Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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

Pearl Carr, singer and UK Eurovision entrant (with Teddy Johnson), 98.

Remington’s LoTR covers were the ones I grew up with; weirdly trippy and of course not at all evocative of the books

Vaguely remember them but still don't seem quite right.

Falling James posting on the death of John McDermott aka Skinny John of the Reverb Motherfuckers. It's a very moving and detailed remembrance.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2862489707149017&set=a.237542139643800&type=3

Harry Gregg, the Northern Ireland and Manchester United goalkeeper, has died aged 87.

In 1958, Gregg escaped from the burning wreckage of the Munich air crash but went back in and brought Vera Lukić, the pregnant wife of a Yugoslav diplomat, and her young daughter, Vesna, to safety.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/30383827

Andrew Weatherall .. apparently.

My close friend H introduced him to Primal Scream and it is her birthday today, FUCK.

We are deeply sorry to announce that Andrew Weatherall, the noted DJ and musician, passed away in the early hours of this morning, Monday 17th February 2020, at Whipps Cross Hospital, London. The cause of death was a pulmonary embolism.

...early report: pulmonary embolism (says someone on Dave Haslam’s FB).

fuck

Shit 😢 RIP

Oh fuck

No fucking way

^^^ WTF!!!!!

John Shrapnel, whose voice you'll know from a hundred voiceovers even if you don't know his name.

author charles portis, 86

i somehow imagined true grit was written decades before i was born so this startled me until i looked it up

oh wow charles portis, i didn't even know he was still alive.

Me neither. RIP.

Kellye Nakahara Wallett

She played the RN Yamato on M*A*S*H and The Cook in the Clue movie.

Also Sam Panopoulos, a Greek-Canadian restaurateur who decided it would be a good idea to add pineapple & Canadian bacon atop a pizza.

a dish best served cold

Especially since Panopoulos died two and a half years ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40230407

Norwegian jazz drummer Jon Christensen — played with Keith Jarrett, Terje Rypdal, Jan Garbarek and many, many others. Basically ECM's house drummer in the 1970s.

Damn, I loved his playing on those early Garbarek LPs, not to mention Masqualero in the 80s and, more recently, Jakob Bro's ECM releases. RIP.

charles portis was amazing, you should read all of his novels if you haven't already (there are only five of them and they're all pretty short and go down easy)

Even Gringos?

Or should that just be read last

Or before Masters of Atlantis?

gringos is good! just not as good as his other novels.
i'd say just go chronologically.

About two years ago really enjoyed the audiobook of True Grit, read by Donna Tartt iirc.