Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

That'll be Mark Eden, fact fans..

Joan Micklin Silver, though I guess this really belongs in the 2020 thread
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/01/joan-micklin-silver-filmmaker-obituary-1234607326/

I've never seen Hester Street, but I like Between the Lines, Chilly Scenes of Winter--or at least I did, when I last saw it ~35 years ago--and Crossing Delancey.

RIP! One of the few female filmmakers of her generation who was able to work regularly and has a decent sized body of work.

I really enjoyed Between The Lines and Crossing Delancey when I saw them last year

These things come and go, but you can get Between the Lines on YouTube right now. When I saw it a few years ago, I quoted a line that kills me on the Jeff Goldblum thread. He's holding court for some would-be rock critics--he teaches a seminar or something--who are conspicuously all female and furiously taking notes:

"They say that rock is here to stay, you've heard them say that rock is here to stay...They never say where. Certainly not at my house--I don't have the room."

See the Bob Pollard thread to find out where rock wound up staying.

Sad news about Steve Brown, producer of Wham!, The Cult, ABC and Manic Street Preachers among many others. Young Guns (Go For It), She Sells Sanctuary, Tears Are Not Enough (original) and Motorcycle Emptiness: that's a hell of a CV in just four songs. https://t.co/GnLTc6mBDa

— Simon Price (@simon_price01) January 2, 2021

Paul Westphal:

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/hall-fame-basketball-player-paul-westphal-dies-70/

Gerry Marsden of Gerry & The Pacemakers

Life doesn't go on day after day

RIP. Now have “Ferry Cross the Mersey” and “The Silent Boatman” on mash-up rotation in my head.

Former is an all-time mood

Have a great Goodison derby programme (somewhere) from April '78 with a celebrity fan feature: Marsden representing the Reds, and Leonard Rossiter the Blues. I don't remember anything about the Gerry P interview but Leonard R was insightful on Tommy Lawton and wasteful corner techniques. Rigsby 0-1 Pacemaker (David Johnson) on that evening, mind.

rip Gerry, such a beautiful singer

https://tvline.com/2021/01/03/tanya-roberts-dies-that-70s-show-charlies-angels-actress-dead/

Tanya Roberts, who co-starred on That ’70s Show and Charlie’s Angels, passed away Sunday. She was 65.

Roberts reportedly collapsed at home following a walk with her dogs on Christmas Eve, a rep for Roberts told TMZ. She was hospitalized and put on a ventilator, but never recovered. The official cause of death is currently unknown.

rip midge

Chase no face, the faceless cat, died yesterday.

Barbara Shelley, actress with over 100 roles in TV and film on both sides of the Atlantic. Many Hammer roles including the female lead in the big screen Quatermass and the Pit.

httpss://twitter.com/jamescswanton/status/1346030441577459712?s=19

Barbara Shelley has died. She matched Christopher Lee's Dracula and Rasputin for blazing bravura. She became the cat girl and the Gorgon; fought the mad medicos of Wolfit and Cushing; inhabited a village of the damned and channelled the Martians. Our greatest horror actress. pic.twitter.com/EcPKX77W3J

— James Swanton (@jamescswanton) January 4, 2021

RIP Barbara Shelley. Very few classic Hammer film actors still around now.

Alexi Laiho, guitarist for Finnish metal band Children of Bodom. He was 41.

RIP Barbara, another one from last year's 'the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive' thread.

Chicago-based musician (probably best known as drummer for Running) Alejandro Morales.

Alexi Laiho

man. Alexi Laiho, guitarist and frontman for Children of Bodom has passed away. Alexi was an incredible musician, one of the best guitar players of all time, a pioneer in melodic death metal innovating with an inescapable sound. truly a metal legend. RIP, Bodom will live forever pic.twitter.com/1FuzHhfZMF

— Rod Breslau (@Slasher) January 4, 2021

OK let's row it back on the Tanya Roberts news

https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/04/tanya-roberts-still-alive-rep-saying-shes-dead-70s-show-bond-girl/

That story is mindboggling.

looks like people are disputing the legitimacy of the certification of the outcome of her life

Next up: Tiffany Dover

questions for the husband, who seems to have told literally everyone they knew that she was dead

and i guess the doctors too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cMsXBJ0Y98

Conservationist George Whitmore, on 1st team to climb Yosemite’s El Capitan, dies of COVID-19 at 89.

