Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

Benny Mardones has fully gone into the night:

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/9402923/benny-mardones-into-the-night-dead-73

Leonard Scarcella, the Mayor of my hometown, died yesterday. Elected for the first time in 1969, he apparently was the longest serving Mayor in US history. Ironically, last year the city voted to create Mayoral term limits, which would have allowed him to run for only two more terms.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/katy/news/article/Iconic-Stafford-mayor-dies-at-age-79-15373695.php

jesus

50 years in office is…too many, probably

Louis Mahoney, veteran of many a British TV show since the 70s. At one time Vice President of Equity, having risen there by policing Equity members' behaviour wrt South Africa.

Soundtrack specialist Johnny Mandel, 94:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/30/johnny-mandel-oscar-winning-composer-mash-theme-dies-aged-94

Carl Reiner

Thought he would never. RIP.

Believe he is in this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OW7GoIl0T8

RIP Carl R.

Aw.

A picture of Carl Reiner with daughter Annie and recent birthday boy, Mel Brooks all in Black Lives Matter shirts. Fourteen hours ago, he tweeted a multi-part appreciation of Noel Coward. Reiner turned 98 in March. That's a lot of time spent being a good human. pic.twitter.com/Da1mmPpeFM

— Brian Heater (@bheater) June 30, 2020

Beautiful.

Apparently*, Louisville h/c and latterly country legend Wink O'Bannon.

(* Confirmed that he had a stroke and is/was in a coma, seeing rip messages following a private twitter account.)

Holy shit. Wink's paying in Eleventh Dream Day is all time.

This one may be him on lead vox; I know he wrote it. It shreds like a great lost Neil Young song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYmk_lk6gxE

RIP Alan Brady

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

Wink update: on a ventilator but no brain activity. "Prognosis is grim"

Gutted about Carl Reiner, was hoping he’d live long enough to see Trump turfed out.

ahma watch the jerk tonight; it's got to be over two decades since i saw it last. all those martin/reiner joints were pivotal in my thinking as a kid.

Philip Latham, veteran of UK TV, Hammer films and a variety of other bit parts.

Was going to say he must have been some age. 91.

ahma watch the jerk tonight; it's got to be over two decades since i saw it last. all those martin/reiner joints were pivotal in my thinking as a kid.

posting this here too because it is pretty grebt

I have a Carl Reiner story that I hold very dear to me. I figured I'd share it today, on the day of his passing, because I hope it will bring some other people some joy the way it does me.

— Matthew Rosenberg (@AshcanPress) June 30, 2020

that's fantastic

seconded

the only beef stroganoff joke I know has to do with a field of masturbating cows

Ha, I was about to mention that joke.

I posted the same clip Morbs did on my FB this morning. I also discovered the whole ep is up on YT. 8th Greatest Sitcom episode ever according to TV Guide

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

I only saw it in full earlier this year, and it truly is funny as burning hell.

Ida Haendel, British classical violinist, 91. RIP.

saw Olivia de Havilland trending and thought oh no but haha it's her birthday she's 104 :)

Sir Everton Weekes, last of the Three W's, 95.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jul/01/our-hero-west-indies-legend-sir-everton-weekes-dies-aged-95-cricket

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/54930cd0e4b006aa21ffee77/1551126695441-QJ8IJAYTK3BXWXQQ488V/weekes.jpg

re Johnny Mandel, I guess if your two best-known songs are "The Shadow of Your Smile" and "Suicide Is Painless," you came out ahead.

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-06-30/johnny-mandel-composer-mash-dead

Don't sleep on "Emily"! (From "The Americanization of") RIP

I couldn't recall Mandel's music to Point Blank off the top of my head, but playing a clip of the opening titles brings it back, it's kinda modernistic and appropriate for the film

I seem to recall Calexico did a good cover of The Shadow of Your Smile. Or maybe something that just featured them as a rhythm section?

Oh man, I had no idea Everton Weekes was still around. (I'm older than his grandson :/ )

I went to high school with his son. Only knew about the Deliverance theme, had no idea about any of his other work.

xxp: Friends of Dean Martinez

Hugh Downs, 99


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/hugh-downs-omnipresent-television-broadcaster-dies-at-99/2020/07/02/434557f0-bc8b-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.html

watched a lotta Concentration when i was six. RIP big man i didn't know wasn't dead yet.

Let us honor the man by...his music:

https://img.discogs.com/PaIcPhUGVLV6VhnRy8_a6HfaVXo=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3655660-1434614936-9698.jpeg.jpg

Enjoy a song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pJtiR9lCH4

The Boeing 747
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-02/boeing-quietly-pulls-plug-on-the-747-closing-era-of-jumbo-jets

Boeing Co. hasn’t told employees, but the company is pulling the plug on its hulking 747 jumbo jet, ending a half-century run for the twin-aisle pioneer.

The last 747-8 will roll out of a Seattle-area factory in about two years, a decision that hasn’t been reported but can be teased out from subtle wording changes in financial statements, people familiar with the matter said.

It’s a moment that aviation enthusiasts long have dreaded, signaling the end of the double-decker, four-engine leviathans that shrank the world. Airbus SE is already preparing to build the last A380 jumbo, after the final convoy of fuselage segments rumbled to its Toulouse, France, plant last month.

Yet for all their popularity with travelers, the final version of the 747 and Europe’s superjumbo never caught on commercially as airlines turned to twin-engine aircraft for long-range flights. While Boeing’s hump-nosed freighters will live on, the fast-disappearing A380 risks going down as an epic dud.

The grand jetliners also face another indignity: The Covid-19 pandemic threatens to leave their manufacturers scrounging to find buyers for the last jumbos built.

when i was ~10 we had a six-hour layover at JFK on the way to visit my grandmother in florida. so my dad and i walked around the concourse and he showed me the (slight) difference between, e.g., the DC-10 and L-1011, and the telltale features of other jets which i can no longer remember. the 747 was of course the easiest to recognize, and the last one still out there. rip

Breaking News: Acting legend Earl Cameron dies aged 102 https://t.co/4ovWBpr1zn pic.twitter.com/dLdT5pWhJz

— The Royal Gazette (@TheRoyalGazette) July 3, 2020

Morricone!

Poor guy fell and broke his thigh. RIP.

What a musical legacy. RIP, maestro.