Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51458177

Joseph Shabalala, founder and director of choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo band.

RIP

Saw them on the Graceland tour, and once after

I'm sure I'll see my BFF mentioning Shabalala's death on social media; she's originally from South Africa and thought very highly of Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

RIP we named our cat Shabalala after the great man.

Conrad got an early lead so maybe that's what you're remembering

Yeah, that's probably what did it. Kaplan looks like a pretty strong runner! Cool to see some of his sweat hogs congratulating him at the end. But what's up w/ Conrad? He botches the concession speech - "the best coach, the best team won...CBS...I mean, NBC"...it was ABC! Probably was a bit loopy after going all out for whatever that distance was.

Fassdbinder regular Volker Spengler:

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/fassbinder-schauspieler-und-theaterstar-volker-spengler-ist-gestorben-1.4790232
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Spengler

I got a dance lesson from Joseph shabalala as a kid, remember him as being a beacon of living kindness. RIP

But what's up w/ Conrad?

If you watch the clip from the beginning you'll see Conrad's upset about the results, make some off color jokes and throws a fit till they agree to a rematch.

Watching this whole thing set me down a rabbit hole of watching other battles of the network stars and which revealed that Kaplan was also good as the qb in 3 on 3 football and the kayak relay.

don't sleep on SCTV's Battle of the PBS Stars

Aw man RIP Volker Spengler

His performance as Elvira in RWF's In a Year with 13 Moons is a tour de force

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

RIP Volker, he's great in all his RWF roles - whcih are varied to say the least!

Paul English, Willie Nelson's long-time (and I mean LOOOOOOOOONG-time) drummer. It is amazing how long Willie kept that band together.

Yeah, just astounding. Almost fifty-five years as the drummer, a couple of years aside! Crazy.

....for dyin?

Hell of a read from a few years ago

https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/463-watching-willie-s-back

Oh no! Of "Me And Paul" fame??

The Same!

Christophe Desjardins, French violist – one of the all-time greats. He was only 57. RIP.

Christie Blatchford:

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/amp/entry/christie-blatchford-dead_ca_5e441a56c5b6d0ea3811ad5e/

I personally couldn't stand her--she was Canada's version of a Hannity or Kellyanne Conway--although being one of the first female sports journalists in the early '70s was an achievement. The Sun had far and away the best baseball coverage in the pre-internet '80s and early '90s, so I read her compulsively and said nasty things about her in year-end music ballots and letters to the editor, published and unpublished.

We snarked a bit about her over on the Worst National Post Columnist thread, but this was a far more reasoned and appropriate acknowledgement of her passing that still manages to convey that she was, in fact, terrible.

the other koch brother, 86

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/business/frederick-koch-dead.html

good good good

oh shit it was the not evil one

bad bad bad

Lila Garrett had the typical for Pacifica horrible for radio voice but i never knew her tv background. RIP

― buzza, Monday, February 3, 2020 3:50 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lila Garrett's daughter is actress Eliza Roberts (fka Eliza Simons) who is married to actor Eric Roberts and the two Robertses are on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast this week with lotsa great anecdotes about Lila Garrett (recorded prior to her death)

good koch bad koch

Yes, the other bad Koch, Charles, still lives.

I'm not sure about the fourth of the Kochs, Bill. I think he's average Koch.

amazing poster artist Bonnie MacLean

Saw Bill in a Netflix doc about wine-collector swindles (he bought wine that was said to belong to Thomas Jefferson for half a mil).

lol wot a rube

Composer, conductor, pianist Reinbert de Leeuw.

RIP.

Oh no. Fuck, that one stings. Such an incredible artist – he will be dearly missed.

RIP

Incredible artist and just one of the sweetest guys.

Fucking hell, Caroline Flack at 40.

Jesus.

Ah fuck that's awful

It's just awful. Genuinely shaken by that news. Was just chatting this afternoon about the trivial bit of shite doled out to me when I was on a TV show and how it disproportionately affected me. Was also talking about Gail Porter's tremendously affecting documentary about struggling to stay afloat in the public eye when all of your private issues become public property. This seems like the culmination of this kind of thing.

RIP.

Lots of angry piling on David Walliums twitter

I imagine her recent problems were handled with the utmost sympathy by the British press.

I can't believe The Sun have the audacity to promote mental health awareness when they harassed Caroline Flack to a point of no return. They and the rest of the gutter press need to be held accountable for the abhorrent way they treat people. SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE. pic.twitter.com/uW2bCOpy0n

— Mrs Griffiths (@MrsGriffMusic) February 15, 2020

A FB group of journos I mostly lurk on now because quite a few of them are a) terfy and b) exercised about anything ‘woke’ are really not covering themselves in glory right now trying to blame this on trolls.

The piling on on Walliams is terrifically unedifying and lacking in awareness.

No surprise tbh

fuck the sun

Amen. Next time this thread is revived, I want it to be an obituary for the tabloid press.

Actress Lynn Cohen, who every obit's headline tells me was in Sex and the City. OK then. I knew her from appearances on Law & Order and a bunch of other stuff; she was one of those "Hey, it's her! I bet she did it" types.

Lovely and detailed obituary for Barbara Remington, who as an artist seems to have worked with and known a ton of folks and lived a heck of an interesting long life, but whose greatest fame was near-anonymous as the designer of the 1960s US paperback covers of The Lord of the Rings.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/books/barbara-remington-dead.html

weird i dont remember those tolkien covers

A E Hotchner

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/16/ae-hotchner-author-playwright-ernest-hemingway-dies-102

wasnt he part of newman’s own thing or something? i think i met him as a kid