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article248238880.html

um

https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/05/tanya-roberts-dead-dies-65-bond-girl-70s-show-premature-announcement/

Undead Pool 2021

Fair ridiculous age to be climbing mountains to be honest xxp

I'm sad Tanya Roberts has actually died now. She would have been an amazing interview subject.

Colin Bell aka ‘Nijinsky’.

It is with the deepest sadness and heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of Manchester City legend Colin Bell.

🔷 #ManCity | https://t.co/axa0klD5re

— Manchester City (@ManCity) January 5, 2021

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55559343

Albert Roux, the more unassuming of the Roux brothers (and the one that didn't have an absolute bellend for a son).

I think he actually did? In that Michel Roux Jr. is his son, not his brother Michel's.

Oh well there you go.

Pierre Chappuis, Swiss poet and critic, 90. RIP.

remember when Man City had an online vote for whom to name a stand after and everyone voted for Colin Bell so it could be hilariously called "The Bell End".

tbf he actually was one of their best ever players - pre-Sheikh Mansour. Him and Shaun Goater.

I've no doubt Man City fans consider him a ledge. But fans of other clubs thought it was a bit of a wheeze at the time, but it was a fail because as far as I know nobody calls it the bell end!

Novelist Eric Jerome Dickey.

(xp) Sadly, the Dickov Stand never happened.

Alan Igbon (Loggo in Boys From The Black Stuff), aged 68. Apparently in early December.

also in GBH: "shall I twat him, boss?"

RIP, he had only had 20 years on me.

Like Yosser, a Mancunian who didn't *quite* nail the accent, but forgiven because they were all so good.

Sarah Weddington

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/26/sarah-weddington-attorney-who-won-roe-v-wade-abortion-case-dies-aged-76

Re Jean-Marc Vallèe: Don't know if I've liked anything the past three or four years as much as Big Little Lies, first season especially. (Also, a little less so, Sharp Objects).

yeah otm

Apparently Andrew Vachss has passed:

Gutted to learn of Andrew Vachss’s passing. In 2010 I interviewed him. In the first 5 minutes I thought he was going to hang up on me. We talked for more than an hour and he said one of the most goddamn important things I’ve ever heard as a writer starting out. Sharing it here. pic.twitter.com/lyRADeWiga

— Rob Hart (@robwhart) December 28, 2021

Wow, good quote. RIP.

I've only read two or three of his books but always meant to read more.

Grichka (of the Bogdanoff twins, french science fiction/pseudoscience broadcasters/nerds) died of Covid : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_and_Grichka_Bogdanoff

RIP Andrew Vachss. Years and years ago, I went to a James Ellroy signing for the UK launch of LA Confidential, at the specialist crime bookshop Murder One. It was, slightly bizarrely, a joint signing with Ruth Rendell who, outshouted and outraged by a VERY full-on Ellroy, quickly stopped signing and left. After queuing for a while I got to Ellroy, and he asked me my name for the dedication. When I said 'Andrew' (cos that's my name) he immediately roared back, "WHERE'S THE EYEPATCH?"

His dedication? 'To Andrew - blood rage in a poodle's cage'.

Okay that's an anecdote for the ages.

April Ashley, trans pioneer.

i will never forgive vallèe for making dallas buyers club and also i found his aesthetic generally repellant but it sucks he died so young

Never saw Dallas Buyers Club, or any of his TV work, but I do remember liking his French Canadian gay teen Jesus flick, C.R.A.Z.Y..

J.D. Crowe, a master banjo player and bandleader who expanded the sound of bluegrass while attracting some of the genre’s most prodigiously gifted musicians into his groups, has died at 84. https://t.co/hwccnB1A77

— New York Times Arts (@nytimesarts) December 28, 2021

John Madden

I’m sure every year is full of notable losses, but, man.

