Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

Although there doesn't appear to be any other corroborating evidence online at the moment, Edward James Olmos just posted this tribute on twitter that seems to heavily imply that Hector Elizondo has died at age 84, which is much older than I would have guessed.

One true giant of humanity who gave to everyone he met a sense of self-esteem and self respect Hector Elizondo a true gift to the stage screen and life My love to Elaine and Eddie and the family my heart cries But I celebrate one of the great human beings I’ve met through life 🙏🏽 pic.twitter.com/SsBDqLDcco

— Edward James Olmos (@edwardjolmos) February 7, 2021

Always liked him. An actor who even managed to make some of the worst Garry Marshall comedies more bearable (and I'd call his work in Pretty Woman legit great). RIP.

Wow, guess I've got (another) excuse to pull my Taking of Pelham One Two Three Blu-Ray off the shelf.

https://wtop.com/government/2021/02/reagans-longtime-secretary-of-state-george-p-shultz-dies/

George Shultz, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State, 100

By far the sanest member of Reagan's Cabinet.

too bad about theranos

Cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno

The Leopard is the first one of his that comes to my mind. RIP

https://popculture.com/celebrity/news/last-man-standing-hector-elizondo-not-dead-death-rumors-hoax/

I just got off the phone with a rep for Hector Elizondo who confirms he is still very much alive and well. She just got off the phone with him. https://t.co/Dk9VM353Pi

— Rosy Cordero (@SocialRosy) February 7, 2021

Rotunno’s work with Fellini is all-time. Beautiful images. RIP

White Nights was apparently the first Visconti film he worked on, very beautiful black and white cinematography.

How old was he when he shot The Leopard? Good lord. He JUST died???

He was around 40 then, 97 when he died.

We lost Hector Elizondo

Who did?

^^Tanya Roberts

I can bring this all home in one post...Christopher Plummer and The Silent Partner in the obituary thread sent me to a different thread to post about Celine Lomez. When I read up on her a bit, I came across this: "One of the finalists in casting for the television series Charlie's Angels, but lost the role to Tanya Roberts because network decided Lomez was too sexy for prime time."

Which is kind of something thinking about Tanya Roberts.

A real diversity of films/genres that were a natural fit for Elizondo’s warmth and irascibility.

read the thread Don

Underground comix creator S. Clay Wilson.

Jean-Claude Carrière (1931 — 2021) pic.twitter.com/Xtk6M51iJJ

— MUBI (@mubi) February 8, 2021

Oh, man, RIP.

Posting another link about "Midnight Train to Georgia" songwriter Jim Weatherly, already mentioned upthread. https://www.npr.org/2021/02/05/964473172/jim-weatherly-who-wrote-midnight-train-to-georgia-dies-at-77

(xp) RIP. Watched a whole bunch of Bunuel films over the festive period and very much enjoyed the accompanying interviews with him.

While researching the Sally Can't Dance poll, I discovered that Lou Reed's keyboard player from 1974 - 1980, Michael Fonfara, died here in Toronto last month of cancer at 74.

Oh, RIP

Moufida Tlatli, Tunisian filmmaker and editor http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/5/402542/Arts--Culture/Renowned-Tunisian-filmmaker-Moufida-ElTalatli-pass.aspx

Obit for S. Clay Wilson: http://www.tcj.com/s-clay-wilson-the-most-influential-artist-of-his-generation/

And the announcement from his long-time partner, who married him in 2010 in order to be able to be his full-time carer:

I posted this on Facebook yesterday...devastated by this loss. Perhaps you’d like to read these 4 screenshots of this journey.....I still need to write on the website....💔 pic.twitter.com/jWGTnoMGs9

— Lorraine Chamberlain (@Chamberpaint) February 8, 2021

Mary Wilson

Mary Wilson, Co-Founder of the Supremes, Dies at 76 https://t.co/Eh5VMxTJWu

— Variety (@Variety) February 9, 2021

Oof, damn

Ghédalia Tazartès, apparently.

ah shit

where are u seeing this Ned?

Various avant-garde/experimental music types on Twitter, hadn't seen the source yet.

He is older than I would have guessed considering recent output

No doubt the two were longtime friends but a major misconception about Elizondo’s partnership with director Garry Marshall is that the character actor was automatically gifted roles in all of his films when in fact auditioning was required in each case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYjpda8L9To

Elliot Mazer, Engineer-Producer for Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, and the Band, Dead at 79

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elliot-mazer-engineer-producer-dead-1125570/

So used to seeing his name on all the '70s albums, I assumed he did After the Gold Rush, but he doesn't seem to enter the picture till Harvest.

I see Mazer produced Lightfoot's Back Here on Earth, maybe his best.

DON: READ THE THREAD. ELIZONDO IS NOT DEAD.

Good catch Matthew

In case anyone else hasn’t seen it. Some good news...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cinemablend.com/television/2562573/despite-death-rumors-last-man-standings-hector-elizondo-is-very-much-alive

sigh, it's literally above your posts in this very thread, but I've been around the block enough times to recognise when I've been trolled

Ed Pearl, whose Ash Grove nightclub was at the heart of L.A.’s ’60s music scene, dies.

Also helped found the Peace & Freedom Party in 1967, per the obit.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-02-09/ed-pearl-dead-ash-grove

Former Wales and Everton goalkeeper Dai Davies

R.I.P. Dai Davies, goalkeeper for Wales in the first football match I ever saw (v England, Ninian Park, 1978), and on 52 occasions in total. Legend.

He let in three that day, though to be fair, he had no chance with two of them.https://t.co/JkrQznoEKQ

— Simon Price (@simon_price01) February 10, 2021

Oh man, there he was on ITV4 the other day, The Big Match Revisited*: haplessly spilling the ball to allow Sheff Utd to come back from two down at Goodison in April 1975. Ending Everton's title challenge (losing home and away to bloody Carlisle did that, to be fair). I never saw him play, it was all Gorgeous Georgie Wood when I started going.

(* - hugely recommended, if only for Brian Moore interviewing Alec Stock)

Hang on, I saw him play twice! For Wrexham in an FA Cup tie (Feb 1980, the same day Paul Ringer was sent off for Wales vs England at Twickenham) and for Swansea in a league match in Dec 1981. I'm sure he got a warm welcome from the Street end. Before conceding a total of eight goals.

(hadn't realised the Big Match was back on. was, if nothing else, fascinating for being old television (and old football) where all the on screen text was the video equivalent of letraset and the pitches were little better than quagmires. one i saw had a pitch where the snow was only cleared where the pitch markings were and they were playing with an orange ball for contrast. does that still happen?)

This was the Scunthorpe v. Bradford City game last night - I can't see the ball, but then neither could the players and the match was abandoned. Current league match ball is yellow though I think, so no need to swap to the orange ball?

https://i2-prod.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/incoming/article4986129.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/1_Etzsxi8XIAEsi0y.jpg

lol how long did that ball even spend at pitch level?