Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

Oh, Dave Egghead :(

Mart Crowley

Max von Sydow

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejiWfG-vOXo

RIP Max, what a career! Think I must have seen him in five or six films before I realised that Antonius Block = Father Merrin = Ming the Merciless = Vigo = Three-eyed Raven

Damn, RIP.

decent run

Oh fuck, noooo! Such a stone cold classic. I've been going through all of Bergman's films one at a time, and he had a mind boggling array of roles.

Plus being in Flash Gordin, Dune, AND a Star Wars movie? Damn legend.

RIP Max.

fantastic in everything i've seen him in. RIP.

Emperor Ming is dead.

There is a certain iconic scene in film history, familiar even to those that have never seen the movie, that will inevitably be posted at some point, so I will just go ahead and do that now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDov_a1vZbY

RIP

Max von Sydow S/D

^ thread deserves rather more posts (certainly of the S variety)

xpost looooool, I have images off and had to click through your YT link while thinking precisely this: 'the post alludes to Seventh Seal, but I'm gonna guess Strange Brew'

Reported on Ben Haggard's FB page that Biff Adam, long-time drummer and bus driver for Merle Haggard and the Strangers passed on the weekend.

Tom Watkins, larger than life manager of the Pet Shop Boys and Bros. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/10/tom-watkins-pop-manager-behind-pet-shop-boys-bros-and-east-17-dies-aged-70

And East 17!

And Electribe 101, apparently and unexpectedly.

His house build was featured in an episode of Grand Designs, it was pretty stunning iirc

poet molly brodak, ~38

Sam the Man Burns at 63. Longtime DC afro-house dj

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/on-dcs-jostling-dance-floors-sam-the-man-burns-was-an-institution/2020/03/09/a9b5f702-61f9-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html

Beloved Philadelphia concert promoter Bryan Dilworth, 51.

Restauranteur Michel Roux

Legendary French chef and restaurateur Michel Roux who was best known for opening 'Le Gavroche' in London in 1967 has died at the age of 79

— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) March 12, 2020

Mal Sharpe, Bay Area broadcaster, 84 (via his daughter).

joshua noles aka sebastian young, gay porn actor and raper of his five year old daughter, in a police shootout

Full obit about Mal Sharpe:
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/03/12/legendary-bay-area-television-personality-comic-musician-mal-sharpe-dies-age-83/

Charles Wuorinen

oh shit, Sharpe of Coyle and Sharpe! RIP

I keep thinking Tesco's Syrup Sponges and Um Bongo are gone but internet says you can still get them. I never see them anymore and probably wont until I can go back to the bigger Supermarkets in a couple of months hopefully.

RIP Um Bongo. They drank it in the Congo.

not pouring one out

Danny Ray Thompson, baritone saxophonist with the Sun Ra Arkestra since 1967.

Radio DJ Pete Mitchell

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-51879429

Shocking, he was doing show and publicising his 10cc book last week!

Anybody else finding a weird amount of food products getting increasingly hard to find?
The syrup sponges of Kipling, Asda, Marks & Spencers and Morrisons are all rubbish. But they might have been the best thing Tesco ever did.

RIP food products

RIP Charles Wuorinen btw.

don't know who that is so I was like "is that Aileen Wuornos' husband?" but uh I guess it isn't now that I've remembered her name

maybe thats the masculine version tho

lmao

Genesis P-Orridge, of leukemia.

oh shit

:(

Ah well, been on the cards for a while, still though.

pour one out

The men’s clothing entrepreneur Herb Goldsmith had an instinct for capturing the public eye.

In the 1950s, when he was working for his father’s apparel company, he was among the first to use celebrities, among them Tony Curtis and Bing Crosby, to sell clothing. In the 1980s, he again used well-known figures to sell his Members Only racing jacket. Soon, stars like Frank Sinatra and Johnny Carson were sporting the jacket, as were Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush.

Then Mr. Goldsmith did something that few if any brands had ever done: He stopped all conventional advertising of his apparel and devoted his entire ad budget to public service announcements.

The first public service campaign addressed the crack epidemic of the 1980s, using sports figures like Lou Piniella, the manager of the Yankees at the time, and the country singer Larry Gatlin of the Gatlin Brothers, who struggled with addiction.

The second campaign urged people to vote by showing footage of Hitler and suggesting that voting was the way “to keep fools like these out of our government.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/fashion/herbert-goldsmith-dead.html

British comedian / actor / presenter Roy Hudd

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/mar/16/roy-hudd-dies-aged-83

RIP.

I always got him mixed up with Rod Hull