NFL legend John Madden died unexpected this morning. He was 85. pic.twitter.com/FoC1mAzoF6

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 29, 2021

Boom!

cris collinsworth must eat six turkey legs on air during the playoffs to honor the king

— kilgore trout, tucker carlson’s mailman (@KT_So_It_Goes) December 29, 2021

Super Sky Point to the legendary John Madden. The GOAT color man in NFL history and the all-time highest winning percentage among head coaches with 100+ career wins. A larger than life figure. Heaven just added one sweet bastard. #RIP pic.twitter.com/pvwjfqmXvx

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) December 29, 2021

aw man. I still love his HOF induction speech in 2006, kinda embodies how I think of him in general

“Here is the deal: I think over in the Hall of Fame, that during the day, the people go through, they look at everything. At night, there's a time when they all leave. All the fans and all the visitors leave the Hall of Fame. Then there's just the workers. Then the workers start to leave. It gets down to there's just one person. That person turns out the light, locks the door.
I believe that the busts talk to each other. I can't wait for that conversation, I really can't. Vince Lombardi, … Reggie (White), Walter Payton, all my ex-players. We'll be there forever and ever and ever talking about whatever. That's what I believe. That's what I think is going to happen, and no one's ever going to talk me out of that.”

John Madden, the G.O.A.T. pic.twitter.com/dnEvOnF6ZY

— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) December 29, 2021

Harry Reid too

loool <3

In honor of the late John Madden, my favorite Madden call of an Eagles game, where he DESTROYS Barry Switzer for the famed 4th and 1 call.

“Yeah, they deserve to lose!”

The Dumbest Decision in NFL History (ft. Barry Switzer) https://t.co/gn8VOxlf5I via @YouTube

— John Stolnis (@JohnStolnis) December 29, 2021

Harry Reid

My favorite story about Reid is of course when as gaming commissioner he worked with the FBI on a sting operation. He simply had to discuss the bribe. He instead leapt at this suspect and choked him, screaming "You tried to bribe me, you son of a bitch!"

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) December 29, 2021

Imagine how much worse off our judiciary would be if Harry Reid hadn’t used the nuclear option for presidential appointments in 2013. Trump would’ve effectively gotten to appoint eight years worth of judges.

— Noah (@NoahJAguirre) December 29, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nvUoBX911k

I didn't see a post about Caroline Peyton, the great singer whose '70s albums Mock Up and Intuition gained a new audience when Numero Group reissued them in 2009. She died in Nashville on August 11. A fabulous singer indeed. I wrote this about her a few months ago.

Beatles’ Movies Producer Denis O’Dell Dies at 98 https://t.co/7YevodPidJ

— Variety (@Variety) December 31, 2021

Sally Ann Howes, "Truly Scrumptious", 91

Well fuck this

Beloved actress, comedian and American icon Betty White has passed away at 99, @TMZ reports. pic.twitter.com/pdrJijUwtb

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) December 31, 2021

Just saw someone tweet about this and assumed it was a joke despite the obvious. What a great life though.

This was unfortunate though

My 100th birthday… I cannot believe it is coming up, and People Magazine is celebrating with me! The new issue of @people is available on newsstands nationwide tomorrow. https://t.co/kTQnsbMDGK

— Betty White (@BettyMWhite) December 28, 2021

fuck. RIP

Not a hoax: @people has an obit with a statement from Betty White's agent. https://t.co/iaqYv1pISM pic.twitter.com/gxHdYdgz9g

— John M. Cunningham (@jmcunning) December 31, 2021

Damn!!! So close!!!

The answer we have received to the age-old “Who First: Betty White or Henry Kissinger?” question has conclusively proved that we live in hell.

— Fibromarxalgia ☭ (@comedyunism) December 31, 2021

Jesus, I remember the announcement of her turning 100 and I thought it already happened, not that it was around the corner. that's so cruel :(

Rest in peace Betty

Betty White RIP

;_; RIP Betty

Denis O’Dell’s nephew Dick managed the Slits and The Pop Group, amongst many.

Gosh - I never realised the connection. I met him (Dick) at a very good event on the history of pirate radio in London in a library in Ladbrook Grove a few years ago.

Most known for the essential Y Records. The I’m post punk funk cousin label of New York’s 99.

Also made a fortune from Pigbag. He’s an old friend of mine and was just discussing Denis on FB in the wake of Get Back a few weeks ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/arts/music/sandra-jaffe-who-helped-preserve-jazz-at-preservation-hall-dies-at-83.html

Sandra Jaffe at 83 ( and her husband who died in 1987), took over Preservation Hall in New Orleans in 1961 and had jazz bands there ever since. The Hall was integrated under their management at a time when New Orleans was segregated.

Peter Bogdanovich

he died in 2022

Rolling Obituary Thread 2022