivan-passer-dead-dies-cutters-way-1203462725/

Haven't seen it for ages, but Born to Win was pretty good, I think.

It was.

Intimate Lighting, Cutter's Way even better

Haven't seen Intimate Lightning--always wanted to--but I remember being a little disappointed in Cutter's Way when I finally saw it. Also quite a while ago, though.

one of the great endings of the last 50 years

DAMN.

Canadian rock drummer Neil Peart dead at 67. Peart, primary lyricist for Rush, was known for his technical proficiency, and for weaving jazz and big band patterns with a hard rock style. Publicist says Peart died in California January 7. Background: https://t.co/r0QKiYdpdu

— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) January 10, 2020

fuck

whoah

Apparently (there's a Rolling Stone obit up) he'd had brain cancer for three years.

For real? Fuck.

Wow

Neil Peart September 12, 1952 - January 7, 2020 pic.twitter.com/NivX2RhiB8

— Rush (@rushtheband) January 10, 2020

Tough one.

Pretty sure I waited on him at the record store I worked at many years back (he was buying a Van Halen DVD).

new year, similar UK unknowns dominating the rolls

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 8, 2020 12:26 AM

I'd be quite happy to read about obscure celebrities from everywhere. But if you're serious about not wanting to hear about obscure UK celebrities, can all the americans here please pretend that Letterman, Jay Leno, Rip Taylor and Johnny Carson are just fictional characters who appear in American films, tv shows, Beach Boys songs and comics on occasion?

I wouldn't worry, it's only Morbz morbzin'

just havin a lil fun

after all i know who Frankie Howerd and Norman Wisdom were (kinda)

Was his illness public? Didn't they do a pretty extensive tour within the last 5 years?

Qaboos bin Said al Said of Oman has died after fifty years in power.

xpost It was not. He'd mentioned general health concerns and had indicated during the last tour, in 2015, that this was making him want to stop -- he framed in a strict sense of simply not having the energy and precision to perform up to his particular standards on a regular basis. This specific diagnosis was not, AFAIK, even rumored, and the mention of 3 1/2 years indicates to me that an exact diagnosis happened after the tour.

xpost Well that's timing, as it were.

Yeah...timing indeed.

The long-ailing sultan has no children or named successors. A sealed letter naming the next ruler is in Muscat. The sultan played a crucial role mediating among various regional rivals incl. Iran, Saudi, Qatar, Yemen. Will the next sultan be able to do the same? #Oman https://t.co/LQI3nJ9yvx

— Rania Abouzeid (@Raniaab) January 11, 2020

poch in

The Sultan of Oman

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/11/sultan-of-oman-dies-state-media-announces

Oh whoops, as you said

RIP Ivan Passer - fwiw, Intimate Lighting is available from Second Run:

https://www.secondrundvd.com/release_intimate.html

after all i know who Frankie Howerd and Norman Wisdom were (kinda)

Norman Wisdom appeared in a William Friedkin film - The Night They Raided Minsky's - and Frankie Howerd is in The Ladykillers, so I would expect a cineaste of yr distinction to know their work, Morbs!

At the risk of infuriating Morbz

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51064069

Singing My Big Kilmarnock Bunnet right now in tribute

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